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August 5th, 2026, where all eyes are on the state of Michigan, where it appears.

Democratic Socialist, or maybe I should just call him a progressive.

Abdul El Sayed will defeat.

Representative Haley Stevens and Michigan's marquee Democratic primary race for the U.S.

Senate.

There is something like a fourteen thousand nine hundred vote lead as we speak for Abdul El Sayed with a number of votes still to be counted from Wayne County which encompasses the city of Detroit where It appears Haley Stevens may pick up some votes, but it may not be enough as of right now the one-point lead

that Abdul El Sayed has over Congresswoman Stevens very well could be enough.

And so you are probably thinking.

Is this potentially the future of the Democratic Party where those who are more centrist, those who are more moderate, those dare I say who are establishment may be removed from the party in favor of.

legislators and senators, members of Congress, and even governors who are decidedly much more to the left.

I see it a little bit differently, and I know that there are some folks who are very, very happy and celebratory about that win in Michigan.

I'd imagine my producer is likely one of them, as he had made it clear that his support was behind Abdul El Sayed.

In a contest, it appears that he will win, which is a tremendous victory for the far left in America.

However, there are some things to take into consideration.

And I also want to tie what this primary victory may mean for the governor's race here in Wisconsin, because we have a very similar situation.

So you have Haley Stevens, who is a member of Congress who represents roughly.

the same amount of people as our Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley.

As you all know, David Crowley would probably be considered a moderate or a centrist and certainly a part of the establishment.

And he currently represents an amount of people that is, of course, similar to what the losing candidate in Michigan is representing.

Somewhere is around a million people.

Give or take and then we have Francesca Hong who it has been leading if not dominating in the polls since polling started in the race for governor.

I think the writing is on the wall.

There also is a story that I'm going to share with you in just a little bit where David Crowley is admitting that he believes that his received endorsement from Governor Tony Evers came too late.

if we flip back across Lake Michigan and go to the state of Michigan.

Haley Stevens also said that her endorsement, or her being endorsed by the previous Democratic governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, which came last month, was also a little bit too late.

And so for those who are celebrating and rejoicing,

exercise a bit of caution and so there's something I've talked about over the last couple of programs and it's called the wisdom of crowds and when large groups of people make a decision that decision oftentimes is one that can defy conventional wisdom and it also is a smarter decision usually than any one particular expert could ever predict.

primary elections are different if I'm going to use a sports analogy, which I don't do very often a primary victory for a far left candidate is like winning a single playoff game and thinking you have won the championship thinking you have won the pennant thinking you have won the Stanley Cup thinking you have won the World Cup when you've only won a playoff game something else to be to be noted I come to find out there are eight

0.3 million registered voters in the state of Michigan.

A lot of registered voters.

Michigan has more registered voters than Wisconsin has population, basically by a factor of two.

A lot of people are registered to vote in the state of Michigan.

Yesterday's election in this midterm preview primary election is going to see record turnout for.

a midterm primary election in the state of Michigan.

Please keep in mind that there are better than eight million registered voters in the state of Michigan.

Yesterday's election, which is actually still going on right now because there are some votes to be counted out of Wayne County, which encompasses most, if not all of Detroit.

Turnouts going to be about 30 percent.

Potentially as high as 34 percent.

There is no wisdom in that crowd.

While the victory might.

Echo loudly for some, especially those on the far left that believe that that is the direction not only the Democratic Party needs to go in, but that is the political direction that the nation needs to go into combat and to undo some of the worst policy decisions coming out of the Trump administration.

70% of the people in the state of Michigan did not cast a ballot in this election.

It's very, very deceiving.

And people will take this victory and try to apply it to the wisdom of crowds when the crowd has not voted yet.

Here is the risk that we run.

So Mitch McConnell is essentially no longer a factor in the U.S.

Senate.

So the Republicans currently have and I'm going to include Mitch McConnell.

In this count, they have 53 seats in the US Senate.

The US Senate is 100 senators.

The Democrats have 46 plus they have Bernie Sanders, who is technically an independent, but does caucus with the Democrats.

So all in all, the Democrats have 47 seats in the US Senate and the Republicans have 53 currently right now as it stands.

The state of Michigan has two.

Democratic senators.

If El Sayed loses to a Republican in the fall and I can't predict Michigan's politics because I can barely predict Wisconsin's politics, not only will the Democrats set themselves back in their quest to get a majority in the U.S.

Senate, they're going to lose a seat to a conservative Republican for the next six years.

So keeping in mind, the Democrats are at a disadvantage.

They're at a deficit in the U.S.

Senate.

but nominating a far left progressive to run against a Republican when 70% of the people in the state of Michigan have registered voters have not voted yet is a calculated risk.

Now I don't want to take anything away from the victory because I do believe it speaks volumes to how a certain segment

of voters in this country, whether it be Wisconsin with our governor's race or Michigan with the U.S.

Senate race or a number of contests all over the country.

I think it's that there's a sentiment of how people are feeling about the conditions and they may believe that a political stream extreme on the far left will combat that of what we are seeing on the far right.

But at the end of the day when cooler heads prevail in a system like America.

a bipartisan bicameral constitutional republic that is just littered with capitalism.

Extremes do not work.

They sound good.

They provide all of the answers.

Any question that you may have about any policy, there is going to likely be a response by progressives and democratic socialists because it's easy to come up with a response.

Oh, health care is too expensive.

Make it free.

Wages are too low.

Raise them.

Rich people have too much money.

Take it.

Education not doing so good.

Fix it.

Environmental hazards and the air is not clean and the water is not clean.

Purify it.

There's an answer.

to everything that plagues us.

Can they accomplish those things legislatively?

That is where the difficulty lies, because you can tell voters literally anything during the poetry of a campaign, especially if you are meeting voters where they're at.

Data centers.

Horrible.

Response?

Stop them!

Don't build another...

Data center and then you'll have people to say oh, I like that.

I don't want a data center

Coming into my community and there absolutely is one segment of the Democratic Party that is vehemently opposed to data centers if you live in a rural area and you don't want all your of your land being taken and all of your water being used you don't want your utility bills to go up and your Electricity usage to go up not to mention all of the noise apparently the data centers make if you have a candidate that is very ambitious that is telling you and looking you directly in your eye and saying we're gonna

stop these data centers from being built.

Why wouldn't you support that candidate?

It makes a lot of sense.

It's very, very simple to comprehend.

But legislating is a much, much different story.

And for those that are interested in those that want to do a little more research and dig a little bit deeper.

Also, let me say this, whenever somebody says do your research, like I don't like that cliche because most people don't know how to do research.

So most people

Doing research is just googling some stuff but a lot of times Google is just going to feed us answers that we Are expecting or feeding us answers that are already aligned with what our current thinking is research would be What are actual policy achievements?

