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August 18th, 2026.

Yesterday, I was out of pocket, professionally, not proverbially.

And with me being gone yesterday, there was a conversation that I believe I missed.

I'm assuming that at least some of my colleagues were able to touch on the previous weekend's events.

I did not get my opportunity to do so, and I would like to.

share with you my sentiments about what transpired at the Wisconsin State Fair.

And I'm also going to say I should probably give this disclaimer that, okay, it's an isolated incident, right?

Every single day of the State Fair wasn't racked with violence at Spin City, but these things happen consistently.

And so I asked a question in the Hughes Views Facebook group.

And if you're not a member, by all means,

It's where we post information and post the story links that I may reference on this program in Facebook on Facebook rather so that you all don't inbox me and ask me sure when where's the link to that story I post most of that stuff in That Facebook group and it's also a place where you all can sound off on the issues of the day and also post your relevant stories I do stress the word relevant because sometimes y'all just see a funny meme on the internet and put it in the huge views Facebook group

Those posts will not be approved, however I digress.

And whenever I ask the questions, a very simple question, why are these kids fighting so much?

The answers that I receive shows something that is very, very clear.

And that is why I want to have this conversation today, because it's not about the single incident that took place at State Fair.

I also don't want to just wrap this whole conversation up in whatever crime numbers are, because the statistics tell a much different story.

And as I was going through, you know, the different comments that people were leaving as to why these kids fought at State Fair, one of my favorite responses, because we talk about this stuff often, and I believe that we are a community, not that we all have the exact same education levels or income or even the same expectations for our families, for ourselves, and for our future.

I believe that we are a community.

I'm not just talking about black people.

I'm talking about people that can be impacted by the actions of one another.

I'm talking about the greater community, where for the most part, I think we all want some of the same things.

I think there's a commonality that exists amongst all of us.

All of us want to be reasonably happy, want to have a little money in our pockets.

I think that we want to feel safe, want to make sure that our children have the opportunities to succeed.

I think there are things that bind us together.

And so when I talk about community, that is what I'm speaking in terms of this broader conversation of people that just have a bunch of similar interests, you see.

And so when I ask the question why are these kids fighting so much it's everything from well, they're not properly disciplined at home I Don't know if I agree with that I think that there is an expectation or an understanding that these kids are being treated pun intended with kid gloves and parents just Dismiss their kids bad behavior.

I believe it's actually quite the opposite Where there are some of you that do believe in corporal punishment when a child acts up

Then you give them spanking or you get out of belts or a wooden spoon or whatever your method of violence is.

I think that these kids are getting punched in their faces.

I think that they're literally being beat up by their parents.

I've seen it because a young mother or a young father whose frontal lobe ain't even developed themselves that has very little patience.

and might be under the influence of a number of different substances, and we have to have a conversation about that.

Y'all see the pitfalls of legalizing marijuana is not going to benefit our community because we can't deal with our problems when we're sober.

I think these parents are beating these kids up.

That's what I think.

And I also think that that violence, that we couch that violence in a different kind of language, we frame it differently by saying, well, no, no, no, that's discipline.

The kids sees it as they're getting beat up by their parents.

They also see that if you use physical force, if you use physical violence to try and modify or correct somebody's behavior, I think that's where a lot of the fighting comes from.

But one of the other responses that is fairly common.

So these kids don't have anything to do.

They don't have any any outlet.

What can we build them?

If they are illustrating how they will.

Conduct themselves when they're in somebody else's space somebody else's town and here's the thing about the state fair I can't even tell you the last time I went to the Wisconsin State Fair Let me tell you why because the food there is disgusting.

I don't want to eat fried cotton roaches on a stick I don't want nothing on a stick.

Maybe a corn dog, but you get a corn dog get the metro market I don't need to go to the state fair and pay for parking in somebody's front yard to get a damn corn dog on a stick It's an exhibition of Wisconsin agriculture.

It's cows and it's pigs and it's

Chickens and it smells like poop all over the place and you got some stupid rides That's it's just not for me But but if if we're to give our young people this outlet apparently that they so desperately pray because we allow them to go to the state fair Which I believe is and should be an outlet for the youth because there's there's games.

There's carnivals there carnival rides.

There's carnies Is that offensive to call a carny a carny?

You know what a carny is there are toothless people that love the crystal meth and they travel

all around the country and they set up carnival rides and they're very scary.

If a carny ever invites you to the back of the ferris wheel by all means, please don't go.

We may never see you again.

I'm digressing.

This is what happens when I'm out of pocket for one day.

But if if young people.

Are acting in this particular manner.

When they should be on their best behavior because they're in somebody else's place, they're in somebody else's space.

They are at an event, and I would argue the Wisconsin State Fair should be for everybody.

But what is this damn fascination we have with rural Wisconsin?

I don't understand that.

At some point during today's program, if I can get to it, I want to have a deeper conversation about data centers.

Why do we care what rural people think?

Do you understand that we need to be a hub for technology?

Because Wisconsin don't really offer much else.

Other than traveling and tourism in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is an industry-less state.

I mean, we make some paper in the Fox Valley, we manufacture, we produce ginseng, but other than that, and here's the thing, since when...

Do we have more of a deep affection for the wants and needs of people in rural Wisconsin?

At the same time, we're using the technology that requires these data centers to be built because whenever destroying our neighborhoods to build the freeway that could connect those rural communities to the economic engine of Milwaukee, those rural folks didn't care about us.

So why this deep affection for them?

Build the data center.

Now, hold on.

We got to do so with some limits and some parameters.

There's good data centers.

There's bad data centers.

You make them pay for their energy.

If they're going to be stressing out the grid, then maybe they got to pay for those infrastructure improvements.

But Wisconsin cannot be known as a place that is hostile to 21st century technology or those businesses and companies will go somewhere else.

I am perplexed why we care so much about rural Wisconsin.

Rural Wisconsin and some of those cities and towns got a 1000% increase in their shared revenue.

Swimming in money.

You know how much money Milwaukee got?

10% increase in shared revenue, barely enough to cover the pensions.

We got to pay cops and firefighters and their spouses.

So I don't know where this affection came from, but I live in the city.

I'm worried about city stuff.

I don't care what's going on in Ashkamunga.

Sorry, but Ashkamunga don't care what's going on here.

We're going to talk about that later because I'm real hot on this data center thing.

Y'all over here feeling sorry for these people.

You ever see what rural Wisconsinites say about Milwaukee residents, yet for some reason we are taking their issues in these little small Podong towns that have literally nothing and we're elevating it to the level to where David Crowley is now being called data center Dave.

Call him that.

In fact, give me a data center nickname.

I feel jealous and left out.

Super data Sherwin.

Don't please don't get me started on that.

