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At the end of the year, sometimes it's on New Year's Eve.
If I'm broadcasting on New Year's Eve or whatever the last broadcast day is for a calendar year, I have a format for that show.
And I think a lot of other hosts may do the same thing, but I actually take pride.
in this format of the last show of the calendar year because I do a year in review and because we talk about so many things on this program and on other programs and other outlets in which you get your media it's very easy to forget about some of the stories that transpired over a calendar year because we really do live in a 24-hour news cycle.
I wake up every single morning
and just expect for news to break while I was sleeping and more often than not, it does.
It could be something in Milwaukee, something elsewhere in the state, in the region, nationwide.
Please don't forget we are in a war with Iran right now, so there's always something happening.
And to the extent of those things that are happening are relevant to us, important to us, and can give us some guidance or some clarity, I like to talk about said stories.
This will be my opinion.
One of the most monumental news years, at least since I have been paying attention daily, which goes back even further than when my broadcast career started.
It's insane to me that in August, I am starting to make notes on some of the stories that I'm going to be talking about.
In December, the year is not even over yet.
And actually, some of the biggest things that have yet to transpire in the calendar year of 2026 are still on the books.
David Crowley might get elected governor.
The Democrats may shift the balance of power in the Wisconsin State Assembly, maybe in the state Senate, in the House of Representatives and the U.S.
Senate at the federal level.
Donald Trump may be getting impeached all over again.
And that's the stuff that still has yet to happen.
So I'd imagine when some of those things I just mentioned come to fruition, I think some of them probably will.
David Crowley might get elected governor.
The Democrats may get legislative control.
Over state governments and maybe even the federal government that's probably gonna consume a lot of our conversation as well because that's gonna be important and relevant to us But when we're talking about those things in the next couple few months and toward the end of the year I don't want us to Forget or overlook all of the things that
Also took place in the year 2026 as I'm thinking about how monumental of a news year this is going to be We're probably gonna talk about the violence that we saw this summer.
Maybe we remark on the homicide rate I'm sure we're gonna talk about the teen takeovers the first one which kind of kicked everything off was the one that they had in Bayshore in April and then of course a couple of Milwaukee County Parks and Sherman Park and let's not forget about
Brady Street and Water Street and Brady Street even try to put up some signage didn't they?
rules of conduct on Brady Street All the different conversations that we have had about what do we do about the young people?
Those are gigantic news stories that I don't want us to forget as we get inundated with all of this political stuff Another gigantic story.
I think I'm making note of this now just to put it out there in the
In the atmosphere because these stories are going to come back around we're gonna look back on 2026 as being just one of those years almost like a a hybrid version of 1968 considering all of the the political activities plus flock cameras so 1968 levels of major transformation in American society plus surveillance.
Oh, by the way, we have a
a YouTube poll question up for you.
It's something that we do pretty much every day because, you know, we here have inquisitive temperaments.
How often do you use the AI?
I'm going to get to it later on in the program, but I got some suggestions and questions and a whole bunch of curiosities about how often you use the AI because some of you hate the AI very much.
You don't like it.
It's very bad.
It takes all of the water.
It takes up all of the farming land and it's gonna make your we energies bill go up to 48 million thousand dollars every single month, but how often do you use it?
I'm very curious because we do have our Stances and our opinions on data centers.
Let me be clear You all have your opinions and stances on data centers.
I say build them build them and they will come Listen, I have to have a lot of cloud storage because first of all
My phone is getting full here.
You know how many pictures of restaurants and food items I have in my phone?
That stuff's got to get stored somewhere.
Why not store it in Manit's Walk in somebody's backyard in a data center?
I don't live in Manit's Walk.
Don't get mad at me.
But how often do you use the artificial intelligence?
Because what I'm trying to do is get a little juxtaposition here.
And of course, our YouTube polls are about as unscientific as you can possibly get, because I find it so interesting and ironic that some of the same people who may see the pitfalls of our overuse of artificial intelligence, particularly how it can be exploited for bad, they may be against building these mega data centers, which very well could be environmental disasters.
But the information that they are getting about how to push back on the treachery that a data center is, I bet people are using artificial intelligence and AI websites and applications to get their damn information on how you push back on a damn data center.
I find it so incredibly rich.
But that's going to be a big conversation toward the end of the year as well as we're recapping the biggest stories of 2026.
Of course, there was what happened in midtown.
a couple of meetings that should have just been boring town hall style meetings where the alderman is hosting with a couple of other city officials with some shreds and some schematics and some blueprints of what a development is going to look like let's keep in mind the midtown development for all intents and purposes it's dead
I don't get revived.
I'm sure at some point, but when it gets revived, it will look a lot different than the original plan.
Most of that midtown development, for those that were overly concerned about the 19,000 square foot computer research facility of 160,000 square foot overall development, most of that development is going to be housing.
But the housing as of right now is not even getting built.
Isn't that crazy?
Because they're worse on people.
Caught up in this political hoopla being anti data center anything that they can even remotely tie to or call a data center anything with a damn computer there was a segment of Individuals a very specific Political group I'll call them.
They were very anti that idea in that development They came in they killed the whole thing another monumental story of 2026 will be Francesca home Her work is not done
I think that she has elevated and platformed not just herself, but democratic socialism.
And you will notice it is being elevated and platformed all over the country.
You may get more than one democratic socialist affiliated US senator to join Bernie Sanders.
Just as Bernie Sanders is reaching the end of his life, he's finally going to get a couple of more allies in Congress.
Potentially one of those states is our friend across Lake Michigan, Michigan itself.
And then potentially with candidate Nixon in Florida, I believe that she also identifies with Democratic socialists as well.
So their rise in popularity is going to be one of those stories that we will not ignore as we're recapping what I believe is going to be a monumental year with most of the overwhelming things that are going to take place this year are coming up in the next couple of months.
So this is going to be one hell of a year.
Let me tell you the best part about all of it.
We get to talk about it We get to agree disagree sometimes laugh Sometimes get very very angry about these topics because we are fortunate in a way That a lot of people are not we still have local journalism outlets here in the city of Milwaukee and we are particularly fortunate as an African-American community
to have not just journalism with the Milwaukee Courier, not just radio stations with WNOV and 101.7 to have these discussions about what is going on, not just in the whole world, but what's going on right here.
We are incredibly fortunate.
So I'm going to take a break when I come back.
I'm going to explain a phenomenon to you that I have been noticing, but now it's reaching a fever pitch.
And then I want to show you.
what the results of this thing is going to ultimately pan out to be.
I know I'm being very cryptic.
It's going to make sense to you in a little while, but you've got to listen very, very closely.
Local journalism is exceptionally rare.
In fact, you have got hundreds of counties that have none.
You understand it?
Zero, zero newspapers, zero radio stations.
And this means that residents, citizens,
Voters aren't getting information at the end of the day Yeah, we have a lot of fun here and we giggle and we laugh and Bob will call and then Al will call and we have a great time But at the end of the day us having this outlet not just this one, but others Where we can have these discussions where we can get information where we can interview people and talk to people we can surveil political power
Now, some of you may recall, I was very critical of David Crowley's campaign when he was running in the primary because his campaign sucked and nobody thought that he would be able to pull off the victory that he did.
I'd like to say that we were in fairly decent hands because he did win that primary, but it was just not probable.
One of the things that I did is I held his campaign accountable.
And if his campaign, in my opinion, was not meeting the mark, then I would simply move.
My political affiliation to somebody else, but that is what we do here.
We are fortunate that we have this luxury because there's a whole bunch of places in America that do not have the ability to have these conversations.
I'd like to think that we learn and we grow and some of y'all have become more political.
Now I was taking 15 years of my life to get some of you to vote, but welcome.
We're glad that you've decided to participate.
We've had a lot of discussions about rural America having well, you know how I feel about rural America just a bunch of land go get it you know what I mean go colonize it rural America can't fight back They're uninformed they're misinformed and they have no mechanisms To surveil power
that is coming into their communities and essentially taking it.
Think about what an AI data center could bring to a rural area.
They bring lawyers, they bring lobbyists, they bring consultants, and they can overwhelm that little town council, can't they?
And they can exert a tremendous amount of political influence on those handful of county board supervisors.
But if there's no local newspaper saying, well, what is this going to cost our community?
What are the benefits for the taxpayer?
Well, when are the the town hall meetings going to be held?
Because if there is no local journalism, then those rural residents can become victims.
And that is exactly what's happening.
I got three specific stories that show.
How the lack and loss of local journalism is Shredding the social fabric and the political fabric of rural America and everybody is going to exploit them the data centers are one Conservative Republicans are another and even a story that I have right here where white nationalist takeover plot for rural America Was exposed they had a meeting in Rome white American white nationalist
Had a meeting in Rome, Italy and said that it's a godsend that there is no local journalism and some of these rural communities that are majority white and very conservative voting because they can plot plan and recruit and there's no local reporter covering the story
rural America is fast approaching the next generation of n-words because they are devoid of information of they and they're being exploited left and right It's why David Crowley is gonna spend a whole bunch of time in some of these small towns in rural counties because they don't really get political information from their local journalism because they don't have it Fascinating stuff.
We're gonna talk about all of it today.
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You're listening to the truth with Sherwin Hughes and I am glad to be here I'm glad that we have this this outlet to have these conversations.
I'm glad that we collectively
as a community, a city, a state, a region can surveil power because I'm going to tell you what, let one of these elected officials get too big for their bridges.
We'll bring them back down, won't we?
We'll hold the mayor accountable.
We'll hold the county executive accountable.
We'll hold members of the common council accountable, the county board accountable.
We do that here because we still have local journalism and I'm proud to say I've been a part of it for a very long time.
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Welcome back to the program So when I saw this this article because I got a comb through a bunch of news websites today is one of those days where I didn't go to my standards and the standards are Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which is hit or miss I maybe get To a good week might might be three useful stories
Written in the journal Sentinel that that I may share with you all but what I do is I editorialize The journalism I have to demystify it because the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has had a problem for many many years if not many decades and so when Eugene Kane Stopped writing his columns in the journal Sentinel probably getting close to ten years ago may he rest in peace
There was no perspective on behalf of African Americans.
It's just it wasn't represented.
And the stories that appear in the Journal Sentinel are more palatable and speak more directly to what used to be a much larger majority of white folks, not just in the city of Milwaukee, but Milwaukee County and even the surrounding areas where a lot of people got.
Their news if you lived in the metro area of southeastern Wisconsin and because we as black people were not just a numeric Minority we weren't really of that much political influence as time has gone on We've become much more much much more political influential But the stories that reflect the positive nature of our community and the positive forces that black people can exert on politics because the white folks they go they're insane
They'll do insane things.
They will.
We have to sometimes hold the middle of American politics together.
Because if you let white folks, if you let MAGA and the Democratic Socialists create policy for this country, it would be civil war.
We need black folks to be the fulcrum.
in the middle to kind of balance this theater totter of white folks and their arguments amongst one another, which black folks really don't want to have nothing to do with.
Just let us get a little bit of money, a little nice little job, nice little pension, nice little car, let us buy ours and leave us out of it.
And so they have not, the General Sentinel does not do, in my opinion, the best job of being reflective of African American perspectives and even when they try to.
And this is the problem with white owned media.
And I'm going to say it because y'all need to hear it.
And it's the damn truth.
White people who live very particular lives that are sheltered but they don't know they're sheltered because they can theoretically do anything except have to adopt somebody else's philosophy and empathize with minorities.
They can do everything else.
It's almost like if you're a white business owner, the dentist is usually a good example.
You want to help black people have nice teeth.
You open up a dentist's office somewhere in the hood.
You don't have to know anything about those people.
You don't have to know anything about how the funding formula and the funding flaw has undervalued and under resourced their schools.
You don't have to know anything about housing covenants and how black people were literally legally kept out of buying homes and getting equity and having assets.
You don't have to know anything about that.
You don't have to know anything about...
Bell Phillips where father groppy or open open housing marches.
You don't have to know anything about that, but you can open up your dentist's office in a black community and people will shower praise on you like, Oh my God, that is so wonderful.
You could open up your dental practice anywhere, but you're going to where the blacks are and you can get praise showered on you and you know literally nothing about the people whose teeth you are going to fix.
Very frustrating for me.
You'll get praised for your ignorance keep this in mind and so when white people sometimes they come around and they think Wow, maybe we should offer Opportunities for black people to tell their stories.
Maybe we'll sponsor or contribute to a black journalist or a black newspaper It's like a hobby for them or maybe just maybe we'll even start a black radio station.
Here's what the problem is
In order to be a part of that, you have to meet their definition of what is safe and acceptable.
And if you don't, then you're not going to get the opportunity.
Like white people, they're a very interesting group, aren't they?
They should be studied a little bit more than they are.
A lot of times they go unexamined and the influence that they have often goes overlooked.
They still want to have a tremendous amount of control over information.
So even when white people are a part of black media, there is something that is deodorized and sanitized about the authenticity of those black media personalities because they know that if they go too far and tell too much truth that they will lose their job.
So it's oftentimes very disingenuous.
And the journal Sentinel does that.
So when they get black reporters, these black reporters have got to have a depth of experience, not just in going to predominantly white institutions for their education, but their resume needs to be filled with things that are recognizable to white people.
Then they'll give you the opportunity as the black journalist.
So even when that black journalist writes, they are somewhat pigeonholed and we're still not getting the information that we need.
And so that's why I say I maybe only get two or three stories.
From the journal Sentinel, but then I got to demystify and I got to explain it to how and why it's relevant to black people because the journal Sentinel is not going to put a story in their newspaper that's already demystified and relevant to black people you understand it and then they're wondering why their damn subscriptions are are dwindling and nobody's signing up for that Now they get a slick with it though.
They owe this story is behind a paywall You pay $199 a year and you can have access to this story
Nope.
I don't pay for it.
But when I come into this studio, good karma brands pays for it.
So I mean, you know, it is what it is.
It's crazy because the New York Times, which is a much more significant publication.
It's like four bucks a month, but the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is 200 bucks a year.
You're
dope.
So.
I'm, I'm combing around.
And my usual websites are, you know, CBS 58 TMJ for sometimes our former colleagues over a TMJ 6 20.
They do a fairly good job of updating their websites with relevant stories, because at least their stories are more Milwaukee centric.
So I got to go through all these damn websites and find out, you know, what's relevant, what makes sense, what is tied to our community and what's going to have consequences for us.
I'm going through all these damn websites and sometimes locally, it's just nothing.
Murder here Carjacking over here a teen takeover.
That's a story about that a couple of videos about the weather boring so then I expand my search And I came across this one it appears in raw story.com So just know that I prefer to start with what is happening here locally in Milwaukee
Because that keeps us informed about what's going on right here in our backyard and remember We have to surveil power.
What are these people doing?
What company is trying to come into Milwaukee?
Who's trying to buy some some land to build housing?
We have to talk about that stuff because that can have an impact on us an impact on our tax base an impact on our future you see
But every so often, there'll be a story that exists outside of our little local bubble here in this little podunk town.
But we've got a lot of good restaurants, though, for a little small podunk town.
And you can tell by the number of fat people.
And I say fat affectionately.
I will always identify with the fats.
For the first time in human history, more people are dying from eating too much than eating too little.
Something to be said about progress.
So I go to rawstory.com cuz I got a couple of national news outlets and websites that I check out and this one jumps out of me and the title is White nationalist takeover plot for rural America Exposed after secret Rome meeting.
