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We covered a lot of ground this week, a lot of topics.
They seem to be hovering around a couple of major themes, though, because these themes that we were discussing with great frequency, not just on this program, but really programs across the one on one seven, the truth lineup.
We're just so rich.
that they made the discussion list pretty much all week.
And it was a discussion of hip hop music, the culture of hip hop, how in a segregated city do we successfully bring people together?
You know, there's a lot of establishments that are owned by non black individuals.
So if we want to go out and spend our entertainment discretionary income, or if you are a performer or a DJ,
A lot of times your choices are limited racially.
So a lot of us black people gravitate to different parts of the city.
Even though those may have been parts of the city that were once prohibited, we can feel very comfortable in those spaces now.
And I think that we maybe have taken that for granted.
Until this list came out earlier this week.
That somebody is denying that management was in support of the list management hasn't made it known that they fired anybody who produced this list which Bands essentially three dozen hip-hop artists that are relatively popular with a younger set of hip-hop ears and Then it says at that same list and made all the controversy no Milwaukee artists and of all of
All of that that was said and discussed.
It was the Milwaukee artist that really, really, really got upset.
In fact, there was a brief interview.
Maybe the interview was long, but I know the clip that we played on my program yesterday, which is rare for us.
I don't really play a lot of video clips on this program, but I found that clip to be important.
And again, it was on the topic that we have been discussing with great frequency this week because Milwaukee is a city in which there are many cultures.
But still, some are not, let's say, appreciated like others are.
But also, there needs to be a reminder, and that is what happened this week with that list that the garage came out with.
Just because you are in a space and you feel comfortable there does not mean that the proprietors of that space ever intended for you to be there.
And we, as Black people, seem to think that our money that we have, the money that we spend, transcends...
how people feel about us racially.
It doesn't because we oftentimes will think that we can defy any dress code, do whatever we want, say whatever we want, act however we want, but if we have money then we should be excused from being completely and totally irresponsible.
Every now and again we get a wake-up call that shows sometimes our money isn't worth it and that hurts us.
Because there's one thing that black people can do and one thing that we know very very well We can't really change how people think of us as a culture and as a race But we show enough can make sure we have money in our pockets to at least At least psychologically for us put ourselves on even keel with those who Probably hate our guts.
Here's the thing even if we have money and we spend money in their establishment They still hate our guts.
So all of this stuff was discussed today or of this week rather
on our various programs, but also saw that We were talking about hip-hop in a very negative light and I don't want to do that It received some negative attention this week and local media ran with and so as I was mentioning very briefly a moment ago we played a video clip of a local rapper his name is Ishtar and he was interviewed by CBS 58 our CBS affiliate here in
Milwaukee and they put this interview on the website and they want a response from him as someone who was known on the local rap scene and someone who frequented the high hat which is the establishment in question that came up with that list of banned hip-hop artists but at the bottom of the list it said in bold letters no Milwaukee rap and So when Ishtar gives this interview that was displayed on the CBS 58 website He used profanity
Now I know that's a very small thing to a lot of you know, obviously they blurted it out.
They beeped it out when they put the brief interview with Ishtar on their website, but it still showed a local Milwaukee hip-hop artist who was being targeted because their music is negative or they don't want Milwaukee red played at this establishment and the fact that he used profanity on a broadcast interview
Also, I believe because if you're if you're being victimized you don't want to say anything or do anything that That gives the people that are targeting you any ammo But then he he chimed in on the YouTube chat yesterday.
He's he got very mad at me and I wasn't gonna argue with him because I'm not gonna argue with someone who
Got upset that white people don't want to play his music because I don't want to argue with someone who doesn't have anything to lose and in my opinion If you're mad that white people are not playing your music that you don't really have anything to lose I didn't want to go back and forth with the guy, but they told him prior to the interview Oh, no, no, you can use profanity you can cuss no no absolutely go ahead because I think the CBS 58 was also complicit
wanted to show hip-hop and hip-hop artists in a negative light.
I know it's a very small thing for you all but if someone is unfamiliar with this situation and they see a brief interview with a Milwaukee artist who's very angry and it's the victim here because their music has essentially been ostracized from a playlist of an establishment that has been playing hip-hop for as far back as I can remember.
But then if you're using profanity it makes you look
Less favorable and hurts the case you're trying to plead I said all that to say this they're making hip-hop Look like it's something negative now.
Obviously there's negative aspects of it There's parts of our culture that are quite honestly that are brutal that are very misogynistic that are exceptionally homophobic you name it hip-hop will tell the story
At some point with some artists of all the things that we don't like about our society But that is also what we should appreciate about the genre It tells you precisely the stream of consciousness of the artist and for the people that live in communities and neighborhoods that are otherwise deemed less than credible when you hear that less than credibility in the music it actually adds a little bit of credibility to some of the stories that Otherwise would go untold
I'm a fan of the genre the genre it was born roughly right about the same time I was hip-hop is probably 52 years old.
I am 51 I grew up with it.
I've seen the many eras of it I've seen its evolution.
I've seen it reach the charts.
I've seen hip-hop crossover I've seen as many white kids and Latin kids and Asian kids dance to hip-hop or know the lyrics even with the n-word They even know the n-word lyrics
Probably should have a discussion about that white people because we know that you love Tupac very much in fact run the heels of The 30th anniversary of his death, but when the n-word part comes up in a Tupac song, can we just go ahead and just silence ourselves?
Can we just we beep that out?
But it is a genre that has become damn near universal and the clothing brands and
the advertising and the endorsements.
If your brand, much to the chagrin sometimes of the designer of the curator of the brand, if your brand makes it into a hip hop song, you are going to sell out.
We create billionaires with this incredible genre, probably about, oh, it varies.
I'd say about a third of the music that I play on my program is hip hop.
Another third is probably some form of the rhythm and the blues.
Better known as R&B.
And then another third is just weird.
I play weird stuff.
I might play some Van Halen or Dire Straits.
I might play the Moody Blues.
I might play some Jimi Hendrix.
I might play Jim Morrison and The Doors.
But it is a genre that I love very much and I don't want it to be portrayed in a negative light because this particular bar on Brady Street has made a choice to omit these artists.
Well, there's a story that appears today.
It seems that CBS 58 is trying to redeem themselves because I don't like how they set Ishtar up for that interview by telling him he could be profane in a story that already seeks to put a negative light on hip-hop.
And I hear some of you all as well.
Some of you all think that the only hip-hop that should exist or the only hip-hop that should be played is what was being played back in our day, back in the formative years when hip-hop was a baby.
think as time went on hip-hop got more honest because those artists from our day in the early 1980s almost like not cartoonish but just really simple themes about oh let's have a good time and let's party and I think at the time we needed upbeat optimistic music because the 1980s the early 1980s for the black community were abysmal
Deindustrialization crack was on its way Reagan was president inflation was high the economy was dreadful blackmail unemployment was through the roof Don't push me.
I'm close to the edge.
I'm trying not to lose my head all of that made a lot of sense But then you have the air of really fun music.
I watched the documentary on the fat boys last night you guys remember the fat boys There was three people in the fat boys
They were all fat one was fatter than the others, but they were all fat two of them were actually dead Sad But it was a it was a less than honest Genre at the time because there were real struggles going on now Of course those struggles became more prominent more evident and it made its way into the music hip-hop is often told the story of where
A certain segment of the black community always is.
And for that, it's important.
And there are some people that dismiss it as a genre.
They say it's not creative because they sample a lot of music.
I'm going to tell you what sampling has done for those artists that you otherwise...
would never have heard of.
I'm talking about geniuses.
I'm talking about musical maesteros that may not have gotten played on radio because of the race of the producer or the composer.
Hip hop brings all of that to life and has made some of those artists that produce some of those musics and some of the beats and some of those samples that's used in hip hop has made those unknown artists rich.
And sometimes their estates have gotten rich because of our genre.
And I'm very, very proud of that.
So it's a very multifaceted, very very complicated subject, but it also is one worthy of close examination because hip-hop is our art form and a language that's not even native to us.
We were forced to learn English to communicate with our repressor and we took that forced language and made it ours and created an art form that I would dare say is beautiful.
That being said, there's a positive story about Milwaukee hip hop that appears via CBS 58.com and I want to share it with you.
There's going to be a hip hop concert coming up very, very soon.
It's going to be held at a very unlikely place, but it's a place that also needs necessary attention from a younger cohort of Milwaukee.
who do pay attention to and listen to and fan out for Milwaukee Hip Hop.
The concert is going to be at the Milwaukee Public Library.
I'm going to give you some details on that when I come back.
Oh, and also please be warned.
Who am I if I'm not a warning system for all of you?
They're out.
They're here.
The Jehovah's.
Did you see any Jehovah's this month?
Well, you get here very early Xavier, but man, they're they're in throngs.
There is a there's gaggles of them.
There's packs of Jehovah's.
The Milwaukee's under retake over.
They're all over the place.
But no, they're not a violent sort.
They're not.
But if if they confuse you for a door, expect to get pounded on.
Got to take a break, come back, talk about a very positive story that is going to combine the art form of hip-hop with encouraging people to go to the Milwaukee Public Library and utilizing their many sometimes unknown services.
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He's on a big national tour.
I had to turn that down because it says it's clean, but you never know.
Sometimes they'll sneak a couple in on you.
Had to make sure that was a clean version because I know that the ears of the people that are listening are very sensitive.
From CBS58.com.
Next week.
Some of Milwaukee's biggest artists will bring people together and celebrate the local music scene.
It comes just days after a Brady Street bar was widely criticized for a quote no playlist that leaked on social media, which many consider to be racist.
Quote, I wish we'd be celebrating the city and celebrating hip-hop music and celebrating what we've got going on rather than everybody talking about it in a negative sense, said DJ Mondo, a Milwaukee-based DJ who regularly performs at Summerfest and other music venues.
Mondo and his brother, music producer Sunny Lu,
were disappointed to learn about the no-play list allegedly given to DJs at the garage, a Milwaukee nightlife bar.
Quote, as an establishment, you have the right to play whatever you want, but for me, it was just like a lazy, not-thought-out way of going about it, said Sonny Lu.
The list circulating social media names dozens of mainstream black artists and specifies in bold.
No.
Milwaukee rap When we play it everybody's just vibing, you know said popular Milwaukee rapper 414 big Frank Everybody's having a good time.
So it shouldn't be like that.
And then there's a picture featured in the middle of the article here of 414 big Frank looks like he is also with
DJ Mondo was in this picture and then two other gentlemen who I do not know and they are at the Wisconsin State Capitol actually.
Maybe 414 Big Frank is their lobbying on behalf of his city.
414 Big Frank is headlining the rave in Milwaukee tomorrow as the last stop of his current national tour.
He tells CBS 58 his songs have been played at the garage before.
He goes on to say it's just music.
It should make you feel good.
It should make you want to tap your feet.
While you might not hear Frank at certain bars, one unique venue will host him for the very first time next Thursday.
Dubbed the library show, the concert on September 3rd will feature live performances by 414 Big Frank, DJ Mondo, Sonny Lu,
and more inside the Milwaukee Central Library's Rotunda.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think this is a fantastic idea, and I'm gonna get back to the details of the story in just a second, because you know what I ask you all?
And I ask you frequently what do we do?
What do we need to create?
What programs need to be offered so that the kids have something to do so that they can be productive and as the weather starts to get warm because I know that I do this every single year because we always know the Milwaukee summers are gonna be violent We predicted every year and guess what we are correct even though the numbers are telling you oh homicides are down Yeah, but a lot of people are getting shot though a lot of
A lot of shootings, some non-fatal, but the violence is prevalent and also the violence is looking different.
Maybe homicides are down, but people are fighting all over the place and it's being spread all over social media.
So even if the incidence is percentage wise might be lower.
We see them with the same frequency.
And so we always talk about what should we do?
How do we get the kids involved?
And here's one thing that I've learned after many years of asking my listenership of what we should do, what programs we should support.
We are miserable at it.
We're terrible at it.
We look at our era and remember what we had and what we believed.
Was successful also keep in mind when you reminisce it's always nostalgic It was a bunch of crap going on too back in our day Now the difference is it wasn't all recorded on put it and put on social media But we look at whether it be sports y'all just love basketball leagues for some reason
What's another one that comes up all the time?
Oh, oh a roller skating.
Nobody rollerskates, but if you ask somebody over the age of 50 What what should we do?
We should make a bunch of nonprofits and put a bunch of skating rinks in nobody wants to roller skate You don't even roller skate anymore, but the things that we come up with
are relics of the past and you wonder why the youth are not responding something that we never would have thought of if these kids are responding to hip-hop and if they look up to local Milwaukee hip-hop artists because when you when you parse it down to its elements hip-hop music when done properly is linguistic it's grammar
It's rhyming schemes, it's conjunctions, it's onomatopoeia, it's alliteration.
It is a literal kind of art.
It is poetry, poetry, literature, reading.
Don't always harp on how illiterate every goddamn body is and our kids can't read and if we can better connect with the kids are responding to which obviously defies our understanding as old people and if it's hip-hop music and you're having a concert in the public library which I believe is probably underutilized I think this is a match made in heaven and kudos to the people that came up with it now I can hear some of you saying oh sure when that's a stupid idea you're supposed to say it's a stupid
idea because the ideas that you all have come up with, myself included, have also been stupid.
So if the people that come up with the stupid ideas hear an idea and then think that that idea is stupid, then maybe that actually is the right idea in the first place.
I did a little digging because that's what I do.
I do research with a shovel.
I swear I dig in deep.
When I found out how much money we spend every single year on the Milwaukee Public Library all of their branches and all of the services that they offer, I immediately realized that they are dramatically underutilized.
Dramatically and if they're giving away free library cards to for the people that go to the Milwaukee concert next week Thursday at the Milwaukee Public Library So you can get a library card if you don't have one I'll admit I haven't had a library card in probably 30 years, but hell I got the internet every damn book that's ever written is on the internet But if we can encourage young people to go to the library because back in the day that was a safe space for us kids
My parents would drop me off at the library on Saturday mornings and pick me up in the afternoon.
And I didn't mind.
I mean, did I read a lot of books when I was there?
Eh, we actually hung out at the damn library.
That's some nerdy stuff, but guess what?
We weren't shooting dope.
We weren't breaking into houses and cars.
We were at the library.
The worst thing that we did at the library is maybe made a little too much noise.
But it was a very social thing for us.
In fact, it was very central to the community that I grew up in as weird as that may sound.
I don't even know what's central to communities anymore.
It certainly ain't church.
Not the library.
Well, maybe it could be.
Quote, the library show, the concert will be on September 3rd and will feature live performances by 414 Big Frank, DJ Mondo, Sonny Lu and more.
inside the Milwaukee Central Library's Rotunda.
It's a message of solidarity, it's a message of positivity, and it's at the same time.
Educational and promotion of literacy is making it all fun, said DJ Mondo.
The Milwaukee Public Library has been planning the event alongside local label Run Along Forever and music event brand On What.
They've been planning it for an entire year and September is national library cards sign up month.
Quotes, I think the biggest thing is no matter what walk of life you come from, no matter what music you listen to, you're always welcome at the Milwaukee Public Library said Joey McMahon, Milwaukee Public Library's research and policy coordinator.
Every so often when the city of Milwaukee has got to face these austere measures and they have to
shutter things and reduce budgets.
I weep a little bit when we have to close the library because that is a lost opportunity in a city where far too many people are functionally illiterate.
That also signifies something about that community, about that city, that you have to prioritize things and you have to close libraries, which should be a central clearinghouse for information and for public meetings, et cetera.
It's very, very sad.
very happy to see that all of these fragments and elements that we have just kind of floating around in isolation in our city, we have the youth and youth culture, you have hip hop music, whether it be positive or negative, and you have libraries that are sometimes just hanging on from year to year because they're always on the chopping block when it comes to budget cuts.
But do come to combine these forces and maybe just maybe we make a small dent in what I will call an illiteracy crisis.
I just give you one of many examples.
The reason why voter turnout is so low.
It's not just because people don't like the candidates or I don't like the Democrats or the Republicans or they're not going to do anything for me.
I've come to find out over the years that people that can't read will say those things as an excuse because they can't read the ballot.
Because we're not gonna challenge anybody that says oh well, you know the Democrats are corrupt and the Republicans are corrupt like if somebody says that I'm like yo, you're correct Now I also take offense when people don't vote But if someone has that stance because folks that don't vote because they can't read the ballot Will be very well rehearsed on how bad the Democrats and Republicans are right you can say oh Obama didn't do anything and Kamala Harris sucked and Joe Biden was sleepy and Donald Trump is starting wars and
ripping off the American people.
Okay fair enough.
But a lot of times people hide behind the fact that they're not literate.
So I think this is a fantastic idea.
I think it brings together local Milwaukee artists.
I think it will hopefully promote the Milwaukee Public Library.
We spend $33 million every single year on the Milwaukee Public Library system.
That's a shocking amount of money and the reason why I think that's such a shocking amount of money because I can't tell you the last time I went to a Milwaukee public library for anything.
It certainly wasn't for a book.
It was probably because there was a meeting there or maybe it was an early voting site that was likely.
So think about that.
We're spending $33 million on a series of buildings and the services that they offer and I'd be willing to bet.
The majority of you listening to me right now have probably not been to a library in the last 12 months, in the last five years even.
And we're spending a lot of money on these libraries, but to get the youth back in the doors of what I consider safe spaces for them and places of information and research and intellect, you can go get on the computers there.
They have different little programs that they host at the library and then bringing the Milwaukee hip-hop element to it I think it's a fantastic idea and certainly one that we never came up with I'm gonna take a break.
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That's like the exact opposite of what other folks decided to do talking about this local Milwaukee hip hop show concert that's going to be held at the Milwaukee Public Library, bringing together local artists and city of Milwaukee residents, hopefully youth that might have an opportunity to rediscover the Milwaukee Public Library.
Well, I just hope that people come here and that they see that Milwaukee music isn't scary.
It's just this great community-based thing, said Nolan Busolaki, the founder of Run Along Forever.
The artists hope to send a message that Milwaukee's music scene is all about fun with community at its core.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is precisely how we would want people who create a genre of music that have been demonized.
Right.
Think about the positivity that's coming out of this, right?
So the garage says, hey, no hip hop artists, these 40 national artists can't be played and then no Milwaukee rap.
And then what are the Milwaukee artists doing?
They're going to the library to do a free show.
That's the whole point, ladies and gentlemen, instead of all of you getting mad and arguing and fighting, you know, for the garage to change their rules and no, this isn't fair.
Please play our music.
Please, please, please.
There are other artists like, you know what?
Screw them.
We'll have a free show and showcase our music on our terms and get people into the library.
Like this is exactly what we want to happen.
And I have discussed it at nauseam this week that the city of Milwaukee, when these establishments are owned by Caucasian folks, black people are just tolerated.
Our art, our music is just tolerated.
And at any point in time that tolerance can run out and we got to get this out of our heads that if we're spending money that they should allow us they have an obligation to us know it doesn't I don't know what y'all think money is but it's not the equalizer that you think some of us believe that if we become extremely successful and as we work so hard that we can overcome racism and prejudice and
generalizations and the stereotypes you know what you are to some of those people and I hate to break it to you like they keep telling us that this is how they think about it but we don't we don't believe we think well I just need more money if I have more money then they're gonna see me as equal to them you know you know what you're gonna be you're gonna be a nigger with money that's exactly what you are not better not more accepted not more like them they're still not inviting you to their barbecues still
And so if they are saying I know it's very upsetting for folks because it's hard to find a good place that you like to go to where you can feel comfortable Maybe you've met a bunch of friends there It's a whole vibe and then you come to find out that they never wanted you there in the first place Or they take chicken wings off of the menu y'all when somebody shows you who they are please believe them It's the best advice I could ever give any human being even when we're dealing with
Like people, like in a relationship, somebody will say something or do something that is wholly disrespectful, something that you should not ever accept.
They're telling you who the hell they are.
Hell, if you don't text me back, we ain't talking no more.
That's how I keep it.
If I text you, the clock is ticking.
Because you are showing me that maybe you're just too busy.
You have other things going on and if you don't prioritize Responding to me.
I'm not even gonna be mad at you, but I will go to a place where I can be a priority Like right here on one on one seven the truth They prioritize me here.
I'm prioritized so much I get emails at six o'clock in the morning six o'clock in the afternoon Sundays
I got an email, I don't know, maybe last night.
And then I got an email this morning in response to the email last night.
Let me be clear.
I did not read the email last night.
And then somebody had sent me
a text message.
I'm so sorry about the information that was communicated in that email last night I sent another email to clarify We're gonna do some things starting on this date and that day and I sent a message back to the person I didn't read none of the damn emails anyway, so you ain't gotta apologize to me Get a lot of emails But go where you're prioritized I Can't exactly name any off the top of my head but
I'm sure there's a lot of businesses that absolutely would like the black dollar or want black people and want black customers.
I'm sure there's probably a Latino, Hispanic, Asian business, not just wanting our money for welcoming who we are as people.
I would say black owned businesses, but we don't really support black owned business.
Can we have that conversation?
Y'all not ready for that?
I think it's a cute thing to say.
I'm not going to support a business just because it's black owned.
I'm going to support a business because I like it.
They got to be nice to me too though.
Our service goes a long way If it's a restaurant, I mean obviously I want the food to be good But if the food is so so but they make me feel comfortable and the service is consistent Then I'll go back to the rent.
I don't
care who
We missed you here.
I got your favorite table for you.
I like that if it's black on and it does that fantastic
It's owned by small Korean people if it's owned by Jehovah's Witnesses Do Jehovah's own restaurant, I keep please forgive me I'm learning everybody.
I'm not perfect, which you clearly all know But I keep getting them confused with Mormons.
They're not the same if you look at how they're dressed.
Oh come down town today They're in gaggles they're they're roaming
They're like platoons.
They're roaming battalions of Jehovah's.
Should I try to get some interviews this weekend?
Oh, God, please do.
I would love that if you got you a Jehovah.
I'll try to get a couple.
So I'm coming in this morning and the Jehovah's get up early because I get here at 7 a.m.
And I saw throngs and I saw I saw gaggles of them roving battalions of Jehovah's.
Some of the women are exceptionally attractive like I was like no way.
You're a Jehovah.
I Didn't know that they made them like that.
I've seen some thick Jehovah's they drink alcohol Good question.
We'll probably know shortly because the bar here at the Third Street Market Hall opens up at 11 Yeah,
I'll see if a few
weekend
Have you ever heard of rum springer?
Oh, what's that?
Well, that's what the What those people call those they're not the Mormons.
They're the people The people with the hats you say what the people with the hats not their religion
Yeah, yeah, with the straw hats, you know, they're out in the
Yeah.
So Rum Springer is a thing they do every year where, you know, you're a teenager and you had not every year, but they do it every year.
But, you know, only get to be a certain age to get the Rum Springer or whatever.
But you get to venture out into the world and see if you want to still be an Amish person.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm familiar with that.
You know when Amish children I shouldn't call them children when Amish teenagers date You know what they do on Sundays after church the boys and the girls they sleep together like they go to they sleep together Not sex, but they sleep in the same bed and they talk so they talk I'm not kidding you.
That's how they date if they don't go to the movies They don't have I don't know if they have electricity.
They still have horses and buggies But like the the boy will come over and they'll go in the bedroom and they'll talk that's dating and then they'll go to sleep, but they can't hump
Wouldn't it work with me?
Yeah, I'm sure some of them do
I bet you they do then there's this other thing that the That the Mormons do because technically they're barred from having this you got to know what I'm talking about There's a name for it.
It's where you I can't explain it on the Randy.
I was too vulgar Where they have other people shake the bed, you know, I'm talking about
No, but I'm not in my head
small where they do it through the sheet
No There's insertion But the man and the woman they don't they don't move okay, so there's no motion But then there's other people in the room that shake the mattress on their behalf to simulate the motion of the man and the woman so technically they're They're copulating
But they're not in motion.
They have other people shake the bed.
I'm not kidding you.
It's a real thing.
We got to take a break because this show can't drift this early.
I still have other topics.
I got to talk about money and cash.
And I want to talk about why you're getting so many spam calls lately.
I don't know if you guys are seeing an uptick in the spammy spam calls.
They're they're farming our telephone numbers.
Some some days I answer them just because I'm bored.
That's like fine.
Ramesh Kapoor, I'll talk to you.
Oh, yeah, that's some of my favorite things I do.
I like to answer the phone with the Indian person and I can't say it on there.
I know
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Local Milwaukee hip-hop artists will be performing live show totally free on September 3rd at 6 30 p.m.
There will also be food trucks on site gotta have a food truck Didn't really have a lot of food trucks back in the day now Fast food ain't fast enough now.
We need food on wheels
There would be food trucks on site along with library card sign-up stations Special edition run-along forever library cards will also be available The first 50 attendees to sign up or renew their library card will get a free lineup T-shirt I think this is a wonderful idea one that we never came up with we're local hip-hop artists who have essentially been banned from a particular
Bar a venue on Brady Street.
They're saying we'll screw it We're gonna collaborate with the Milwaukee Public Library and do a free show here.
All are welcome We're gonna give away library cards and hopefully give people into the library, especially young people
that otherwise would have no reason to go.
I think this is a genius idea.
It took something negative like banning these hip-hop artists and then turning it into something positive where they now are going to provide a free show.
And if you are unfamiliar with Milwaukee Rap or maybe you think it's probably terrible and vulgar, here's an opportunity for you to go and check it out and get a library card.
And if you're one of the first 50 people, you get a free t-shirt.
People love free t-shirts.
People will take a free t-shirt that says anything on it as long as it's free.
So I'm very glad that this is taking place at the Milwaukee Public Library and I'm also glad that the City of Milwaukee places a very, very high priority on libraries.
Now we've had a number of them that have closed over the years because they certainly were underutilized, but we have to find new ways to keep these libraries open.
You know what else is a really good use of the library?
They get people to go in them that otherwise wouldn't using them as early voting sites.
I doesn't guarantee that someone's going to go back to the library and check out a book or get any reference materials, but just getting people in the door a lot of times is half the battle.
So I think that's another great utilization of the space that we spend a lot of money on in the city of Milwaukee.
It is a very large budget allocation.
Milwaukee Public Library is not a tiny line item, so I've got an article here that outlines exactly how much money the city of Milwaukee spends on a variety of services.
This is why your taxes are so much full and of course NPS.
In the city of Milwaukee's 2026 adopted operating budget, the library received $33,650,000.
That puts it in the same general financial neighborhood as several highly visible city functions So I'm gonna give you the names and the details of other city departments that the city of Milwaukee itself and the common council and the mayor Prioritize just as much as the library
9-1-1 emergency communications is funded at $27.17 million.
The library actually gets $6 million more than 9-1-1.
Every 9-1-1 call, police, fire, and medical dispatch is funded through that 27 point.
One seven million dollar budget allocation the whole Department of Neighborhood Services a very important city department.
They're only getting twenty five point eight eight million dollars That's seven point seven million more than or less rather than the library That's all the building inspections all of the code enforcement of all of the buildings and Investigating and condemning nuisance properties the library gets a higher funding allocation than then
The library in the city of Milwaukee, it's a higher funding allocation than the city of Milwaukee health department.
They received $22,680,000.
The library gets almost $11 million more than the damn health department.
And they are in charge of the health department is public health, lead remediation, lead pipes, lead paint, taking lead out of schools.
Food inspection and disease control those are some of the core functions of the city of Milwaukee health department and the library is prioritized at least budget wise even higher than the health department The entire city of Milwaukee parking and transportation fund while it's a little bit more than the library.
It's still in the ballpark 38.32 million dollars, but that makes a lot of sense because having a well-funded parking enforcement
Arm of the city because that brings revenue in several of y'all got unpaid parking tickets right now Pay your tickets or they'll what do they do if you don't pay your tickets kill you Take your murder you they'll kick you out of the city.
Do you get evicted from Milwaukee if you don't pay your tickets?
I
think they make your license plates like bad.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, thank you.
You can't re-register
The whole snow and ice removal, so snow removal, because you know, wintertime, 15 million bucks for that.
So the library has double the money in their budget.
Then we spend on removing all the snow and ice.
I might argue we probably should increase that snow and ice removal budget just a little taste.
And also street lighting, capital program, all of our street lights across the city is funded at eleven point nine million dollars.
The library gets thirty three million.
Glad to see local hip hop coming together with Milwaukee Public Library to promote the many services that they have.
The show is going to be on September 3rd.
It's going to start at six thirty and you can get a free library card and also meet for one for big Frank.
The truth with Sherwin Hughes will be back for hour
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We covered a lot of ground this week, a lot of topics.
