Good morning. Good morning. What's happening? Family. Welcome to the show. It is Michelle. Brian here. WN. O. V. 860 a.m. 106.5 FM. You are listening to Brewer's radio now. I'm about to become. I'm about to become a commentator for the brewers. Look, look, okay. You are listening to say something real, but real talk.
I got to get my brewer's gear up. These people are playing amazing. Let me catch these brothers in the studio this morning. What's going on, Clark Kent? Who is it? Man, the Brewers. Oh, yes, yes. I would love to be with you. The Brewers. Ain't no wrong with that. How you doing this morning? Man, you're killing the green gene combo, bro. You're killing that.
You look good this morning. Thank you. Thank you. I was talking to the studio. They smell like everybody taking a shower this morning.
You know, I'm going to hold that one day against you for a long time. I know. I know. I know. Great grandma. You took a shower the night before. That's what the great grandmas be doing.
That's right. That's right. You take your shower and I'll be posted. You'll catch cold. Yes, yes, yes. I used to walk out the house with my hair wet every day. It ain't never caught no cold. I did it though. Cause you're old lady. No, sit. What's going on show? I was trying to tell the old lady. This is true. I don't care what nobody believes. You can catch cold.
Didn't happen to me. From your head. Didn't happen to me. And through your feet. I used to come to work every day with my hero because when I was wearing my fro.
And the little curly crap. I wash my hair every day because that product in my hair is irritating. I just can't stand it. I had nothing. Nothing. Well, the good Lord protected you. Yeah. You can catch cold. Like that's why they tell you to wear socks and cover your feet up at night. I wish these men who wear suits with no socks would hurry up and catch a damn cold. I just want to be clear. You have touched on a nerve or you break me.
walk around here with some damn ankles hanging out. It is not fly. It is not cool. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
That's some nonsense. No, it's certain suits that is nonsense. Stop wearing floods, first of all, because I shouldn't even be seeing your ankles with your pants off. Y'all out here wearing many extended capris. Your pants is supposed to hit the bottom of your shoe. All they try to dress like these European men or whoever, like you, a fashion model. And some of y'all be big wearing them looking crazy. Too much salt. Too much salt. You're in a nerve this morning.
I'm so sick of brothers with their ankles hanging out and then they shoes be all wearing over feet all wide. Y'all need to cut that out. Pay is just, just like we had to tell Kamala Harris when she was running for president. She was wearing the pedal pushes. Kamala, president of the United States don't wear pedal pushes.
Dropped them pants down to the bottom of that the back of that shoe here. Well now so bruhs I'm telling you I just be looking at them like y'all with these ankles hanging out This is not how this is just like sagging to me this I don't know who made that a style, but it's not a style
It's ridiculous though and it and again it only if you go try to pull it off. It looks better on slimmer brothers It looks better on slimmer brothers, but that whole flood concept when we was at Congressional Black Caucus eyes is watching all them brothers walk around with the damn floods on and you can see the difference between the younger brothers and the older brothers because the older brothers 45 and up they had on regular, you know, with pants
But I'm just like, y'all, that just looked crazy. It was it was never meant to be like that. And whoever decided that this is fashionable, y'all just need to quit. It was never meant to be that I'm looking at your ankles with these and bros. If y'all could start wearing these super super tight suits. Y'all pants be so tight. Oh, my God. Almost like somebody has tight. I'm telling you.
Oh my god, because the pants is like George Washington
So I said cute ankles, I don't like wearing socks all the time with my loafers. I a let me first That's you that's cool, but if you got a suit on I'm not talking about what you're doing with just your loafers I'm talking about a suit. I'm talking about a dress suit a business suit with a shirt and a tie
I'm not supposed to be looking at your ankles and I'm not supposed to be looking at these damn floods. They are they they are their floods Y'all intentionally buying floods or having them adjusted to look like that I know and I'll be glad when it's everything coming out Just like you see why leg jeans is coming back. Yeah. Oh, yeah, and I'm just I'm gonna be honest. I don't see some brothers been killing
When they did the Father's Day thing out of Sherman Park, this young brother, he was from Dallas, Houston or Dallas or somewhere, but he had on his real nice sweatshirt, that dry fit material, and he had on the wide leg.
Sweatpants boy when I tell your sister out there was looking at him. He was killing that look It's a lot of brothers pull that look off way. Yeah Yeah, I'm telling you why there's in fact I don't know where I was yesterday But I kind of smile because I looked around and all of the women had on white wider leg jeans Yeah, I mean, but you know how to rock it you know how to rock you know women know how to rock the wide leg
Geez, you don't say certain women. No, I'm saying it's a lot of brothers know how to rock. What's his name? The comedian that be with at least a deco all the time. Oh, tall, dark-skinned brother with the gray beard now. He's one of my favorites. I can't. Oh, I'm gonna say his name anyway.
He had on some of one of his, uh, his comedy sets. He had on a black shirt and the black, white leg pants. Man, he was killing the game. I'm just saying, I know everybody going to wear their stuff the way they want to. Um, so I'm really just giving y'all a hard time, but.
The ankles and with a business suit is really a pet peeve. I ain't playing. It's a pet peeve. I remember back in the days, if you wore high waters, man, you got tees. I mean, look at this. The stuff we turned into fashion, because you did get tees. That's why I said floods. You know, you did get tees. You did. Because that's what we was just talking about with Atlas, because he gets so tall. Them pants is looking janky. I'm like, hey, hey.
He got to get some longer pay and see if it's a good picture. Marcus Wiley, they say. Marcus Wiley. See, somebody know and he look good. He he had that black on black. I was like, oh, boy. Oh, Jermaine, I didn't ask how you were doing this morning. Yeah, I already know. Well, trans man. Oh, Mr. Sensitivity. How are you this morning? Well, well, I'm from a real jubilant jubilant. Is that connected to that hat that you're wearing?
Jack. I'm just going to tell you that that last play. Oh man, listen here. Down to the final down to the final strike to the final. Our bases loaded down three two. This is something that as a baseball player when you're growing up and you in the backyard, it's equivalent to a basketball player doing the countdown five.
four, three, two and hit that buzzer shot and running off the court. And the name of that player who who made Jackson. Listen here, man. My man's with the plan. What a better dude to have up at the plate. A jubilant, striving black man at the plate game on the line. And on top of that is America's sports. The white people, I should say. So you got a black man that's at the plate.
Game on the line, three balls, two strikes. And just so you know, because that name Cheerio, so he was born in Venezuela. He was born in Venezuela. Yeah, born in Venezuela. I had to go look, because I'm like, that's not a common name over here. And it's not Cheerio, y'all. Well, you like Cheerio. Hey, hey, you know how Black people are going to mess it up. I just want to be clear, because you know, Cheerio, you know, you just rolled it out. But I can see people like Cheerio. It's not Cheerio.
