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Good morning.

Welcome to the program.

Today is Thursday, August 13, 2026.

It seems like the dust is starting to settle just a little bit.

And the race for governor.

The November 3rd event is now thoroughly underway.

I've been given this a lot of thought, so I had to get over the initial shock of the unlikely, un-possible.

impossible and improbable victory of David Crowley.

So that's in the past.

Now we have to look forward to November 3rd.

And when I think about it, there's something to be excited about here.

So first and foremost, eating Republicans is my favorite snack.

They're just my favorite thing to feast on because they give me so much nourishment.

Honestly, there's just so much there.

There's so much.

There's so much failure.

There's so much hypocrisy, and there's also a lot of contrast between them and any other political party, particularly the Democrats, even in the personalities of the people that they choose.

So you have a U.S.

Senate race going on in Georgia.

Jonathan Alsoff is up for reelection, and I don't typically follow...

races and other states because I am not familiar enough with the culture of those states all you can do is you can read about the candidates and maybe get a news article here or you see a news story there but if you don't live in those states and you are not immersed in those political climate it's just we're speaking out of school a lot of times just like I'm not a fan of somebody from Maine or New York or California commenting on the political decisions that we make here in the state of Wisconsin

I'm even more offended by people who are not familiar and from Milwaukee that have a lot to say about how we make decisions here particularly those suburbanites that think that they know best So I don't oftentimes involve myself in politics in which I am not immersed in that culture But I look at who the Republicans have nominated in Georgia to run against Jonathan Ossoff and Dude is not only an election denier, but he's also all you have the January 6 people need to get reparations.

It is literally insane

And we're going to have some of that insanity here in Wisconsin.

And I think it might make the pathway for a Democrat, namely David Crowley, to make his way into the governor's office, but I also want to let folks know some things that they should be aware of.

This campaign is going to be very different than probably anything that you have ever seen.

There's going to be some things that are going to be tried and experimented with, probably on both sides to see what sticks, what works.

What's going to go viral on social media?

What message point is going to resonate with voters in the state of Wisconsin?

Because Wisconsin still occupies a very important place in space in American politics.

And what works here very well could be what they use and the strategy that they may employ in the presidential election of 2028.

So we have to be very mindful of what is happening here and paying very much attention to the issues and how those issues are promoted.

There is reason to be excited, of course.

for David Crowley and the possibility of this Historical event, but let's not just get lost in the history.

There's a hell of a lot more going on Just you know other than David Crowley potentially being the first African-American governor He's from Milwaukee and I think that may give some people a little bit of encouragement because if you feel like the issues of this town have been ignored at higher levels of politics

then maybe this is an opportunity to showcase and to highlight the good things we have going on where that can get more attention and more investment from state government and from state budgets, but also to provide some kind of political remedy to the problems that have long gone unaddressed in the city of Milwaukee, namely poverty, joblessness, even hopelessness, lower levels of education for our children.

So maybe it's an opportunity for that.

And I certainly hope so.

I really do.

I hope that there are Democrats that

See the value of Milwaukee they get elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly and the state Senate because guess what we need them to now This is not just a one-man show.

It's not just the governor's office We're gonna need a trifecta, especially a legislative trifecta that can even push back on some of the worst impulses of this Liberal controlled state Supreme Court because I don't trust them.

I Wake up in the morning.

I'm like, what did the state Supreme Court do while I was sleeping?

I don't trust them.

You all need to keep an eye on them folks

But we are going to have to do something here in the city of Milwaukee if we want What I think could be the ultimate prize for us Electing David we're gonna have a lot of fun with his campaign at least I am It's gonna be so much to talk about Tom Tiffany is just oh my god.

He's the gift that keeps on giving I'm just gonna rip him to shreds, but I'm not gonna rip him to shreds Personally, I'm not gonna do that even though he probably sleeps with his mother.

No, no, they know they have their own sides of the bed They don't sleep like sleep together sleep

I don't know.

Maybe they do whatever.

Oh, don't be shocked to who a Republican will nominate nowadays seriously, because their standard is even lower than ours is sometimes for the candidates that they produce.

We're going to have to let David tour the entire state and not talk about Milwaukee wherever he goes.

And I think that some people may get offended by that because during this, the primary election cycle, there wasn't really a lot of talk about Milwaukee and Milwaukee's issues.

In fact, I thought that the candidates.

We're trying to find a pathway to the Democratic nomination without bringing up the burden of Milwaukee.

I think that's actually what they did, because if you're trying to get votes outstate, which is where the majority of the votes came from, outstate voters either don't like Milwaukee, don't trust Milwaukee, or they look at the overall political leadership in Milwaukee and they think that they don't want any...

Any semblance of that political leadership representing them in their small towns in their small communities?

Now David is on a unity tour got some details about that I'm gonna share with you in a little bit, but you're often gonna hear him say Bridging this divide between urban suburban and rural He has to do that to galvanize his support because Tom Tiffany is not going to be an easy win

But we're going to have to give him a tremendous amount of grace and a tremendous amount of latitude.

And I'm bringing this up because I don't want people to start to be, I guess disenchanted and disappointed by what you're going to hear the county executives say when he does a speech in Manitowoc or in Marathon County or in Marinette or even when he goes to Madison.

He's going to be talking to people that are not us that have different issues that need to be included in this campaign, of course.

But I think some of us are going to be very disappointed that he is not platforming the issues that are most important to us in Milwaukee.

That is an important part of the strategy because if he is too Milwaukee centric in his message.

which we're going to want him to be just like when Barack Obama was president.

We want to Barack Obama to say a whole bunch of stuff about black people and how he was going to help black people.

And we wanted him to mention us all the time.

He didn't.

Did he accomplish things for the black community?

You bet your sweet patootie he did.

But it was covert.

And even when Barack Obama did something to like dog whistle to the black community, it flew over most of our damn heads.

One of the funding mechanisms For the affordable care act so this shows the wit of Barack Obama that flew over the heads of most Caucasian folks because You know Not too hard to fool them.

Sorry whites.

I mean, I love you, but come on You're so blinded by your understanding of race history and culture that Black folks like what we know and what we understand we can run circles around y'all and y'all wouldn't even have a clue So one of the funding mechanisms

With the affordable care actors we had to increase taxes because it was really expensive to implement expensive to implement expensive to roll out expensive to sign people up expensive to have Exchanges in other states.