We got to talk about this youth violence issue Here's the part that I don't get and this is probably my old age and maybe my ability to critical think and maybe because my frontal lobe has been developed for I don't know better than a quarter century Why would you want to ruin somebody else's time?

Somebody else is going to have a good time at the fair They want to go and eat a bunch of things on a stick a cheesecake on a stick a pizza on a stick some bugs on a stick

They want to eat a bunch of things at the fair and they want to walk around and they want to smell the pig poop, which is disgusting, by the way.

I saw a documentary on fried chicken.

It's on Netflix.

The name is escaping me.

And it's an African-American man, but he's a peculiar one because he's from England.

I'm always thrown back a little bit when I see an African-American man with an English accent.

I just, I don't like it.

Don't want you to talk like that sir.

Why do you talk like a king?

You're not you're just English but he eats fried chicken three meals a day for 30 days, so he does a bunch of health tests in The beginning of this documentary where he experiments I guess he's documenting I guess it is an experiment with his health because he talks about the proliferation of what they call chicken shops

Western Europe particularly in England and all throughout London.

They got more chick-fried chicken places in London that we have per capita here.

It's insane.

It's about we grew up eating and everybody eats fried chicken and we love fried chicken.

He also delves into the stereotypes of African-Americans and fried chicken.

But I've talked about this before on previous programs.

Every single culture eats fried chicken.

The Koreans eat fried chicken.

The Chinese fried chicken.

Even the Italians, they fry their chicken.

Chicken Parmesan is breaded and fried chicken with marinara sauce and mozzarella on it.

Everybody eats the fried chicken, but for some reason black people and fried chicken.

So he's fried chicken.

Three meals a day for 30 days and he has health suffers dramatically in just 30 days, but he's also eating it three times a day.

And then he goes to the these farms where our chickens.

Produced and it's literally disgusting and I love I love food you guys know that once you get me started talking about food The show is ruined because I'm probably gonna talk about food for the duration of the program I love food so very much.

So I saw this documentary Two weeks ago I have not eaten chicken since and don't even crave it because what I saw and how these chickens are produced is absolutely disgusting

The way they have to grow them and the hormones they inject in them where the chickens are dying from heart attacks because their breasts grow so big because when you go and Buy chicken you want a big chicken breast.

That's value for your money But the things they have to do to these birds they literally collapse under their own weight and they're laying in their own filth They're so big and so heavy because of these hormone injections that these chickens get because we as consumers demand a big old chicken breast

These chickens are literally dying.

And so every so often the people who own these chicken farms have to go in and pluck out the dead chickens, where the alive chickens are just mixing and mingling with the carcasses of other chickens.

It's so disgusting.

It's so bad.

But I also have been able to separate what chicken looks like on a plate versus a feathered bird.

To me, they're almost two totally different things with this documentary.

My God.

Filthy and disgusting now.

Don't worry.

I'll be back to eating chicken again.

It's just I got to get that documentary behind me About the youth now Some say that they don't have an outlet but if we built them one and I don't even know what it would look like You know, I still have my NPS recreation guy, which is like I don't know 70 or 80 pages of a whole bunch of activities

why parents aren't signing their kids up for that.

And here's what's crazy.

When I talked about it a couple months ago, I was like, hey, summer's coming, everybody.

These kids are going to be acting wild.

Here's the recreation book.

I went through a whole bunch of pages and a whole bunch of different offerings.

Some of the stuff is actually really cool.

Learning to cook, you can play an instrument.

There's all sorts of dance.

Lots of constructive activities.

There's a whole bunch of different pools throughout NPS where the kids can go and swim.

There's just a lot of stuff to do.

And the number one thing that I heard from you all, which was terribly disappointing because I knew that this summer was going to be bad because it's one of the easiest predictions you can possibly make every single summer and we feel powerless to do anything about it.

That's why I asked the question in the Hughes Views Facebook group.

Nobody has an answer.

People even saying, oh, well, because Milwaukee is a violent city and the kids are going to be violent.

Wait, what?

That's and then there's always the proverbial.

Well, we were fighting to know the hell we were not because we.

When we were youth, we didn't want to lose what we had.

Not to mention we wouldn't go somewhere else to another city, another town, another suburb and act a fool out there because we were highly in tune to how white people think about us in the first place.

And I know some of y'all don't care about that, but they still control too much of our future, too much of our fate because as black people, we own nothing.

Nothing.

I can't even get y'all to buy houses, but you'll pay $2,000 a month in rent and your furnace doesn't work.

It's so frustrating.

Because this also harms our political representation.

Like, you think that David Crowley is not going to wear the sins of our youth when he is campaigning statewide?

You think he's not?

They're going to say, OK, we don't know this David Crowley guy.

And believe it or not, there are people that literally have never heard him before.

Because why would you know the county executive from Milwaukee County?

Or they just got familiar with him with the squeaker of a win that he got during the primary.

And they said, OK, we don't know this David Crowley guy.

OK, what does he do?

Oh, he's the Milwaukee County executive.

Let me see what's going on in Milwaukee County.

And depends on what your search parameters are.

The news and the information that comes up when you search what's going on in Milwaukee County, I promise you it ain't good.

And I can understand somebody from far away that does not know him, does not know us, doesn't know the dynamics of this county.

Might say I'm not voting for him because his county is a myth, especially the youth.

Take a break, come back, talk to Linda on the other side.

We're going to have to get to the bottom of this because all I'm seeing is us making up excuses.

And here's the worst part about it all.

So I ask this question in the Hughes Views Facebook group.

There's always the white person that says well sure when the murder rate is down and at least they're not shooting each other How low of a standard can you have?

For black youth behavior, it's almost like I'm glad they're fighting and destroying public spaces because at least they're not shooting so wait It's an either or how about they do neither?

How about you go to the fair and get fat and eat stuff on a stick and get cotton candy cotton candy is gross by the way for some reason Bailey Coleman likes cotton candy

The weird stuff that I remember when I listen to other people's shows, let me take a break, come back.

We're gonna get to the bottom of this.

Why the violence?

Why the fighting?

What are you fighting over?

It used to be just one girl was mad at another girl, because it's something, something boyfriend.

Okay, well then they fight.

Why don't you do it in the parking lot?

Or do it somewhere else?

Meet at McGovern Park.

Sounds like a nice place to fight, and they fight, and after a while, people break it up.

First of all, people having legitimate beef.

Don't break the fight up so early.

Let them get it out.

As long as they're not picking up like rocks and bricks, let them let them fight it out.

Don't break it up so fast.

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I

don't

want to tolerate excuses for why young people are acting in this way.

And if you want to be a bleeding heart and if you want to feel sorry for him, fair enough.