But, uh, yeah, he he he was ridiculous. Yeah, he was ridiculous. He got the base hit. It was able to get the time run in and brought in the winning run. And it was an explosion in the park. So, yeah, that that that that was a clutch moment like none other day. I was looking at the video with you this morning, like, oh, what? So, yeah, I'm about to have to up.
Up my somebody spilled the cheerio I know how it's pronounced, but I said they spelled it like the cereal they spelled it like that So yeah, so we definitely and I'm not gonna be fair weather because I actually like the brewers I'm not an in and out. I never root for anybody else. I
But I don't have enough brewers gear now that I gotta be honest about man. I got caught in a traffic. What was that Saturday night? Oh My god, I was about to cry. I didn't even know what was happening to me But I will say everybody was real nice, you know people was letting me over and mostly come on through we see you
But it was crazy coming from over that way. And you know, you just roll up on it. So you know what's happening. But OK, excellent, excellent, excellent. Glad to see that our folks are playing well. We will be supporting a number of things to get to this morning. Let me just first of all say, though, that I was over at Mount Zion Baptist Church on yesterday. As many of you know, I am.
member of Delta Signed Theta Sorority and we were doing our voter registration and civic engagement work through the social action committee and the deltas at Mount Zion.
invited us to come through to share information about the referendums, check everyone's voter registration. First of all, Delta's over at Moussine showed up strong. They had they read on, looking beautiful. Had the whole thing set up. All we had to do was walk in and, you know, get everything going. And it was good to see Pastor Silly. Pastor Silly looked good. I mean, like, you know, just.
Just look well and Mrs. Sibley she first I simply she was beautiful tall and statue-esque as usual killing that cream suit. I might oh, yeah, she she was clean to death and So it was just a real pleasure to be over there one of the things that stood out. Oh, and I saw Mr. Mrs. Mallet
from the store over off of, yeah, they are such a pretty couple. Oh my God. I mean, like just, he's just handsome to death and she's gorgeous. And they just look like everything black love and black couples is supposed to look like. So it was, and I met Mr. Mrs. Mallet through Keon.
And as soon as me and Mrs. Mallard locked eyes on each other, we both went straight to KIA But just a beautiful couple got to see them yesterday saw a lot of people Met met some young listeners to the show young 17 year old sister who goes to King Full I be getting ready to travel to Japan next year And so we get ready snack her for the college tour even though she says she knows she wants to go to Jackson State So Jackson State alumni y'all got a beast getting ready to come down here
She clearly is brilliant and rocking the Angela Davis Afro. So it was a good time at Mount Zion yesterday. I really, and look, they was all registered. They all showed up strong. Everybody we checked, they was good. But that referendum questions, which I'm going to cover again real quickly this morning, it was the one thing over and over and over again that folks said, we're so glad y'all here because we were getting ready to vote.
And understanding what we understand now is getting ready to change the way we was about to vote because the language and the wording will trip you up, especially on question number three about discrimination. It will trip you up and you will end up voting against your own interest if you are a person of color. So we will definitely be talking about that and emphasizing that. But I just want to say we are slated to be going to evolve.
I don't even have a list of churches in front of me. But when I say churches have shown up in a way where they they call in and reaching out to us through deltas in their own chapter, I mean, in their own congregation or they getting worse. Somebody find somebody who know me and say, hey, tell Michelle now we want them to come through. And so I just appreciate the members of the faith community that are listening and are going back and sharing this with your leadership and, you know,
or or calling because I think now we're going to get to the point. We've already started doubling up. So we got more than one church today we're doing. Um, so you want to say something? No, I was just saying I need to come to my church. I'm not coming to your bedside Baptist church. Come on, man. I got members of my church that need to be registered. It's you yourself. I'm not coming to bedside Baptist. I'm not coming. Forget you.
Oh, and let me say congratulations to Pastor Walker over at... What's the name of my church? Union here, who retired. Yeah, he retired. He retired. They had a big celebration for him. I think that was on Saturday. So let me just say congratulations to him. You know, it's nothing like when you finally have done your thing.
With that being said, a number of topics I'm going to try to hit and cover this morning. We are up on our first break, so we will do that in just a second. But the information that we will give regarding the referendum questions, please listen up. If you have a child that is in college, a young adult child that is in college, whether they are in college here in state or they are.
out of state and in some cases out of the country because we have a number of students that are studying abroad. Please, please, please make sure that they have requested an absentee ballot and that they will get those filled out immediately and returned immediately. There is like this.
this window, you want to get those absentee ballots in before October 20th so that they have at least 10 days to process them and make sure that everything goes accordingly. If you have students in your family that are away at college, whether they are away here in state or they are out of state or they are a broad, they need to request an absentee ballot. They need to fill it out immediately.
and they need to get it returned. We need to make sure that those young people also have information about the three referendum questions because, again, we can't just tell them to get the mail-in ballot and not flag for them, hey, hey, hey. At the bottom of that ballot, there are three questions. These are what those three questions do, and this is the impact if you vote yes or you vote no on those questions.
So I appreciated the number of parents that have come up to me between our chapter meeting and church yesterday to say, ah, I got a baby away at school. What do we need to do? Get on top of that. All right, y'all, let me take a quick break. I'll be right back from the election. So I am going to be hammering this home for the folks who have not voted yet. If you have done it, you heard this feel before, memorize it and go share it with somebody else.
because we need to make sure that this is getting to all of our folks. There are three referendum questions. The way they appear on the ballot, question number one, shall section 10 of article five of the Constitution be amended to prohibit the governor in exercising his or her partial veto authority from creating or increasing or authorizing the creation of increase of any tax or fee.
So what this would do is prevent the governor from using their partial veto to create or increase any tax or fee Governor evers Got a lot of attention when he changed Some wording or a number I should say a number That took the funding of public education for 40 years or 400 years Republicans were not happy, but we also say
not partisan, just facts. All of these amendments were introduced by Republicans. They do not have Democrats that are supporting them. Okay? So if you vote yes on this, it would weaken the executive checks and shifts the power to the legislature. And this is for partisan reasons. Let's just be clear. It's not about what's in the best interest of the state. It's about what's in the best interest of Republicans. If you vote no,
Then it limits the governor's ability to raise taxes their own and gives the legislature. Wait, it gives the legislature greater control over the taxes and increases. So just understand this. Every governor to this point since the state's inception has had this ability. All right.
When people don't like who's in leadership, they want to change the rules, but we're not just changing the rules. All three of these amendments change our state's constitution. So I want to make sure that we are clear about what's happening right now. Question number two, freedom to gather in places of worship during an emergency and.
