you
Hey, it's Friday.
man.
Do not
It's a Lil Yachty reference.
super like.
Low hanging fruit.
Yeah, it's just it's one of those ones where it's acquired acquired here.
I did hear
That's
Yeah, I'm definitely not taking a walk.
Whatever he took, I do not want to take it.
What up, y'all?
833-212-1017.
Call us up, man.
It's Friday.
What are you proud of today, man?
What you celebrating?
What's your weekly win?
If you had a weekly win, if you had a win of the week, call it up.
Share it.
If you want to shout somebody out, man.
833-212-1017.
I know school start for a few folks.
High school, check in.
What's happening?
Call up.
Let us know what high school you went to.
Tomorrow, we will be at, we will be at Riverside University High School for Truth Family Fest.
Come check in with your family, man.
Come see your cousins.
I'ma be there.
Info Tech gonna be there.
Shannon gonna be there.
Ben Jammin.
Cherie, the one and only.
Cherie, call us up, man.
It's a lovely Friday, man.
833-212-1017.
You got somebody you proud of, somebody you want to say happy birthday.
Yo, high school.
Call us up, man.
We want to do a high school check.
We taking this back to the Doc Love days, man.
That's how we from the do this.
When I was intern in the video, V100, back in the day.
But now we listen into the truth.
We got Sean the barber, what you proud of, Sean on the truth.
Tell us your truth today.
Wait, wait, maybe I'm proud of you, man.
I'm proud of what you got going on, man.
I don't watch it.
Wave from Riverside doing the music, all that stuff, man.
You got a good thing going on right now.
Man,
appreciate that.
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Man, I
Capitol.
Yes,
Subject here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Subject here.
We're warring them.
Yes, sir.
But I'm proud because I finished my six children's book.
We're gonna keep on going with these books and we're gonna keep putting them in these schools to these schools and putting real positive energies into these kids and giving them a reason they just want to read and have it to the top of their families and get off their cell phones.
I got the Adventures of Gianni wants a haircut.
That's about bullying and self-love and confidence.
I got the Adventures of Gianni goes to the dentist in the future about gingivitis, holotosis, bad breath, all that stuff.
You know, we got the cavities and freaks.
We got all kinds of stuff going on with that.
I got bossed by, you know, that's about a hater, you know.
He's got a lot of stuff going on with his books.
You know, we just got done writing on the book called, We'll Advocate a Fruit Tree.
And
about all the trees and stuff that used to be around here.
And
more.
We don't see no more.
That's because the air ain't fair.
And the trees have still grown.
But if you don't plant them and put the right proteins and stuff in the ground, the fruit won't be viable to eat.
I'm just saying so that I've been learning, and I've been teaching, and I've been going to these schools inspiring these kids.
We did our first play.
Now we did too.
We did our first play, Gianni, in middle school, who against bullying and self-loving confidence.
So it's been real dope.
I've been working with Congress.
I've been working with a couple different people in the school system.
So I'm excited.
Man, appreciate you calling in, man.
We proud of you, Shawna Barber, man, working on this six children book, man.
and taking it into the schools, pushing, reading.
Once again, it's Friday, man.
We showing love today this Friday, man.
If you got something you proud of, somebody you proud of, or your high school, you want to shout out your high school.
We taking it back to the high school check-in days, y'all.
833-212-1017.
That is the number to dial.
It's all about our truth family, man.
We want to promote y'all.
We want to love y'all today, man.
We got Key from MKE on the line, man.
Key, what's good, man?
what you proud of, who you shouting out today?
Well, it's not my boy.
I'm shouting out my wife.
We made it three years.
That was on August 19th a couple of days ago.
And then, shouting out myself, I just became a chair at a Democratic Party in Milwaukee County.
Hey, clap that up, man.
Shout out to my high school, but look, Memorial.
Of Milwaukee.
you something
Shouts out to
Hello.
This is your wife.
Oh.
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Sure would.
Sure would.
The only school on the east side that matters where Riverside had to play their homecoming game because you don't have a field.
Sure would.
Oh three.
Had to march all the way up Oakland Avenue.
Hey, it
We were always top for academics, and that's why you love me.
calling to say, also, I am proud of you.
You're doing a wonderful job on the radio.
great rest of the day.
Thank
was just like some of you.
I thought you saw the caller ID when you were on the phone with the other person.
So I
yeah.
I just be
line.
Good.
Yeah, yeah,
they have color ID, yeah.
And her name popped up.
So I was like, oh, if he sees
Shoot, man.
The way my attention set up, if I get to look at too far out of these two screens.
It's going to be a derailed show, man.
833.
What up, y'all?
212-1017.
We want y'all to call up.
What you proud of?
Who are you proud of?
Let's give somebody they flowers that deserve it, right?
And if it's you, be proud of yourself.
It's your birthday.
Come shout you out for your birthday.
But what are you proud of?
Shout your high school out.
She just called a shout out.
Shorewood.
Cool, we'll allow it.
You know?
We'll allow it, man.
Even if you went to Rufus King, you can call up today.
We'll welcome you with open arms today.
So Friday, we gonna make this about love, man.
Jasmine West on her YouTube chat says, hey y'all, say it, Rufus King 03.
Okay, okay.
Class of 03 in the building.
Salute to everybody.
Happy Friday, happy Friday.
I mean, Sherwood doesn't have a team anymore, do they?
That's what I'm saying, Curly.
Sherwood don't got no... What you got a feel for?
He ain't got no team.
Give us our feel, man.
Quit playing.
We was probably the best thing that ever happened to that feel when we went there to play our games.
I know it was... That's an old statement, sir.
I'm just saying.
They wasn't using it.
We had the most cracking homecomings.
I know there's one.
I'm just saying.
All right.
Shots out to the Greyhounds, though.
You can catch a Greyhound when we need a cheap ride out of town somewhere.
That's what Greyhounds are good for.
But Riverside Tigers?
Protection.
That's why you married me.
Let up y'all a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 That's the number to die a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 a number to die Shannon can we get this car so we can get that saps out man?
But we got a couple things to talk about today.
Okay, that's fine.
Just tell the same you know cash afterward
We got a couple things we going to talk about today.
We really want to talk about you all, put you all first.
Shannon was doing this thing in our Facebook group called weekly wins.
So we want to elevate that on the air as well.
Any weekly wins that you have that you want to elevate.
I know it's the first day of school for some people.
So I'm going to say I'm proud of my son, Rehanio Alejandro Boins Jr.
Yes, Jr.
His name not Jr.
His name is Ray.
So yeah, man, I just want to say I'm proud of him, man, and I'm proud of my daughter Ivy Rose.
She'll be starting her junior year in college.
That's crazy.
Her junior year, she's already made it way further than I have in life.
So, shout out for that, man.
Proud of you, baby girl.
Shout out to her.
And I'm proud of my wife, man.
My wife is the rock of the family.
So I have to say that she is the rock.
I'll just be rolling the stones over and letting the...
You know, all the little mealworms walking around and she get to clean the shit up.
So shouts on to my baby girl, man.
We going to Poland, man.
We debating if we want to get the seats that you lay down in or not.