But don't call me with that stuff because I think that people have such a low standard for black children and it's killing us because if we have a low standard for their behavior, we'll also have a low standard for their academic success.

Nobody puts high standards on black kids because we think that they're dumb or they're stupid or because they're poor.

That's insane to me.

It's insane.

It's like we've just given up on them.

Oh, well, they're going to fight because what are you saying?

They're a lower order of being.

You know, there's a whole bunch of people in this country that think they were monkeys.

And when we act that way, all we're doing is confirming it.

It's disgusting because that's not who we are, but sometimes that is the only Interaction or the only perspective the people that don't actually know black people get and they see us acting like this It makes no sense They show all this like this footage and it's blasted all over the internet.

It's all on the local websites And I'm not gonna sit here and say oh well the media is making us look bad Why do we keep giving the media stuff to put out there if we're concerned about looking bad wouldn't

Isn't there some responsibility that needs to be put on us?

But that's the other thing.

Nobody takes responsibility for anything.

It's like if I'm fat, and maybe there's a medical issue or a thyroid issue, there's sometimes biological factors, sometimes it's genetic if you're fat.

Sometimes you're fat because you just eat a lot of food and don't exercise and you love McDonald's so very much.

But then what do we do?

Let's sue McDonald's because I'm fat.

When the key is in the Hyundai's we're getting stolen instead of us dealing with the issue of Car theft from a law enforcement perspective or whatever other means we have to deal with grand larceny We sue the car companies, you know Did you all know that Milwaukee sue the car companies because their cars are too easy to steal so we sued them What?

What?

Somebody breaks into my house.

Do I sue the law?

company.

Let's talk to Linda.

You're on one on one seven

truth.

Good morning.

It's a good day in Milwaukee.

I should say a great day.

However, I'm going to make this quick because I got to be here.

But show and I've been thinking about this all weekend and it's very, you know, heartbreaking, upsetting, but

Milwaukee, Wisconsin needs to get tough on teens and social vandalism.

And I just think that we need to create a law that, you know, that a law or an ordinance that holds parents accountable where they have to pay a ticket or an ordinance.

And if they don't pay it, they spend 10 days in jail.

We need to get tough on teens and crime and negligent parents for real.

And I think that if we create a law or ordinance or a policy where they have to pay for their negligence and social vandalism caused by their teens, their children, while they go into Atlanta to Rick Ross party, you know, they just needs to be recognized because the worst of us.

It's not the definition of the best of us, for real.

That's my take as a disciplinarian, as an educator, and as a person that took advantage of these systems in Milwaukee that work, like the recreation department.

I raised my sons in that until they got of age to get into the basketball thing.

When my granddaughter, I put her in the recreation.

I am going to start swimming classes at recreation because these are the things that work.

Our communities that are doing great things, taking back pride in their communities that work.

And I'm calling the chief and the mayor and the governor and I'm going to suggest strongly suggest.

that we get tough on teams by citing them and their parents for being negligent.

Thank you.

Have a great

day.

I'm so glad she said that you hear that sentiment.

You hear that passion coming from her that she wants to get tough on this stuff and even hold the parents accountable.

I think that's.

I understand her her emotion because it's a very emotional issue because it's very frustrating because I think there's a lot of us to see what our potential is but our potential is being.

Stifled by this bad behavior Right, but her passion.

She's the girl.

No, she's gonna talk to the mayor and the police chief and the governor I don't know if they're gonna do a whole hell of a lot, but you hear that sentiment Does that sound like defund the police to you?

So those of you to try to call black people woke and say we want to defund the police No, what I heard was more law enforcement what I heard from Linda

in 2026 is very similar to what we heard from black people, black communities, and black families all over the country before the 1994 crime bill was signed into law.

When we get fed up, we want more law enforcement.

So we got to stop pretending like, oh, we don't like the police.

We love the damn police, especially when we call them.

We want them to show up right away.

Now, the problem with policing is you don't know what kind of officer you're going to get.

You don't know what kind of training they're going to get.

You don't know what kind of move they're going to be in.

You don't know what kind of customer service you're going to receive.

Because there are instances in this document where if you are a legitimate victim and you call the police the cop will run you for warrants and you call the police and You want to report a crime?

You might be the only eyewitness to a damn murder But now you're locked up because they ran your background So there are people that legitimately don't call the police the other thing is when it comes to immigration This is something needs to be discussed more

If you're not an American citizen and you're in this country right now where you can be deported, literally taken away from your family anywhere you go, you go to the metro market to get some Ben gay.

You can go to metro market because you want to get some California peaches and they are in season.

You may never come back home again because ice may swoop you up.

So there are people who are insecure about their citizenship and sometimes they're the only witnesses to crime and they never reported because they're afraid if they reported that they're going to get deported.

So the sentiment that Linda has, I think that's one that is widely shared by a lot of African-Americans.

We're not anti-crime.

We're not anti-police, rather.

In fact, in some cases, when we get fed up, we want more police.

We want more law enforcement.

We want more laws.

Now, here's what would happen if we use Linda's example, because this has been tried before.

In fact, I think there's a parent couple that did not secure the firearms in their home and their teenage son.

Got a hold of that firearm and shot some kids at their high school and those parents are doing like five and 15 years Respectively or some something like that.

So that was an example of we're gonna hold these parents accountable Let's say we did something like that here kids go out to the state fair or whatever and they fight We cite the child here's what you can't do legally if someone didn't commit a crime

And I don't know how any defense attorney can probably get a parent's responsibility thrown out because the parent wasn't there.

They can have plausible deniability.

I don't know where my child was at.

I don't know they were going to fight.

I didn't commit the crime.

You can't hold me responsible.

But if a 15-year-old gets a $205 disorderly conduct ticket, chances are the parent is going to be financially responsible for it.

But if we held parents accountable, like your kid commits a crime, we're going to hold you also responsible.

So what is that going to do to the black community?

The mama, the daddy and the kid are all going to be incarcerated.

So there will be consequences to that.

But that's not getting to the root of the problem, because I don't know if y'all know this.

Having a whole bunch of laws to try and rectify people's behavior or curb some of their most outrageous tendencies.

It doesn't work.

It just locks up more people.

They don't change.

There's you can have the death penalty in a state you think that determines murder go look it up I'll let you do it y'all are smart people the states that have the death penalty still have the highs damn murder rates So more laws is not Is not the answer and locking up parents is not the answer which you're gonna have is a whole let's say we did that kid commits a crime misdemeanor car theft whatever up We're gonna hold the parents responsible to gonna give the parents two years gonna give the child three 30 years later

Everybody's gonna say oh my god these laws are racist against black children against black parents because look how many black people and parents were locked up We're just repeating history or like right in front of our own eyes.