It goes on to save some other stuff, but that's the question. Freedom to gather in places of worship during an emergency. What it does, it would ban the government from closing places of worship during any state of emergency, including pandemics. This is back to COVID. Should the state have been able to tell churches that you needed to close your doors during the period of time that we were experiencing the pandemic?
a lot of churches were able to pivot and many of them were able to go to online service. In fact, many of them now offer both. A number of people have kept those services in place. I watch Christ the King's Church online usually every Sunday that I'm at home that I'm able to see it. So, you know,
As I always say, it was some good things that came out of COVID in addition to the awful tragedy in which we lost so many lives. But if you vote yes for this, it removes an essential health tool that the state government has to be able to help manage a health crisis. Okay? If you vote no, it protects the freedom to worship.
and the government cannot shut down churches during emergencies. So, you know what? I gotta fix this. I'll just realize there's something wrong right here. Yeah, I just looked at a handout that we gave out and it got these two reversed. I gotta fix this. Okay.
So, on the church question and COVID, churches should not have more power than the state. The state has all the information. The state has the medical, you know, uh, wherewithal to understand a pandemic. The state should have the power to be able to say what can be open or closed and when it reopens. All right? So,
I just looked at that. That needs to be fixed. Um, the state that for me personally, that should be a no. And there are people that were like, Hey, they left the liquor stores open. We've had this conversation. You in the store, five minutes, you in church for one to four hours, depending on where you go to church and everything that's going on in that church is very, very different from paying for your bottle and walking out. Question number three.
which is the jackpot of all jackpots when it comes to I Cannot believe this is flipped. I'm so glad I just looked at this. I have got to fix this question number three
I am so mad. I just realized there's a mistake on this one. Question number three, the government entity discrimination prohibited. And it would say that the government, it would prohibit governmental entities in the state from dismantling against or granting preferential treatment to any individual group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in public employment.
That sounds very good. That sounds very good. That sounds very good. Of course, we don't want anyone being discriminated against, but it's bigger than somebody discriminated against someone because there have been many programs that have had to be put in place to level the playing field. Coming out of slavery, coming out of segregation, coming out of Jim Crow, coming out of racial bias, all of the stuff.
We have had black folks that have been systematically and other communities of color that have been systematically had doors shut in their face by state agencies. By educational institutions, you know, couldn't go here, couldn't get in. We're already coming out of underperforming schools that have been intentionally underfunded.
We're looking at even, you know, historically black colleges intentionally underfunded money that was earmarked for those schools, state legislatures and people in control in the state taking that money and diverting it to white schools. So there have been a number of things that have happened to make the playing field uneven and to give the advantage to white Americans. People saw that and said, we need to address it.
So many programs have been created to try to address that. Some of these programs are only 20, 30 years old, some even younger in terms of how long they've been around. You now have Republicans that are saying the playing field is level. We're all on the same footing. So everybody is supposed to be treated exactly the same, not acknowledging that white Americans have had a damn near 400 year head start.
on freedoms, access opportunities than black folks. So that answer needs to be a no. So in the simplest form, this is Michelle Bryant speaking, every one of them referendum questions need to be a no. I know church folks going to struggle with that COVID question, but I just need to remind y'all, more black folks die overwhelmingly in Milwaukee.
We saw how the black community was impacted by a health pandemic. And again, this country was never designed for the church to have more power than the state. It was never designed that way. It was created to in fact be the exact opposite. Because then if we say the church has more power, which church? The Catholic Church?
Muslims, you know, like all the different types of religion, which which one? So I just want to make sure that we are clear on that these referendum questions to make sure that folks understand them. But I am so mad that I just caught this mistake in this document. I got to go back and fix that.
So if you have questions about the referendums, please reach out. If you have a different position, I'd love to hear it to be able to discuss it, talk about it. But whatever we do, we got to be informed when we walk into these places to vote so that folks know what they do. We have to, we got to make sure our community is informed. Some people tell me they have already voted. And after they heard the explanation on some of these, they said, I voted wrong because I didn't understand them.
And I tell some people don't feel bad because the way the wording was written, it was written to confusion. It was written to make you think you were doing something great. That third question about discrimination, it was written to make you think that, oh, no, no one should be discriminated against, but it does not take into account historical systemic discrimination that people of color, black folks in particular have suffered in this country.
and that we are still trying to, I mean, why am I still on my rampage with the NFL? Because of systemic discrimination, algorithms that said if a black athlete is harmed or injured, career ending injury in the NFL, that he won't be paid the same money as his white counterpart.
who gets the exact same injury because the statistics say that that white man's life, that white man's career, that white man's earning power is way more than the black man's. And so same injury, same league, same team, same position, but the brother either is paid less money or the brother would have been paid no money. That's systemic, y'all. There are scientists out there that have pushed that narrative.
So the playing field is not level and I got black folks that's going to go in there and they're going to vote against they're going to vote for something that is against their own best interests. That just every time I think about it, it turns my stomach. Because they were so crafty in the way they wrote it. That we think we doing something for.
the good for mankind to help everybody. And we will be shooting ourselves in the foot. We will be hurting ourselves. And I'm really, really disappointed outright frustrated with the lack of black elected officials that are not out here beating this drum about that damn amendment. I'm really, really disappointed. I'm disappointed in so many black organizations. The League of Women Voters, a
predominantly white organization has done more around that amendment than a lot of black folks that I have seen. I am so disappointed. And I understand that a number of organizations, our organizations are nonprofit. And so they will tell you, we can't take a position. Yes, you can. Your organization, you can take a position on policy.
You can't be take partisan positions. But you know, we don't we don't go that far. We don't ask those questions. We don't talk to our lawyers and make sure that we're good to take to deal with policy. I mean, why wouldn't I be able to tell somebody you about to do something that could harm you? But if you are not a nonprofit.
If you are a for-profit, if you have the ability to go and talk to your lawyers, to your organizations, but we need to be saying more than we're saying right now. And I can hear from folks on everything under the sun, but you let us be on the ballot this time and I don't hardly hear from none of y'all. I don't see it. I don't see no campaigns. I don't see any money being spent to educate the public. I don't see it.
I'm gonna say even to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, I should see money on the ground about this freaking amendment. I should see something out there. Let me go to the phone line. Hey, Collier, what's happening? You just sort of crushed my point. I have a rule of thumb about referendums. If I elect people every, I mean, I'm there once a year electing people,
that represent my views and I respect them. And if they're not involved in forming the referendum or the question, if they don't even consult, like, I don't know, like, you know, people of other race, this is about the legal situations they face, and just gonna say, you know, oh yeah, I know this would be a good idea, you know, without even working it out with the other side. You know, then it's a,
sort of red flag to me. Right. And I'd rather just forget it. Yeah, I mean, you know, again, it was problematic how they all got introduced. But like I said, they went to great lengths to word it in a way. And thank you for the call. I appreciate it. But they went to great lengths to word it in a way that sounds balanced and fair. And.
There will be people like if unlike you, you know, who kind of understand backstory, understand that, you know, who crafted it that there was not involvement. None of this was bipartisan in terms of coming up with this language and.
You know, so that already is a rare flag like who did it and why and they didn't talk to nobody else, you know, and then the thing that's so laughable to me is you've got Republicans introducing some mess like this on the diversity equity inclusion. But you the same one standing in the damn gate all the time, black and black folks from being honored in the state capital that you don't approve of. These that, you know, either black legislators for Black History Month can't honor who they want to.