So this is the title of the article I see in big bold letters So obviously I'm intrigued and I'm enticed and then I dig in The article begins by saying
White nationalist leaders gathered in Rome Italy this year to map out how they could exploit America's collapsing local news industry openly celebrating the death of community journalism as a golden opportunity to organize Unchecked in rural areas ladies and gentlemen, this is this is the entire story
When local journalism dies and when reporters get laid off in newspapers and some of these small towns shut their doors there becomes an Information vacuum and I need you to understand me.
I'm gonna go into some detail about this because you have to know What I'm about to share with you because this explains the death of our democracy democracy thrives on one thing and one thing only and it ain't money It's information
and when you don't have local journalism to hold people accountable and to surveil the powerful then the powerful can be exploitative and corrupt because no one is holding them accountable not to mention if there is no information you gotta remember some of these public schools and rural areas them students can't read either now they're suffering just as bad as we are here in the city
And I'd argue that they need information more than anybody else because they have less opportunity.
You can be uninformed and poor in the city of Milwaukee and still actually do reasonably okay.
You got transportation that's available to you.
You got all sorts of benefits you can get.
You can get rent assistance.
You can get energy assistance.
You can feed yourself and feed your family.
If you're in a rural area, you oftentimes don't have...
all those benefits available to you.
And then if you lose your source of local journalism, when the big data center people come in, you don't even know how to hold them accountable because nobody is writing the story of how these big companies and corporations are going to exploit the hell out of those people.
But when there is no local journalism, they essentially get a free pass.
I got another story here from this fellow named Arch Alplin III.
You know him?
Sound like a good old redneck, huh?
Arch Alplin III.
from Texas big old Trump big old Ken Paxton supporter big Trump or big Trump donor he supports all the Trump candidates and the worst the candidate the more money arch Alplan the third gives of these candidates guess what he does for a living he owns Bucky's guess what he said he said he loves rural areas
He loves building buckys in small towns in conservative states because he can exploit the hell out of their lack of information and their cheap labor.
Don't worry.
We're going to talk about that, too.
And some of y'all are excited that a bucky's is coming into the Franklin.
I ain't going to no damn bucky's.
I don't even go to a quick trip.
Oh, you
Where do I
I don't know.
It's out of state.
The one I went to was in Colorado.
Oh, yeah, I
You mean to get a ding for that?
I'll go to gas station.
I don't support foreign oil.
Take a break.
Come back.
White nationalist leaders gathered in Rome, Italy this year to map out how they could exploit America's collapsing local news industry, openly celebrating the death of community journalism as a golden opportunity to organize.
unchecked in rural areas.
You know who else hates the media?
You know who else hates journalism?
Trump.
You wonder why that is?
Because when they go away and when media is discredited, Donald Trump can do whatever he wants to do.
And guess what?
It's working.
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for real sports via YouTube says No doubt about it if we want our photos and files We have to have data centers, which is fine as long as it's environmentally safe and they provide jobs and pay taxes
Here's the thing for real sports.
I'm going to go ahead and make an assumption and you're not supposed to make assumptions, but I'm going to make one.
You probably don't live anywhere near where a data center is going to be built.
So if there are some environmental impacts, it's not going to necessarily affect your environment.
So that's so this legitimate criticism and argument.
But why are you speaking on behalf of people that live in those neighborhoods and those communities?
And I ask that question because they never speak on behalf of us.
When black neighborhoods got destroyed to build highway systems not just in Milwaukee you ever notice if you're on 43 north or south and let's start you at say North Avenue and you're going north or south on 43 Let's say you're going toward Glendale or you're coming from Glendale going downtown and as you were proceeding either north or south and you see the different freeway exits you see North Avenue you see Locust you see the Atkinson
exit going north or south if you look to your left and if you look to your right there's houses neighborhoods freeway goes right right through the middle of that neighborhood we used to live there our homes our businesses let me tell you what made it worse because of the housing covenants that were in full effect when that freeway was built if you were black and you lost your home
You couldn't even live in Glendale.
You couldn't even live in Brown Deer.
You couldn't live in Oak Creek, Franklin, St.
Francis, Shorewood, Cudahay, or the worst housing covenants were while with Tulsa.
They would not allow you by law.
Your house just got destroyed, got taken by eminent domain, and you can't even live in the community that that freeway is going to connect.
Do you think that rural Wisconsinites?
protested on behalf of us losing our property, they did not.
In fact, they have continued to vote against their and our best interests.
And I just find it interesting though.
Sure, when it's going to kind of take up all of their farmland, so develop it.
You're not going to stop the expansion of technology.
And what I cannot do, and this is just me being sure when he was being objective, going to have a level of sympathy for people who live in a town of 400 who still think that Donald Trump is the second coming of Christ, but then tell, you know, these powerful interests.
No, don't do that to those poor world people.
I need somewhere to store my photos.
They'll be fine.
They'll have the waters, they'll be fine, they'll get some water, and they'll just recycle the water for the cooling.
I don't have any kind of an issue with it, but just the irony of it, because those people have rarely, if ever, been helpful to an agenda in urban areas.
And they did this, like, black neighborhoods and community, because we've always lived next to highways and freeways.
That's where they usually put black neighborhoods.
Also, do a little research on what is called...
environmental racism right where black neighborhoods are Where they're developed Freeways cuz free like the exhaust from vehicles black kids have higher rates of asthma and die from asthma at higher rates than Any other racial group that is because of some environmental racism where there were brownfields where there was toxic waste where there were Companies and factories a century or more ago.
They didn't have any
Idea of environmental regulation.
They would just dump poisonous chemicals right on the ground dump them into the rivers a lot of times African Americans would Our neighborhoods would be where the ground and the water was most poison and we have the the health disparities that is reflective of that and they never cared about the environment in which We were in so why do we all of a sudden care about the environment that they ran unless you guys are something like great Humanitarians, whatever and you just have a bleeding heart for the world
Environmental racism has had a real serious impact on life expectancy of African Americans.
But they've never said a single thing about it.
They've never come to our aid.
They've never come to our defense.
They've never even supported candidates that wanted to push back and fight back on the environmental racism that has been impacting African American folk yet for some reason.
We now care more about their damn environment than they ever cared about ours.
No, thank you.
That's not how the world works because here's what I have found.
Even if you say, you know what Sherwin?
It's a different day and we're more enlightened now and we don't want anyone to be hurt to be harmed and exploited You know what?
It's not fair to these small-town Podunk white folks in rural America who have lost their local journalism who don't even have the means and tools to fight back against some of these powerful corporations that want to extract their land and take their water We need to be on their side.
Okay, fair enough.
I'll humor you
Go out there and help them.
Go organize them.
Allow these rural people to push back against some of these interests that are coming exploiting their land and exploiting their cheap labor.
You go ahead, be from the city and go out to these small towns anywhere in Wisconsin and fight on behalf of those people.
And maybe you score a victory for them.
and they can shock that victory up to pushing this data center out because of all the black people and the brown people from the city of Milwaukee that were going to stand in defense of these rural residents in small town Wisconsin and yay, we pushed the data center out.
They're still going to vote for Trump.
Yeah,
sir.
Pick your poison, though.
White nationalist leaders gathered in Rome Italy this year to map out how they could exploit America's collapsing local news industry openly celebrating the death of Community journalism as a golden opportunity to organize unchecked in rural areas Phil Williams a legendary local reporter from Nashville reported the development for the Confront which is a hate sub stack
You know, Substack is a app or a site where you can just publish all sorts of blogs and websites, etc.
At an invitation-only retreat hosted by white nationalist publisher Counter Currents inside the Rome headquarters of an Italian neo-fascist group, propagandist Kevin Deanna told roughly 50 attendees
that vanishing local newsrooms means there's essentially no one left to hold governments accountable and I would push that a step further.
big exploitative corporations are not being held accountable either because when they come into these small towns there is nobody there reporting on the story and asking what benefits to the taxpayer asking how many jobs are going to be created so they can exploit and so can those elected officials out there quote you should be fantasizing about this this is a good thing diana said
A good thing in that there are no more local newspapers in these areas to hold either white nationalists, white supremacists, or even big corporate interests accountable.
And quite honestly, they all are probably working together to exploit these rural folk.
I wish you want me to do about it.
Even if I go out there and help these people, if I help to tell their story, they're still going to vote against my best interest because, you know, yeah, I was helpful to them.
Yeah, I helped them tell their story.
Yes, we may have helped them push one of these data centers out.
But at the end of the day, they still hate black people.
So not not worth it for me.
For years, white nationalists and neo-Nazi groups have been trying to recruit around the country, and they're often hobbled by who by local news that puts a spotlight on their efforts on the 1980s.
During the early Reagan years.
When a lot of farms they they had a damn concert because farmers were losing Their land in the 1980s corporate farming was just coming in it's more efficient They could buy up all the land they could grow more food and they had the attention of Congress So corporate farms got a tremendous amount of political power because they also had very powerful lobbies you see
So local family farms that have been operating for 150 years because there's a point in time where America was the whole country was fed by our local farmers Not by Del Monte and some of these other big corporate farms So in 1980s a lot of these farms were going bankrupt.
They actually had a concert called Farm Aid to try and save
these local farmers from losing their land to foreclosure.
So what happens to some of that land if we fast forward?
A lot of it is office parks.
What you pointing at, Xavier?
Oh, hold on.
Let me get two more seconds.
I'm over here on a roll.
I forget about these damn commercial breaks.
White nationalists went to those areas in which those farmers had nothing.
They lost their land.
They lost their livelihood.
And that is where they started recruiting neo-Nazis where there was economic deprivation.
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For years, white nationalists and neo-Nazi groups have been trying to recruit around the country, often hobbled as local news puts a spotlight on their efforts.
It also should be noted that economic deprivation is also a really good time to organize for racist and white nationalist groups because it makes a lot of sense.
Let's say the economy is not doing well.
You could argue now could be one of those times where credit card debt has reached a fever pitch.
There was just a Story on one of our monitors here in studio about the increased cost of school supplies fear not Because if you live in the city of Milwaukee
You ain't paying for not man pencil pen notebook folder backpacker trapper keeper.
Did the kids still use the trapper keeper?
Xavier, did you use a trapper keeper?
Did you have one?
Do you know what that is?
Uh, I know there's an episode about it on South Park, but no, I did not use it.
I think that's another benefit to.
Urban versus rural poverty.
Milwaukee is a better place to be poor than Wapaka Better place to be poor You still have flat screen TV the latest iPhone nice pair of Jordans me not rich, but at least your kids are gonna have school supplies
We have so many damn school supply backpack giveaways in the city of Milwaukee.
Like I end up getting backpacks of school supplies.
Here you go, Sherwin.
In case you decide you want to go back to sixth grade, here's a backpack and some colored pencils and a protractor.
Let's talk to Bob.
You're on one on one seven.
The truth.
How are you?
Hello, Sherwin.
You know, it's
A1 AI.
You know, you know, you, you, you brought that question up.
Trump loves AI too and I think I get kind of suspicious when Trump loves something and you want AI too I don't want my elected bill to go up no higher Why don't AI pay for its own election?
Electricity they are I mean
OK, OK, that's a data center.
AI is data center.
Am I correct?
And you can contact the data center to get your information if you need it.
how that works Well, you know, I forgot to ask you have you paid for that?
Accidentally
stole out of that store Bob go to Western Union and get your money back I'm not gonna embarrass myself nor yourself going to a damn Western Union, which I don't even know why they still have Western Union I thought those went away in the 80s I'm not going embarrassing myself getting $50 from you somebody called that elder abuse go get your money back Bob.
It's I'm never gonna pick it up I'm never gonna go get that money
ever
You know, take them yourself as a thing.
You called in because of your conscience and it's Bobbie G. And that's why you told your listeners.
Bob, do you think I bothered?
You know how well I sleep at night here?
Why don't we do this, Bob?
Since you are so reckless with your money, why don't we do this?
This
out.
I
I don't give my money out.
I don't give my money out.
I don't give my money out.
I don't give my money out.
I don't give my money out.
I don't give my money out.
I don't give my money out
While we send a young girl your way and you can pay for her car note her rent her utilities and her vacations Because if you're gonna be reckless with your money, we might as well get you a young pretty girl you can give your money to
That's not reckless That's helping your conscience, but you not being a accidental
I'm about to steal you
I will kidnap you Bob and I don't even know if people would even look for you.
I'll steal you and they won't even put out a silver alert.
You keep talking, keep messing with me, old man.
Keep coming on.
I've been nice to you.
I don't snatch you up, you're a one-armed bandit.
A radio host that I like is a thief.
Look in the mirror and say I'm a...
What's
something
show you
gonna go and get
I might be bad, but I ain't that bad.
Anybody want $50?
Yeah, I think you have to say that you're me, though, to go get the $50 from Western Union.
because I walked out of a grocery store with a case of water on the bottom of my shopping cart five years ago and I forgot it was there so Bob is giving me $50 to pay for it.
You know what I would do with that $50?
Probably get a lamp dance with it.
That's what I would do with it.
Is that how much they cost?
$50.
I can get you probably two songs.
But I'm not going to go get the money.
Why don't we take a break?
Let's regroup.
This is why we need local journalism.
Because of telephone calls like that, right?
Where else would you hear something like that?
The truth with Sherwin Hughes will be back for hour
two.
to our three of the truth with Sherwin Hughes talking about all the things When it's all said and done the year 2026 is gonna be a monumental year in terms of news and happenings
political victories and losses I mean just already we're in August we had the rise of democratic socialism once again here with Francesca Hong's historic run for governor of Wisconsin but then you also had the incredible comeback story of David Crowley who may get elected the first African-American governor in the state of Wisconsin if I'm not mistaken post reconstruction
Think maybe only five or six African Americans have ever served as a governor of a state So it is a political position that is relatively rare for a black person to To achieve I'd imagine in the stories of the year when we recap them right around New Year's Eve because I usually do a year in review Radio broadcast look at some of the stories that we probably forgot about because when you live in this 24-hour news cycle
What made news last week is forgotten about today and what's going to make news next week is something we never could have imagined in a million years.
So it's always fascinating to go back and review some of the stories that we talked about.
I'd imagine teen takeovers in Brady Street and Water Street and all of the fights.
I know I'm going to bring up the fight at Bastille Days for the rest of my natural life because I asked y'all one thing.
I don't ask you for very much now because I don't want to get disappointed.
Don't fight at Bastille Days and what did you do?
So I'd imagine that's probably going to be one of the many stories that we're going to tell when we're looking at the year that 2026 was also data centers now coming into focus It's a big deal for some folks people in the city of Milwaukee that have had data centers I don't know for the last decade or so now all of a sudden we're being very concerned.
Why do we care about rural areas?
Ain't got nothing to do with us and plus we need the data centers to be built because the increased cloud stores that we are all responsible for Gotta put that data somewhere, right?
What I say is if these people in rural areas are going to be exploited by corporate interests and powerful political interests and because these rural areas have lost their local journalists who are we to provide to Deprive them of the lessons that they are going to learn about exploitation
Because we've tried to tell them who these entities are and what they have done to us and they just Turn the other cheek Let them get exploited That's an unfortunate thing But don't you have to sometimes let people learn their lessons like a hard head makes a soft ass right?
We could tell people like hey you need to be weary of these big powerful interesting to be weary of the
deregulation environment that Donald Trump is able to thrive in.
