you
on the award-winning Truth 1017 radio.
I'm your host, Manan Sabir.
And we're about to pick some grapes right here on Lee Grapevine.
Milwaukee, grab a seat, because today is a lot.
Today is a lot.
It's power, pain, pocket change.
All in one show.
We starting off with a 14-year-old boy, autistic, walking home with snacks, taste twice in his own backyard, because an officer thought,
He was somebody else.
Yep.
I thought he was somebody else.
So I need y'all to sit with that right before we get into the footage and a child in his own yard, pay the price for somebody else's mistake.
Then we're talking about a man who used to be one of the best to ever do it.
Four time world champion, four division world champion.
The problem.
Adrian Bronner himself lost his trainer lost his father figure in a damn near broken found the bottle found some ugly moments I'm not gonna let that slide just cuz he's talented, but he's also fighting his way back currently right now Curfew and all trying to find a discipline and and again without the man who used to hold him to it We're gonna show you the good the bad
and they're still unfolding.
No, we ain't gonna sugarcoat it all though.
And then we're flipping it.
Mayor Mom Donnie.
Mayor Mom Donnie up in New York City just made it so you can cancel a subscription as easy as you had signed up for.
A lot of y'all got subscriptions coming out of y'all bank accounts and still got, and you still paying for, you still paying for when you don't even know, $299, $199.
999 1599 2799 for that was Netflix subscriptions.
You ain't even watching the polygamist.
You ain't even watching it.
Yep.
That's your money.
This ain't small.
It ain't small at all.
So Milwaukee.
And today we asking why it took, why it took law, why it took a law to make a company do the right thing in the first place.
So force fight.
finances, same rope, three different knots, same question.
Underneath it all, who's actually looking for you?
Let's get into it.
This is the great vine.
We're going to make sure it happens, baby.
I love y'all.
Before we begin, I want to address something that happened late or early this morning.
A friend of mine texted me and said that
A favorable community member to community members were hit by a car.
Late last night, Titania Avenue crossing the street, both of them were killed.
We're going to bring truth to power to their, their, their spirits and their souls because we need to find who did it and bring that person to justice.
This is not, this is not a game.
When you're driving, it's not a game.
When you're driving, it is not a game.
Straight up.
You got to look out for the people around you.
You also have to look out for the people in front of you.
This is serious.
So we're going to talk about that towards the end of the show.
Hopefully we'll find out some more information.
Shout out to my people.
So let's get into this.
Kaz has been sitting with me since I first saw it.
November 2023, Dalton, Illinois, 14 year old, Averess Thompson, black, autistic.
He's walking home from the grocery store, ends up in his own backyard.
Meanwhile, the police are chasing suspects connected to a stolen vehicle nearby.
An officer sees Averess.
makes them out for one of the people that they're chasing.
Man, that mistaken identity, that's something we all been a part of, but not all, but a lot of us.
If you brown black, you been a part of that.
Bodycam footage released months later in January, 2024, shows the officer chasing the kid, ordering him to stop.
When Avers climbs a fence, he deployed the taser on him, on the boy.
So just as the boy tries to get back up, he tasers him again.
His family has suffered, his family said he suffered a fractured hip and other injuries and bruises that put him in the hospital.
The little boy didn't do anything.
Like not one thing so Let's let's get to it.
Let's get to let me pull up the footage footage right quick Zach we got that
Some tased by police in his own backyard the family calling it a case of mistaken identity An officer can be heard questioning if they have the right person Alex Prez with the police video tonight and we warned it is disturbing
Tonight, parents outraged after they say their teenage son with autism was mistaken for a suspect and tased by police outside Chicago.
Body camera video obtained by our station WLS is showing officers apprehending 14-year-old Averius Thompson last
November.
Thompson's family says he was returning home from getting snacks at the grocery store when he was tased multiple times in their own backyard.
Don't move!
You move, you gotta get some more!
Dalton, Illinois police say they were called to assist neighboring Riverdale police who were searching for four suspects, two carrying rifles and a handgun.
Thompson's clothes, quote, matching the description.
Don't move!
But in the video, one officer questions whether they have the right person.
Thompson hospitalized with Taze marks on his body and a fractured hip, his mother frantic.
The family's attorney says the teenager was never charged.
He's just a lovable kid, you know, and I just I couldn't believe that this could happen to my kid.
And David, the Riverdale police chief said suspects were ultimately arrested and charged in a statement.
The city of Dalton says the incident is under investigation.
David.
Y'all see that?
I know y'all hear that.
A child in his own yard tased twice over a case of mistaken identity.
Man, I have a daughter that is.
autistic.
I know a good friend of mine, his son, is nonverbal autistic.
There are a number of parents I know that have children who are nonverbal autistic, older and also younger, and possibly could have been in the same position.
Now,
The second officer said, I don't think this is him, bro.
But it should have been, it should have been the first time if the kid is 14 years old and running from you, you better either run faster and not deploy your taser.
You can reason with kids a lot of times.
But doing this and not clearing the child's mental capacity that is a violation That is a violation and it has to be more products and policies and procedures in place on police units the federal The family's I family's attorney filed a federal lawsuit against Dalton the city of Dawson and Riverdale using claiming
excessive force, unlawful pursuit, civil rights violation, all of it.
The officer who deployed the taser, he got fired.
He didn't, he didn't use proper protocol.
So he's publicly disputed the firing.
I don't, who, for what?
Said he was following protocol.
He did not follow the protocol.
So he didn't know in the moment that the kid was a minor or he was autistic.
And here's what frustrates me about this.
And I want to say a plane.
I didn't know can't keep being the answer that lets any officer in any capacity walk away, let alone walk away clean, like dust free.
While the 14 year old is left with a fractured hip and trauma that's going to follow.