Y'all can honor drug addict Rush Limbaugh, but they can't honor Stacey Abrams. Help me appreciate that. The man who was writing illegal prescriptions to fuel his drug addiction, we could honor him, but we couldn't honor Stacey Abrams, who got a political viewpoint that's different from you, but nothing in any way that harms you.
And so you had black legislators tussling with these people every February trying to get a resolution through. And you're the people I'm supposed to trust to create and write an amendment to be able to help everybody. You already showed your hand. If white boys in the legislature on the Republican side of the aisle don't approve it and it doesn't make them feel comfortable and they're not okay with it, then you don't get nothing done.
I'm sorry. I have not heard a black legislator at the state level speak on this at all in any real meaningful way. I have it. And I'm out of Mr. Newsletter. And so if I miss it, send it to me. I stand corrected. I'll repeat it. But nobody is bothered to say, can we come on the show and talk about any of this? Can we make sure we educate our community? I'm out here knocking on doors to help our folks because
This is going to pass. This is my concern. And I'm just going to say it right now. We are outnumbered in this state. All minorities together are about 13 percent or less in this state. So we outnumber. So that's why what the League of Women Voters is doing is so important because they're making sure not only they're reaching everybody.
White allies, everybody in between, they're reaching everybody to help say, hey, if we believe in fairness, if we believe there have been systemic issues, if we believe, then this needs to be a no vote. So we got that group out there talking to other people in addition to everybody that they serve in their respective communities. But where are our organizations beating this draw?
Not a single person has reached out, at least on my show, to say, can we come in and talk about this amendment and what it would do for our community? Not a single person. All right. I'm going to move on. Say what?
Somebody said on so many occasions we are reactive instead of proactive and then have to scuffle to get the messaging out. This is true because we that's what it feels like right now. We in a scuffle. We in a scuffle because we are less than 30 days away and it wasn't just to educate black folks not to harm themselves. It was to educate allies not to harm us too. Because it's enough allies. It's enough people in this state.
That's why we are 50-50 state. We are purple state that see things more aligned in the way many black folks see them. But there had to be a campaign to educate everybody. And I'm going to tell you the importance and the significance. And somebody said, and they knew about this referendum back in February. So we could have been had a push to educate our community.
I'm sorry. What'd you say, Jay? Oh, let me take a break. OK. I know it's like a bug farm. I mean, let me take a break. We'll be right back. Yeah. Family, welcome back to the show. Got a caller. Let us get them in real quick. Hey, caller, what's happening? How you doing, Miss Michelle?
What's going on?
heart pounded to him. How you doing, Kyah? My brother. And the mallets. Yes, we all ran family ties together. Really mallet. All the mallets had the stores like my family did. So yes, I want to say one more thing. This has been bothering me for quite some time.
I am now a disabled veteran. Well, I didn't ever know that and I am now a senior citizen. And nobody told me how to walk across the street, told me how to say, please, thank you, excuse me. But he didn't tell me nothing about getting old. Hey, Miss Michelle, please help me out. I've been sitting down, sitting still, looking and watching. How is it?
their brothers are now wearing fake hair pieces. And acting like, wait listen, and acting like, wait, I've seen one dude, I had to watch him twice. He threw his head to the side like he was talking with a white girl there.
He did the right girl, privileged handshake. I'm like, what the hell he did? I walked up on him, tapped him on the shoulder. He hit his head back. I'm like, man, are you sweet? I asked him, are you sweet or are you a man? He looked at me like he was crazy. I said, I am asking because I don't know. But you toughen your head to the side like you had long white gold in here all your life. Fabio.
So now let me back up to what you also brought up about how men are wearing tight, slim, so tight. We didn't even want to wear a stove because you couldn't take your feet out. We had to cut the foam in the inside. Come on now. Wait a minute. Now, young men, I'm going to talk about y'all because I was one and I can do that. Young black men.
Now I can be more specific because I was one of those. My grandfather, my father, my uncles, my cousins taught me how to dress because it was a ceremonial thing when they was getting dressed, from the lighter to the matching socks to the suspenders to the, they taught us how to dress. There wasn't no woman in there teaching me how to dress like they are doing now, with y'all little ankle, ankle highs and slim.
Stop it. Women didn't do that. Don't be blaming women for that. Men back to teach you how to dress because these women crossing over to the men's addiction and trying to teach us how to dress and not do it. How you gonna blame women for that? Okay, dude, I see how I'm treated. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Because you're not gonna blame that on women. Women didn't teach nobody to put them little tight, high ankle pants on. Don't blame us for that.
Yeah, man, I think some of these... Did he hang up? Yeah, he out of there. Dino, for real? You got sensitive and you hung up? He's off the mic. He's like, I am now done. For real, Dino? That's how you gonna act? That guy's off the mic. Another Ralph Trans man in the building. I'm saying it, but I'm saying it, and if I didn't mean it, I wouldn't have said it. But number one, you're gonna just lay there at the feet of sisters or of women. Didn't all women teach you to wear your pants like that? Well, stop it.
My son got a whole bunch of his gear stuff for me. Yeah. Now, don't get me wrong. His his his dad, his stepfather, my brothers, all these brothers just stay behind. Everybody, everybody, everybody, dip, dapper, clean down to the to the to the socks. Everybody. But he got a lot of his fashion stuff from his mama, too.
And I want to be clear. You would never be wearing them tight short pants in my house. Leotards. Running around with Leotard suits on. It is. And my son is a thicko. He's been thick his whole life. So, looking like Teddy Rux been walking around here with the little short pants on. Let me go to the phone line. Hey, Colin, what's happening? I love you, too.
Like I see it, I can take a touch in the eye because I've been put in a fit to the book. So it ain't no thanks. I've been raised by a black woman and a black man, so I know what I'm talking about. Now back to what I was saying, Ms. Michelle, you know a lot of these households are lit in the sky by women.
So I can't wait at the foot. No, you can't me because that style didn't even start in this country. But that style did not start in this country, bro.
Miss Michelle. I'm just one black man that's saying his point of view. So stop barking at me. First of all, I'm not barking. You know that. Go, Dino. Go, Dino. Just go. Let me finish. Go. Please. Oh, please. Oh, it's no. Okay. I said go, man. Oh, my. Okay. Thank you. You know, I'm in there barking and biting. Don't start. Now, Miss Michelle, now you know
Come on, I was raised by men and men taught me how to dress, how to take care of my hygiene, how to wash and to crack in my butt. All of that, that no woman ever taught me, so now.
I'm as a man, I never told no woman how to get they ordered together. So when I speak up for my point of view, let me speak up for you. I have not said a word. Now you as a woman, I will argue with you because you got your point of view. But you as a woman will argue a brother down and call his bro. No, no, no, no, no. Let me be clear. Let me be clear. I'm not arguing a position as a woman. I'm arguing a position as an intellectual.