They seem to be hovering around a couple of major themes, though, because these themes that we were discussing with great frequency, not just on this program, but really programs across the one on one seven, the truth lineup.
We're just so rich.
that they made the discussion list pretty much all week.
And it was a discussion of hip hop music, the culture of hip hop, how in a segregated city do we successfully bring people together?
You know, there's a lot of establishments that are owned by non black individuals.
So if we want to go out and spend our entertainment discretionary income, or if you are a performer or a DJ,
A lot of times your choices are limited racially.
So a lot of us black people gravitate to different parts of the city.
Even though those may have been parts of the city that were once prohibited, we can feel very comfortable in those spaces now.
And I think that we maybe have taken that for granted.
Until this list came out earlier this week.
That somebody is denying that management was in support of the list management hasn't made it known that they fired anybody who produced this list which Bands essentially three dozen hip-hop artists that are relatively popular with a younger set of hip-hop ears and Then it says at that same list and made all the controversy no Milwaukee artists and of all of
All of that that was said and discussed.
It was the Milwaukee artist that really, really, really got upset.
In fact, there was a brief interview.
Maybe the interview was long, but I know the clip that we played on my program yesterday, which is rare for us.
I don't really play a lot of video clips on this program, but I found that clip to be important.
And again, it was on the topic that we have been discussing with great frequency this week because Milwaukee is a city in which there are many cultures.
But still, some are not, let's say, appreciated like others are.
But also, there needs to be a reminder, and that is what happened this week with that list that the garage came out with.
Just because you are in a space and you feel comfortable there does not mean that the proprietors of that space ever intended for you to be there.
And we, as Black people, seem to think that our money that we have, the money that we spend, transcends...
how people feel about us racially.
It doesn't because we oftentimes will think that we can defy any dress code, do whatever we want, say whatever we want, act however we want, but if we have money then we should be excused from being completely and totally irresponsible.
Every now and again we get a wake-up call that shows sometimes our money isn't worth it and that hurts us.
Because there's one thing that black people can do and one thing that we know very very well We can't really change how people think of us as a culture and as a race But we show enough can make sure we have money in our pockets to at least At least psychologically for us put ourselves on even keel with those who Probably hate our guts.
Here's the thing even if we have money and we spend money in their establishment They still hate our guts.
So all of this stuff was discussed today or of this week rather
on our various programs, but I also saw that We were talking about hip-hop in a very negative light and I don't want to do that It received some negative attention this week and local media ran with and so as I was mentioning very briefly a moment ago we played a video clip of a local rapper his name is Ishtar and he was interviewed by CBS 58 our CBS affiliate here in
Milwaukee and they put this interview on the website and they want a response from him as someone who was known on the local rap scene and someone who frequented the high hat, which is the establishment in question that came up with that list of banned hip-hop artists But at the bottom of the list it said in bold letters.
No Milwaukee rap And so when Ishtar gives this interview that was displayed on the CBS 58 website He used profanity
Now I know that's a very small thing to a lot of you know, obviously they blurted it out.
They beeped it out when they put the brief interview with Ishtar on their website, but it still showed a local Milwaukee hip-hop artist who was being targeted because their music is negative or they don't want Milwaukee red played at this establishment and the fact that he used profanity on a broadcast interview
Also, I believe because if you're if you're being victimized you don't want to say anything or do anything that That gives the people that are targeting you any ammo But then he he chimed in on the YouTube chat yesterday.
He's he got very mad at me and I wasn't gonna argue with him because I'm not gonna argue with someone who
Got upset that white people don't want to play his music because I don't want to argue with someone who doesn't have anything to lose and in my opinion If you're mad that white people are not playing your music that you don't really have anything to lose I didn't want to go back and forth with the guy, but they told him prior to the interview Oh, no, no, you can use profanity you can cuss no no absolutely go ahead because I think the CBS 58 was also complicit
wanted to show hip-hop and hip-hop artists in a negative light.
I know it's a very small thing for you all but if someone is unfamiliar with this situation and they see a brief interview with a Milwaukee artist who's very angry and it's the victim here because their music has essentially been ostracized from a playlist of an establishment that has been playing hip-hop for as far back as I can remember.
But then if you're using profanity it makes you look
Less favorable and hurts the case you're trying to plead I said all that to say this they're making hip-hop Look like it's something negative now.
Obviously there's negative aspects of it There's parts of our culture that are quite honestly that are brutal that are very misogynistic that are exceptionally homophobic you name it hip-hop will tell the story
At some point with some artists of all the things that we don't like about our society But that is also what we should appreciate about the genre It tells you precisely the stream of consciousness of the artist and for the people that live in communities and neighborhoods that are otherwise deemed less than credible when you hear that less than credibility in the music it actually adds a little bit of credibility to some of the stories that Otherwise would go untold
I'm a fan of the genre the genre it was born roughly right about the same time I was hip-hop is probably 52 years old.
I am 51 I grew up with it.
I've seen the many eras of it.
I've seen its evolution I've seen it reach the charts.
I've seen hip-hop crossover I've seen as many white kids and Latin kids and Asian kids dance to hip-hop or know the lyrics even with the n-word They even know the n-word lyrics
Probably should have a discussion about that white people because we know that you love Tupac very much in fact run the heels of The 30th anniversary of his death, but when the n-word part comes up in a Tupac song, can we just go ahead and just silence ourselves?
Can we just we beep that out?
But it is a genre that has become damn near universal and the clothing brands and
the advertising and the endorsements.
If your brand, much to the chagrin sometimes of the designer of the curator of the brand, if your brand makes it into a hip hop song, you are going to sell out.
We create billionaires with this incredible genre, probably about, oh, it varies.
I'd say about a third of the music that I play on my program is hip hop.
Another third is probably some form of the rhythm and the blues.
Better known as R&B.
And then another third is just weird.
I play weird stuff.
I might play some Van Halen or Dire Straits.
I might play the Moody Blues.
I might play some Jimi Hendrix.
I might play Jim Morrison and The Doors.
But it is a genre that I love very much and I don't want it to be portrayed in a negative light because this particular bar on Brady Street has made a choice to omit these artists.
Well, there's a story that appears today.
It seems that CBS 58 is trying to redeem themselves because I don't like how they set Ishtar up for that interview by telling him he could be profane in a story that already seeks to put a negative light on hip-hop.
And I hear some of you all as well.
Some of you all think that the only hip-hop that should exist or the only hip-hop that should be played is what was being played back in our day, back in the formative years when hip-hop was a baby.
think as time went on hip-hop got more honest because those artists from our day in the early 1980s almost like not cartoonish but just really simple themes about oh let's have a good time and let's party and I think at the time we needed upbeat optimistic music because the 1980s the early 1980s for the black community were abysmal
Deindustrialization crack was on its way Reagan was president inflation was high the economy was dreadful blackmail unemployment was through the roof Don't push me.
I'm close to the edge.
I'm trying not to lose my head all of that made a lot of sense But then you have the air of really fun music.
I watched the documentary on the fat boys last night you guys remember the fat boys There was three people in the fat boys
They were all fat one was fatter than the others, but they were all fat two of them were actually dead Sad But it was a it was a less than honest Genre at the time because there were real struggles going on now Of course those struggles became more prominent more evident and it made its way into the music hip-hop is often told the story of where
A certain segment of the black community always is.
And for that, it's important.
And there are some people that dismiss it as a genre.
They say it's not creative because they sample a lot of music.
I'm going to tell you what sampling has done for those artists that you otherwise...
would never have heard of.
I'm talking about geniuses.
I'm talking about musical maesteros that may not have gotten played on radio because of the race of the producer or the composer.
Hip hop brings all of that to life and has made some of those artists that produce some of those musics and some of the beats and some of those samples that's used in hip hop has made those unknown artists rich.
And sometimes their estates have gotten rich because of our genre.
And I'm very, very proud of that.
So it's a very multifaceted, very very complicated subject, but it also is one worthy of close examination because hip-hop is our art form and a language that's not even native to us.
We were forced to learn English to communicate with our repressor and we took that forced language and made it ours and created an art form that I would dare say is beautiful.
That being said, there's a positive story about Milwaukee hip hop that appears via CBS 58.com and I want to share it with you.
There's going to be a hip hop concert coming up very, very soon.
It's going to be held at a very unlikely place, but it's a place that also needs necessary attention from a younger cohort of Milwaukee.
who do pay attention to and listen to and fan out for Milwaukee Hip Hop.
The concert is going to be at the Milwaukee Public Library.
I'm going to give you some details on that when I come back.
Oh, and also please be warned.
Who am I if I'm not a warning system for all of you?
They're out.
They're here.
The Jehovah's.
Did you see any Jehovah's this month?
Well, you get here very early Xavier, but man, they're they're in throngs.
There is a there's gaggles of them.
There's packs of Jehovah's.
The Milwaukee's under retake over.
They're all over the place.
But no, they're not a violent sort.
They're not.
But if if they confuse you for a door, expect to get pounded on.
Gonna take a break come back talk about a very positive story
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Welcome to our two of the truth with Sherwin Hughes This is one of those songs where you had to be there You had to be around in the time and in the era when this would come on hot 102 you had to be around I feel bad for those of you that weren't Read some of these YouTube comments if I dare Mark says cool sunglasses are those Ray bands.
Why yes, they are Mark
Appreciate you being able to have good taste and understand what good sunglasses actually look like Aaron says good morning to the black people.
Well, that's racist on you.
What about all the others?
Aaron says scarface the movie did more than scarface the rapper to me and you want to blame rap for all the things that happened to me says Aaron I Don't know.
I think it's the
thin line, we look at the lyrics in some hip hop songs and some people take it as purely entertainment.
Some people take it as a set of instructions.
And I guess it depends on your foundation.
There are some people that have been told and have been instructed, hey, this music is not real.
Like a lot of these rappers are talking about selling dope and trapping.
They live in the Hollywood Hills and all their kids went to private school.
It's entertainment.
It's not, they don't.
Some of them, though, get murdered.
So there's that that makes you credible though.
I mean it shortens your life, but like he wrapped about guns and stuff.
He was
No, no, he actually got murdered.
Oh, wow.
He really meant it.
Good for him.
The little dirt
Oh, yeah, it's it's pretty bad.
He has people on.
I mean, his like, you know, quote unquote homie is on stand just snitching on him saying he like hired him to do all these killings and all stuff.
It's pretty crazy.
I'm
I'm just Whatever, I'm not I don't want to talk about it cuz I get angry and then y'all are gonna accuse me of being anti-woman Which is crazy because she murdered her kids, but if I talked about a man
That murdered his kids I could bash him left right six ways from Sunday and y'all would just be like yeah That's a terrible man, but even if a woman murders her children you still have to
be nice don't She allegedly murdered her kids
So I'm avoid that topic all together because and the other thing though is if there was a man Let's say a man was real stressed out
Because you know his wife stressing them out and work is stressing them out He's got money problems got a bunch of issues and Then he kills his three kids because you know He was suffering from depression too.
Maybe a very severe form of depression Do you think that a whole bunch of men
would rally behind him and throw a damn parade for him and cheer for him and wear t-shirts and make signs and solidarity saying we need to focus on men's mental health.
Absolutely no we would not.
That just shows you how insane some people in this indoctrinated internet society are.
No matter how screwed up you are, no matter how weird and outlandish your beliefs are, there's a community of people on the internet that a hundred percent agree with you.
No matter.
what
it
like, oh, she needed help.
So she murdered her children so that
I hope they give her some help.
All right.
A lifetime's worth of help with a big.
Big ass inmate a Harry a maybe transgender inmate.
I don't know maybe It's insane to me like where's the justice for the children screw them kids.
I think you know what it is I think people don't really like their kids.
I Don't think they do I'd be scared to ask my mother if I'm like Emma level with us Level with me and your youngest boy Tyler
You ever wish you never had us because I mean I was born After Roe was settled off so Roe was 1973 so when my mom got pregnant with me she could she could have been like well You know we could try again later, Eugene.
We don't we're still young She decided to keep me maybe she regrets that she could have pulled a plug she didn't
You know, but see, I'm sure every mom is probably like, oh, if I didn't have these damn kids, I'd have a life.
I'd have money.
I'd be able to travel.
I'd finish school.
You know, it'd be a lot easier for you to date hard to date a woman with seven kids, hard to date a woman with four kids, hard to date some women with no kids.
It depends on their ages, though.
It depends on our ages and.
Can they fight or not cuz I'll kick I'll kick your son's ass because you don't get to talk to me like he talks to you
That's
Oh I got into it with a Girlfriend son before like it was I don't want to say it got close cuz I was like I'm just gonna end do it.
Here's the problem.
He was 13 But he he acted like he was 23 and in that moment
If you approach me in a particular way, age ain't none but a number.
I kicked that ass, boy.
So yeah, it was a whole, I don't want to get into it.
I'm sure some women regret not having kids, but you don't kill them.
You can auction them off.
No, don't do it.
No, we went through a period of that in America.
Don't auction your kids off.
Oh, they have the baby boxes.
There's a you know that no questions asked you listen.
This is a serious thing.
Please don't laugh at this I don't know which if you guys are laughing or not, but don't laugh at this It's very serious.
Look at my face.
I'm making a very straight face I'm not even smiling and I smile a lot so they they have a like a little Remember blockbuster When you drop your movies off in like that bin and they slide down and you hear it
Open in the blockbuster wouldn't even have to be open 24 hours a day seven days a week and also ladies and gentlemen, please be kind and rewind But you got to rewind the movie when you rented a VHS tape from the blockbuster We used to go to blockbuster and get a movie used to argue with my school girlfriend a lot because the movies that she wanted to get sucked That was before Netflix and chill that was when you actually rented a movie and you wanted to watch it
You didn't want us you don't want to hump.
Well, I guess you could pause and I would only pause for two minutes anyway, so Get right back to the movie.
I don't know why you shaking your head Xavier.
I'm not over here trying to prove nothing about it.
I Just feel sorry for your partners.
I don't If you count to 120 that's a decent amount of time it plus everything in today's society is fast nobody nothing is slow Information moves fast.
We want change to happen fast
We want the economy to change fast.
We want our food fast.
I'm just going along with the modern era.
I'm fast, too.
Anybody got time for all that?
Just talking about, oh, you over here.
I'm making
love.
Oh, light some candle.
It's a case-to-case basis.
We're not making love with everybody.
Some people just need to, you know, get it done.
No, we don't believe you
I want to set expectations low Because then she go run and tell her friends that's the worst mistake you could ever make don't don't tell your friends Don't do that now.
I'm a maestro.
You know what you I'm like a Picasso trust me when I tell you I Know how to paint in the abstract.
You know what I mean?
I
I do some painting.
All right,
You know what my favorite dessert
I Love a nice cream pie it tastes you know, it's nice and warm
it right out the
It's a delicious treat.
time.
You can't.
You don't have dessert before breakfast?
Like cinnamon
Gotta take a commercial break.
Hey everybody go Jesus Go to the YouTube and vote in the poll.
I'm trying to see something.
We're gonna talk about cash.
You guys have cash You use cash still some people do I Think the next consumer revolt and we need one Because everybody's concerned about privacy and being tracked.
We don't like the flock cameras We don't like how you can say something and next thing you know, you're seeing ads on your phone and then you're
Social media feed if you're talking about going on a trip, let's say You might see travel agent advertisements and flights from different airlines Our phones are listening to us and we're very nervous about being tracked and there's cameras everywhere.
So
here's what I'm thinking The next revolt a quiet revolution that Americans can partake in Stop using electronic forms of payment because they create a record
Record that is attributed to you You can use your ego the grocery store and if you have like a savers card or you can enter your phone number so now Your purchases and that electronic method of payment.
Maybe it's a credit card Maybe it's a debit card is also linked to your phone number and from that and maybe there's a convenience
Because you can get coupons in the mail.
I just got something in the mail from the majors $25 off $100 spent at the majors now I use my savers card at the meters They've got my phone number, but also there is a record of everything that I am buying There's a whole profile of me as a consumer and that information can get sold to third parties
Cash is anonymous ladies and gentlemen if you pay for everything in cash now some things It doesn't matter whether you pay in cash for them or not like your mortgage because we know all the details about who the mortgage holder is
But other transactions, if you make them in cash, you are not creating a financial record that can be attributed to you.
So we're going to talk about cash and a cashless society before warned.
If you ever come to the third street market hall, if you haven't been, I suggest you check it out.
It's changing all of the time.
New restaurants are coming and going.
This is a cashless establishment.
None of the vendors here, none of the merchants here take cash.
How do I know?
I have tried.
I've even offered more cash than the product actually costs and they still will not take it.
There's a reason why so many places and spaces are going cashless.
And if I'm not mistaken, I've been a while since I've been there.
American Family Field, I think they're totally cashless too.
Which is a huge inconvenience, but we're going to get into the details of that.
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We'll worry about that on the other side The truth with sure when he was on a special Friday edition Where Xavier says his favorite dessert is a cream pie in the morning We'll both be right back
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This one comes from the Pew Research Center.
Today, about 42% of U.S.
adults say they don't use cash for any purchases in any typical week.
This is up from 24% in 2015.
Fewer, 12%, say they use cash to pay for all or most
their purchases in a typical week.
Another 46% say they use cash sometimes and that's according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted from May 26th until June 1st, 2026.
So then there's the people that use cash everything all the time no matter what and if they if the service or the merchants or the creditor doesn't take cash then these people have to find somebody else.
Make the transaction for them.
You got to be careful at those folks because they're probably unbanked.
There are some people, you know, there's still a third of African-Americans that don't have a damn bank account Statistically we as a race of people in America are the most unbanked because just like y'all don't trust the doctor y'all don't trust the vaccines apparently
You think the bank is gonna run off with your seventy four dollars and nineteen cents sure when I don't trust the banks they gonna steal my money you don't have any money That's not the point I'll bet you if I went into some of your houses And if I lifted up the mattress I might find some I might find all sorts of stuff underneath the mattress
But there's still probably a lot of folks to hide money underneath the mattress So for people that don't have a bank account, it's also It's more expensive because if you if you get a check Because you have to get a check if you don't have a bank account because you can't get direct deposit The places that you have to go to to cash your paycheck are gonna charge you I don't know one to three percent
While it seems like a menial amount add that up, you know across 24 26 or 52 pay periods and you're paying money to get your own Money and so for those of you that don't have a bank account especially if you're an adult I would highly encourage you to do so because you could be saving yourself a ton of money and unnecessary fees
Also, I think it's easier to save money and put money away if you don't physically have it on you all of the time I don't think that I have I should know how let me see Have I ever just cashed a paycheck and put all the money in my pocket?
If so, I was probably a kid.
I don't think I've ever done it.
I always put a little bit of money away Some people get paid like we got paid today Xavier you know that I know you know you make big money here how much money you make you make a lot of money Not enough
Putting up what you what you got to put up with you know what I'm real curious about I wonder what a Homer and Bailey make Won't you ask them they wouldn't tell me black people don't ever tell that kind of stuff How much do y'all think radio people man, I'm we're not gonna tell you obviously, but if you all had to guess I'm just curious as to what you guys think the range is not that Not that it matters so many are probably think we make millions
Higher income Americans continue to be far more likely than those with lower incomes to go cashless today 58% of those households earning $100,000 or more per year say they make none of Their purchases with cash This is higher than the 43% of those households earning 50,000 to 99,999 dollar
Who say the same?
This continues to drop steadily by income to 24% of those making less than $30,000 a year.
On the other hand, those in lower income households are more likely than other groups to rely on cash.
Only about a quarter of those who make less than $30,000 annually use it for all or almost all.
Purchases younger adults stand out for Never using cash About half of adults under the age of 30 at 51% Say they don't use cash for any of their purchases in a typical week this drops to 46% of those 30 to 49 and Further to 37% of those age 50 to 60
Those 65 and older are the least likely to say that they never use cash.
I still maintain that cash is king It's just not the same if you I got a whole bunch of credit cards to I got credit cards and I got debit cards I got all that mess and if I pull all my credit cards and my debit cards and I and I fan them out That's not a flex because people might think oh sure when you probably have a lot of credit card debt, which I don't
But if you pull out a big fat wad of green backs and you got to hold them together with a rubber band That'll make anybody horny.
There's something about having a big old wad of cash So it makes you feel good every night again something may happen I guess the last time I had a big old wad of cash is I sold a car in 20 When I sell that crossfire 20 fitting
Sold it.
I used to drive a was my summer car.
I was back when I was crazy fancy with I used to have a summer car in a winter car My summer car was a little red two-seat convertible little Chrysler crossfire.
You couldn't tell me a goddamn thing when I was in that car You might see me riding around with your auntie one day and that same evening I might have your mom on the passenger seat and then you did not might be riding around with your sister what don't blame me I'm a victim of circumstance
Can't help it if your mama wanted to get in the car with me and go for a ride and let her weave blow in the wind Ain't nothing wrong with it.
You got to make sure you got to strap it down or strap it down Because it gets windy in a convertible
Third
one.
Can I go for a ride of your convertibles?
You sure can baby.
Oh wait, I Can't I can't wait to go for a ride third one.
You're convertible.
Go pick her up somewhere off of 27th Street She hops in she looks around when that roof when there's no roof above Yes, a whole new feeling of being out in the open air I highly suggest that everybody at some point in their life Please get a convertible if you don't buy one rent one for a weekend reward yourself So she get in so that I put on my feet belt.
Yes, baby.
Put on your seat
belt.
Okay
Thurwin!
Thurwin, my hair!
Help!
Why does she have a speech impediment?
Thurwin.
turn around and go get my hair.
And that's how tumbleweaves are born.
No, that's how, because I was riding around with somebody's auntie and she didn't strap it down.
And then the convertible, why don't they let me have a radio show?
Whose idea?
Oh, Mr. Gerald Jones, man.
He resting.
He's probably turning over in his grave.
God damn it, Sherwin.
Why are you over here talking about strapping it down?
That's how Mr. Jones used to sound.
But having no cash on hand doesn't always mean it's being used.
Indeed 26% of Americans who carry cash always or most of the time say they don't use it for any of their typical purchases.
Sometimes it's just good to have it.
You ever just have some cash?
Like this is something that might be old school.
Have a little cash.
Just in case now.
In case of a little emergency.
And let's say you get separated from your wallet.
Let's say you get separated from all of your credit card.
You gotta have a little cash somewhere now.
So you can make you some little purchases or back in the day of my parents, you gotta have a little walking around money.
You got a little pocket money, Sherwin?
No, ma'am.
Here, because my parents would think if I went to the mall and I didn't have anyone, I'm not kidding you, my parents did not trust me at all.
They used to, because I used to go to the mall a lot.
Went to Northridge, hell, three times a week sometimes.
My mother would ask, Sherwin, you got some walking around money?
Yeah, well, of course, now I don't have a job, I'm 14.
Here, here, come here.
Let me give you a little walkin' around my little pocket money.
Here you go, here, take a little bit of money.
Because she honestly believed, my father did too, that if I went to the mall with no money that I would steal.
No, I would just go to the mall just because all my friends were there.
You gotta have your little walkin' around money.
And maybe I'll spend it, maybe I wouldn't.
But back then...
Damn McDonald's hamburger was 39 cents you go to a movie for $3 and 50 cents everything was cheap if you spent $5 at Taco Bell you were a fat whore You know $5 at Taco Taco Bell used to have stuff on a menu for 50 cents It's something about having cash it's just it's sexy
So the most cash I ever had this is why I told the story about your auntie riding around in my convertible and her losing her wig and that's how tumbleweaves were born is the most cash I had on me was when I sold That vehicle I sold us a old white dude who drove all the way down from West Bend.
I Was asking What did I ask only had 40,000 miles on I think I was asking like 14 for
it
It was pristine though.
It was flawless.
There was no nicks dense scratches I kept it waxed.
It was stored in the garage for winters.
I didn't drive it in the winter It was a beautiful beautiful automobile go look it up.
I had a 2005 Chrysler crossfire convertible It was garnet red with a black power top couldn't tell me nothing with that car.
So I think I was asking
14 I had to get rid of it because I was just done with it I had because you got him storing the cars a lot of pain in the butt It's a lot of extra maintenance.
You got to change the oil once you get it You know ready to be put back in servicing before your storage You got to make sure the batteries on a battery tender You got to have fresh fuel and he got to change all the fluids and you got to do the exact same thing when you you know Put it in the storage.
It was it was just I got sick of it You know, I had my midlife crisis air and I was like, let me sell this car.
So I think I was asking 14 for
Dude showed up with 11 9 in
cash.
I'm like hold on man
He's like look it look here.
Let me count it out for you
And I had to get rid of it because I didn't want to be insurance had expired on the vehicle So if I kept it another day, I'd have to renew the damn insurance and I didn't want to do that
Sounds like man, come on.
Give me give me that give me not snatched money from here made him sign the title that get on out here And he brought his friend with him two old white dudes from West Bend It's funny when he took it on a test drive because I rode with him And we were he went all up in the hood.
He's like, well, what where should I turn?
I was a near turn left go east.
Oh This is interesting and I know keep going burl I locus
Chambers Hadley Center Street.
No, no, no, keep going.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Turn south.
I think that was the most that was the most cash that was mine.
I am not going to tell you stories from when I was much younger, hanging out in places I should not have been hanging out at where it was somebody else's cash that that I may have been in the vicinity of.
But that was the.
And I took pictures with it.
Now, I didn't go crazy and like, you know, spread it out all over my bed and then roll around in it.
That's gross.
I don't ever want to do that because money is filthy.
You know what people do with money?
They store cocaine with it.
They do all sorts of really yucky, yucky, dirty things with money.
But yeah, I think that was the most cash I ever had that belonged to me is when I sold a car and I got undercut by a white dude from West Bend.
See there?
That's white supremacy for you.
Should have sent him on his way, but he had that money talks.
That's the truest thing.
I think I've ever heard my entire life Yeah, I wanted $14,000 for that car.
I don't even know if it was worth 14 But he gave me 11 9 and I snatched at 11 9 11 9 was sexy 119 $100 bills.
Come on.
Oh, is that right?
No 11 9 no 100 9 Yeah
Let's take a break come back check the YouTube poll but also want to tell you The Jeopardy you could be putting yourself in because we're all concerned about privacy We want to make sure that our fairs stay private when you use debit cards and credit cards There is a traceable Financial record that is being created and that financial picture that you were painting of yourself every single time you swipe a card or tap a card
is valuable information to to retailers and to anyone who sells anything and guess where all of that information is stored think about how many transactions you may do in a typical day a week a month or even a year it's a lot of data right well guess where it's stored genius at the damn data centers that you don't want to move into your community the next big consumer revolt or revolution that we should have is we stop at least for a day or two
Maybe even a week if you guys can handle it, where we don't use our cards and we don't swipe and tap at all.
We just use cash.
So we put a hole in these financial pictures that they have of us as consumers.
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Thank you.
How are you?
I just got out the phone at the top.
I'm just gonna put that out there.
Um, like I told the guy, I gotta talk a certain way.
And I'm like, wait a minute, buddy.
What does your thing say?
I'm gonna say serve and protect.
And then some women I'm using that with the air quotes.
I don't like using
Alan.
What are you talking about?
We don't even know what Take us off a
Take us
I wasn't rambling.
I'm getting a cone right now.
Well, I was gonna tell you I'm just gonna stick on the point You were talking about the credit card.
You know, I never use them ever for anything.
I don't use the debit card.
How you pay for it?
I Pay everything like that to my wife's bank.
I don't I'm not I'm not I don't exist dude.
I really don't exist on the internet
At all.
a week.
So what?
My bank, my information doesn't exist anyway.
You got a thing on there that says I went to University of Wisconsin and what else?
I mean, as for the credit cards, I don't do it.
Alan, you have a
So what, any, nothing, all that you know what that's for?
Look what's all on there.
A lot of that's my wife because people stalk her.
So she put, we share everything.
That's her Facebook page.
I wouldn't even have had one.
I'm like, how many friends I got?
I got like 22 friends, if that.
A couple of them are people I don't know.
And they seem like decent human being.
They follow some of the music I like.
And then there's like 10 of them that are cousins who I don't really talk to, but you want to, you know, who's going to send a birthday on the internet?
So my brother and sister are not in there with me.
My parents were never on the internet.
The Facebook thing is just me tolling, really, what I do with it.
I'm not that important of a guy.
But I go to the bank.
I get money.
I got a certain amount.
They raise the amount I can take out every day on my debit card.
So like today, we're going to go shopping.
So I got to go to the bank and I leave to McDonald's and go get some cash.
And then we're going to go shopping later.
But yeah, I try not to use one as much as I can.
The mortgage is tied to my wife's account.
It comes out on a certain day.