Do I just want to sit up right for nine hours?
How long's the flight?
How long is the flight?
today.
What up, y'all?
Just know I mean
Welcome back to the award-winning 10170 Truth Live from the American Family Insurance Studios.
It's your boy Ray Nitty holding it down on the grapevine.
We squeezing these grapes today, y'all.
We squeezing them.
First two hours went real fast.
Shots out to Friday.
Shots out to the homie, Bennett's boy.
We're going to have Bennett's boy on the show real soon, y'all.
That's somebody else.
I'm super proud of man super proud of my homie Bennett's boy We done slept on plenty floors together man out of sea bro Doing amazing work in the music industry.
I damn didn't think he produced that record by far for Friday as well I know he also did we came way too far for Friday and a bunch of other records.
I know he on that new Chris Brown album
Speaking of Chris Brown, I'm trying to get rid of these
damn Chris Brown tickets,
At
Yeah.
It's
It probably would start at
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Okay, so as you were saying... Exactly.
some people was messaging you but not being serious about it?
It's like, all right, not that I asked.
Also, you know, as humans, man, we just inquire about things that we got zero intentions on, really.
Hey, I remember when I was looking at a lot of city-owned houses, bro, and my wife would laugh at this all the time.
And I'd always be going on these tours and looking at these city on houses that, you know, I had zero intentions on purchasing because they sold trash, but you hope to find at least one.
So you got to keep going on the hunt.
You feel what I'm saying?
It's like for the trio, the thrill of it all.
So yeah, man, 833-212-1017.
That is the number to dial 833-212-1017 is the number to dial.
I'ma tell y'all something that's funny, right?
I wasn't even gonna talk about this, but I'ma talk about it.
And this is why sometimes I get so frustrated when people just be saying ignorant stuff, right?
I was in my Facebook inbox, and it was just an old message, just an old message, right?
And I should have screenshotted it.
But it says, bro, you don't know S about government if you think Hong isn't capable of getting things done.
I'm just clearly seeing that she hadn't gotten anything done in six years, one building six years.
But he says, how many bills you've introduced and gotten passed?
And besides, how am I supposed to have any confidence in Crowley when he already dropped out of the race once?
He's a phenomenal county executive, so I think he should stick with that.
And that'd be funny to me, right?
When people, they always got these amazing things to say about him.
Oh, he's so great at this, right?
But they don't ever say, okay, Francesca is so great at state assembly.
Why don't she just stay there and do that?
But then obviously the insult, I don't know anything.
I said, you obviously don't know nothing about me.
But I wish you well, Sean.
I always greet him with kindness.
Cause somebody, I'm very good at petty, but I'll be.
keeping it cool.
So he then says, OK, I'm leaving it alone.
He poking back.
He says, OK, bro, we'll see how data center David does.
Obviously, he don't know nothing about his position on data centers.
He don't know nothing about David's position on data centers.
So I says you're on meta platform.
B I T whatever in about data centers while real environmental stuff in Milwaukee is actually happening and his His response to me is Bro be for real What do you even mean real environmental ish?
That's my point right there
That's my point right there.
They want us to care about the environmental issues of data centers, which we should.
But when you point out real environmental issues, we just had a whole show of how the toxins is impacting decision making in Milwaukee and people's behavior in Milwaukee.
But you got somebody who's probably 10 times out of 10 don't even live in Milwaukee County.
Telling me to be for real.
What do I even mean about real environmental ish?
Maybe you should do some research.
Maybe you should get educated.
Just maybe.
And stay off of meta platforms using off data.
Maybe.
We just missed a shout out.
Rufus King, shout out.
Somebody had a Rufus King shout out.
Yeah, Leonard.
Shout out, Leonard.
Shout out, Leonard.
Rufus King.
I don't know what you did last year, but...
But Sean, Cromar Raj, whatever your name is, maybe you should get educated and stay out my inboxing off meta platforms.
Let me hurry up.
Block him.
Before you get that one off block ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Uninformed that's funny argue arguing with me.
I'm so tired of it.
I'm tired of it Literally telling me Hope's data center David does well, which he will
Which he has the same person that you said you because somebody dropped out of the race That's why you don't have I guess the stupidest reason I've ever heard It's funny how white people love to ignore all the things about it, but hold on to the one thing he dropped out of the way so I can't believe how But you ain't you forgot the white woman live you forgot yo
Neanderthal compadre lied Misrepresented funds compared campaign fraud Huh but you know Sean Wants to say it's so when they tell me that and I'll be like
You on meta Platform who has some of the largest data centers in the country Telling me you hope data center David does well and my simple response I didn't even go into the data center of it all right.
I didn't even do that Keeping it cool with these folks at this point.
I don't want no smoke
because they don't even know what they smoke at.
So I'm cool.
Leave me out that session.
I wish him well.
And I say, you on meta platforms talking about data and it's real environmental situations going on in Milwaukee.
And then I get told, be for real, what do I even mean real environment?
They don't think we being impacted by real environmental stuff.
Briggs is strattin poison in our communities masterlock right now poison in our communities Bostic right now poison our community But these middle people that coming on inbox and call you stupid call you dumb call you all of these different crazy
dumb
What the hell, real environmental issues that is happening right now that's impacting behavior in Milwaukee.
But those are the same people that believe that a six-year resume with one successful bill going through is somebody that deserves a raise.
I challenge all of y'all, Marks, all of y'all,
Because that's how I'm feeling now.
I'm challenging all of y'all that are so passionate about data centers, which you should be.
You should be passionate about data center regulation and making sure they're not raising our energy costs and depleting our water system and so forth.
We should be concerned about all of that, 100%.
But all I'm asking is are you as equally concerned?
Not about the data center things that are to come but the real environmental issues that is impacting Milwaukee right now today and has been here for a hundred years Don't go anywhere.
Y'all will be right back after these
messages
What
Welcome back.
Welcome back.
Welcome back to the award-winning 1017, the truth.
This is your boy Ray Nitty holding it down on your grapevine.
Live from the American family, Assured Studios.
What up, y'all?
It's Friday.
It's feel good Friday, man.
What you feel good about today, man?
Call us up, 833-212-1017.
High school check-in.
You just want to shout out your high school.
What year did you graduate?
I'm a proud member of the class of 2002 Riverside University High School.
Extremely proud of it.
Shouts out to my Tiger family, man.
Man, we talking about.
It was just random to it was just a random thing that just sent me off.
That's why I'll be having a block people.
The block party getting real.
It's getting real lit in the block party.
It's getting packed in there.
But yeah, man, we had a fool social media fool.
Trolling in my inbox, insulting once again.
I didn't even say anything.
He just brought up.
Let's see how data center David does.
And like I said, all I said was your own meta platforms.
You're using meta platform who has some of the largest data centers.
trolling me.
And all I say is there's real issues in Milwaukee right now.
And I had to pull it back up because I'd be feeling like I'm crazy sometime.
That's how I know people don't listen to the show or people not even really educated.
They not really educated because when you tell somebody about real life issues that's impacting black and brown people right now.
that's causing behavioral problems right now when we ask this question, what's going on with the kids?