We need real training on recognizing when someone can't comply.
The way an officer's demanding not won't not can't won't can't Whether that's fear or processing delay or disability, nobody's bothered to consider before watching reaching for the tater This has to change It has to be better procedural mechanisms in place
This has to change everywhere and it has to change.
This is not the first time it's happened over and over and over again.
Let alone, we don't even know the amount of people that have been tased, hurt, and or arrested by law enforcement due to the fact that they are having either a break in their mental health and or.
Cannot communicate properly with authorities to express what they need in the time Autism is not a joke It's not a joke just yesterday just yesterday my daughter had a complete Meltdown she's in the stage where she is doing everything opposite of what I what I tell her I'm not gonna haul off in you know
Get the extension cord.
Hey, go give me the switch off the off the tree so I can spank that but nah, I'm not gonna do that It's not worth it What she needs love that's what she got she got love so This child needs a lot of love y'all find them on find his mom on Instagram or Facebook, please shout them out.
Please shout them out
and help them as they gonna need it.
This child is severely traumatized, guaranteed.
They may not, they're the verbal, the verbosity of a child, whether or not they can talk, whether or not they cannot talk, does not matter.
They have emotions and they also have feelings, lots of them.
Shout these people out.
Shout out to...
To avarice for hanging in there.
Yo, we come back We're gonna talk about the problem Adrian Bronner Adrian Bronner Adrian Bronner comes back baby.
He's back From tragedy to triumph.
We're gonna talk about it when we come back on the truth in
two
Yes, welcome
back.
Welcome back to the grapevine.
Who about to pick some more grapes?
Who about to pick some more grapes on the grapevine?
The truth, the warwin, the truth.
Radio 1017, right here.
We about to pick these grapes.
All right, let's talk about Adrian, the prod.
the problem Bronner.
If you guys know, he's a boxer for division, for division, world champion, Adrian the Bronner, Adrian the problem Bronner.
My man, one of the most talented fighters of his generation, guaranteed one of the most talented fighters of his generation, super athletic.
So I'm glad we talking about this because before we talked about Everest,
Getting tased by the cop.
That's an attack from the outside.
But now we're going to talk about an attack from the inside.
It's self-inflicted.
I think this is a complicated one also.
Y'all know Adrian.
You know, Adrian, Adrian got, you know, he had some things in the ring that when he said something, people, you know, it was like not a clown show, but he knew what to say in order to put the light on him.
This kid said he will.
Uh, he, somebody he had an interview and the interview guy said, man, who do you, who do you fight next?
He said, I will, I will fight a Mexican, Asian, he uses rhyming all the way down.
It was like, man, he is absolutely, he was an absolutely amazing fighter until he wasn't, but he was one of the most talented fighters that ever graced the ring.
But he's been through a rough, he went through a rough patch, uh, public struggles, financial issues, and of recent alcoholism was in, in that was front and center.
I mean, everybody seen it.
So he even admitted that he went back into the street life.
So whatever that mean, uh, he was in the street life.
He went, he went into a hardcore.
So a lot of that pain traces back to September of 2023.
When?
When his his long time trainer and also father figures, you got to remember if you have a trainer, especially in boxing or even if you just working out, man, that person becomes like your confidant.
So as long time trainer, father figure, Mike Stafford passed away 20, 23 of September.
So Bronner's flat out said that walking into the gym without that man just doesn't feel right anymore.
And that staffer was there for every title.
Literally every title.
Imagine walking to the gym as a kid and then when you are walking out of that gym, ultimately as a grown man or as a grown woman, you have multiple titles sitting at your feet.
You have a.
You have millions upon millions of dollars.
He's his.
Although his initials are AB, Adrian Bronner, his, his real moniker was about billions.
That's what he, he walked into the ring.
He'll always walk into the ring with a split, with a split shorts and have about billions or AB on, on his trunks.
straight up so I Got to show y'all something that's because I'm and I want to I'm not gonna sit it right there, but we're just gonna We're gonna tell you a little bit of the sympathetic parts of his story.
Hey, we got that that clip pulled up Okay, so Adrian Bronner had such a fantastic run
As a as a. As a boxer that he even he kicked it with you the who's who.
His his his mentor and longtime friend was Floyd Mayweather.
He wanted to be like him.
He fought like him.
He was athletic like him.
But what separated Mayweather and Adrian Bronner was the fact that they.
One had more discipline than the other.
Mayweather had more discipline than AB.
So we're gonna pull this clip up.
I want y'all to check this out because we're gonna dissect this life a little bit and see
what.
So yeah, I'm not gonna
laugh it off as a Bronner being Bronner That's a man with a platform mocking somebody for their size you know like
mocking somebody for their size for a condition that they didn't choose.
And it's not chaos for, that's not chaos for content.
That's somebody punching down at another person smaller than you.
Literally, literally punching down.
It's not funny.
Like, it ain't a joke.
So I'm not gonna pretend it's something that just happened on the stream and means and means and means and means of people watching.
If you're going root for this man's comeback, you can't look away from moments like this, either.
So both things are true.
Grief is real and that behavior is wrong.
Grief is real and that behavior is wrong.
Now here's another side of where he's at.
Bronner recently committed.
Bronner recently committed to a 45 day training camp himself aging the Bronner problem Bronner recently committed to a 45 day training camp real structure like when you go if you don't if you've never if you never have Seen a boxing training camp is one of the best ways to understand discipline because they lock themselves in There's a curfew
Usually curfew is at like nine, 10 o'clock and they get back up early in the morning, do three to five mile run, and then they get to working every day, all day.
It's morning, morning workout, afternoon, mid afternoon or midday workout, and then they have late or evening workouts.
In between, they're resting, they're doing therapy, whatever it is they need to do.