And I'm getting to the point where I might just pay it out off and throw and then put the money away for the uh I'm getting ready to move.
I think anyways enough is enough with this Yeah,
developer Yeah,
yeah Oh, I picked the bees on him the other day.
No, even not a cop told me it was diabolical That's one thing you did.
It was funny.
I brought out the garbage can full of bees You want to park in front of my house?
Then I kicked them off
to get him going.
The guy selling dope is cracking up.
He goes, dude, you're for real.
And I said 100%.
He goes, I love you, man.
I said, don't worry about it.
I'm just getting warmed up.
I got a hornet's nest.
But when I get home, I'm gonna toss over the fence, I think.
All
right, you want to play with?
There you go.
Anyway, God bless you, my friend.
Keep up the good work.
This is a whole by the way, billers ice cream is killer, man.
It's good to go.
Where is it?
What's the bill?
You know, billard McDonald's on McDonald's that we're about a Muslim center.
They blocked the street light and know me too.
There's that Islamic center over here right off the side when
No, no, not there.
No, no, not the capital capital.
Yeah, they're over there.
They were talking about us one day when we were walking our dog.
So we had to stop a little more understood what they were saying.
Get remember I was in prison with this back where the old
I think sorry.
No, I wasn't up.
I didn't move up until I met my wife.
When wait, when is your move in Milwaukee?
Like 2000 2008 maybe something like that 2008.
Where did you move
No, I was living in Sturdleman at the time.
Yeah, I grew up in Kenosha.
Same damn thing.
Well, thank you, Alan.
Have a
Sort of it's really racist if you want to know the truth.
That's why they stopped the buses.
That was a fight I had.
Because they wouldn't let the buses go out there because of the prison.
So they sort of stopped the racing buses from letting people go visit their families.
That was a big fight I was involved in.
We kind of got that.
We got them to look at themselves, if you will.
Start a minute in
Yeah, and race.
Racism County.
Then there's that farm there.
that apple holler, they're racist too.
One time, I wouldn't get my kids an ice cream cone.
And then they're like, well, Ty, hey, baby, come here.
What's going on?
And I'm like, well, what's going on?
Sit down at the darn ice cream thing.
They're ignoring my kids and doing it with all these white kids.
So I talked to the guy.
He said, well, I'm standing right here in 3D, and I think you're worth doing if I'm watching you do it.
Want me to show you the video?
Or you ignored my daughter?
So that was good.
They tried to give us some free dinner.
I don't want no dinner for that racist boy.
All right, have a good one then.
you too.
It's Friday.
I had to play it.
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So this album.
awful.
One of my money back.
Horrible dreadful.
High as a kite.
She was so high she didn't she didn't move and she did oh Erica probably did a two and a half hour three hours said if I'm lying I'm dying Did literally did not take a step forward backward left or right.
She's wearing this gigantic Ridiculous huge three and a half four foot afro wig with a little tiny hat hanging in the middle of the afro hair.
It was it was weird And then she go off in these tangents
Boy do I hate when people go off on tangents.
Isn't that something terrible?
I was so disappointed And I don't know if she tours very much because I knew at the time That I had to go and see her because I didn't know if I would ever get the Opportunity to see her again because her tours are rare and I could not tell you the last time Erica was in Milwaukee So when I found out she was coming I went to the show and it was chess
You know what else made that show a mess is I went with my best friend and his girlfriend Stupid that was stupid because guess what they decided to do when we got to the show get drunk and argue You ever been the third friend when two of your friends are in a relationship and they're arguing ain't nothing worse than that
Because they try to make Sherwin pick a side.
We'll get with
You remember when he said hey man dog You remember when I called you and told you what Sherwin?
What do you who do you think is right or wrong screw both of you?
I Will divorce the both of you.
Oh It was they ruined it and then I cuz I drove I Was ready to go home This was a whole mess.
Oh, I think my friend went to jail that night actually
Shouldn't be putting my people's business out there, but he put me in a very bad spot So they separated at the show They she went to one part of the venue to watch the show he was in another They just decided that it was best and I was probably smart so they could at least enjoy the Erica Badu show which in itself was horrible I'm in the balcony.
All right When the show is over we had a designated spot in which we were gonna meet by one of the restrooms and then we were gonna leave
Okay, show was ending show was over.
She's there With what where she's supposed to be we can't find him so we're and now the security's like yo y'all got to go y'all got to go No, no, we're waiting on her friend.
I mean the place is damn near cleared out We don't know where the hell he went so I figured he got angry and took a Uber he left That's what I figured okay.
We're calling him his phone is going straight to voicemail
We know that he was mad because he was arguing with his girlfriend.
He probably drank too much, which he sometimes is known to do.
So whatever.
I take her home.
Okay, driver home.
I go.
Apparently he was looking for us somewhere outside of the venue of the rave and then got mad at me.
Because I didn't find him and got mad at me that I took his girlfriend home knowing that he was mad at his girlfriend.
Ain't that some mess?
So I said all that to say.
Erykah Badu's Baduism album, it's so good.
It came
out when I was in college.
a
A cashless society is not primarily an ideological project.
It's a result of technology, convenience, e-commerce, smartphones, reward programs, and business discovering that electronic payments can be faster and easier to administer than physical currency.
So what we're talking about is we're talking about a cashless society.
A lot of places that you go, they don't accept cash anymore.
The 3rd Street Market Hall is a total cashless venue.
If I'm not mistaken, American Family Field, where you go and watch the baseball and where you go and see other sporting events and things, even big concerts, they're cashless as well.
I think the FISER Forum may also be cashless.
So it's a very popular thing to do.
And so we asked you a question on this topic.
What is your preferred method of payment when you're just out here in the world?
Do you use your debit card?
Do you use a credit card or are you one of those folks that still?
Uses cash the Pew Research Center did a survey of this and The older you are the more likely you are to use cash primarily The younger you are the more likely you are to never use cash at all
Cash is, according to this article, inefficient in some ways, but extraordinarily private.
Digital payments are extraordinarily convenient, but they create records.
And despite the rhetoric about America going, quote, cashless, we aren't quite there yet, Federal Reserve Research released this year in 2026 found that consumers still averaged about
Six cash payments per month in calendar year 2025 and that's down from 14 in 2016 about 81% of consumers had used cash within the previous 30 days and 90% said they plan to continue using it the simplest way to explain this would be think about the difference between Handing somebody a $20 bill and handing somebody a credit card with the 20 the transaction ends.
It's over
With the credit card, the transaction begins a data trail.
The bank knows there was a transaction.
The merchant and his processor keeps the record.
The payment network participates in moving the transaction.
Depending on the system information about the merchant, the amount, the time, the location, the category of purchase can become, rather, a part of the financial data ecosystem.
That difference explains both the great advantage and the great concern surrounding a cashless economy.
Well, why are people moving away from cash?
You may ask.
Well, there wasn't one government decision declaring America will be cashless.
Consumers largely did it on their own.
The Federal Reserve's number tell a story.
Back in 2016, 10 years ago, Americans averaged, no, this is roughly 14.
cash payments a month.
So that's literally one every other day.
We averaged eight credit card payments every month back in 2016 and 12 debit card payments.
Fast forward to the year 2025 and the cash payments went from 14 per month in 2016 to only six per month in 2025.
16 credit card transactions in 2025 and 2016 was eight.
debit card transactions also increased from 2016 to 2025 from 12 to 15 respectively so cash transactions fell by more than half while credit card and debit transactions literally doubled several forces drove that transition of course e-commerce you can't put a $20 bill into a smartphone to order something off of the amazons or the door dashes smartphones themselves that contain
digital wallets turn your telephone your cell phone into a wallet and of course convenience nothing more convenient than just tapping to pay automatic payments such as utility streaming services insurance your subscriptions and mortgages increasingly operate electronically that is my preferred method most of my fixed bills
come out of the checking account right away.
I don't have to send in any payment.
I don't got to go to some silly website.
They just deduct the money automatically.
So that also is considered one of those cashless electronic transactions.
Let's talk more about this in hour three.
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Oh What other thing would you rather be doing than listening to all of the information that we disseminate?
talking about this cashless society which Did take a little getting used to because it was a slow and gradual transition.
I Didn't buy my first thing off of Amazon.
I still didn't really trust Online shopping until I don't know
The 2010s the late 2010s I didn't download and use Amazon until 2018 Everybody was oh sure when you got to use Amazon Because back what I remember of Amazon because Amazon has been around since the 90s They used to be a book reseller and it was always stuck in my mind It just didn't make any sense to me How you could then get damn near anything off of Amazon because when they first started that's where you went and bought used books
Amazon used to operate like an online bookstore, but then of course they added literally everything under the sun, but I didn't really trust these online transactions.
But you
COVID, you were at home and if you needed things delivered, if you needed a purchase, then you couldn't just go out to the store and get stuff.
Plus stores in your neighborhood were running on stuff.
Do you guys remember the fact that we ran out of toilet paper?
Would you have ever thought in the richest nation on planet earth?
And I say the richest nation.
It's all of your income the value of your house the value of the land all of the rent that we pay all of the taxes that we pay
All of the gold and Fort Knox and you know where else the United States gets its wealth from that is why there is so much resistance to forgiving student loans.
Federal student loans, the United States counts as its wealth.
That's why you can't discharge them in bankruptcy.
And that's why the interest is calculated daily and it runs forever.
But they'll also let you defer them and go into forbearance for the rest of your life because that balance is always there.
The whole point with student loans.
A lot of folks don't know this.
The whole point with student loans is to make sure that you always have a balance, whether you pay it off or not, because the United States can say this is a part of our overall wealth.
How much money you owe to go to college is a really weird.
system that being said I had to get so the dope man at the time everybody knows the dope man right now doesn't mean you buy dope from him but just you know somebody that sells drugs the dope man's dude that I've known for 30 years cool dude he just has a weird profession but one that's not going out of business selling dope is not ever gonna get replaced by AI I assure you he's like sure when I make more money selling
Toiletries and toilet paper and paper towel.
I went to this dude's house.
I've known him for years.
Good dude.
Just does illegal stuff.
He has um You know when you walk into somebody's house if you have one of these Milwaukee Bungalow style houses and you walk in their front door, you usually have a closet right there.
So walk in the front door Write somewhere adjacent to the front door.
There'll be that that closet.
That's where people hang their coats whatever
From floor to ceiling He cleaned out all of the clothes all of the coats all the winter jackets all the shoes in his front closet and when I say floor to ceiling With toilet paper my man had cotton L my man had the Charmin my man had the Scott my man had the paper towels my man had the brawny my man had the quicker picker Rupert.
He had I'm not kidding you the entire front closet like go ahead Sherwin.
Give what you need playboy
and was hustling and selling.
I don't even know where he got it from, but don't question his methods.
So during COVID, you wanted to buy something.
Chances are you had to order it.
Transactions online.
There's another thing that people do, which I guess I have succumbed to it.
So when you go out to eat, you split the check.
Or maybe one person pays for the check and then the other people will give them cash That's another reason why I like to have cash because I can be a little bit more precise if I go out to eat with a group of people Instead of having to split the check 17 different ways of making it a headache for everybody.
I know what I ordered Let's say I ordered $30 worth of stuff Here you go.
Here's here's 40 bucks.
Here's $42.
Here's my share.
I pay in cash boom I'm good to go and also it's a benefit to the person who might be putting everything on their card
Because they have a little bonus they get a little cash because I paid for my meal or my drinks whatever in in cash They can put that in their their pocket, but they do this thing now, and I don't like it, but you got to get used to it I Go out with some friends bill comes fine.
I got the bill.
I y'all want to do this.
Oh sure when I'll sell you I'll cash up you What's the other one
Zell
Venmo
I don't like that, but that's how they do it.
Oh, sure.
When can you hear I get the coffee just Venmo me the three dollars and nineteen cents.
Now, I just I've gotten used to it now.
There are some people that get their checks deposited with you can deposit on somebody's check with the cash.
You can buy stocks and bonds with them.
You can buy crypto with it now.
But these are just other additional forms of electronic payment.
Keep records in a world in which we all should be much more concerned about our privacy And I don't think that we quite realize how much of our privacy we are Sacrificing and giving over to merchants and giving over to retailers and giving over to financial institutions where they are creating this really accurate Day at a picture of us the other thing that I want to discuss
During this hour of the program is the number of spam calls that we get night ebbs and flows I might go a whole weekend I don't get any there'll be some days where I'm receiving four five and six of these damn spam calls not depending upon what I'm doing depending upon my mood but also they can get you because some of the numbers That call me could be the number of a friend or someone that maybe it's something that's business related so I am
Likely to answer more calls and I am to send them to voicemail just because I'm expecting calls from from different people and different organizations people are you sure when can I get on the radio show or hey sure when I'm calling from XYZ business We're trying to set something up with one on one seven the truth So I got to answer my phone more than most people do and sometimes they catch You'll always know Because there'll be that pause you answer the phone like a sucker
Here I am hello And then you get more and more frustrated with each hello, don't you?
I Know I do if I say hello once and if I don't hear something back my next hello is going to be a little louder and a little more serious But it's if I got to say hello three times now I'm just gonna be a full-blown racist now.
I'm now I'm very angry.
There's a reason why there is a pause so
They collect all of our data and a lot of times they can track who we are, where we go, our phone data and our financial transactions with our actual cell phone numbers.
And our numbers are packaged and they're sold.
And wait till I give you the details.
There's actually a list called the Sucker List.
The Federal Trade Commission is aware and scammers use it because
If you're noted as a sucker, you are much more likely statistically to fall for a scam.
Could be Medicare, could be Medicaid, could be Social Security.
Here's the other crazy part.
People that have been victims of scams before and I feel so bad.
I really do.
That's one thing that I think the maximum penalties need to be levied on these people.
If you screw trusting elderly people out of their money, they need to put your ass under the jail because that's foul.
These people lose everything.
So they got a sucker list.
The people who have been scammed in the past are more likely to be scammed again.
Can you believe that?
Statistically proven.
I'm going to get into the details opening.
Y'all are going to freak out when you hear this because check this out.
There might be someone who they got scammed.
Let's say they got scammed out of $3,000.
Oh, like, hey.
We're here making sure that you're still enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid, Part D, and we just need a little bit of your information.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Sure.
Here's my social security number.
Because I don't want to interrupt their Medicare and their Medicaid.
Not knowing this is a total fraud.
And they might even say they're calling from a hospital that this individual may have gone to recently and received service.
Oh, we just need to confirm your information, ma'am.
Just making sure we have everything so that Medicare gets built and so that you don't get billed and then the ladies Oh, absolutely.
Here's my information.
Boom.
They got it for $3,000.
Here's what happens.
Okay, and chances are she's never gonna get that money back again You can complain and file a complaint with the attorney general.
You can file a complaint with the federal trade commission Of course, you can report that fraud.
They'll usually be a news story on it You guys will see news stories every now and again.
Oh beware of a scam that's going on so we find it
Better and more preventative to use the media to tell people about scams going on because once you get ensnared in the scam Chances are your money is never gonna be returned to you in very few cases his money ever returned But here's what they do when you're on the quote-unquote and it's literally called the sucker list Let's say they get you for 3,000 Someone and they'll know obviously the scammer knows because they have your money They'll call you back three months or six months later.
Okay
Here's the thing, because they're the ones that took your money.
Here's what they say to you.
Hi, Ms.
Smith, and they know your name.
Hi, Ms.
Smith, we understand that you lost $3,000 in a scam.
We're very sorry to hear that, but we do have good news for you.
we have been able to recover your money.
But what we need from you is a $395 transaction fee.
Do you know how many people actually fall for that?
So many people fall for that, that it's a lucrative multi-billion dollar business.
So if you steal money from a vulnerable person once, you obviously keep their information because you got money from them.
You call them at a later date and say, if you send us a little more money, we will recover your 3000.
All we need is your bank account information and we'll direct deposit the money in your bank account in 24 hours.
And as ridiculous as that may sound, do you know how many people are relieved to pay that $395, $295 to get their $3,000 return and then they get them again.
So we're going to talk about that in a little bit.
Because that ultimately is what some of this stuff is leading to, these digital profiles that they can create, because if you combine all the information we share via social media, and then you take that information and you package it with all the information that everybody already knows about us, who we are, where we work, where we live.
Then you look at their financial transactions where they go what they spend their money on etc And all this information can be aggregated where they have these detailed profiles on us and then that information is then sold and We can get targeted sometimes.
It's legitimate stuff sometimes a legitimate telemarketers I would suggest everybody put yourself on the no-call list about 260 million Americans are currently on it doesn't stop a goddamn thing
Because the criminals are still going to call you, but legitimate telemarketing businesses know that they'll be in violation of federal law if they call you anyway.
But Rakesh and Kapoor and all the mother people from Indian Bangladesh, they don't care about no no call this.
Take a break, come back.
Continue our conversation.
Maybe I should read some YouTube commentary.
I'm literally getting a spam call right now.
Unbelievable.
I should answer.
The reason why you answer and there's that pause is because they use very sophisticated dialing software and it can dial numbers at a rate faster than a human would, right?
And so it's dialing and dialing and it's random numbers and it's dialing and dialing and dialing.
And when you pick up.
They have to then route your call to someone who's available to take it and that's what the pause is So you have an automated system that's dialing and dialing and dialing and finally they catch somebody that picks up That has to be routed to someone who actually is available to take your call and sometimes the call Never gets taken.
That's when you hear the disconnect, but that's what that pause is you know
When you hear that pause, you know that they got you and now you're being marked and noted as someone who answers the phone So your record now can get sold to somebody else as a list of people that are actually going to answer the phone And then the next spam call is gonna call from that take a break come back Continue chatting.
I will read a couple of YouTube comments on the other side You're listening to the truth with Sherwin Hughes on one on one seven FM.
I'll be back shortly
The truth with Sherwin Hughes returns after this on 1017 the truth the truth app and 1017 the truth comm You are listening to the truth with Sherwin Hughes on 1017 the truth the truth app and 1017 the truth comm
See, I've been watching you for a while.
You smile and style.
But I know I can be with you for the night.
All right?
Is that all right?
Baby, baby.
There is only one for me.
Welcome back to the
Read some of these YouTube comments.
Scroll back.
I don't know 20 minutes ago.
Not really a city girl says this would be a good one.
She says this to Mr. Monty.
She says she's a hopeful romantic and love the idea of love, but it does appear to be a different type of energy flowing outside.
I stay indoors and keep my peace of mind.
Let me tell you something, not really a city girl.
You don't get no shortage of attention on all that wagon you drag.
You know, she came up here Xavier a couple weeks ago looking for you.
Oh, come back up here then if you got a lot of wagon.
So she comes up to the window and I think that if they, if you guys are in a certain place in a producer's studio, I think they can see you from this window that is facing the market hall.
So she waved to me, of course.
Got a glimpse of you and then she she walked off.
Okay.
Her body actually she walked out the door.
Her ass was still here.
Her ass ordered some pizza.
Oh, so she's a big booty cutie.
She ain't bad.
I was like, wait a minute and I'm thinking myself.
I'm off.
I'm off in about 20 minutes.
You can stick around now.
You ain't got to know what her ass was here enjoying lunch.
But she she had already left.
The rest of her got in the car drove away.
But.
Yes, she had on some Leggings
Oh, send your pictures in
You gotta stop telling these women to send in a pictures because Lady B said to my My Facebook relationship status said I was in a relationship I'm married y'all know that but don't listen.
Don't worry about that.
That's not your business between me and my spouse
My spouse she does my spouse does her thing.
She's cool with it.
She knows Oh,
you're in open marriage
Oh, so you guys are swingers,
Sharing is caring.
Nope.
Some people it works.
The only time I would ever do something like that is by legitimately legitimately do not care about the woman.
They're not literally, I don't care what she does.
I don't need to talk to her every day.
I don't.
Or if I have a relationship with her that is we have an understanding I guess I'd call it.
She does her thing I do my things sometimes that works out because you know, we're busy.
We got stuff going on.
We got family friends You know professional duties we got to tend to there's a particular Person that I know where I don't got to talk to her every day But when we do talk, it's like no time has ever passed She'll be like, hey sure when she's very like straight to the point.
I appreciate that don't inundate me with words anybody trying to hear all that talk Nobody need to hear all that damn lip
They'll be like, hey, Sherwin, what are you doing?
Thursday at 7.30.
You want to go grab a bite?
I'm down.
Simple as that.
And guess what?
We won't talk until Thursday.
Sounds like you need love in your life.
Sherwin's lonely, ladies.
He needs your love.
Here comes Zach.
That's how you know Zach is here.
Look, you know Zach is here when the hot kings start playing.
That's how you know Zach has arrived for his shift.
Watch your mouth.
There you go.
That's how Zach says hello No, I don't need um I Don't know it's not it's not my season yet
It's almost wintertime you gotta start picking who you're gonna be cuffing and Cuddling up with kissing in the
No, no, no when I say it's not my season.
I'm not talking about the the meteorological season I mean, it's not my season to where I have to be
Content to be stuck where I'm at because contrary to popular belief when you're in a relationship.
It's not all about Me and what I want to do and my personal advancement I have to give a lot of my time and my effort to another human being so my personal advancement stops and if you think that your personal advancement Can continue while you're in a relationship that you don't quite understand relationships That is why I was always cautious of getting married because wherever I was when I got married a lot of what I've done in my life
My career could not have been done if I had another woman in my life that I had to take care of and tend to and support because a lot of my time that I could dedicate to furthering myself in my career I would have to spend some of that time with her not to say I wouldn't have eventually arrived at where I was gonna arrive at but it would have taken longer
I can move in my own turbo speed when it's just me because being in a relationship is going to slow you down.
There are some of you that wanted to go back to school.
There are some of you that wanted to do a whole bunch of things and travel and vacation.
You can and you will go back to school and you will take vacations and you will travel.
It's just that relationship and that other person, especially if you have kids, is going to slow you down.
I can't be slowed down.
I like to go with triple the speed limit, you know what I mean?
But then every now and again your boy wants to take an off ramp and take the scenic route Take the windy road and slow things down a little bit summertime is not usually the time for that because you know Penny for your thoughts
That's
that'll be the title of the third hour.
Title these programs per hour.
What else we got in the YouTube chat I Think this goes back to Alan's phone call a couple months ago.
He was talking about tips He said he doesn't leave a tip on his debit card that man has a banking account We're talking about Alan Alan probably does have a bank and I think he also mentioned that him and his wife have a shared bank account as well
Then LT is over here talking about honey crisp and Granny Smith apples being so delicious Granny Smith apples can be a bit tart.
Oh, I got an idea for y'all want to idea cuz you know summer is almost over But what is it the one that's going on right now El Nino El Nino that what's the weather system El Nino El Nino.
All right, they said we are gonna have a warm fall and a warm and mild winter
Because of the El Nino so the one it's supposed to be like 90 degrees next week.
It's gonna be out for a while So y'all want a summertime treat you ready for this?
This is Sherwin's recipe Ready and get a pencil paper or something to write down get her get ready, okay?
You get you a decent little bottle of seven y'all blonde It's a nice crisp white wine.
I mean you can do white Zinfandel if you're cheap and you know you can do whites in
I would prefer you do with seven your blunt.
Here's what you do I'm a human you for a second LT when you say honey crisp apples because they work very very well for this You take you a nice honey crisp They're usually not in season until the fall, but you probably can find a decent honey crisp somewhere around these days Okay, you core it chop it up chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop
Put them in a freezer put them in a little Ziploc bag and freeze to chopped up chunked up and chunks to honey crisp apples.
Okay, put them in a freezer Then get you a couple of nice ripe oranges Slice them leave the rind on leave the peel on them slice them up.
Okay You get you a nice glass pitcher.
Okay, you pour that seven y'all blunt in that picture
You add the frozen apples because that's gonna keep it cold.
Okay, then you add the orange slices I ain't done with you yet.
Listen to me.
I'm trying to put you on damn it Though you a cinnamon stick in there, you understand it get you a bottle of Savignon Blanc Get you a nice couple of sweet honey crisp apples core them chop them up
Put them in the freezer so they get real good and frozen and cold.
Then you get you a couple of oranges, throw you some orange slices in there.
Leave the rind on.
Okay, get you a nice glass pitcher.
You pour in that sauvignon blanc.
You pour in your frozen apples.
You throw in your orange slices.
Throw in a cinnamon stick.
And if you really want to go to town, you want to go to town.
Let me show you how I go to town.
You can drink it just like that.
Serve it.
A little outdoor, a little backyard, a little get-together, a couple little friends, get you some nice little wine glass.
You got them frozen apples in there, keeping it nice and cold.
It'll knock your socks off, and that cinnamon adds just enough spice.
If you really want to get freaky with it, though, you want a couple of shots of caramel-flavored vodka.
Good night.
I'm telling you, you watch yourself.
I call that the Sherwin Special.
Alright, now don't get Bill Cosby with that because it'll get good to you.
You know what I mean?
You'll get to drinking it.
Next thing you know, the time for the Jell-O pudding, then you're gonna get Bill Cosby.
I warned you.
That's not funny at all.
Where is Bill Cosby?
Has anybody checked on him lately?
Just curious as to where.
You got
to put the cinnamon stick in to put it in the seven y'all but Theo Claire
on
1017fm.
At your 10 drop the beef up.
crass
I think she was coming up here to see
Oh,
I'm hiding
here.
Well, if you ever want to come back here and get some lunch.
Show and show ends at 12.
Hold
it'll
I know right be Israel.
Oh, yeah.
Well, that was more for you anyway
Yeah
I Miss his calls
Stop it now.
Why are you
He was very upset.
He must have been having some kind of episode.
Yeah, he's really he's really a tank.
Didn't he get shot multiple times?
That's pretty that's pretty gnarly.
Yeah, he got mad because I found somebody sent me a video because he told the story about how he got shot by a cop and nobody believed him.
A listener of my program searched.
Milwaukee police body camera footage found the video and I made a reaction video to it and put it on my YouTube channel My YouTube channel is Hughes views 414 go subscribe.
I'm trying to get to a thousand subscribers on that junker We made some progress.
I probably added like 400 subscribers in the last like month and a half two months.
Let's keep it going What else we got
Sorry, not really a city girl, but That ass is offensive How dare you don't you have any home training leave that ass at home The ass probably would I gotta cut it.
I got like sponsors.
I can't talk like this.
Yeah, you seem quite mesmerized.
what does she look like?
Yeah.
What do you mean she's in her 40s?
Oh, okay.
Won't you just comment your age in the comments?
That
I think that.
I cut it out, Sherwin.
First of all, you're obsessed.
And she knew what she was doing because she's walking away.
You know how they do.
They look back to see if we look.
Don't do that because you're going to catch me every time.
Happened to me yesterday when I was walking out of here.
I happen to be arriving at the exit door to when we get into the parking garage.
So there's a young lady who was coming in as I'm walking out.
And I got to tell myself.
Sherwin don't look don't turn around.
It's it's tacky It's classless don't and I got to actually tell myself this and you would think as I get older I would grow out of it I'm getting worse as I get older and she walked toward me.
She's walking in.
I'm walking out.
She gave me a little smile.
So hey, how you doing?
She said hi.
She's walking in.
I was like don't don't don't look Sherwin Please don't look and I'm walking.
I just
Walked out of the doors.
I'm headed some of the I said, please sir.
We don't look don't turn around cuz she's gonna be she's gonna catch you and that's embarrassing when you get caught looking at ass And what did I do turn around and there she was looking to be looking at her
a nice beautiful Jehovah witness
I'm trying to catch some Jehovah this weekend
trying to catch the Holy Spirit
Yeah the religion of atheism
I Don't want to say um sometimes if If you're dynamic in the sack, oh God a woman will totally change her religion for you.
Oh
She'll turn into a Muslim for you.
Bismillah!
Who can I offend today?
You know these spam calls are really a problem Xavier.
Yeah, they are.
Spam calls are best understood as not random nuisances, but as a large-scale targeting and sorting system.
Some operations are legitimate, but aggressive telemarketers as aggressive telemarketers.
Others are outright fraud enterprises.
The technology allows them to dial enormous amounts of telephone numbers very cheaply, determine who answers, identify promising targets, and then concentrate human efforts on the people most likely to engage and potentially pay them.
It's a very big problem, ladies and gentlemen.
The Federal Trade Commission received more than 2.6 million
Do not call complaints in 2025 with robocalls making up most of those complaints.
Debt reduction, imposter schemes, medical slash prescription pitches were all leading categories.
Well, you may ask, how did they get my phone number in the first place via several different pipelines?
You may have given your phone number away without even realizing it.
online insurance quotes, mortgage inquiries, sweepstakes, contests, warranty forms and surveys, quote, check your eligibility sites and comparison shopping sites can function as lead generators for these scammers.