I'm take a break come back talk to a couple folks on the other side I want to get to the bottom of this this damn If you're gonna fight just find it home I can invite somebody to come to your house or go somewhere go fight behind the school Under the bleachers or something

Why are you doing it in other places?

Why are you ruining somebody else's time?

But I also think it goes to show the sentiment and the mentality of these young people.

They don't care.

They don't care.

It's on site for them.

They see somebody they don't like.

They don't care who's around.

Y'all, they don't even care if the police are around.

I don't know about you all, but when I was younger, you know, in the 20th century, when the world was very different, I didn't want to get arrested by the police.

Sometimes we wouldn't even do anything wrong.

We see the cops and just start running Yeah, we don't want to chance it.

Let's just get out of here.

Oh, what is that a squad car?

Let's go the other way These kids will literally fight each other and pull guns on in front of the police Like that should be terrifying to all of us if you're dealing with a cohort of young people that aren't even afraid of the police if they're not scared of the police and the police can kill you The police can kill you and get vacation time.

The police can kill you and get duty disability

A cop can kill a person.

Say, oh, that was stressful.

I murdered somebody.

I'm sorry.

I shot somebody in the line of duty.

I'm so stressed out.

You know what duty disability is?

You give them $60,000 a year for the rest of their life health insurance and a full pension, and they don't have to be a cop anymore because killing somebody stressed them out.

I've seen it happen.

Have more conversation on the other side.

Millison and Linda, you guys stay put.

I'll come right back to you.

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Let's talk to Millison.

Hey, Millison, how are you?

I

am well.

How are

you

this morning?

Doing all right.

What do you think about all the

youth

violence

fights?

I agree with you about the parents being punished like that, but there is a way to get them.

And before I say what I'm going to say,

I don't want anyone to say what about the other kids because that's not our problem.

If your child is given a ticket for disorderly conduct and he's found guilty or if he gets into some kind of trouble and you're in public housing, you get food stamps, you get any public assistance, it should be cut off.

Because if I'm giving you taxpayer money to help you and you still can't control your children, you don't need that money.

That will eliminate this.

Once they find out you can't feed the other kids because your stamps, they taking it from your stamps, they'll fix it.

They'll fix it before taking them to jail.

They'll fix it then.

You find out you can't live in city housing or in section eight housing because your son is out here clowning or your daughter is out here clowning.

You'll fix that problem because you need some place to go and you have other kids.

What

about let me just play devil's advocate because not all of these parents that have unruly kids are receiving stamps in public housing might be a little bit of a stereotype.

What do you do with.

Parents could be a two-parent home.

They both work full-time and maybe they're just absent parents because they're working so much and they have a more How do you punish them because you can't take their mortgage if their kids are acting up?

You know that tax refund you get No, you don't get it You know all the things that the city gives you You do not get because even the people who don't need assistance

You still need something, whether it's your kid going to school.

You need something, but we have to take out trying to embrace these people.

They're not embraceable.

You're not going to fix them.

Just like you said, there's no changing them.

So any monies we're putting into them is a waste.

All right, let's leave it there.

Otherwise it's going to get weird.

Okay, thank you for your call that she just goes off on these her the longer she goes She's fantastic by the way, but the longer she goes the more punitive she gets eventually had I kept Millison on the phone for I don't know 90 more seconds Well, if you kids acting up we're not gonna plow your snow on your street and we ain't gonna pick up your garbage You gonna have to fend for yourself now if you

Take her original sentiment.

Okay, if you're receiving some kind of public benefit and your kids are acting up and you're receiving stamps and getting Public housing and we cut that off now.

You got to deal with a homeless problem And so I think that that would be compounding the issue So I don't think that you can you can do that some of it certainly is cultural where there's Because I try and Make sense out of this and I'm trying desperately.

That's why I'm reaching out to you all because maybe you all know something or see something that I can't

And I will admit, I sometimes have blinders on because I keep and maintain a high standard for black people, because I know that when you set a high standard for us, we exceed it.

But also, if you set a low standard for us, we'll go lower than that, you see.

And so I think that I have a real specific set of viewpoints on this.

I listen to...

Don't watch the social media content.

There's a whole bunch of Instagram and some of it is this social media You go out and you act a fool in public and you get the footage We just have this obsession with just seeing violence all up and down our timelines whatever And it's like when there's fights and there's violence going on the kids get excited like oh we outside It's lit out here.

I might

There's nothing lit about you all got to go home at 9 o'clock y'all went out there and you clothes That's the white people's fear.

They know black sponsors of the state fair I don't even know how many black vendors they have but that's neither here nor there.

That's them people's thing

Wisconsin State Fair is 170 175 years old where people go and they show their cows and their pigs and the sheep and they got auctions for the cows.

It's an agricultural exhibition.

That's their thing and I don't take that away from them.

Hell, I don't even have it in the city.

It's in West Dallas.

So we got to travel outside of where we live to go to their thing.

Let white folks have their damn thing.

We want to stay fair.

So let's have a black state fair.

Wait a minute.

Don't know if we won't necessarily have an auction because you never know what might get auctioned if we had an all black state fair.

I might buy one of y'all.

I'm put you to

good use Why you going out there you made them white folks go home an hour early on the last day of the fair But I knew something was up.

Let me tell you how I knew something was up because on on my Facebook timeline Anybody can he stay fair ticket like I saw this like

Flood of people asking and you know what kind of people asking for free who got stay fair tickets left over because I knew There's something was gonna happen on that last day because the other 1110 days Of the fair honestly people posting incessantly.

Oh, who's got tickets to the fair?

But it's always on that last day and that's when everything came to a head But if you think about it rationally imagine What's a black like Black Arts Fest MKE?

Or Juneteenth day and then I think we have like an African Celebration at one of the Milwaukee County parks could you imagine think for a second now?

Because I need us to be able to see both sides of the issue Let's say we have a black cultural exhibition and a bunch of white kids from Greendale Greenfield Oak Creek and Franklin descended on a beautiful black

event, a cultural exhibition of black culture where it's nothing but love and it's black.

Vendors and it's black art and it's black music and imagine a bunch of white kids came and fought and shut down our black cultural exhibition because you imagine if they had to close June 10th They died already ends early that they had to close it even earlier because a bunch of white kids from somewhere else Came into our neighborhood and ruined our cultural exhibition Do you know how mad we would be now?

I want you to empathize with them because every time a white person speaks out about our behavior

it ain't about race because quite honestly we would be even more angry.

A bunch of white kids came into our community and shut down an African World Festival or Black Arts Fest MK.

You think about how mad we would be that we want to play it all year to have our art on display.

We might have planned all year for this black arts and entertainment and cultural festival.