So,
Adrian, Adrian Bronner is under a real strict nightly curfew.
Real strict nightly curfew.
Like for example, when he first got on the stream with this one kid, he, he was, you know, he was on this kick stream and the kid, a kid walked in on him and some young lady, you know, been getting intimate, having sex and like.
You clearly see prior to this prior to this curfew in this training camp that Adrian Bronner had a problem with alcohol problem with addiction now we had recently last week we had Byron from the Phoenix and also to hear from some miles house and they there are they are experts in addiction and they've recognized they said that
The addictions can come in many different forms.
So not only is he dealing with addiction with alcohol, but he also has addiction with something else.
So.
He cut up, he cut all that out.
He cut all that out nightlife, all of that for 45 days.
All the stuff that has derailed him over and over and over again, that's helped him lose his money.
but his discipline is helping him rebuild the discipline that his longtime father figure used to hold him to.
Except now he's got to do it himself all alone.
And a lot of times when you have something going on, when you have an addiction, when you have an addiction, you're more than likely doing it alone.
So whether or not this comeback attempt
Sticks is genuinely an open question.
Straight up.
It's genuinely an open question.
Will it, will it, will it become something or will it just be a temporary thing?
He's now challenging other fighters in boxing to, to, to fight.
You know, he's going to promote his own fights and I agree.
If you're gonna come back and lock yourself in or in a house or warehouse for 45 days, you should come out a different person.
Majority of us will.
But we have, a lot of us have bills.
So, whether or not this comeback attempt sticks is generally an open question.
He's tried it before and It hasn't always held but we'll see if it holds we'll be back in two Then we're gonna take some callers.
All right Yep
Yes, welcome back to the grapevine.
Welcome back to the grapevine.
We're about to pick some grapes.
We're about to pick these grapes.
You in on the best grape picking on the radio.
Milwaukee's own the legendary, the award-winning Truth Radio 1017.
How hard is it to kick an addiction?
We just talked about Adrian, the problem Bronner.
Gone ham, hamburger.
You y'all gotta see him.
Look him up on, look him up on, on YouTube.
You gotta see him running, running on the treadmill.
Got had an addiction.
I mean, to him, he had one.
Had addiction to multiple things.
Sex, alcohol, alcohol was a big one.
He had one of his good friends, Jervante Tank Davis, Baltimore product, boxing product, tell him it's his own guy.
Like, man, you're not gonna be nothing.
You ain't gonna be anything.
You just gonna be just some regular old dude.
That's what he told him.
And then, bang.
Agent or problem brawner, he's getting rid of his problems.
How many of y'all are getting rid of y'all problems?
How many problems y'all have in your lives that you try and get rid of?
There's a lot of times you can trauma bond.
That's a problem.
That can become an addiction.
A lot of times you can trauma bond.
Yep, you can get next to somebody.
You can get next to a thing and then
That becomes your that becomes your addiction So he had an addiction and he was forced he was forced he forced himself to get rid of it He went from you got to see his belly his belly was big huge 12 days, I think 12 days or 13 days later Down his man went from five inches out to about now.
He's
You know, five, five inches back.
So let's open this up because broader story is just really one version of a question.
A lot of us are dealing with in our lives and maybe not alcohol and it may be something else entirely different, but addiction is addiction.
How, how hard is it to really kick an addiction?
How hard is it to really kick that addiction?
Some of y'all got addictions.
Yeah, I know you don't.
Man, listen.
Give give us a call eight three three two one two one zero one seven some of us have addictions And I don't just mean drugs alcohol I Mean look gambling his ruined marriages.
I know somebody right now dealing with had that has a gambling problem.
I Know a number of people that have gambling problems.
My father told me he had it was somebody in his you know a teacher in his building
Every time she got paid, she'll go straight to Pottawatomie.
Every other Friday, straight to Pottawatomie.
And just do it.
Just let it go.
Then she'll be depressed for like two weeks.
And he says, soon as that Thursday hit, she happy.
That Friday morning, man, she's teaching like, she's teaching like she was,
Like she was running a race.
Like, hurry up, kids.
Come on.
I had to get to Potawatomi addiction.
And it's not, it's not a judgment cause all of us pretty much have one.
You can have addiction to good things too.
But I argue that social media has got half of us addicted to something.
Some of us, some of us are sitting at home hunched over, looking at your phone, guaranteed right now.
That's an addiction.
I mean, but maybe not an addiction.
Like high if you want to describe it, but I guarantee you some of you are looking at your phone right now going on the fourth hour.
Going on the fourth hour, then Mazel just puts you up in the in the solitary confinement.
That's how that's how I'm sure that's how it feels.
So I'd argue that social media has some people addicted.
They said 95% of us teens 13 to 17 use at least one social media platform.
One, nearly half a teen say they're online almost constantly.
Yep.
Health and human services advisory says many adolescents spend seven to nine hours per day on entertainment screens, seven to nine hours per day.
Y'all are making social media out to be a part of your life Some marriages play out on social media a person man some people if you don't put up that like status Or whatever you in trouble you didn't shout me out.
Well, that's how it is adults y'all not a million either though Droom
Doom, scrolling, phone checking during meals.
Some of y'all wake up, you wake up and boom, it's right to the phone.
Meetings, all of us do it.
Reduce, I mean, you're reducing your, your attention span.
Increased loneliness.
Some of y'all are lonely.
That's an addiction.
LaRon Taylor on the chat.
Ninety seventy six says went to the hospital.
They said valve in my heart wasn't pumping properly.
A bunch of medication, but I had to quit smoking, drinking and energy drinks.
Energy drinks was the worst.
And let me tell you, I know somebody that I know two people that have complications from energy drinks to two people that had complications from energy drinks.
That's right.
Those.
and both took an air, energy drinks.