What are actual legislative victories?

bills passed and signed into law by this new more left-leaning segment of the Democratic Party

How many of them have actually gotten elected in large contests around the country?

Now, I will also say this.

Mom Donnie in New York, that's that's a huge victory, whether he calls himself a democratic socialist or a progressive that I think that was motivating for an awful lot of people.

But yesterday, I went through the list of his campaign promises that made him a very attractive candidate to New Yorkers, especially post Eric Adams.

Eric Adams was a disaster.

Which is a shame because he had a lot of promise.

He was a centrist moderate guy had a great relationship with the police department He also was real close to Donald Trump.

And if I'm not mistaken Donald Trump either endorsed Eric Adams or stopped just short of endorsing him which doesn't help in a city like New York because I don't know if you can get bluer and more liberal than New York City, which let me remind you is like 10 million people New York is not

an actual representation of what America is.

It's like 750 different Americas.

So the political decisions made by New Yorkers is not necessarily attributable to other parts of the United States, especially us here in the upper Midwest.

But it's incredibly motivating for other folks who have left leaning political proclivities.

So I went through a list of.

Some of the things that mom Donnie said on the campaign trail and there of course have been roadblocks and there have been log jams because Legislating is different than campaigning you can campaign on anything and Then once you get elected you will see how incredibly difficult it is because you've got special interests You've got lobbyists and for some reason We seem to forget about this thing

It has been one of the largest impediments to democratic policies going back since the parties did their realignment starting in 1948 when the Democrats became the Dixie Crats, which then became the modern incarnation of the Republicans.

So any democratic policy in the modern era has faced considerable obstacles because of this thing.

And the thing is called the Republican Party.

And so you may hear a fantastic serving buffet, if you will, of left leaning policies that answer every single question about every single thing that is wrong or misaligned with America.

Just remember, there's going to be opposition and some pretty dug in opposition to some of those policies.

So I'm going to take a break.

I'm going to come back.

Want to share with you something that David Crowley said and I hope this is not Forshadowing of what is to come in six days when the overwhelming majority of voters in the state of Wisconsin will cast their ballots We have had some early votes being cast in the city of Milwaukee.

In fact yesterday was the highest number of early votes that have been cast

Since this current election cycle has started, not sure entirely what that means, but at least more people are paying a little bit more attention as we grow closer to the August 11th election.

So we're going to talk about David Crowley, who I think is actually here in the building because I got a notification that he's probably at one of these other radio stations defending his his campaign and why voters should select him, especially if you're one of those undecided.

I'm going to take a break and come back.

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Wisconsin is

just one week away from the election and there are four Democratic candidates for governor still vying for the nomination of all the things that have happened during this particular Wisconsin primary

This is the one that is probably the most shocking to me that even with one week less than a week.

Until the election there.

There's no commitment to support.

The candidate who has been endorsed by the current Democratic governor.

And we've talked to Kelda.

We've talked to Joel Brennan.

Some time ago, maybe a couple of weeks ago, I did see a very narrow path for Joel Brennan.

And I thought there was some opportunity to get agenda items that are important to African Americans, especially in Milwaukee, to have those agenda items at least make their way into this gubernatorial contest.

But it appears that Joel Brennan is going to be as far away from victory as Kamala Harris was when she ran for president in 2024.

So that plan isn't exactly going to work out.

Kelda Royce, who is a state senator representing Dane County and Madison, she also is polling still at two-ish percent, still in single digits, and she has not decided to pull out of the race and endorse David Crowley either because I firmly believe that every time Kelda looks in a mirror, and I don't know if there's a mirror that she walks past and doesn't stop and gaze at, I think she sees a governor.

I believe she actually does, and so she's not going to drop out of the race either.

And so when we do our autopsy of this very unusual Democratic primary that we're seeing here in Wisconsin, we're going to take those things into consideration.

There were too many Democrats in the race for too long when Francesca Hong was able to solidify her lane and galvanize an incredible amount of grassroots support.

While the other Democrats were fighting over their share of centrist and moderate Democratic voters, Francesca Hong had a very, very clear path to victory because her supporters are very unique in their political understandings and their political wants and wishes, and only she can meet their particular and specific needs politically.

Those people are not likely to drift to somewhere that's further to the right.

They're not likely to say, oh, well, my second choice is probably going to be Joel Brenner.

Oh, my second choice is going to be David Crowley.

I don't know if they had a second choice and I can take a play out of history, a scene that was set about a decade ago.

Bernie Sanders supporters weren't supporting Hillary Clinton and they made the case as to why they would not because her politics do not represent.

The direction that they want their elected officials to go in and Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton were about as as different of people and Politicians as you probably could find and so there was a phenomenon that took place.

There was this third-party candidate Jill Stein and here's the thing we've seen third-party candidates before they are an Alternative I'm not sure if the alternative that they represent is reasonable

But it is a place where protest votes can go.

You guys remember an election from a very long time ago.

In fact, it was 26 years ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday.

It was the presidential election of the year 2000 in which Al Gore and Joel Lieberman.

Were the Democratic nominees, Al Gore being the vice president for two terms under what I would call a relatively successful two terms of.

William Jefferson Clinton, challenging the Republican nominees for President and Vice President George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

Then there was this fellow who represented the early incarnations of what would turn into more legitimate third party candidates.

I believe his name was Ralph Nader.

Ralph Nader represented a political ethos that did not necessarily align with everything the Republicans believe and Did not align with everything that the Democrats believed as well It seemed at the time and the data that we had back then nothing even remotely close to what we have now The way we can analyze elections the way we can get exit data the way we have polling data everything is mechanized everything is artificially intelligent now

I believe that the data that we get about voters issues and elections is far more accurate now than it was 26 years ago because back then Google was not the kind of factor that it was.

I remember doing what was called it was new at the time Internet organizing where if you had somebody's email address and everybody didn't have an email address 26 years ago in the presidential election of the year.

2000 but if you had email addresses a collection of email addresses you would use those email addresses like home addresses and you could send people campaign correspondences via email that had never happened before it was a new and revolutionary time in American politics but my oh my has this stuff evolved now you got half of the commercial that you will see not necessarily the ones that you saw in this primary but the ones you will see from August 11 through

November, half of them are going to be made with artificial intelligence.

Tom Tiffany has a damn commercial word.

A cow is not even a real cow.

It's an artificial cow.

Probably gives artificial milk.

But at the time in the year 2000, Ralph Nader was a choice for voters who typically would vote for a Democrat.