That can be either or. So now back to what I was saying because it is your show. Now back to what I was saying. Yes women have a very women have women have control over these young men minds and what they say a woman says is what they believe is true and it's not actually that. Now here's one thing I want to say. Let's go back to Fred Saffron.
He has suffered his son. Now you see when I wouldn't care when that man got dressed in his suit. No matter how old he was, we knew what it was, what it meant, and it still had that culture to it. Now that it's being faded out that a lot of these young men haven't been taught how to dress, haven't been taught how to hygiene, haven't been taught how to have respect for themselves as I was raised and had men telling me what men supposed to do.
I don't see that no more, so when I can speak on it, and as y'all see, me and I have to hit a family, so then what is? I'm done.
I'll give you back your time. But I love y'all. All y'all black folks. Thank you, Dino. Somebody said, well, tell his ass to get off the phone and go bitching somebody. You know, I want to be clear. You can trace
Then we'll slim tight fitness suits all the way back to the 1800s. Yeah, like just so we clear this goes back and it didn't originate in the black community. It didn't originate even, you know, necessarily in America. These these these styles were brought over. We saw them in the 60s. Remember? Yeah.
In the 60s, there were, remember some of them old TV shows, Namia had them, Susan, and they were super, super slim fitting. And the slim fitting is fine, but there's a difference between being slim fitting and tight and tight. Yeah, like we're wearing tight now to the point you could see the thread in the scene. You could see ACL tears. Like you said, you could see, you know, your wallet, your money in your pocket. And then the slim fitting didn't have nothing to do with floods because they would be slim because I got pictures of my daddy in slim fitting suits.
But they weren't so tight that you couldn't, I'm like, I'm looking at the dudes like, how are you even breathing in that suit? So you ain't gonna blame that on women. Yeah. Um, okay. Now I had to wrestle with him about that. All right. Let me, let me play this. Can I, am I okay? Yeah. Okay. Let me play this story that I saw that just make sure it's all over you. It, it looks like it is. Okay. Okay. There we go. Yeah.
It's not working. I'm not it Check your port and make sure All right Check your volume and make sure it's not muted. I'm sorry. Yeah, we're trying to play this Nope, it's not muted. I don't know why we came here. Hmm. That's crazy
Here it is on my phone. Yeah, you got to check your port. I make sure I'm going to check your settings and make sure your settings are set for that for your headphone. No, you got the case around your phone. No, it ain't on the phone. No, it's on the. That's OK. I will I will forego it. All I ever do is for plug it in and never has done that. Yeah, it probably reset itself. OK, so that's OK. So the story that I wanted to bring up.
I was, you know, it's some stories that you see that are horrific and you, you know, you look and you go Lord have mercy or you know, whatever it is you say. And some of them make you just have to sit down for a second and process what you just heard. There is a story coming out of Chicago that happened this past Saturday.
in which I'm seeing accounts on social media, plus I'm seeing what the news is reporting. And you know, social media usually has extra that the news does not have. So you have to kind of balance what is accurate. But a seven year old little girl was fatally stabbed on the south side of Chicago, this area called East Chatham in their neighborhood.
And a 48-year-old woman has been taken into custody, Siobhan Gayden, for stabbing this baby. So the way the news reported it, a girl was walking down the sidewalk with her mom holding her mom's hand when a woman who did not know her approached and started stabbing the seven-year-old girl in her back multiple times.
Witnesses saw what was happening. They ran over. They attacked this woman. Social media said they beat her and detained her until the police got there. When the police got there, obviously they got this baby rushed to the hospital. The woman who had attacked the child had to be taken to the hospital as well. Not a life threatening injuries, but nevertheless they had to take her to the hospital as well.
This seven year old ends up dying from the attack and And I'll take it back it wasn't her mother that she was walking with it was her 16 year old sister and so what folks on social media are saying is that They had been inside a boost mobile store where the sister had gone in to pay her phone bill
There had been some exchange between the sister and this 48 year old woman inside the store and that when they left the store. The woman left the store to and they believe that the woman followed them outside and then ended up stabbing the child. So because at first I knew they say it was an adult woman, but it was the sister.
And she was only 16 from what I read in different accounts. But what is wrong with you? That you stab anybody over an argument in the store, but that you stab a child. So this is what second grade. That you stab a baby and this baby is now gone. Because.
Like somebody really gonna have to help me and determine that this woman suffer from mental illness. I don't know what was her deal But you just realize what a crazy kind of world we live in and how you never know and when you Get ready to interact with people when you get you just don't never know who you're talking to You'll know where these people are. You know, I
And so I'm sure more will come out and I'm trying to get in touch with my girl over in Chicago to see what they're saying on the ground My sister clear Patrick who does talk radio in Chicago because they will know better But this it just was and this is broad daylight This Saturday afternoon this broad daylight when this woman just starts stabbing this baby in the back
And this one, the girl that's holding her hand, you like, I don't know if you're so caught off guard, you're trying to get her off, but the community jumped into action and got this woman peeing down. So, you know, it's just one of those things to think about. I tell people all the time, particularly when you got your children with you and folks start jaw jacking and get into it with other people. We've seen children be put in crazy harms way.
because the adults that were around them or the caregivers that were around them did not act responsibly. You get into a heated argument. You start threatening people. We've seen people shooting the cars that had kids in them because they upset with the driver about whatever, whatever. And just, there may have been nothing that this 16-year-old said or did inside that T-Mobile that should have
Created this kind of response, but I just I remember how many times I will hear people say Because I got my baby with me I'm gonna walk away from this situation. Yeah, yeah Because I got my child with me. I got my grandkids with me We gonna remove ourselves from this situation because you understand how this could go wrong Yeah, and his baby get caught up in the crossfire So I just had to mention that story because that just bothered me so bad because you know Atlas is seven
That just bothered me so bad. And, you know, I talked to my son, because my son, well, as I've said before, this ain't to do. This ain't to do the play with for five minutes. But one of the things that I will even say about him is, you know, conscientious of the fact that your son is right here. No, that, that, I mean, yeah, because I have a situation that I had my grandson with me and,
I'm I'm in the store and something happened in the store that It was one of those moments that I felt like life had paused and it gave me a A and B C option right then and then what are you going to either you can engage or You can walk away Or you can do both engage and then walk away after you you know to put hands on it
But then I thought about it, like, what would that look like for my grandson to see his papa going nuts and just spazzing out? And then I expect him to act right in school. Right. Well, no, because, you know, they're going to do exactly what you show them. So I had to take the initiative and say, hold on, I got to think about my grandson's future. Because if you see papa in here, like going hand in hand.
crazy and tearing up the store, he going to think, well, my papa did it so I can do it. So we have to be because that video you showed me of the guy. What sort was he in? Wendy's? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And here in Milwaukee. Yeah. And it's a video that's gone viral in town where his brother is upset. There was some kind of papa's papa's or nor some kind of problem with.