Like, I'm not gonna name a source, nor am I gonna name the company, but they are both gone.
Ryan said, I lost 80% of my social life, but I opened up a business after saving, and now I've been sober for two and a half years and more successful than I've ever been.
That's right.
My heart is 100% better than I can go back to drinking if I want to by having and it's cool.
Please don't.
Please don't go back.
Please don't go back.
Come out and inspire people.
That's what we need.
We need some inspiration.
Inspire folks that have addictions.
So what makes it so hard to put down a thing that's hurting you?
Even when you can see it hurting you?
Even when you can see it hurting you?
Is it about willpower or is it about?
Even when the thing or is that even the word wrong for is that the wrong word?
Is it about what's underneath the addiction?
The grief like Bronner's addiction The things that he's dealing with the trauma the drama the pain or Or something nobody is something else
Nobody around you even knows about like Is it is it something even deeper something in the shadows?
Milwaukee the phone lines open 833 212 1017 833 212 1017 if you fought addiction if you are fighting one right now if you Watch somebody fight an addiction The person that you love
the person that you have been around majority of your life, call in.
And there's no judgment on today's show.
There's no judgment on today's show.
It is real life.
We all have some type of addiction.
If you're tuning in, are you looking at your phone?
And why is it so hard to stop?
Why is it so hard to stop?
Infinite scrolling.
There is this post.
On I think YouTube and this guy was this guy was filming or he put together a compilation of kids who would fall asleep and They would be actually scrolling in like the shadow box form.
So they have no Computer no phone in front of front of them, but they'll be scrolling while they're asleep why oh
I can't believe this.
We put the screens in front of our kids and we're continuing the generation of addiction.
You could be addicted to people too.
Trust that.
A lot of us don't want to spend time alone.
A lot of us don't want to spend time alone.
We're used to the endorphin kick that
comes from being around people and likewise, I'm not saying that you should haul off and just be lonely because then you can pick up your phone, but if it becomes too much, then you also have to balance it out.
So if you are on your phone or you have an addiction and it's causing you to have an imbalance in your life, it's causing you
to struggle in other areas is becoming a wedge or a thorn in your side.
And you don't even know it.
It's like one of those, you know, a thorn disguise, a thorn disguise with cotton.
No, this is really soft.
This is really soft.
And then the cotton, you know, pulls up on your side.
You're like, this is a soft little piece of cotton.
And then the thorn just starts sticking you.
But you do, you're looking at the cotton and you're thinking, man, this is not really, it's not really a thorn in there, but it's something, something's painting me, but I'm going to keep on going.
This is going to be my, this is going to, I'm going to, I like the feel of this cotton.
Yeah, that's, that's, that's the thorn in your side.
That's the addiction.
That is the addiction.
When we come back.
We're gonna talk about Mayor Mamdani.
Mayor Mamdani, the click to cancel rule.
Some of y'all are getting beat.
Like, hurt.
Straight up with these fees.
We're gonna talk about these fees from all of these companies and how you getting beat and what he did to change it in the city of New York.
We'll be back in two.
Yup that beat is so nice.
I like it all day price Then let me freestyle on that after this
So this is a two to four show.
I'm like freestyle at 401.
Welcome back to the grapevine.
I'm your host, Monon Sabir.
After those two minutes, I hope you went and got your lunch.
But, but, but, but, but you are on the award winning Truth Radio 1017.
Mom Donnie, Mayor Mom Donnie, click to cancel rule.
Click to cancel.
So we're going to shift gears just a little bit.
We're gonna shift these gears just a little bit and I'm I'm excited because man the guy is Putting putting it together Like man, I put it together mayor mom Donnie.
That's all you got to do That's all you got to do keep leading the way for our our our leaders in public spaces Public city government keep doing what you got to do
because Mayor Mamdani just announced something called Click to Cancel Rule.
And it's about to make a lot of things easier out of these dang subscriptions.
When I say y'all got, y'all probably got subscriptions, y'all probably got subscriptions.
I just pay one a day for Google.
Yes, pay Google.
I pay Google because I, you know, Google will block your, block your email.
If you don't pay them, you are in trouble.
And if you got a lot of emails coming in and you need the whole service and the whole Kabuto, guess what?
You got to pay him that $10 gold.
That's real.
And then just imagine not being able to cancel.
So there's no big cancel button.
This click to cancel means that if means just what it means one click, you get you cancel it.
That's it One click you cancel it you can cancel your gym membership look at oh man Planet Fitness makes it so hard shout out to Planet Fitness though.
I'm glad you you know you making things happen, but Man y'all make it so hard to cancel the subscription So hard Netflix y'all make it so hard to count Hulu
Y'all make it so hard to cancel the subscription who lose a part of Disney y'all, but for real y'all make it so hard Don't make it hard.
Just give me a click click button New York just switched it up.
They like man.
We people are losing out They don't even know that money is coming out of there out of there Their bank accounts People don't know that the money's coming out of their bank bank accounts straight up
It's coming.
Yes, man.
I know that.
So you can, you'll be able to, there, you'll be able to cancel the subscription as easily as you had signed up for, just as easy.
So it targets hidden junk fees and deceptive subscription practices with the goal of saving, you know, people in New York ultimately, because this is where they, they passed this.
With the goal of saving New Yorkers money.
I mean Imagine 299 coming out of your bank account and you don't even know it's coming out every month and then 399 and then maybe 1999 and maybe this right and then you want to cancel the subscription But you got to go through your phone.
You got to go through another company like all of this is predatory and it they said that They went on record and said that people will get back
billions.
They've been losing billions, but people ultimately will get back billions of dollars, billions.
And I wonder why do companies make it so, make cancellation so difficult?
Why do companies make cancellation so difficult?
Why is it that when you want to cancel,
You got to go through everybody to in order to cancel a day subscription.