Ralph Nader took maybe about 2 percent.

the votes that we believe at the time probably would have gone to Al Gore and Joe Lieberman and ultimately it was a very very contentious race in fact when I went to bed that night we had one winner of the contest when I woke up the next morning we had another president that was declared the winner and then of course it was settled in the US Supreme Court there were still votes and ballots that were uncounted in Broward County which we know were Democratic votes that would have favored

Al Gore and Joe Lieberman and ultimately that was a contest that was decided by the Supreme Court when I believe George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were up by something like 531 votes and they called the whole damn election and it was such a debacle and such a fiasco the first thing the very first thing act that was done by the new bush

and Cheney administration because they knew they stole the election is they sent American stimulus checks with a surplus that had been built up by the Clinton Gore administration because they knew that they stole the election and a lot of people in this country were very angry.

In fact, I can remember some of the speeches that were given by members of the Congressional Black Caucus at the time.

They were crying foul and they were not ready to embrace George W. Bush.

the president of the United States and to quiet all of that political noise because when a president first gets elected that is when their approval ratings are supposed to be the highest.

That is when their political agenda is the strongest and oftentimes gets the most traction when they first get elected.

That's why Donald Trump expended whatever political capital he had on the one big beautiful bill which didn't turn out to be so beautiful.

I don't think it was all that beautiful.

And it makes me wonder that if we are going to see a repeat of history Because history is oftentimes the prologue it sets the stage of what is often to come in the event that Tom Tiffany gets elected governor the surplus that we have here in Wisconsin and in the event that Tom Tiffany gets elected governor and there's some kind of Malfeasance that takes place on our election because I don't put anything past Trump because what I have come to find out about him and which is a lot No one can stop him

with anything that he wants to do.

Maybe the courts will intervene at some point, but for the most part, he can say and do anything.

He can weaponize his Department of Justice, he can weaponize the whole of the federal government, and no one really says or does anything.

And in the event that Tom Tiffany finds himself on the winning end of our contest,

It's going to take place the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

That's the rule of thumb in case you ever want to know when an election is.

It's the first Tuesday after the first Monday.

Don't know who came up with that sound like something old timey like Benjamin Franklin.

It will have the election on the first Tuesday after the first Monday following the first Saturday and Sunday.

Makes no sense.

Tom Tiffany will steal this damn election and then give us the surplus to try and calm us down by sending us all checks From CBS 58, Wisconsin is just one week away from an election and there are four Democratic candidates for governor still vying for the nomination Milwaukee County executive David Crowley says while he's grateful To have governor Tony Evers endorsement in the race for Wisconsin governor Crowley admits

He wishes it had come sooner.

Pause there.

Take a break and pick it right back up.

Eyes are still on Michigan.

Where a nail biter of a contest where Abdul El Sayed, who does represent the left flank of the Democratic Party, did beat, apparently, representative Haley Stevens, who represents a much more centrist, moderate wing of the Democratic Party.

And of course, Abdul El Sayed will advance to November.

to run against a Republican candidate named Mike Rogers, who of course has the backing of President Donald Trump.

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Our phone number if you're so inclined if you want to call it or text it or whatever you want to do is 833-212-1017 833-212-1017 Talking about a decidedly leftward shift in the Democratic Party at least in a primary but we've seen this before Bernie Sanders did very very well

In primary election states back in 2016 was actually doing very very well in primary election states in 2020 because it was a short lived campaign because Bernie was talked off the cliff not to run because the Democratic Party needed to Needed to line up behind a candidate that could actually win and defeat Donald Trump and we resigned to the fact that it was Joe Biden Who was an old man?

He was old then

He's he was old.

He's been old for a long time.

He was old when Barack Obama picked him to be his running mate, and then he got older.

But Joe Biden represented a segment of the Democratic Party that can galvanize more support with what we call the wisdom of crowds.

And this needs to be a lesson learned because people who are new to politics don't.

They don't quite understand the cycles of it because once they get in, they believe that the world is as idealistic politically as they want it to be.

Campaigns are idealistic and as you want them to be.

Getting elected is very, very different.

The ideas are different.

The strategies are different.

The messaging is different.

You're actually talking to different voters.

If I asked...

some high school youngsters to vote for a class president.

And let's say there's a lot of really qualified high schoolers to throw their hat in the ring to run for class president.

They're solid on the issues of high school students.

They want better school lunches.

They want more after school programs.

They might even want different subjects being taught.

They may want more college readiness classes.

These high schoolers that are running for student council might even want the trades introduced into their high school.

Man, oh man.

And they're very articulate.

They're very intelligent.

And they run really solid campaigns for high school president.

And there's a primary for high school president.

You have seven candidates.

Each of them just as qualified as the next and they're giving their speeches and they're trying to convince their student body that they are the leader of this particular.

Campaign in this race and they would be the absolute best choice and then there is a vote.

And these seniors of that particular school vote on a class president and there's a winner.

Let's say it's a decisive victory and they give a speech and everybody is all.

Fired up, but then there's one more election It's one more Those high school students they spoke with their vote They voted for a candidate that's gonna take them into the future with all of these great ideas everything from better school lunches to New classes and bringing in the trades or whatever the political issues are of these high schools But then the vote goes to the larger community

You have the high school that voted and that was the primary but then the real class president of that senior class is gonna be decided by the rest of the people in that community some are grandparents some are single parents some are 50 years old some are 70 years old and what you will find is they totally different candidate may win see what democratic socialists do is they galvanize the seniors in high school and they tell them to vote

But then when they win their primary with the support of the seniors in high school, the adults come to the general election and they may go in a completely different direction.

This is what I want to prepare people for.

There are no victories, whether it be Francesca Hong, whether it be El Sayed in Michigan, when only 30% of the people vote.

Now here's the hard part.

How do you convince voters?

that did not vote in a primary election and might be distant as far as their political proclivities from the person that won the primary.

I know for a lot of people in this country and a lot of people listening to this program your political affiliations are very loose.

You vote on issues and sometimes you don't vote at all if you don't like the candidates because really nobody is stopping you from staying home on election day.

It's also very easy to not vote at all and just to say, oh, I don't do politics.

All politics are bad.

Two wings on the same bird.

It's very easy to do that.

And quite honestly, about 40% of the American public says those exact same things when we have presidential elections.

Please be clear and do not lie to yourself.

40% of the people in this country that could be voters do not vote for president for whatever reason therefore we don't oftentimes get the best candidates nor the best winner because a large section tens of millions of people cast no vote and I believe that if our voter turnout was higher and here's another one for you Wisconsin has some of the highest voter turnout in the country and it's only 72% if we're lucky

That's still 28% of the people that can vote that could vote that just opt not to and they're gonna sell you on an excuse and I don't go back and forth with those people I only go back and forth with the people who want and demand real change real social change But won't do a single thing about it.

I don't want to hear from you.

Just keep it to yourself

Just be a private citizen and keep all that stuff to yourself But don't tell us all the things that you want and all the things that are messed up about the mayor and about the governor and about members of Congress And you don't vote don't just just relax Just go and get yourself a Coca-Cola and drink it put a little ice in it Maybe drink out of a straw.