We might have planned all year to have some of those music acts performed.

And a bunch of white kids from the suburbs are coming out there and fighting and making us have to close early.

We'd be ready to burn a damn city down.

Think about that for a second.

Let's talk to Lisa.

Hey Lisa gonna one-on-one seven the truth.

How are you?

I'm good Sharon.

How are you

doing all right?

What's on your mind?

You know, that's a good idea We do need a black state fair, but I haven't been to state fair since I was seven or something Do I tend to go back?

No, never ever want to go back.

I have nothing to do with animals I don't want to smell and I don't want to see him.

Why do we have a black

state fair?

We don't got no we don't own farms.

Well, you know what?

You know, some people go, some black people go because they said they go for the ride.

I said, you don't lost your mind.

You're going to pay 25 hours of parking, 25 hours to get in.

You could go to Great America and ride all you want to all day long for a lesser price.

But anyway, um, I don't think we should, um, totally, we shouldn't pay a parent life parents for their children's bad behavior.

Let me tell you why.

because first of all, I had two parents, one strict one and one, you know, my mother was, you know, she was kind, just we harded and everything, but our parents discipline is, but my oldest brother, he was a problem.

He was always trouble.

Okay.

I feel, you know, and we were raised right.

Oh, God, we were raised right, but my brother was a comedian at school, you know, but we were raised right.

I feel these kids now fighting.

You could forget that.

And there was all type of gangs around, you know, they knew the gang members, but they weren't stupid enough to join the gang because then they had to meet the real gang leader and that was my father.

But anyway, you have these kids that go out here and they want to do stupid things like fighting.

What we should do is, and I think we should do this, we should get them into jail, you know, put them in jail, not amongst adults.

But put them in jail and then when you put them in jail, that's torture them.

Whoa, Lisa give you.

No, hold on.

This is how you torture them.

I'm going to give you two books.

You're going to learn reading and you're going to learn math.

I'm going to give you two books.

You're going to learn a book a week.

When you read that book, wait, you got to give me like a 10 page essay on that book math.

I'm going to give you algebra, geometry, trigger number three.

And I might throw in another math, whatever to torture you.

then test you on that.

Okay?

Then we're going to get together.

If the person you fought with is in a jail with you, we're going to, you know, put you guys together so you could talk it out.

You could, like I said, you could fight it out.

You could fight all day to get tired.

But at the end of the day, you're going to resolve your issue.

And you're going to be in a sale, a sale, your sale, 23 hours a day.

I might let you out to see some fun, but you will be there 23 hours a day.

Okay, we got to take

a break and I got another call on hold.

But we get your point torch room by

giving them

academic rigors and putting them in the cell with the person that they thought that's insane to me.

But also listen to what she's saying.

That's doubling down on incarceration, even though that idea is a little wild.

You're also going to find out these kids can't read.

They can't do geometry.

You can't.

Well, here, do this geometry, and then that's going to be your lesson.

I also come to find out that if you are the dumb kid in class, you get more attention.

You get more special need.

You get more special care.

You get the special classroom and stuff.

There's no one.

Here's the thing.

If you pretend not to know how to do your homework, the attention that you get, I think that's part of the addiction.

If you're doing everything you're supposed to do in the classroom you just continue on you just do the next chapter But if you don't get it if you don't understand if you can't pass they do all this stuff for you get catered to you get coddled to so there's almost an incentive To not want to be involved in your classwork I can't prove this but I do know that the amount of effort Resource and attention that we give to the kids that are not doing well for whatever reason I think that they see that you you get more out of not

doing your homework you get more you get oh what's wrong we gotta treat this one special let's put them in the special class and do all the special things and you have a shorter school day now we're gonna put you in alternative school and also there's utility in that because if I can illustrate there are a whole bunch of children that are under grade level in reading and math I get to ask you the public for more money and you cough it up every single time okay fall into that tree

So you got the kids, whether they're dumb or not, they'll play dumb to get special attention.

And then, of course, you'll have the district that'll say, we got a bunch of dumb kids.

We need more money.

And here goes the public coughing up more money and then have the nerve to complain about affordability.

You know how much money we could save if our kids could read?

We'd be running around here naked.

Well, maybe some of y'all would keep your socks on because some of y'all are weird like that.

You don't get fully naked.

You just leave your socks on.

But that's OK.

I'll take it.

If our kids could read.

And who do we blame for that?

The whites?

Racism?

Stay fair.

The truth with Sherwin

Hughes will be right back.

I'm looking at

the YouTube comments, and it's just prisons, prisons, build more prisons, build more prisons.

Y'all know that we cannot incarcerate our way out of this problem.

I thought we learned that.

Because all we gonna do sometime later, when all the data is needed out, these increased penalties, sending everybody to jail, sending the parents to jail.

Locking the kids up is gonna end up looking like a racial disparity even though it's this is the best part about this conversation It's black people that want the racial disparity and incarceration because black people want to get rid of some other black people It's also the same phenomenon where because I never really understood this until I looked at it in terms of of our community's perspective While you have some Latinos and Hispanics that are pro-trump and anti-immigrant

Don't make no sense right y'all all speak the same language y'all all eat pasteles y'all all eat empanadas y'all all eat What's the things in the corn husk tamales?

I love me a tamale by the way But yes some Latinos especially the Cubans they were like pro-trump like they wanted other Latinos out of this country because the fewer Latinos that are in this country illegally

the more economic opportunity there is for the Latinos that actually got their citizenship.

So I think there's some part of African American culture that wants to get rid of certain black people and we'll have these behavioral standards or whatever the standard is.

But whatever we can do to get rid of some of them because that gives more opportunity for the rest of us or maybe we think we can live in peace with less black people.

But then I would argue now you got to deal with more white people.

Let's talk to someone who I don't know.

You probably should live without him too.

Hi Bob.

How are you today?

I know you've got great answers for us.

Hello Sherwin.

You know, when I was a school bus driver in Milwaukee, I had to stop the bus once a week because the kids fighting.

And they said, ask me, don't put your hands on the kids because we got cameras on the bus.

We have to let you go.

I said, well, you don't have to let me go because I'm not going to sit down and write kids up.

And they beat each other up.

I'm going to say, one little girl said, I'm going to kill my daddy.

I said, you can kill your daddy, but sit down and stop hitting this boy.

And then they said, I was going to quit.

And then they gave me a mentally ill bus, a little bus.

Perfect bus

for you to

drive.

Cuz I didn't have no accident and I was in there the day and yeah, so Bob you were driving a short bus Not in the beginning I was driving a big bus and they walk

and then they put you on a short bus you so you was you was in the short bus

For the first year I was with the big bus and then I was on quick and then they put me in a

small but How long was you driving the short bus?

one year.