And I, man, I'm tired of that.
I'm tired of somebody pulling money out of my account.
Like just for me to cancel a subscription.
I'm tired of ATM fees too.
Man, the fees.
I remember ATM fees used to be low, 75, whatever.
And now they're high as heck.
Very, very high.
It's too much.
Need to talk about the ATM fees too, Mayor, Mom, Donnie.
Mm-hmm.
Gotta get rid of that.
I'm excited because I want to talk about, I definitely want to talk about the click to cancel, but I think we can, in Milwaukee, we can follow suit.
We can follow this whole conversation.
We can do this.
We can take it to another level.
We can say,
Hey, look, if they can work on, if they can work on taxing or getting rid of subscription fees or allowing people to click to cancel, one click cancel, then shouldn't Milwaukee make it easier to bring healthy food into underserved neighborhoods and harder?
for businesses selling mostly unhealthy food to receive public incentives.
Like, shouldn't Milwaukee be able to do that?
Like, if they were able to tackle as a city government, they were able to tackle this, click the council rule and make it a law.
They made it a law.
I mean, right on, man.
If they made it a law to click to cancel,
We should be able to talk to our lawmakers and make it harder for businesses selling mostly unhealthy food in a registered food emergency area, food apartheid area.
We should make it harder for businesses selling mostly unhealthy food to receive public incentives.
We got to.
We should.
We should guarantee, you know, limit fast food development in specific areas supported and supported by zoning laws and state law.
Offer grants and we can offer grants and tax incentives for businesses that sell fresh produce.
We can expand the healthy corner store and mobile market programs.
We talked about this.
We can use zoning and.
economic development to encourage full service grocery stores and food retailers in underserved areas.
Then we can also condition city financial incentives or conditional city financial incentives or development assistance on offering healthy food options.
Like if
If this mayor is, if this mayor is doing this work, then we have to put the pressure on our public officials to step up the game to become more involved.
They are like, I'm pretty sure I know some of them.
So, man, I know what they're, I know the work that they're putting in, but it.
It is possible for us to present to them new, new developments and new ideas to have a healthier and safer community.
So should companies that profit from neighborhoods with high rates of obesity and diabetes contribute more to toward nutritional education and healthy food access.
I mean, yeah, I mean, you think about it, or should lawmakers give lawmakers give cities more authority to use taxes and or fees to improve public health?
Should should lawmakers give cities more authority to use taxes or fees to improve public health?
I mean that that's a really, really.
dynamic subject and also question.
So click the cancel says corporation profit by trapping our wallet.
What if Milwaukee adopted the same philosophy for our health?
The same exact philosophy.
If a business wants to profit from our community, shouldn't it also have to help build our community?
Can't just roll in and then.
Roll out.
It'll work that way.
We're going to take a few calls when we come back.
This is The Truth Radio, one on one seven.
Welcome back to the grapevine.
We're about to pick some more grapes.
We're about to pick these grapes from hour number two, hour number two at three o'clock central time.
For all my people up in London, Central Time in America, and all my people that are kicking it with us around the nation.
We here, we about to pick some greats on the award-winning Truth Radio 1017.
Yes, shout out to my buddy M, the queen M. Welcome back.
So, I don't know.
I don't know.
when we became a country where it's easier to lose money than it is to keep it.
We're talking about Mayor Mamdani went and petitioned to pass a law in New York City that he is introducing to New York, click to cancel, the click to cancel rule.
One click signs you up 20 clicks won't let you leave now.
He's like no you down to one You down to one, baby.
Nope Al How you doing?
I'm doing I'm doing wonderful one thing you have to understand When it comes to our individual who has a brain, it's all free will
If you have food in your neighborhood that's giving you diabetes, you have to go to a different store to get healthier food.
You know, we can't sit there and say, well, you can't come out of neighborhood selling that.
Now you got to talk to your comic console and ask them why they allow you're coming to your neighborhood.
You can't sit there and say, well, if you're going to sell in our neighborhood, you got to put into our neighborhood.
No, they don't.
The people who live in the neighborhood got to put into the neighborhood and change their mindset and their mentality.
That all goes to free will.
Let me use this as an example.
This is like me making Victoria's Secret pennies.
And I'm going to sell it to Web and say, I'm going to sell you these silk lingerie pennies, but I don't want you to be an ungodly woman.
That's all free will.
If you do not want them stores in your neighborhood, stop.
patronizing them.
If you want healthier food, you might have to get up a little earlier and go to those grocery stores that sell the food and turn
on how you cook your food, maybe your first start would be using organic seasoning.
But the things you're talking about within our neighborhoods deals with all free will.
We want to change our neighborhoods and how they look.
It takes free will with the integrity and the mentality of the mindset of the human being who has half of a brain.
government cannot fix nothing and if government is fixing stuff in your in your neighborhood what's to say they're not going to give you something that's going to give you dookie diarrhea since people were sitting up here dookieing out a brown eye do all to all these fruits and vegetables what's going to say they might not give you something that your eye might get bigger than your toenail and now you're growing an extra breast
So, you have to keep all those things in mind.
Now, it's wonderful what he's doing in New York.
We're not in New York.
And where we're going today, we can't trust everything that's coming from government.
So, let's use a little critical thinking and look at the eye from both sides and beware the eyes of March.
Because just because government is giving it, doesn't mean it's going to be healthy.
Look at Christianity.
Have
a great day.
Thanks,
Al.
Appreciate it.
Al, you came with the fire today.
That's all right, but guess what?
I'm just presenting this information to you.
I want you to I want y'all to think Think about it mayor mom Donnie.
I think the reason why I bought this up Because mayor mom Donnie is tired he's tired of he's he's witnessed he's been in part of it.