That's classy and just sit there and drink your Coca-Cola that's

But it's a much different contest when a larger number of people who do have solid political affiliations vote I'm a Democrat I'll explain it to you if you've got time I Think you can probably go back and listen to some of my other shows over the last I don't know 15 years and you'll be able to see why

Here is why it's difficult for me because there's a There's a real specific set of issues that I know Have been plaguing the African-American community and some of these issues have also plagued other people and other communities and I have seen political remedy To those issues in other ethnicities

and in other communities.

So let's say the reparations is an issue.

It's not really an issue for me because I don't know if black people would be ready for the backlash that we would receive if we ever got reparations.

But I know that the Japanese who were in turn for just a little bit, just a little while, not long, they got reparations.

So they were made whole, right?

So there was a wrong.

They were taken against their will and they were held captive for no fault of their own.

And then America was like, oh, we're sorry, here's a whole bunch of money for your inconvenience.

So I'm giving that as a simple, easy to understand example of how there was a problem and there was a political remedy to satisfy and to solve that problem.

So we have seen other groups get political remedy.

When it comes to issues impact the African American community, specifically our low levels of literacy and our children.

And if that is allowed to persist and as of right now, it is.

and fully funding public education is not going to be the answer because fully funding public education has been something they have been saying since the 1980s and we have more than triple how much we invest in public school students yet we still have a glaring disparity of black children that can't read you know what that means the next generation will be devoid of black people participating in the labor force because they didn't learn how to read when they were in third grade and if that issue is not being addressed

by any candidate.

I don't care what your party is.

If you have no solution, or if you won't even speak to it, or if you won't sketch out a plan, I'm not going to vote for you.

I don't care where you are on climate.

I don't care where you are on LGBTQ plus I a issues.

I don't care where you are on

Small business development.

I don't care where you are on Canadian wildfires and clean drinking water and clean air if you don't have a series of policy issues or Platform items on that single issue you have not earned my vote and you're telling me that you don't want it and I say fair enough Because my vote is very sacred to me you as the candidate

are asking me for my vote, and if you are not providing me any food to feed myself politically with your campaign, then I'm just not gonna eat.

Let's talk to, actually, you know what?

Vincent, hang on, I'm gonna take a break, I'll come back and I'll chat with ya.

Talk to Vincent on the other side, you were listening to The Truth with Sherwin Hughes on 101.7 FM, I'll be right back.

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Let's talk to a patiently waiting Vincent.

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How are you?

Not that well, Sherwin, after the news is coming out of Michigan.

The thing is, is that in the beginning of the year, the Democrats had all this enthusiasm about

flipping the House and the Senate coming up this fall.

And with this result set coming out of Michigan, they have made it a little harder for themselves.

The fact is we've had, Democrats have all the winning issues.

The fact is the economy, the fact that healthcare is more expensive.

The fact is this is ridiculous, a war and conflict, whatever you want to call it, that is continuing.

that is continuing, but the fact is that now that we made it, Democrats have made it harder for themselves, especially at the Senate position when you look at the results of Michigan.

And so I don't understand what people want.

The fact is the Democratic priority has a problem that it has to kneel down to so many constituents.

You have to deal with Black folks.

You have to deal with Hispanic folks.

You have to deal with LGBTQ, STUV, whatever you want to call it, issues.

You have to deal with the environment.

You have to deal with young folks.

You have to deal with elderly folks.

You have to deal with poor folks.

And the only issue that Republicans have to deal with is saying, hey, all those folks that the Democrats have supporting them, just eff them.

And

they end up winning.

And that's the only issue that they have.

And so now we come up to this point where now we have to deal with socialism in our party.

And it's not a winning issue throughout these states.

And it's said that the guy's not going to win.

The chance of winning in Michigan is pretty slim.

And so I don't understand what people want.

You know, especially people that call themselves Democrats, because you can't satisfy everybody, but you got to understand you have to win.

You have to win in order to get something.

And then when you continue to go down this road, this road, the road that seems like the Democratic Party's going down with the socialism bit, it's just not going to work.

And so it doesn't bode well for

for the governor's race here in New Wisconsin.

I hope some people come to their senses when it comes up to this election next week.

And we can kind of turn this around.

But the Democrats are about to blow this whole thing.

And in the second term, I mean, two years of Trump with the Republican Congress, he's going to be really unfettered.

Just understand, understand, he's going to be unhinged.

because he doesn't have anybody to try to stop him.

And we need Democrats and Congress to either Senate or in the House in order to try to stop this idiot.

Because it's going to be, it's going to be Katie bar the door.

And understand, you know, black folks, Hispanic folks, young folks, whoever, if Tom Tiffany becomes the governor of the state.

Get ready is gonna be Katie body to go door again So we need to start thinking about how we're gonna live our lives because the fact is elections are gonna be contended the fact is they're gonna be taking away You're right the boat.

They're gonna be doing all these other things and so it's ridiculous They you know the Democratic party just have to they got too many factions.

You they got to deal with it It's just amazing to me and nobody wants to come together and win

Thank you Vincent

All right.

I appreciate your call.

Vincent raises some.

Valid concerns.

They're not even following who the godfather of the modern incarnation of democratic socialism is.

When Donald Trump is at his worst and when we feel he can go even further.

You don't combat his extremism with other extremism.

You have to combat his extremism.

With common sense and pragmatism.

That's why Bernie Sanders dropped out in 2020.

He was like, I'm too extreme.

We need someone that can actually beat Donald Trump.

Bernie Sanders said, I'm gonna get out of this race.

I'm gonna throw my support behind Joe Biden.

And it made sense because Joe Biden won that election.

Bernie Sanders knew that he would just muck everything up.

He was not the answer.

His policy ideas.

It was not the time for them.

The focus was on stopping Donald Trump.

And when the larger crowd speaks in a general election, Bernie Sanders would have lost the presidency had he gotten the nomination.

We know that.

And Donald Trump would have been on hinge.

Now, I guess the good news is we'd be done with Donald Trump now because he would have termed out in 2024.

But that doesn't mean that JD Vance wouldn't be the president right now.

And I find it funny and I find it ironic that.

Democratic socialists and their supporters who are just some of the most insufferable human beings who just they throw bombs at everybody.

Now they want everybody to come together behind them.

See there are consequences to their words and how they are very disrespectful.

They really are because they see their way and they don't see any other perspectives and if you're establishment or if you're moderate you are the problem.

No the problem is Republican but they don't see that.

Anyone who seeks to be a matter of fact anyone who speaks on behalf of the larger group of voters general election voters Get shouted down.

Oh, you just wait you just wait.

I don't think that David Crowley is gonna be successful He's basically admitting it in this article.