The Federal Trade Commission has brought cases involving consumer information collected through websites and then sold for telemarketing purposes.
A 2026 academic study gives a striking example of the modern ecosystem.
Researchers instrumented more than 100 health-related lead generation websites and found information being shared with more than 70 third parties.
Their controlled numbers ultimately received thousands of telemarketing calls.
Other sources include commercial databases and data brokers, public records, old customer lists, breached or stolen databases,
lists a choir from other marketers and numbers generated or tested randomly and automatically.
And the number displayed on your phone may have nothing to do with the caller.
Caller ID spoofing allows a scammer to impersonate another number.
Neighbor spoofing makes the number appear to have your area code or even the first three digits of your phone number to increase the likelihood that you'll answer.
So when someone says, quote, they keep calling me from different local numbers, there probably aren't 30 different people in your community calling.
It may be the same person changing their caller ID repeatedly.
Why is there a strange pause when you answer that pause is an important clue that you might be getting scam.
Large.
Calling operations use automated or predictive dialing systems that dial numbers faster than human agents could do manually when you say hello.
The system may need a moment to determine that a human actually answered and connect the answered call to an available agent.
This creates the familiar ring, ring, answer, silence.
Click, click.
Hello, Mr. Hughes.
Sometimes, nobody becomes available and then the call will automatically disconnect.
There's another reason some suspicious calls matter even when nobody speaks.
Answering your phone provides information.
At a minimum, the calling system can learn that your number is active and someone will actually answer it.
Depending on the operation, subsequent behavior, answering, pressing a button, calling back, or interacting with the agent,
can make that number even more useful as a marketing fraud lead.
Now that doesn't mean merely saying hello automatically compromises your phone or your bank account.
The danger is primarily engagements and information gathering, not some magical ability to steal your identity because you spoke one word.
Take a break, come back, talk about these spam calls that are trying to scam us.
We're listening to The Truth with Sherwin Hughes.
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see I
know they said something where he said I'm gonna be single till I'm 70 and they make it seem like it's a bad thing That's crazy And I don't know if you're a man or a woman whatever but women obviously get jealous cuz you know what women hate
to see a man doing successful without a one.
Hate it, make some sick.
Why would I be settled down with one person?
That's not fair to all the other women.
But also for men that, and I'm, listen, I'm glad that y'all have found love, but y'all, you think that it's productive to, Sherwin, you need to get married.
Get married now.
Be miserable like the rest of us.
Not all of them are miserable, but the marriages that Have the least amount of misery oftentimes don't even look like marriages their weird partnerships or their business relationships The wife has her own life and the husband has his own life if that's what happiness is y'all are just basically dating but legally tied together until death So there's that but also for men that defend it and there's shout out to the man to do it, right?
But if you as a man
Don't like to date have trouble dating and don't have a lot of options Your best bet is to find a woman that you love that loves you back and be with her forever Because it's it is rough out here and you got to put forth effort if you want to actually meet women it's getting tougher actually because you have to be Substantially more in order to even get their attention and some men just don't have it in them.
You know what I mean?
But I don't I don't want people to think that I'm against the institution because it's not for me
I just like to not be controlled and you You're gonna give up some autonomy in a relationship if it's any kind of a decent loving caring relationship It's a whole bunch of stuff you can't do and if you think you can do the same things in a relationship or in a marriage and when you were single You're aligned to yourself and you're gonna quickly find out We meet a wonderful woman and we hope that she stays exactly the same as the woman that we met dated courted
Fell in love with we want we want that woman to be just like that forever.
That's what we want, right?
That's the version that we fell in love with That's the version that got you to fall in love with her then the real her finds out once she she's got you hooked and you can't leave We want her to stay the same I think women marry us and commit to us and they want us to change
Because they see all the stuff that we're not doing right all the things that we need to improve They almost want us custom tailored for whatever their needs are so we have to change And whenever there's a problem in a relationship, it's always
can I talk to you about stuff that you're doing that make me feel uncomfortable?
But then if you as a man, this is the frustration that I have that everybody knows but they never talk about this stuff If a man brings up and I know every woman's gonna say not me sure when y'all they're trained to say not you whenever I bring up these concrete examples
If a man brings up a problem that he has with her, her behavior, her attitude, her disrespect, it's not, she won't even focus on why he's angry and why he's upset.
The fact that he brought it up in the first place.
Why are you targeting
Why are you?
I don't like the way you're talking to me.
And what do we do?
We get defensive.
I'm sorry for bringing up a problem that I have in a relationship.
I'll never say another word ever again.
Next thing you know, the man that you've been married to for all these years doesn't even talk to you anymore.
You think I ain't seeing that happen?
I know couples that just they don't even talk to each other There is nothing lonelier than laying in a bed with someone who you don't even
know
It's terrible People stop humping You don't hump the way you used to I used to break stuff Y'all used to be adventurous.
What happened?
Oh, I got too old no such thing You remember back in the day
Let's do it in the car Listen ain't nothing wrong with the car Sometimes you got to make it happen captain.
I mean you can't always go to somebody's damn house When I go to my house, I want to go I'm going home go to bed.
I ain't bringing you with me You never did it in the car
Well, yes, I have exactly I just made me think about something else, but I don't want
Well, I don't want to know.
Yes, you do.
My father's listening.
I can't.
Sorry, Larry, but
you're
Oh, I was even talking about cars stuff.
I was talking about, you know, just doing it outside and having fun and join the breeze, you know.
Have you ever heard of a thing called
Oh, I was going to say dogging.
What's that?
What do you think I'm talking about?
uh-uh.
Huh?
That happens in Wisconsin.
You're just saying that
heard of it.
Oh, yes, yes.
This is something that's coming to my mind.
Because I'm about
very sorry.
Oh, yes.
No, no, no, no.
That's what I was talking about.
You're talking about doing it outside.
That just came into my head, you know?
Yes.
What would you just watch?
Yeah, well,
what if the woman looks really nice?
is.
Yes, yes.
So that's why I didn't want to talk about it too much into it's too graphic.
Depending on the relationship.
Yeah, that's kind of weird.
Yeah, I have a lot of stories about a lot of things, but.
We have to say that on huge views because I just don't want to get fired for the stories that I have.
Years and years ago.
So man, I'd known her for years.
We lost touch, got reconnected via social media.
This might have been my space days.
And she's like, hey, sure.
When I ain't seen you in a while, we should catch up.
Let's grab a drink.
I'm like, cool.
So we met at a spot somewhere in Bayview off of KK.
This was years ago.
And she's like, oh, I know the perfect spot.
We'll go grab a drink.
It'll be cool.
All right.
So we go into the bar, and there's literally nobody in there.
It's her sitting at the bar, and there's another guy sitting way at the other end of this really, really long bar.
And there's the bartender.
And so we're hanging out, talking.
We're catching up.
I hadn't seen her in years.
And I noticed the guy that was sitting really, really far away moved a couple seats closer.
I was like, that's odd.
I'm like, oh, maybe he's moving the seat at CV.
Well, then he moved a little bit closer yet and still and I'm keeping my eye on this dude, but I'm still entertaining her and talking to her.
And then she and I. Because the bar is empty.
There's the bartender who's minding their business.
And then there's the this guy who keeps moving closer and closer.
And she and I start petting just a little bit.
Not nothing I rate is nothing crazy.
And then I look up and now the guy is one seat next to her.
Here's what I come to find out.
She was in a relationship with that man.
She got permission from him to hang out with me and he was there to like watch us quote unquote catch up.
And I was offended when I found
that out because
I'm not
or or you got
You got to tell me that's what the plan is.
She didn't tell me that's what the play was.
Well, he might have even came along.
He might have just wanted to hear the story
bro.
Oh, jeez.
You're no fun.
Oh, I'm very fun.
with a boom ping ping wisdom sharper than a beast fear sting words like fireflies that light the night he turns the dark into blazing bright boom ping ping the truth takes wing Milwaukee's voice let the city sing
We covered a lot of ground this week, a lot of topics.
They seem to be hovering around a couple of major themes, though, because these themes that we were discussing with great frequency, not just on this program, but really programs across the one on one seven, the truth lineup.
We're just so rich.
that they made the discussion list pretty much all week.
And it was a discussion of hip hop music, the culture of hip hop, how in a segregated city do we successfully bring people together?
You know, there's a lot of establishments that are owned by non black individuals.
So if we want to go out and spend our entertainment discretionary income, or if you are a performer or a DJ,
A lot of times your choices are limited racially.
So a lot of us black people gravitate to different parts of the city.
Even though those may have been parts of the city that were once prohibited, we can feel very comfortable in those spaces now.
And I think that we maybe have taken that for granted.
Until this list came out earlier this week.
That somebody is denying that management was in support of the list management hasn't made it known that they fired anybody who produced this list which Bands essentially three dozen hip-hop artists that are relatively popular with a younger set of hip-hop ears and Then it says at that same list and made all the controversy no Milwaukee artists and of all of
All of that that was said and discussed.
It was the Milwaukee artist that really, really, really got upset.
In fact, there was a brief interview.
Maybe the interview was long, but I know the clip that we played on my program yesterday, which is rare for us.
I don't really play a lot of video clips on this program, but I found that clip to be important.
And again, it was on the topic that we have been discussing with great frequency this week because Milwaukee is a city in which there are many cultures.
But still, some are not, let's say, appreciated like others are.
But also, there needs to be a reminder, and that is what happened this week with that list that the garage came out with.
Just because you are in a space and you feel comfortable there does not mean that the proprietors of that space ever intended for you to be there.
And we, as Black people, seem to think that our money that we have, the money that we spend, transcends...
how people feel about us racially.
It doesn't because we oftentimes will think that we can defy any dress code, do whatever we want, say whatever we want, act however we want, but if we have money then we should be excused from being completely and totally irresponsible.
Every now and again we get a wake-up call that shows sometimes our money isn't worth it and that hurts us.
Because there's one thing that black people can do and one thing that we know very very well We can't really change how people think of us as a culture and as a race But we show enough can make sure we have money in our pockets to at least At least psychologically for us put ourselves on even keel with those who Probably hate our guts.
Here's the thing even if we have money and we spend money in their establishment They still hate our guts.
So all of this stuff was discussed today or of this week rather
on our various programs, but also saw that We were talking about hip-hop in a very negative light and I don't want to do that It received some negative attention this week and local media ran with and so as I was mentioning very briefly a moment ago we played a video clip of a local rapper his name is Ishtar and he was interviewed by CBS 58 our CBS affiliate here in
Milwaukee and they put this interview on the website and they want a response from him as someone who was known on the local rap scene and someone who frequented the high hat which is the establishment in question that came up with that list of banned hip-hop artists but at the bottom of the list it said in bold letters no Milwaukee rap and So when Ishtar gives this interview that was displayed on the CBS 58 website He used profanity
Now I know that's a very small thing to a lot of you know, obviously they blurted it out.
They beeped it out when they put the brief interview with Ishtar on their website, but it still showed a local Milwaukee hip-hop artist who was being targeted because their music is negative or they don't want Milwaukee red played at this establishment and the fact that he used profanity on a broadcast interview
Also, I believe because if you're if you're being victimized you don't want to say anything or do anything that That gives the people that are targeting you any ammo But then he he chimed in on the YouTube chat yesterday.
He's he got very mad at me and I wasn't gonna argue with him because I'm not gonna argue with someone who
Got upset that white people don't want to play his music because I don't want to argue with someone who doesn't have anything to lose and in my opinion If you're mad that white people are not playing your music that you don't really have anything to lose I didn't want to go back and forth with the guy, but they told him prior to the interview Oh, no, no, you can use profanity you can cuss no no absolutely go ahead because I think the CBS 58 was also complicit
wanted to show hip-hop and hip-hop artists in a negative light.
I know it's a very small thing for you all but if someone is unfamiliar with this situation and they see a brief interview with a Milwaukee artist who's very angry and it's the victim here because their music has essentially been ostracized from a playlist of an establishment that has been playing hip-hop for as far back as I can remember.
But then if you're using profanity it makes you look
Less favorable and hurts the case you're trying to plead I said all that to say this they're making hip-hop Look like it's something negative now.
Obviously there's negative aspects of it There's parts of our culture that are quite honestly that are brutal that are very misogynistic that are exceptionally homophobic you name it hip-hop will tell the story
At some point with some artists of all the things that we don't like about our society But that is also what we should appreciate about the genre It tells you precisely the stream of consciousness of the artist and for the people that live in communities and neighborhoods that are otherwise deemed less than credible when you hear that less than credibility in the music it actually adds a little bit of credibility to some of the stories that Otherwise would go untold
I'm a fan of the genre the genre it was born roughly right about the same time I was hip-hop is probably 52 years old.
I am 51 I grew up with it.
I've seen the many eras of it I've seen its evolution.
I've seen it reach the charts.
I've seen hip-hop crossover I've seen as many white kids and Latin kids and Asian kids dance to hip-hop or know the lyrics even with the n-word They even know the n-word lyrics
Probably should have a discussion about that white people because we know that you love Tupac very much in fact run the heels of The 30th anniversary of his death, but when the n-word part comes up in a Tupac song, can we just go ahead and just silence ourselves?
Can we just we beep that out?
But it is a genre that has become damn near universal and the clothing brands and
the advertising and the endorsements.
If your brand, much to the chagrin sometimes of the designer of the curator of the brand, if your brand makes it into a hip hop song, you are going to sell out.
We create billionaires with this incredible genre, probably about, oh, it varies.
I'd say about a third of the music that I play on my program is hip hop.
Another third is probably some form of the rhythm and the blues.
Better known as R&B.
And then another third is just weird.
I play weird stuff.
I might play some Van Halen or Dire Straits.
I might play the Moody Blues.
I might play some Jimi Hendrix.
I might play Jim Morrison and The Doors.
But it is a genre that I love very much and I don't want it to be portrayed in a negative light because this particular bar on Brady Street has made a choice to omit these artists.
Well, there's a story that appears today.
It seems that CBS 58 is trying to redeem themselves because I don't like how they set Ishtar up for that interview by telling him he could be profane in a story that already seeks to put a negative light on hip-hop.
And I hear some of you all as well.
Some of you all think that the only hip-hop that should exist or the only hip-hop that should be played is what was being played back in our day, back in the formative years when hip-hop was a baby.
think as time went on hip-hop got more honest because those artists from our day in the early 1980s almost like not cartoonish but just really simple themes about oh let's have a good time and let's party and I think at the time we needed upbeat optimistic music because the 1980s the early 1980s for the black community were abysmal
Deindustrialization crack was on its way Reagan was president inflation was high the economy was dreadful blackmail unemployment was through the roof Don't push me.
I'm close to the edge.
I'm trying not to lose my head all of that made a lot of sense But then you have the air of really fun music.
I watched the documentary on the fat boys last night you guys remember the fat boys There was three people in the fat boys
They were all fat one was fatter than the others, but they were all fat two of them were actually dead Sad But it was a it was a less than honest Genre at the time because there were real struggles going on now Of course those struggles became more prominent more evident and it made its way into the music hip-hop is often told the story of where
A certain segment of the black community always is.
And for that, it's important.
And there are some people that dismiss it as a genre.
They say it's not creative because they sample a lot of music.
I'm going to tell you what sampling has done for those artists that you otherwise...
would never have heard of.
I'm talking about geniuses.
I'm talking about musical maesteros that may not have gotten played on radio because of the race of the producer or the composer.
Hip hop brings all of that to life and has made some of those artists that produce some of those musics and some of the beats and some of those samples that's used in hip hop has made those unknown artists rich.
And sometimes their estates have gotten rich because of our genre.
And I'm very, very proud of that.
So it's a very multifaceted, very very complicated subject, but it also is one worthy of close examination because hip-hop is our art form and a language that's not even native to us.
We were forced to learn English to communicate with our repressor and we took that forced language and made it ours and created an art form that I would dare say is beautiful.
That being said, there's a positive story about Milwaukee hip hop that appears via CBS 58.com and I want to share it with you.
There's going to be a hip hop concert coming up very, very soon.
It's going to be held at a very unlikely place, but it's a place that also needs necessary attention from a younger cohort of Milwaukee.
who do pay attention to and listen to and fan out for Milwaukee Hip Hop.
The concert is going to be at the Milwaukee Public Library.
I'm going to give you some details on that when I come back.
Oh, and also please be warned.
Who am I if I'm not a warning system for all of you?
They're out.
They're here.
The Jehovah's.
Did you see any Jehovah's this month?
Well, you get here very early Xavier, but man, they're they're in throngs.
There is a there's gaggles of them.
There's packs of Jehovah's.
The Milwaukee's under retake over.
They're all over the place.
But no, they're not a violent sort.
They're not.
But if if they confuse you for a door, expect to get pounded on.
Got to take a break, come back, talk about a very positive story that is going to combine the art form of hip-hop with encouraging people to go to the Milwaukee Public Library and utilizing their many sometimes unknown services.
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He's on a big national tour.
I had to turn that down because it says it's clean, but you never know.
Sometimes they'll sneak a couple in on you.
Had to make sure that was a clean version because I know that the ears of the people that are listening are very sensitive.
From CBS58.com.
Next week.
Some of Milwaukee's biggest artists will bring people together and celebrate the local music scene.
It comes just days after a Brady Street bar was widely criticized for a quote no playlist that leaked on social media, which many consider to be racist.
Quote, I wish we'd be celebrating the city and celebrating hip-hop music and celebrating what we've got going on rather than everybody talking about it in a negative sense, said DJ Mondo, a Milwaukee-based DJ who regularly performs at Summerfest and other music venues.
Mondo and his brother, music producer Sunny Lu,
were disappointed to learn about the no-play list allegedly given to DJs at the garage, a Milwaukee nightlife bar.
Quote, as an establishment, you have the right to play whatever you want, but for me, it was just like a lazy, not-thought-out way of going about it, said Sonny Lu.
The list circulating social media names dozens of mainstream black artists and specifies in bold.
No.
Milwaukee rap When we play it everybody's just vibing, you know said popular Milwaukee rapper 414 big Frank Everybody's having a good time.
So it shouldn't be like that.
And then there's a picture featured in the middle of the article here of 414 big Frank looks like he is also with
DJ Mondo was in this picture and then two other gentlemen who I do not know and they are at the Wisconsin State Capitol actually.
Maybe 414 Big Frank is their lobbying on behalf of his city.
414 Big Frank is headlining the rave in Milwaukee tomorrow as the last stop of his current national tour.
He tells CBS 58 his songs have been played at the garage before.
He goes on to say it's just music.
It should make you feel good.
It should make you want to tap your feet.
While you might not hear Frank at certain bars, one unique venue will host him for the very first time next Thursday.
Dubbed the library show, the concert on September 3rd will feature live performances by 414 Big Frank, DJ Mondo, Sonny Lu,
and more inside the Milwaukee Central Library's Rotunda.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think this is a fantastic idea, and I'm gonna get back to the details of the story in just a second, because you know what I ask you all?
And I ask you frequently what do we do?
What do we need to create?
What programs need to be offered so that the kids have something to do so that they can be productive and as the weather starts to get warm because I know that I do this every single year because we always know the Milwaukee summers are gonna be violent We predicted every year and guess what we are correct even though the numbers are telling you oh homicides are down Yeah, but a lot of people are getting shot though a lot of
A lot of shootings, some non-fatal, but the violence is prevalent and also the violence is looking different.
Maybe homicides are down, but people are fighting all over the place and it's being spread all over social media.
So even if the incidence is percentage wise might be lower.
We see them with the same frequency.
And so we always talk about what should we do?
How do we get the kids involved?
And here's one thing that I've learned after many years of asking my listenership of what we should do, what programs we should support.
We are miserable at it.
We're terrible at it.
We look at our era and remember what we had and what we believed.
Was successful also keep in mind when you reminisce it's always nostalgic It was a bunch of crap going on too back in our day Now the difference is it wasn't all recorded on put it and put on social media But we look at whether it be sports y'all just love basketball leagues for some reason
What's another one that comes up all the time?
Oh, oh a roller skating.
Nobody rollerskates, but if you ask somebody over the age of 50 What what should we do?
We should make a bunch of nonprofits and put a bunch of skating rinks in nobody wants to roller skate You don't even roller skate anymore, but the things that we come up with
are relics of the past and you wonder why the youth are not responding something that we never would have thought of if these kids are responding to hip-hop and if they look up to local Milwaukee hip-hop artists because when you when you parse it down to its elements hip-hop music when done properly is linguistic it's grammar
It's rhyming schemes, it's conjunctions, it's onomatopoeia, it's alliteration.
It is a literal kind of art.
It is poetry, poetry, literature, reading.
Don't always harp on how illiterate every goddamn body is and our kids can't read and if we can better connect with the kids are responding to which obviously defies our understanding as old people and if it's hip-hop music and you're having a concert in the public library which I believe is probably underutilized I think this is a match made in heaven and kudos to the people that came up with it now I can hear some of you saying oh sure when that's a stupid idea you're supposed to say it's a stupid
idea because the ideas that you all have come up with, myself included, have also been stupid.
So if the people that come up with the stupid ideas hear an idea and then think that that idea is stupid, then maybe that actually is the right idea in the first place.
I did a little digging because that's what I do.
I do research with a shovel.
I swear I dig in deep.
When I found out how much money we spend every single year on the Milwaukee Public Library all of their branches and all of the services that they offer, I immediately realized that they are dramatically underutilized.
Dramatically and if they're giving away free library cards to for the people that go to the Milwaukee concert next week Thursday at the Milwaukee Public Library So you can get a library card if you don't have one I'll admit I haven't had a library card in probably 30 years, but hell I got the internet every damn book that's ever written is on the internet But if we can encourage young people to go to the library because back in the day that was a safe space for us kids
My parents would drop me off at the library on Saturday mornings and pick me up in the afternoon.
And I didn't mind.
I mean, did I read a lot of books when I was there?
Eh, we actually hung out at the damn library.
That's some nerdy stuff, but guess what?
We weren't shooting dope.
We weren't breaking into houses and cars.
We were at the library.
The worst thing that we did at the library is maybe made a little too much noise.
But it was a very social thing for us.
In fact, it was very central to the community that I grew up in as weird as that may sound.
I don't even know what's central to communities anymore.
It certainly ain't church.
Not the library.
Well, maybe it could be.
Quote, the library show, the concert will be on September 3rd and will feature live performances by 414 Big Frank, DJ Mondo, Sonny Lu and more.
inside the Milwaukee Central Library's Rotunda.
It's a message of solidarity, it's a message of positivity, and it's at the same time.
Educational and promotion of literacy is making it all fun, said DJ Mondo.
The Milwaukee Public Library has been planning the event alongside local label Run Along Forever and music event brand On What.
They've been planning it for an entire year and September is national library cards sign up month.
Quotes, I think the biggest thing is no matter what walk of life you come from, no matter what music you listen to, you're always welcome at the Milwaukee Public Library said Joey McMahon, Milwaukee Public Library's research and policy coordinator.
Every so often when the city of Milwaukee has got to face these austere measures and they have to
shutter things and reduce budgets.
I weep a little bit when we have to close the library because that is a lost opportunity in a city where far too many people are functionally illiterate.
That also signifies something about that community, about that city, that you have to prioritize things and you have to close libraries, which should be a central clearinghouse for information and for public meetings, et cetera.
It's very, very sad.
very happy to see that all of these fragments and elements that we have just kind of floating around in isolation in our city, we have the youth and youth culture, you have hip hop music, whether it be positive or negative, and you have libraries that are sometimes just hanging on from year to year because they're always on the chopping block when it comes to budget cuts.
But do come to combine these forces and maybe just maybe we make a small dent in what I will call an illiteracy crisis.
I just give you one of many examples.
The reason why voter turnout is so low.
It's not just because people don't like the candidates or I don't like the Democrats or the Republicans or they're not going to do anything for me.
I've come to find out over the years that people that can't read will say those things as an excuse because they can't read the ballot.
Because we're not gonna challenge anybody that says oh well, you know the Democrats are corrupt and the Republicans are corrupt like if somebody says that I'm like yo, you're correct Now I also take offense when people don't vote But if someone has that stance because folks that don't vote because they can't read the ballot Will be very well rehearsed on how bad the Democrats and Republicans are right you can say oh Obama didn't do anything and Kamala Harris sucked and Joe Biden was sleepy and Donald Trump is starting wars and
ripping off the American people.
Okay fair enough.
But a lot of times people hide behind the fact that they're not literate.
So I think this is a fantastic idea.
I think it brings together local Milwaukee artists.
I think it will hopefully promote the Milwaukee Public Library.
We spend $33 million every single year on the Milwaukee Public Library system.
That's a shocking amount of money and the reason why I think that's such a shocking amount of money because I can't tell you the last time I went to a Milwaukee public library for anything.
It certainly wasn't for a book.
It was probably because there was a meeting there or maybe it was an early voting site that was likely.
So think about that.
We're spending $33 million on a series of buildings and the services that they offer and I'd be willing to bet.
The majority of you listening to me right now have probably not been to a library in the last 12 months, in the last five years even.
And we're spending a lot of money on these libraries, but to get the youth back in the doors of what I consider safe spaces for them and places of information and research and intellect, you can go get on the computers there.
They have different little programs that they host at the library and then bringing the Milwaukee hip-hop element to it I think it's a fantastic idea and certainly one that we never came up with I'm gonna take a break.
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That's like the exact opposite of what other folks decided to do talking about this local Milwaukee hip hop show concert that's going to be held at the Milwaukee Public Library, bringing together local artists and city of Milwaukee residents, hopefully youth that might have an opportunity to rediscover the Milwaukee Public Library.
Well, I just hope that people come here and that they see that Milwaukee music isn't scary.
It's just this great community-based thing, said Nolan Busolaki, the founder of Run Along Forever.
The artists hope to send a message that Milwaukee's music scene is all about fun with community at its core.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is precisely how we would want people who create a genre of music that have been demonized.
Right.
Think about the positivity that's coming out of this, right?
So the garage says, hey, no hip hop artists, these 40 national artists can't be played and then no Milwaukee rap.
And then what are the Milwaukee artists doing?
They're going to the library to do a free show.
That's the whole point, ladies and gentlemen, instead of all of you getting mad and arguing and fighting, you know, for the garage to change their rules and no, this isn't fair.
Please play our music.
Please, please, please.
There are other artists like, you know what?
Screw them.
We'll have a free show and showcase our music on our terms and get people into the library.
Like this is exactly what we want to happen.
And I have discussed it at nauseam this week that the city of Milwaukee, when these establishments are owned by Caucasian folks, black people are just tolerated.
Our art, our music is just tolerated.
And at any point in time that tolerance can run out and we got to get this out of our heads that if we're spending money that they should allow us they have an obligation to us know it doesn't I don't know what y'all think money is but it's not the equalizer that you think some of us believe that if we become extremely successful and as we work so hard that we can overcome racism and prejudice and
generalizations and the stereotypes you know what you are to some of those people and I hate to break it to you like they keep telling us that this is how they think about it but we don't we don't believe we think well I just need more money if I have more money then they're gonna see me as equal to them you know you know what you're gonna be you're gonna be a nigger with money that's exactly what you are not better not more accepted not more like them they're still not inviting you to their barbecues still
And so if they are saying I know it's very upsetting for folks because it's hard to find a good place that you like to go to where you can feel comfortable Maybe you've met a bunch of friends there It's a whole vibe and then you come to find out that they never wanted you there in the first place Or they take chicken wings off of the menu y'all when somebody shows you who they are please believe them It's the best advice I could ever give any human being even when we're dealing with
Like people, like in a relationship, somebody will say something or do something that is wholly disrespectful, something that you should not ever accept.
They're telling you who the hell they are.
Hell, if you don't text me back, we ain't talking no more.
That's how I keep it.
If I text you, the clock is ticking.
Because you are showing me that maybe you're just too busy.
You have other things going on and if you don't prioritize Responding to me.
I'm not even gonna be mad at you, but I will go to a place where I can be a priority Like right here on one on one seven the truth They prioritize me here.
I'm prioritized so much I get emails at six o'clock in the morning six o'clock in the afternoon Sundays
I got an email, I don't know, maybe last night.
And then I got an email this morning in response to the email last night.
Let me be clear.
I did not read the email last night.
And then somebody had sent me
a text message.
I'm so sorry about the information that was communicated in that email last night I sent another email to clarify We're gonna do some things starting on this date and that day and I sent a message back to the person I didn't read none of the damn emails anyway, so you ain't gotta apologize to me Get a lot of emails But go where you're prioritized I Can't exactly name any off the top of my head but
I'm sure there's a lot of businesses that absolutely would like the black dollar or want black people and want black customers.
I'm sure there's probably a Latino, Hispanic, Asian business, not just wanting our money for welcoming who we are as people.