What's going on with these individuals?
Why are people making these bad decisions?
And we have all this data from the Medical College of Wisconsin, not from Ray Nitty.
Same data that's afforded to all of us when you got things like the DNR website where you could go see all of these toxins.
When you talking about real what real environmental issues I'm talking about you don't even care You don't care about black and brown communities So stop acting like you do Because if you did and data centers was important to you because it was of environmental injustice Then you would also be as equally passionate about the environmental injustice that's happening right the hell now
So miss me with all that fake Miss me with it I'm sorry Should we be concerned about how data centers are built and how they are able to pass on Expenses to to residents absolutely we should be concerned we should be concerned to how they Use the water or how they
Get rid of water or dispose of chemical.
Yes, we should be concerned about it.
But it's companies right now that the same data center folks are not even talking to or about or highlighting that is dumping right now in our sewage systems.
Master Lock, I just told y'all two days ago.
I just told y'all two days ago how Master Lock had a historic.
TCE spilled that impacted the site around it.
That's on DNR's website.
Y'all don't care about no real environmental issues.
Because it's something right now that you could take action steps on right now.
Lead, right now, Lena been screaming, so loud they gave her a job to shut her up.
But I gotta deal with this type of stuff.
We don't, like stop faking like you care about the environment.
Stop it.
You riding a wave.
Because we've been talking about lead poisoning in our community and in MPS schools and the paint being made out of for a long time.
For a very long time.
We just told y'all about TCE.
But for the sake of it, I'ma just.
pull up some notes from the last, not the last show, maybe it was two days ago.
Okay?
And this segment, it was segment six, just for reference.
We got broke all coming in right now.
Somebody can let him in for us, right?
Segment six, right?
The chemistry of behavior, dealing with toxic exposure, crime, and bad choices.
This is the real environmental stuff right now.
OK.
So I'm going to go over it again in case you missed it.
Just in case you missed it.
The Milwaukee specific study, this is specific to Milwaukee now.
Researchers at UW Milwaukee Zibler Zibler Zilber School of Public Health tracked 89,129 people born in Milwaukee between 1986 and 2003, who had a valid childhood blood lead test before the age of six.
Then link that data to the Milwaukee homicide review commission's firearm violence records in adulthood.
Here's the findings.
Here's the findings.
A childhood blood lead, a childhood blood lead levels rose as childhood blood levels rose, the risk of becoming a perpetrator or a victim of firearm violence rose with it.
A clear dose response relationship.
Environmental injustice.
We ask it, what's wrong with people?
We just talking about lead.
This just lead right now.
Okay.
Even after controlling for race, sex and neighborhood, socioeconomic status.
Compared to people with blood levels under five, those with levels of 20 plus, as children were 2.8 times more likely to become firearm violence perpetrators, and 3.3 times more likely to become victims.
Okay?
The study attributes 56% of firearm violence
perpetration and 51 percent of victimization in.
It's in the fridge.
It's in the fridge.
Fifty one percent victimization in this Milwaukee cohort to blood lead levels at or above five UGL, the current CDC reference level for the elevated lead.
Childhood-led exposure impairs decision-making and increases impulsivity, a mechanism directly known to be criminogenic, criminogenic, not just correlated by coincidence.
That's just lead.
Okay?
So when you tell me, yes, be upset with data centers.
Be upset with them.
Be concerned about them, but be equally upset and be as equally concerned about the things and the toxins and the chemicals and the environmental injustice that's impacting our black and brown communities right the hell now.
Century City is still a landfill that can't be used.
Master Lock on auction right now.
Who gonna clean it up?
They're let their ground water run off into our sewer system and then drained off into the Washington Park Quarry.
The Urban Ecology Center is over there.
But I don't know what I'm talking about.
Okay.
So separate from lead.
And I'm going to go on to something else because we had a conversation we wanted to have for our community and we touched on it yesterday and it was about alcoholism.
So when we come back from break, we're going to touch on that.
But right now I just want to get into real quick in this last minute about TCE.
and other solvents, right?
So separate from lead, peer-reviewed research on TCE specifically documents developmental neurotoxicity, disrupted neurotransmitter functions, oxidative stress, and neuro inflammation in the developing brain with observed behavioral outcomes, including hyperactivity, lower IQ scores, and locomotor slash attention to sephus deficits.
Okay.
A related chlorinated solvent PCE was studied directly in children living near contamination sites.
Even low level community exposure was linked to measurable lower working memory processing speed and executive function.
The same cognitive systems tied to impulse and control.
Don't go anywhere.
Y'all will be back right after these messages on the grapevine.
What up,
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.
That must warn you.
Yes, I must warn you.
The city is being poisoned right now.
And right now, everybody is up in arms about data centers, which we should.
Felix said, we don't need those data centers.
Our river is dirty enough.
The Riverwalk is nice, but that water is gross.
It's brown and green.
I don't disagree with you, Felix, at all.
I don't disagree with you.
I just choose to look at it a little bit different.
Because I hear so much energy and it's beautiful.
It's beautiful how serious and concerned people are about environmental safety.
But black and brown families right now has been living for 100 plus years in these toxic conditions in Milwaukee.
From the land, from the water to what's in our soil.
So.
Yes.
We got to hold him accountable.
But who are we holding accountable right now for the toxic chemicals in our soils right now that is linked, linked to behavioral issues that is linked to hyperactivity that is linked to lower IQ scores that is linked to lack of focus that is linked to a string of bad decisions.
Why we not as equally as mad masterlock left after developers got blamed for their spill Masterlock was able to leave
Leave the city, close down after articles was coming out about the community within the corridor.
And I was screaming to the top of my lungs, to everybody.
Now I'm seeing everybody just up in arms about data centers.
Nobody care about the kids being poisoned right now or elderly being poisoned right now, people getting cancer, all of these different ailments.
We watching other counties Even the governor they had a joint lawsuit we joint with other Cities ensuing these PFAS companies But they did not include Milwaukee in the lawsuit Milwaukee County was not included in it They did it with like
I think it was like Sheboygan and what was the other place?
Oh my gosh.
I know I got it written down here somewhere.
But we weren't included in it.
So how mad are y'all about environmental injustice?
Are you mad because data center is the new hot thing to be mad about?
Or are you mad because you really care about people who are living through environmental injustice?
And if that's your answer then Come holler at us.
We got a lot that you could be equally as loud at right now Right now, but people that don't even know that they're being poisoned Okay, but people that don't even know they being poisoned
I just want us to think y'all.
I just want us to think right now.
And I'll give the pros and cons because I don't just want to sound like I'm just pro data center and blah, blah, blah.
But I am pro people caring.
About environmental injustice, especially environmental injustice that's happening right now.
And been happening.
And corruption been covering it up.
and it's on the DNR website where you can see all the open toxic sites.
Put your address in there.
You probably start itching when you start seeing all the open things, all the open sites that's contaminated.
You gon' tell me how you like it.
Pull that map up and then pull a data center map up and show the toxins.