You also need to be very concerned, small-time people in rural areas, that the lack of local journalism, you have no defense against some of these agencies and some of these entities that are coming in, taking your land and taking your water.
because you don't know the details of what's going on.
You don't have anybody fighting for you or telling you the story about how you were all getting exploited because local journalism has died in your community.
At the same time, some people are okay with that.
Let me tell you why.
This is also a catch-22 for folks in those rural areas.
They believe Donald Trump, when he said all the news is fake, fake news, it's all a bunch of lies.
If Donald Trump is over here saying...
that the affordability crisis is a hoax made up by the democrats and you don't have a local newspaper or a local journalist saying no in our town this is how much more things are costing.
and actually doing a story about the increase of prices in your small town.
If you don't have that story, if you don't have that newspaper to read or that news website that's reflective of the sentiments of people in your town, then you're likely to believe Donald Trump over your own goddamn wallet.
And I say, let those people get exploited.
Once they're broke and they're politically bankrupt, then they'll be like, oh wow, we got exploited too.
And then we as black people can say, welcome to the party!
They still wouldn't want to work with us though because they hate our guts.
A multinational technology company may arrive in a small town with no newspaper, with attorneys, engineers, lobbyists, consultants, and economic development specialists.
A town of 500 or 5,000 might have a part-time mayor, several trustees,
and no reporter regularly covering city hall.
Have you ever noticed that in some of these small towns and rural areas, like the mayor is also the city attorney that's also the librarian that also serves on the dam council and serves on the school board and they're all extremely part-time?
I never understood that because representing people should be a full-time job because the job never stops.
If you want to be an older person like in Glendale, I think you'd get like $500 a year or something Or if you go even further out into some remote counties, maybe in central Wisconsin or way up north Sometimes these are volunteers or they get paid very very little and they're extremely Part-time if you don't have full-time legislators and executives then they simply can't dedicate
hours of the day to making sure that they are legislating on behalf of Their communities in which they were elected to represent because they got to go somewhere else and make money That's a problem too at least in Milwaukee.
We have full-time elected officials now We may not agree with what they do We may think they should be doing more or they're failing at their jobs, but at least they exist around the clock Because if we had part-time all their persons
We would be represented even less than we are right now and if you think they're not doing a good job right now imagine if they had other full-time jobs where they Wouldn't even attend council meetings because they're somewhere else working Northwestern University's metal local news initiative found that in 2025 212 US counties had zero local news source at all
That's actually dreadful, ladies and gentlemen.
212 U.S.
counties have no local news source at all.
Another 1,525 counties had only one.
Roughly 50 million Americans live with limited or no local news at all.
Newspaper employment has fallen by 75% in the last 20 years Most importantly for the discussion we're having You guys have heard of a food desert No food you can't get in any food or it's not healthy food Now we have this thing called news deserts and guess where they are rural America
212 US counties had no local news at all another 1,525 counties had only one 50 million Americans live with limited or no local news Meaning they don't have the ability that we have here and I pride ourselves on this we executed better some days than other days We get to surveil power
That is what we are supposed to do and here's the thing is very personal for us and you may like David Crowley and you may like this older person You may like this mayor.
You may like this elected official That's not the point you can like them and quite honestly I like most of them most of them are really really nice people But it's the merits of their policies and their positions that I disagree with and I'm able to do that and still like them as a person I have had
knock down, drag out political disagreements with people and gone and had a drink with them for happy hour that exact same day because we can separate and compartmentalize.
I respect their position as legislators and executives and they have a job to do.
And of course they have interests that they need a cater to and their interests are not always the public.
I'm mindful of that.
But I also have a job to do as well.
And I got to tell these folks when I have these conversations with them, usually offline and off the record.
that I talk to their constituents more frequently than they do.
And so I may fundamentally disagree with some of their positions, but I am coming from an informed place of talking to their constituents on a daily basis.
In fact, they should want someone to hold them accountable because look what happens when you do not have media holding the very powerful accountable.
You have the exploitation of the US Constitution, which Donald Trump, he wakes up every day.
He's like, what am I going to screw up today?
What can I do today ain't nobody gonna stop him?
Except for the voters now they have an opportunity to do so provides some kind of guardrails Have some kind of checks and balances because you know our government is supposed to operate under a system of checks and balances But they've been gone He has taken over the Republican Party now is obviously worst case scenario, but also would say Democratic Socialists could do
What MAGA did, and I don't think the Republican Party as an institution that's 160 years old is better off for it.
When the tail wags the dog, when the extreme minority of your party sets the policy and sets the tone for the entire party, that is a problem because it becomes cultish and it does not represent the majority of the people.
And if I can prevent something like.
like that happening from the Democrats, because where is this nation of both political parties and there's only two become ruled by their extremes?
I don't think that that benefits folks.
And then also keeping in mind some of these small rural talent, if they've lost the journalists that can critically think.
about what the Republicans are doing, what the conservatives are doing and how close they are with corporate interests and how someone in a small town with no local newspaper is going to lose their land and lose the rights to the environment in their own community because a big data center is coming in if there's nobody to tell that story and be critical of those elected officials and of those corporate entities those people are going to get exploited.
And the replacement isn't necessarily another professional journalist as 212 U.S.
counties have no local news at all.
Another 1,525 counties had only one.
To put that in perspective, there's only 3100 counties in all of America.
Half of the counties in America only have one local journalism source that is awful for democracy because if you can't get your information from somewhere local, because all politics are local.
But what if there's nobody covering it?
What if there's nobody covering city hall?
I Don't want to get too specific here because I don't want to get myself in trouble because I realized people are sensitive I Probably shouldn't say this but whatever I Want people to call this program and participate in this program To be critical of elected officials that aren't doing their job No matter who the hell they are
And when we stifle that, we are doing a disservice.
We may have received a phone call, I don't know, some time ago.
Maybe you guys remember it.
Maybe you don't.
I know I do.
And I don't think it happened on my show.
But it happened.
Maybe it did.
I don't know.
And a person called it, and they were critical of a particular elected official.
And they got legitimate complaints, right?
That's the morning
But because that particular elected official is, I don't know, beloved or whatever, like beloved personally, they dismissed that caller's complaints about them.
We should not be in that business.
Someone has to hold them accountable.
And that is literally what our only job is.
Do you guys think it's an accident?
That the only industry Named and protected In the US Constitution is free press the media it is a it is a business it is a business indeed But it's constitutionally protected because even those wealthy elite
Actually very liberal slave owning men knew that there had to be independent agencies to keep the powerful Accountable that is why freedom of speech and the press is Protected that is very much on purpose and that stuff is in the first amendment The only industry that's protected by the Constitution that shows how important it is so just think now with half of the counties
America with no local journalists or they only have one local news outlet how dangerous and detrimental that is To our democracy Kamala Harris tried to run on that like oh Donald Trump is gonna end democracy Nobody even knew what the hell she was talking about that's quite honestly I don't even think you have enough either civics in public schools or Local journalists to demystify and explain to people in small towns what that actually means Trump was able to do it
A 2026 Medill survey found that Medill is the journalism school in Northwestern.
Found that 51% of daily news consumers living in news deserts got local information from non-journalistic sources such as social media influencers, their friends, and their family.
80% of America's news desert counties are in rural America that is That is a statistic that should shock everybody so we have food deserts here in the city and look what food deserts do look at the Unintended or maybe intended consequences of just having a food desert health disparities go up, you know people are being
Made sick by the fast food that's available when you don't have food access in your neighborhood in your community There's a burden and how much further you have to travel if there's a higher expense if you need to go to a grocery store because if you live in a food desert Then costs are put on your back as a consumer.
You got to travel further etc etc and there's consequences to that
The same, just like a news desert, there's consequences to that as well.
And it's the exploitation of vulnerable people that do not have any agency, any entity that allow them to surveil power, to hold them accountable, to actually tell the story, and to give the residents information that they will need to fight back and defend themselves.
So if you take the journalism away, people are incredibly vulnerable.
They are.
Imagine a hyperscale data center developer approaching a rural county.
25 years ago, a local newspaper might assign someone to ask, who owns the company?
How much electricity will it consume?
How much water?
Who's paying for the new transmission infrastructure?
What tax exemptions are being offered?
How many permanent jobs will actually exist?
Our negotiators are negotiations occurring behind closed doors who donated to the county officials negotiating the agreement.
Will residential utility customers subsidize infrastructure necessary for the project, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
If you take away local journalism, those questions never get asked.
Without local journalism, questions frequently depend upon citizens discovering those issues for themselves oftentimes when it is too late.
Local journalism isn't just information, it is the surveillance of power.
We're listening to The Truth with Sherwin Hughes on 101.7
FM.
I'll be right back.
For real sports says Did you see the story about the residents not wanting the sit-go on Holton and Burlai to reopen?
Because it would be open 24 hours and they feel like it will bring the wrong crowd I sure did see that for real sports and I believe That that should be taken into consideration because you got to be real
careful with 24-hour stuff in the city of Milwaukee, especially in certain neighborhoods that already have, let's just say, some social challenges.
I know that I wouldn't want no 24-hour gas station in my neighborhood.
That's just a breeding ground.
Or if it's just a sit-go in general, I feel like more murders occur near a sit-go.
Then maybe say an amical or a mobile that's just me don't really hear about a lot of murders happening in the park a lot of a shell station Something about a sit-go That's kind of dangerous.
I don't know where there's more crime outside of a nightclub Or in the vicinity of a sit-go that's in a central city neighborhood in anywhere urban America
Reginald, why do you he just says stuff?
I just Can I just read his comment see?
Someone bring up Willie Nelson quickly get Cheech and Chong on the line while you're at it not talking about marijuana is that what you're referring to referring to weed we missed that boat Legalizing marijuana is not the fantasy that you all think it is Now you're starting to see the unintended consequences of it
You think they would make things in Wisconsin better?
Do you realistically believe the legalizing marijuana?
Because the kids will get it.
And I don't think they need more drugs.
They're already smoking it anyway.
And the fantasy about the revenue is a joke.
When legal marijuana was a rare novelty, I think Colorado may have been the first to legalize recreation There's
a
It was either because they defied and disrespected federal law when Barack Obama was president or Barack Obama turned a blind eye to it and did not Use the federal government to enforce The schedule the drug schedule is one or the other
So when legal marijuana was the novelty like oh my god, I can go to a dispensary and and buy weed It's so neat people would travel to Colorado To buy marijuana to go into a store and actually purchase marijuana where people have been buying it off of the street since the beginning of time That's when you had tremendous amounts of revenue when you had marijuana tourism and they actually booked tours you could book a flight you could Get on a bus and it'll take you to different dispensaries because when it was new I don't know
If you go to Prop 215 in California, marijuana has been legal in California since the 90s.
So it ain't necessarily new there.
But in other states that legalize recreationally, it was a really big deal.
Now it's legal everywhere.
And the taxes that are levied on whatever amount of marijuana you're buying are so exorbitant that whoever you're getting your weed from now is likely going to be cheaper.
And so all of this revenue, like, oh, if we legalize marijuana in Wisconsin, we'll be able to pay for roads and bridges and schools.
Maybe 10 or 15 years ago.
Yes.
Now.
No.
If anything, if it's more expensive in Wisconsin, people will continue to get their legal part where they're getting it now in Illinois.
There's certain dispensaries in Illinois right across the Wisconsin border.
They're waiting on you to right when you cross the border, you got a dispensary.
If you show a Wisconsin ID, you will automatically get 20% off.
That likely will continue even if Wisconsin legalized it, but I don't know if there's a political motivation for it now, like there was.
Do you smoke marijuana?
I have Now it's just it's too potent.
There's no enjoyment.
Plus I need to mentally I need to be mentally sharp and this makes you stupid.
It's what I call it dope.
Have you ever watched a movie reefer madness?
All the 1930 propaganda film.
Yeah, that's what I watched and ever since then I just No weed for me.
I don't want to turn to a werewolf.
I mean, it's been smoked for 10,000 years
But it also it's more common.
I think in a younger generation than alcohol Bar owners will tell you they don't sell liquor anymore You can't have the same profit that you had some time ago if you had a bar or nightclub these kids are not drinking well, they're all coming to the club high Everywhere you go you smell marijuana.
I think it's overrated.
What do I know?
Let's talk to
Someone who probably does smoke marijuana on the regular Al from Sherman Park.
You're on one on one seven the truth
Hey, how you doing Sherwin?
I Barely drinking anymore.
I'm at that age where I can't recover.
So just leave it out The the crisis in journalism, I don't think it has anything really to do with the Hognos baby publishers
Reducing staff so much as people stop buying the newspaper because you don't trust the journalists anymore.
I mean journalists trust is way down because I remember the first time I realized that these people always get the story straight was I was reading something like 20 years ago and Gary George was in trouble and at that time he lived in the Catholic Knights Tower and my mother was the.
a leasing manager, building manager for Catholic Knights.
And I'm reading something in Bice's column with my mother's name in it regarding Gary Jordan.
And I call my mother said, well, did you give Dan Bice this quote?
No, I never gave him any quote.
I don't remember him calling.
And that's when I learned journalists will twist things to fit a narrative.
And then in the recent years, you had what was his name, Brian Williams, demoted.
You had who was head of took Walter Concratch seed after he left Dan Rather.
And these people getting caught in lies and in fabrications.
And then they already have some of their own biases.
And you can look at and you can see the biases just drip through their stories.
And you just no longer trust what they say.
And you move on to other.
news sources, such as what's popular now, the YouTube streamers Tim Pool and some of the journalists have gone on their own and started their own production companies.
So I think journalism has to blame themselves for a lack of trust and then people just not buying the product anymore.
All right.
Yeah.
All right.
Thank
He said Tim Pool.
Yes, you know,
I mean take what he says with a grand assault and so of course there's gonna be Some bias But that's why it's good to have other Journalism outlets There was a point in time where Walter Cronkite was the most trusted person in the United States in fact when he said 1968
that the Vietnam War was lost.
Lyndon Johnson was like, I'm not running for president again while there's wars going on because if we've lost Kronkite, we have lost the nation.
And so I would also say this.
I'm glad he said what he said.
I wasn't going to challenge him because I really don't have time today for all that.
You think that somebody who's on goddamn YouTube.
Is an actual journalist.
Do you think that social media influencers putting content out there for.
Hungry consumers to gobble up you think that stuff is researched There is some integrity in the art form of journalism and where people are getting their information from now There is not it's about likes and clicks and it does not have to be true
And you may not like one particular story, but then you have another media outlet that may tell the other side of it because it's not about going to one entity and getting all of your information, you have to compare.
Like there's some people, I don't know why, they'll listen to Fox News and they'll listen to MSNOW or they'll listen to CNN because they want to see where all of the different perspectives are and maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle.
But when you lose local journalism on real specific issues like what is happening to a community, what the unintended and intended consequences of a development are if you don't have a reporter in the room asking those hard questions, because most normal regular people don't even know how to ask questions.
They don't.
Most people are not critical thinkers.
And so there is an obligation when you are dealing with people that are vulnerable.
And as long as you have media deserts and news deserts, people are incredibly vulnerable.
Here's what I've come to find out over the years of me doing the thing that I'm doing every day.
If we say it enough, you'll believe it.
And that's a horrible thing to have to admit.
If I sat here and repeated every single day for three hours a day that COVID vaccines are going to make you sick and they're going to hurt you and there's microchips in them, I promise you people will believe
it.
Not
That's the problem.
There are some and a lot of them exist online.
They are not credible enough to provide information to vulnerable people because without information.