I would say black owned businesses, but we don't really support black owned business.
Can we have that conversation?
Y'all not ready for that?
I think it's a cute thing to say.
I'm not going to support a business just because it's black owned.
I'm going to support a business because I like it.
They got to be nice to me too though.
Our service goes a long way If it's a restaurant, I mean obviously I want the food to be good But if the food is so so but they make me feel comfortable and the service is consistent Then I'll go back to the rent.
I don't
care who
We missed you here.
I got your favorite table for you.
I like that if it's black on and it does that fantastic
It's owned by small Korean people if it's owned by Jehovah's Witnesses Do Jehovah's own restaurant, I keep please forgive me I'm learning everybody.
I'm not perfect, which you clearly all know But I keep getting them confused with Mormons.
They're not the same if you look at how they're dressed.
Oh come down town today They're in gaggles they're they're roaming
They're like platoons.
They're roaming battalions of Jehovah's.
Should I try to get some interviews this weekend?
Oh, God, please do.
I would love that if you got you a Jehovah.
I'll try to get a couple.
So I'm coming in this morning and the Jehovah's get up early because I get here at 7 a.m.
And I saw throngs and I saw I saw gaggles of them roving battalions of Jehovah's.
Some of the women are exceptionally attractive like I was like no way.
You're a Jehovah.
I Didn't know that they made them like that.
I've seen some thick Jehovah's they drink alcohol Good question.
We'll probably know shortly because the bar here at the Third Street Market Hall opens up at 11 Yeah,
I'll see if a few
weekend
Have you ever heard of rum springer?
Oh, what's that?
Well, that's what the What those people call those they're not the Mormons.
They're the people The people with the hats you say what the people with the hats not their religion
Yeah, yeah, with the straw hats, you know, they're out in the
Yeah.
So Rum Springer is a thing they do every year where, you know, you're a teenager and you had not every year, but they do it every year.
But, you know, only get to be a certain age to get the Rum Springer or whatever.
But you get to venture out into the world and see if you want to still be an Amish person.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm familiar with that.
You know when Amish children I shouldn't call them children when Amish teenagers date You know what they do on Sundays after church the boys and the girls they sleep together like they go to they sleep together Not sex, but they sleep in the same bed and they talk so they talk I'm not kidding you.
That's how they date if they don't go to the movies They don't have I don't know if they have electricity.
They still have horses and buggies But like the the boy will come over and they'll go in the bedroom and they'll talk that's dating and then they'll go to sleep, but they can't hump
Wouldn't it work with me?
Yeah, I'm sure some of them do
I bet you they do then there's this other thing that the That the Mormons do because technically they're barred from having this you got to know what I'm talking about There's a name for it.
It's where you I can't explain it on the Randy.
I was too vulgar Where they have other people shake the bed, you know, I'm talking about
No, but I'm not in my head
small where they do it through the sheet
No There's insertion But the man and the woman they don't they don't move okay, so there's no motion But then there's other people in the room that shake the mattress on their behalf to simulate the motion of the man and the woman so technically they're They're copulating
But they're not in motion.
They have other people shake the bed.
I'm not kidding you.
It's a real thing.
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Local Milwaukee hip-hop artists will be performing live show totally free on September 3rd at 6 30 p.m.
There will also be food trucks on site gotta have a food truck Didn't really have a lot of food trucks back in the day now Fast food ain't fast enough now.
We need food on wheels
There would be food trucks on site along with library card sign-up stations Special edition run-along forever library cards will also be available The first 50 attendees to sign up or renew their library card will get a free lineup T-shirt I think this is a wonderful idea one that we never came up with we're local hip-hop artists who have essentially been banned from a particular
Bar a venue on Brady Street.
They're saying we'll screw it We're gonna collaborate with the Milwaukee Public Library and do a free show here.
All are welcome We're gonna give away library cards and hopefully give people into the library, especially young people
that otherwise would have no reason to go.
I think this is a genius idea.
It took something negative like banning these hip-hop artists and then turning it into something positive where they now are going to provide a free show.
And if you are unfamiliar with Milwaukee Rap or maybe you think it's probably terrible and vulgar, here's an opportunity for you to go and check it out and get a library card.
And if you're one of the first 50 people, you get a free t-shirt.
People love free t-shirts.
People will take a free t-shirt that says anything on it as long as it's free.
So I'm very glad that this is taking place at the Milwaukee Public Library and I'm also glad that the City of Milwaukee places a very, very high priority on libraries.
Now we've had a number of them that have closed over the years because they certainly were underutilized, but we have to find new ways to keep these libraries open.
You know what else is a really good use of the library?
They get people to go in them that otherwise wouldn't using them as early voting sites.
I doesn't guarantee that someone's going to go back to the library and check out a book or get any reference materials, but just getting people in the door a lot of times is half the battle.
So I think that's another great utilization of the space that we spend a lot of money on in the city of Milwaukee.
It is a very large budget allocation.
Milwaukee Public Library is not a tiny line item, so I've got an article here that outlines exactly how much money the city of Milwaukee spends on a variety of services.
This is why your taxes are so much full and of course NPS.
In the city of Milwaukee's 2026 adopted operating budget, the library received $33,650,000.
That puts it in the same general financial neighborhood as several highly visible city functions So I'm gonna give you the names and the details of other city departments that the city of Milwaukee itself and the common council and the mayor Prioritize just as much as the library
9-1-1 emergency communications is funded at $27.17 million.
The library actually gets $6 million more than 9-1-1.
Every 9-1-1 call, police, fire, and medical dispatch is funded through that 27 point.
One seven million dollar budget allocation the whole Department of Neighborhood Services a very important city department.
They're only getting twenty five point eight eight million dollars That's seven point seven million more than or less rather than the library That's all the building inspections all of the code enforcement of all of the buildings and Investigating and condemning nuisance properties the library gets a higher funding allocation than then
The library in the city of Milwaukee, it's a higher funding allocation than the city of Milwaukee health department.
They received $22,680,000.
The library gets almost $11 million more than the damn health department.
And they are in charge of the health department is public health, lead remediation, lead pipes, lead paint, taking lead out of schools.
Food inspection and disease control those are some of the core functions of the city of Milwaukee health department and the library is prioritized at least budget wise even higher than the health department The entire city of Milwaukee parking and transportation fund while it's a little bit more than the library.
It's still in the ballpark 38.32 million dollars, but that makes a lot of sense because having a well-funded parking enforcement
Arm of the city because that brings revenue in several of y'all got unpaid parking tickets right now Pay your tickets or they'll what do they do if you don't pay your tickets kill you Take your murder you they'll kick you out of the city.
Do you get evicted from Milwaukee if you don't pay your tickets?
I
think they make your license plates like bad.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, thank you.
You can't re-register
The whole snow and ice removal, so snow removal, because you know, wintertime, 15 million bucks for that.
So the library has double the money in their budget.
Then we spend on removing all the snow and ice.
I might argue we probably should increase that snow and ice removal budget just a little taste.
And also street lighting, capital program, all of our street lights across the city is funded at eleven point nine million dollars.
The library gets thirty three million.
Glad to see local hip hop coming together with Milwaukee Public Library to promote the many services that they have.
The show is going to be on September 3rd.
It's going to start at six thirty and you can get a free library card and also meet for one for big Frank.
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In fact, he is ending his national tour tomorrow night at the Wraith.
He's on a big national tour.
So I had to turn that down because I didn't it says it's clean, but I didn't you never know sometimes they'll sneak a couple in on you.
Had to make sure that that was a clean version because I know that the ears of the people that are listening are very sensitive.
From CBS 58.com next week.
Some of Milwaukee's biggest artists will bring people together and celebrate the local music scene.
It comes just days after a Brady Street bar was widely criticized for a quote no playlist that leaked on social media, which many consider to be racist.
Quote I wish we'd be celebrating the city and celebrating hip-hop music and celebrating what we've got going on rather than Everybody talking about it in a negative sense said DJ Mondo a Milwaukee based DJ Who regularly performs at summer fest and other music venues?
Mondo and his brother music producer Sonny Lou
were disappointed to learn about the no-play list allegedly given to DJs at the garage, a Milwaukee nightlife bar.
Quote, as an establishment, you have the right to play whatever you want, but for me, it was just like a lazy, not-thought-out way of going about it, said Sonny Lu.
The list circulating social media names dozens of mainstream black artists and specifies in bold.
No.
Milwaukee rap When we play it everybody's just vibing, you know said popular Milwaukee rapper 414 big Frank Everybody's having a good time.
So it shouldn't be like that and then there's a picture Featured in the middle of the article here of 414 big Frank looks like he is also with
DJ Mondo was in this picture and then two other gentlemen who I do not know and they are at the Wisconsin State Capitol actually.
Maybe 414 Big Frank is their lobbying on behalf of his city.
414 Big Frank is headlining the rave in Milwaukee tomorrow as the last stop of his current national tour.
He tells CBS 58 his songs have been played at the garage before.
He goes on to say it's just music.
It should make you feel good.
It should make you want to tap your feet.
While you might not hear Frank at certain bars, one unique venue will host him for the very first time next Thursday.
Dubbed the library show, the concert on September 3rd will feature live performances by 414 Big Frank, DJ Mondo, Sonny Lu,
and more inside the Milwaukee Central Library's Rotunda.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think this is a fantastic idea, and I'm gonna get back to the details of the story in just a second, because you know, when I ask you all, and I ask you frequently,
What do we do?
What do we need to create?
What programs need to be offered so that the kids have something to do so that they can be productive?
And as the weather starts to get warm, because I know that I do this every single year, because we always know that Milwaukee summers are going to be violent.
We predict it every year.
And guess what?
We are correct.
Even though the numbers are telling you, oh, homicides are down.
Yeah, but a lot of people are getting shot, though.
A lot of lot of shootings.
some non-fatal but the violence is prevalent and also the violence is looking different maybe homicides are down but people are fighting all over the place and it's being spread all over social media so even if the incidence is percentage wise might be lower we see them with the same frequency and so we always talk about
What should we do?
How do we get the kids involved?
And here's one thing that I've learned after many years of asking my listenership of what we should do, what programs we should support.
We are miserable at it.
We're terrible at it.
We look at our era and remember what we had and what we believed was successful.
Also keep in mind when you reminisce, it's always nostalgic.
It was a bunch of crap going on too back in our day now the difference is it wasn't all recorded on put it and put on social media But we look at whether it be sports y'all just love basketball leagues for some reason
What's another one that comes up all the time?
Oh, oh roller skating.
Nobody rollerskate But if you ask somebody over the age of 50, what what should we do?
We should make a bunch of nonprofits and put a bunch of skating rinks in nobody wants to roller skate You don't even roller skate anymore, but the things that we come up with
are relics of the past and you wonder why the youth are not responding something that we never would have thought of if these kids are responding to hip-hop and if they look up to local Milwaukee hip-hop artists because when you when you parse it down to its elements hip-hop music when done properly is linguistic it's grammar
It's rhyming schemes, it's conjunctions, it's onomatopoeia, it's alliteration.
It is a literal kind of art.
It is poetry, poetry, literature, reading.
Don't always harp on how illiterate every goddamn body is and our kids can't read and if we can better connect with the kids are responding to which obviously defies our understanding as old people and if it's hip-hop music and you're having a concert in the public library, which I believe is probably underutilized I think this is a match made in heaven and kudos to the people that came up with it now I can hear some of you saying oh sure when that's a stupid idea you're supposed to say it's a stupid
idea because the ideas that you all have come up with, myself included, have also been stupid.
So if the people that come up with the stupid ideas hear an idea and then think that that idea is stupid, then maybe that actually is the right idea in the first place.
I did a little digging because that's what I do.
I do research with a shovel.
I swear I dig in deep.
When I found out how much money we spend every single year on the Milwaukee Public Library all of their branches and all of the services that they offer, I immediately realized that they are dramatically underutilized.
Dramatically
and
if they're giving away free library cards to for the people that go to the Milwaukee concert next week Thursday at the Milwaukee Public Library So you can get a library card if you don't have one I'll admit I haven't had a library card in probably 30 years, but hell I got the internet every damn book that's ever written is on the internet But if we can encourage young people to go to the library because back in the day that was a safe space for us kids
My parents would drop me off at the library on Saturday mornings and pick me up in the afternoon.
And I didn't mind.
I mean, did I read a lot of books when I was there?
Eh, we actually hung out at the damn library.
That's some nerdy stuff, but guess what?
We weren't shooting dope.
We weren't breaking into houses and cars.
We were at the library.
The worst thing that we did at the library is maybe made a little too much noise.
But it was a very social thing for us.
In fact, it was very central to the community that I grew up in as weird as that may sound.
I don't even know what's central to communities anymore.
It certainly ain't church.
Not the library.
Well, maybe it could be.
Quote, the library show, the concert will be on September 3rd and will feature live performances by 414 Big Frank, DJ Mondo, Sonny Lu and more.
inside the Milwaukee Central Library's Rotunda.
It's a message of solidarity, it's a message of positivity, and it's at the same time.
Educational and promotion of literacy is making it all fun, said DJ Mondo.
The Milwaukee Public Library has been planning the event alongside local label Run Along Forever and music event brand On What.
They've been planning it for an entire year and September is national library cards sign up month Quotes I think the biggest thing is no matter what walk of life you come from no matter what music you listen to you're always welcome at the Milwaukee Public Library said Joey McMahon Milwaukee Public Library's research and policy coordinator Every so often when the city of Milwaukee's got to face these austere measures and they have to
Shutter things and reduce budgets.
I weep a little bit when we have to close the library because that is a lost opportunity in a city where far too many people are functionally illiterate That also signifies something about that community about that city that you have to prioritize things and you have to close libraries Which should be a central clearinghouse for information and for public meetings, etc.
It's very very sad
very happy to see that all of these fragments and elements that we have just kind of floating around in isolation in our city, we have the youth and youth culture.
You have hip hop music, whether it be positive or negative.
And you have libraries that are sometimes just hanging on from year to year because they're always on the chopping block when it comes to budget cuts.
But to combine these forces and maybe just maybe we make a small dent in what I will call an illiteracy crisis.
I just give you one of many examples.
The reason why voter turnout is so low.
It's not just because people don't like the candidates or I don't like the Democrats or the Republicans or they're not going to do anything for me.
I've come to find out over the years that people that can't read will say those things as an excuse because they can't read the ballot.
Because we're not going to challenge anybody that says, oh, well, you know, the Democrats are corrupt and the Republicans are corrupt.
Like if somebody says that, I'm like, yo, you're correct.
Now, I also take offense when people don't vote.
But if someone has that stance, because folks that don't vote because they can't read the ballot will be very well rehearsed on how bad the Democrats and Republicans are.
You can say, oh, Obama didn't do anything, and Kamala Harris sucked, and Joe Biden was sleepy, and Donald Trump is starting wars and ripping off the American people.
I'm like, OK, fair enough.
But a lot of times people hide behind the fact that they're not literate.
So I think this is a fantastic idea.
I think it brings together local Milwaukee artists.
I think it will hopefully promote the Milwaukee Public Library.
We spent 33.
Million dollars every single year on the Milwaukee public library system That's a shocking amount of money and the reason why I think that's such a shocking amount of money because I can't tell you the last time I went to a Milwaukee public library for Anything it certainly wasn't for a book.
It was probably because there was a meeting there or maybe it was an early voting site That was likely so think about that.
We're spending 33 million dollars on
a series of buildings and the services that they offer and I'd be willing to bet the majority of you listening to me right now have probably not been to a library in the last 12 months in the last five years and we're spending a lot of money on these on these libraries but to get the youth back in the doors of what I consider safe spaces for them and places of information and research and intellect you can go get on the computers there
They have different little programs that they host at the library and then bringing the Milwaukee hip-hop element to it I think it's a fantastic idea and certainly one that we never came up with I'm gonna take a break and we'll come back I want to give you guys a little perspective and name a few other much more common much more utilized City of Milwaukee services that we are way more familiar with like almost intimately
That spend just as much money as the library so I don't want to put this in a perspective We spend a lot of money on the library lots I think it's time that it gets better utilized.
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I'll be honest with you It's still impressive Somebody pulls out a big fat bankroll.
There's something about that.
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You can get robbed you can lose it I have the tendency to spend cash a little fast If I know I got a hundred dollars in cash in my pocket
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It's a beautiful, fun thing that's like the exact opposite of what other folks decided to do talking about this local Milwaukee hip-hop show concert that's going to be held at the Milwaukee Public Library bringing together local artists and city of Milwaukee residents, hopefully youth, that might have an opportunity to rediscover the Milwaukee Public Library.
What I just hope that people come here and that they see that Milwaukee music isn't scary.
It's just it's just this great community based thing said Nolan Busellaki, the founder of run along forever.
The artists hope to send a message that Milwaukee's music scene is all about fun with community at its core.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is precisely how.
We would want.
People who create a genre of music that that have been demonized Right they're gonna think about the positivity that's coming out of this right so the the garage says hey no Hip-hop artists these 40 national artists can't be played and then no Milwaukee rap and then what are the Milwaukee artists doing?
They're going to the library to do a free show
That's the whole point ladies and gentlemen instead of all of you getting mad and arguing and fighting You know for the garage to change their rules and no this isn't fair.
Please play our music Please please please there are other artists like you know what screw them We'll have a free show and showcase our music on our terms and get people into the library like this is exactly what we want to happen and I have discussed it at nauseam this week
that the city of Milwaukee when these establishments are owned by Caucasian folks, black people are just tolerated.
Our art, our music is just tolerated.
And at any point in time, that tolerance can run out and we got to get this out of our heads that if we're spending money that they should allow us, they have an obligation to us.
No, it doesn't.
I don't know what you all think money is, but it's not the equalizer that you think.
Some of us believe.
that if we become extremely successful and as we work so hard that we can overcome racism and prejudice and the generalizations and the stereotypes, you know what you are to some of those people and I hate to break it.
They keep telling us that this is how they think about it, but we don't believe.
We think, well, I just need more money.
If I have more money, then they're going to see me as equal to them.
You know what you're going to be?
You're going to be a nigger with money.
That's exactly what you are.
Not better, not more accepted.
Not more like them, they're still not inviting you to their barbecues.
Still.
And so if they are saying, I know it's very upsetting for folks because it's hard to find a good place that you like to go to where you can feel comfortable.
Maybe you've met a bunch of friends there.
It's a whole vibe.
And then you come to find out that they never wanted you there in the first place or they take chicken wings off of the menu.
Y'all, when somebody shows you who they are, please believe them.
It's the best advice I could ever give any human being, even when we're dealing with people in a relationship.
Somebody will say something or do something that is wholly disrespectful something that you should not ever accept.
They're telling you who the hell they are Hell if you don't text me back we ain't talking no more That's how I keep it if I text you you get the clock is ticking Because you are showing me that maybe you're just too busy.
You have other things going on and if you don't prioritize Responding to me.
I'm not even gonna be mad at you, but I will go to a place where I can be a priority
Like right here on one on one seven the truth They prioritize me here.
I'm prioritized so much I get emails at six o'clock in the morning six o'clock in the afternoon Sundays I Got an email.
I don't know maybe last night and Then I got an email this morning in response to the email last night.
Let me be clear.
I did not read the email last night
And then somebody had sent me
a text message.
I'm so sorry about the information that was communicated in that email last night.
I sent another email to clarify.
We're going to do some things starting on this date and that day.
And I sent a message back to the person.
I didn't read none of the damn emails anyway.
So you ain't got to apologize to me.
Get a lot of emails.
But go where you're prioritized.
I can't exactly name any off the top of my head, but.
I'm sure there's a lot of businesses that absolutely would like the black dollar or want black people and want black customers.
I'm sure there's probably a Latino, Hispanic, Asian business, not just wanting our money for welcoming who we are as people.
I would say black owned businesses, but we don't really support black owned business.
Can we have that conversation?
Y'all not ready for that?
I think it's a cute thing to say.
I'm not going to support a business just because it's black owned.
I'm going to support a business because I like it.
They got to be nice to me too though.
Our service goes a long way If it's a restaurant, I mean obviously I want the food to be good But if the food is so so but they make me feel comfortable and the service is consistent Then I'll go back to the rent.
I don't
care who
We missed you here.
I got your favorite table for you.
I like that if it's black on and it does that fantastic
It's owned by small Korean people if it's owned by Jehovah's Witnesses Do Jehovah's own restaurant I keep I'm please forgive me.
I'm learning everybody.
I'm not perfect, which you clearly all know But I keep getting them confused with Mormons.
They're not the same if you look at how they're dressed.
Oh come down town today They're in gaggle they're they're roaming
They're like platoons.
They're roaming battalions of Jehovah's.
Should I try to get some interviews this week?
Oh, God, please do.
I would love that if you got you a Jehovah.
I'll try to get a couple.
So I'm coming in this morning and the Jehovah's get up early because I get here at 7 a.m.
And I saw throngs and I saw I saw gaggles of them roving battalions of Jehovah's.
Some of the women are exceptionally attractive like I was like no way you're a Jehovah I Didn't know that they made them like that.
I've seen some thick Jehovah's they drink alcohol Good question.
We'll probably know shortly because the bar here at the Third Street Market Hall opens up at 11 Yeah, I'll see if a few of them want to get a couple drinks this weekend
Xavier don't get a Jehovah drunk because then she might decide she wants to leave the life and live with you You got to be careful with them because she might see the the other side Oh, I want to be with you Xavier.
I don't want to be a Jehovah.
Have you ever heard of rum springer?
Well, that's what the People with the hats on their religion
Yeah, yeah, with the straw hats, you know, they're out in the
Yeah.
So Rum Springer is a thing they do every year where, you know, you're a teenager and you had not every year, but they do it every year.
But you know, only get to be a certain age to get the Rum Springer or whatever.
But you get to venture out into the world and see if you want to still be an Amish person.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm familiar with that.
You know when Amish children I shouldn't call them children when Amish teenagers date You know what they do on Sundays after church the boys and the girls they sleep together like they go to they sleep together Not sex, but they sleep in the same bed and they talk so they talk I'm not kidding you.
That's how they date if they don't go to the movies They don't have I don't know if they have electricity.
They still have horses and buggies But like the the boy will come over and they'll go in the bedroom and they'll talk that's dating and then they'll go to sleep, but they can't hump
Wouldn't it work with me?
Yeah, I'm sure some of them do I bet you they do then there's this other thing that the That the Mormons do because technically they're barred from having this you got to know what I'm talking about There's a name for it.
It's where you I can't explain it on the Randy.
I was too vulgar Where they have other people shake the bed, you know, I'm talking about
No, but I'm not in my head
is where they do it through the sheet
No There's insertion But the man and the woman they don't they don't move okay, so there's no motion But then there's other people in the room that shake the mattress on their behalf to simulate the motion of the man and the woman so technically they're They're copulating
But they're not in motion.
They have other people shake the bed.
I'm not kidding you.
It's a real thing.
We got to take a break because this show can't drift this early.
I still have other topics.
I got to talk about money and cash.
And I want to talk about why you're getting so many spam calls lately.
I don't know if you guys are seeing an uptick in the spammy spam calls.
They're they're farming our telephone numbers.
Some some days I answer them just because I'm bored.
That's like fine.
Ramesh Kapoor, I'll talk to you.
Oh, yeah, that's some of my favorite things I do I like to answer the phone with the Indian person and I'll I can't say it on there.
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show totally free on September 3rd at 6 30 p.m.
there will also be food trucks on site gotta have a food truck didn't really have a lot of food trucks back in the day now fast food ain't fast enough now we need food on wheels there would be food trucks on site along with library cards sign-up stations
Special edition run-along forever library cards will also be available.
The first 50 attendees to sign up or renew their library card will get a free lineup t-shirt.
I think this is a wonderful idea, one that we never came up with.
We're local hip-hop artists who have essentially been banned from a particular bar, a venue on Brady Street.
They're saying, well, screw it, we're gonna...
Collaborate with the Milwaukee Public Library and do a free show here.
All are welcome.
We're going to give away library cards and hopefully give people into the library, especially young people.
that otherwise would have no reason to go.
I think this is a genius idea.
It took something negative like banning these hip-hop artists and then turning it into something positive where they now are going to provide a free show.
And if you are unfamiliar with Milwaukee Rap or maybe you think it's probably terrible and vulgar, here's an opportunity for you to go and check it out and get a library card.
And if you're one of the first 50 people, you get a free t-shirt.
people love free t-shirts.
People will take a free t-shirt that says anything on it as long as it's free.
So I'm very glad that this is taking place at the Milwaukee Public Library and I'm also glad that the city of Milwaukee places a very, very high priority on libraries.
Now we've had a number of them that have closed over the years because they certainly were underutilized, but we have to find new ways to keep these libraries open.
You know what else is a really good use of the library?
They give people to go in them that otherwise wouldn't, using them as early voting sites.
It doesn't guarantee that someone's going to go back to the library and check out a book or get any reference materials.
But just getting people in the door a lot of times is half the battle.
So I think that's another great utilization of the space that we spend a lot of money on in the city of Milwaukee.
It is a very large budget allocation.
Milwaukee Public Library is not a tiny line item, so I've got an article here that outlines exactly how much money the city of Milwaukee spends on a variety of services.
This is why your taxes are so much full and of course NPS.
In the city of Milwaukee's 2026 adopted operating budget, the library received $33,650,000.
That puts it in the same general financial neighborhood as several highly visible city functions So I'm going to give you the names and the details of other city departments that the city of Milwaukee itself and the common council and the mayor Prioritize just as much as the library
9-1-1 emergency communications is funded at $27.17 million.
The library actually gets $6 million more than 9-1-1.
Every 9-1-1 call, police, fire, and medical dispatch is funded through that $27.17 million budget allocation.
The whole Department of Neighborhood Services, a very important city department.
They're only getting $25.88 million.
That's 7.7 million or less rather than the library.
That's all the building inspections, all of the code enforcement of all of the buildings and investigating and condemning nuisance properties.
The library gets a higher funding allocation than them.
The library in the city of Milwaukee gets a higher funding allocation than the city of Milwaukee Health Department.
They receive $22,680,000.
The library gets almost $11 million more than the damn health department.
And they are in charge of the health department.
Public health, lead remediation, lead pipes, lead paint taken lead out of schools, food inspection and disease control.
Those are some of the core functions of the city of Milwaukee health department.
And the library is prioritized, at least budget-wise, even higher than the health department.
The entire city of Milwaukee parking and transportation fund while it's a little bit more than a library.
It's still in the ballpark 38.32 million dollars, but that makes a lot of sense because having a well-funded parking enforcement Arm of the city because that brings revenue in several of y'all got unpaid parking tickets right now Pay your tickets or they'll what do they do if you don't pay your tickets kill you take your murder you
Kick you out of the city.
Do you get evicted from Milwaukee if you don't pay your tickets?
What happens?
I think they make your license plates like bad.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You can't re-register your vehicle.
Parking enforcement alone is $15.02 million.
The whole snow and ice removal, so snow removal, because, you know, wintertime, $15 million for that.
So the library has double the money in their budget.
Then we spend on removing all the snow and ice.
I might argue we probably should increase that snow and ice removal budget just a little taste.
And also street lighting, capital program, all of our street lights across the city is funded at 11.9 million dollars.
The library gets 33 million.
Glad to see local hip hop coming together with Milwaukee Public Library to promote the many services that they have.
The show is going to be on September 3rd.
It's going to start at 6.30.
And you can get a free library card and also meet 414 Big Frank.
The truth with Sherwin-
This is the truth with Sherwin Hughes on 1017 the truth the truth app and 1017 the
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Welcome to our two of the truth with Sherwin Hughes This is one of those songs where you had to be there You had to be around in the time and in the era when this would come on hot 102 you had to be around I feel bad for those of you that weren't Read some of these YouTube comments if I dare Mark says cool sunglasses are those Ray bands.
Why yes, they are Mark
Appreciate you being able to have good taste and understand what good sunglasses actually look like Aaron says good morning to the black people.
Well, that's racist on you.
What about all the others?
Aaron says scarface the movie did more than scarface the rapper to me and you want to blame rap for all the things that happened to me says Aaron I Don't know.
I think it's the
thin line, we look at the lyrics in some hip hop songs and some people take it as purely entertainment.
Some people take it as a set of instructions.
And I guess it depends on your foundation.
There are some people that have been told and have been instructed, hey, this music is not real.
Like a lot of these rappers are talking about selling dope and trapping.
They live in the Hollywood Hills and all their kids went to private school.
It's entertainment.
It's not, they don't.
Some of them, though, get murdered.
So there's that that makes you credible though.
I mean it shortens your life, but like he wrapped about guns and stuff.