His food order extra piece of chicken and so he wanted his money back $7 and it escalated from you know this dispute about Missing some food or whatever he wanted to him standing near with people in the store threatening and him and his Employee going back and forth. Thank God there was that glass in between them. Yeah But you know, he was selling to do like I'll take your life He went outside and actually got his gun came back inside and threatened to do it and said I kill you
Give me my seven dollars and seven dollars and fifty cents. So you just man life over seven dollars and you know talked about the boy mama his grandmother He just act and this was a grown man in front of kids. Okay, it was kids It was people in there and I'm like just no regard no respect and I'm like looking at him like and I bet you think you're a real man right now So just watching that made me that video was scary. Yeah, but if if I was there
Just to kill the whole situation out of reach in my pocket and gave him $20. Amen. Here's 20 bucks, bro. Don't even trip about that. So now you got $13 more than what you would have had. So just I don't even trip. I mean, but it just let you know to how you escalated that to that level. All because you asked for extra piece of chicken. For whatever reason, they didn't give it to you or whatever. So you get upset and say, hey, give me my money back.
And they telling them they're going to give you your money back, but they're not moving fast as you think they should move. Now you. Hey, I got something for you. You go outside, get your gun, come back in as all on camera and you threatening this man. Tell me, you're going to take his life. And if I see you in the street, I'm going to kill you over. So you still going to be mad next week over $7 and 50 cent and the piece of chicken, the extra chicken you didn't get. You still going to be mad about that or 20, 30, 40 years down the line after you did some stupid and you in jail. Now you sitting there looking like.
Dang, I don't have that extra piece of chicken. I ain't got $7.50 no more. And my life is gone. I mean, it just was so ridiculous, though. So, you know, that was just that cautionary tale about y'all paying attention, understanding.
When you got folks around you like what's going on somebody say Hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold
I was, I was, I was in my 20s. She's a help. She's a help. Let me, let me say, since you remember that and brought that back, let me, let me explain what happened. What happened was I came. Be careful what you say. Because more people don't forget. So I had asked for a double whopper with cheese, right? And what happened was, uh, I guess it wasn't coming fast enough. And.
They was talking crazy to me. And at that particular time, and I'm going to kill my sister for actually calling and telling everybody. At that particular time, you know, I was a fool. So, you know, they said something crazy. And since, you know, my brother used to manage that particular Burger King with no longer there, I decided that I knew how to fix and wrap the sandwiches. So I might as well do it. So I jumped over the counter and fixed.
my sandwich, but what happened was I had added some extra pieces of bacon on since I jumped over the counter. I figured I might as well, you know, Burger King had to slogan your way. So I fixed it my way and wrapped it up and came back and then I paid for it. So after I went back on the other side of the counter, I reached my pocket, paid for it.
Walked out. Don't try to justify your ego. Yeah, you know, but I don't condone doing that. I don't condone. This is the thing. You learn. You learn from it. And again, like, I hate to say it, but see what other people do, you know, and behave and like, oh, this how you, you while out when, when stuff don't go your way. Well, yeah. Well, you know, sometimes, you know, you got to put belt to ass. And that's what I did. And I'm not proud of it because I see that it was major growth. So I,
I've grown from that. And I mean, and just always to, like I said, lessons learned, because you realize, like, man, if I had to replace some of the stuff, that could have been so wrong. That could have been so different. If I could do it over, I probably would, because I fixed the mess out of that sandwich. That sandwich had enough pieces of bacon on it. I'm done talking to you. It had extra cheese. You just. Yeah, doc, I think I would have cooked. Yeah.
You just make it so bad. All right. I can't stay happy. Somebody, it happens to me. It happens to me. I'm like, it is so funny because happiness has so much shame. Most shame. Oh my God. Most shame. Curly, that Popeye's employee was making it even worse. Telling the crazy man what time he get off. I know. Yeah. But look, to me, that employee was talking bad because they was behind that glass.
Even though they did talk about you know what time they got off a year there I mean a hoax like that in place should have got fire because you escalating this whole situation and it's like man All of these innocent people that's you may get caught up for here because the ones they start shooting You know bullets don't have no name. It's gonna go wherever you aim and sometimes it ricochets. So look somebody gotta hear self-serve fast food See you man. See how people talk about you. I've grown
And I think we appreciate it. We appreciate it. Because what hold me? Well, look, speaking of people needing to mature and grow up, somebody, you know, put this in the chat. I'll mention it briefly. I did see the video. It was disturbing. I would like to say it's the first time I've seen a video similar. It reminded me of one from a couple of years ago that was done. But in Maryland, there have been seven high school football players who have all been charged with assault after a September 25th situation.
that left their football teammate hospitalized. The players who were charged are ages 14 and 16 and are all junior varsity football players at Howard High School in Elliott City. And the footage shows the students picking up the victim and attempting to put them in a toilet. They were charged with second degree sexual assault. I'm not sorry, second degree assault following the incident, but
You know, the young man, African-American teammates, white and the teammates, they say, you know, of course, now they trying to is just hazing, joking. They pulled off this young brothers shoes and socks, though, pull this backpack off of them. And they began harassing them, pushing on them.
and then ultimately trying to pick him up and stuff him in the toilet. His mom gets wind of it. She said that he had been actually the victim of repeated harassment during football practice. His bike was torn up. His football helmet was bug sprayed. His pants were pulled down. His wallet was taken.
And so she was talking about her once energetic son now depressed and what this baby is going through. Again, as soon as that story came out, I thought it was people just not talking about this old story. Like I said, that happened a couple of years ago. Young black athlete, all white teammates, they do, you know, similar stuff. They tried to stuff him in a locker. They put him
I tried to put it, held him upside down, tried to put his head in the face in the toilet. And, you know, so it brought back to mind the whole Hannah Nicole Jones article, because she's now come out with a another response since she's gotten a lot of backlash and feedback from people who read about her saying she intentionally put her child in an underperforming school. And then when the results didn't go well,
Yep, it is Elliot City. Somebody said sounds like Elliot City. Howard County is predominantly white. Yep. That's what it was. He was the only black child in this area on that team or whatever. And they did that. And so, you know, one of the things that we said is it ends up being a trade off because you put your only black child in an all white, predominantly white environment. You can count the number of black kids on one hand. Sometimes it goes well. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes your kids never come home and tell you.
What they're going through because they understand the sacrifice you making to put them out there in the first place Some experiences end up being great, you know, it just you never know Where or how it's gonna work out but as a parent with your child in that situation
the same vigilance you have to show when they in other schools, you got to show in that school too. Because people think, oh, I put you out here in this great school and, you know, the education is stellar and everything is going to be hunky-dory. And you're not always paying attention to the emotional side of what's going on with your child, the social side of what's going on with your child. So, yeah, I saw it. And all I can say is my usual frustration with our children being put in these situations. And I'm sorry.