Let's show the impact and this ain't This is open sites right now not sites to come Not things that they got to build I Saw something on the news actually was on Fox six news was on Fox six news I might send it to Zach to play at the top of the hour
But I kind of want to get off this data center topic.
I ain't gonna lie.
It's been having a good day now.
I didn't got all serious.
I'm trying to get to the yum yum.
But I saw on Fox six news.
It was a county in Virginia.
$1.7 billion annually is what they're generating off of data center tax revenue.
built a hundred million dollar facility for elders and youth to participate and have a place to go and work out and have access to all these different resources, repaved roads, rebuilt a school, invested in public education, invested in mental health treatments, invested in opioid treatments.
1.6 billion in tax revenue off of the data now it's the other side to that So we gotta tell the truth, right?
so you hear the They talked to some some residents as well Now what I will say is the residents said the quality of life is great It's amazing
Property taxes is down.
But they do have the exact same concerns about the water, about the noise.
Those are things that I would be concerned about.
Absolutely.
Is it going to be extremely loud?
This place got over 100 data centers in it.
No, they got over 200 data centers in this place in Virginia.
And they said, they're looking to add 100 more.
They're looking to add 100 more.
I'd love to get the mayor of this town on the show.
I'd love to get the mayor of this town.
They call this place the data center.
What do they call it?
The data center headquarters.
$1.6 billion is what?
Revenue is being generated off of taxes.
It's a lot of stuff that we could be passionate about right now in Milwaukee.
Come on, Wisconsin.
We need your voice.
Come on, Madison.
We need your voice because the emergency order came from Madison when we had to evacuate.
Our families, it came from Madison.
Okay.
Damn.
So these are the type of environmental things that I'm talking about.
Okay.
For those that care.
Cuz I know a lot of this is just performative for a lot of people Let's be honest about it a lot of this is just performative for y'all y'all don't really care I Saw so many people making noise at the alleged data center that was supposed to go into midtown 10,000 square feet
Making a lot of noise.
A lot of people I've never seen in that neighborhood before.
Never seen that in the community mean.
Because they're not from there.
But they protested so hard.
But guess what?
They never show up to protest lead.
They never showed up to protest Master Lock.
Never saw anything about them protesting TCE Spill that Master Lock had.
Historic one.
But guess what?
It showed up to protect.
It's always funny to me.
It's always funny to me.
Every time we got a big piece of catalytical land or property that somebody has something planned there that's going to bring jobs and something else, we always have some outside interference influencing us to be against it.
Century City is still empty.
They protest the hell out of that meatpacking plant.
That was gonna bring so many jobs.
We were super against it.
It was an environment.
The environment.
Cruel to the animals.
Central City still empty after that protest.
What are you?
going to be passionate about right now that's impacting the city of Milwaukee.
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Hour two, y'all.
Hour two.
But before we move on to hour two, we did have a video that I want to share with y'all real quick.
And then we'll go on to...
a special talk about alcoholism in the black community.
So, but first, yeah, this video is going to be about, it was a report, and I might watch the whole documentary, and I said I wanted to go visit some of these data centers too, and some of these neighborhoods to actually talk to the people, because...
It's a lot different when you just hearing all of the noise on social media people that aren't really informed people that didn't really go Do any real research?
They're just saying the things that come to their heads or things that they see and then they regurgitate that but This is talking about they call it the data center hub of the country, right and they talk about how much taxes they raised off of it
So, let's hear about it
and they'll talk about the pros and the cons.
This intersection really represents the past and the future promise of Loudoun County.
You see here a data center that's already been developed and was used during the internet boom and still is being used.
And then you see here a data center under construction.
There has never been a day in Loudoun County in 16 years that a data center has not been under construction and it just feels like the construction is sped up and that the centers are being built closer and closer to people's homes.
The story of Loudoun County becoming the data center hub of the world probably begins around the mid 90s when a bunch of fiber was put underneath this county to connect the internet.
After that AOL came and the county made a very pivotal decision to zone data centers similarly to offices which means that it was very easy to set up a data center in this area and suddenly data centers flourished.
The data centers provide two kinds of taxes and the total of that tax revenue is supposed to be about $1.3 billion in 2027.
Perhaps the biggest boon for residents
here
is that almost every year the Board of Supervisors have voted to lower property taxes on residents because they're getting a surplus of tax revenues from these data centers.
Behind them are cranes of new data centers being built.
You hear a constant buzz of noise from ventilators.
that tax revenue from these data centers are being put to use.
You see new libraries, schools, beautiful neighborhoods, recreation centers like this $100 million building that opened late last year in large part because of tax revenue from the data centers.
And I wanted to come here to ask residents how they feel about life in Loudoun County.
don't love the data centers.
There are neighborhoods losing power on a daily basis because of having to share energy with the data centers.
Yeah.
They're trying to encroach what of the land they can get in low income.
They close down a lot of businesses, a lot of shops.
But it does provide a lot of tax benefits.
Quality of life is fantastic.
Yes, I mean, it's expensive, but the data centers have helped because their school got a new playground.
The education is pretty high.
It's great to raise a family.
Yeah, you can.
Some government leaders
feel like there is too much dependence on the data center industry.
If there's any sort of decline in the performance of the businesses, the county will be directly affected.
There are more signs that there is skepticism now towards the data center industry.
Last year, the Board of Supervisors of Loudoun County voted to end this revision that designates data centers like office parks.
And by doing that, it's going to be harder for data centers to just open up and start building here.
All right, y'all.
So that was some of the pros and the cons, right?
Some of the pros and the cons.
We heard it from people there.
And I want to go deeper, though.
I want to go deeper eventually, man.
I want to visit some neighborhoods here, some communities here in Wisconsin.
100 million dollar facility, libraries, rebuilding schools, repaving roads, playgrounds.
Every year, their council has voted to lower
property taxes because of the surplus.
And that all sound good, but there is another side to it, right?
We heard.
Some neighborhoods lose power because of the shared energy.
And these are some of the things that we talk about that people should be concerned about.
How are you getting power?
Bring your own clean energy.
Are you using closed loop water systems, closed cooling system, closed loop cooling systems?
Meaning that you're not just using a whole bunch of water.
And driving up costs.
So some of those concerns people are talking about are very real, right?
As we just heard.
But what we did here is.
cost was actually being going down.
Now, I didn't hear them talk about the cost on electrical.
I know they said property taxes are going down and the quality of life has went up.
But some annoyances still are there.
How do we make data centers cleaner?
How do we make them more quiet?
How do we make a more?
Green energy, I guess.
To where we even see way better results than what they have in London County.
Every year.
Every year since 2017.
Every year since 2017.
They voted to lower property taxes because of the surplus.
Yes, we have to have regulations.
We have to hold them accountable 100 percent.
We got to make sure communities are not being negatively impacted by data centers coming in the community.
But my point this whole time is we also need to be extremely extremely super concerned about the real environmental injustices that we have right here today every day going on right now in Milwaukee, Wisconsin We got Sandra on the line Sandra.
How you doing you live on the grapevine?
Okay, thank you.
Hi
And I was listening.
OK, now you talk about the data centers.
Now, aren't they supposed to be for a storage of stuff,
the first stuff?
You talking
one?