It appears via CBS 58.com He wished that he would have gotten Tony Evers endorsement sooner had David Crowley when he got in the race September last year had Tony Evers endorsed him then all this thing will be over Mandela wouldn't have gotten in

Sarah Rodriguez probably would have gotten in and of course Kilda because why not but David Crowley would have had all of the time of this election cycle To communicate his policy stances and how he would be a continuation of the policies that Were successful during two terms of an Evers administration, but everything got all messed up and they did too much agreeing with one another trying to play nice and I think that that's ultimately going to be

one of the reasons why this election cycle will go down in history because they didn't challenge the independent, the independence of the Democratic Socialists whose policies are difficult to bring to fruition, especially because her legislative record does not show that she can bring the policies and ideas that she had in Wisconsin State Assembly to fruition and get them signed by Democratic governor.

But the irony is that you were going to see because one thing I know about and this goes back to the Bernie Brails of 2016 They weren't coming together with anybody.

They weren't coming together to support a moderate centrist Hillary Clinton.

No way they'd vote third party first Yet they want a tremendous amount of support from the larger crowd for their political agenda Even though Bernie Sanders said I'm getting out of this race because we can't use my political

Mode of thinking and my policy ideas to beat Donald Trump.

I'm getting out of the race and I'm going to support Joe Biden and that's what work Francesca Hong is not gonna get out of the race and say, you know what?

We've got to beat Tom Tiffany my political

Viewpoints are too extreme for an upper Midwestern state like Wisconsin that teeters back and forth between red, blue, and purple.

She's not going to do that, but then her supporters are going to get even more outraged that people are not lining up behind her.

And here's what I think.

I think the Democrats need this loss.

I think Tom Tiffney needs to get elected governor so we can go back to the drawing board and we can finally say that political extremes on one side does not beat political extremes on the other.

So we need this loss in order to rebuild the party into something that can be durable.

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Welcome to our three of the truth with me Sherwin Hughes Prosperity says

Sherwin, we listened to you yourself admitted that you go to strip clubs, yet we still listen to you.

Hey, not a lot.

I don't go all the time.

You can't go all the time.

It's not good for you.

It's only on a rare occasion like a birthday or a Friday.

Fridays are rare.

They only come once a week.

Maybe that's not rare that means there's 52 Fridays in a year, but you know what I'm saying no no judgment.

I'm not I'm not judging anybody on what they do people do way weird or stuff Wait a minute somebody's talking about nurses in the YouTube chat Way worse than any only fans model you'll ever find by the way by a thousand percent

There's a meme that has made its way across the internet.

I don't know 50 million thousand times and it shows a picture of very scantily clad young women wearing very very short skirts and dresses and very very high heels and then right next to it is a picture of young women wearing scrubs in a hospital setting and It said there's only only one group of horrors

in this photograph and that's you don't use that word that's you don't say that body count doesn't matter and that's the truth it doesn't women can do whatever they like and if body count doesn't matter for men it doesn't matter for women if

There is a lock that can be opened by any key That's not a very good lock But if there is a key that can open many locks That I believe is the master, but don't listen to me.

I'm just a humble servant of Jesus Just a regular old guy just trying to make it.

You know what I mean?

I'm a squirrel trying to get a nut That's all I'm just I call it like I see it ladies and gentlemen.

That's all I do I'm just a regular old person like anybody else Someone says good day Zen master.

I'm not the Zen master, but I do want to share with you the Specific language is something I was talking about yesterday

It's an old proverb.

And it's called will see.

It's also a cautionary tale and it has survived throughout the ages.

And I think it's very applicable right now.

So all the things that we are going through and all the things that are currently happening.

And it starts by saying on his 16th birthday.

A boy gets a horse as a present.

And all the people in the village say, oh, how wonderful.

The Zen master says, we'll see.

We'll see.

One day, the boy is riding his horse and gets thrown off of said horse and hurts his leg.

He is no longer able to walk.

So all the villagers say,

How terrible how terrible the Zen master says We'll see We'll see Some time passes and the village goes to war all of the other young men gets sent off to fight But the boy who got the horse as a present Can't fight because his leg is messed up and all the villagers say how wonderful

How wonderful.

And the Zen Master says, we'll see.

We'll see.

The message behind this story is pretty clear.

We are prone to jump to conclusions about whether something is good or bad.

We are especially quick to label something as bad.

The reality is that things can be either.

good or bad, both good and bad or neither.

Because a tragedy happens.

Oh, it's so terrible.

But then there could be a turn of events and a switching of fortunes.

And what was once a tragedy might turn out to be a blessing in disguise.

A woman may get pregnant, then she.

Is not ready to have a child and she may not be in a very stable relationship with the man and she might even be unemployed Oh my goodness.

What is she going to do?

How terrible that she got pregnant this

unplanned pregnancy.

She doesn't know where she's going to live.

She can't provide for this child.

She certainly can't count on the father.

Oh my God, how terrible.

But then as time goes on, she figures it out and she gets her life together and then she comes to find out that having that child was the best thing that ever could have happened to her and it got her life on a much more righteous path.

And then the villagers will say, how wonderful.

You never know ladies and gentlemen So it has recently been revealed that and maybe it's not that big of a deal I'm just going to if I get information I'm gonna provide it to you and it's not that big of a deal Let me check the YouTube poll because I just wanted to get an assessment of things.

You know, there's this website called only fans It's actually an application as well where you can subscribe to all sorts of different kinds of content creators There's even people that are like they test drive cars

and they rate and review automobiles on only fans and then there are a lot of only fans accounts are dedicated to cooking and recipes and how do you make quick meals and how do you feed a family of five for less than ten dollars a meal it's all sorts of different content but only fans didn't become popular until adult content creators saw it as a way in which they can have a direct relationship and interaction with people that are subscribing to their content

And there's a lot of x-rated content on OnlyFans, but there's also a lot of x-rated content that's just available on the internet.

But what it does is it incentivizes and monetizes

people to subscribe to a particular content creator if you want to interact with them send the messages you know and get pictures sent to you directly etc etc quite honestly it's a wonderful business plan especially for very lonely men that aren't doing too well out on the dating scene you see they can you know talk to this woman on only fans and they pay a nominal dollar a mile per month it's very rarely expensive

Which is something that I never quite understood because when you upload photographs and videos of yourself In very adult situations like those things exist forever, but a lot of people are very short-sighted with things That's why I never really understood the fad of tattoos One day tattoos will not be in style because there was a period of time when they weren't and we of course will revert back to that because everything like that is cyclical

Never here's the thing about the tattoos.