It just was a it was a lot cost a bunch of monies.

Okay One of the funding mechanisms was a particular tax now you got to keep in mind

Why Barack Obama win is for I'm giving you an idea of how politics works It may not be on the outside explicitly racially impactful, but implicitly it is Barack Obama couldn't say hey I want a health care program in this nation because black people are dying a lot and we are the least insured and we are the least healthy and we have the least as black people health care clinics and investments

In in our black community.

He can't say that because then the white folks will be like, hey, what about us?

You can't say that.

So you have to just give the details of what affordable health care could do for all people.

But the reason why he prioritized it the way that he did and folks still don't get this.

Barack Obama been out of office for 16 years.

No, not that long.

Six years.

12.

What year is this?

2026.

When did he leave?

10 years.

That's mine.

Brown to your high school math.

Hey, at least I'm on grade level 10 clean nine years Fair enough What is my grade level in math what grade am I even in like the 41st grade whatever neither here nor there So the reason why he went so far.

I'm just giving you an idea of how

Implicit racial politics works because black people have to be really versed in this stuff Otherwise, we're gonna think that nobody is talking to us.

Nobody is speaking on our behalf But because this country is so racially sensitive and I say racially sensitive because whenever somebody says they want to do something for black people it immediately gets shot down So you can't say that

So if David wants to do things for black people, which I believe that he probably does He can't say that and because we're not gonna hear him say that we're gonna think that he's ignoring us.

No, my babies We're gonna be fine.

Let me tell you how it works Barack Obama laid a blueprint that we still aren't following because we still don't understand it yet We think we can rebuild a Barack Obama coalition.

No, no, we're not gonna be able to do that.

We can get close But nothing like what we had

So the reason why he went as far as he did with the Affordable Care Act and it cost him a lot.

He expanded a lot of political capital.

People didn't like it.

People protested against it, which was insane.

In 2010, that first midterm election, there were some Democrats running for the U.S.

Senate that denounced the Affordable Care Act and guess what?

They didn't get reelected.

So it took a lot.

It was expensive, it was politically costly, etc.

But the reason why he went as far as he did with it is because it was the number one issue other than the economy But if you're not healthy and you're dead then how much money you make and what kind of job you have is kind of secondary Let's let's help black people live and go to the doctor and get the medications and get the surgeries First and then everything else comes second because you will find as you get older

Nothing is more important than your health, literally nothing.

I would rather be broken healthy as a horse than rich and damn near dying.

That's just me.

So to let folks know that he was thinking about the African-American community in the Affordable Care Act, he snuck in a little tax and that tax was the signal to us, hey black folks, wink, wink, nod, nod, I got you, this is for you.

He put a 10% tax on tanning salons.

Think about that.

He just picked out an industry that is universally frequented by Caucasian people.

So he has this health care plan, the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, and he's like, you white folks is going to pay for it.

One member of Congress.

I cannot think of his name for the life of me.

I don't believe he is still in the House of Representatives or in the U.S.

Senate.

He did a press release was like, yo, Barack Obama is the most racist president ever because he is taxing white people to go to tanning salons to pay for the Affordable Care Act.

But for some reason people didn't put two and two together and they did not.

They didn't really make the case, but that's exactly what he did.

And so you have to be covert.

And how you assist African Americans with our progress because if you are Outwardly racial then you're going to lose support David Crowley is probably gonna be somewhere up north you might see him in camouflage or blaze orange Turkey hunting somewhere near Richmond Center you might see him in in Boston on a dairy farm milk and a cow We have to give him the grace to do that because he's gonna need to make those folks

Feel comfortable with him and we have to allow him to do that.

He's gonna be wearing many many hats Some hats are not gonna fit you might see David Crowley wearing a cheese head hat side note for some reason I don't like when black people wear cheese head hats That doesn't mean that you're gonna stop wearing cheese head hats.

I just don't think that that's for us So please be patient and allow this campaign to do what the campaign is going to do because David needs to make rural

and ex-urban and suburban white folks who maybe have never voted for a Democrat before or maybe they never voted for an African American before he's going to have to make them feel comfortable.

So I don't want us to think that our issues as black people in the city of Milwaukee are going to get ignored.

We get our issues rectified when he makes the budget, when he does the line item vetoes.

That's where we get our money.

Okay.

We're going to have fun with this campaign.

Tom Tiffany is he's not in a good position.

He's endorsed by Donald Trump Donald Trump's approval ratings are very low Also have something that I believe is the wind at David Crowley's back any advantage that David could get especially historical one is one that we should consider Voters in the state of Wisconsin Absolutely do not like to elect members of Congress to be governor.

We don't like it.

We don't like Congress people

I'm going to give you a whole bunch of examples of many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many members of Congress or someone who has at least served a term or two in Congress that has tried to run for governor and failed.

So Tom Tiffany has that going against him.

I just give you one example.

I'm going to give you this example and I'm going to take a little commercial break.

How many times did Tom Barrett run for governor three times?

I ended up being the mayor of the city of Milwaukee for 20 years, but that's kind of a low bar.

One of the biggest sticking points as to why Tom Barrett was never elected governor he tried in 2002 Tom Barrett tried again in 2010 and then there was the recall of Scott Walker in 2012 and Tom Barrett was like third time is the charm No, it wasn't the third time was not a charm

People do not want to bring someone from Washington DC and all their poisonous tainted politics into the the beautiful clean honest fair Government state of Wisconsin.

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The last time a person that served in Congress, either the House of Representatives or the US Senate was elected governor in the state of Wisconsin.

This is also very good trivia for you.

I don't know if you guys like to play trivia.

I love to play trivia.

I like to go deep, deep, deep into the heart of the suburbs and play trivia.

I like to play bar trivia.

This little thing that I do and I like to show the white people how smart I am because they get very mad when I win.

No, no, this was like a thing that I did I've kind of fallen off of it because I'm busy doing other stuff But I don't know I would love and I win the little gift card or whatever and sometimes I'd win the gift card wouldn't even take it Well looks like our winner is sure when Hughes hello everybody.

Thank you.