Well, all of them, that they're building.
I thought they, you know, it's a storage.
Some of them are
of
do
Yeah.
Well, I'm going to look it up anyway.
But because we have to look at this stuff because they said that they're going to have all the information on us.
If we don't pay our bills, they can go into that part of it and they might go in your bank account, collect the money to pay your bills for you.
Yeah, and you know, that's what I'm kind of feeling that we won't have our privacy anymore.
Miss Sandra, let me ask you
pay.
started this a long time ago.
Yeah.
You see what I'm saying?
Let us owe some taxes.
They gonna go in
And some more, you know, and like I said, whatever we put on these phones and our messages, they want to know everything we said, you know, I mean, if we use the bathroom, they don't know that.
Absolutely.
They got the spy machines.
I was saying they had the spy machines running around in the drones and stuff.
I believe this is going to be a authoritarian nation.
And we're almost there.
If you look at the steps of how every dictator got in place,
We're almost there.
I was going to ask you one more quick question.
I like, um, you were talking about whatever happened to
about this earlier this
Yeah, we talked about it this week.
They were supposed to be making like LED screens or something when it was Foxconn.
Now it's either Microsoft or Google.
It's one of those two.
I want to say it's Microsoft though, but um, yep, they uh, It is it is Microsoft and uh, and Google or Google right now So
one more thing real quick now.
You were talking about When they want to build this plant with a cow plant or something up here that else that's where it used to
Oh, yeah
Yeah, my dad used to work for a cow
Mm-hmm.
I would tell you He smells so bad when you come out of there.
Mm-hmm.
He couldn't stand it.
He had to leave his clothes on the outside.
one
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Welcome back.
Excuse me, I'm just getting off my lunch break.
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Somebody just joined me in the studio, man.
Maybe Shannon just popped in.
I'm back.
Fresh off some sapsap and yum yum.
my goodness.
Bro, Ray gonna be the one to get
All right, so Mary Blair Mary Jay Blash is trending again because she recently opened up about her decision not to have children and admitted that she as she has gotten older
She sometimes thinks about what she may have missed out on.
Okay.
So in a recent episode of Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson's I am old podcast, the 55 year old singer reflected on how she made the decision when she was younger.
She said watching women around her struggle with childcare, babysitters and having less freedom influenced her thinking.
What makes the story interesting is that her perspective has evolved back in 2022 Mary was very clear that she liked her freedom And she didn't want the responsibility of constantly having to care for someone Now she says seeing how valuable children are to people as they grow older Has made her look at the decision differently.
So she did a but she like look I'm getting somebody to watch me I want a babysitter like any who sorry
Reports quote her essentially saying oh man when she sees the relationships other people have with their grown children while still acknowledging that she made the choice that felt right for her at the time.
So she want the children but them to be grown already.
She don't want to watch them kids.
definitely an adoption fee.
Yes.
Like
if it was um because all of my cousins are adopted so if you're already a foster kid Like it helps, but then there's still an additional fee that the parents have to pay.
Say it again.
There's adoption court and everything.
sleeping on the floor, the only reason they got caught, I think a neighbor could hear them in there and thought something was suspicious.
That type of story happens all the time.
You have people that literally adopt children to make them
slaves of one way or the other, like whether it's the sexual kind.
Like, he's just like a kid that needs to be consoled right now.
And you have this camera in this kid's face.
Like, it really pisses me off to see that type of stuff.
Like.
That's pathetic in like there's one video of him.
Thank you for saving me from homelessness and not having a home to go to.
This boy is like
Right?
How about you was telling me?
I was like, hey, all right.
Are we going to break?
My bad.
I got a tough enough these
Jasmine says, listen, that happens in Wisconsin.
A lot of black kids being adopted in the suburbs.
Man.
Man, I'm telling you, man.
And then so I'm assuming obviously foster kids in adoption.
is different, right?
Foster is what you're looking after them for a certain amount of time, or is that... Until
The sun to come out.
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Holding it down.
Next week, Doc B. Doc B, Jesus!
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What up, Doc B?
Next week, Doc B got something going on.
I just shouting him out.
But next week, Homer Blow will be holding us down in The Grapevine.
Doc B be listening to the show.
That's what he just takes me.
That's what happened threw me off a little bit but Homer blow will be holding the grapevine down next week.
It's a lot of sapsaps sauce in my brain But we want to have a conversation y'all we was talking about this on the lunch break about alcoholism in the black community so We want to start this by
And I did not know this.
Or maybe I did.
Black Americans do not drink more than white Americans.
For some reason, I felt like I didn't know that.
But then you look around and you're like, I think we do know that.
Yeah.
You look around.
We look at we look at the key problem causes.
Anyway, multiple large surveys find lower rates of alcohol consumption and even lower overall rates of alcohol use disorder 6.9 among black adults versus higher rates among white adults and federal data.
This matters because the story isn't we drink more is what happens once drinking becomes a problem.
Once the spirit leaves your body.
Okay.
Once a problem starts, it.
Does it let go?
What's your favorite drink, Shayna?
said,
how
much time you have, Ray?
I like, uh, do you like pina colada?
You
said, you saw my flank
on your leg, right?
You said, old English.
Forloko.
Depends on the day to week.
Sometimes I
mix
all.
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no,
seaweed.
The rate of recurrent or persistent alcohol dependence among black Americans in Ray and Shannon is 35.4%.
The highest of any racial group measured compared to 33% for Hispanics.
Let me put them coronas back.
Americans and tequila and 22.8% for white Americans.
Translation mean black drinkers are less likely to develop a problem before more likely far more likely to stay stuck in it.
Once it starts.
Black women specifically, this is you, Shannon, carry a documented, measurably worse, long term physical and functional health burden from alcohol use disorder than white women, even controlling for income.
Insurance and treatment access according to the national longitude
I do
Which is a great segue for what's next.
The health toll that follows.
The situation that follows.
Black Americans face higher rates of liver cirrhosis, cirrhosis death, and overall alcohol-related mortality compared to white Americans.
We just talked the other day about how many of our family members, a couple people in the YouTube chat.
talked about losing grandparents.
I lost my father.
My wife lost her father.
I lost some other family members as well to it.
I think, Shannon, you talked about some folks as well.
So I think it's important for us.
And like I said, it just goes back to, because I don't know if you guys remember, like family members that have passed of that.
them thinking like, oh, I can do it on my own.
Like, I don't need like help.
I'll figure it out.
And it's like sure about that.
And,
Yeah,
Hey, you seen COVID they was walking around with wine bottles with the dogs
So come on
You know, I don't think it's the problem only African-Americans deal with, but we have to also acknowledge that we are very... I don't even know if the right word is stubborn, but we're very much like the type of people that, oh, I got it, I can figure it out.
So once you get into that rabbit hole where you inching toward alcoholism, it's real hard to pull you back because a lot of us, we know it all.
Monday, fun day and Thursday,
The reviews and opinions is that of our own.
A 2024 hospital based study found black patients with alcohol associated liver disease had the lowest ratio of transplant listing to death of any racial group.
0.13 versus 0.26 for white patients.