Never under no circumstances is my son gonna be in a school setting in which Heat black students are less than 10% of the population. It's just never gonna happen. That's a personal choice That's a personal choice. I'll be grudge. Nobody they're personal choices, but mine If some ever go down, he will not be outnumbered like that. It just ain't gonna happen It ain't gonna happen Yeah, some stuff it just it ain't gonna I don't give damn how good education is it's not gonna happen
And I believe that public schools offer quality educations. Like I said, I know my child got a stellar education when he was at Rufus King High School. I know the kind of parents that was engaged, both black, white and Hispanic, Latino, everybody, we all care about what was going on. One of the things that Hannah Nicole Jones has said or they have said is that, you know, we needed more parents to come in to try to improve underperforming school.
And I hear that. I appreciate all of that. We need legislators to make sure they're doing everything. School board members to make sure they're doing everything so that we don't have schools with such significant disparities that nobody wants to send a child here. And when you walk in, you know the teachers don't want to be there. The kids don't want to be there. The whole situation is a failing situation. The whole situation is a failing situation.
The buildings they end are the oldest buildings in the district. It just it just is a bad look across the board. But that's the other side of this conversation. That's the other side of that coin. Black parents, in some cases, you damned if you do, you damned if you don't. It is a struggle trying to figure out what to do with your child to make sure that your child and then this is the thing that's always so crazy me because a lot of times white folks don't have to have these conversations.
underperforming fine, but. Somebody being bullied in terms of race. Now, people get bullied. You know, for all kinds of things, but it just seems like. The conversations, the situations that we have to struggle with and juggle every day as black folks in this country and so to have an amendment on the constant. I mean, on the November ballot that assumes that all things are equal, that all things are fair.
that there's never an issue about race in this in this state. That's just garbage. We got a caller. Let me get them in. Hey, caller, what's happening? You know, I think it's wonderful that you want to, you know, give your kids the best. I think you just have to, you know, raise your kids to be a certain way. Now, don't give me wrongs. Violence is never the answer. Never the answer.
but sometimes you have to raise your kids with the two-strike rule. You might have to not stay too far. You might have to not stay all outside. But first, the parents should be up there raising certain health. And I understand because I graduated from a public school too, as well. You just have to raise your kids to have a certain mindset. But this really comes from black people always playing a bigger person because a good person told me one time,
If black people would treat racism like they treat niggas, they wouldn't be dealing with this now today because if black people look at certain people, they look at their skin color and value them more of the outcome.
But when they look at they own as niggas, they don't care about the value. They don't care about the income. And when you look at racist people, they know one thing that black people look at is they skin color. So if you treat them like you treat your own people, they wouldn't be going through this. That's what they're going through right now. And that's why white people still do what they do. All right. Thank you. I appreciate it. Have a wonderful day. You know, I'm going to tell you when he was talking, they made me think about.
the white guy who was invited to the black church who stood up. Yeah, I need to find that clip. White guy. OK, yeah, we'll find and see if we can find over the break who goes to a black church and with black folks sitting there. Black pastor has invited him. He says the word nigga.
And he basically did the differentiation that Al just did. Yeah, like, you know, I know you black people don't like niggers either. And it was it was such a crazy moment. And I'm going to be honest, I actually thought of Al when I saw that video because there are people that like to make a distinction. Black folks and then they're niggas.
You know, and then I've even heard people say because it's why people can be niggas, you know, because some people take but, you know, going back to one of the original uses of the word, niggardly, which meant to be stingy and cheap. And then what we've seen is evolution and, you know, nobody ever says niggardly to describe somebody that's tight, cheap or stingy. You know, this is all about behavior. This is all about race now.
But I promise you, I thought about Al when this white guy felt comfortable standing up and saying that in a black church. And the white man stomped down races. I don't care what he's saying. Stomped down races. But the black folks in the church chuckled when he said it. And I just said, are you kidding me right now? Are you kidding me? But see, people think, hey, they can do what we do.
say what we say. And then we don't think about what we're saying and how other people interpret that and believe that then they are able to do the same thing, too. So it was one of those moments where for me, it's like, you just got to be careful about how you frame stuff and how you talk about stuff. I don't make a differentiation between black people and what people call niggas. I just don't. Bad behavior is bad behavior.
Because in the white community and the indigenous community, Hispanic, Latino community, Asian, Hmong community, I mean, you got people that all act the same way. And so nobody, you know, and I mean, and they may, they may have in internal things that they say in their racial groups to differentiate those.
Hispanics from these Hispanics, those indigenous from these indigenous. I'm saying we all got our nuances within the race. But when we start bringing that outside and we air it and we say it for other people to contextualize it and then pick up on it. That white man stood up in a black church. At the pulpit. Speaking to black folks.
And talked about none of us like niggas. Almost had a heart attack. Not that he said it. A that he was invited. And B that it was black folks that had the audacity to chuckle about it. I got to take a break. I'll be right back. All right, folks. So. We took a minute longer to come back because we, you know.
Oh, Jesus Christ. Yeah. Yeah. So we talk all the time. The story I was just talking about in Chicago, one of my colleagues came in and said he was actually over in Chicago when that whole story was unfolding and how wild it was over there. As people were trying to figure out what went on. And then as we are looking, you know, Jermaine them got this window right here so they can see everything that goes on.
And we see a gentleman go behind this gas station. Excuse me, literally while we were on air and. Use the restroom behind the gas station, but in full view, we could see him. And so the man actually, you know, pulls his pants down, tries to. To.
use a plastic bag to go to the bathroom. Two, not one. And, you know, we're all like, what is he homeless? Because he was trying to walk away. He was struggling. And then we realized, like, no, it looks like he actually was driving. His vehicle. But we haven't seen the car move yet. And so, you know.
not being able, I'm assuming, to use a public restroom, whatever. And whatever was good. So this man literally paying. I'm to my stripe. We looking dead. That is my high. And using the bathroom in a plastic bag and then proceeded to wipe his rear end with the plastic bag. And some folks say, well, you know.
you drive in, you couldn't make it, you know, whatever. And depending on what was going on with this man, I don't know. Somebody says to McDonald's a few blocks away. Yes. You remember at one time McDonald's used to be locked or you used to have to have a receipt number to get into the bathroom. Well, they actually they've changed that. Yeah, they've changed that policy. I've seen that a lot. So I don't know what was going on. But that's why I talk about the mental health and well being of people and what we are seeing out here.
Because, you know, Jermaine was getting ready to say something to the man, like, come on, fam. But I'm like, leave that man alone because we'll know what's going on. But we had no idea he was in a car. Like that car in the car hasn't moved yet. And it looks like he's driving the car. But moving now. Is he? Oh, yeah. No, it looked like he pushing it. He pushing the car. The car is not working. You see him?