Thank you Love winning trivia Robert M. LeFollett you guys know him he was the old progressive dude fighting Bob LeFollett

Even though the kind of progressivism that he was in favor of And that he supported and that he promoted is not it's not this kind of progressivism that we have right now I Got an article I might share with you guys on it's kind of like super cerebral and it's real High-level intellectual, but it explains why black people

Have a problem grasping and gravitating toward this current incarnation of democratic socialism because I think a lot of it is just unexplained and when black people's quote-unquote don't get on board Then we are ostracized We are heavily disrespected And essentially cast aside as being establishment or being some kind of slur and the reason why so many DSA folks

I mean like the

real super loyal ones

are so demeaning and disrespectful to black leftists who do not agree with or adhere to Democratic socialism because they lack complete and total historical context.

And it's their ignorance that is showing because the problem with Democratic socialism, the way it is being exhibited now, and then there's MAGA, too, is both of them are what we call paternalistic.

you diminish the voices that disagree with you, even if they are on your own side, right?

So you can have a Republican that may see the faults of MAGA that it's too extreme.

It goes too far.

It's very overwhelming.

It breaks the rules.

And if you have a legitimate Republican that says, hey, MAGA, um, like maybe you should like smooth out some of these rough edges.

And then what MAGA will do is they will primary that Republican.

This is a personal thing for me.

I am not going to be a part of any political modality that cannot accept critiques from its own side.

Now, at the end of the day, I think what the Democratic Socialists want is a lot of what we want.

Here's the problem and they don't get it.

Because they're white supremacists too, but they're white supremacists that are just a little bit more inclusive of other people other interests and other demographics only because it strengthens their political coalition Okay, you can be a white supremacist that just means the white people take the lead that means everybody else.

No, no, no You follow us.

We're the Santa Claus.

You're just in the back of the sleigh.

Don't worry We're gonna take you where you need to go so you can be

very much racist and have prejudice and have racial bias, but still be inclusive of black people because we bring a political credibility.

So it makes a lot of sense for a socialist movement to have African Americans in it.

especially black people that are influential in the black community because those black people who are involved in democratic socialism can then bring the black community with them without having to burden the leadership of DSA of actually talking to working with and understanding the black community and our history and the reason why there was a split because early in the 1900s there was some combined effort of progressivism and socialism and

black requests for political power.

The problem with socialists is they put class first.

Black people have to put race first.

There is no place in this country where I can pretend I'm not black but just be working class.

I am black first.

Everything else flows from that.

But that's America though.

And the thing about socialism is that it says oh no no your problems aren't because you're black.

No no no no no.

Your problems are because the rich people are

hoarding all of the money and they don't pay enough taxes and capitalism is bad.

I hate when they lecture us on capitalism because no one in this nation has been harmed more by capitalism than black people, but it's not just capitalism and the exploitation of workers and labor.

It's not just that it's race too, but they don't want to hear that because they are just as paternalistic as MAGA is and therefore black folks will have no part of it.

That can be a much longer discussion, but I know that It's gonna come up again because I think with Francesca Hong's historic run and it was historic some credibility has now been shifted to Democratic socialists and they're gonna raise a bunch of money I'm sure she's raised a bunch of money for Democratic socialists here and every time she did a national interview She probably helped to elevate and pedestalize the profile

But they're gonna keep coming they're gonna keep coming they're gonna keep running We got a couple of them now.

I got a couple in the state legislature You have an older person or two that are also Democratic so they're gonna keep coming but there's still gonna be a disconnect between black leftist black Democrats and DSA and there's like a conflict there that that is rooted in their lack of racial understanding all right

There have been people that have served in the House of Representatives that were elected governor of the state of Wisconsin.

You may know some of these people.

I'm going to read their names.

Just as an example, but it's also extremely rare.

All right.

Cadwalder, that's his first name.

No, Cadwalder.

How do you even say that name?

Cadwalder.

Cadwalader C. Washburn, Republican, served in the House of Representatives from 1855 to 1861 and again from 1867 to 1871 was elected governor for two years in 1872.

What other member of Congress?

You know, Tom Tiffany is a member of Congress.

I'm just giving you some examples that, yes, it is possible for a member of Congress to be elected governor, but it's very, very rare.

And it was a long time ago.

Jeremiah M. Rusk.

There's a county named after him, if I'm not mistaken.

I think we have a Rusk county in Wisconsin, also a Republican, served in the House of Representatives from 1871 to 1877, then was elected governor and served from 1882 to 1889.

And then, of course, fighting Bob LaFollette, Republican again, served in the House from 1885 to 1891, then

was

elected governor and served from 1901 to 1906 before being elected to the U.S.

Senate.

Other members of Congress, at least a dozen of them.

mostly members of the House of Representatives have run for governor of Wisconsin.

No US senator from Wisconsin has ever done so in the modern political era after 1913.

So let's see here.

John Tweedy ran for governor.

He was a member of Congress.

He didn't win.

Oh, you guys know this one.

Gilbert Woodward.

He was a member of Congress ran for governor lost Joseph Beck lost in a Republican primary He was a member of Congress ran for governor lost Raymond Cannon No, even Bob Castin was a sitting house member lost the 1978 Republican primary and then you got Tom Barrett Tom Barrett Tom Barrett lost a Democratic primary in 2002 and lost general elections in 2010 and 2012

Mark Green was a member of the House of Representatives he lost to Jim Doyle in 2006 then another Republican Mark Mark Newman former member of the House of Representatives lost in the 2010 Republican primary to Scott Walker who was County Executive when he ran for governor and one there is more history showing that Wisconsin would rather elect a county executive to governor

Than a member of Congress and then now you have the next in line of succession of failed members of Congress running for governor Tom Tiffany currently a member of the House of Representatives and is the Republican nominee for governor.

I said all that to say this Looks like the odds are starting to stack up in David's favor Donald Trump's approval rating is low Tom Tiffany is an election denier.

He is heavily maga.

Do you know that even on days?

where Tom Tiffany was conflicted with Donald Trump on a piece of legislation where there needed to be a house vote.

And if Tom Tiffany didn't agree with the piece of legislation that Donald Trump wanted the MAGA caucus to support, you know what Tom Tiffany would do?

He wouldn't even go to Congress that day.

Isn't that crazy?

Instead of voting his conscious or even voting on behalf of his constituents, if there was a piece of legislation that Donald Trump liked and Tom Tiffany didn't, he wouldn't even vote at all.

So he wouldn't be on the record as voting against his boss.

That's insane to me.

Don't let that man become governor.

David Crowley, she's got to do it now.

Damn it.

The primary is over.

Shout out to all the people that were involved.