Meaning even when the disease is just as severe, black patients are getting less access to the life-saving transplant list.
We just talked about this.
We just talked about, what is it called?
Organ donning.
Did you guys
Then the life saving measures, I guess, that they would and others.
So it was interesting to hear that.
And now to even see this.
It's funny how we had a conversation and all of a sudden, boom, here's some facts to actually back it up.
Right.
So black Americans are.
as a matter of fact, don't go anywhere, y'all.
We'll be right back and we'll get into some more data right after
We having a little technical here we go.
I'm back.
Black Americans are 20 percent more likely than general US population to experience serious psychological distress.
A major often overlooked driver of why alcohol depends.
We literally just said this.
You just said and we don't be going dealing with our mental health.
And now I'm going to read it again.
When they say we don't be knowing, artists and influencers don't be knowing no real journalism and what we talk about.
Black Americans are 20% more likely than the general U.S.
population to experience serious psychological distress.
A major often overlooked driver of why alcohol dependence once it takes hold is so hard to escape.
All right?
Black Americans are less...
likely to develop a drinking problem, which is interesting.
But once it happens, you in there, more likely Shannon, more likely than any other group to stay stuck in it and to die from the physical toll.
It points back to us being less likely to
seek help for mental health, right?
And like a lot of the times people are using their stressors and things.
I will say, when I worked at the hospital, it was very normal for people to just go out to drink after work or whatever, work second shifts, so it's like, or I would like people like, yeah, just buy a bottle of wine.
I'm like, that's normal.
I was like 19, 20 at the time.
So I'm like, well, no, I was, when I started there, I was 19, 20.
I was illegal when I was drinking.
I was about 23 when I started this, this trend.
I was like, yeah, buy a bottle of wine and just drink after work and wind down.
And then I started to see a therapist and she was like, you set up bottle every other night.
I was like, that don't sound normal.
I was like, everybody do it.
No, no.
So that's when I was like, yeah, maybe I shouldn't be doing that.
And like.
I don't know what would have happened if I hadn't been told that's not normal.
That's not normal behavior.
That's that that is tiptoeing on something dangerous.
You know what I'm saying?
I just genuinely didn't know everybody was doing it.
The grownups was doing it.
So it was just like one of those things where if it hadn't been called out by a mental health specialist by somebody that is licensed that knows what this looks like.
It could have been bad and I wouldn't have known I would have
Obviously, we ain't going to use it when we have an alcohol problem.
And like you said, we're more likely to pass away from these problems like cirrhosis of the liver because there's there's so many warning signs before you get too far gone, right?
Where they're
You should fix this.
But I feel like a lot of people won't go.
So the doctor until it's too far gone.
And that's when they're like, oh, yeah, your liver is like fried.
It's it's over.
Like it's nothing we can even do.
Like your liver on the grill.
Yeah.
Cook it up and give it to that man.
I was trying to bite him.
It's inside an animal.
What is it?
about that the other
A landmark Johns Hopkins study of Baltimore found predominantly black low income neighborhoods were eight times more likely to have carry out liquor stores than white or integrated neighborhoods, despite black residents in these same studies reporting lower alcohol consumption overall.
A more recent Baltimore comparison, a wealthy 80% white neighborhood had about 2.7 alcohol outlets per 10,000 people.
A low income, 96% black neighborhood, a few miles away, had 7.3 outlets per 10,000 people.
Nearly triple the density.
Nearly triple.
So the accessibility is there for that, but the accessibility ain't there when we trying to find health providers, when we trying to find mental health care.
It ain't there, but our but our neighborhoods is riddled with liquor stores.
Anytime you need, you think about a drink, a liquor store, appear like a mirage.
Hold on.
There is one right there.
You
We
I'm over here.
I'm trying to hold it so y'all can see.
I
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What up y'all
welcome back welcome back to the award-winning one-on-one seven the truth live from the American Family Assurance Studios It's your boy Ray Nitty holding it down on a grapevine DJ brother Z Holding this down with the production and sound
How y'all feeling man if you just joining us a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 that's the number to dial a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 That's the number to dial man.
I Hope y'all feeling good today man.
It's Friday is feel good Friday.
We opened up the lines y'all so y'all could call in And share something you proud of somebody something whatever a project you working on even if you just want to shout out your high school
Call us up a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 Friday is always about y'all man We putting y'all first if you want to give some flowers to somebody call up and share that a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17.
That's the number to dial our to y'all our To but before we move on to our to we did I have a video that I want to share with y'all real quick and then we'll go on to
a special talk about alcoholism in the black community.
So, but first, yeah, this video is going to be about, it was a report, and I might watch the whole documentary, and I said I wanted to go visit some of these data centers too, and some of these neighborhoods to actually talk to the people, because...
It's a lot different when you just hearing all of the noise on social media people that aren't really informed people that didn't really go Do any real research?
They're just saying the things that come to their heads or things that they see and then they regurgitate that but This is talking about they call it the data center hub of the country, right and they talk about how much taxes they raised off of it
So, let's hear about it
and they'll talk about the pros and the cons.
This intersection really represents the past and the future promise of Loudoun County.
You see here a data center that's already been developed and was used during the internet boom and still is being used.
And then you see here a data center under construction.
There has never been a day in Loudoun County in 16 years that a data center has not been under construction and it just feels like the construction is sped up and that the centers are being built closer and closer to people's homes.
The story of Loudoun County becoming the data center hub of the world probably begins around the mid 90s when a bunch of fiber was put underneath this county to connect the internet.
After that AOL came and the county made a very pivotal decision to zone data centers similarly to offices which means that it was very easy to set up a data center in this area and suddenly data centers flourished.
The data centers provide two kinds of taxes and the total of that tax revenue is supposed to be about $1.3 billion in 2027.
Perhaps the biggest boon for residents here is that almost every year the Board of Supervisors have voted to lower property taxes on residents because they're getting a surplus of tax revenues from these data centers.
Every
Behind them are cranes of new data centers being built.
You hear a constant buzz of noise from ventilators.
I want to hear this part.
Tax revenue from these data centers are being put to use.
You see new libraries, schools, beautiful neighborhoods, recreation centers like this $100 million building that opened late last year in large part because of tax revenue from the data centers.
And I wanted to come here to ask residents how they feel about life in Loudoun County.
don't love the data centers.
There are neighborhoods losing power on a daily basis because of having to share energy with the data centers.
They're trying to encroach what of the land they can get in Lord and County.
They close down a lot of businesses, a lot of shops.
But it does provide a lot of tax benefits.
Quality of life is fantastic.
Yes, I mean, it's expensive, but the data centers have helped because their school got a new playground.
The education is pretty high.
It's great to raise a family.
Some government leaders
feel like there is too much dependence on the data center industry.
If there's any sort of decline in the performance of the businesses, the county will be directly affected.
There are more signs that there is skepticism now towards the data center industry.
Last year, the Board of Supervisors of Loudoun County voted to end this revision that designates data centers like office parks.
And by doing that, it's going to be harder for data centers to just open up and start building here.
All right, y'all.
So that was some of the pros and the cons, right?
Some of the pros and the cons.