We die.
Without information, you don't even know how to take care of your health.
You ever wonder why there's no type 1 diabetes in some of these third world countries, like you never hear about it?
I mean, there's other health elements, obviously, especially when the United States put sanctions on nations.
Sanctions, by the way, means if there's an American company that makes a particular medicine...
And we have sanctions on your country.
Your country is not going to get insolent.
That's what sanctions are.
So sanctions kill children.
Just please be mindful of that when you hear, we're going to put sanctions on a country because Americans and American companies make a lot of stuff, especially pharmaceuticals.
But if there is a sanction on a country, any American company is literally prohibited from selling their products, their services, and sometimes their medications to those foreign nations.
That's really, really a bad deal.
It's not.
It's not ideal, but the reason why there's no type 1 diabetes in some of these third world countries because all the kids died not crazy They just there isn't any type 1 diabetes because the kids get it and then they're dead.
That's We are particularly vulnerable there's a story in a Pew Research Center Pew research.org Where African-Americans and Latinos are more likely to get information about our health
On the internet from influencers Then from an actual doctor Now I don't know about you But I don't think that somebody like dr. Oz or RFK should be providing information about health to the American But that's just me you guys like it.
I love it.
It is what it is
Local journalism isn't just information, it is the surveillance of power.
A newspaper reporter sitting through a boring county board meeting may seem economically insignificant, but that reporter is effectively a full-time representative of citizens who cannot attend every zoning hearing, every utility proceeding, every school board meeting, and developing authority.
Session themselves.
Remove the reporter and you remove a layer of oversight.
So we still are fortunate in that the Milwaukee Journal Center does do something right.
They still have a number of educational reporters.
It is their job to focus on NPS, what they're doing, how much money they're getting, how much money they're spending.
A lot of times the statistics that we get about how the school district is performing is by this meticulous and painstaking research that is done by local journalists.
And they go to school board meetings and they report back because here's something else that I know about school board meetings.
Y'all don't go to those either.
Could you imagine?
Just think about this for a second.
I'm going to take a break.
If we didn't have any local journalists covering what the NPS board was doing, we would have literally no idea how taxpayers are getting robbed, absolutely blind, and we have nothing to show for their return on our investment.
there are stories you can read about what the school board meeting was about what's the place when the next meeting is so if you decide to attend
You at least have that option.
But if there's nobody in the room, imagine if nobody was covering MPS, how much more exploitation of our tax dollars and of our students they'd be doing.
Imagine if there was no local journalist telling us that black students are less than half the population of MPS, but are 92% of the suspensions and the expulsions.
Imagine if we didn't know that statistic.
We would just think these damn black kids are stupid and cutting school every single day.
Local journalism matters.
All politics are local.
Take a little break, come back.
It's this other story that I just, it's been around for a couple of weeks now.
I'm scared to talk about it.
It's not anything local here.
Do I have time?
Yeah.
Hang on a sec.
I only got 30 minutes left.
Yeah, you got two segments.
That two segments ain't enough time.
Is it enough time?
Maybe I have to save this one for For Monday you guys are familiar with Lindsay Clancy.
Yes This white woman that Apparently had a little little bit of a little taste of the postpartum Send her husband clear thinking enough to send her husband out to pick up food for the family and murdered
strangled to death her three children for I think there were ages like eight months to maybe six or seven years murdered her kids okay admitted it like oh I had postpartum and I needed a lot of help was on a cocktail of medications had been going to a psychiatrist a psychologist trying to get over the postpartum and here's what's crazy she was a
Deliver a nurse a labor and delivery nurse had three kids murdered her kids.
Okay Then tries to kill herself By jumping out of a second story window didn't kill her not she just paralyzed in the damn wheelchair Okay, and here's here's what's the most shocking thing about this story Believe women believe women hi, I'm Lindsay Clancy.
I killed my three children.
No you didn't
I have a story about a damn rally where 300 women showed up to support a woman that murdered her kids.
Because we have to pay attention to mental health.
They are literally excusing this woman for committing one of the worst atrocities a human being can commit.
Oh, if you ever heard the 911 call when the husband came back to find his baby's dead.
My God, and there was a rally in support.
Help me understand where I'm at.
And of course, it was all white women.
Y'all sure you want to be allies with them?
And then the interviews they did with these women.
She needed help.
It wasn't her fault that she strangled her kids with an exercise band one by one.
They had a rally in support of a woman who murdered her kids.
No, they're all wearing pink shirts like like it's a cancer rally.
I can't.
That's why I haven't been talking about this because I will go insane to rally behind.
Please for a moment.
Take a moment and think about if a black woman murdered her three kids, do you think that we will be coming to having a damn rally and saying she needed help?
She couldn't be responsible for that.
We would want to kill her ourselves.
Now, we may not care a lot about our kids and our teenagers, but you can't kill them.
A rally to support it's insane.
I I gotta take a break said I wasn't gonna talk about that, but it's infuriating the truth with Sherwin Hughes will be right back
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It's a real good way if you're a cop and you want to stalk a woman You can flock camera her to see her cheating in real time Which is pretty cool.
I Don't know if you guys know how insane some police officers are so you're pro fuck.
Oh I'm not pro.
I'm not we live in a surveillance state because we
We actually love it.
We love all these cameras ever.
We love recording stuff and getting the video footage of everything.
We don't care about privacy anymore.
We signed our privacy away back with MySpace.
We don't care.
Why do you think all this stuff is free?
If something is free, if social media is free, I've never paid for Instagram before.
I've never paid for the Facebooks.
Never paid for any of that stuff.
If you're not paying, then you're the product.
We freely share our data and they can advertise to us and market to us.
Instagram is listening to you.
We don't care about that.
Data from Oak Park, Illinois, which is just south of where we are here in Milwaukee, showed that 84% of drivers stopped in flock related traffic incidents were black, which is outrageous.
Given that they black people only make up 19% of the local population an electronic frontier foundation reports suggested police officers use language when searching through flock video logs that quote mirrors long-standing patterns of discriminatory policing for example officers use phrases such as suspicious behavior or
high crime area to justify additional surveillance in predominantly black, Latin and Native American communities.
They also found that officers targeted ethnic minorities such as Romani people and use the term as Roma or Gypsy.
And by the way, the word Gypsy is censored.
Like I can't say Gypsy.
What's wrong with that?
That's a naughty word whole bunch of words.
I can't say anymore.
In fact, you know what?
This song right here is called Gypsy Woman.
I'm not supposed to play Gypsy Woman because Gypsy is a bad word.
So also keep in mind with the fly camera.
So the what's it called?
The Eagle Sports Clubs.
Eagle Eagle Eagle Club.
Eagle Gun Range.
Eagle Gun Range, right?
They just recently said, oh, we have a
We have a contract with flock and we're we're gonna take our flock cameras down and we don't care what the consequences are We're people don't like flock camera.
I got a goddamn flock camera in a parking lot Okay, and we know what flock is being used for is being used to surveil people It's the making the model of your vehicle gets all this information gets your license plate and it's stored in a database and you basically are You are tracked in that vehicle.
All right, so then think about this for a second.
So they recently told us that they were going to
Eliminate their flock cameras.
They didn't damn Juneteenth day shoot around from five until midnight like come on out everybody Come on out black people, you know, we want to have an event where black people can come and shoot their guns Really every damn black person that went there.
You're not being surveilled.
Congratulations.
I Knew something going on with that whenever having a Juneteenth night shoot around.
I'm like, I like to shoot guns This as much as anybody, but I ain't no damn fool y'all been flocks
will flock you to a flock yourself.
Mass surveillance is concerning in its own right.
But when used in a society where prejudice against black people persists, it's a recipe for disaster.
So this article comes courtesy of level man dot com.
And they're talking about how racism, as which we are trying to fight it, has been mechanized and weaponized in the technologies that we use every single day.
Including flock cameras and earlier I told I got the name of the The documentary It's called coded Coded bias don't know if it's still on Netflix it came out in 2020 but an African-American woman is
She does this documentary and she does a great job with it.
This shows how racial bias is built into technology.
So now that racism is automated, it can kind of run on an autopilot.
One of the examples is as a dark-skinned person, you may wave your hand underneath an automatic faucet.
And it may not turn on.
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.
And because when those technologies were created, it was created not to be able to read.
Darker skin and turning on the faucet at these automatic faucets you may see at a public restroom Because the creators of that technology didn't think black people wash their hands and so the sensors are not sensitive to darker skin and that is just one of many many examples of how racism is now built into
the technologies that we use.
So if we're going to have a legitimate beef about technology and artificial intelligence, it should be that, not what small rural town is getting a data center built in their backyard.
I'm going to take a break, come back, continue our little chitchat.
You're listening to the truth with Sherwin Hughes on one on one seven FM.
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I'm okay How much though
Okay.
Yeah, I was Reminded of when you talked about the lady to kill the kids and the rallying behind her.
I was reminded of a while back This black lady.
I think it was down in Florida was
was in a minivan and she was trying to drive her keys into the ocean there.
She was driving toward the ocean and they stopped her.
But long story short, they were trying to charge her with attempted murder.
And she was going through some, she was going through other, she was going through some kind of depression or whatever.
But they wanted to charge her with attempted murder.
I don't know if you remember that.
And I think that she got off with an insanity plea, but don't make no mistake.
The prosecution is also trying to charge Lindsey Clancy with the murdering of her children as well.
So she's definitely being charged.
The question is, are they going to deem her mentally insane and just commit her to an institution?
Or is she going to go to prison for the rest of her lives?
So trial is still going on, actually.
But I thought about that.
I mean, it was clear.
That this lady had a the black lady was clear she had a bit that there was some Mental problem going on with there's some kind of you know psychological thing going on with her But they were still gonna try to do attempted murder and they were trying hard If I remember right
It was maybe it was but it was like she was trying to kill herself and everybody and I try to self-anarchies and you know
There's a bit of like a murder suicide type thing.
Not attempted murder.
That's that that is the clear insanity plea.
I think in the insanity plea would have been the right thing to do because there was clearly something wrong with it.
You know what I mean?
Maybe she
I think that's one thing.
But when you are when you have your kids in the car.
You're trying to murder your children and those children who are helpless need justice.
I think it's easy for us to say, oh, there must have been something wrong with that woman.
Why do we always default to that?
You understand that some women hate kids?
Some women hate their own kids.
I know women that wish they never had kids.
We shouldn't always default to think like, oh, there must be something wrong with her.
Why do we assume that women even like children?
How many women are opting not to have kids?
And we need to actually look at that very carefully, because women don't always like kids.
And women will sometimes hate their own kids.
Look at how they raise them sometimes.
I appreciate your call, Bruce.
No, no, no, let's not default.
Because if a man kills three kids, oh, give me the electric chair, kill him.
He ain't going to get all hit.
He was insane.
He was going through.
He lost his job.
And if anything, we might give that excuse to a mass shooter.
The mass shooter he was going through a bit of a depression his girlfriend broke up with him.
So we killed 49 people in a movie theater.
I Think this woman just because they go through the whole psychological record She was going to a therapist because she couldn't understand why she hated her kids so much So we want to give her an automatic out like oh, maybe she had have been going through the postpartum depression And then they took it a step further and created a new one postpartum psychosis.
She hated her kids
If you're around kids long enough put it this way You need a break.
You know what I mean?
Cuz kids Oof They just don't they just keep on The kids be kidding.
You know I mean let's talk to Hi, Sandra.
How are you?
I am just fine.
How are you doing?
I'm doing good.
What's on your mind?
You're talking about the kids and the women hate the kids.
I didn't know this
You might have said the kids look like the father.
Maybe she hated the father and the kids look like the father.
So it felt maybe something was wrong.
Or
What if she just hated her kids and nobody else's fault?
She just like, yeah, I wish I wouldn't have had this many kids kids are terrible.
I hate him.
Why don't you give him up?
Yeah, because if you got a husband, you can't exactly give the kids up when there's a husband.
Well, then give them to him and divorce.
I mean, it's solutions.
Well, that's
wrong one.
And now she's paralyzed.
How about that?
Now
in the big K back.
So
So she sends the husband out to go get food because she wanted to kill the kids alone.
He comes home and sees his wife laying on the ground, not dead, but paralyzed.
And he's like, all right, where are the kids?
And she's like, they're in the basement.
And then he goes in the basement and finds his three essentially his babies Dead like that is a nightmare.
You should hear the 9-1-1 call You'll have a whole different opinion.
This woman is a monster.
But my point is there's
a
Well, we got
a
the
had
But her mother said she had said it to the mother before.
So her mother's on the news and said her daughter had mentioned that to her.
So, you know, she.
I think she had a clear mind when she did it, but.
You know, maybe they can figure it out, but too late.
Now the kids are dead.
But anyways, you said this was going to be a surveillance state.
Push it.
Push it is.
How come we still have so much crime as they can see everything?
It just makes it easier to catch people that committed it.
If I'm going to go kill somebody, a camera is not going to stop me from driving to the house of the person I want to go kill.
Like you, you'll have my vehicle and my license plate and you'll have all of that stuff, but you're not going to stop me from actually committing the crime.
It just makes it easier to catch people.
They
make like, yeah, they make like they can't see who did it.
And they want us to ride on them.
And they got the cameras.
I mean, one of these cameras was at my house about a week or so ago.
And everywhere I moved, it moved.
It was that thing that fly in the air.
You know what I'm trying to say.
A drone?
Yeah.
If I moved this way, it moved that way.
If I moved this way, it moved that way.
I went into the house and stopped at my door.
They could see everything
It could have been but I think more is that you know the government because I don't trust them no way I'll talk to you another time.
I know you got to go.
All right.
I'll catch up with you next week.
All right.
Bye.
Bye.
Sanders.
He said the government flying a drone Just to look at her.
Jeez.
That's probably just one of your neighbors What's how much time I got left 50 seconds?
Let's see if we can run through it.
On January 24, 2023, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, 36-year-old Lindsey Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, strangled her three children, Cora, five, Dawson, age three, and Callan, eight months.
The tragedy occurred after she sent her then-husband, Patrick Clancy, out of the house to pick up medicine and dinner.
Immediately following the killings, Clancy slit her own throat and jumped from a second-story window of her home in a suicide attempt.
She survived the fall but was left paralyzed from the waist down.
Clancy's murder trial began the summer of 2026, drawing immense national attention to the medical classification and severity of postpartum mental illness.
These legal arguments depend largely on her state of mind and the exact moment of the offense.
I think she just didn't like her kids and wanted to kill them.
Thank you for listening.
Lunch break is up next.
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Welcome to our two of the truth with Sherwin Hughes Talking about the importance of local journalism and there are people and there are interests That exploit places in which there is no local journalism because then they can do a couple of things They can spread misinformation and it does not allow elected officials to be held accountable Because democracy runs on information think about what you get ladies and gentlemen if you have an electorate if you have voters if you have what I call
the body politic, right, collection of registered voters, the body of these people, right, they can impact and influence elections either by voting in favor of one candidate, voting in favor of another, or not voting at all because ultimately in every political contest someone is going to win.
Think about the kind of results that you get when you take away the flow of information to the body politic.
and they only make their decisions on whatever campaign ads they get bombarded with, and you also should know that campaign ads are propaganda first.
It is getting you to hate one side, to define one side negatively, and define your side positively.
And they lie.
It's a very unusual set of circumstances because in any other endeavor,
If you say something that is patently false about someone, or if you write, if you publish something that is false, if you publish a lie and say a lie, that's defamation, that's liable, and that's slander, but not in political campaigns, it's all considered free speech.