He's pushing that car backwards See what's going on with this man So now when we say and see what I say though see what I say about like Before because once we saw that he had a car then it was like oh my god Why would you use the restroom in public like that? And you got a car you could have just drove there, but this car is incapacitated And so and he's an older man
And he's not in physical good shape. Oh, he must have ran out of gas. So look, I can try to move his gas tank cart to the other side. So Jermaine just went outside to help him. But that whole jump in the judgment, you know, so here we are. We were. Why didn't you just drive? But you must be out of gas. And now he out here trying to push it. And he's an elderly. He's an older.
But I'm gonna tell you oh Somebody helping them. Okay, so I'm sorry y'all we we see this stuff every day you understand what kind of just madness and craziness and trouble our community is in as we are trying to navigate everything but literally you look out your work window and you see somebody Pants down around his ankles going to the restroom
He probably did ask to use the bathroom and they told him no. But no, he was using the bathroom before we just saw him push the car. So somebody was like, you know, the one thing leads to the other. Now he he had to go to the bathroom first. But and I guess, you know, some I said, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. But.
It just lets you know, Lord have mercy, the stuff that we struggle with and go through in this community, Jesus. And when people talk about help and services and what's available to people, you just have some real crazy moments. So, all right, let me let me finish out the last half of the show. OK, there was somebody said these gas stations to let people use their bathroom. I don't care.
What they do in there if I buy some from you, I need to use your bathroom, you know, I think it's a it's a catch 22 They should have the bathrooms available for the public for use particularly if you're a customer and you coming in but Some of these people the way they treat these bathrooms Jesus Christ. I went to the bathroom at a McDonald's not too long ago in fact over the weekend and
It was two sisters in there. You know, that was washing up. They clearly was homeless and changing their clothes and doing everything. And when that girl came out that style, the way she left that style was so reckless. I was like, somebody got to come here and clean this up. It is madness. So it's a hard situation on both sides of the aisle. I just am learning, though, before I start talking to wait.
and try to get more information to wait and try to get more facts. So was that it? He was out of gas. Yeah, he was. Is he as old as he looks like? No, this cat actually. And I looked at him and I know him. You know him? No. But he was out of gas. So that's what it was. OK.
But when I saw him, I'm like, and he looked at me. I'm like, oh. Well. OK, we got a caller. I needed to version. Yeah. But that really broke my heart because I remember him being, you know, younger and vibrant and being around the neighborhoods when I looked at him.
And when he looked at me, he knew exactly who I was. And I'm like... Well, I mean, there's something wrong with him because of the way he was stumbling in that walk-in. But... And it looked like he's standing there asking... Do you have money for the gas? He didn't say nothing when... He just looked at me and I looked at him and he was like...
Well, I'll look and see if he's still over there when I get ready go and see if he got gas money Let me go to the phone line. Hey caller. What's that? Good morning What's going on, bro? Yes, sir
I need to use the bathroom. I'm buying some bathroom model orders. Okay, I'm gonna tell you where. So how would you use the bathroom? I'm gonna have a gang of people out here picking it. You ain't gonna sell no gas. And you saw it when playing. And it went in the bathroom. Ain't nothing wrong with the bathroom. It ain't my fault that people come in here and use drugs. You gotta just take the bitter with the salt. I mean, it's bitter with the salt.
If you're gonna run a if you're gonna run a facility, it definitely is the cost of doing business. And that's what happens across that street. Like I will pass. I will pass out every every morning. Okay. Check it out with that big old black escalator. Yeah, she be out there. She was good. Me too. We did too. We did all right.
Man, let me pull over here. You know, I'd go over there where the engine, you know, she looked up, but, you know, I don't know. Talk to her. Talk to her. I just wanted to make sure she was alive. But if you go come to work and walk right past this person, you ain't even safe. Listen, man, you have to get up from here. Can I give you a couple calls to get you right? I mean, you just walk right past.
It's just the disrespect that these people come in our neighborhoods and we allow them to do that. Well, we need to be putting them. So, you know, even the customers though, because plenty of customers, we have sat here and watch plenty of customers walk right past that lady. Black folks, they walk right past her too. Huh? Somebody got to, I mean, somebody got to do something, say something. It's like one person will say something. Right. No. I'll be tired from time. My knees be heard in the morning with the new weather.
I'm climbing up in a big escalator and just get you a little regular car. If you didn't have to climb up into a big escalator.
I appreciate it. I'm just saying, you know, stepping up on them running boards can be a little bit of a challenge. I'm just saying. I got the right size wheel that I could just put my foot up and slide my butt on it. Oh my god. Thank you, bro. Oh my god. Thank you.
Where am I? Where am I? Where are my running boards? You know, I do be having some little big facts to get me here, mate. They have like things to get back in there. Dude, this ain't not a spear. It's a running board. You saw it in the polls, bro. Thank you. Don't clap down. Thank you. Who you got why would you get way five hundred pounds? Thank you.
I appreciate it. You know what? Bye. Okay. Uh, yeah, that just that just blew a hole in the rest of the morning. Um, it's a couple of things, you know, I didn't get a chance to get into it. Trying to pay attention to what is going on. Folks have brought up the Nolan Wells situation.
And the interview that was done on Fox News, as they have some of the young three of the teens sitting there talking about how they've been brought closer to Christ and their Christianity has been improved because of everything that went on with Nolan and only to find out that the interview has now been pulled so that you can't.
Find it necessarily on Fox's website anymore because they said that the young men had earpieces in and were being coached on what to say By folks that were with them. So I don't know if these were parents adults attorneys but One of the little young men we started going to church more is what the one guy said everything from that moment was on was like
for God, for Jesus, for Nolan. And, you know, people don't want to hear. People don't want to hear because y'all didn't tell nobody y'all had that boy's phone or keys until his mother did the things on his phone to find his phone. And what they didn't realize that Nolan was still in the group chat. So all of the text messages that they were sending to each other in the group chat.
was going to show it up on his phone. So now they got all of the conversations, all that the parents were saying, everything they were saying. Now it's all coming out that. Yeah. So now you're running to Jesus and you want to be this Christian. And I mean, and that's the first thing. That's the first thing. Everybody always hold Jesus up as a shield for your dirt and hide behind that, you know, that my my my concern is.
And I'll go back again to something Andrew Young said, which was, we are in a rough time right now. And I didn't understand it, given everything that Andrew Young has seen in his lifetime. You know, you marched with King, you did all this work, you elbows deep in the civil rights movement. And he said, because before we had a federal system that was working for us.
U.S. Marshals come in and help Ruby Bridges go to school. U.S. Marshals come in and stop them from beating them folks when they was crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The U.S. Marshals can be deployed. We had a federal government that understood a vested interest in right and wrong to some extent, not fully, but to some extent. Under the Trump administration, we have nobody coming. We have nobody coming. So.
That's that's the show for today. I'm a rap here. I apologize for getting kind of thrown off by what was going on outside. The car's still over there, so we're going to go over there and see what's going on. Bros in the building. I appreciate y'all as always. Families, folks on Facebook, YouTube. Appreciate y'all. Those listening on your radio. I'll talk to you all tomorrow. Peace.