He's been part of it He's witnessed a city government being used by
outside private interests as personal shopping, a personal shopping network.
He's tired of it.
So he worked with lawmakers to, to embed, to pass a click the cancel rule where you don't get a chance.
The companies.
that you sign up to, don't get a chance to charge you these exorbitant fees.
So, for example, this is here exactly what it does.
If a business lets you sign up for something with one click online, one click online, now they have to let you cancel it just as easily.
No more calling, customer service, no more.
You have to come in person.
Oh, I hate that.
I hate it.
Coming in person to cancel, because you know who does that?
Gems.
Planet Fitness.
Planet Fitness.
That's the reason why I still haven't canceled mine.
Yup, because you, like, you ain't got time to go.
No,
I do.
I just choose not to.
Right.
And so now they, you know, it's a 1999, you getting charged, 1999 or whatever, whatever the charge is, every month, every month, streaming services, gym memberships.
Just auto-renew.
They're also going after junk fees, so businesses will have to show you the full price up front.
Listen to y'all.
Listen.
The full price.
I can't even make this up.
Yes, we need the full thing up front.
I'm gonna say it like I'm an MC.
Full price.
Including all the mandatory fees.
I'm getting to a point.
Instead of surprising you at the at the very end at checkout that They don't violate you give me the full thing So if you're looking at man, this is so foul But he came with it he's protecting his people the average family in New York City
loses $3,200 a year in junk fees.
$3,200 a year.
So this whole thing, I was wrong, this whole thing could save people, could save people up to in New York $162.5 million per year.
And if the average family spending $3,200,
to junk fees and subscription traps is an atrocity.
And that's not pocket change.
That's like real money.
It's already expensive to live there.
But even if you're in a smaller market like Milwaukee, it's already expensive to live here too.
If you spending money on junk fees, spending money on junk fees.
And they not even telling you how, how to cancel.
I eat planet fitness.
Like.
Why would we allow any planet fitness to ever open up any more in the Milwaukee County City of Milwaukee?
If they, if they not up front.
Yeah.
If they not up front.
So here's what I'm thinking.
Here's exactly what I'm thinking.
So before we open up the phone lines and one quick note that ties in the whole, like all of this.
You know fighting for regular people conversation Our buddy David Crawley County executive Milwaukee County executive dropped out of the race for Wisconsin Governor last week, but he said it plainly plainly simple They wasn't gonna be a nominee he's throwing the support for Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez But but David is staying on as a county executive and I bring that up cuz
It's a good moment to ask ourselves, what do we actually want from the people that are leading us?
What do we want from the people that are leading us?
Whether that's a mayor in New York, whether that's a cracking down on junk fees, or whoever is winds up carrying the ball for governor right here in our own state, whether it's a mayor in Milwaukee, whether it's, you know,
All the person here Milwaukee or wherever you are Specifically here in Milwaukee who earned who earns your vote Who own earns your vote you own it?
You're just leasing it out Who's gonna earn your vote?
This is what this is not small potatoes.
This is a this is this this thing what we doing what we're doing as voters
leads to bigger issues.
These little things are not small potatoes, but they lead to bigger issues.
I think personally, I think our mayor can do the same exact thing.
I think we can do it with food.
I truly do think like personally, I think we can truly do it with food.
I think we can, you know,
Think about it.
Why is it easier to find four places selling chips than one place selling fresh fruit?
Why is it easier to find four places selling chips than one place selling fresh fruit?
What if the government use that same mindset?
What if our city government use the same mindset somewhere else?
Straight up.
Like how West, how New York did it.
You know, what if we use the same mindset, mindset to, to think about food, to figure out our food apartheid issue.
And honestly, I wonder who's profiting from Milwaukee.
If y'all tell me this, who's profiting from food apartheid in Milwaukee?
Who's really profiting from that?
Who's profiting?
I'm trying to figure that out.
If Walgreens closed, why is it another liquor store, convenience store often ready to take its place faster than a grocery store?
Why?
And who decides what kinds of businesses deserve
incentives to open in our neighborhoods.
I'm just, you know, I'm just canary in the coal mine.
I'm just canary in the coal mine.
I want to think about it.
I want y'all to think about it.
Hey y'all, we'll be back in, guess what?
Two minutes and we're going to try to answer some of these questions from y'all.
Peace.
We are back.
We are back.
We are back.
Back with subscriptions, junk fees, and what we actually want from our city government.
We had Mayor Mamdani.
We had Mayor Mamdani do his thing, man.
He told people to click the cancel.
Hey, really?
Is it, is it, you know, one click signs you up, 20 clicks won't let you leave, but one swipe orders you dinner.
Then 20 years later,
You're fighting diabetes.
It's not funny, but that's what it is.
One click, one click, you signed up.
20 clicks later, well, you ain't leaving, cause you don't know where to go.
You back in the grapevine, I'm your host Minnan Sabir, and you know, good news is all about good news.
And I'm just giving you all some good news.
This is good news.
This is like fantastic news because now if you're living in New York, you can click to cancel.
And now I'm giving you good news here in Milwaukee because we can do the same thing.
We're building leaders right here in Milwaukee.
We're building leaders right here in Milwaukee.
That's all I'm saying.
Just go ahead and let's build.
Let's build.
20 quick one one swipe 20 years later you got diabetes high blood pressure a belly and heart disease Yep, and we keep talking about freedom We keep talking about freedom, but are we really free if the system is designed and engineered to keep taking from us this is what
This mayor has done Mayor Mamdani in New York.
He he is recognizing that these systems are designed to take from the people and if the average New Yorker is spending thirty two hundred dollars in junk fees, why not cut the fees and My comparison or even contrast is if we
Have city government here in Milwaukee look at food apartheid food deserts not necessarily food deserts anymore food apartheid as a real state of emergency We can we need to look at these companies coming into our neighborhoods large and or small We need to look at these companies coming into our neighborhoods and figure out how
We can affect state legislature and state law to, I don't know if it's tax or keep out or even give those companies incentives for everything.