Because you would think these candidates would be suing each other left and right when they misrepresent each other's records, and sometimes they just make stuff up.
But what they'll do instead of suing, because that'll distract your campaign,
And plus the lawsuit will go on much longer than the election actually will.
You just make up a lie about them.
And imagine if there is no no media where you can even have a candidate debate.
Now, if the candidate debates that we're going to have, and I believe October 8th, 2026 is I hope it's not the only one.
David Crowley.
And Tom Tiffany need to debate more than once once is not enough Oh three times Xavier said good.
So there's other dates.
That's very important No, I was saying they needed.
Oh, you
Yeah, they need three.
I agree with that.
They need a bunch of them So a lot of times local news stations at least around here, there's no shortage of ways To watch these can't I shouldn't even say that it might be on like PBS or something
It's not gonna be covered on all the channel.
There might be a local television station Maybe that sponsors the debate last debate.
I think that when the Democrats had theirs WISN channel 12 sponsored it, but guess what if you don't have WISN channel 12 where you live you ain't watching the debate Maybe they cover it online.
Maybe they don't broadcast it online or maybe there's a PBS affiliate that may broadcast
The debate which you know the federal government under the Trump administration has been defunding Public television public broadcast meaning they are further siphoning off information To people I grew up on public television Sesame Street, you know the Sesame Street is a show For black children you guys know that Where it's basically set in Harlem
All of the characters look at all the people that were on Sesame Street over the years especially back in the early days Even some of the songs in the jingles.
They were very like heavily R&B influenced and very rhythmic Sesame Street was created because there wasn't enough investment in early childhood education of black children you believe that Over here trying to defund Big Bird that's been in priority the Trump administration doge hit it hard too
Because the federal government founded of great value and great benefit to invest some tax dollars and it's really really small dollar months It's like like 40 cents a year per person or something is what we invest in public television But clearly that's a waste of taxpayer money And so public television has become has become threatened that is a way in which you can get unbiased information either via public radio or public television on
Broadcast television, et cetera, et cetera.
They've been cutting that off, too.
But think about what you get.
Think about what the electorate turns into when voters are not informed.
And when you demonize the media and you call them fake, that was all the strategy.
And we thought that, you know, Trump is just an idiot.
And he doesn't like the media because they speak negatively about him.
They're supposed to.
That is what they do.
But it's interesting because.
So first of all, people didn't know that Donald Trump.
Running for president, he was running for the top law enforcement position in the country.
People don't even know that.
I'm shocked that people don't know that a president executes the laws passed by Congress.
He's a law enforcement executive.
That's what he does.
And you can't elect a lawbreaker to enforce the law because then the laws will get ignored in favor of criminal codes.
And if you take away information from people, they're not going to be able to make informed decisions.
You ever had a conversation with somebody who's misinformed about literally any topic?
Or they'll use something like, like an anecdotal response.
Whenever somebody, I'm going to explain it to you so you can be more aware of it, because you've got to stop talking to these people because they're lost causes.
And you're not going to be able to change their mind or convince them.
in a single conversation.
Number one, you can't change their mind because they're already dug in on their other side.
Have you ever turned a damn Democrat into a Trumper from one conversation?
Of course not.
You ever turned a Trumper into a Democratic Socialist just by having a simple 10-minute conversation?
No, it doesn't work that way.
Xavier thinks he has.
I just think he got lied to unless you actually saw them vote.
So an anecdotal response will be...
I could say something like proven by science by fact and by data.
People who are Asian have the shorter than people of other races.
It's a racial characteristic.
Asians, not every damn Asian, but just in general, statistically data will show that those people of Southeast Asian descent aren't.
On average very tall or I could say something like statistically people born in Sub-Saharan Africa are taller than people from Southeast Asia and I just I would just leave it at that Okay, because that can be proven by science by fact by data Statistics etc.
It's provable Someone who gives an anecdotal response will say something like well, I know a Chinese person that's six three So they take the only example that they know
and they dismiss science, data, and fact, which clearly tells a different story.
If all of the data and the science and the facts and the statistics say, on average, I'm just going to make this up, an Asian person, the average Asian person is five feet seven inches tall.
That's just the average of them, genetically.
And then this person says, no, there's Yao Ming, he was seven feet tall and Chinese.
And then they'll use that one example to discredit science data.
In fact, ladies and gentlemen, that human being is already lost or whenever you're talking about something that can be proven, something that can be statistically proven.
through science and research and a tested hypothesis, all of that smart people stuff, right?
So you're saying something that is not only accurate and true, it's backed up by science.
And they just give one example.
I personally believe, this is a real good one, that the COVID vaccines were not only safe, but they were effective.
Okay?
I do not encourage you to have this conversation, but
If you want to spot the people that you need to remove from your circle, because every now and again, you got to thin the herd a little bit.
Bring up that conversation.
Just say randomly to one of your friends, family members, I don't know, colleagues, coworkers.
Remember, be careful when you do this.
Just say,
I
They put microchip cinnamon.
I know somebody that died.
COVID vaccines kill people that was a masterful manipulation of how they did that because remember if if people aren't getting information and if they're misinformed and if they have been overruled by their algorithms.
Oh, here's another one.
African Americans are much more likely to get health information from health influencers online than we are from a damn doctor and you're wondering why we're dying at the rates that we are.
If the COVID vaccines.
We're in fact that Dangerous and they kill you You know everybody at Fox News they used to use their platforms to tell you that The jab was gonna kill you all got COVID vaccine so they could attend that White House Correspondents did and you know that Donald Trump himself even got a COVID vaccine But here's what they do they can they can influence populations That are averse to science data in fact and tell them
Oh, the vaccine is gonna kill you.
Don't get the vaccine.
Who do you think?
I'm just gonna throw this out here just randomly.
Who do you think the first damn person that died from COVID was?
What race do you think they were in Milwaukee County?
Who died at a higher rate?
Us!
Where was all of the misinformation just thrust on the COVID vaccine?
Also, us.
It was a trick.
If the vaccine actually saves lives, why would you tell black people to take it?
That's the other part of our racism that we don't seem to understand.
Fighting racism in this country is like fighting terrorism.
You can't.
It's an ideology.
It can spread from person to person, from group to group.
It lives and grows in ignorance, like mold grows in dark, cool, damp places.
It is a moving target.
I don't know if I'm going to get to it today, but...
I have a whole series of articles of how flock cameras and technology has so much racial bias built into it that racism is not going to be completely and totally automated, even has this list of how African Americans are much more likely to be misidentified.
And when a crime is committed and they're trying to use like facial recognition, there's a whole Netflix documentary on this on how AI messes up facial recognition when the skin color is darker, leading to African Americans being wrongfully convicted.
There's even technology and some of the automatic falses.
We've talked about this a million and one times.
So if you use a public restroom and you wait and you have dark skin.
and you wave your hand underneath one of those automatic faucets to get the water to turn on.
Most of the time they do.
You ever notice sometimes you wave your hand, you wave your hand, you wave your hand, and the water never turns on?
Our darker skin.
absorbs more light than it reflects.
That was built into the technology.
But let me tell you where that technology came from.
But since it's been exposed by this Netflix documentary, it's AI something.
It's a black lady, an African lady did this.
It's beautiful documentary.
It came out probably 2021, 2022.
But it's on the racism, the built-in racism in our technology.
When the technology was built there was an assumption that black people don't wash their hands and so when they built a technology to turn on when you wave your hand in front of those automatic Sensors on those faucets it didn't detect black skin because I'm like oh we don't need this technology to turn on when black people wash their hands because they don't and it would just be too expensive if we Accounted for darker skin tones activating these sensors.
That's a real thing and If you think the racism is just a white person saying the n-word
You got no idea.
Let's talk to Linda around one on one seven the truth.
How are you?
Good morning, professor.
It's a great day in Milwaukee.
I want to talk about the a I think I've been you know really thinking about it and I see that Virginia is now the capital of data centers and I was watching
a piece on what Virginia is doing.
Wow, they have so many and they offer such low tax benefits, employment opportunities, and services to the community, a whole gym, swimming pool, and other services to the community such as employment.
I really think we have to start reconsidering that we are going into this AI high technology era.
And yes, it's new.
And yes, it has, you know, salaries and even the flock camera.
I don't think we're really listening to the, you know, the.
inconsistencies in that.
I mean, the fact that a cop can follow a female, I think that it poses a danger to females in that.
But as far as the AI and technology and how it's helping us, we see the benefits.
Look at what you're doing.
I'm like, wow, you're already ahead of the game.
You're learning a lot how to manipulate the AI.
all of it, what it does.
But I think that it's also helpful in how college students and also even regular post-education, no, regular education students can benefit from AI chat and what it helps.
how COVID has robbed them of the things that the educational process would have done, AI chat and what it can do and helping them develop those skills that they lost.
I mean, I just see that we have to start embracing it and it's a learning tool and we have to embrace the learning aspect of it, hopefully to tweak what we need to tweak.
But yes, in the next five, 10 years,
We're going to be fully immersed into it.
They just recently have become into focus.
And here's why I think they've become into focus.
Obviously, we need larger and larger data centers because more and more people are utilizing more cloud storage and cloud space.
But the reason why you have so many data centers in Virginia, think about where the seat of the American government is.
Think about how much information the damn Pentagon needs.
Gotta start that information somewhere the federal government all the different departments are our medical records our banking transactions all that stuff's got to be stored somewhere you can only have computers on on site at the actual bank or at the actual hospital So some of that data's got to be stored off-site, but you know who has the biggest
data center
anything about
areas
they're taking and making it We have to be able to embrace it according to how we want and the standards that we want, but I see great benefits in in in a break
for homeowners with taxes.
I'm trying to tell you for real, for real, because I'm tired of homeowners being shouldered and burdened with and the working class, burdened with all of the things that this America, you know, just with the engine that makes it work.
But I'm just tired of having to pay every little thing, man.
And I just think that data centers is something that we need to start embracing when it comes to economics.
Thanks, Linda.
Bye bye.
Probably not going to happen, but it's a nice thought that if data centers were generating so much money and so much revenue that they could lower our property taxes or they would be paying and they are paying property taxes.
They are because whatever land they are buying is taxed.
Now, it's in a rural area where property tax rates are a lot lower, but they're probably paying.
I don't know.
Sometimes hundreds of thousands maybe even millions of dollars per year but to believe that That is gonna be enough to offset The property taxes in any one area even when we do get a property tax break ladies and gentlemen It's like three bucks a year Four dollars because we get a lottery credit and we get a couple of other credits It doesn't really amount to much what AI is ultimately going to do and there's some evidence of this is Replace actual human
workers.
And so why would I give people tax breaks or tax incentives when one of the motivations is companies and corporations that can use AI can have less people on their payroll?
And if one of the goals and how you make AI profitable and how you can make companies that utilize AI more profitable is by laying off workers
then people and the property taxes that they pay and other taxes that they pay is not going to be a priority.
That's just not how the world is going to work.
In fact, AI companies are valued at something like $20 trillion, not because they are currently producing $20 trillion worth of profit and revenue.
That is the salaries of people who are currently employed in industries that AI could actually replace.
But it's it's one of those things right where you got if you get on top of it And if you can ride the wave you might be on the cusp of what the next generation of entrepreneurship looks like you can go right now and search Entrepreneurship opportunities with low barriers of entry.
How could I make $10,000 more per month?
Working from home and it'll put together the business plan It'll give you all the details of where you need to go where the resources are where the grants are it's overwhelming quite honestly it really is
But if you were not able to ride that bucking bronco of 21st century technology, then you likely will get left behind.
What the future is going to look like, it's not just going to be the haves and the have not.
It's people that are able to critically think and take advantage of new technologies versus people that cannot.
That is going to be the biggest divide and they call it a digital one.
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For years, white nationalists and neo-Nazi groups have been trying to recruit around the country, often hobbled as local news puts a spotlight on their efforts.
And I'd imagine in some cases, when local news puts a spotlight on white nationalist groups and neo-Nazi groups trying to organize, they might actually encourage more people to participate.
Whenever the economy is going poorly racism increases because it's the perfect and most fertile ground To use hate to divide people If you're out of work or the company the plant whatever moves overseas or lays off a bunch of people because you know Payrolls are too high and it's impacting shareholder profitability
Instead of looking at the policies that are profit over people People say oh, no, it's the Mexicans coming over here and They're taking your jobs That's a very very easy thing to do or you know these African Americans are getting all these opportunities jobs free money for college because of DEI and affirmative action
So if you promise economically deprived white people in particular More racism that will stifle minority progress They will allow someone or it's more like sleight of hand where Donald Trump can be incredibly corrupt As long as you are telling those people who are economically hurting themselves in their own right
Now, you know, it's the black people and it's the Mexicans.
Those are the ones that are taking your job.
So what I'm going to do here as a Trump administration is I'm going to take away all the affirmative action, all the DEI and those people who are economically deprived in their own right will feel appeased because at
least those
But you're still out of a job though, too.
You can deport every single Mexican that is in this country.
That does not mean that the jobs that they had are going to be filled by you Mostly because we had to get people from other countries to fill those jobs because you didn't want them I can't remember the last time I saw a white American woman cleaning a hotel room They're all named Maria and I love Maria very much.
She's very nice.
She's a nice lady.
She don't want no trouble
We
got
We have
myself
I'm not ice None of them speak English.
I feel so bad for them, you know Because they're over here feeling a very necessary need in the American economy But then at the same time they're at risk of being deported and the deportations are terribly mean like you can go to work one day The Maria's got our cleaning supplies
She's wearing a smock.
God bless her.
She never takes her smock off because her work is never done.
She's got her cart.
She's got all the lemon pledge she needs.
She's got fabuloso.
She's got everything.
And then she's just doing, she's cleaning.
She's probably humming something in mariachi.
She's just cleaning.
She's doing a thing and all of a sudden ice shows up and they snatch her up and she's gone.
And then her kids don't know where she is
mama mama
Thank you because it's not racist I Was giving a tour here of the market home and our studio Now being that I'm not a good karma brands employee.
I don't do that anymore.
I don't
If I was ever here at the market hall hanging out socially about hanging out with friends, I'd always give them a tour of the radio station, but I don't I don't do that anymore So it's a few months back probably earlier in the year I had a buddy in from California And I wanted to show him the radio stations.
I showed him the room that I I prepare my shows and I got this little tiny conference rooms all secluded And we walk in and lights were all turned lights on and there was one of the cleaning ladies.
She was sitting in the seat
That I sit in to prepare my show and she was sleeping and we scared her And I think that she thought like she started like she's speaking Spanish and like trying to explain herself Because I mean think about what that could mean for her imagine had Had I told somebody I kind of told her employer.
She might have been fired or I could have called ice though There's a Mexican woman in here that's sleeping and I could tell like
The sadness in her voice house.
I look we walked out.
I turned the light back up.
I was like sweetheart.
Please go back to sleep.
I bet you probably were 16 hours a day But you are able to Create an environment of hatred for a people that have nothing to do why the economy is poor Why somebody is out of a job why a white person got downsides and why their company closed instead of taking real responsibility
For why that is you can just blame a minority and so racism is always going to live in that particular gray area Whenever the economy is bad because it is favoring the wealthy and the resources that they have and freely Share amongst one another are not shared with the rest of the public and the rest of the population You can take that whole idea and just say well if the Mexicans and these foreigners that are coming over here that don't speak English They're the ones that are taking your jobs because it does not take much
To get someone to hate someone who is different and who is foreign and they use it Brilliantly and it's very very hard to combat that and also if we're not teaching the details of who people are and where they come from Teach them about their nations Teach them about their proud histories and their proud heritage is if you don't know anything about those people You will just believe whatever stereotypes are floating out there about these people in the world
Think about how many stereotypes stick to black people.