I mean people have gotten tattoos since 10,000 BC It's not new but a lot of times they would be hidden you couldn't see them They were on I don't know on the back or maybe on the upper part of the arm where if somebody was wearing even a short sleeve shirt You would be none the wiser that they were all inked up or they would put their tattoos in very In conspicuous spots where they could very easily be hidden because you know, I would like to think the tattoos are very personal

something about you something about your life may be an experience that you went through and you want to remember that experience forever by getting yourself all inked up and I will admit some tattoos are absolutely beautiful oh my goodness the artistry and the coloring of some of the tattoos and the patience you have to have it takes a long time to do some of those tattoos

You might have several five or six hour sessions to complete that back piece.

It's really a serious commitment.

And shout out to those people that want to tell their story with body art.

But one day you might regret it and there's not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it.

But this is the one that gets me face tattoos and they vary.

There's some where it's just a little bit.

Right by the cheek or maybe just a little teardrop.

If you ever come across somebody with a teardrop tattoo on their face, don't argue with them.

Trust me, don't.

If they're angry and upset, just seed the point to them.

Just like, OK, you got it.

You don't want to.

You don't want to mess around with someone with a teardrop tattoo on their face.

But then there's the people that have especially and this is.

This is a sure one opinion and I know that everybody won't agree with this.

A really beautiful woman who has just put tattoos all over her face.

I just feel so sad because even if you get a tattoo removed, I've seen what a removed tattoo looks like.

It's the scar.

You're probably better off just leaving the tattoo or covering it up with another bigger tattoo.

Have you all ever met somebody with somebody else's name?

tattoo it on their body you ever met somebody like that I Know someone Who has two people's names?

Tattoo it on her body again a cautionary tale, but you don't have to listen to me I want you all to follow your heart if You believe that it's a really good idea to get this person's name tattoo it on your left butt cheek meaning when you wear a swimsuit everybody's gonna see Jose Alvarez

If you love Jose Alvarez, then you get that name tattooed on your butt cheek.

Get it.

I support you in your love for Jose Alvarez.

But boy, oh boy, I sure hope the relationship lasts because that ink certainly

does.

There also seems to be a common thread amongst tattoos.

If you get someone's name tattooed on your body, I mean, you clearly really like them.

Very nice to you.

They maybe they take you out to the Olive Garden.

They take you to Taco Bell.

You know, that's worthy.

I guess of getting somebody's name permanently tattooed on your body.

But the commonality that I have seen is that those relationships for some reason they never work out.

I don't know.

I just would think that you would take the cautionary tale of everyone who's ever gotten someone's name tattooed.

I told a story once about my friend.

Who was involved with a lady for many years they and they appeared to like each other I mean they had some problems, but a lot of relationships Can experience problems, but that's when you come together as a couple because when there's a problem in the relationship It should be the two people in the relationship against the problem Not two people in the relationship against one another right you attack that problem Like a couple and you resolve it like a couple.

It's very very simple when you think about it so

They decided that they were going to get each other's names tattooed on each other's bodies Okay, this was a very good idea that they came up with because I mean they thought they were gonna be together forever So why not if you know you're gonna be with somebody for the rest of your natural life Well, then what's the tattooed name?

It's no big deal.

You're gonna be with them and you want to show the world That this is who you are in love with and this is the person you're gonna be with forever

So they go to the tattoo parlor.

They make an appointment, of course.

And then my friend, who's a guy, he goes first.

And he gets her name tattooed on his left pectoral muscle right on his right on his chest right here.

Not too big, but not too small either.

And he.

Has the tattoo.

He gets up from the chair and the tattoo artist is like, OK.

Your turn guess what she said I Changed my mind Yet another cautionary tale from the truth with Sherwin Hughes exclusively 101.7 FM don't go anywhere.

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Come to find out that Francesca Hong's communication director has an only fans account.

I don't even care.

It's very nice though.

It's free if you want to just take a gander.

So there's no financial commitment and shout out to her.

She's you know a liberated woman women can do whatever the hell they want Linda has some very colorful commentary in the YouTube chat Linda says body count matters.

No, it doesn't Linda You're being oppressive People can do whatever they want to do body count doesn't matter who cared nobody cares about that You can do whatever you want.

You can't sell somebody what to do I Think if there is a difference and of course the standards

are set by society or whatever society is.

It does not take all that much effort for a woman to sexually select a man.

She can just choose.

Women choose.

And that's how our biology is set up.

That's how we are set up as a species.

Women get to make that choice.

In fact, if men are overbearing and if they take...

That choice away from a woman he can get put in prison for the rest of his life.

So we take very seriously Women's ability to choose who their sexual partners are and it's entirely up to them They can choose whomever they want now the risks also to a woman are much higher Because there is pregnancy and pregnancy if complicated and difficult can kill the woman She also can die in childbirth and also more often than not that child even though there was a man

Involved in creating that child it is oftentimes going to be her responsibility.

So the risk is very hot now There's a whole bunch of birth control and in fact there are more types of birth control for women than there are for men because the risk is so incredibly high when it comes to Women and their sexual partners.

Okay, not to mention some of the other unintended consequences But for a man

To have sexual partners.

He has to be something He has to have money fame celebrity dashing good looks because women are hypergamist and you can look up the statistics

From dating apps, 90% of the women are only interacting with 10% of the men.

It's why women are drawn to very wealthy men and drawn to very professional athletes that have fame and have notoriety.

They all want the best they can possibly get.

And if a woman is going to sleep with a man with reproduction, maybe being the end result, why would she want to be with the lowest caliber, the lowest tier of man she should shoot for the top because she can.

She is supposed to be sexually selective.

You see men we sleep with who we who we can Who we just We just try our best and we'll go out and we'll get our hair cut put on brand new clothes looking good We just whitened our teeth and Still come home empty-handed a woman can go to the damn grocery store and a ripped t-shirt and some dirty sweatpants and get laid in the parking lot

It's very, very different.

So when you say body count doesn't matter, the playing field is not level.

Let's talk to someone who I think knows about the playing field.

Hello, Al.

How are you today?

I'm

doing wonderful.

First thing I want to say is why she got grip and power and her left doesn't look like raw Chetland.

She'll be fine.

Number two, only thing men have to do, they don't have to try their best.

They got to do.

their best.

Because if the stroke game is trash, she ain't gonna be around too long.

Jamie Wacker, she's gonna be highly frustrated.

But out.

But doesn't have to be something substantial for him to even get in that situation with a woman because women are very select.

Well, most are very selective in who they sleep with.

Like that man has got to be something substantial or at least better than the other men she had to choose.

He would

either either he gonna have some fun.

And if he don't have no fun that

he's going to have to pay for that kitty cat.

It's going to be either first option or the second option.

The third option is you're just going to have your hand.

So it's going to be one or two.

That's

it.

Not unless she give her life the question she choose the saddle and then she go with any other thing, but don't nobody that ain't going to last anyway because that's that's that's a relationship on pity.

But it's either going to be one or two.