So for coming into our neighborhoods, if we allow them into our neighborhoods, then they have to give back to the, to the community.
Oh, come in and build a, come in and build a.
a school or gym or, you know, clean up a few neighborhoods.
I've never seen Walgreens.
I've never seen the executives of Walgreens come out and clean up a neighborhood at all.
I've never seen them clean up a neighborhood.
Not at all.
CVS, I've never seen them clean up a neighborhood.
But they will they will open up a pharmacy and they will expect you.
They will expect you to come visit that pharmacy, no matter how long them lines are or how dirt or how dirty those pharmacy chairs are.
You will or nobody how many times I might cough to your face while standing line waiting to pick up your Tylenol.
Yep.
Or no matter how many times there's a fight outside of Brady Street, Walgreens.
You are expected to visit that or patronize that that Walgreens But our city has to do something about it and we keep talking about freedom and we keep talking about freedom Are we really free if the system is designed to keep taking from us?
That's my question and today we're talking about subscriptions
But we're also talking about subscription that nobody ever discusses.
Subscription to processed food, subscription to poor health, subscription to neighborhoods where unhealthy choices are everywhere and healthy choices are scarce.
Milwaukee, my question before I went to break is who's profiting from our habits?
Who's profiting from our habits?
Here's where I might lose somebody.
And I might, you know, we might, I might lose a few people.
If a company wants tax breaks, city owned land, grants, and other public support, they should have to prove they're improving community health instead of making it worse.
If you look at the pharmaceutical companies,
And you look at all of the pharmaceutical drugs, the regular drugs, they all have side effects.
All of them.
All of them have side effects.
And we wind up, they wind up making drugs for the side effects.
You have a drug, you have a major drug that goes in your body to combat the side effects.
This is the foulest thing in the world.
So if your business model depends on selling products linked to chronic disease Linked to chronic disease should taxpayers help subsidize your expansion Should taxpayers help subsidize your your expansion?
Straight up if your business model depends on selling products
Link to chronic disease to taxpayers help build expand subsidize give money to whatever it is your expansion I Don't think so I really I truly truly don't think so y'all we need to we need to talk about this We need to like for real talk about this
This is this is real life.
This ain't My my kid my daughter knows the difference and knew the difference between junk food and real food at three years old Our kids should not be
Should not be addicted As we covered addiction with Adrian the problem Bronner for time for division world champion AB all about billions is now kicking his addiction with alcohol We shouldn't be getting our kids addicted to these items that will ultimately destroy their lives This is that's what literally that's what this whole entire
Conversation is about.
That's what this whole entire conversation is about.
Addiction and how to kick it.
They're making products.
They're making products that will keep you addicted.
And then the side effects.
They're making products for the side effects.
So it's a system.
And the reason why I bought up Mayor Mamdani is he recognized that there's a system that's keeping people's bank accounts addicted to paying junk fees, and the people don't even know that the junk fees are coming out.
I mean, this is like, wow.
This is wow.
Then they're like, oh, this is...
This is like that, um like whoa with black Rob like whoa.
We only need to play that though like whoa This is it sucks Sucks a lot of whatever Imagine this every fast food or convenience chain that receives public assistance a public assistance also contributes to youth sports
Man, you know how many wet noodles I see fighting at I Call people I'll call these guys wet noodles I see the video of these guys fighting at what's that place not Mayfair is that Mayfair?
Yeah, Mayfair is out north right Mayfair mall and They were fighting but they look like if you took if you took spaghetti and you put spaghetti together and they just was like doing like this Like they just fighting
Yeah, this guys was just like like and then they somebody like pulled him apart and They just they pulled him apart and these guys were still like flailing our it looked like like if you just Ragged out ragged out of ragged out.
I mean, it's like grown men And they look like some wet noodles couldn't fight a lick not on went down Man
So use sports.
Y'all need to just play some sports.
Just, you know, forget the fight and play some sports.
Community gardens.
We need more community gardens.
CVS.
Come on, man.
Walgreens.
Come on.
We don't need y'all.
We need community gardens.
Cooking classes.
How about that?
Anomalous Campbell.
Hire her.
Get her up on the line.
And all these other
All these other mamas that are cooking in the in their kitchens hired him Mrs. Courtney she got vegan hire her Stitch Saint to hire him like it's a bunch of people It's a bunch of people we have to demand more from not just our city government, but from these businesses I'ma go to the chat a little bit
When we come back So y'all keep chatting up on the chat.
We're gonna I'm gonna read them all we're gonna read them all we're gonna link all these chats to some topics We're gonna we're gonna talk to y'all.
We're gonna talk to the chat.
All right chat.
We're gonna talk to the chat Nutrition education what if they what if these fast food and convenience chains were Giving to nutrition education
Isn't that reasonable?
Ain't that reasonable?
212-1017, we talk of Mayor Mamdani and what he's done for Click to Cancel and also what we can do in our neighborhood to change policy.
We continue.
Yes, welcome back.
Welcome back at UW Milwaukee.
Students don't have to wait until college to start building their future.
War Ready lets students in K through 12 grade join in hands-on programs across campus from science and tech to arts, sports and more.
Students try new things, meet new people and build skills that matter.
Get started today at uwm.edu slash war ready.
Yes.
Yes, yes.
So we're back talking about food apartheid.
But we first started out with Mayor Mamdani and click the cancel because they passed the law.
They passed a law in New York and they said that we gonna, we gonna end that system.
A predatory subscription cancellation.
We can't, one click 20, one click 20 times to, thank you.
One click 20 times to cancel.