And thank you to Calder for taking just enough votes away from Franny Pants.

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Karen says Most black folks 50% on the dollar in one year with politics and the market.

What does I don't know what that means?

Linda says You can set the stage for us to follow Sherwin give us some ideas strategies to help make this moment happen the best of Black Milwaukee I'm not entirely sure what black people want like we obviously want more opportunities and we want

I don't know, more money and better jobs.

But let's say you bring real good jobs here, whatever a good job is.

I don't even know what a good job is.

What's a good job?

Being a welder?

No, no, we don't want to weld.

And plus, I don't know if I trust some black folks around fire.

But if you're not qualified for the job, what's the point of bringing a good job here?

So I'm trying to think, because I hear this a lot, oh, Sherwin, we got to do stuff for Black Milwaukee.

Black Milwaukee is unique and different.

And very individual and people are at different levels and want different things and have different aspirations and different desires if If it's the lowest level of us, what do we do to help them?

We got to make sure that education here is solidified because that is where they are lacking the most and have and can potentially have the most the most benefit

Black people who might be, you know, fairly educated and a little bit more ambitious.

Maybe the barriers to entrepreneurship should be lowered.

We know that African Americans usually have less resources, less available credit.

Maybe there can be some opportunities there.

But there has to be like a multi-step approach to how you improve overall Black Milwaukee.

First and foremost, we need political education because you can have an agenda and want a bunch of things.

You can want better schools and you can want more opportunities.

More entrepreneurship, you know grants and resources But if you don't know how the political system works and where you need to get in to fit in What committee meetings you need to go to and every now and again to help the black community You may actually have to go to Madison to the seat of state government and provide your testimony go to a committee meeting

Speaking favor of a particular bill or a proposal that might exactly that might do exactly what we're talking about free up more reasons for black entrepreneurs, etc, etc So we have to be very much involved in this campaign Because there's a real opportunity here not just stopping a Maga acolyte But to put who I think is a reasonable person in the governor's office and also a shout out to Tony Evers because I don't know if if most people are grasping this

Power in this country is really only transferred in a couple of ways right first is revolution Next is through democratic means just through the regular ordinary vote or it can be bestowed Tony Eva's bestowed Power to David Crowley with his endorsement and with his support You got to think about this for a second because first of all Tony Eva's absolutely didn't have to do it and he was expected not to he made a very conscious decision

Okay.

So he bestows this power, which we have to say it worked.

It worked just enough at 3200 votes worth.

It worked.

And for Tony Evers to pick David Crowley of the other individuals, he could have bestowed that power on.

Remember Tony Evers passed up Mandela Barnes, who served with him as Lieutenant Governor.

Tony Evers didn't bestow power on his current Lieutenant Governor, Sarah Rodriguez.

Probably good thing that he didn't do that because I would have been a disaster for everybody.

Tony Evers didn't bestow power on what essentially was his number two in state government, Joel Brennan, who ran his Department of Administration.

He bestowed power to David Krillin.

Here's one thing that I know about the white folk.

Even a good white folk do not want to bestow power to black people.

The good white folks will say, okay, black people, if you can get elected, then go ahead, then the power is legitimate.

If you can get elected if you can convince enough of us to vote for you then we won't stand in your way But for them to bestow it like that's a historical moment.

I don't want that to be lost But I have a feeling The moment will be lost as soon as we get done talking to hi Bob.

How are you

today?

You said, good health and no money is not as good as bad health and being rich or as better.

Now, I have another analogy.

Oh, see that?

Well, I'm getting old.

I can't say the words no more.

A point, another point, I'll say.

The second to what you say is

Me being able to wrestle, work hard, one job and three part time job, one full time kiss, athletic, and now I can walk.

I'm old and I got one arm.

The thing that goes second to that, I got a happy go lucky attitude.

Otherwise I want to pray my sex makes your place for three times.

You know, that's interesting.

I don't let it get me down.

I'm not war with me, war with me.

God give me a happy go lucky attitude.

Now, David Crowdy, he's a, I'm a little bit lighter than him, man.

White people like, like people.

That's

who they

kill.

No white people like light skinned people So I'm a little worried about my man.

He's a little I'm a little lighted in him that much

So are you saying that you should be the Democratic nominee because your skin complexion is lighter than David Crowley's Bob I'm not even gonna entertain this is probably one of the dumbest things you've ever said.

Let me make it abundantly clear white people

We

as black people have colorism white people don't care if you got a little of you got a tinge of black in you

They put us all in the same bucket.

So don't use your very limited knowledge and logic and try to plot a white people that you've never met before.

Okay.

Don't do that.

Colorism is bad.

We don't like that.

White people like right skinned people more, not all of them, but most of them, because they got a lot more white in them.

And that's what I'm worried about.

He's so hard to listen to.

You're embarrassing yourself right now.

Just speaking of half of a group of people that historically just don't like black people at all You ever heard of the one-eighth rule you ever heard of that the one-drop rule you ever heard of that You've never heard of the one-drop rule one drop rule

One drop rule if you have one drop of black blood in your body regardless of your Complexion you are considered black.

I think it's like 1 16th So if you have like a biracial great-grandparent you would be considered black and kept out of Society you would be separated you would be segregated so if you think that

The color of our skin has anything to do with white people accepting us.

I, I beg to differ because they actually had established rules to determine who was black and who was not.

Do you think who was white?

Do you think that light skinned black people could vote?

Do you think the light skinned black people that had really good hair and even light, complexed eyes had the same opportunities as white folks in the Jim Crow South?

Is that, that's a yes or no?

Through,

through my

experience.

Which is very limited.

White I asked you a yes or no question.

We're gonna do the yes or no before you we go on anything If you were biracial even Where you considered because your skin tone was light even if your hair was straight and your eyes were blue Did you have the same opportunities as white people?

Yes or no?

Wow, yes.

No, no, not wow.

Yes or

no

Yes or no, yes or no, I'm trying not to throw stuff in the studio.

Yes or no, okay So you so you mean to tell me that in let's say 1901 a person that was biracial they had a black father and a white mother

They had the same.

They were looked at the same as a white person.

They could vote.

They could own property.

They could run for office.

They could go to a bank and get a loan.

Is that what you're telling me?

That if you were no, no, no, not

not when I came up too much.

I mean, it didn't happen.

But

so I'm putting a hole in your colorism argument that white people quote unquote like black people that are lighter.