And I stopped, I quit the company because, and I went to Germantown.

Oh boy.

And do you know what was interesting?

So I don't know if it's the kids or the parents.

I didn't have to stop the bus one time.

Three years I drove the bus and then I had a stroke.

That Germantown the last year, I didn't have no faith.

Why do you think that?

Tell me why I mean They was all white kids I that's all I saw and they were mostly black kids in their walk

So you think it's

just a

rate hold on but I want to make sure we're clear here So you think it's just a race thing white kids are just better behaved at least on your school bus than black kids are so black kids are Inherently flawed when it comes to their behavior.

That's what you're saying.

I Think it's that era the era

It's different.

I went to the grocery store and I spent $99 and $98, 90 to 98.

And then I spent $140 this week.

I said, wow.

Hold on, Bobby.

Because this stuff, you're starting to

get into.

I'm going to take

this.

Hold on.

I need this to make sense to people other than just yourself.

You're talking about an era, right?

So the era refers to a period of time.

If the black kids is acting up and the white kids are not, the era is the same.

We're all in the same year.

The culture is the same.

The music is the same.

It's different, man.

And when I was in Illinois, black music cut off at 12 o'clock when I was young.

And that was it.

And then black music go all the way every 24 hours.

How

does that explain the white kids and their behavior being better?

And the black kids behavior being more poor because music used to cut off

at

12 o'clock back in the 60s

These white kids, they just don't fight them white kids didn't because they I mean they treated me like I ain't nothing What

grades were the kids?

What were the

ages?

They were both in high school and when they gave me the small bus I bought some toothpaste and I turned around and then kids was eating my

And standing up on the bus, so I had to stop the bus anyway, so I said, you know, and I should have stayed because I was Yeah, I could help the kids and no, you know, I

don't think so.

I don't even know if you can help yourself.

They were eating your tooth.

So wait, this is the short bus kids that I believe I believe they were eating the toothpaste on the short bus.

Yeah, and then standing up and walking.

I talked to them.

I just quit and I went to German town.

And then I didn't have to stop the bus and I drove for one year and had to scope.

Okay.

And

in

German time he was on a long bus, big bus, not a little bus.

Yeah, yeah.

And in the high school kid and they didn't fight.

And they looked at me like I was nothing.

You ain't nothing better than a little summer and I just smiled.

Some of them.

Spoke some of them because I wouldn't nothing

you're not Bob didn't the black kids also treat you like he were nothing because if you told him to shut up and to sit down and to stop fighting they wouldn't respect you correct

So the

black kids were nicer, but fought more the white kids fought less.

Oh, we

I'm not getting anywhere.

Here's the thing We don't have a solution is what I'm trying to illusory.

We have no idea what to do

take away the food stamps, lock up the parents, build more gyps, we don't know what to do and it's embarrassing because this is literally our future that we don't know what to do with.

A problem that we cannot solve.

The truth

with Sherwin Hughes will be back for hour two.

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Welcome to our three of the truth

With Sherwin Hughes, talking about data centers, I say build them.

Yeah, if it costs a little bit more, but look at the technology that we're getting.

And if the cost is diffused amongst millions of people, fair enough, like how much is our energy bill going to actually go up considering the utility that we get out of the technology?

It's not going to double it, but also I'm not in favor of, because this is a democracy.

Know some of y'all hate that word and Donald Trump has made democracy falling out of favor and I can tell the tail ain't gonna wag the dog here I'm gonna need y'all to understand that phrase that analogy that euphemism the smallest group is not gonna control The larger part of the whole it's not maga shouldn't control the Republican Party

DSA shouldn't control the damn Democrats.

And what somebody who lives in a rural community of 97 people, their sentiments should not impact the technological advancement of the other 5.9 million people in Wisconsin.

These are my sentiments.

You do not have to agree.

And because you don't agree doesn't mean you got to get angry and have any animosity.

I just have a different set of ideals than you will be fine.

But that's what we have fallen into.

The smallest, tiniest voices need to be elevated to such a way that they can diminish the impact to the larger part of our cities, our democracy, our state, our country, and our world.

No, thank you.

That is an issue.

These small extreme groups, whether it be political or people that are anti-technology or anti-development, of course people in small towns are gonna be anti-technology.

They're not very smart.

They're not.

Because if they were smart, they'd have left a long time ago.

I can say that because I don't have a lot of rural listeners in my program.

Well, if I did, I got less now.

I don't feel sorry for you.

Know what your political sentiments are.

I know how you feel about this city I know that you vote for legislators in outstate, Wisconsin for no other reason than to make sure Milwaukee gets punished Milwaukee doesn't thrive So do you think I feel sorry for you if they want to build a data center right across your face?

Not my problem.

I love data.

I use chat GPT a ton Sometimes I just see something I take a picture of it.

Hey chat GPT.

What is this?

Hi Sherwin.

This is a blah blah blah blah blah.

Thank you

Pay for it too.

I used to do it a free chat GPT and now I'm paying I'm in it worth every penny so good.

Oh Xavier stop it Dude, you got Starlink.

Everybody's fine.

Everybody's fine.

I drive a Tesla You use I want Starlink too.

I was looking at some of the Starlink plans.

I was like hmm 100 megabytes for $50 Well, well, well Elon now Elon

Says some things that aren't very nice.

He does say some racially insensitive things, but you know what I heard today I heard black people talking about what needs to happen to other black people to go just as far as what Elon Musk has said about Africans So you got to weigh the good with the bad.

You know what I mean?

Like black people we sometimes don't like blacks either

Sure when the solution is lock everybody up lock up the entire family take away their food stem take away their housing I literally heard somebody call today and say oh of your children act up make the parents homeless That's if a white person said that it would be racist right, but if a black person says it it's being tough on crime And I'm not judging either way Just come on guys Racine's own consolidated plan

Estimated Microsoft's investment could produce approximately 4,300 jobs, 2,300 construction, and 2,000 permanent positions, and noted Microsoft's partner with Gateway Technical College to train workers now and into the future.

A person living in Milwaukee, Waukesha, or Washington County can potentially work in construction on the data center.

provide engineering, electrical, plumbing, or HVAC services, work for a contractor supplying the project, obtain technology-related employment, operate a business supplying the facility, benefit from workforce training programs, sell goods and services to those construction workers and those people that work in the facility, benefit from the increased regional economic activity, it seems that we would benefit greatly.

way more than the people in that community, so I say build it.

Wisconsin is competing for the AI economy.

The data center itself is not the entire economic prize.

The larger question is, does Southeastern Wisconsin want to become one of the places where the next generation of computing infrastructure is built or not?

Wisconsin's Economic Development Agency explicitly says its data center initiative program is designed to attract the capital investment, the money, the resources, highly educated workforces, and high wage jobs associated with these new facilities.