Crazy.
Wow.
I'm gonna go to the chat real quick.
What's up chat That's funny like what's up chat Beta noodle man, that is quite funny.
I do we got a we got a coin that Unfortunately capitalism won't have the strangers in our community do the right thing.
We need legislation in my opinion Happiness doughnuts in the shift in our community mindset.
We had Sherman Park grocery store right off of final act failed to dark yet 55% are fat y'all heard him.
That's right 55% said we're doomed
Not what I do.
But there was a statistic that heard about 85% of the ambulance runs, 85% of the ambulance runs off of Lisbon had were have been or were at one point related to diabetes.
Corey Haywood said, allow these stupid doctor evil types, Bill Gates, Elon Musk.
Dang, that's correct.
Yeah.
And the penitentiary food need an overhaul by happiness donor.
Happy to donor says corporations buying up all the local farms and have an agenda.
Yes, they are trying to.
And then Corey Haywood said, uh, they're designed for us to treat us like cattle.
Are any intelligent animals?
They think representative who we are.
And sir Charles said, yep.
28.
since per twenty six tax per dollar on six Translates into a dollar sixty-eight extra for a six pack six dollar pack Five packs bought per week for a modest chain smoker is roughly eight dollars and forty Dolls eight dollars and forty cents a week extra that could be used for bananas lettuce tomatoes beans greens a week's worth and Corey Haywood said
AI is only something out is it it is and only and will be shameless slave.
Yeah.
Played it out.
Played the operator and machine itself.
One pandemic.
We have a group of young people turn on the family room world outside the sun.
I think that's what you said.
And Marquina Brown said, when did the Sherman Park grocery store supposed to end?
I think it's done.
That's what they said is is over certain part grocery stores is is finished Where where do we where do we what are we doing?
What are we doing Milwaukee?
Like we're feeding we're feeding into the system That's what we're doing.
I know we're feeding into the system Man, you know
I think that I'm, I know we're feeding into the system.
We're feeding into it and it's being, it's frustrating.
Like I'm over here like kind of seething because we need more parents involved.
We need y'all involved.
Yesterday I seen some parents, some parents give their kids some slushies.
And I'm not talking about like they were these kids were babies.
They were like one and a half to.
They were on the playground and man, these kids had adult sized big gulp slushies and they were killing them.
I mean, and you could see the slushies because they had see through cups.
They were you could see the slushies and the slushies were had.
There was so much ice and syrup.
It was like I was like.
What is going on and these kids after they drink these slushies were so hype Man this we are we are We are getting trashed We are getting trashed Okay, all right cool We got word that no that's false.
Sorry guys Sherman Park grocery store is still full up at fully operating.
Yes, I just went
to visit the store the other day, and a matter of fact, you go past there now and they are open.
So yes, the doors, the storage, the storage is closed, the storage is closed, the doors at a very, so Sherman Park grocery store, yes, is open.
They close at a very early hour, like 5.30.
That's cool.
I mean, make it happen.
You gotta be open late.
Y'all get in there on your lunch break.
Order.
They got a, I think they have a delivery truck too.
I think the Sherman Park grocery store on final act has delivery truck.
So call them and get, get your, get your food delivered, get your groceries delivered straight up.
And I would love to see y'all over there getting those groceries.
Here's, here's what I think.
Maybe the biggest trap isn't the subscription you forgot to cancel.
Maybe it's the system that we've accepted without questioning.
Because if a city can say you deserve an easy way out of a bad subscription, maybe it's time to ask, how do we make the healthy choice an easy choice?
How do we make a healthy choice an easy choice?
That's the conversation worth having.
That's a conversation worth having how do we make a healthy choice the easy choice?
You know I'm saying maybe we maybe we do tax Maybe we do tax a couple companies here and here and there maybe we learn to do that Marquina Brown says they have very good hot food soul food veggies to at the at the Sherman Park grocery store there you go y'all support Sherman Park grocery store I'm so sorry that you know, I I didn't know that they were they weren't they weren't close so
Bam, we'll have to support them.
We'll have to go over there and do like a, ooh, we need to do a live AR.
We need to do a live Truth 1017 shoot at Sherman Park Grocery Store.
Sherman Park Grocery Store, we're gonna do a live shoot soon.
Let's set that up.
Matter of fact, we need to get them on the set.
We need to get them on the set.
Now, let me switch subjects because I'm a Paul,
I'm very hurt, had a acquaintance and her friend were hit in a fatal hit and run early this morning on Nash and Titonia.
They were crossing the street and they said the crash happened at 11 p.m.
Sunday when a vehicle traveling.
at a high rate of speed hit two pedestrians that were crossing the street.
So.
My and also Amy were killed.
The vehicle fled the scene.
Police are looking for a black SUV.
And.
We need answers.
Somebody knows something.
Please tell on the person.
Please tell on the person.
These people out here are driving like crazy.
So we need some answers.
Shout out to the families.
Hopefully we can get some answers.
We will try to do our best to continue to talk about Amy and also Mike.
Looking to discover and support local businesses in our community, then make sure you tune in every Friday at 8 a.m.
to the truth in the morning with Homer Blow and Bailey Coleman for what the business is powered by We Energy.
Each week you'll hear from local business owners as they share what their business is, where they're located, and one valuable lesson they've learned along the way.
We energies is proud to help power local businesses and the communities they serve.
Don't miss what the business is every Friday at 8am only on Truth in the Morning with Homer Blow and Bailey Coleman powered by We Energy's delivering the energy that powers local business.
If I haven't told you once, I'm going to tell you twice.
Y'all, I love you.
Love on the people around you and never forget.
that the creator is always creating and you can do the same exact thing.
I love y'all.
This is Manon on the grapevine.
Keep picking those grapes.
We got.