That's not the case.

They

got them job they got We you know put up in higher places than dark skinned people, you know, I mean, you know, I'm about the same color as my man And you know, I just worried about the white folks in Wisconsin Looking in here as a white person ever told you

that

No, but I've seen it

You know, I just seen them white people give more to because they got

more writing.

They just do.

Well, Mandela Barnes was his complexion was lighter than David Crawley's and David Crawley outperformed him.

Right.

You'd think that if your theory is true that the lighter black would do much better.

Mandela didn't really do so good.

In fact, he dropped out of the race.

I just am trying to

prove

that your argument your argument of colorism is terrible and as usually a beef that because black people We tend to be jealous of lighter skin black people because we believe they are closer To whiteness and then we look at all the opportunities they get and we just assume because their complexion is lighter than ours that they got the Opportunity because they are lighter.

Maybe they're smarter.

Maybe they were better educated.

Maybe they had better professional networks

That is us as black people that are of a darker skin color, platforming white supremacy.

When we internally as black people think that light skin blacks have it better, have it easier because they're closer to whiteness, that's a us problem, not a white people problem.

Because white people tell you, oh, no, we hate all you niggers.

No, no, no, it doesn't matter what your hair texture is or your eye color.

So that's something that I think you need to know about.

I'm a little disappointed

that you made it to your

ripe old age and didn't realize that colorism is a black thing.

You

keep in your political arena, you know, you're 14, man, you're doing good in this.

This is a big thing.

That's been your great experience.

Continue, sir.

And I'll talk to you later.

I used to like Chaka Khan, but Beyonce's number one now.

I'll talk to you later.

I hate when I got to explain common sense stuff to black people.

I hate it because.

Why do I come here for one Bob?

Listen, I need.

I need Bob to be arrested.

I think he just needs to spend a little time in a joint.

Just not not a long bid.

Just like nine months.

That's a long time.

He needs it.

Let's take a break, come back.

I really don't want to talk about colorism because it's embarrassing and it's an old antiquated 20th century concept that we as black people need to do away with.

The truth with Sherwin Hughes

will be right back.

and 1017thedruth.com.

You all are gonna have to get involved.

at a level that you probably have never gotten involved before.

What frustrates me is the people that have the most complaints, you know, about unfairness, a lack of opportunity, how bad the conditions are, and they do the least about it.

Posting on social media your support for a candidate or a cause means

Nothing.

It means as much as a yard sign.

A little update for you.

My across the street neighbor is still displaying their Francesca Hong yard sign.

So just saying.

She had yard signs everywhere.

They're all over the city.

Blanketed whole neighborhoods.

You would think that, oh my goodness, her support is overwhelming.

Yard signs don't vote, do they?

So if we are serious about this endeavor,

We have to get off the sidelines and it makes me curious why we would be on the sidelines anyway Because where this Trump administration is and how it is now trickling down into states and locally That should be a wake-up call for us.

There's a real opportunity here, and I don't want us to squander it I entertained a telephone call last night on the Hughes views 414 YouTube podcast

where I found myself having to convince a 50-year-old black man why he needs to vote.

I am no longer going to do that.

And if you're one of those people, well, sure, then tell me why I need to vote.

I'm not telling you a goddamn thing.

Screw you.

Don't vote.

In fact, you're probably better off not voting.

I'll vote, and then the political party or the apparatus that I and those like me select get to tell you what to do.

I am not here to tell a black person that they need to vote because they always want to be convinced it's real a weird kind of power truth because I think that we have an understanding of how important the black vote is it's almost like this fulcrum between White people that are on the far right and even white people that are on the far left like black people are like the balance in between Right, and that's a tremendous amount of power, especially in a state

where 25 to 30,000 votes will decide who wins a statewide contest.

Yes, I expect the margin to be exactly like that.

Please keep this in mind.

The theme of our elections are usually going to be very, very close.

It's going to be maintained for the foreseeable future.

In the event that David Crowley gets elected governor, it's not going to be a landslide.

In the event that Tom Tiffany gets elected governor, that won't be a landslide either.

And then what's going to happen is if we see those votes are less than 30,000 or less than 25,000,

We are going to wonder, could we have done more?

Should we have engaged more?

Should we have been much more active and involved?

And I'm telling you right now in the front end, absolutely, because you don't want to wake up on that Wednesday when Tom Tiffany is giving his speeches.

You ain't going to want that.

We do have time on our side about 83 days, give or take.

That's not an unlimited amount of time, but it's enough time to actually make some progress.

You're going to have to go and talk to your neighbors.

You're going to have to.

You're gonna have to engage some of your family members.

You're gonna have to.

You're gonna have to make sure that...

Those that are closest to you and those that you have impact and influence over are ready to vote and that they know how to vote.

You're going to have to go to myvote.wi.gov and get a sample of your ballot and read that referendum and read it again and read it to somebody else.

And if they don't understand it, read it to them again.

We're going to have to do these things because now it is time out for black people to need and to want all of these things.

We want all of this social change and we'll put in no effort in what world Republican controlled.

Democrat controlled capitalist or socialist can you achieve without hard work?

Please show me that What planet is that because I want to go there.

Where can you get and accomplish and be successful without putting in work?

I mean real work.

I think that we have gotten We have distanced ourselves from work and I think part of the reflection

of why some of us are in a situation where we don't want to work for it.

You gotta work hard.

You gotta do stuff that you don't want to do so that you can do the stuff that you do want to do.

You gotta have the crappy job.

You gotta deal with the boss that makes you sick so you know that you want to do and achieve and be better than that.

You gotta make minimum wage for a while to realize you don't want to make minimum wage anymore.

You have to work hard and we all are gonna have to work hard to make this thing come to fruition on November 3rd.

I'm going to let you think about that.

I'm going to take a little break.

We're going to come back and we're going to talk about the stuff.

The

truth with Sherwin Hughes will be back for hour two.

Oh

Sugar honey

iced tea

Welcome to our three of the sugar honey iced tea truth which are when you let's talk to Linda You're on one on one seven the truth Good morning

America.

Good morning professor.

It's a great day in Milwaukee

Every day

is

a good day.

Every day is a good day.

That's my new saying.

I'm saying going forward is a great day in Milwaukee.

But that's called energy overstimulation or drainage during when we are like in a crowd as opposed to in the studio because we are more than skin and bones for real.