Those are all wins to me.

Yeah, my we energies bill might go up a little bit.

You know how I can offset it, turn the temperature down a little bit in the wintertime, put on a blanket and a hoodie.

Oh, no, the data center is gonna make when we energy is coming.

They don't gotta be 72 degrees in your house in the wintertime.

72 is, you live if it says 70, you can save money.

Turn the thermostat down a little bit.

You don't need to have AC cranked up to whatever it's cranked up to.

Sweat a little bit.

Get you a little spray bottle if you get hot when you're sleeping in the middle of the night.

Turn air conditioning down a little bit if you're worried about the we energy's bills the way some of y'all The temperature you have in some of your homes.

You're paying a lot of money for that My house is insulated poorly I Got quoted on windows is like 13

grand.

I was

like nah I'm cool cuz I got weird custom window sizes and they got to make them all custom.

Oh But it'll save money in the long run

How much of a long run are we talking?

Oh, these windows will pay for themselves in 30 years.

It's either when I turn the air conditioning on.

It's either frostbite in my house and oh, it's too cold.

Let me turn the AC off.

Then it's Jamaican hot.

It's so it gets so hot.

Did I actually start speaking in Patois?

Well, I know turn it down heat doing give me some ox tails and some cabbage and some peas and riots Well, I want Jamaica and then I turn the AC on and then What does a cold person sound like can I say Eskimo Eskimo I can say I thought that they didn't like to be called that they build the igloos

Who said you can't calm that I don't know it's a political correctness of you can't call people Eskimos anymore.

You can't call little people midgets

political correctness is dead.

I think so

yes

I've noticed that but there's some words that I still can't bring myself to say You know like what?

I'm not gonna say cuz people get very angry over this word, but when I say it though

I'm just gonna let you guess.

I don't mean the word to degrade certain people of lower mental acuity.

You know what I mean?

Like, I don't mean it that way.

Tell them what the R word.

I'm saying that all the time.

I mean, who says it all the time?

I do.

No.

Not on the air.

Yeah, no.

They don't, you know what I'm supposed to say.

But sometimes it's the only word that fits and I don't mean it to like degrade people You know what I mean like that's no no no no not them, but there's some people That act they're smart It's worse if you're smart and act on if you know better and just don't do better.

That's just Hoof.

Ah, yeah, yeah, I don't like that people don't use their common sense common sense isn't common

And Microsoft has already completed its first Mount Pleasant facility, which calls, which it calls the Fairwater AI data center.

Microsoft says the facility is intended to power the next generation of artificial intelligence and innovation and create long term economic opportunities locally.

Like why are we mad at that?

If Wisconsin becomes a major AI infrastructure hub.

There can be second-order benefits.

AI data center, construction, utilities, engineering, technology, workforce, suppliers, startups, research, and additional investment will follow.

Could Milwaukee County residents be adversely affected by a data center being built in Racine?

Yes.

But the mechanism is important.

A Milwaukee resident is not going to experience a Racine County data center simply because there's a large building in Racine.

The potential regional impacts are primarily electricity infrastructure.

This is probably the single most important regional issue.

Large AI facilities consume enormous amounts of electricity around the clock.

Wisconsin's regulators recognize this explicitly.

The Public Service Commission said,

Data centers are large enough that their demand can affect generation and transmission infrastructure.

And it's April 2026 decision specifically addresses the risk that costs associated with serving data centers could be shifted to existing customers.

But if we're using the technology, shouldn't some of the cost be shifted to us?

But then also you can require with regulation and very.

Careful policy for these data center companies like Microsoft to foot the bill for the increased infrastructure that we need.

We need to upgrade our infrastructure.

Anyway, Joe Biden told you that with the infrastructure bill, our electric electricity grid is old as antiquated.

It can be hacked.

We got to upgrade and why not upgrade it for the sake of this new technology.

So you're not going to get me to be against the data.

So now I'm going to give you now there's some cons obviously.

But in the grand scheme of things, bringing billions of dollars to Wisconsin and having Wisconsin be known for something, being known as a tech hub where we can get engineers and high income people and highly educated people to come here and to move to Wisconsin and to buy houses and to pay more property taxes and to spend their big fat AI data center.

Paychecks and then pay more income taxes and pay more sale taxes.

Ladies and gentlemen, that's the net positive.

I'm sorry if you live in a rural community We got to do something with your land.

You ain't farming on it Got all this land just sitting there.

All you're doing is walking around barefoot in the tulips No, we need that land for technology because I like chat GPT and I need a place to store all my photos I'd rather store my photos right there in your backyard in a data center.

I need to store the photos got had a cloud

No, Sherwin, but the data centers are gonna hurt the rural people the rural people have been trying to hurt us with their vote for the last three generations Well that no you have to feel sorry for small-town rural folk.

No the hell I don't I mean, I think the only reason why I feel sorry for them because I come to find out they don't have enough dentists There's not more dentists need to be in rural areas because their teeth are jacked You gotta have teeth.

I like my teeth.

I brush my teeth at least two times a day

People that say they brush their teeth three times and that's weird.

That's an obsession.

Who brings a toothbrush to lunch?

You have a compulsion.

You don't want to brush them too much.

You got two times a day is good.

Brush them in the morning time.

Got to get that plaque.

Got to get that tartar.

Okay, then you go through your day, eat your little lunch, go through your day, eat your little dinner, have your little snacks.

You guys like little Debbie's.

Some of y'all like cream pies.

You like cream pies Xavier you like cream pies Yeah, I love cream pies You ever you ever make one they're not probably not very difficult to make when you think about it Just oatmeal cookie with some cream in the middle.

Yeah, I've made a lot of cream pies Okay, so whatever you have your little cream pies and then this is nighttime It's nighttime and you got to go to sleep.

You got to have a routine.

I Like to take my showers at night.

I like to wash off the day's dirt

Take my shower I Brush my teeth and I start my wine down Watch me a little television.

Maybe watch me some educational so I have smart dreams And I go to sleep and I brush my teeth two times I Haven't had a cavity since I was 31 and when I got that cavity of 31 I was very angry.

It was a small cavity It was one of those cavities like oh you got a small cavity it can wait until your next dentist appointment You better get this Joker now like oh, no, it's tiny

Don't tell me that.

I don't like that.

Oh, we don't have to worry about it yet.

Well, I'm gonna worry for the next six months dentist.

Feel this Joker.

And it's not even that bad.

It is drilled it out.

Once you get over the sound of the drill.

It's not that bad.

You

smell a little smoke.

That's all right.

It's just your tooth.

I enjoy the dances.

I do too.

I fall asleep in a dentistry.