The other thing I wanted to share with the women too.

The word on the street that a lot of Arabic men feel you're easy to sleep with, but they won't marry you.

So I was going to tell to the black woman, when you get with these Arabic men, you let them know that chocolate cupcake needs gas station money.

It needs cell phone store money.

OK, it needs mortgage money.

Because what they know is is that a lot of black women look at them their skin color and think they're gonna have a pretty baby And they also notice too that a lot of black women will try to take them on date black women Don't try to take no man who got money on date.

You're the commodity

Al is that a popular thing that Arabic men

are dating black women Arabic men been loving

to date black women.

They love to eff them, but they say they will never marry you.

So what happens is the black women, they're like, oh, I got me an airbag.

So she's going to go on and just give him all that cash, and he's going to go to the non-deserving one.

So I tell black women, get you a gas station out of it.

Sometimes you have to treat them like that bottom barrel, because y'all be building their heads, y'all be building them up too high.

You can get the richest person to give you money if you let them know.

I don't care how much money you've got.

You still ain't sugar honey.

I see and that would make them want to give you money more.

But black women have a habit of you want some of this good old cookie kind of cat.

Right.

Me some money.

What's your name?

More kids.

Oh, I've been thinking about a cell phone store.

Stop giving that cat up to them.

Air big men.

But isn't that prostitution if she's going to require some kind of finances or payment for the KUKA?

Absolutely not.

It's cause it's like, it's like bartering.

I mean, or you could be like Jesus, Mama Mary, have your cherry popped when she was 13.

And you know, if his daddy was around here being a DA database for child molesters and sex offenders, we don't want black women to go out like that.

We want black women to get everything that they are entitled to because they always blame for something.

They put down for something.

Everybody want to make jokes about black women until they ready to get that nut and get them balls train So I say to all black women do you mess with what an epic get you a gas?

What about black?

What about

us

Al?

What do we

deserve?

We deserve something

to be with the Hughes Black men is okay They okay y'all gonna mess with black women regardless

But we're talking about the Arabic men, the Indian men, who have access to assets and financial gain.

Now, I love my brothers, but Mr. Hughes, you know, a lot of our brothers are kind of like very cheap.

They feel like if they get $5, they didn't get $5,000.

If the woman says she want to get new ties, they'll tell her go buy used ties.

If she says she's going to get her a new car,

Then tell her, well, why go, why do they want to go buy your youth card?

You know what I'm talking about, Mr. Hughes.

So all I'm saying for the black women, you got to get the best that you can with your vagina.

Whoa.

Point blank.

What about her brains and her intelligence?

Can she get the best with that?

She so can, but she got to open her own business.

She has to understand that she's a commodity.

She's exotic.

Anywhere she go in the world.

People are going to be captivated by her mind, her energy, her body, and that big fat moose knuckle.

But a lot of people are making jokes about black women saying they are easy catch.

OK, well, since I'm an easy catch, I'm going to use my cat to get everything from you.

What do white women do?

What do white women do?

I don't know.

How do they do?

What do they do to the football player?

All they got to do is just get just just.

and they get marriage, mansions, don't even do nothing.

You've got a flat ass walk around here and let them run over them.

But the black woman's going to get a look past, so I feel like, hey, if you're going to condemn the black woman, she might as well be a business.

What do your great-grandmothers tell you?

So that's all I'm going to say.

Black women, stop giving your cat up to the Arabic men.

Get your money first, so if

they can talk

about you,

If they talk about you, they'll feel good talking about you when you sitting in that house up in River Hills Bayside, or you got that gas station, or he got you in oil because he feel that Poo 90 is worth it.

You have to understand, Mr. Hughes, a lot of men is dumb when

it

comes to a good knot.

Oh, that's

true.

You know what I mean?

And then when you have, when you have like, you know, men that are nine black.

Yes.

They will go all out the way, but black women gotta stop giving it up so fast.

Make them work for it, make them earn it.

Matter of fact, let them lick it, but not stick it.

And then when they come through with that financial game in them portfolios, then you set it out.

And then what you do.

You spend his money and you stack your money.

So when he get time and he say, well, I think we should go our separate ways.

You can say, oh, good.

You already got your LLC.

Your money is already stacked and you can live a better life and get another house built from the ground.

OK,

that's very good.

Have a good day, everybody.

OK, bye bye.

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I thought we were, we were having a real good conversation today.

And then all of a sudden it just, it just devolved.

Let's take a break, shall we?

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What a day Gerald hello Gerald, how are you doing today?

Do you have some advice for us?

No, some concerns I think we need to address though really look at like how effective are black politicians right now for this issue with like

Wait a minute.

Hold on.

Wait, wait, wait, Gerald.

You sound very familiar

You know, um, so like, you know, the issue says January 6th you had those politicians get uh Those lawmakers when they were doing the voting math things, you know, they were escorted out the building and everything like that And then you saw performing this rage and everything like social media, you know

It's highlights and everything.

That's what everybody's doing stuff for.

That's what I'm kind of concerned with politics right now, soft publicity and highlights.

You know, sit down and ask them for something tangible.

You know, nobody can really say anything, just like, you know, playing on the hearts, emotions of people, because, you know, we've all felt some type of way, but it is kind of rude and sensitive at the same time.

How do you take some things like, you know, not feeling welcomed or genocide on the chin?

Versus I can notice these grudges or anything because I've also known

about

police brutality Police brutality has you know, I kind of changed a little bit people are being punched and the change happened so quick people didn't even notice it

Yeah

Did you even notice that no people were being punched I

mean

how many people were shot since 2025 That's really

terrible it is

but compared to 2019 pre 2020

the rate.

And then you have this situation with this generational culture class, the brutality babies you see in the WNBA, you know.

What's

the brutality?

What's that?

You know, people who grew up, you know, 2010s, pre-2020, you know, with all the stuff, you know, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martins, and, you know, the list goes on and everything like that, you know.

seeing these kids, you know, they were on their phones, their phones with their babysitters during the pandemic and everything too.

Their phone was, their phone survived the entertainment attention, kept their attention and everything.

So they saw this brutality stuff, the protests, the media, you know, this fear of the police that's causing these kids today to be all, or these people today to be extra, you know, combative on edge and everything when most of the time it's just basic communication and submission pretty much.

But, you know, people kind of struggle with dominance and everything.

But interesting question, like, you know, let's say, you know, America really is going to hell.

And, you know, simple question, like, you know, I was kind of concerned with the Southern politicians, you know, after January 6 and everything, how would you even delegate or, you know, even be a professional with this kind of energy and ideology around with genocide and ice.

You know,

right?

It's pretty bad.

It's pretty bad these days.

It's very sad.

So, so what would be it?

What would be a good way to go about this?

Like, would you, would you, would you rather feel like the only fans model?