And yeah, that's really great that you tapped into that, too, because we need to be aware that when we are around different energies, that it can drain us or over-stimulate us.

And we have to balance the two.

But yeah, that's really interesting subject to delve into.

But back to Crawley.

how we move forward from here.

Yes, I want to work in his campaign.

And yes, I want to bring forth the best of us and kindness in our conversations and how we represent ourselves and assert our needs.

And yes, I did type up a list last night of our political agenda.

And I want to give it to Crawley.

Yes, I want to work on this thing, Sherwin, because this is our moment.

This is our moment.

We have to seize it.

And I really love the culture and the climate of the truth with Sherwin Hughes, man.

We need to just really be in that studio.

I'm just staying in a fireplace.

the music going down with his, you know, his lecture.

Man, I could just see it.

It's so beautiful.

It's not

creating a culture.

It's what I'm saying.

And it's really beautiful.

Thank you.

But your agenda for for the black people that you want to share with the Democratic nominee.

Why now?

Whatever your agenda is.

Don't just wait until David Crowley runs for governor or becomes governor That should be an agenda that you can help to implement in the meantime because then what happens to your agenda if he doesn't get elected It just goes away.

Well, do you still

have

the city government?

It hasn't changed

since 1964.

It's just that we are reverting it

to where it is not a black issue, but a civil rights issue.

Civil rights issues are black.

But hold on.

When you make the civil rights issue, you got included.

It's going to be the gays.

It's going to be the Asians, and it's going to be the Mexicans.

Exactly.

Hold on, Linda.

Wait a minute.

Linda?

Nope.

Bad idea.

Let

me

tell you why.

Because we got specific issues.

All of

our issues are human issues.

Remember, we said that all of our issues are human issues.

So therefore, when we

express our political agenda, we're talking about human issues, man.

Linda that's very nice in a world that is completely and totally colorblind or post-racial They're all human issues you are correct, but people are going to see race first race leads Races politics races division race segregates children from certain schools race segregates geography race segregates this entire city the votes that David probably got if you look at the line It is literally drawn right along race.

I understand your human agenda But if people that will be there implementing that agenda see race first it's not a human agenda

anymore.

Also, I would caution against us as black people who have been marginalized better and harder and more effectively than any of these other groups combining our issues with theirs because we're going to get put at the end of the line.

I understand but you also said that we need a character like Obama and Obama was for human rights and issues and so I am saying that wasn't

that the biggest criticism Linda when we water down our agenda to incorporate everybody else because what black we become people pleasers and we allow everybody else to get opportunities and we support them and they never come and support us so what's on your agenda can you tell me what it is do you have it in front of you now I'm curious

What's your I

don't have it in front of me.

I have it on the USB, but in my laptop, but I did cover some of that last night on your huge views for one forward.

What's one of the I don't remember doing a lot of Georgia.

Okay.

What's one thing

I was saying for one

where he started from at the Sherman Phoenix, developing our community.

Because we have groups that are taking back their community, such as the Sherman Phoenix, such as Bronzeville, such as Amani.

We have homes that are being built in Amani, and they're taking back the power of their communities.

They're saying and asserting pride, black pride in these

So I'm saying that politically we can develop our communities.

That's not that's not saying black black black I'm saying develop communities that are working.

Okay

That's one.

Another is investing in those communities with job access and training for the youth and older, you know, connect with businesses, attract businesses back to Milwaukee, offer them incentives, you know, to work with qualified and upcoming interested youth and stuff.

You know what I'm saying?

What it takes, we just have to invest in what we got.

All right, Linda.

Don't get me stirred up here this early.

I don't want to get you stirred up.

But I'm sorry.

But I do share it.

I can see us in our election gear.

Man, come on now.

We're

gonna

make this work and we're gonna make it fun.

Hello.

When you say

us, who do you mean by us?

Not me.

You and me.

You can't do that

Linda Why they

always got to make it weird I Think her agenda makes a lot of sense investing in what we have and developing the community know those are all

Great things attracting jobs providing incentives now We need a workforce though because if we bring jobs here, which is very possible Milwaukee is a hot place it is a lot of people want to come here a lot of businesses companies want to relocate here cost of living is reasonable even though our housing Has gone up in price because a lot of people are not selling so that there's a scarcity on the housing market It's still a lot cheaper than in other Midwestern cities

Lot of activities a lot of culture a lot of restaurants We're on a lake that that helps Fresh water is a very big deal fresh water is a leading industry here in the 21st century So I think we have a lot of the trappings of what could be an international city Now something that we are missing and this is the throwback to the segregation is we don't have a more solid

Public transportation infrastructure and them damn scooters ain't it.

I hate the scooters I don't want the scooters because the people that get on the scooters are irresponsible on the scooter I gotta park my car gotta watch out make sure somebody ain't coming on a scooter cuz

if I open the door to the Tesla and you hit the Tesla door, I'm gonna be more concerned about my door Damn scooters don't don't do it.

We need

trains

Light rail high speed rail commuter rail gotta have the trains we need them people don't like the street car the street car is supposed to expand I want to be able to hop on the train I want to be able to hop on a train in front of my house take the train all the way to work I don't want to have to drive my car all the time all the places I've taken a street car before Pick me up and drop me off the same goddamn spot didn't go anywhere I'm not not shouldn't say it goes you know, it's in the third ward and then

And then it goes over by Cathedral Square, you know, and then it goes over by the points East area where you got the pick and save and you got the Panera bread.

It goes.

It's got a little loop.

It's got a little 2.2 mile loop.

It's OK.

We need to expand it, though.

Transportation is extremely expensive.

Having a vehicle is expensive.

You got to maintain the vehicle.

Got to buy the gasoline for the vehicle Got to put oil in it you got to insure it and Depending upon where you live your insurance rates might be very very high You know that they can raise your insurance rates based on your credit score.

That's not fair So if that's the thing that we're missing we can't grow as a region and Cavalier Johnson who's the mayor of the city?

He has a very ambitious plan

He wants to grow the city of Milwaukee to a million people.

In fact, I think the plan is called grow Milwaukee We're gonna put a million people where I don't that's too many people that's Gotta think this thing through that 580 590,000 people now doubling the number of people that live in this city So everywhere I go, I'm gonna see twice the people

No, thank you.

We don't even have the highway infrastructure to double the amount of people because that's double the amount of cars is double the amount of traffic.

Now it's also more tax revenue.