Just take the stereotype of us eating watermelon, which is delicious, by the way.
I love watermelon very much.
I sometimes eat watermelon in my kitchen wearing my underwear and I get watermelon juice all over my chest and it glistens.
I don't care.
I want you to visualize that.
First of all watermelons were first cultivated in Africa They are a fruit that come from our continent and also because they require very little to grow and they can be exceptionally profitable After slavery black people were looking for entrepreneurship opportunities Growing watermelons was one of the things that we did and to stop black people from having
Economic independence after slavery they demeaned African Americans eating and selling watermelon
and the
reason why they did it is because we were gaining financial Independence from it and the stereotype still sticks to this day now because I know the truth I'll eat a watermelon while sitting on a white person's lap, but I know black people that will never eat a watermelon in front of a white person
Now here's the thing I'm not gonna share with the white person I will not share in my watermelon But I get watermelon juice on both of us because I don't care And an invitation only retreat hosted by white nationalist publisher countercurrents inside the Rome headquarters of an Italian neo fascist group Propagandist Kevin Deanna told roughly 50 attendees
that vanishing local newsrooms means that there's essentially no one left to hold local governments accountable.
Quote, you should be fantasizing about this.
This is a good thing, Deanna said.
For years, white nationalists and neo-Nazi groups have been trying to recruit around the country, often hobbled as local news puts a spotlight on their efforts.
Deanna, who has previously written under pseudonyms promoting a white ethno-state.
argued rural voters offer the best return on minimal investment.
Please keep that in mind because it's not just white nationalists that are taking advantage of people in rural America.
Data center companies are doing the exact same thing.
Framing them as angry, radical, and politically neglected.
Aren't the Democrats saying, oh, we got to bring rural America back into the fold and we need to go and outreach to rural America?
Because they are politically neglected and they don't have any local journalism to even tell them what the hell is going on in the world, let alone telling them how they are being exploited by all sorts of interests, corporate interests, business interests, and white nationalism.
Take a break.
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Continue our casual little chitchat.
In fact, you know what?
I might even take a little look over at the YouTube chat see what kind of perverted things they're discussing You're listening to the truth with Sherwin Hughes on one on one seven FM.
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Well,
I found where all of our text messages have been going if you text us at 833-212-1017 Probably should have been reading these all along, but it's easy if you just join a YouTube chat Well, not really cuz I don't really read all those either just Well, you could call Well, no cuz then I might hang up on you.
I don't know you take all the phone calls
I shouldn't because people take advantage of that.
Good content.
Other times I want to choke somebody.
Doesn't take long to choke somebody out, by the way.
Yeah, about 30 seconds.
Oh, not even.
So I guess there's these two arteries that run on either side of your trachea.
And so if you.
Like 10 or 15 seconds of real good even pressure.
If you put somebody in a sleeper, they're not dead.
They're just now they're easier to murder.
Yeah, they're asleep, but you don't murder.
Please don't murder anybody.
We have enough of that going on.
I'm trying to prevent murder.
If I can, to the best of my ability.
You don't believe in Annihilation Island?
Who do we get to send there?
Well, you don't listen to the morning show when Homer describes it.
Homer is a bit of a fatalist.
He's also a death penalty guy.
I think yes very hard knows When it comes to crime and certain behaviors, I just I Think human beings and our systems and our laws and our judicial system is too flawed to kill anybody It just shouldn't Because if you talk to families or see interviews from families or get testimony from families
after they have quote-unquote received justice because 30 years later the person that You know committed a murder where they killed someone in their family they received the electric chair they get lethal injection the family just like yeah, we're still just as sad I Don't know how much better I would feel if I call sure when the person that harms your friend or your family member is gonna get murdered like that's
Doesn't really help, you know, and I guess they can't murder again That's probably a good thing, but we never get to the root cause of any issue.
We just treat We try to treat the symptoms or we just create consequences after the fact when someone is committed
I
don't sound like no damn coming.
I like money.
I like profit.
I
That's like the extreme.
That's like they are extreme.
Yeah, no one but that's not held by everyone's That's held by like a very small minority.
I also don't think that if I come up with an idea for a better mousetrap and I make a tremendous amount of money
And people buy my mousetrap because I came up with the idea and I created and I engineered the idea and I figured out how to bring it to market and I went on these different sales calls and did product showcases and I went to trade shows all over the country for five years straight and I was losing money and my wife left me because I believed in my dream of entrepreneurship and if I finally hit it rich and I make a billion dollars out of give all that goddamn money away to somebody who doesn't want to work.
No, thank you.
I will be rich.
Here's the other thing and get mad at all these billionaires all you want to
You use their platforms and we make them rich and makes no sense whatsoever.
I love Amazon.
I sometimes scroll on Amazon when I'm bored.
I once bought four double A batteries on Amazon.
They got delivered the same day and I didn't even need no double A batteries.
But guess what?
We get mad at Jeff Bezos because he's
rich.
That's because we don't enforce the anti-trust laws anymore.
Failure of the government.
Even if we did, no one would be able to
real specific technology companies.
And even if we did enforce anti-trust laws, and I'd say break up Ticketmaster, but that's not going to happen.
Between Ticketmaster and Live Nation, they have ruined the concert experience for most American consumers.
Now, the good news is there's a lawsuit that's ongoing that has been determined in Ticketmaster and Live Nation.
do have a monopoly, something like 80% of any live entertainment, music acts or sports acts or sports contest that you see goes through live nation and or ticket master.
OK, so who else is going to be able to come into the market literally tomorrow and be able to handle several billion dollars worth of concerts, concerts, promotions, ticket sales and build a bunch of venues can't.
Well, it's kind of like how we did in the 1930s and 40s when we break up these companies.
You know, and they become smaller entities.
We broke
That's basically about it.
We have a whole bunch of independent gas stations.
That's really about it.
Sometimes if you have the monopoly, you have the monopoly.
Now, what you do, though, is you allow for competition to exist.
But sometimes the barrier for competition is so high.
Here's an example.
Let's say that one on one, seven, the truth.
Better yet Milwaukee Black Media.
has the monopoly on information going to the African-American community, black journalism, black radio broadcasts, et cetera, et cetera.
We have a monopoly on that information because nobody else is providing the same kind of content that we are providing.
We monopolize it.
If you want to advertise to the black community, you'll come here.
We have a monopoly on that.
And let's say somebody says, even the government will say, that's not fair.
We need to have a whole bunch of black radio stations because Milwaukee Black Media is totally not fair.
They've got the Milwaukee Courier.
They've got WNOV 860 AM and they've got one on one seven the truth and what's our AM 510 AM.
We have the monopoly and they say we need other people to come in and start black radio stations because one on one seven the truth and Milwaukee Black Media has the monopoly.
And someone says, yeah, they're a monopoly.
We need other black radio stations.
OK, start a black radio station.
You're going to need $10 million to even consider it.
You've got to go through a process to get all the licenses.
You've got to build a facility.
You're going to need a tower.
You're going to have to buy a frequency.
That's why having a monopoly sometimes is the only way for certain entities to exist.
Even though we may have a monopoly on black media and communication to those who are interested in it,
In order for there to be competition, the barrier and the price for entry is so high, it makes it impossible.
So it's not necessarily our fault that we have this monopoly.
In fact, I think it's a relatively good thing because we have no competition.
Now, there was a point in time when we had two black radio stations in the city of Milwaukee, WNOV and WMCS 1290, but.
I guess I can say this now.
WNOV, which is where I am from, had more relevant content that served more needs to our community than WMCS 1290 and they got sold.
What do you want me to do about it?
And then what do we do with WNOV?
On my back cuz I was the only black talk show host in this city for probably a year and a half I don't recommend that to anybody when all the black people got to get their information from you That's a heavy burden because trying to inform a whole bunch of black people in this city I'm glad when we started expanding at WNOV But we hired all the damn people from WMCS which hindsight being 2020 we probably shouldn't have
Sounds like we need to speak with Elizabeth Warren
For what?
Well, see that's her like whole thing, you know breaking up the monopoly So she'd be able to break it down to us and you know
let her concentrate on financial institutions and banking Not necessarily media because if we had competition How they probably would become successful is by tearing down what we are doing and in some cases
Having competition to tear down the existing Leader in that industry is good, but here I don't think it would be because what used to happen with us in WMCS Is they would always pick on us on on wno because we were a smaller station we were I guess Less known because what WMCS 1290 hosts would do is they sometimes would fill in for national host so they were very prominent
Actually, but they ultimately didn't last but they used to like like Erlingham and I have had a long-standing beef I guess we're okay right now Erlingham some of you who may not know him.
He's a He used to just call Eric Vaughn show all the time and he called so much that he got his own damn show But he used to like Talk crap about us, you know, I'm like, dude, you're old enough to be my father, bro Supposed to be a supportive elder.
Yeah, it was a very weird
I think the community ultimately benefited because there was a type of African American radio listener that preferred WMCS, but then there was a type that preferred what we did at WNLV.
WNLV had always been more militant, more Black Panther, more Black Nationalists, and that met a need for many, many people in our community.
WMCS was much more corporate and they didn't get too controversial.
But also we had a freedom and a flexibility.
At WN OV, the WMCS could not dream of couldn't.
I can get on WN OV back in the day and say anything I wanted for the most part, which.
Again, not recommended, but there was a freedom that is priceless.
The other problem with media, because people have said it to me all these years, oh, Sherwin, you should be national.
No, no.
Hi, Sherwin.
Here's a list of stuff you can't say today.
You can't talk about black people, white people, Latino people.
You can't talk about Trump.
You can't talk about Republicans.
You can't talk about this coming in, this coming in, this coming in, this coming in.
So then you end up talking about,
hi, do you guys want to get your puppies spayed and neutered?
You can get your puppies spayed.
When you work for national media interest and now it's even worse because Donald Trump has threatened all of their FCC license licenses unless you put people that are sympathetic to him and his cause and The higher levels of your management is some of these media companies, but but it also goes into the whole thing that's happening with
When local journalism, especially in small town, dies, then other people can control that narrative.
And those other people oftentimes don't have the lives and futures of small town folk in mind.
Like the Allen Sins.
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Inexpensive land, water, transmission corridors, highway access, relatively low property costs and property taxes, politically influential but numerically small populations, and local governments that are eager for economic development.
Now consider what many of those communities have lost.
Newspapers, reporters, locally owned businesses, a young population, they've lost tax base, they've lost attorneys specializing in complex agreements, environmental expertise, and sometimes competitive political institutions.
A combination like that creates the vulnerability that we see in rural areas and what I do from my purge is I sit back and I watch the exploitation of these rural areas and yes I talk about it, yes I comment on it.
Also bring up and highlight the ironies of it because when we as black people fighting for rights and opportunity and fighting for better schools for our kids and Fighting for the ability to not just own a home But be it to be able to rent in certain parts of the city because even renting was closed off to us Do you think any of those rural folks came to our aid and came to our rescue when we black people were being exploited?
Absolutely not but here's what everyone needs to see and notice gonna fly over most people
The same interests that exploited us are exploiting them too.
We tried to tell you.
We've been trying to tell you.
The same interests that keep people divided, because when you think about it, the current rural dweller and the central city black resident, both getting exploited by the same agency, by the same entities.
but don't see themselves as united in the fight.
But that's on purpose.
But we have been trying to tell you about those entities that have been hurting us and harming us and exploiting us.
They use racism to keep everybody separate, are harming those rural folks too.
And I can't feel sorry for the rural folks.
If you didn't learn from the oppression that black people have suffered through, then you deserve it yourself.
Then you'll get it, because here's the thing.
Don't let your empathy and black folks you got to learn this now Don't let your empathy for someone else deprive them of the lessons they need to learn It's awful if these rural residents get exploited and their land gets used and their environments get desecrated and their fresh water gets sucked up and stop trying to make this about us like oh sure when are we energies bills are gonna go up I did a little
Tiny little bit of research in areas in Texas where a data center was in like a 25 or 30 mile radius their electricity bills went up $60 a Year It's $5 a month It's a dollar and 25 cents a week Buy one less coffee or go out to eat one less time in a year.
You can offset that but here's the other thing
Don't
our energy bills also go up when it gets cold outside, turn on the heat.
Don't they also go up when it gets hot outside?
You turn on the air
It's negligible.
Now there's always going to be a cost to additional and new and innovative technologies.
As of right now, it is minimal.
And that's in a place in Texas where there's hardly any regulation on these data centers.
It's more the Wild Wild West in Texas than it is anywhere else.
Now we're going to have a lot more regulation here.
But even in the worst case scenario, because I think that people in the city.
who have a whole bunch of other problems to try and figure out.
Want to have like this empathy for people in rural areas, which I'm confused about because they have voted against our and their own best interests.
Now, all of a sudden we feel sorry for them.
If they're going to get exploited by the same entities and agencies that have exploited black people, let them get exploited.
Let them feel it.
Let them understand it.
Let them have a better appreciation.
for those of us that have been trying to tell them that they are getting screwed over too.
But see, they're not going to believe us.
You know, because we as black people who have a tremendous amount of expertise in this area, see, we're not credible because of the color of our skin.
And so I say, OK, I'll let them get exploited all day long.
And then they're going to say,
why didn't you tell us?
Why didn't you warn us?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You don't want to hear from us.
Because if you always help them if you bulldozer parents and Helicopter parent white folks in rural areas that they're never gonna learn the lessons that they should about who really is doing the exploiting in America and if they didn't learn that the same entities that
through crack in our neighborhoods flooded their small towns and rural areas with prescription drugs and got them all hooked on heroin and now it's fencing on if they didn't learn from how the crack epidemic impacted us.
Now what do you want us to do?
They're learning their lesson.
Don't deprive them of the lessons they need to learn about exploitation.
It's going to make them better people in the long run.
You don't need to have empathy all the time.
Let them learn that lesson.
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to our three of the truth with Sherwin Hughes talking about all the things When it's all said and done the year 2026 is gonna be a monumental year in terms of news and happenings
political victories and losses I mean just already we're in August we had the rise of democratic socialism once again here with Francesca Hong's historic run for governor of Wisconsin but then you also had the incredible comeback story of David Crowley who may get elected the first African-American governor in the state of Wisconsin if I'm not mistaken post reconstruction
Think maybe only five or six African Americans have ever served as a governor of a state So it is a political position that is relatively rare for a black person to To achieve I'd imagine in the stories of the year when we recap them right around New Year's Eve because I usually do a year in review Radio broadcast look at some of the stories that we probably forgot about because when you live in this 24-hour news cycle
What made news last week is forgotten about today and what's going to make news next week is something we never could have imagined in a million years.
So it's always fascinating to go back and review some of the stories that we talked about.
I'd imagine teen takeovers in Brady Street and Water Street and all of the fights.
I know I'm going to bring up the fight at Bastille Days for the rest of my natural life because I asked y'all one thing.
I don't ask you for very much now because I don't want to get disappointed.
Don't fight at Bastille Days and what did you do?