You got your social media and then they sprinkle money on you and then, you know, 50 years later, people didn't manage your money, right?

And there's no excuse or sympathy for them.

Like, what's the issue of reparations that has people so afraid or controversial?

Why is that such a difficult situation or topic to discuss even for black politicians in today's age?

Your guess is as good as mine.

We should be discussing reparations every single day because we need to

get prepared.

Well, you know, like,

you

know, it's like, uh, you know, gotta do something with a violence and a vulgarity to just messing with the egos and mindframes of people.

Yep.

You know, somebody can do something wrong.

And you can ask them straight up, like, hey, could you correct your behavior?

Like, no, I'm not going to listen to you in word.

Oh.

And you piece them up real decent, like, and then they won't understand what they did wrong, but they got whoopens growing up.

That's what I mean.

Whoopens are killing adults, so people can't respect each other and communicate like they got, like they perceive to have some kind of intelligence, right?

Have you ever been called the in word before, Gerald?

Gerald Yes Yes, you've been called the n-word before who called you the n-word.

Did you get mad at

him?

You know people use it all the time black white whatever in home like people use it more a little bit more Responsibly than black people do and we do

have you ever been called the n-word in a derogatory and mean way

Not in a very long time

Okay, what would you do if somebody called you that would you do if I called you the n-word?

I Would ask you a question.

How would you expect me to you know handle handle you after that?

I don't know you want to find out

I'm numb like you know, I'm not I'm past the petty Ego calm about pissing contest, you know I'm in my adult male Situation right here and like you know you can come over here and ask me a question if you want to since you know so

much

Come over and ask you a question.

I just want to know what you do if I called you to inward Would you get angry would you hang up would you want to?

Call me a name How would you respond?

No, you know, it's kind of like the issue with people and everything too.

What's the

issue?

Just this issue of this word that is the word people use the same way and There's a bunch of pride and lack thereof.

So it's really messed up our priorities and you know sense of

I don't know self respect or respect because you know, I don't know what's causing all this tension when people use his word to express yourself.

And then like the last thing you hear before you get shot is the N word.

That's terrible.

All right, Gerald, I appreciate you.

So could

you use some of your radio influence to get a hold of somebody if they had to really do something about the violence of both erity and hip hop?

Yeah, sure.

I think that if I use my radio influence.

Hip-hop you got

friends and celebrities and whatnot.

I don't know.

I may be a little effort other than like, you know

Alright, what should I tell him?

Wait

wasting time like I said, we really gotta do something about the violence and vulgarity and hip-hop Okay, there was that meeting in the 90s when they made hip-hop style the way it is with all the violence and vulgarity There was an actual meeting

so you want me to fix the violence and hip-hop with my celebrity friends and use my radio

influence to do it

I'll do it.

Get on CNN.

Get on CNN and do it.

Hell, yeah, I will.

All

right.

All right, then.

Thank you.

You out of your damn

mind.

Yeah.

Still there?

Yeah.

How do you feel about black women using their bodies to get whatever they want

financially?

I understand the practicality of sexuality.

Yeah.

Just practice at the same time, you know, it could be damaging to their self-esteem or, you know, how they perceive men.

Okay.

You know, you might perceive every man is some pig or anything like that, just looking, you know, for pleasure.

And then they don't want to objectify themselves yet that they're objectified themselves.

So it's like this crazy contradiction, everything that, you know, cause a mental stress and everything.

Like, you know, you lay down with somebody you're not attracted to for financial gain.

And then, you know, you see a stud or something, you know, who don't have everything.

And it is like, OK, well, I want to give them some, but I'm so used to things being transactional.

I don't know how to, you know, really even deal with a man.

Have you ever was last time I shouldn't ask you that.

Have you ever paid for a date with a woman like you asked her out to dinner?

Maybe maybe you went to the movies and you paid.

Have you ever done that before?

You know.

You know, if you're asking somebody to spend time with you, that should be a no brainer.

Like, you know, well,

yeah, but you got to do something.

They might want to do an activity and activities are not always free.

Have you ever paid for a date before?

Like been on a date and like, you know,

yeah.

Where'd you go?

Most of the last date I've been on, I think I went to a restaurant.

Oh, OK.

Did you have

fun?

Did you have fun when you went on the date, you know, I did I did

go out on a date and I went out to a rural area I was in a rural area and I walked in and it's like a curiosity and excitement, you know, with black people.

That's what a lot of it is kind of an obsession.

You know, people kind of like, you know, heckling and saying stuff and everything like that.

And if you got really defensive and everything being a woman of non color.

Oh,

wait, you went, you went to a rural place with a white lady.

Yeah,

oh god.

Tell us more.

Do you still talk to her?

No, no,

what happened?

I don't know like they some people have some habits and then like, you know, you Get close they want to live in ecstasy and bliss And you know, that's not really any cars are being like, you know, we can't be strung out and drunk in love all day Yeah,

you can that's fun being strung out and drunk in love.

That's wonderful.

So what happened to the white lady?

Yeah, you just walked away from are you you broke up with her?

No, we weren't we weren't together long we were just kind of like just filling each other out, okay?

And it didn't work

out people.

Oh she did

drugs

So I'm not interested in

that.

I'm glad you have standards and boundaries, though.

That's good for you.

To the point where I'm kind of concerned because I see the confusion in the youth, the wise, and then I see the complacency and the fear and the trauma of the elders.

And then the defense mechanism that's also like, you know, just counterproductive defeat.

Like I saw the young man in the.

Oh, God, fight next to the young girl on fun.

All right.

Thank you, Gerald.

You've given us a lot of food for thought

today.

I don't know what this black top radio.

Diddy the bottle's done.

What the hell was that?

But have a night

of

that.

All right, Gerald, you

still there?

Gerald you're still on the phone Gerald I still see you

I'm sorry.

I'm never really struggling.

I'm really struggling with this.

What

are you

struggling on concept on concept to

why?

So interesting

are you gonna vote for you're gonna vote for the home concept?

I'm not sure.

We're not even sure she's gonna be like, you know the choice.

Yeah,

they can change

you know, like, Hassan, you know, he has some, um, controversy and then being an immigrant and, you know, identity politics.

You're not going to tell us about dating white women in rural areas.

And I think that we have to end this call because that's what we want to hear about.

I don't know.

It's not that taboo and I'm not that traumatized.

I usually would have said I want to break the ice.

Break

the ice while playing in the snow.

All right, that's fine

Okay, it's not that taboo to me and I'm not that traumatized.

Hi.

What's your name?

I don't know

All right, then.

Well, good luck to you.

I hope everything works out for you All right, we'll see you later, Gerald

You're still on the phone Gerald

Yeah, yeah violence and vulgarity out of hip-hop.

I need you like you know,

all right Let your