It's more income tax revenue.

It's more sales tax revenue, but there's a bunch of drawbacks to having all of those people.

I like Milwaukee just the way it is.

It's not too crowded.

Even when traffic is bad, it's not really that bad.

You can move about kind of freely, but we can't expand the metro area until we get.

More public transportation options, but for some reason it's just not It's not a politically expedient topic if David Crowley as he's campaigning all throughout the state of Wisconsin and David's gonna come back with all sorts of Conversations and information that we never would have heard here in Milwaukee because people that live way somewhere else They got different issues legitimate issues, but just not the same as ours.

Are you choose are more urban related?

He'll lose the race if he talks about expanding

Transportation options because you know what that means.

It means integration You can't talk about that Because the white people God bless the whites.

They've moved as far away as they possibly can they used to just move to why we're Tosa or Franklin Now they got to go further used to just move to brown deer, you know, we did a brown deer

Brown deer is Brown deer is the one of the blackest communities I think I've ever seen in my entire life.

I feel like it's a good mixture of You know black and white It's black at least where my parents live.

I don't know I feel like it's no, it's diverse.

It's very diverse.

It is compared to Milwaukee.

Yes It's about damn near the same I don't know.

I mean it's an anecdotal evidence, but you know my parents blocked have

a white family, a Hmong family, a black family.

The Hmongs are heavy and brown.

Oh, yeah.

They're kind of

everywhere.

Yeah,

they

are.

But I feel like it's very diverse.

A nice diverse middle class, upper middle class, you know.

It's trending, poor.

Is it?

Oh, God, yeah.

It's a little bit.

I don't know.

That's some poverty and brown deer.

They got a Walmart, bro.

That's whenever.

There's a Walmart in Brookfield You don't say yeah get out of Dodd Brookfield could be trending poor though, too.

No, they would not let that happen You mean to tell me that there's no there's no I bet you there's section 8 in Brookfield is it's just not publicized They'll be section 8 in Brookfield, but it won't be like a section 8 complex.

It'll be an apartment building where there are some people that are

Getting their rent paid by Section 8 because if you qualify for a voucher, I think you can essentially live anywhere and the federal government pays like 70% of your rent.

How do I get that?

I get on a waiting list.

You can or you can meet a woman that hasn't just moved in with her.

I don't that's not my style.

You never live with a woman before?

No, I would never.

Sometimes you have to know why don't we split the bills?

Well, I mean, if it's that kind of situation, but I would never move in to another woman's house.

That's

no, no, no, that's insane.

No, never.

She's got to move into yours.

Yes.

Um, you ever gone through a woman's phone before?

Uh, one time.

Highly recommended.

Only one time.

I recommend it highly.

Only one time.

You're going to find the same thing.

They're very smart now.

They'll randomly change their passwords.

Or here's what's crazy.

Like if you go through her phone mysteriously, she hasn't received any text messages since 2012.

Why do you need to go through a woman's phone?

That's insane.

Oh, no, it's not.

That's toxic.

If you feel like you need to go through a woman's phone, you do not need to be with that woman.

Xavier, what do I do?

I do editorial journalism.

I investigate.

I need to find the truth.

I need to uncover the truth.

I got to go looking for the truth.

I got to go dig for the truth.

I can't just accept what somebody says.

If I interview a Republican, I can't just accept what they say.

I go dig in their record.

I go and search and I go research.

I look at the background.

I need the background.

I don't care what you say to me.

I want to hear what you say.

The things that you don't say to me.

I need I gots to have it.

So you're so I gots to have it.

So you'll be like, oh, give me your phone so I can look or you'll you'll sneak.

Oh, let me sneak.

I'm

going to get in that phone.

I got it.

If I'm getting serious, I just got to know.

I got to know.

Well, the viewers should not call me toxic anymore.

You are definitely I'll take it because I'm being called toxic by people that have stuff that's in their phone and they think about calling me toxic.

I won't go through that phone.

I'm going I'm I'm a live in that phone.

I'm a live.

I'm a live there.

In fact, you know what?

How

often do you check a woman's phone?

Not like every woman that I know, because some of them are just birds.

I don't care what they say.

But if I really like her, and we're trying to get serious, I gots to know.

It'll be a while.

A weekly check or monthly check?

Whenever I get the urge.

Usually, here's the best time to check.

When she's asleep.

Oh, yeah, you're toxic three o'clock four o'clock in the morning I'm wide awake and I just sometimes you just wake up and a voice will tell you wake up Sherwin you can't trust her.

Huh?

What?

Yeah, that happened to me once and you know, you know, I had the urge to check the phone at three o'clock and four o'clock in the morning.

And it scarred me, you know, and I don't do it no more.

No, no, no, I would rather be scarred by the truth and live in a blissful life.

I gots to know.

I would say at least I'm glad I'm a very calm man because if I wasn't, I would have been caught a case.

I was going to tell you something else that I did one time.

Oh, you can wait till we come back.

Yeah,

I take a break.

I'm in that phone.

I might even look.

Don't let me get in the phone and don't let don't let me change her password tonight.

She got to ask me for her path.

No, I wouldn't do that.

That's crazy.

Sherwin, can I?

Can I use my phone?

For what?

I got to call my mama.

We'll call her.

Here, call her for my phone.

I know I'm kidding, you

guys.

I wouldn't do all that.

But you got to go to that phone.

Ladies, look at this phone.

Go ahead.

Well, you know there's such thing as secure folders, right?

Where you can just put your text messages in there and you can look through the phone all you want and they want to be able to find it.

Ain't nobody doing all that.

I'm not hiding stuff from me.

My phone out here today.

Go ahead.

Go look at it.

Get your feelings hurt here.

We can talk about it here Start a conversation about go ahead.

Who is this?

I'll tell you who it is.

Come on.

Let's check I want to see your pictures Want to see what she looked like last May.

Come on Do all the things because I don't delete pictures.

Oh, yeah.

Hell

No, I put them

in my secure folder That's insane to me.

So sometimes I reminisce

And I'll be thinking about x whatever and like hey, how you doing?

I'll remember when we went here and should be

why do you still have that picture?

Think about this when houses burned out.

What's one of the first things that people

used to grab photo albums?

I don't delete pictures.

Who does that?

That's not what you're supposed to do.

Pictures are a reminder.

They're a memory.

Just like you don't throw photo albums away.