It's easy to do I used to be afraid.

I don't even know where my fear the dentist even came from But not cuz I get a text message.

Oh sure when it's time for your you know your check I'll

damn near fall asleep in the barber chair.

I Don't worry about that.

Oh

You don't have them shape up your beard.

I do.

No,

let nobody know

professionally shave your head

It

doesn't you don't need a professional for that

Oh, it's a whole treatment.

You know, they get all the dead skin off.

You know,

I got a luffa.

I don't need nobody rubbing on my head like that.

But I also don't.

I don't want a professional massage either.

You don't like massages?

I don't want no stranger rubbing on me.

I don't know you.

That's gross to me.

I'm serious.

Yeah, I don't like

it.

So you never got a massage?

Never, ever.

I've had somebody offer to pay.

Like if they were too adamant about it, that's why it sounded even more weird.

Oh my God, Sherwin, you've never had a massage.

Here, I'll pay for it.

I'll pay for it.

Get naked and a person walks in and they're going to they're going to oil you down and rub on you.

I couldn't.

Like get out of my head enough to actually enjoy a stranger rubbing on me and it's with women too.

They'd love to get massages Yeah, but if a strange man in any other context even brushes up against them they quick to call them some kind of a sexual assaulter, but we'll let a straight Weirdo stranger oils them up.

Uh-uh.

Well, I've never gotten a massage by a male, but you know next time in your Vegas I have a few spots for

you

You ain't gotta go to Vegas for a tug.

There's tugs all over the place.

Oh, I didn't know that.

Let's see if somebody's calling right now.

Look who's calling.

I know he knows about tugs.

I'm gonna take a commercial break, come back and grab a telephone call.

I am not opposed to data centers and because a small town might see some adverse impact, sometimes to move the needle forward and to provide technology and to provide...

High-end jobs and provide all of the other benefits that can come sometimes You know you got to take the good with the bad But I'm not gonna be over here concerned about what's happening in small towns the small towns ain't got no kind of concern for us I say build it because I need somewhere to store my food photos because when I go out to eat I got to take a picture of my damn food and that photo got to be stored somewhere You got to put it in the cloud and if the cloud happens to be in your backyard Mr. And Mrs. Johansson, what do you want me to do?

Maybe you should have moved.

Oh,

you're one of those people that take photos of their food

It's delicious and the presentation is nice absolutely because I like to recommend restaurants and one and but I'm not one of those weird food reviewers because all that stuff is That stuff is fake because there's some food reviewers.

I'm not gonna name any names They love everything that they eat oh ten out of ten ten out of ten first of all Nothing is a ten out of ten.

There's not that many restaurants

that are 10 out of 10 because I've been to some of those restaurants that these fake food reviewers give a 10 out of 10.

You know what they do?

They extort restaurant owners.

How do I know?

Because my friend that owns a very popular restaurant gets extorted by food reviewers all of the time.

Here's what they say.

We're going to come to your restaurant.

We're going to order an unlimited amount of food.

You're the restaurant owner.

You're going to pay for it.

You give us $900 on top of all the free food and all the free drinks.

And we'll give you a positive review or we'll come to your restaurant We'll order a limited amount of food probably won't tip your servers and we'll give you a bad review And it will impact your business the choice is yours.

He has to set money aside to be Extorted from these damn food reviewers.

So when you see these it's a whole like a hustle It's a whole hustle you extort and some of these restaurants.

I know the um

Oh, come on now, 60th and North Avenue, the Asian joint.

It's the Asian, come on now, the Asian buffet, the Vietnam restaurant.

They told a food reviewer to screw off.

But they know what they got, though, over at the Asian joint.

What is the name of that joint?

Y'all know what I'm talking about.

It's right there on the northeast corner of 60th and North Avenue, right there, a little Asian restaurant.

Got a little buffet.

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right, somebody stand.

Y'all gonna run out of water.

This is also probably coming from somebody who's an anti-vaxxer.

We're gonna, how you gonna run out of water?

You can't.

You know that the amount of water that has always been on earth is the same amount of water that's always been on earth.

You know water doesn't disappear.

You know that?

When somebody told me that, it kind of blew my mind a little bit.

The water in the oceans evaporates, turns into clouds.

Clouds get saturated.

Water comes right back down to form a rain.

Same thing, but if it's in the wintertime and the colder climate, the same precipitation comes down to snow.

Guess what?

You drink water as a human being comes out in the form of urine.

Same water coming right back out.

Water doesn't, same amount of water, water ain't going nowhere.

Water don't disappear.

You know what else blows my mind if you guys are into things that are really screw your brain up.

I would say look it up, but the explanation is going to defy human comprehension.

Watch a YouTube video on what is called 52 factorial.

You're going to be blown away.

It's written 52 with an exclamation point called 52 factorial.

It's very simple.

It tries to conceptualize or give you an idea of how many different.

Configurations a playing card deck can be in when you shuffle it right you have Four suits right you got your jacks your Queens your Kings What am I missing Jack King Queen I guess ace ace of the face card and Then you've got all the numeric values of the clubs and the diamonds and the hearts and spades and you shuffle it up

So basically whenever you shuffle a deck of cards, that particular comedy, if you lay all the cards out and you look at the order in which they happen to be in just randomly and you shuffle it again, that is the only time in the course of human history that those cards have ever been in that order.

If you shuffle them again, it has never been duplicated.

So 52 factorial, since we're talking about stuff that blows your mind a little bit.

It's crazy.

I just was like, talk about a rabbit hole.

I don't go down rabbit holes.

Very often because I fear I may never come back.

But the 52 factorial rabbit hole is insane.

So it basically says so to try and conceptualize the numbers like 10 to the 64th power times.

It's insane.

It doesn't make any sense if you look at how they try to write it down with a number of zeros.

If you.

How does it work?

Every one billion years.

OK.

You take.

a single step Okay, so a billion years passes you take one step By the time you have made it all the way around the earth's equator that's 25,000 miles now remember you're taking a single step every billion years you still aren't even a tenth of the way of All the different combinations a card that can be shoveled in so then they say after you've taken one step every billion years by the time you get

All the way around the earth here's what you do you take a spoon and you take one spoonful of water out of all of the oceans Okay, it's every billion years now.

So every step is a billion years once you get around the earth once now you start to empty the oceans By the time all of the oceans are empty You're still not even halfway there and then you got to put the water back in the ocean and then use the next one is you take every

Billion years you take another step put a stack of paper on the ground Every one billion years put another stack of loose leaf paper on the ground by the time that paper stack reaches the moon You're barely halfway there of the different combinations of shuffled deck and being and I just went down this rabbit hole It was just insane.

I was like a billion years between steps other way a minute What about a billion years around the earth?