We heard it from people there.
And I want to go deeper, though.
I want to go deeper eventually, man.
I want to visit some neighborhoods here, some communities here in Wisconsin.
100 million dollar facility, libraries, rebuilding schools, repaving roads, playgrounds.
Every year, their council has voted to lower
property taxes because of the surplus.
And that all sound good, but there is another side to it, right?
We heard.
Some neighborhoods lose power because of the shared energy.
And these are some of the things that we talk about that people should be concerned about.
How are you getting power?
Bring your own clean energy.
Are you using closed loop water systems, closed cooling system, closed loop cooling systems?
Meaning that you're not just using a whole bunch of water.
And driving up costs.
So some of those concerns people are talking about are very real, right?
As we just heard.
But what we did here is.
cost was actually being going down.
Now, I didn't hear them talk about the cost on electrical.
I know they said property taxes are going down and the quality of life has went up.
But some annoyances still are there.
How do we make data centers cleaner?
How do we make them more quiet?
How do we make a more?
Green energy, I guess.
To where we even see way better results than what they have in London County.
Every year.
What they say every year since 2017.
Every year since 2017.
They voted to lower property taxes because of the surplus.
Yes, we have to have regulations.
We have to hold them accountable 100 percent.
We got to make sure communities are not being negatively impacted by data centers coming in the community.
But my point this whole time is we also need to be extremely, extremely super concerned about the real environmental injustices that we have right here today, every day going on right now in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
We got Sandra on the line.
Sandra, how are you doing?
You live on the grapevine.
OK,
Hey.
I'm doing fine.
And I was listening.
OK, now you were talking about the data centers.
Now, aren't they supposed to be for a storage of stuff, the first stuff?
You talking
Well, all of them, that they're building.
I thought they, you know, as a storage.
Some of all the
them do
Yeah.
Well, I'm going to look it up anyway.
But because we have to look at this stuff because they said that they're going to have all the information on us.
If we don't pay our bills, they can go into that part of it and they might go in your bank account, collect the money to pay your bills for you.
And you know, that's what I'm kind of fearing that we won't have our privacy anymore.
Miss Sandra, let me ask you
pay.
Very demure.
Very mindful.
started this a long time ago.
Yeah.
You see what I'm saying?
Let us owe some
account.
Yeah.
They gonna go in that
And some more, you know, and like I said, whatever we put on these phones and our messages, they don't know everything we said, you know, I mean, if we use the bathroom, they don't know that.
Absolutely.
They got the spy machines.
I was saying they had the spy machines running around in the drones and stuff.
I believe this is going to be a authoritarian nation.
And we're almost there.
If you look at the steps of how every dictator got in place,
We're almost there.
I was going to ask you one more quick question.
I like, um, you were talking, what happened to Foxconn?
about this earlier this
Yeah, we talked about it this week.
They were supposed to be making like LED screens or something when it was Foxconn.
Now it's either Microsoft or Google.
It's one of those two.
I want to say it's Microsoft though, but um, yep, they uh It is it is Microsoft and uh in Google or Google right now So one
more thing real quick now.
You were talking about When they want to build this plant with a cow plant or something up here that else that's where it used
Oh, yeah
Yeah, my dad used to work for a cow
Mm-hmm.
I would tell you He smells so bad when they come out of there.
Mm-hmm.
He couldn't stand it.
He had to leave his clothes on the outside.
Truth.
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Welcome back Excuse me.
I'm just getting off my lunch break Welcome back to the award-winning one-on-one seven the truth.
This is the grapevine with your boy Ray nitty Somebody just joined me in the studio man.
Maybe Shannon just popped in I'm back.
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I'm young
Talk to you in life.
Bro, break on beatle.
I just wanted
get
know what I'm saying?
Some good noise.
OK.
Jesus.
J Blash is trending again because she recently opened up about her decision not to have children and admitted that she as she has gotten older.
She sometimes thinks about what she may have missed out on.
So in a recent episode of Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson's I am Oh podcast, the 55 year old singer reflected on how she made the decision when she was younger.
She said watching women around her struggle with childcare, babysitters, and having less freedom influenced her thinking.
What makes the story interesting is that her perspective has evolved.
Back in 2022, Mary was very clear that she liked her freedom and she didn't want the responsibility of constantly having to care for someone.
Now, she says, seeing how valuable children are to people as they grow older,
has made her look at the decision differently.
So she's like, look, I'm getting on.
I need somebody to watch me.
I want a babysitter.
Like, anyhoo, sorry.
Reports quote her essentially saying, Mary called me.
Reports quote her essentially saying, oh man, when she sees the relationships other people have with their grown children while still acknowledging that she made the choice that felt right for her at the time.
So she want the children but them to be grown already.
She don't want to watch them kids.
There's definitely an adoption fee.
Yes.
if it was, because all of my cousins are adopted, so if you're already a foster kid, like it helps, but then there's still an additional fee that the parents have to pay.
Say it again.
There's an adoption court and everything.
Like sleeping on the floor, the only reason they got caught, I think a neighbor could hear them in there and thought something was suspicious.
That type of story happens all the time.
You have people that literally adopt children to make them
slaves of one way or the other, like whether it's the sexual kind.
So you would think they just let anybody get them.
I guess if you could pay the fee, there's that.
But you also hear stories about like there's one influencer right now that's going viral and it really makes me sad because like the little boy went viral because he was pretty funny.
Like cute kid, super funny.
He went viral and.
His parents now like their whole Instagram is just him.
Like
there's
That's good content.
And you have this camera in this kid's face.
Like it really pisses me off to see that type of stuff.
Like.
That's pathetic in like there's one video of him.
Thank you for saving me from homelessness and not having a home to go to.
This boy is like
Right?
How about you was telling me?
I was like, hey, all right.
Are we going to break?
My bad.
I got a tough enough these
Jasmine says, listen, that happens in Wisconsin.
A lot of black kids being adopted in the suburbs.
Man.
Man, I'm telling you, man.
And then so I'm assuming obviously foster kids in adoption.
is different, right?
Foster is what you're looking after them for a certain amount of time, or is that... Until
I
you
Okay.
Gotcha.
J pools up.
Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow he'll be son
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Welcome back welcome back to the award-winning one-on-one seven the truth live from the American Family Assurance Studios This is the grapevine with your boy Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon holding it down next week Doc B Doc B Jesus Who's that?
What up Doc B next week Doc B got something going on.
I just shouting him out But next week homer blow will be hold holding us down in the grapevine Doc B be listening to the show.
That's what he just takes me
threw me off a little bit.
But Hummer Blow will be holding the grapevine down next week.
It's a lot of sapsap sauce in Marbury.
But we want to have a conversation, y'all.
We was talking about this on the lunch break about alcoholism in the black community.
So we want to start this by and I did not know this.
Maybe I did.
Black Americans do not drink more than white Americans.
For some reason, I felt like I didn't know that, but then you look around and you're like, I think we do know that.
Yeah.
You look
You know, we look at the key problem causes.
Anyway, multiple large surveys find lower rates of alcohol consumption and even lower overall rates of alcohol use disorder 6.9 among black adults versus higher rates among white adults and federal data.