Oh, I threw my baby pictures away because those are old.

No, you keep that stuff.

Those are mementos.

Those are keepsakes.

Those are heirlooms.

I don't believe pictures.

If you didn't want me to keep the picture forever, you shouldn't have sent it because I'm keeping it forever.

And guess what?

If the breakup is bad, all my friends are going to see it too.

Oh, wow.

Oh, please.

I never

kiss until.

That's not anybody doing no kissing them pictures, Jack.

Yeah, I

promise you that.

Okay, let's take a break.

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They didn't have to spell Ascension phonetically.

Who can't say Ascension?

I don't know.

And they even spelled it wrong phonetically.

No, maybe they didn't.

Okay.

Go to the Truth Family Fest so I can stop reading this.

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Get a backpack.

Even if you're not in school.

Just be a 50-year-old person with a backpack.

Walking around.

All right, what are we talking about?

Going through phones?

Yeah, going through phones, being toxic.

There's nothing toxic about that.

Just don't be a fool.

Man, they're dumb.

Don't know no no no not dumb You just got to take whatever woman says with a grain of salt.

What's the point then?

I'd rather her just be honest like sure when I'm going out to the ladies night I'm gonna flirt with a bunch of dudes.

I'm gonna let dudes buy me a drink and if I like one I find them cute I'm gonna hang out with them I might get his telephone number and I might I might you know go on a date with him like tell me that I'm

not even gonna get mad

My girlfriend I get mad but if it's someone I'm seeing I

Girlfriends don't exist no more bro.

No, it's not it's not a thing anymore.

I guess I haven't had a girlfriend in a long time You're together when you're together when you're not you're not and also I'm

too old to be running around saying this my

girlfriend Like this is my home girl.

This is my friend.

I don't even say partner because that sounds too woke That's woke for you.

Yeah my partner That sounds gay

A partner like what in crime in business.

Yeah, you're your partner in life partner and I Don't say imagine a 50 year old woman talking about this is my boyfriend.

First of all grandma.

What are you doing?

You mean you got a boyfriend I'm that's I'm the girlfriend you ain't been a girl in 30 years today's 50 is a lot different than that 50s in the 60s and the 70s and 80s

It is but it's still half a century old and very wise and very mature or at least it should be but don't Run around here.

I'm somebody's girlfriend Listen here, Nana Come on now and other terms.

I don't like when girls call me and my girlies are going out.

You're not children

Yeah, that's just you know, it's a fun way to say they're hanging out with their friends That's infantilizing women to where they can act like children and be irresponsible and not have to be like held to account I'm just a girl.

I used to date a girl this is I'm sure when I'm just a girl.

Yeah girl say that all the time That means that I can't be responsible for what I do.

You can't trust me.

I'm just a girl.

I don't know any better

Okay, but then you want us to vote for one of you for mayor and governor?

Well, of course, but I thought you were just a girl.

Could you imagine like getting a female governor and she messes the policy up real bad or votes or does the wrong thing?

I'm just a girl.

What do you expect from me?

Governor is hard.

Too hard.

I'm just

and I will allow you to be just a girl, but then you allow me to be just a man.

And what does that entail?

No, I don't know whatever men do wouldn't men do work hard be cool dominate Get yelled at don't talk back.

I don't

know.

I

always talk back if I'm getting yelled at I can't help it.

You can't Even if she does something That's hurtful or damaging or threatening to the relationship if you bring it up to her she's mad at you for being mad at her

the tone in which you bring it up because there clearly is never a good tone in which you can bring up a situation where a woman is to blame for something so you just have to pretend like whatever problem it is just never happen because you're not gonna solve it no not if you have a loving open connection relationship you can express your feelings to her and she will receive them because

I love

them

Be careful with that too.

Well, you

don't want to sound too girly, but you know, just let it know like, hey, I don't like what you did there.

Fair enough.

She's got to be understanding.

It's hard to find that you get an understanding one, but also men can't be too emotional and they lie when they say, no, how come you don't open up to me and share your feelings?

Because if you do too much of that, because I don't think that women are prepared for us to emotionally unload on them because there's things that we suffer.

through and deal with his men that I don't even know if women are equipped.

And I'm not saying that the women don't have the capacity to handle it.

They just don't want to hear from their man because then they're thinking, wait a minute.

There can only be one emotional person in a relationship because she's got to reserve the right to be emotional because that can be an excuse for why she does things irrationally.

I'm a woman.

I get that right.

Well, you can express your emotions.

Just don't be a crybaby about it.

That's what women that's why women think you're just being too emotional to crybaby.

try to cry baby about it.

You just gotta be come up front, be straightforward and just express yourself.

You don't gotta be, oh, you made me feel this way.

Just say it frankly and bluntly and leave it at that.

And they will respect you for it.

When you get all whiny and going up to these type in these paragraphs about, oh, this made me feel this way and all this cry baby stuff.

Then that's when the woman loses this loses respect for you.

But if you're upfront, you know, and you're not too emotional about it.

They will respect that because that's what women want.

They want you to express your feelings, but they don't want to feel like they have to baby you I Feel like that's game right there.

I think so.

Yeah It's working for me.

So but also we're in different places in life.

Like I admire listening to Like your perspectives on things.

I think it's I think it's fantastic.

So when you get to be old like me You do not fashion

Your responses to a woman or your explanations or even how emotional you are in a way that makes her comfortable because that's gaslighting I'm gonna express myself the way I feel it and if she doesn't like that Then that's not that's not a me problem.

That's a her problem like I'm not gonna like I have to explain myself and talk about my emotions like this No, no, no, I'm explaining to her just how I feel and if I feel like I have to change my explanation or change my tone to suit her to not

Tip her off then that woman is gaslighted me and that's what's toxic if I can't express myself the way I feel it Then she ain't the woman for me and no hard feelings Just move on well.

Yeah, you

can

express yourself and if your feelings are crybaby Then expect to be disrespected and you know not taking it seriously and that's not for me Are you do you wine when you're expressing yourself?

It

depends on what it is if I'm sick.

Yep.

Oh, the sick is different

No, it ain't still wine I'm helpless when I'm saying I can't do oh, yeah, that's the best I can't I need to be carried like pick me up,

but sure when you wait 250 pounds.

Well Come on.

Let me get on your shoulders

You don't have any willy chairs around your house.

Oh really chair, you know like the little Shares with wheels.