He was
No, no, he actually got murdered.
Oh, wow.
He really meant it.
Good for him.
The little dirt
Oh, yeah, it's it's pretty bad.
He has people on.
I mean, his like, you know, quote unquote homie is on stand just snitching on him saying he like hired him to do all these killings and all stuff.
It's pretty crazy.
I'm
I'm just Whatever, I'm not I don't want to talk about it cuz I get angry and then y'all are gonna accuse me of being anti-woman Which is crazy because she murdered her kids, but if I talked about a man
That murdered his kids I could bash him left right six ways from Sunday and y'all would just be like yeah That's a terrible man, but even if a woman murders her children you still have to
be nice don't She allegedly murdered her kids
So I'm avoid that topic all together because and the other thing though is if there was a man Let's say a man was real stressed out
Because you know his wife stressing them out and work is stressing them out He's got money problems got a bunch of issues and Then he kills his three kids because you know He was suffering from depression too.
Maybe a very severe form of depression Do you think that a whole bunch of men
would rally behind him and throw a damn parade for him and cheer for him and wear t-shirts and make signs and solidarity saying we need to focus on men's mental health.
Absolutely no we would not.
That just shows you how insane some people in this indoctrinated internet society are.
No matter how screwed up you are, no matter how weird and outlandish your beliefs are, there's a community of people on the internet that a hundred percent agree with you.
No matter.
what
it
like, oh, she needed help.
So she murdered her children so that
I hope they give her some help.
All right.
A lifetime's worth of help with a big.
Big ass inmate a Harry a maybe transgender inmate.
I don't know maybe It's insane to me like where's the justice for the children screw them kids.
I think you know what it is I think people don't really like their kids.
I Don't think they do I'd be scared to ask my mother if I'm like Emma level with us Level with me and your youngest boy Tyler
You ever wish you never had us because I mean I was born After Roe was settled off so Roe was 1973 so when my mom got pregnant with me she could she could have been like well You know we could try again later, Eugene.
We don't we're still young She decided to keep me maybe she regrets that she could have pulled a plug she didn't
You know, but see, I'm sure every mom is probably like, oh, if I didn't have these damn kids, I'd have a life.
I'd have money.
I'd be able to travel.
I'd finish school.
You know, it'd be a lot easier for you to date hard to date a woman with seven kids, hard to date a woman with four kids, hard to date some women with no kids.
It depends on their ages, though.
It depends on our ages and.
Can they fight or not cuz I'll kick I'll kick your son's ass because you don't get to talk to me like he talks to you
That's
Oh I got into it with a Girlfriend son before like it was I don't want to say it got close cuz I was like I'm just gonna end do it.
Here's the problem.
He was 13 But he he acted like he was 23 and in that moment
If you approach me in a particular way, age ain't none but a number.
I kicked that ass, boy.
So yeah, it was a whole, I don't want to get into it.
I'm sure some women regret not having kids, but you don't kill them.
You can auction them off.
No, don't do it.
No, we went through a period of that in America.
Don't auction your kids off.
Oh, they have the baby boxes.
There's a you know that no questions asked you listen.
This is a serious thing.
Please don't laugh at this I don't know which if you guys are laughing or not, but don't laugh at this It's very serious.
Look at my face.
I'm making a very straight face I'm not even smiling and I smile a lot so they they have a like a little Remember blockbuster When you drop your movies off in like that bin and they slide down and you hear it
Open in the blockbuster wouldn't even have to be open 24 hours a day seven days a week and also ladies and gentlemen, please be kind and rewind But you got to rewind the movie when you rented a VHS tape from the blockbuster We used to go to blockbuster and get a movie used to argue with my school girlfriend a lot because the movies that she wanted to get sucked That was before Netflix and chill that was when you actually rented a movie and you wanted to watch it
You didn't want us you don't want to hump.
Well, I guess you could pause and I would only pause for two minutes anyway, so Get right back to the movie.
I don't know why you shaking your head Xavier.
I'm not over here trying to prove nothing about it.
I Just feel sorry for your partners.
I don't If you count to 120 that's a decent amount of time it plus everything in today's society is fast nobody nothing is slow Information moves fast.
We want change to happen fast
We want the economy to change fast.
We want our food fast.
I'm just going along with the modern era.
I'm fast, too.
Anybody got time for all that?
Just talking about, oh, you over here.
I'm making
love.
Oh, light some candle.
It's a case-to-case basis.
We're not making love with everybody.
Some people just need to, you know, get it done.
No, we don't believe you
I want to set expectations low Because then she go run and tell her friends that's the worst mistake you could ever make don't don't tell your friends Don't do that now.
I'm a maestro.
You know what you I'm like a Picasso trust me when I tell you I Know how to paint in the abstract.
You know what I mean?
I
I do some painting.
All right,
You know what my favorite dessert
I Love a nice cream pie it tastes you know, it's nice and warm
it right out the
It's a delicious treat.
time.
You can't.
You don't have dessert before breakfast?
Like cinnamon
Gotta take a commercial break.
Hey everybody go Jesus Go to the YouTube and vote in the poll.
I'm trying to see something.
We're gonna talk about cash.
You guys have cash You use cash still some people do I Think the next consumer revolt and we need one Because everybody's concerned about privacy and being tracked.
We don't like the flock cameras We don't like how you can say something and next thing you know, you're seeing ads on your phone and then you're
Social media feed if you're talking about going on a trip, let's say You might see travel agent advertisements and flights from different airlines Our phones are listening to us and we're very nervous about being tracked and there's cameras everywhere.
So
here's what I'm thinking The next revolt a quiet revolution that Americans can partake in Stop using electronic forms of payment because they create a record
Record that is attributed to you You can use your ego the grocery store and if you have like a savers card or you can enter your phone number so now Your purchases and that electronic method of payment.
Maybe it's a credit card Maybe it's a debit card is also linked to your phone number and from that and maybe there's a convenience
Because you can get coupons in the mail.
I just got something in the mail from the majors $25 off $100 spent at the majors now I use my savers card at the meters They've got my phone number, but also there is a record of everything that I am buying There's a whole profile of me as a consumer and that information can get sold to third parties
Cash is anonymous ladies and gentlemen if you pay for everything in cash now some things It doesn't matter whether you pay in cash for them or not like your mortgage because we know all the details about who the mortgage holder is
But other transactions, if you make them in cash, you are not creating a financial record that can be attributed to you.
So we're going to talk about cash and a cashless society before warned.
If you ever come to the third street market hall, if you haven't been, I suggest you check it out.
It's changing all of the time.
New restaurants are coming and going.
This is a cashless establishment.
None of the vendors here, none of the merchants here take cash.
How do I know?
I have tried.
I've even offered more cash than the product actually costs and they still will not take it.
There's a reason why so many places and spaces are going cashless.
And if I'm not mistaken, I've been a while since I've been there.
American Family Field, I think they're totally cashless too.
Which is a huge inconvenience, but we're going to get into the details of that.
But first, please vote in our YouTube poll.
Go to YouTube.
Or open up your YouTube app from your smartphone or other mobile device search 1017 the truth hit subscribe and you'll be able to vote in our YouTube Which I can't see for some reason why can't I see it Xavier?
We'll worry about that on the other side The truth with sure when he was on a special Friday edition Where Xavier says his favorite dessert is a cream pie in the morning We'll both be right back
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Then as it becomes easier for you play the record once a day or as needed
This one comes from the Pew Research Center.
Today, about 42% of U.S.
adults say they don't use cash for any purchases in any typical week.
This is up from 24% in 2015.
Fewer, 12%, say they use cash to pay for all or most
their purchases in a typical week.
Another 46% say they use cash sometimes and that's according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted from May 26th until June 1st, 2026.
So then there's the people that use cash everything all the time no matter what and if they if the service or the merchants or the creditor doesn't take cash then these people have to find somebody else.
Make the transaction for them.
You got to be careful at those folks because they're probably unbanked.
There are some people, you know, there's still a third of African-Americans that don't have a damn bank account Statistically we as a race of people in America are the most unbanked because just like y'all don't trust the doctor y'all don't trust the vaccines apparently
You think the bank is gonna run off with your seventy four dollars and nineteen cents sure when I don't trust the banks they gonna steal my money you don't have any money That's not the point I'll bet you if I went into some of your houses And if I lifted up the mattress I might find some I might find all sorts of stuff underneath the mattress
But there's still probably a lot of folks to hide money underneath the mattress So for people that don't have a bank account, it's also It's more expensive because if you if you get a check Because you have to get a check if you don't have a bank account because you can't get direct deposit The places that you have to go to to cash your paycheck are gonna charge you I don't know one to three percent
While it seems like a menial amount add that up, you know across 24 26 or 52 pay periods and you're paying money to get your own Money and so for those of you that don't have a bank account especially if you're an adult I would highly encourage you to do so because you could be saving yourself a ton of money and unnecessary fees
Also, I think it's easier to save money and put money away if you don't physically have it on you all of the time I don't think that I have I should know how let me see Have I ever just cashed a paycheck and put all the money in my pocket?
If so, I was probably a kid.
I don't think I've ever done it.
I always put a little bit of money away Some people get paid like we got paid today Xavier you know that I know you know you make big money here how much money you make you make a lot of money Not enough
Putting up what you what you got to put up with you know what I'm real curious about I wonder what a Homer and Bailey make Won't you ask them they wouldn't tell me black people don't ever tell that kind of stuff How much do y'all think radio people man, I'm we're not gonna tell you obviously, but if you all had to guess I'm just curious as to what you guys think the range is not that Not that it matters so many are probably think we make millions
Higher income Americans continue to be far more likely than those with lower incomes to go cashless today 58% of those households earning $100,000 or more per year say they make none of Their purchases with cash This is higher than the 43% of those households earning 50,000 to 99,999 dollar
Who say the same?
This continues to drop steadily by income to 24% of those making less than $30,000 a year.
On the other hand, those in lower income households are more likely than other groups to rely on cash.
Only about a quarter of those who make less than $30,000 annually use it for all or almost all.
Purchases younger adults stand out for Never using cash About half of adults under the age of 30 at 51% Say they don't use cash for any of their purchases in a typical week this drops to 46% of those 30 to 49 and Further to 37% of those age 50 to 60
Those 65 and older are the least likely to say that they never use cash.
I still maintain that cash is king It's just not the same if you I got a whole bunch of credit cards to I got credit cards and I got debit cards I got all that mess and if I pull all my credit cards and my debit cards and I and I fan them out That's not a flex because people might think oh sure when you probably have a lot of credit card debt, which I don't
But if you pull out a big fat wad of green backs and you got to hold them together with a rubber band That'll make anybody horny.
There's something about having a big old wad of cash So it makes you feel good every night again something may happen I guess the last time I had a big old wad of cash is I sold a car in 20 When I sell that crossfire 20 fitting
Sold it.
I used to drive a was my summer car.
I was back when I was crazy fancy with I used to have a summer car in a winter car My summer car was a little red two-seat convertible little Chrysler crossfire.
You couldn't tell me a goddamn thing when I was in that car You might see me riding around with your auntie one day and that same evening I might have your mom on the passenger seat and then you did not might be riding around with your sister what don't blame me I'm a victim of circumstance
Can't help it if your mama wanted to get in the car with me and go for a ride and let her weave blow in the wind Ain't nothing wrong with it.
You got to make sure you got to strap it down or strap it down Because it gets windy in a convertible
Third
one.
Can I go for a ride of your convertibles?
You sure can baby.
Oh wait, I Can't I can't wait to go for a ride third one.
You're convertible.
Go pick her up somewhere off of 27th Street She hops in she looks around when that roof when there's no roof above Yes, a whole new feeling of being out in the open air I highly suggest that everybody at some point in their life Please get a convertible if you don't buy one rent one for a weekend reward yourself So she get in so that I put on my feet belt.
Yes, baby.
Put on your seat
belt.
Okay
Thurwin!
Thurwin, my hair!
Help!
Why does she have a speech impediment?
Thurwin.
turn around and go get my hair.
And that's how tumbleweaves are born.
No, that's how, because I was riding around with somebody's auntie and she didn't strap it down.
And then the convertible, why don't they let me have a radio show?
Whose idea?
Oh, Mr. Gerald Jones, man.
He resting.
He's probably turning over in his grave.
God damn it, Sherwin.
Why are you over here talking about strapping it down?
That's how Mr. Jones used to sound.
But having no cash on hand doesn't always mean it's being used.
Indeed 26% of Americans who carry cash always or most of the time say they don't use it for any of their typical purchases.
Sometimes it's just good to have it.
You ever just have some cash?
Like this is something that might be old school.
Have a little cash.
Just in case now.
In case of a little emergency.
And let's say you get separated from your wallet.
Let's say you get separated from all of your credit card.
You gotta have a little cash somewhere now.
So you can make you some little purchases or back in the day of my parents, you gotta have a little walking around money.
You got a little pocket money, Sherwin?
No, ma'am.
Here, because my parents would think if I went to the mall and I didn't have anyone, I'm not kidding you, my parents did not trust me at all.
They used to, because I used to go to the mall a lot.
Went to Northridge, hell, three times a week sometimes.
My mother would ask, Sherwin, you got some walking around money?
Yeah, well, of course, now I don't have a job, I'm 14.
Here, here, come here.
Let me give you a little walkin' around my little pocket money.
Here you go, here, take a little bit of money.
Because she honestly believed, my father did too, that if I went to the mall with no money that I would steal.
No, I would just go to the mall just because all my friends were there.
You gotta have your little walkin' around money.
And maybe I'll spend it, maybe I wouldn't.
But back then...
Damn McDonald's hamburger was 39 cents you go to a movie for $3 and 50 cents everything was cheap if you spent $5 at Taco Bell you were a fat whore You know $5 at Taco Taco Bell used to have stuff on a menu for 50 cents It's something about having cash it's just it's sexy
So the most cash I ever had this is why I told the story about your auntie riding around in my convertible and her losing her wig and that's how tumbleweaves were born is the most cash I had on me was when I sold That vehicle I sold us a old white dude who drove all the way down from West Bend.
I Was asking What did I ask only had 40,000 miles on I think I was asking like 14 for
it
It was pristine though.
It was flawless.
There was no nicks dense scratches I kept it waxed.
It was stored in the garage for winters.
I didn't drive it in the winter It was a beautiful beautiful automobile go look it up.
I had a 2005 Chrysler crossfire convertible It was garnet red with a black power top couldn't tell me nothing with that car.
So I think I was asking
14 I had to get rid of it because I was just done with it I had because you got him storing the cars a lot of pain in the butt It's a lot of extra maintenance.
You got to change the oil once you get it You know ready to be put back in servicing before your storage You got to make sure the batteries on a battery tender You got to have fresh fuel and he got to change all the fluids and you got to do the exact same thing when you you know Put it in the storage.
It was it was just I got sick of it You know, I had my midlife crisis air and I was like, let me sell this car.
So I think I was asking 14 for
Dude showed up with 11 9 in
cash.
I'm like hold on man
He's like look it look here.
Let me count it out for you
And I had to get rid of it because I didn't want to be insurance had expired on the vehicle So if I kept it another day, I'd have to renew the damn insurance and I didn't want to do that
Sounds like man, come on.
Give me give me that give me not snatched money from here made him sign the title that get on out here And he brought his friend with him two old white dudes from West Bend It's funny when he took it on a test drive because I rode with him And we were he went all up in the hood.
He's like, well, what where should I turn?
I was a near turn left go east.
Oh This is interesting and I know keep going burl I locus
Chambers Hadley Center Street.
No, no, no, keep going.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Turn south.
I think that was the most that was the most cash that was mine.
I am not going to tell you stories from when I was much younger, hanging out in places I should not have been hanging out at where it was somebody else's cash that that I may have been in the vicinity of.
But that was the.
And I took pictures with it.
Now, I didn't go crazy and like, you know, spread it out all over my bed and then roll around in it.
That's gross.
I don't ever want to do that because money is filthy.
You know what people do with money?
They store cocaine with it.
They do all sorts of really yucky, yucky, dirty things with money.
But yeah, I think that was the most cash I ever had that belonged to me is when I sold a car and I got undercut by a white dude from West Bend.
See there?
That's white supremacy for you.
Should have sent him on his way, but he had that money talks.
That's the truest thing.
I think I've ever heard my entire life Yeah, I wanted $14,000 for that car.
I don't even know if it was worth 14 But he gave me 11 9 and I snatched at 11 9 11 9 was sexy 119 $100 bills.
Come on.
Oh, is that right?
No 11 9 no 100 9 Yeah
Let's take a break come back check the YouTube poll but also want to tell you The Jeopardy you could be putting yourself in because we're all concerned about privacy We want to make sure that our fairs stay private when you use debit cards and credit cards There is a traceable Financial record that is being created and that financial picture that you were painting of yourself every single time you swipe a card or tap a card
is valuable information to to retailers and to anyone who sells anything and guess where all of that information is stored think about how many transactions you may do in a typical day a week a month or even a year it's a lot of data right well guess where it's stored genius at the damn data centers that you don't want to move into your community the next big consumer revolt or revolution that we should have is we stop at least for a day or two
Maybe even a week if you guys can handle it, where we don't use our cards and we don't swipe and tap at all.
We just use cash.
So we put a hole in these financial pictures that they have of us as consumers.
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Thank you.
How are you?
I just got out the phone at the top.
I'm just gonna put that out there.
Um, like I told the guy, I gotta talk a certain way.
And I'm like, wait a minute, buddy.
What does your thing say?
I'm gonna say serve and protect.
And then some women I'm using that with the air quotes.
I don't like using
Alan.
What are you talking about?
We don't even know what Take us off a
Take us
I wasn't rambling.
I'm getting a cone right now.
Well, I was gonna tell you I'm just gonna stick on the point You were talking about the credit card.
You know, I never use them ever for anything.
I don't use the debit card.
How you pay for it?
I Pay everything like that to my wife's bank.
I don't I'm not I'm not I don't exist dude.
I really don't exist on the internet
At all.
a week.
So what?
My bank, my information doesn't exist anyway.
You got a thing on there that says I went to University of Wisconsin and what else?
I mean, as for the credit cards, I don't do it.
Alan, you have a
So what, any, nothing, all that you know what that's for?
Look what's all on there.
A lot of that's my wife because people stalk her.
So she put, we share everything.
That's her Facebook page.
I wouldn't even have had one.
I'm like, how many friends I got?
I got like 22 friends, if that.
A couple of them are people I don't know.
And they seem like decent human being.
They follow some of the music I like.
And then there's like 10 of them that are cousins who I don't really talk to, but you want to, you know, who's going to send a birthday on the internet?
So my brother and sister are not in there with me.
My parents were never on the internet.
The Facebook thing is just me tolling, really, what I do with it.
I'm not that important of a guy.
But I go to the bank.
I get money.
I got a certain amount.
They raise the amount I can take out every day on my debit card.
So like today, we're going to go shopping.
So I got to go to the bank and I leave to McDonald's and go get some cash.
And then we're going to go shopping later.
But yeah, I try not to use one as much as I can.
The mortgage is tied to my wife's account.
It comes out on a certain day.
And I'm getting to the point where I might just pay it out off and throw and then put the money away for the uh I'm getting ready to move.
I think anyways enough is enough with this Yeah,
developer Yeah,
yeah Oh, I picked the bees on him the other day.
No, even not a cop told me it was diabolical That's one thing you did.
It was funny.
I brought out the garbage can full of bees You want to park in front of my house?
Then I kicked them off
to get him going.
The guy selling dope is cracking up.
He goes, dude, you're for real.
And I said 100%.
He goes, I love you, man.
I said, don't worry about it.
I'm just getting warmed up.
I got a hornet's nest.
But when I get home, I'm gonna toss over the fence, I think.
All
right, you want to play with?
There you go.
Anyway, God bless you, my friend.
Keep up the good work.
This is a whole by the way, billers ice cream is killer, man.
It's good to go.
Where is it?
What's the bill?
You know, billard McDonald's on McDonald's that we're about a Muslim center.
They blocked the street light and know me too.
There's that Islamic center over here right off the side when
No, no, not there.
No, no, not the capital capital.
Yeah, they're over there.
They were talking about us one day when we were walking our dog.
So we had to stop a little more understood what they were saying.
Get remember I was in prison with this back where the old
I think sorry.
No, I wasn't up.
I didn't move up until I met my wife.
When wait, when is your move in Milwaukee?
Like 2000 2008 maybe something like that 2008.
Where did you move
No, I was living in Sturdleman at the time.
Yeah, I grew up in Kenosha.
Same damn thing.
Well, thank you, Alan.
Have a
Sort of it's really racist if you want to know the truth.
That's why they stopped the buses.
That was a fight I had.
Because they wouldn't let the buses go out there because of the prison.
So they sort of stopped the racing buses from letting people go visit their families.
That was a big fight I was involved in.
We kind of got that.
We got them to look at themselves, if you will.
Start a minute in
Yeah, and race.
Racism County.
Then there's that farm there.
that apple holler, they're racist too.
One time, I wouldn't get my kids an ice cream cone.
And then they're like, well, Ty, hey, baby, come here.
What's going on?
And I'm like, well, what's going on?
Sit down at the darn ice cream thing.
They're ignoring my kids and doing it with all these white kids.
So I talked to the guy.
He said, well, I'm standing right here in 3D, and I think you're worth doing if I'm watching you do it.
Want me to show you the video?
Or you ignored my daughter?
So that was good.
They tried to give us some free dinner.
I don't want no dinner for that racist boy.
All right, have a good one then.
you too.
It's Friday.
I had to play it.
Don't touch that dial the truth with Sherwin Hughes will be right back on 1017 the truth the truth app and 1017 the truth calm This is the truth with Sherwin Hughes on 1017 the truth the truth app
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So this album.
awful.
One of my money back.
Horrible dreadful.
High as a kite.
She was so high she didn't she didn't move and she did oh Erica probably did a two and a half hour three hours said if I'm lying I'm dying Did literally did not take a step forward backward left or right.
She's wearing this gigantic Ridiculous huge three and a half four foot afro wig with a little tiny hat hanging in the middle of the afro hair.
It was it was weird And then she go off in these tangents
Boy do I hate when people go off on tangents.
Isn't that something terrible?
I was so disappointed And I don't know if she tours very much because I knew at the time That I had to go and see her because I didn't know if I would ever get the Opportunity to see her again because her tours are rare and I could not tell you the last time Erica was in Milwaukee So when I found out she was coming I went to the show and it was chess
You know what else made that show a mess is I went with my best friend and his girlfriend Stupid that was stupid because guess what they decided to do when we got to the show get drunk and argue You ever been the third friend when two of your friends are in a relationship and they're arguing ain't nothing worse than that
Because they try to make Sherwin pick a side.
We'll get with
You remember when he said hey man dog You remember when I called you and told you what Sherwin?
What do you who do you think is right or wrong screw both of you?
I Will divorce the both of you.
Oh It was they ruined it and then I cuz I drove I Was ready to go home This was a whole mess.
Oh, I think my friend went to jail that night actually
Shouldn't be putting my people's business out there, but he put me in a very bad spot So they separated at the show They she went to one part of the venue to watch the show he was in another They just decided that it was best and I was probably smart so they could at least enjoy the Erica Badu show which in itself was horrible I'm in the balcony.
All right When the show is over we had a designated spot in which we were gonna meet by one of the restrooms and then we were gonna leave
Okay, show was ending show was over.
She's there With what where she's supposed to be we can't find him so we're and now the security's like yo y'all got to go y'all got to go No, no, we're waiting on her friend.
I mean the place is damn near cleared out We don't know where the hell he went so I figured he got angry and took a Uber he left That's what I figured okay.
We're calling him his phone is going straight to voicemail
We know that he was mad because he was arguing with his girlfriend.
He probably drank too much, which he sometimes is known to do.
So whatever.
I take her home.
Okay, driver home.
I go.
Apparently he was looking for us somewhere outside of the venue of the rave and then got mad at me.
Because I didn't find him and got mad at me that I took his girlfriend home knowing that he was mad at his girlfriend.
Ain't that some mess?
So I said all that to say.
Erykah Badu's Baduism album, it's so good.
It came
out when I was in college.
a
A cashless society is not primarily an ideological project.
It's a result of technology, convenience, e-commerce, smartphones, reward programs, and business discovering that electronic payments can be faster and easier to administer than physical currency.
So what we're talking about is we're talking about a cashless society.
A lot of places that you go, they don't accept cash anymore.
The 3rd Street Market Hall is a total cashless venue.
If I'm not mistaken, American Family Field, where you go and watch the baseball and where you go and see other sporting events and things, even big concerts, they're cashless as well.
I think the FISER Forum may also be cashless.
So it's a very popular thing to do.
And so we asked you a question on this topic.
What is your preferred method of payment when you're just out here in the world?
Do you use your debit card?
Do you use a credit card or are you one of those folks that still?
Uses cash the Pew Research Center did a survey of this and The older you are the more likely you are to use cash primarily The younger you are the more likely you are to never use cash at all
Cash is, according to this article, inefficient in some ways, but extraordinarily private.
Digital payments are extraordinarily convenient, but they create records.
And despite the rhetoric about America going, quote, cashless, we aren't quite there yet, Federal Reserve Research released this year in 2026 found that consumers still averaged about
Six cash payments per month in calendar year 2025 and that's down from 14 in 2016 about 81% of consumers had used cash within the previous 30 days and 90% said they plan to continue using it the simplest way to explain this would be think about the difference between Handing somebody a $20 bill and handing somebody a credit card with the 20 the transaction ends.
It's over
With the credit card, the transaction begins a data trail.
The bank knows there was a transaction.
The merchant and his processor keeps the record.
The payment network participates in moving the transaction.
Depending on the system information about the merchant, the amount, the time, the location, the category of purchase can become, rather, a part of the financial data ecosystem.
That difference explains both the great advantage and the great concern surrounding a cashless economy.
Well, why are people moving away from cash?
You may ask.
Well, there wasn't one government decision declaring America will be cashless.
Consumers largely did it on their own.
The Federal Reserve's number tell a story.
Back in 2016, 10 years ago, Americans averaged, no, this is roughly 14.
cash payments a month.
So that's literally one every other day.
We averaged eight credit card payments every month back in 2016 and 12 debit card payments.
Fast forward to the year 2025 and the cash payments went from 14 per month in 2016 to only six per month in 2025.
16 credit card transactions in 2025 and 2016 was eight.
debit card transactions also increased from 2016 to 2025 from 12 to 15 respectively so cash transactions fell by more than half while credit card and debit transactions literally doubled several forces drove that transition of course e-commerce you can't put a $20 bill into a smartphone to order something off of the amazons or the door dashes smartphones themselves that contain
digital wallets turn your telephone your cell phone into a wallet and of course convenience nothing more convenient than just tapping to pay automatic payments such as utility streaming services insurance your subscriptions and mortgages increasingly operate electronically that is my preferred method most of my fixed bills
come out of the checking account right away.
I don't have to send in any payment.
I don't got to go to some silly website.
They just deduct the money automatically.
So that also is considered one of those cashless electronic transactions.
Let's talk more about this in hour three.
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Welcome to our two of the truth with Sherwin Hughes This is one of those songs where you had to be there You had to be around in the time and in the era when this would come on hot 102 you had to be around I feel bad for those of you that weren't Read some of these YouTube comments if I dare Mark says cool sunglasses are those Ray bands.
Why yes, they are Mark
Appreciate you being able to have good taste and understand what good sunglasses actually look like Aaron says good morning to the black people.
Well, that's racist on you.
What about all the others?
Aaron says scarface the movie did more than scarface the rapper to me and you want to blame rap for all the things that happened to me says Aaron I Don't know.
I think it's the
thin line, we look at the lyrics in some hip hop songs and some people take it as purely entertainment.
Some people take it as a set of instructions.
And I guess it depends on your foundation.
There are some people that have been told and have been instructed, hey, this music is not real.
Like a lot of these rappers are talking about selling dope and trapping.
They live in the Hollywood Hills and all their kids went to private school.
It's entertainment.
It's not, they don't.
Some of them, though, get murdered.
So there's that that makes you credible though.
I mean it shortens your life, but like he wrapped about guns and stuff.
He was faking.
No, no, he actually got murdered.
Oh, wow.
He really meant it.
Good for him.
The little dirt
Oh, yeah, it's it's pretty bad.
He has people on.
I mean, his like, you know, quote unquote homie is on stand just snitching on him saying he like hired him to do all these killings and all stuff.
It's pretty crazy.