So I'd imagine that's probably going to be one of the many stories that we're going to tell when we're looking at the year that 2026 was also data centers now coming into focus It's a big deal for some folks people in the city of Milwaukee that have had data centers I don't know for the last decade or so now all of a sudden we're being very concerned.
Why do we care about rural areas?
Ain't got nothing to do with us and plus we need the data centers to be built because the increased cloud stores that we are all responsible for Gotta put that data somewhere, right?
What I say is if these people in rural areas are going to be exploited by corporate interests and powerful political interests and because these rural areas have lost their local journalists who are we to provide to Deprive them of the lessons that they are going to learn about exploitation
Because we've tried to tell them who these entities are and what they have done to us and they just Turn the other cheek Let them get exploited That's an unfortunate thing But don't you have to sometimes let people learn their lessons like a hard head makes a soft ass right?
We could tell people like hey you need to be weary of these big powerful interesting to be weary of the
deregulation environment that Donald Trump is able to thrive in.
You also need to be very concerned, small-time people in rural areas, that the lack of local journalism, you have no defense against some of these agencies and some of these entities that are coming in, taking your land and taking your water.
because you don't know the details of what's going on.
You don't have anybody fighting for you or telling you the story about how you were all getting exploited because local journalism has died in your community.
At the same time, some people are okay with that.
Let me tell you why.
This is also a catch-22 for folks in those rural areas.
They believe Donald Trump, when he said all the news is fake, fake news, it's all a bunch of lies.
If Donald Trump is over here saying...
that the affordability crisis is a hoax made up by the democrats and you don't have a local newspaper or a local journalist saying no in our town this is how much more things are costing.
and actually doing a story about the increase of prices in your small town.
If you don't have that story, if you don't have that newspaper to read or that news website that's reflective of the sentiments of people in your town, then you're likely to believe Donald Trump over your own goddamn wallet.
And I say, let those people get exploited.
Once they're broke and they're politically bankrupt, then they'll be like, oh wow, we got exploited too.
And then we as black people can say, welcome to the party!
They still wouldn't want to work with us though because they hate our guts.
A multinational technology company may arrive in a small town with no newspaper, with attorneys, engineers, lobbyists, consultants, and economic development specialists.
A town of 500 or 5,000 might have a part-time mayor, several trustees,
and no reporter regularly covering city hall.
Have you ever noticed that in some of these small towns and rural areas, like the mayor is also the city attorney that's also the librarian that also serves on the dam council and serves on the school board and they're all extremely part-time?
I never understood that because representing people should be a full-time job because the job never stops.
If you want to be an older person like in Glendale, I think you'd get like $500 a year or something Or if you go even further out into some remote counties, maybe in central Wisconsin or way up north Sometimes these are volunteers or they get paid very very little and they're extremely Part-time if you don't have full-time legislators and executives then they simply can't dedicate
hours of the day to making sure that they are legislating on behalf of Their communities in which they were elected to represent because they got to go somewhere else and make money That's a problem too at least in Milwaukee.
We have full-time elected officials now We may not agree with what they do We may think they should be doing more or they're failing at their jobs, but at least they exist around the clock Because if we had part-time all their persons
We would be represented even less than we are right now and if you think they're not doing a good job right now imagine if they had other full-time jobs where they Wouldn't even attend council meetings because they're somewhere else working Northwestern University's metal local news initiative found that in 2025 212 US counties had zero local news source at all
That's actually dreadful, ladies and gentlemen.
212 U.S.
counties have no local news source at all.
Another 1,525 counties had only one.
Roughly 50 million Americans live with limited or no local news at all.
Newspaper employment has fallen by 75% in the last 20 years Most importantly for the discussion we're having You guys have heard of a food desert No food you can't get in any food or it's not healthy food Now we have this thing called news deserts and guess where they are rural America
212 US counties had no local news at all another 1,525 counties had only one 50 million Americans live with limited or no local news Meaning they don't have the ability that we have here and I pride ourselves on this we executed better some days than other days We get to surveil power
That is what we are supposed to do and here's the thing is very personal for us and you may like David Crowley and you may like this older person You may like this mayor.
You may like this elected official That's not the point you can like them and quite honestly I like most of them most of them are really really nice people But it's the merits of their policies and their positions that I disagree with and I'm able to do that and still like them as a person I have had
knock down, drag out political disagreements with people and gone and had a drink with them for happy hour that exact same day because we can separate and compartmentalize.
I respect their position as legislators and executives and they have a job to do.
And of course they have interests that they need a cater to and their interests are not always the public.
I'm mindful of that.
But I also have a job to do as well.
And I got to tell these folks when I have these conversations with them, usually offline and off the record.
that I talk to their constituents more frequently than they do.
And so I may fundamentally disagree with some of their positions, but I am coming from an informed place of talking to their constituents on a daily basis.
In fact, they should want someone to hold them accountable because look what happens when you do not have media holding the very powerful accountable.
You have the exploitation of the US Constitution, which Donald Trump, he wakes up every day.
He's like, what am I going to screw up today?
What can I do today ain't nobody gonna stop him?
Except for the voters now they have an opportunity to do so provides some kind of guardrails Have some kind of checks and balances because you know our government is supposed to operate under a system of checks and balances But they've been gone He has taken over the Republican Party now is obviously worst case scenario, but also would say Democratic Socialists could do
What MAGA did, and I don't think the Republican Party as an institution that's 160 years old is better off for it.
When the tail wags the dog, when the extreme minority of your party sets the policy and sets the tone for the entire party, that is a problem because it becomes cultish and it does not represent the majority of the people.
And if I can prevent something like.
like that happening from the Democrats, because where is this nation of both political parties and there's only two become ruled by their extremes?
I don't think that that benefits folks.
And then also keeping in mind some of these small rural talent, if they've lost the journalists that can critically think.
about what the Republicans are doing, what the conservatives are doing and how close they are with corporate interests and how someone in a small town with no local newspaper is going to lose their land and lose the rights to the environment in their own community because a big data center is coming in if there's nobody to tell that story and be critical of those elected officials and of those corporate entities those people are going to get exploited.
And the replacement isn't necessarily another professional journalist as 212 U.S.
counties have no local news at all.
Another 1,525 counties had only one.
To put that in perspective, there's only 3100 counties in all of America.
Half of the counties in America only have one local journalism source that is awful for democracy because if you can't get your information from somewhere local, because all politics are local.
But what if there's nobody covering it?
What if there's nobody covering city hall?
I Don't want to get too specific here because I don't want to get myself in trouble because I realized people are sensitive I Probably shouldn't say this but whatever I Want people to call this program and participate in this program To be critical of elected officials that aren't doing their job No matter who the hell they are
And when we stifle that, we are doing a disservice.
We may have received a phone call, I don't know, some time ago.
Maybe you guys remember it.
Maybe you don't.
I know I do.
And I don't think it happened on my show.
But it happened.
Maybe it did.
I don't know.
And a person called it, and they were critical of a particular elected official.
And they got legitimate complaints, right?
That's the morning
But because that particular elected official is, I don't know, beloved or whatever, like beloved personally, they dismissed that caller's complaints about them.
We should not be in that business.
Someone has to hold them accountable.
And that is literally what our only job is.
Do you guys think it's an accident?
That the only industry Named and protected In the US Constitution is free press the media it is a it is a business it is a business indeed But it's constitutionally protected because even those wealthy elite
Actually very liberal slave owning men knew that there had to be independent agencies to keep the powerful Accountable that is why freedom of speech and the press is Protected that is very much on purpose and that stuff is in the first amendment The only industry that's protected by the Constitution that shows how important it is so just think now with half of the counties
America with no local journalists or they only have one local news outlet how dangerous and detrimental that is To our democracy Kamala Harris tried to run on that like oh Donald Trump is gonna end democracy Nobody even knew what the hell she was talking about that's quite honestly I don't even think you have enough either civics in public schools or Local journalists to demystify and explain to people in small towns what that actually means Trump was able to do it
A 2026 Medill survey found that Medill is the journalism school in Northwestern.
Found that 51% of daily news consumers living in news deserts got local information from non-journalistic sources such as social media influencers, their friends, and their family.
80% of America's news desert counties are in rural America that is That is a statistic that should shock everybody so we have food deserts here in the city and look what food deserts do look at the Unintended or maybe intended consequences of just having a food desert health disparities go up, you know people are being
Made sick by the fast food that's available when you don't have food access in your neighborhood in your community There's a burden and how much further you have to travel if there's a higher expense if you need to go to a grocery store because if you live in a food desert Then costs are put on your back as a consumer.
You got to travel further etc etc and there's consequences to that
The same, just like a news desert, there's consequences to that as well.
And it's the exploitation of vulnerable people that do not have any agency, any entity that allow them to surveil power, to hold them accountable, to actually tell the story, and to give the residents information that they will need to fight back and defend themselves.
So if you take the journalism away, people are incredibly vulnerable.
They are.
Imagine a hyperscale data center developer approaching a rural county.
25 years ago, a local newspaper might assign someone to ask, who owns the company?
How much electricity will it consume?
How much water?
Who's paying for the new transmission infrastructure?
What tax exemptions are being offered?
How many permanent jobs will actually exist?
Our negotiators are negotiations occurring behind closed doors who donated to the county officials negotiating the agreement.
Will residential utility customers subsidize infrastructure necessary for the project, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
If you take away local journalism, those questions never get asked.
Without local journalism, questions frequently depend upon citizens discovering those issues for themselves oftentimes when it is too late.
Local journalism isn't just information, it is the surveillance of power.
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For real sports says Did you see the story about the residents not wanting the sit-go on Holton and Burlai to reopen?
Because it would be open 24 hours and they feel like it will bring the wrong crowd I sure did see that for real sports and I believe That that should be taken into consideration because you got to be real
careful with 24-hour stuff in the city of Milwaukee, especially in certain neighborhoods that already have, let's just say, some social challenges.
I know that I wouldn't want no 24-hour gas station in my neighborhood.
That's just a breeding ground.
Or if it's just a sit-go in general, I feel like more murders occur near a sit-go.
Then maybe say an amical or a mobile that's just me don't really hear about a lot of murders happening in the park a lot of a shell station Something about a sit-go That's kind of dangerous.
I don't know where there's more crime outside of a nightclub Or in the vicinity of a sit-go that's in a central city neighborhood in anywhere urban America
Reginald, why do you he just says stuff?
I just Can I just read his comment see?
Someone bring up Willie Nelson quickly get Cheech and Chong on the line while you're at it not talking about marijuana is that what you're referring to referring to weed we missed that boat Legalizing marijuana is not the fantasy that you all think it is Now you're starting to see the unintended consequences of it
You think they would make things in Wisconsin better?
Do you realistically believe the legalizing marijuana?
Because the kids will get it.
And I don't think they need more drugs.
They're already smoking it anyway.
And the fantasy about the revenue is a joke.
When legal marijuana was a rare novelty, I think Colorado may have been the first to legalize recreation There's
a
It was either because they defied and disrespected federal law when Barack Obama was president or Barack Obama turned a blind eye to it and did not Use the federal government to enforce The schedule the drug schedule is one or the other
So when legal marijuana was the novelty like oh my god, I can go to a dispensary and and buy weed It's so neat people would travel to Colorado To buy marijuana to go into a store and actually purchase marijuana where people have been buying it off of the street since the beginning of time That's when you had tremendous amounts of revenue when you had marijuana tourism and they actually booked tours you could book a flight you could Get on a bus and it'll take you to different dispensaries because when it was new I don't know
If you go to Prop 215 in California, marijuana has been legal in California since the 90s.
So it ain't necessarily new there.
But in other states that legalize recreationally, it was a really big deal.
Now it's legal everywhere.
And the taxes that are levied on whatever amount of marijuana you're buying are so exorbitant that whoever you're getting your weed from now is likely going to be cheaper.
And so all of this revenue, like, oh, if we legalize marijuana in Wisconsin, we'll be able to pay for roads and bridges and schools.
Maybe 10 or 15 years ago.
Yes.
Now.
No.
If anything, if it's more expensive in Wisconsin, people will continue to get their legal part where they're getting it now in Illinois.
There's certain dispensaries in Illinois right across the Wisconsin border.
They're waiting on you to right when you cross the border, you got a dispensary.
If you show a Wisconsin ID, you will automatically get 20% off.
That likely will continue even if Wisconsin legalized it, but I don't know if there's a political motivation for it now, like there was.
Do you smoke marijuana?
I have Now it's just it's too potent.
There's no enjoyment.
Plus I need to mentally I need to be mentally sharp and this makes you stupid.
It's what I call it dope.
Have you ever watched a movie reefer madness?
All the 1930 propaganda film.
Yeah, that's what I watched and ever since then I just No weed for me.
I don't want to turn to a werewolf.
I mean, it's been smoked for 10,000 years
But it also it's more common.
I think in a younger generation than alcohol Bar owners will tell you they don't sell liquor anymore You can't have the same profit that you had some time ago if you had a bar or nightclub these kids are not drinking well, they're all coming to the club high Everywhere you go you smell marijuana.
I think it's overrated.
What do I know?
Let's talk to
Someone who probably does smoke marijuana on the regular Al from Sherman Park.
You're on one on one seven the truth
Hey, how you doing Sherwin?
I Barely drinking anymore.
I'm at that age where I can't recover.
So just leave it out The the crisis in journalism, I don't think it has anything really to do with the Hognos baby publishers
Reducing staff so much as people stop buying the newspaper because you don't trust the journalists anymore.
I mean journalists trust is way down because I remember the first time I realized that these people always get the story straight was I was reading something like 20 years ago and Gary George was in trouble and at that time he lived in the Catholic Knights Tower and my mother was the.
a leasing manager, building manager for Catholic Knights.
And I'm reading something in Bice's column with my mother's name in it regarding Gary Jordan.
And I call my mother said, well, did you give Dan Bice this quote?
No, I never gave him any quote.
I don't remember him calling.
And that's when I learned journalists will twist things to fit a narrative.
And then in the recent years, you had what was his name, Brian Williams, demoted.
You had who was head of took Walter Concratch seed after he left Dan Rather.
And these people getting caught in lies and in fabrications.
And then they already have some of their own biases.
And you can look at and you can see the biases just drip through their stories.
And you just no longer trust what they say.
And you move on to other.
news sources, such as what's popular now, the YouTube streamers Tim Pool and some of the journalists have gone on their own and started their own production companies.
So I think journalism has to blame themselves for a lack of trust and then people just not buying the product anymore.
All right.
Yeah.
All right.
Thank
He said Tim Pool.
Yes, you know,
I mean take what he says with a grand assault and so of course there's gonna be Some bias But that's why it's good to have other Journalism outlets There was a point in time where Walter Cronkite was the most trusted person in the United States in fact when he said 1968
that the Vietnam War was lost.
Lyndon Johnson was like, I'm not running for president again while there's wars going on because if we've lost Kronkite, we have lost the nation.
And so I would also say this.
I'm glad he said what he said.
I wasn't going to challenge him because I really don't have time today for all that.
You think that somebody who's on goddamn YouTube.
Is an actual journalist.
Do you think that social media influencers putting content out there for.
Hungry consumers to gobble up you think that stuff is researched There is some integrity in the art form of journalism and where people are getting their information from now There is not it's about likes and clicks and it does not have to be true
And you may not like one particular story, but then you have another media outlet that may tell the other side of it because it's not about going to one entity and getting all of your information, you have to compare.