This matters because the story isn't we drink more is what happens once drinking becomes a problem.
Once the spirit leaves your body.
Okay.
Once a problem starts, it.
Does it let go?
What's your favorite drink, Shayna?
much time you have,
Ray?
Pussy.
I like, uh... Do you like pina colada?
You
said, you saw my flunk
on your leg, right?
You said, old English.
Forloko.
Depends the day to week.
Sometimes I mix
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I didn't like feeling these leaves floating over to my tongue.
I didn't enjoy that.
That was strange to me.
Yeah, just the texture of like you drinking something and they're like, oh, what is that?
You know, it's like, aren't you from the islands?
I am, but you know, we drink rum, not mojito.
My first mojito I had was in this country.
Yeah.
The rate of recurrent or persistent alcohol dependence among black Americans in Ray and Shannon is 35.4%.
The highest of any racial group measured compared to 33% for Hispanics, let me put them coronas back, Americans and tequila.
and 22.8% for white Americans.
Translation mean black drinkers are less likely to develop a problem before more likely, far more likely to stay stuck in it once it starts.
Black women specifically, this is you Shannon, carry a documented, measurably worse long term physical and functional health burden.
from alcohol use disorder than white women, even controlling for income, insurance and treatment access, according to the national longitude data.
bro I just remind me of when somebody hit a three at the bucks and the provides bang another three another shot Man, but sorry Where we at with this black?
Oh, yeah, we said that so y'all specifically Shannon carry out a documented measurable worst long-term physical and functional health burden
So you should think about that after we get off here.
I do think
Which is a great segue for what's next.
The health toll that follows.
The situation that follows.
Black Americans face higher rates of liver cirrhosis, cirrhosis death, and overall alcohol-related mortality compared to white Americans.
We just talked the other day about how many of our family members, a couple people in the YouTube chat, talked about losing grandparents.
I lost my father, my wife lost her father.
I lost some other family members as well to it.
I think, Shannon, you talked about some folks as well.
So I think it's important for us, like, and like I said, it just goes back to, because I don't know if like you guys remember, like family members that have passed of that, them thinking like, oh, I can do it on my own.
Like, I don't need like help.
I'll figure it out.
And it's like, sure about that.
And, you know, they probably needed
Because a
him, right?
You got to make it sound.
no, I'm
Yeah.
Hey, you seeing COVID, they was walking around with wine bottles with the
So, come on now.
You know, I don't think it's the problem only African Americans deal with, but we have to also acknowledge that we are very, I don't even know if the right word is stubborn, but we're very much like the type of people that, oh, I got it.
I can figure it out.
So once you get into that rabbit hole where you.
Ancient toward alcoholism is real hard to pull you back because a lot of us we know it all or Monday fun day and
Straight up.
Straight up.
You're right.
We'll we'll the reviews and opinions is that of our own.
A 2024 hospital-based study found black patients with alcohol-associated liver disease had the lowest ratio of transplant listing to death of any racial group.
0.13 versus 0.26 for white patients, meaning even when the disease is just as severe, black patients are getting less access to the life-saving transplant list.
We just talked about this.
We just talked about...
What is it called organ donning?
Oh, did you guys
in life-saving measures, I guess, that they would and others.
So it was interesting to hear that.
And now to even see this, it's funny how we had a conversation and all of a sudden, boom, here's some facts to actually back it up, right?
So black Americans are, as a matter of fact, don't go anywhere, y'all.
We'll be right back and we'll get into some more data right after
Here we go.
I'm back.
Black Americans are 20 percent more likely than general US population to experience serious psychological distress.
A major, often overlooked, driver of why alcohol depa... You literally just said this, Shannon.
You just said, and we all be going dealing with our mental health.
And now, I'm gonna read it again.
When they say, we don't be knowing, artists and influencers don't be knowing, no real journalism, what we talk about.
Black Americans are 20% more likely than the general US population to experience serious psychological distress.
A major often overlooked driver of why alcohol dependence once it takes hold is so hard to escape.
All right.
Black Americans are less likely to develop a drinking problem, which is interesting.
But once it happens, you in there, more likely Shannon, more likely than any other group to stay stuck in it.
and to die from the physical toll.
I mean, we said that because it all points back to us being less likely to go seek help, medical help.
It points back to us being less likely to seek help for mental health, right?
And like a lot of the times people are using their stressors and things.
I will say, when I worked at the hospital, it was very normal for people to just go out to drink after work or whatever, work second shift, so it's late.
Or I would like people like, yeah, just buy a bottle of wine.
I'm like, that's normal.
I was like 19, 20 at the time.
So I'm like, well, no, I was, when I started there, I was 19, 20, let's, let's, I was illegal when I was drinking.
I was about 23 when I started this, this trend.
I was like, yeah, buy a bottle of wine and just drink after work and wind down.
And then I started to see a therapist and she was like, you set up bottle every other night.
I was like, that don't sound normal.
I was like, everybody do it.
No.
No.
So that's when I was like, yeah, maybe I shouldn't be doing that.
And like, I don't know what would have happened if I hadn't been told that's not normal.
That's not normal behavior.
That is tiptoeing on something dangerous.
You know what I'm saying?
I just genuinely didn't know.
Everybody was doing it.
The grownups was doing it.
So it was just like one of those things where if it hadn't been called out by a mental health specialist, by somebody that is licensed, that knows what this looks like.
It could have been bad and I wouldn't have known I would have hidden
wrong
a
Obviously, we ain't gonna use it when we have an alcohol problem.
And like you said, we're more likely to pass away from these problems, like cirrhosis of the liver, because there's so many warning signs before you get too far gone, right?
Where they're like, hey, you should fix this, you should fix this.
But I feel like a lot of people won't go to the doctor until it's too far gone.
And that's when they're like, oh yeah, your liver is fried, it's over.
It's nothing we can even do.
I get a liver on the grill.
Yeah.
Cook it up and give it to that man that was trying to bite him.
Placentus.
It's inside an animal.
What is it,
right?
Never
about that the other
A landmark Johns Hopkins study of Baltimore found predominantly black low income neighborhoods were eight times more likely to have carry out liquor stores than white or integrated neighborhoods, despite black residents in these same studies reporting lower alcohol consumption overall.
A more recent Baltimore comparison, a wealthy 80% white neighborhood had about 2.7 alcohol outlets per 10,000 people.
A low income, 96% black neighborhood, a few miles away, had 7.3 outlets per 10,000 people.
Nearly triple the density.
Nearly triple.
So the accessibility is there for that, but the accessibility ain't there when we trying to find health providers, when we trying to find mental health care.
It ain't there, but our but our neighborhoods is riddled with liquor stores.
Anytime you need you think about a drink, a liquor store, appear like a mirage.
Hold on.
There is one right there.
For anything.
Yeah, for sure.
nothing.
We got
I'm over here.
I'm trying to hold it so y'all can see I can
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I am.
Shannon will be holding down the lunch break in studio Monday.
I'm going to be in Poland.
I'm going to be doing the walk to Poland.
He doing the Poland.
He don't be in the
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