I'm
I'm just Whatever, I'm not I don't want to talk about it cuz I get angry and then y'all are gonna accuse me of being anti-woman Which is crazy because she murdered her kids, but if I talked about a man
That murdered his kids I could bash him left right six ways from Sunday and y'all would just be like yeah That's a terrible man, but even if a woman murders her children you still have to be nice don't She allegedly murdered her kids So I'm avoid that topic all together because and the other thing though is if there was a man Let's say a man was real stressed out
Because you know his wife stressing them out and work is stressing them out He's got money problems got a bunch of issues and Then he kills his three kids because you know He was suffering from depression too.
Maybe a very severe form of depression Do you think that a whole bunch of men
would rally behind him and throw a damn parade for him and cheer for him and wear t-shirts and make signs and solidarity saying we need to focus on men's mental health.
Absolutely no we would not.
That just shows you how insane some people in this indoctrinated internet society are.
No matter how screwed up you are, no matter how weird and outlandish your beliefs are, there's a community of people on the internet that a hundred percent agree with you.
No matter.
what
it
is, no matter how bad it is, no matter how classless it is, no matter how distasteful it is, you can find your people.
And they're probably on Reddit or they're probably on the tiki-taki.
And then they normalize this stuff like, oh, she needed help.
So she murdered her children so that she could get the help she needed.
I hope they give her some help.
All right.
A lifetime's worth of help with a big.
Big ass inmate a Harry a maybe transgender inmate.
I don't know maybe It's insane to me like where's the justice for the children screw them kids.
I think you know what it is I think people don't really like their kids.
I Don't think they do I'd be scared to ask my mother if I'm like Emma level with us Level with me and your youngest boy Tyler
You ever wish you never had us because I Mean I was born After Roe was settled off so Roe was 1973 so when my mom got pregnant with me she could she could have been like well You know, we could try again later, Eugene.
We don't we're still young She decided to keep me maybe she regrets that she could have pulled a plug she didn't
You know, I guess I got it.
But see, I'm sure every mom is probably like, oh, if I didn't have these damn kids, I'd have a life.
I'd have money.
I'd be able to travel.
I'd finish school.
You know, it'd be a lot easier for you to date.
Hard to date a woman with seven kids.
Hard to date a woman with four kids.
Hard to date some women with no kids.
It depends on their ages, though.
It depends on our ages and.
Can they fight or not cuz I'll kick I'll kick your son's ass because you don't get to talk to me like he talks to you That's not I give him one time.
Oh I got into it with a Girlfriend son before like it was I don't want to say it got close cuz I was like I'm just gonna end do it.
Here's the problem.
He was 13 But he he acted like he was 23 and in that moment
If you approach me in a particular way, age ain't none but a number.
I kicked that ass, boy.
So yeah, it was a whole, I don't want to get into it.
I'm sure some women regret not having kids, but you don't kill them.
You can auction them off.
No, don't do it.
No, we went through a period of that in America.
Don't auction your kids off.
Oh, they have the baby boxes.
There's a you know that no questions asked you listen.
This is a serious thing.
Please don't laugh at this I don't know which if you guys are laughing or not, but don't laugh at this It's very serious.
Look at my face.
I'm making a very straight face I'm not even smiling and I smile a lot so they they have a like a little Remember blockbuster When you drop your movies off in like that bin and they slide down and you hear it
You open in the blockbuster wouldn't even have to be open 24 hours a day seven days a week and also ladies and gentlemen, please be kind and rewind But you got to rewind the movie when you rented a VHS tape from the blockbuster We used to go to blockbuster and get a movie used to argue with my school girlfriend a lot because the movies that she wanted to get sucked That was before Netflix and chill.
That was when you actually rented a movie and you wanted to watch it
You didn't want us you don't want to hump.
Well, I guess you could pause and I would only pause for two minutes anyway, so Get right back to the movie.
I don't know why you shaking your head Xavier.
I'm not over here trying to prove nothing about it.
I Just feel sorry for your partners.
I don't If you count to 120 that's a decent amount of time it plus everything in today's society is fast nobody nothing is slow Information moves fast.
We want change to happen fast
We want the economy to change fast.
We want our food fast.
I'm just going along with the modern era.
I'm fast, too.
Anybody got time for all that?
Just talking about, oh, you over here.
I'm making love.
Oh, light some candle.
I ain't lighting no damn candle.
It's a case-to-case basis.
We're not making love with everybody.
Some people just need to, you know, get it done.
No, we don't believe you anymore.
You ain't gotta believe it.
I want to set expectations low Because then she go run and tell her friends that's the worst mistake you could ever make don't don't tell your friends Don't do that now.
I'm a maestro.
You know what you I'm like a Picasso trust me when I tell you I Know how to paint in the abstract.
You know what I mean?
I
I do some painting.
All right,
favorite dessert
I Love a nice cream pie it tastes you know, it's nice and warm
it right out the
It's a delicious treat.
You don't have dessert before breakfast?
Like cinnamon
Gotta take a commercial break.
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I'm trying to see something.
We're gonna talk about cash.
You guys have cash You use cash still some people do I Think the next consumer revolt and we need one Because everybody's concerned about privacy and being tracked.
We don't like the flock cameras We don't like how you can say something and next thing you know, you're seeing ads on your phone and then you're
Social media feed if you're talking about going on a trip, let's say You might see travel agent advertisements and flights from different airlines Our phones are listening to us and we're very nervous about being tracked and there's cameras everywhere.
So
here's what I'm thinking The next revolt a quiet revolution that Americans can partake in Stop using electronic forms of payment because they create a record
Record that is attributed to you You can use your ego the grocery store and if you have like a savers card or you can enter your phone number so now Your purchases and that electronic method of payment.
Maybe it's a credit card Maybe it's a debit card is also linked to your phone number and from that and maybe there's a convenience
Because you can get coupons in the mail.
I just got something in the mail from the majors $25 off $100 spent at the majors now I use my savers card at the meters They've got my phone number, but also there is a record of everything that I am buying There's a whole profile of me as a consumer and that information can get sold to third parties
Cash is anonymous ladies and gentlemen if you pay for everything in cash now some things It doesn't matter whether you pay in cash for them or not like your mortgage because we know all the details about who the mortgage holder is
But other transactions, if you make them in cash, you are not creating a financial record that can be attributed to you.
So we're going to talk about cash and a cashless society before warned.
If you ever come to the third street market hall, if you haven't been, I suggest you check it out.
It's changing all of the time.
New restaurants are coming and going.
This is a cashless establishment.
None of the vendors here, none of the merchants here take cash.
How do I know?
I have tried.
I've even offered more cash than the product actually costs and they still will not take it.
There's a reason why so many places and spaces are going cashless.
And if I'm not mistaken, I've been a while since I've been there.
American Family Field, I think they're totally cashless too.
Which is a huge inconvenience, but we're going to get into the details of that.
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Then as it becomes easier for you play the record once a day or as needed
This one comes from the Pew Research Center.
Today, about 42% of U.S.
adults say they don't use cash for any purchases in any typical week.
This is up from 24% in 2015.
Fewer, 12%.
Say they use cash to pay for all or most of their purchases in a typical week another 46% say they use cash sometimes and that's according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted from May 26th until June 1st 2026 so then there's the people that use cash everything all the time no matter what and if they if the service or the merchants or the Creditor doesn't
take cash, then these people have to find somebody else to make the transaction for them.
You got to be careful of those folks because they're probably unbanked.
There are some people, you know, there's still a third of African-Americans that don't have a damn bank account.
Statistically, we as a race of people in America are the most unbanked because just like y'all don't trust the doctor, y'all don't trust the vaccines apparently.
You think the bank is gonna run off with your seventy four dollars and nineteen cents
sure when I don't trust the banks they gonna steal my money you don't have any money
That's not the point I'll bet you if I went into some of your houses And if I lifted up the mattress I might find some I might find all sorts of stuff underneath the mattress
But there's still probably a lot of folks to hide money underneath the mattress So for people that don't have a bank account, it's also It's more expensive because if you if you get a check Because you have to get a check if you don't have a bank account because you can't get direct deposit The places that you have to go to to cash your paycheck are gonna charge you I don't know one to three percent
While it seems like a menial amount add that up, you know across 24 26 or 52 pay periods and you're paying money to get your own Money and so for those of you that don't have a bank account especially if you're an adult I would highly encourage you to do so because you could be saving yourself a ton of money and unnecessary fees
Also, I think it's easier to save money and put money away if you don't physically have it on you all of the time I don't think that I have I should know how let me see Have I ever just cashed a paycheck and put all the money in my pocket?
If so, I was probably a kid.
I don't think I've ever done it.
I always put a little bit of money away Some people get paid like we got paid today Xavier you know that I know you know you make big money here how much money you make you make a lot of money Not enough
Putting up what you what you got to put up with you know what I'm real curious about I wonder what a Homer and Bailey make Won't you ask them they wouldn't tell me black people don't ever tell that kind of stuff How much do y'all think radio people man, I'm we're not gonna tell you obviously, but if you all had to guess I'm just curious as to what you guys think the range is not that Not that it matters so many are probably think we make millions
Higher income Americans continue to be far more likely than those with lower incomes to go cashless today 58% of those households earning $100,000 or more per year say they make none of Their purchases with cash This is higher than the 43% of those households earning 50,000 to 99,999 dollar
Who say the same?
This continues to drop steadily by income to 24% of those making less than $30,000 a year.
On the other hand, those in lower income households are more likely than other groups to rely on cash.
Only about a quarter of those who make less than $30,000 annually use it for all or almost all.
Purchases younger adults stand out for Never using cash About half of adults under the age of 30 at 51% Say they don't use cash for any of their purchases in a typical week this drops to 46% of those 30 to 49 and Further to 37% of those age 50 to 60
Those 65 and older are the least likely to say that they never use cash.
I still maintain that cash is king It's just not the same if you I got a whole bunch of credit cards to I got credit cards and I got debit cards I got all that mess and if I pull all my credit cards and my debit cards and I and I fan them out That's not a flex because people might think oh sure when you probably have a lot of credit card debt, which I don't
But if you pull out a big fat wad of green backs and you got to hold them together with a rubber band That'll make anybody horny.
There's something about having a big old wad of cash
So it makes you
feel good every night again something may happen I guess the last time I had a big old wad of cash is I sold a car in 20 When I sell that crossfire 20 fitting
Sold it I used to drive a was my summer car.
I was back when I was crazy fancy with I used to have a summer car in a winter car My summer car was a little red two-seat convertible little Chrysler crossfire.
You couldn't tell me a goddamn thing when I was in that car You might see me riding around with your auntie one day and that same evening I might have your mom on the passenger seat And then you did not might be riding around with your sister what don't blame me.
I'm a victim of circumstance
Can't help it if your mama wanted to get in the car with me and go for a ride and let her weave blow in the wind Ain't nothing wrong with it.
You got to make sure you got to strap it down or strap it down Because it gets windy in a convertible
Third
one.
Can I go for a ride of your convertibles?
You sure can baby.
Oh wait, I Can't I can't wait to go for a ride third one.
You're convertible.
Go pick her up somewhere off of 27th Street She hops in she looks around when that roof when there's no roof above Yes, a whole new feeling of being out in the open air I highly suggest that everybody at some point in their life Please get a convertible if you don't buy one rent one for a weekend reward yourself So she get in so that I put on my feet belt.
Yes, baby.
Put on your seat belt.
Okay
Take off
That wig fly.
Thurwin!
Thurwin, my hair!
Help!
Ain't nothing wrong with it though.
There's nothing wrong with it.
Why does she have a speech impediment?
I don't know.
That's how she sounds sometimes.
Why you making fun of how she sounds?
She can't help it.
She went to a speech therapist.
She went to a speech pathologist all through middle school.
They used to send her to special classes.
Thurwin.
turn around and go get my hair.
And that's how tumbleweaves are born.
No, that's how, because I was riding around with somebody's auntie and she didn't strap it down.
And then the convertible, why don't they let me have a radio show?
Whose idea?
Oh, Mr. Gerald Jones, man.
He resting.
He's probably turning over in his grave.
God damn it, Sherwin.
Why are you over here talking about strapping it down?
That's how Mr. Jones used to sound.
But having no cash on hand doesn't always mean it's being used.
Indeed 26% of Americans who carry cash always or most of the time say they don't use it for any of their typical purchases.
Sometimes it's just good to have it.
You ever just have some cash?
Like this is something that might be old school.
Have a little cash.
Just in case now.
In case of a little emergency.
And let's say you get separated from your wallet.
Let's say you get separated from all of your credit card.
You gotta have a little cash somewhere now.
So you can make you some little purchases or back in the day of my parents, you gotta have a little walking around money.
You got a little pocket money, Sherwin?
No, ma'am.
Here, because my parents would think if I went to the mall and I didn't have anyone, I'm not kidding you, my parents did not trust me at all.
They used to, because I used to go to the mall a lot.
Went to Northridge, hell, three times a week sometimes.
My mother would ask, Sherwin, you got some walking around money?
Yeah, well, of course, now I don't have a job, I'm 14.
Here, here, come here.
Let me give you a little walkin' around my little pocket money.
Here you go, here, take a little bit of money.
Because she honestly believed, my father did too, that if I went to the mall with no money that I would steal.
No, I would just go to the mall just because all my friends were there.
You gotta have your little walkin' around money, and maybe I'll spend it, maybe I wouldn't, but back then...
Damn McDonald's hamburger was 39 cents you go to a movie for $3 and 50 cents everything was cheap if you spent $5 at Taco Bell you were a fat whore You know $5 at Taco Taco Bell used to have stuff on a menu for 50 cents It's something about having cash it's just it's sexy
So the most cash I ever had this is why I told the story about your auntie riding around in my convertible and her losing her wig and that's how tumbleweaves were born is the most cash I had on me was when I sold That vehicle I sold us a old white dude who drove all the way down from West Bend.
I Was asking What did I ask only had 40,000 miles on I think I was asking like 14 for it
Cuz I put it on cars calm.
It was pristine though.
It was flawless.
There was no nicks dense scratches I kept it waxed.
It was stored in the garage for winters.
I didn't drive it in the winter It was a beautiful beautiful automobile go look it up.
I had a 2005 Chrysler crossfire convertible It was garnet red with a black power top couldn't tell me nothing with that car.
So I think I was asking
14 I had to get rid of it because I was just done with it I had because you got him storing the cars a lot of pain in the butt It's a lot of extra maintenance.
You got to change the oil once you get it You know ready to be put back in servicing before your storage You got to make sure the batteries on a battery tender You got to have fresh fuel and he got to change all the fluids and you got to do the exact same thing when you you know Put it in the storage.
It was it was just I got sick of it You know, I had my midlife crisis air and I was like, let me sell this car.
So I think I was asking 14 for
Dude showed up with 11 9 in
cash.
I'm like, hold on man
He's like look it look here.
Let me count it out for you
And I had to get rid of it because I didn't want to be insurance had expired on the vehicle So if I kept it another day, I'd have to renew the damn insurance and I didn't want to do that
Sounds like man, come on.
Give me give me that give me not snatched money from here made him sign the title that get
on out
here And he brought his friend with him two old white dudes from West Bend It's funny when he took it on a test drive because I rode with him And we were he went all up in the hood.
He's like, well, what where should I turn?
I was a near turn left go east.
Oh This is interesting.
Yeah, no, no keep going burly locus
Chambers Hadley Center Street.
No, no, no, keep going.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Turn south.
I think that was the most that was the most cash that was mine.
I am not going to tell you stories from when I was much younger, hanging out in places I should not have been hanging out at where it was somebody else's cash that that I may have been in the vicinity of.
But that was the.
And I took pictures with it.
Now, I didn't go crazy and like, you know, spread it out all over my bed and then roll around in it.
That's gross.
I don't ever want to do that because money is filthy.
You know what people do with money?
They store cocaine with it.
They do all sorts of really yucky, yucky, dirty things with money.
But yeah, I think that was the most cash I ever had that belonged to me is when I sold a car and I got undercut by a white dude from West Bend.
See there?
That's white supremacy for you.
Should have sent him on his way, but he had that money talks.
That's the truest thing.
I think I've ever heard my entire life Yeah, I wanted $14,000 for that car.
I don't even know if it was worth 14 But he gave me 11 9 and I snatched at 11 9 11 9 was sexy 119 $100 bills.
Come on.
Oh, is that right?
No 11
9 no 100 9 Yeah
Let's take a break come back check the YouTube poll but also want to tell you The Jeopardy you could be putting yourself in because we're all concerned about privacy We want to make sure that our fairs stay private when you use debit cards and credit cards There is a traceable Financial record that is being created and that financial picture that you were painting of yourself every single time you swipe a card or tap a card
is valuable information to to retailers and to anyone who sells anything and guess where all of that information is stored think about how many transactions you may do in a typical day a week a month or even a year it's a lot of data right well guess where it's stored genius at the damn data centers that you don't want to move into your community the next big consumer revolt or revolution that we should have is we stop at least for a day or two
Maybe even a week if you guys can handle it, where we don't use our cards and we don't swipe and tap at all.
We just use cash.
So we put a hole in these financial pictures that they have of us as consumers.
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I wasn't rambling.
I'm getting a cone right now.
Well, I was gonna tell you I'm just gonna stick on the point You were talking about the credit card.
You know, I never use them ever for anything.
I don't use the debit card.
How you pay for it?
I'd pay everything like that to my wife's bank.
I don't I'm not I'm not I don't exist dude I really don't exist on the internet at all
days
So what?
My bank, my information doesn't exist anywhere.
You got a thing on there that says I went to University of Wisconsin and what else?
I mean, as for the credit cards, I don't do it.
Allen, you have a
So what, any, nothing, all that you know what that's for?
Look what's all on there.
A lot of that's my wife because people stalk her.
So she put, we share everything.
That's her Facebook page.
I wouldn't even have had one.
I'm like, how many friends I got?
I got like 22 friends, if that.
A couple of them are people I don't know.
And they seem like decent human being.
They follow some of the music I like.
And then there's like 10 of them that are cousins who I don't really talk to, but you want to, you know, who's going to send a birthday on the internet?
So my brother and sister are not in there with me.
My parents were never on the internet.
The Facebook thing is just me calling, really, what I do with it.
I'm not that important of a guy.
But I go to the bank.
I get money.
I got a certain amount.
They raise the amount I can take out every day on my debit card.
So like today, we're going to go shopping.
So I got to go to the bank and I leave this McDonald's and go get some cash.
And then we're going to go shopping later.
But yeah, I try not to use one as much as I can.
The mortgage is tied to my wife's account.
It comes out on a certain day.
And I'm getting to the point where I might just pay it out off and throw and then put the money away for the I'm getting ready to move.
I think anyways enough is enough with this Yeah,
developer Yeah,
yeah Oh, I sick the bees on him the other day though, even not a cop told me it was diabolical That's one thing he did.
It was funny.
I brought up the garbage can full of bees You want to park in front of my house?
Then I kicked them off
to get him going.
The guy selling dope is cracking up.
He goes, dude, you're for real.
And I said 100%.
He goes, I love you, man.
I said, don't worry about it.
I'm just getting warmed up.
I got a hornet's nest.
But when I get home, I'm going to toss over the fence, I think.
you want to play with.
There you go.
Anyway, God bless you, my friend.
Keep up the good work.
This is the hell.
By the way, billers ice cream is killer, man.
It's good to go.
Where is it?
What's it?
you know, villager McDonald's on McDonald's out by the Muslim Center.
They blocked the street light and know me too.
There's that Islamic Center over here right off like tight when
No, no, not there.
No, no, South North of capital North of capital.
Yeah, they're over there.
They were talking about us one day we were walking our dog.
So we had to stop a little more understood what they were saying.
Get remember I was in prison with them.
This back where the old
I think sorry.
No, I wasn't up.
I didn't move up until I met my wife.
Wait, when is your move in Milwaukee?
Like 2000 2008 maybe something like that 2008.
Where's your move
No, I was living in Startupin at the time.
But yeah, I grew up in Kenosha.
Same damn thing.
All right.
Well, thank you, Alan.
Have
Sort of it's really racist if you want to know the truth.
That's why they stopped the buses.
That was a fight I had.
Because they wouldn't let the buses go out there because of the prison.
So they sort of stopped the racing buses from letting people go visit their families.
That was a big fight I was involved in.
We kind of got that.
We got them to look at themselves, if you will.
Start of it is in
Yeah, and race.
Racism County.
Then there's that farm there.
that apple holler racist told you once I wouldn't get my kids an ice cream cone.
And then they're like, well, Ty said, hey, baby, come here.
What's going on?
And I'm like, well, what's going on at the darn ice cream thing?
They're ignoring my kids and doing it with all these white kids.
So I talked to the guy.
He said, well, I'm standing right here in 3D, and I think you're working with.
I'm watching you do it.
Want me to show you the video?
Or you ignored my daughter?
So that was good.
They tried to give us some free dinner.
I don't want no dinner for that racist boy.
All right, have a good one then.
you too.
He just kept going on and on.
Who requested this in a YouTube channel?
I had to play it.
Do you guys keep cash?
Or do you use credit cards and debit cards?
We're very curious voting on YouTube poll.
So far, 44% of you select debit card as your preferred method of payment.
Another 28% say credit card.
Cash, actually also.
at 28%.
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will be right back.
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Top 10 greatest neo soul R&B albums literally of all time since the invention of human ears by do wisdom by Erica by do.
Holy smoke.
I saw Erica perform at the rave in.
Holy smokes.
I think it was before COVID.
2019 probably.
Awful.
One of my money back.
Horrible show.
Horrible.
Dreadful.
High as a kite.
She was so high, she didn't even, she didn't move.
And she did.
Oh, Erica probably did a two and a half hour, three hours set.
If I'm lying, I'm dying.
Did literally did not take a step forward, backward, left or right.
She's wearing this gigantic.
Ridiculous huge three and a half four foot afro wig with a little tiny hat hanging in the middle of the afro hair.
It was it was weird And then she go off in these tangents Boy, do I hate when people go off on tangents.
Isn't that something terrible?
I was so disappointed And I don't know if she tours very much because I knew at the time
That I had to go and see her because I didn't know if I would ever get the Opportunity to see her again because her tours are rare and I could not tell you the last time Erica was in Milwaukee So when I found out she was coming I went to the show and it was just You know what else made that show a mess is I went with my best friend and his girlfriend stupid
That was stupid because guess what they decided to do when we got to the show get drunk and argue You ever been the third friend when two of your friends are in a relationship and they're arguing Ain't nothing worse than that because they try to make Sherwin pick a side well get with Sherwin you remember when he said hey man dog You remember when I called you and told you what Sherwin?
What do you who do you think is right or wrong screw both of you?
I will divorce the both of you.
Oh, it was they ruined it.
And then I, because I drove.
I was ready to go home.
This was a whole mess.
Oh, I think my friend went to jail that night, actually.
I shouldn't be putting my people's business out there, but he put me in a very bad spot.
So they separated at the show.
She went to one part of the venue to watch the show.
He was in another.
They just decided that it was best and I was probably smart so they could at least enjoy the Erica Badu show which in itself was horrible I'm in the balcony.
All right When the show is over we had a designated spot in which we were gonna meet By one of the restrooms and then we were gonna leave.
Okay show was ending show was over She's there With what where she's supposed to be we can't find him so we're and now the security's like yo y'all got to go y'all got to go
No, no, we're waiting on a friend.
I mean the place is damn near cleared out.
We don't know where the hell he went.
So I figured he got angry and took a Uber.
He left.
That's what I figured.
Okay, we're calling him.
His phone is going straight to voicemail.
We know that he was mad because he was arguing with his girlfriend.
He probably drank too much, which he sometimes is known to do.
So whatever.
I take her home.
Okay, driver home and I go home.
Apparently he was looking for us.
Somewhere outside of the venue of the rave and then got mad at me Because I didn't find him and got mad at me that I took his girlfriend home knowing that he was mad at his girlfriend.
Ain't that some mess?
That's So I said all that to say Erika Badu's Badooism album.
It's so good.
It's it came out when I was in college.
It's a very good Very good
A cashless society is not primarily an ideological project.
It's a result of technology, convenience, e-commerce, smartphones, reward programs, and business discovering that electronic payments can be faster and easier to administer than physical currency.
So what we're talking about is we're talking about a cashless society.
A lot of places that you go, they don't accept cash anymore.
The 3rd Street Market Hall is a total cashless venue.
If I'm not mistaken, American Family Field, where you go and watch the baseball and where you go and see other sporting events and things, even big concerts, they're cashless as well.
I think the FISER Forum may also be cashless.
So it's a very popular thing to do.
And so we asked you a question on this topic.
What is your preferred method of payment when you're just out here in the world?
Do you use your debit card?
Do you use a credit card or are you one of those folks that still?
Uses cash the Pew Research Center did a survey of this and The older you are the more likely you are to use cash primarily The younger you are the more likely you are to never use cash at all
Cash is, according to this article, inefficient in some ways, but extraordinarily private.
Digital payments are extraordinarily convenient, but they create records.
And despite the rhetoric about America going, quote, cashless, we aren't quite there yet, Federal Reserve Research released this year in 2026 found that consumers still averaged about
Six cash payments per month in calendar year 2025 and that's down from 14 in 2016 about 81% of consumers had used cash within the previous 30 days and 90% said they plan to continue using it the simplest way to explain this would be think about the difference between Handing somebody a $20 bill and handing somebody a credit card with the 20 the transaction ends.
It's over
With the credit card, the transaction begins a data trail.
The bank knows there was a transaction.
The merchant and his processor keeps the record.
The payment network participates in moving the transaction.
Depending on the system information about the merchant, the amount, the time, the location, the category of purchase can become, rather, a part of the financial data ecosystem.
That difference explains both the great advantage and the great concern surrounding a cashless economy.
Well, why are people moving away from cash?
You may ask.
Well, there wasn't one government decision declaring America will be cashless.
Consumers largely did it on their own.
The Federal Reserve's number tell a story.
Back in 2016, 10 years ago, Americans averaged, no, this is roughly 14.
cash payments a month.
So that's literally one every other day.
We averaged eight credit card payments every month back in 2016 and 12 debit card payments.
Fast forward to the year 2025 and the cash payments went from 14 per month in 2016 to only six per month in 2025.
16 credit card transactions in 2025 and 2016 was eight.
debit card transactions also increased from 2016 to 2025 from 12 to 15 respectively so cash transactions fell by more than half while credit card and debit transactions literally doubled several forces drove that transition of course e-commerce you can't put a $20
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Oh What other thing would you rather be doing than listening to all of the information that we disseminate?
talking about this cashless society which Did take a little getting used to because it was a slow and gradual transition.
I Didn't buy my first thing off of Amazon.
I still didn't really trust Online shopping until I don't know
The 2010s the late 2010s I didn't download and use Amazon until 2018 Everybody was oh sure when you got to use Amazon Because back what I remember of Amazon because Amazon has been around since the 90s They used to be a book reseller and it was always stuck in my mind It just didn't make any sense to me How you could then get damn near anything off of Amazon because when they first started that's where you went and bought used books
Amazon used to operate like an online bookstore, but then of course they added literally everything under the sun, but I didn't really trust these online transactions.
But you
COVID, you were at home and if you needed things delivered, if you needed a purchase, then you couldn't just go out to the store and get stuff.
Plus stores in your neighborhood were running on stuff.
Do you guys remember the fact that we ran out of toilet paper?
Would you have ever thought in the richest nation on planet earth?
And I say the richest nation.
It's all of your income the value of your house the value of the land all of the rent that we pay all of the taxes that we pay
All of the gold and Fort Knox and you know where else the United States gets its wealth from that is why there is so much resistance to forgiving student loans.
Federal student loans, the United States counts as its wealth.
That's why you can't discharge them in bankruptcy.
And that's why the interest is calculated daily and it runs forever.
But they'll also let you defer them and go into forbearance for the rest of your life because that balance is always there.
The whole point with student loans.
A lot of folks don't know this.
The whole point with student loans is to make sure that you always have a balance, whether you pay it off or not, because the United States can say this is a part of our overall wealth.
How much money you owe to go to college is a really weird.
system that being said I had to get so the dope man at the time everybody knows the dope man right now doesn't mean you buy dope from him but just you know somebody that sells drugs the dope man's dude that I've known for 30 years cool dude he just has a weird profession but one that's not going out of business selling dope is not ever gonna get replaced by AI I assure you he's like sure when I make more money selling
Toiletries and toilet paper and paper towel.
I went to this dude's house.
I've known him for years.
Good dude.
Just does illegal stuff.
He has um You know when you walk into somebody's house if you have one of these Milwaukee Bungalow style houses and you walk in their front door, you usually have a closet right there.
So walk in the front door Write somewhere adjacent to the front door.
There'll be that that closet.