Like there's some people, I don't know why, they'll listen to Fox News and they'll listen to MSNOW or they'll listen to CNN because they want to see where all of the different perspectives are and maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle.
But when you lose local journalism on real specific issues like what is happening to a community, what the unintended and intended consequences of a development are if you don't have a reporter in the room asking those hard questions, because most normal regular people don't even know how to ask questions.
They don't.
Most people are not critical thinkers.
And so there is an obligation when you are dealing with people that are vulnerable.
And as long as you have media deserts and news deserts, people are incredibly vulnerable.
Here's what I've come to find out over the years of me doing the thing that I'm doing every day.
If we say it enough, you'll believe it.
And that's a horrible thing to have to admit.
If I sat here and repeated every single day for three hours a day that COVID vaccines are going to make you sick and they're going to hurt you and there's microchips in them, I promise you people will believe
it.
Not
That's the problem.
There are some and a lot of them exist online.
They are not credible enough to provide information to vulnerable people because without information.
We die.
Without information, you don't even know how to take care of your health.
You ever wonder why there's no type 1 diabetes in some of these third world countries, like you never hear about it?
I mean, there's other health elements, obviously, especially when the United States put sanctions on nations.
Sanctions, by the way, means if there's an American company that makes a particular medicine...
And we have sanctions on your country.
Your country is not going to get insolent.
That's what sanctions are.
So sanctions kill children.
Just please be mindful of that when you hear, we're going to put sanctions on a country because Americans and American companies make a lot of stuff, especially pharmaceuticals.
But if there is a sanction on a country, any American company is literally prohibited from selling their products, their services, and sometimes their medications to those foreign nations.
That's really, really a bad deal.
It's not.
It's not ideal, but the reason why there's no type 1 diabetes in some of these third world countries because all the kids died not crazy They just there isn't any type 1 diabetes because the kids get it and then they're dead.
That's We are particularly vulnerable there's a story in a Pew Research Center Pew research.org Where African-Americans and Latinos are more likely to get information about our health
On the internet from influencers Then from an actual doctor Now I don't know about you But I don't think that somebody like dr. Oz or RFK should be providing information about health to the American But that's just me you guys like it.
I love it.
It is what it is
Local journalism isn't just information, it is the surveillance of power.
A newspaper reporter sitting through a boring county board meeting may seem economically insignificant, but that reporter is effectively a full-time representative of citizens who cannot attend every zoning hearing, every utility proceeding, every school board meeting, and developing authority.
Session themselves.
Remove the reporter and you remove a layer of oversight.
So we still are fortunate in that the Milwaukee Journal Center does do something right.
They still have a number of educational reporters.
It is their job to focus on NPS, what they're doing, how much money they're getting, how much money they're spending.
A lot of times the statistics that we get about how the school district is performing is by this meticulous and painstaking research that is done by local journalists.
And they go to school board meetings and they report back because here's something else that I know about school board meetings.
Y'all don't go to those either.
Could you imagine?
Just think about this for a second.
I'm going to take a break.
If we didn't have any local journalists covering what the NPS board was doing, we would have literally no idea how taxpayers are getting robbed, absolutely blind, and we have nothing to show for their return on our investment.
there are stories you can read about what the school board meeting was about what's the place when the next meeting is so if you decide to attend
You at least have that option.
But if there's nobody in the room, imagine if nobody was covering MPS, how much more exploitation of our tax dollars and of our students they'd be doing.
Imagine if there was no local journalist telling us that black students are less than half the population of MPS, but are 92% of the suspensions and the expulsions.
Imagine if we didn't know that statistic.
We would just think these damn black kids are stupid and cutting school every single day.
Local journalism matters.
All politics are local.
Take a little break, come back.
It's this other story that I just, it's been around for a couple of weeks now.
I'm scared to talk about it.
It's not anything local here.
Do I have time?
Yeah.
Hang on a sec.
I only got 30 minutes left.
Yeah, you got two segments.
That two segments ain't enough time.
Is it enough time?
Maybe I have to save this one for For Monday you guys are familiar with Lindsay Clancy.
Yes This white woman that Apparently had a little little bit of a little taste of the postpartum Send her husband clear thinking enough to send her husband out to pick up food for the family and murdered
strangled to death her three children for I think there were ages like eight months to maybe six or seven years murdered her kids okay admitted it like oh I had postpartum and I needed a lot of help was on a cocktail of medications had been going to a psychiatrist a psychologist trying to get over the postpartum and here's what's crazy she was a
Deliver a nurse a labor and delivery nurse had three kids murdered her kids.
Okay Then tries to kill herself By jumping out of a second story window didn't kill her not she just paralyzed in the damn wheelchair Okay, and here's here's what's the most shocking thing about this story Believe women believe women hi, I'm Lindsay Clancy.
I killed my three children.
No you didn't
I have a story about a damn rally where 300 women showed up to support a woman that murdered her kids.
Because we have to pay attention to mental health.
They are literally excusing this woman for committing one of the worst atrocities a human being can commit.
Oh, if you ever heard the 911 call when the husband came back to find his baby's dead.
My God, and there was a rally in support.
Help me understand where I'm at.
And of course, it was all white women.
Y'all sure you want to be allies with them?
And then the interviews they did with these women.
She needed help.
It wasn't her fault that she strangled her kids with an exercise band one by one.
They had a rally in support of a woman who murdered her kids.
No, they're all wearing pink shirts like like it's a cancer rally.
I can't.
That's why I haven't been talking about this because I will go insane to rally behind.
Please for a moment.
Take a moment and think about if a black woman murdered her three kids, do you think that we will be coming to having a damn rally and saying she needed help?
She couldn't be responsible for that.
We would want to kill her ourselves.
Now, we may not care a lot about our kids and our teenagers, but you can't kill them.
A rally to support it's insane.
I I gotta take a break said I wasn't gonna talk about that, but it's infuriating the truth with Sherwin Hughes will be right back
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It's a real good way if you're a cop and you want to stalk a woman You can flock camera her to see her cheating in real time Which is pretty cool.
I Don't know if you guys know how insane some police officers are so you're pro fuck.
Oh I'm not pro.
I'm not we live in a surveillance state because we
We actually love it.
We love all these cameras ever.
We love recording stuff and getting the video footage of everything.
We don't care about privacy anymore.
We signed our privacy away back with MySpace.
We don't care.
Why do you think all this stuff is free?
If something is free, if social media is free, I've never paid for Instagram before.
I've never paid for the Facebooks.
Never paid for any of that stuff.
If you're not paying, then you're the product.
We freely share our data and they can advertise to us and market to us.
Instagram is listening to you.
We don't care about that.
Data from Oak Park, Illinois, which is just south of where we are here in Milwaukee, showed that 84% of drivers stopped in flock related traffic incidents were black, which is outrageous.
Given that they black people only make up 19% of the local population an electronic frontier foundation reports suggested police officers use language when searching through flock video logs that quote mirrors long-standing patterns of discriminatory policing for example officers use phrases such as suspicious behavior or
high crime area to justify additional surveillance in predominantly black, Latin and Native American communities.
They also found that officers targeted ethnic minorities such as Romani people and use the term as Roma or Gypsy.
And by the way, the word Gypsy is censored.
Like I can't say Gypsy.
What's wrong with that?
That's a naughty word whole bunch of words.
I can't say anymore.
In fact, you know what?
This song right here is called Gypsy Woman.
I'm not supposed to play Gypsy Woman because Gypsy is a bad word.
So also keep in mind with the fly camera.
So the what's it called?
The Eagle Sports Clubs.
Eagle Eagle Eagle Club.
Eagle Gun Range.
Eagle Gun Range, right?
They just recently said, oh, we have a
We have a contract with flock and we're we're gonna take our flock cameras down and we don't care what the consequences are We're people don't like flock camera.
I got a goddamn flock camera in a parking lot Okay, and we know what flock is being used for is being used to surveil people It's the making the model of your vehicle gets all this information gets your license plate and it's stored in a database and you basically are You are tracked in that vehicle.
All right, so then think about this for a second.
So they recently told us that they were going to
Eliminate their flock cameras.
They didn't damn Juneteenth day shoot around from five until midnight like come on out everybody Come on out black people, you know, we want to have an event where black people can come and shoot their guns Really every damn black person that went there.
You're not being surveilled.
Congratulations.
I Knew something going on with that whenever having a Juneteenth night shoot around.
I'm like, I like to shoot guns This as much as anybody, but I ain't no damn fool y'all been flocks
will flock you to a flock yourself.
Mass surveillance is concerning in its own right.
But when used in a society where prejudice against black people persists, it's a recipe for disaster.
So this article comes courtesy of level man dot com.
And they're talking about how racism, as which we are trying to fight it, has been mechanized and weaponized in the technologies that we use every single day.
Including flock cameras and earlier I told I got the name of the The documentary It's called coded Coded bias don't know if it's still on Netflix it came out in 2020 but an African-American woman is
She does this documentary and she does a great job with it.
This shows how racial bias is built into technology.
So now that racism is automated, it can kind of run on an autopilot.
One of the examples is as a dark-skinned person, you may wave your hand underneath an automatic faucet.
And it may not turn on.
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.
And because when those technologies were created, it was created not to be able to read.
Darker skin and turning on the faucet at these automatic faucets you may see at a public restroom Because the creators of that technology didn't think black people wash their hands and so the sensors are not sensitive to darker skin and that is just one of many many examples of how racism is now built into
the technologies that we use.
So if we're going to have a legitimate beef about technology and artificial intelligence, it should be that, not what small rural town is getting a data center built in their backyard.
I'm going to take a break, come back, continue our little chitchat.
You're listening to the truth with Sherwin Hughes on one on one seven FM.
I'll be right back.
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I'm okay How much though
Okay.
Yeah, I was Reminded of when you talked about the lady to kill the kids and the rallying behind her.
I was reminded of a while back This black lady.
I think it was down in Florida was
was in a minivan and she was trying to drive her keys into the ocean there.
She was driving toward the ocean and they stopped her.
But long story short, they were trying to charge her with attempted murder.
And she was going through some, she was going through other, she was going through some kind of depression or whatever.
But they wanted to charge her with attempted murder.
I don't know if you remember that.
And I think that she got off with an insanity plea, but don't make no mistake.
The prosecution is also trying to charge Lindsey Clancy with the murdering of her children as well.
So she's definitely being charged.
The question is, are they going to deem her mentally insane and just commit her to an institution?
Or is she going to go to prison for the rest of her lives?
So trial is still going on, actually.
But I thought about that.
I mean, it was clear.
That this lady had a the black lady was clear she had a bit that there was some Mental problem going on with there's some kind of you know psychological thing going on with her But they were still gonna try to do attempted murder and they were trying hard If I remember right
It was maybe it was but it was like she was trying to kill herself and everybody and I try to self-anarchies and you know
There's a bit of like a murder suicide type thing.
Not attempted murder.
That's that that is the clear insanity plea.
I think in the insanity plea would have been the right thing to do because there was clearly something wrong with it.
You know what I mean?
Maybe she
I think that's one thing.
But when you are when you have your kids in the car.
You're trying to murder your children and those children who are helpless need justice.
I think it's easy for us to say, oh, there must have been something wrong with that woman.
Why do we always default to that?
You understand that some women hate kids?
Some women hate their own kids.
I know women that wish they never had kids.
We shouldn't always default to think like, oh, there must be something wrong with her.
Why do we assume that women even like children?
How many women are opting not to have kids?
And we need to actually look at that very carefully, because women don't always like kids.
And women will sometimes hate their own kids.
Look at how they raise them sometimes.
I appreciate your call, Bruce.
No, no, no, let's not default.
Because if a man kills three kids, oh, give me the electric chair, kill him.
He ain't going to get all hit.
He was insane.
He was going through.
He lost his job.
And if anything, we might give that excuse to a mass shooter.
The mass shooter he was going through a bit of a depression his girlfriend broke up with him.
So we killed 49 people in a movie theater.
I Think this woman just because they go through the whole psychological record She was going to a therapist because she couldn't understand why she hated her kids so much So we want to give her an automatic out like oh, maybe she had have been going through the postpartum depression And then they took it a step further and created a new one postpartum psychosis.
She hated her kids
If you're around kids long enough put it this way You need a break.
You know what I mean?
Cuz kids Oof They just don't they just keep on The kids be kidding.
You know I mean let's talk to Hi, Sandra.
How are you?
I am just fine.
How are you doing?
I'm doing good.
What's on your mind?
You're talking about the kids and the women hate the kids.
I didn't know this
You might have said the kids look like the father.
Maybe she hated the father and the kids look like the father.
So it felt maybe something was wrong.
Or
What if she just hated her kids and nobody else's fault?
She just like, yeah, I wish I wouldn't have had this many kids kids are terrible.
I hate him.
Why don't you give him up?
Yeah, because if you got a husband, you can't exactly give the kids up when there's a husband.
Well, then give them to him and divorce.
I mean, it's solutions.
Well, that's
wrong one.
And now she's paralyzed.
How about that?
Now
in the big K back.
So
So she sends the husband out to go get food because she wanted to kill the kids alone.
He comes home and sees his wife laying on the ground, not dead, but paralyzed.
And he's like, all right, where are the kids?
And she's like, they're in the basement.
And then he goes in the basement and finds his three essentially his babies Dead like that is a nightmare.
You should hear the 9-1-1 call You'll have a whole different opinion.
This woman is a monster.
But my point is there's
a
Well, we got
a
the
had
But her mother said she had said it to the mother before.
So her mother's on the news and said her daughter had mentioned that to her.
So, you know, she.
I think she had a clear mind when she did it, but.
You know, maybe they can figure it out, but too late.
Now the kids are dead.
But anyways, you said this was going to be a surveillance state.
Push it.
Push it is.
How come we still have so much crime as they can see everything?
It just makes it easier to catch people that committed it.
If I'm going to go kill somebody, a camera is not going to stop me from driving to the house of the person I want to go kill.
Like you, you'll have my vehicle and my license plate and you'll have all of that stuff, but you're not going to stop me from actually committing the crime.
It just makes it easier to catch people.
They
make like, yeah, they make like they can't see who did it.
And they want us to ride on them.
And they got the cameras.
I mean, one of these cameras was at my house about a week or so ago.
And everywhere I moved, it moved.
It was that thing that fly in the air.
You know what I'm trying to say.
A drone?
Yeah.
If I moved this way, it moved that way.
If I moved this way, it moved that way.
I went into the house and stopped at my door.
They could see everything
It could have been but I think more is that you know the government because I don't trust them no way I'll talk to you another time.
I know you got to go.
All right.
I'll catch up with you next week.
All right.
Bye.
Bye.
Sanders.
He said the government flying a drone Just to look at her.
Jeez.
That's probably just one of your neighbors What's how much time I got left 50 seconds?
Let's see if we can run through it.
On January 24, 2023, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, 36-year-old Lindsey Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, strangled her three children, Cora, five, Dawson, age three, and Callan, eight months.
The tragedy occurred after she sent her then-husband, Patrick Clancy, out of the house to pick up medicine and dinner.
Immediately following the killings, Clancy slit her own throat and jumped from a second-story window of her home in a suicide attempt.
She survived the fall but was left paralyzed from the waist down.
Clancy's murder trial began the summer of 2026, drawing immense national attention to the medical classification and severity of postpartum mental illness.
These legal arguments depend largely on her state of mind and the exact moment of the offense.
I think she just didn't like her kids and wanted to kill them.
Thank you for listening.
Lunch break is up next.