That's where people hang their coats whatever
From floor to ceiling He cleaned out all of the clothes all of the coats all the winter jackets all the shoes in his front closet and when I say floor to ceiling With toilet paper my man had cotton L my man had the Charmin my man had the Scott my man had the paper towels my man had the brawny my man had the quicker picker Rupert.
He had I'm not kidding you the entire front closet like go ahead Sherwin.
Give what you need playboy
and was hustling and selling.
I don't even know where he got it from, but don't question his methods.
So during COVID, you wanted to buy something.
Chances are you had to order it.
Transactions online.
There's another thing that people do, which I guess I have succumbed to it.
So when you go out to eat, you split the check.
Or maybe one person pays for the check and then the other people will give them cash That's another reason why I like to have cash because I can be a little bit more precise if I go out to eat with a group of people Instead of having to split the check 17 different ways of making it a headache for everybody.
I know what I ordered Let's say I ordered $30 worth of stuff Here you go.
Here's here's 40 bucks.
Here's $42.
Here's my share.
I pay in cash boom I'm good to go and also it's a benefit to the person who might be putting everything on their card
Because they have a little bonus they get a little cash because I paid for my meal or my drinks whatever in in cash They can put that in their their pocket, but they do this thing now, and I don't like it, but you got to get used to it I Go out with some friends bill comes fine.
I got the bill.
I y'all want to do this.
Oh sure when I'll sell you I'll cash up you What's the other one
Zell
Venmo
I don't like that, but that's how they do it.
Oh, sure.
When can you hear I get the coffee just Venmo me the three dollars and nineteen cents.
Now, I just I've gotten used to it now.
There are some people that get their checks deposited with you can deposit on somebody's check with the cash.
You can buy stocks and bonds with them.
You can buy crypto with it now.
But these are just other additional forms of electronic payment.
Keep records in a world in which we all should be much more concerned about our privacy And I don't think that we quite realize how much of our privacy we are Sacrificing and giving over to merchants and giving over to retailers and giving over to financial institutions where they are creating this really accurate Day at a picture of us the other thing that I want to discuss
During this hour of the program is the number of spam calls that we get night ebbs and flows I might go a whole weekend I don't get any there'll be some days where I'm receiving four five and six of these damn spam calls not depending upon what I'm doing depending upon my mood but also they can get you because some of the numbers That call me could be the number of a friend or someone that maybe it's something that's business related so I am
Likely to answer more calls and I am to send them to voicemail just because I'm expecting calls from from different people and different organizations people are you sure when can I get on the radio show or hey sure when I'm calling from XYZ business We're trying to set something up with one on one seven the truth So I got to answer my phone more than most people do and sometimes they catch You'll always know Because there'll be that pause you answer the phone like a sucker
Here I am hello And then you get more and more frustrated with each hello, don't you?
I Know I do if I say hello once and if I don't hear something back my next hello is going to be a little louder and a little more serious But it's if I got to say hello three times now I'm just gonna be a full-blown racist now.
I'm now I'm very angry.
There's a reason why there is a pause so
They collect all of our data and a lot of times they can track who we are, where we go, our phone data and our financial transactions with our actual cell phone numbers.
And our numbers are packaged and they're sold.
And wait till I give you the details.
There's actually a list called the Sucker List.
The Federal Trade Commission is aware and scammers use it because
If you're noted as a sucker, you are much more likely statistically to fall for a scam.
Could be Medicare, could be Medicaid, could be Social Security.
Here's the other crazy part.
People that have been victims of scams before and I feel so bad.
I really do.
That's one thing that I think the maximum penalties need to be levied on these people.
If you screw trusting elderly people out of their money, they need to put your ass under the jail because that's foul.
These people lose everything.
So they got a sucker list.
The people who have been scammed in the past are more likely to be scammed again.
Can you believe that?
Statistically proven.
I'm going to get into the details opening.
Y'all are going to freak out when you hear this because check this out.
There might be someone who they got scammed.
Let's say they got scammed out of $3,000.
Oh, like, hey.
We're here making sure that you're still enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid, Part D, and we just need a little bit of your information.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Sure.
Here's my social security number.
Because I don't want to interrupt their Medicare and their Medicaid.
Not knowing this is a total fraud.
And they might even say they're calling from a hospital that this individual may have gone to recently and received service.
Oh, we just need to confirm your information, ma'am.
Just making sure we have everything so that Medicare gets built and so that you don't get billed and then the ladies Oh, absolutely.
Here's my information.
Boom.
They got it for $3,000.
Here's what happens.
Okay, and chances are she's never gonna get that money back again You can complain and file a complaint with the attorney general.
You can file a complaint with the federal trade commission Of course, you can report that fraud.
They'll usually be a news story on it You guys will see news stories every now and again.
Oh beware of a scam that's going on so we find it
Better and more preventative to use the media to tell people about scams going on because once you get ensnared in the scam Chances are your money is never gonna be returned to you in very few cases his money ever returned But here's what they do when you're on the quote-unquote and it's literally called the sucker list Let's say they get you for 3,000 Someone and they'll know obviously the scammer knows because they have your money They'll call you back three months or six months later.
Okay
Here's the thing, because they're the ones that took your money.
Here's what they say to you.
Hi, Ms.
Smith, and they know your name.
Hi, Ms.
Smith, we understand that you lost $3,000 in a scam.
We're very sorry to hear that, but we do have good news for you.
we have been able to recover your money.
But what we need from you is a $395 transaction fee.
Do you know how many people actually fall for that?
So many people fall for that, that it's a lucrative multi-billion dollar business.
So if you steal money from a vulnerable person once, you obviously keep their information because you got money from them.
You call them at a later date and say, if you send us a little more money, we will recover your 3000.
All we need is your bank account information and we'll direct deposit the money in your bank account in 24 hours.
And as ridiculous as that may sound, do you know how many people are relieved to pay that $395, $295 to get their $3,000 return and then they get them again.
So we're going to talk about that in a little bit.
Because that ultimately is what some of this stuff is leading to, these digital profiles that they can create, because if you combine all the information we share via social media, and then you take that information and you package it with all the information that everybody already knows about us, who we are, where we work, where we live.
Then you look at their financial transactions where they go what they spend their money on etc And all this information can be aggregated where they have these detailed profiles on us and then that information is then sold and We can get targeted sometimes.
It's legitimate stuff sometimes a legitimate telemarketers I would suggest everybody put yourself on the no-call list about 260 million Americans are currently on it doesn't stop a goddamn thing
Because the criminals are still going to call you, but legitimate telemarketing businesses know that they'll be in violation of federal law if they call you anyway.
But Rakesh and Kapoor and all the mother people from Indian Bangladesh, they don't care about no no call this.
Take a break, come back.
Continue our conversation.
Maybe I should read some YouTube commentary.
I'm literally getting a spam call right now.
Unbelievable.
I should answer.
The reason why you answer and there's that pause is because they use very sophisticated dialing software and it can dial numbers at a rate faster than a human would, right?
And so it's dialing and dialing and it's random numbers and it's dialing and dialing and dialing.
And when you pick up.
They have to then route your call to someone who's available to take it and that's what the pause is So you have an automated system that's dialing and dialing and dialing and finally they catch somebody that picks up That has to be routed to someone who actually is available to take your call and sometimes the call Never gets taken.
That's when you hear the disconnect, but that's what that pause is you know
When you hear that pause, you know that they got you and now you're being marked and noted as someone who answers the phone So your record now can get sold to somebody else as a list of people that are actually going to answer the phone And then the next spam call is gonna call from that take a break come back Continue chatting.
I will read a couple of YouTube comments on the other side You're listening to the truth with Sherwin Hughes on one on one seven FM.
I'll be back shortly
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See, I've been watching you for a while.
You smile and style.
But I know I can be with you for the night.
All right?
Is that all right?
Baby, baby.
There is only one for me.
Welcome back to the
Read some of these YouTube comments.
Scroll back.
I don't know 20 minutes ago.
Not really a city girl says this would be a good one.
She says this to Mr. Monty.
She says she's a hopeful romantic and love the idea of love, but it does appear to be a different type of energy flowing outside.
I stay indoors and keep my peace of mind.
Let me tell you something, not really a city girl.
You don't get no shortage of attention on all that wagon you drag.
You know, she came up here Xavier a couple weeks ago looking for you.
Oh, come back up here then if you got a lot of wagon.
So she comes up to the window and I think that if they, if you guys are in a certain place in a producer's studio, I think they can see you from this window that is facing the market hall.
So she waved to me, of course.
Got a glimpse of you and then she she walked off.
Okay.
Her body actually she walked out the door.
Her ass was still here.
Her ass ordered some pizza.
Oh, so she's a big booty cutie.
She ain't bad.
I was like, wait a minute and I'm thinking myself.
I'm off.
I'm off in about 20 minutes.
You can stick around now.
You ain't got to know what her ass was here enjoying lunch.
But she she had already left.
The rest of her got in the car drove away.
But.
Yes, she had on some Leggings
Oh, send your pictures in
You gotta stop telling these women to send in a pictures because Lady B said to my My Facebook relationship status said I was in a relationship I'm married y'all know that but don't listen.
Don't worry about that.
That's not your business between me and my spouse
My spouse she does my spouse does her thing.
She's cool with it.
She knows Oh,
you're in open marriage
Oh, so you guys are swingers,
Sharing is caring.
Nope.
Some people it works.
The only time I would ever do something like that is by legitimately legitimately do not care about the woman.
They're not literally, I don't care what she does.
I don't need to talk to her every day.
I don't.
Or if I have a relationship with her that is we have an understanding I guess I'd call it.
She does her thing I do my things sometimes that works out because you know, we're busy.
We got stuff going on.
We got family friends You know professional duties we got to tend to there's a particular Person that I know where I don't got to talk to her every day But when we do talk, it's like no time has ever passed She'll be like, hey sure when she's very like straight to the point.
I appreciate that don't inundate me with words anybody trying to hear all that talk Nobody need to hear all that damn lip
They'll be like, hey, Sherwin, what are you doing?
Thursday at 7.30.
You want to go grab a bite?
I'm down.
Simple as that.
And guess what?
We won't talk until Thursday.
Sounds like you need love in your life.
Sherwin's lonely, ladies.
He needs your love.
Here comes Zach.
That's how you know Zach is here.
Look, you know Zach is here when the hot kings start playing.
That's how you know Zach has arrived for his shift.
Watch your mouth.
There you go.
That's how Zach says hello No, I don't need um I Don't know it's not it's not my season yet
It's almost wintertime you gotta start picking who you're gonna be cuffing and Cuddling up with kissing in the
No, no, no when I say it's not my season.
I'm not talking about the the meteorological season I mean, it's not my season to where I have to be
Content to be stuck where I'm at because contrary to popular belief when you're in a relationship.
It's not all about Me and what I want to do and my personal advancement I have to give a lot of my time and my effort to another human being so my personal advancement stops and if you think that your personal advancement Can continue while you're in a relationship that you don't quite understand relationships That is why I was always cautious of getting married because wherever I was when I got married a lot of what I've done in my life
My career could not have been done if I had another woman in my life that I had to take care of and tend to and support because a lot of my time that I could dedicate to furthering myself in my career I would have to spend some of that time with her not to say I wouldn't have eventually arrived at where I was gonna arrive at but it would have taken longer
I can move in my own turbo speed when it's just me because being in a relationship is going to slow you down.
There are some of you that wanted to go back to school.
There are some of you that wanted to do a whole bunch of things and travel and vacation.
You can and you will go back to school and you will take vacations and you will travel.
It's just that relationship and that other person, especially if you have kids, is going to slow you down.
I can't be slowed down.
I like to go with triple the speed limit, you know what I mean?
But then every now and again your boy wants to take an off ramp and take the scenic route Take the windy road and slow things down a little bit summertime is not usually the time for that because you know Penny for your thoughts
That's
that'll be the title of the third hour.
Title these programs per hour.
What else we got in the YouTube chat I Think this goes back to Alan's phone call a couple months ago.
He was talking about tips He said he doesn't leave a tip on his debit card that man has a banking account We're talking about Alan Alan probably does have a bank and I think he also mentioned that him and his wife have a shared bank account as well
Then LT is over here talking about honey crisp and Granny Smith apples being so delicious Granny Smith apples can be a bit tart.
Oh, I got an idea for y'all want to idea cuz you know summer is almost over But what is it the one that's going on right now El Nino El Nino that what's the weather system El Nino El Nino.
All right, they said we are gonna have a warm fall and a warm and mild winter
Because of the El Nino so the one it's supposed to be like 90 degrees next week.
It's gonna be out for a while So y'all want a summertime treat you ready for this?
This is Sherwin's recipe Ready and get a pencil paper or something to write down get her get ready, okay?
You get you a decent little bottle of seven y'all blonde It's a nice crisp white wine.
I mean you can do white Zinfandel if you're cheap and you know you can do whites in
I would prefer you do with seven your blunt.
Here's what you do I'm a human you for a second LT when you say honey crisp apples because they work very very well for this You take you a nice honey crisp They're usually not in season until the fall, but you probably can find a decent honey crisp somewhere around these days Okay, you core it chop it up chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop
Put them in a freezer put them in a little Ziploc bag and freeze to chopped up chunked up and chunks to honey crisp apples.
Okay, put them in a freezer Then get you a couple of nice ripe oranges Slice them leave the rind on leave the peel on them slice them up.
Okay You get you a nice glass pitcher.
Okay, you pour that seven y'all blunt in that picture
You add the frozen apples because that's gonna keep it cold.
Okay, then you add the orange slices I ain't done with you yet.
Listen to me.
I'm trying to put you on damn it Though you a cinnamon stick in there, you understand it get you a bottle of Savignon Blanc Get you a nice couple of sweet honey crisp apples core them chop them up
Put them in the freezer so they get real good and frozen and cold.
Then you get you a couple of oranges, throw you some orange slices in there.
Leave the rind on.
Okay, get you a nice glass pitcher.
You pour in that sauvignon blanc.
You pour in your frozen apples.
You throw in your orange slices.
Throw in a cinnamon stick.
And if you really want to go to town, you want to go to town.
Let me show you how I go to town.
You can drink it just like that.
Serve it.
A little outdoor, a little backyard, a little get-together, a couple little friends, get you some nice little wine glass.
You got them frozen apples in there, keeping it nice and cold.
It'll knock your socks off, and that cinnamon adds just enough spice.
If you really want to get freaky with it, though, you want a couple of shots of caramel-flavored vodka.
Good night.
I'm telling you, you watch yourself.
I call that the Sherwin Special.
Alright, now don't get Bill Cosby with that because it'll get good to you.
You know what I mean?
You'll get to drinking it.
Next thing you know, the time for the Jell-O pudding, then you're gonna get Bill Cosby.
I warned you.
That's not funny at all.
Where is Bill Cosby?
Has anybody checked on him lately?
Just curious as to where.
You got
to put the cinnamon stick in to put it in the seven y'all but Theo Claire
on
1017fm.
At your 10 drop the beef up.
crass
I think she was coming up here to see
Oh,
I'm hiding
here.
Well, if you ever want to come back here and get some lunch.
Show and show ends at 12.
Hold
it'll
I know right be Israel.
Oh, yeah.
Well, that was more for you anyway
Yeah
I Miss his calls
Stop it now.
Why are you
He was very upset.
He must have been having some kind of episode.
Yeah, he's really he's really a tank.
Didn't he get shot multiple times?
That's pretty that's pretty gnarly.
Yeah, he got mad because I found somebody sent me a video because he told the story about how he got shot by a cop and nobody believed him.
A listener of my program searched.
Milwaukee police body camera footage found the video and I made a reaction video to it and put it on my YouTube channel My YouTube channel is Hughes views 414 go subscribe.
I'm trying to get to a thousand subscribers on that junker We made some progress.
I probably added like 400 subscribers in the last like month and a half two months.
Let's keep it going What else we got
Sorry, not really a city girl, but That ass is offensive How dare you don't you have any home training leave that ass at home The ass probably would I gotta cut it.
I got like sponsors.
I can't talk like this.
Yeah, you seem quite mesmerized.
what does she look like?
Yeah.
What do you mean she's in her 40s?
Oh, okay.
Won't you just comment your age in the comments?
That
I think that.
I cut it out, Sherwin.
First of all, you're obsessed.
And she knew what she was doing because she's walking away.
You know how they do.
They look back to see if we look.
Don't do that because you're going to catch me every time.
Happened to me yesterday when I was walking out of here.
I happen to be arriving at the exit door to when we get into the parking garage.
So there's a young lady who was coming in as I'm walking out.
And I got to tell myself.
Sherwin don't look don't turn around.
It's it's tacky It's classless don't and I got to actually tell myself this and you would think as I get older I would grow out of it I'm getting worse as I get older and she walked toward me.
She's walking in.
I'm walking out.
She gave me a little smile.
So hey, how you doing?
She said hi.
She's walking in.
I was like don't don't don't look Sherwin Please don't look and I'm walking.
I just
Walked out of the doors.
I'm headed some of the I said, please sir.
We don't look don't turn around cuz she's gonna be she's gonna catch you and that's embarrassing when you get caught looking at ass And what did I do turn around and there she was looking to be looking at her
a nice beautiful Jehovah witness
I'm trying to catch some Jehovah this weekend
trying to catch the Holy Spirit
Yeah the religion of atheism
I Don't want to say um sometimes if If you're dynamic in the sack, oh God a woman will totally change her religion for you.
Oh
She'll turn into a Muslim for you.
Bismillah!
Who can I offend today?
You know these spam calls are really a problem Xavier.
Yeah, they are.
Spam calls are best understood as not random nuisances, but as a large-scale targeting and sorting system.
Some operations are legitimate, but aggressive telemarketers as aggressive telemarketers.
Others are outright fraud enterprises.
The technology allows them to dial enormous amounts of telephone numbers very cheaply, determine who answers, identify promising targets, and then concentrate human efforts on the people most likely to engage and potentially pay them.
It's a very big problem, ladies and gentlemen.
The Federal Trade Commission received more than 2.6 million
Do not call complaints in 2025 with robocalls making up most of those complaints.
Debt reduction, imposter schemes, medical slash prescription pitches were all leading categories.
Well, you may ask, how did they get my phone number in the first place via several different pipelines?
You may have given your phone number away without even realizing it.
online insurance quotes, mortgage inquiries, sweepstakes, contests, warranty forms and surveys, quote, check your eligibility sites and comparison shopping sites can function as lead generators for these scammers.
The Federal Trade Commission has brought cases involving consumer information collected through websites and then sold for telemarketing purposes.
A 2026 academic study gives a striking example of the modern ecosystem.
Researchers instrumented more than 100 health-related lead generation websites and found information being shared with more than 70 third parties.
Their controlled numbers ultimately received thousands of telemarketing calls.
Other sources include commercial databases and data brokers, public records, old customer lists, breached or stolen databases,
lists a choir from other marketers and numbers generated or tested randomly and automatically.
And the number displayed on your phone may have nothing to do with the caller.
Caller ID spoofing allows a scammer to impersonate another number.
Neighbor spoofing makes the number appear to have your area code or even the first three digits of your phone number to increase the likelihood that you'll answer.
So when someone says, quote, they keep calling me from different local numbers, there probably aren't 30 different people in your community calling.
It may be the same person changing their caller ID repeatedly.
Why is there a strange pause when you answer that pause is an important clue that you might be getting scam.
Large.
Calling operations use automated or predictive dialing systems that dial numbers faster than human agents could do manually when you say hello.
The system may need a moment to determine that a human actually answered and connect the answered call to an available agent.
This creates the familiar ring, ring, answer, silence.
Click, click.
Hello, Mr. Hughes.
Sometimes, nobody becomes available and then the call will automatically disconnect.
There's another reason some suspicious calls matter even when nobody speaks.
Answering your phone provides information.
At a minimum, the calling system can learn that your number is active and someone will actually answer it.
Depending on the operation, subsequent behavior, answering, pressing a button, calling back, or interacting with the agent,
can make that number even more useful as a marketing fraud lead.
Now that doesn't mean merely saying hello automatically compromises your phone or your bank account.
The danger is primarily engagements and information gathering, not some magical ability to steal your identity because you spoke one word.
Take a break, come back, talk about these spam calls that are trying to scam us.
We're listening to The Truth with Sherwin Hughes.
I'll be right back.
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All right, let's see what we got
see I
know they said something where he said I'm gonna be single till I'm 70 and they make it seem like it's a bad thing That's crazy And I don't know if you're a man or a woman whatever but women obviously get jealous cuz you know what women hate
to see a man doing successful without a one.
Hate it, make some sick.
Why would I be settled down with one person?
That's not fair to all the other women.
But also for men that, and I'm, listen, I'm glad that y'all have found love, but y'all, you think that it's productive to, Sherwin, you need to get married.
Get married now.
Be miserable like the rest of us.
Not all of them are miserable, but the marriages that Have the least amount of misery oftentimes don't even look like marriages their weird partnerships or their business relationships The wife has her own life and the husband has his own life if that's what happiness is y'all are just basically dating but legally tied together until death So there's that but also for men that defend it and there's shout out to the man to do it, right?
But if you as a man
Don't like to date have trouble dating and don't have a lot of options Your best bet is to find a woman that you love that loves you back and be with her forever Because it's it is rough out here and you got to put forth effort if you want to actually meet women it's getting tougher actually because you have to be Substantially more in order to even get their attention and some men just don't have it in them.
You know what I mean?
But I don't I don't want people to think that I'm against the institution because it's not for me
I just like to not be controlled and you You're gonna give up some autonomy in a relationship if it's any kind of a decent loving caring relationship It's a whole bunch of stuff you can't do and if you think you can do the same things in a relationship or in a marriage and when you were single You're aligned to yourself and you're gonna quickly find out We meet a wonderful woman and we hope that she stays exactly the same as the woman that we met dated courted
Fell in love with we want we want that woman to be just like that forever.
That's what we want, right?
That's the version that we fell in love with That's the version that got you to fall in love with her then the real her finds out once she she's got you hooked and you can't leave We want her to stay the same I think women marry us and commit to us and they want us to change
Because they see all the stuff that we're not doing right all the things that we need to improve They almost want us custom tailored for whatever their needs are so we have to change And whenever there's a problem in a relationship, it's always
can I talk to you about stuff that you're doing that make me feel uncomfortable?
But then if you as a man, this is the frustration that I have that everybody knows but they never talk about this stuff If a man brings up and I know every woman's gonna say not me sure when y'all they're trained to say not you whenever I bring up these concrete examples
If a man brings up a problem that he has with her, her behavior, her attitude, her disrespect, it's not, she won't even focus on why he's angry and why he's upset.
The fact that he brought it up in the first place.
Why are you targeting
Why are you?
I don't like the way you're talking to me.
And what do we do?
We get defensive.
I'm sorry for bringing up a problem that I have in a relationship.
I'll never say another word ever again.
Next thing you know, the man that you've been married to for all these years doesn't even talk to you anymore.
You think I ain't seeing that happen?
I know couples that just they don't even talk to each other There is nothing lonelier than laying in a bed with someone who you don't even
know
It's terrible People stop humping You don't hump the way you used to I used to break stuff Y'all used to be adventurous.
What happened?
Oh, I got too old no such thing You remember back in the day
Let's do it in the car Listen ain't nothing wrong with the car Sometimes you got to make it happen captain.
I mean you can't always go to somebody's damn house When I go to my house, I want to go I'm going home go to bed.
I ain't bringing you with me You never did it in the car
Well, yes, I have exactly I just made me think about something else, but I don't want
Well, I don't want to know.
Yes, you do.
My father's listening.
I can't.
Sorry, Larry, but
you're
Oh, I was even talking about cars stuff.
I was talking about, you know, just doing it outside and having fun and join the breeze, you know.
Have you ever heard of a thing called
Oh, I was going to say dogging.
What's that?
What do you think I'm talking about?
uh-uh.
Huh?
That happens in Wisconsin.
You're just saying that
heard of it.
Oh, yes, yes.
This is something that's coming to my mind.
Because I'm about
very sorry.
Oh, yes.
No, no, no, no.
That's what I was talking about.
You're talking about doing it outside.
That just came into my head, you know?
Yes.
What would you just watch?
Yeah, well,
what if the woman looks really nice?
is.
Yes, yes.
So that's why I didn't want to talk about it too much into it's too graphic.
Depending on the relationship.
Yeah, that's kind of weird.
Yeah, I have a lot of stories about a lot of things, but.
We have to say that on huge views because I just don't want to get fired for the stories that I have.
Years and years ago.
So man, I'd known her for years.
We lost touch, got reconnected via social media.
This might have been my space days.
And she's like, hey, sure.
When I ain't seen you in a while, we should catch up.
Let's grab a drink.
I'm like, cool.
So we met at a spot somewhere in Bayview off of KK.
This was years ago.
And she's like, oh, I know the perfect spot.
We'll go grab a drink.
It'll be cool.
All right.
So we go into the bar, and there's literally nobody in there.
It's her sitting at the bar, and there's another guy sitting way at the other end of this really, really long bar.
And there's the bartender.
And so we're hanging out, talking.
We're catching up.
I hadn't seen her in years.
And I noticed the guy that was sitting really, really far away moved a couple seats closer.
I was like, that's odd.
I'm like, oh, maybe he's moving the seat at CV.
Well, then he moved a little bit closer yet and still and I'm keeping my eye on this dude, but I'm still entertaining her and talking to her.
And then she and I. Because the bar is empty.
There's the bartender who's minding their business.
And then there's the this guy who keeps moving closer and closer.
And she and I start petting just a little bit.
Not nothing I rate is nothing crazy.
And then I look up and now the guy is one seat next to her.
Here's what I come to find out.
She was in a relationship with that man.
She got permission from him to hang out with me and he was there to like watch us quote unquote catch up.
And I was offended when I found
that out because
I'm not
or or you got
You got to tell me that's what the plan is.
She didn't tell me that's what the play was.
Well, he might have even came along.
He might have just wanted to hear the story
bro.
Oh, jeez.
You're no fun.
Oh, I'm very fun.
This is the truth with Sherwin Hughes on 1017 the truth the truth app and 1017 the truth.com
Oh What other thing would you rather be doing than listening to all of the information that we disseminate?
talking about this cashless society which Did take a little getting used to because it was a slow and gradual transition.
I Didn't buy my first thing off of Amazon.
I still didn't really trust Online shopping until I don't know
The 2010s the late 2010s I didn't download and use Amazon until 2018 Everybody was oh sure when you got to use Amazon Because back what I remember of Amazon because Amazon has been around since the 90s They used to be a book reseller and it was always stuck in my mind It just didn't make any sense to me How you could then get damn near anything off of Amazon because when they first started that's where you went and bought used books
Amazon used to operate like an online bookstore, but then of course they added literally everything under the sun, but I didn't really trust these online transactions.
But you
COVID, you were at home and if you needed things delivered, if you needed a purchase, then you couldn't just go out to the store and get stuff.
Plus stores in your neighborhood were running on stuff.
Do you guys remember the fact that we ran out of toilet paper?
Would you have ever thought in the richest nation on planet earth?
And I say the richest nation.
It's all of your income the value of your house the value of the land all of the rent that we pay all of the taxes that we pay
All of the gold and Fort Knox and you know where else the United States gets its wealth from that is why there is so much resistance to forgiving student loans.
Federal student loans, the United States counts as its wealth.
That's why you can't discharge them in bankruptcy.
And that's why the interest is calculated daily and it runs forever.
But they'll also let you defer them and go into forbearance for the rest of your life because that balance is always there.
The whole point with student loans.
A lot of folks don't know this.
The whole point with student loans is to make sure that you always have a balance, whether you pay it off or not, because the United States can say this is a part of our overall wealth.
How much money you owe to go to college is a really weird.
system that being said I had to get so the dope man at the time everybody knows the dope man right now doesn't mean you buy dope from him but just you know somebody that sells drugs the dope man's dude that I've known for 30 years cool dude he just has a weird profession but one that's not going out of business selling dope is not ever gonna get replaced by AI I assure you he's like sure when I make more money selling
Toiletries and toilet paper and paper towel.
I went to this dude's house.
I've known him for years.
Good dude just does illegal stuff he has um You know when you walk into somebody's house if you have one of these Milwaukee Bungalow style houses and you walk in that front door you usually have a closet right there.
So walk in the front door Write somewhere adjacent to the front door.
There'll be that that closet.
That's where people hang their coats whatever
From floor to ceiling He cleaned out all of the clothes all of the coats all the winter jackets all the shoes in his front closet and when I say floor to ceiling With toilet paper my man had cotton L my man had the Charmin my man had the Scott my man had the paper towels my man had the brawny my man had the quicker picker Rupert.
He had I'm not kidding you the entire front closet like go ahead Sherwin.
Give what you need playboy
and was hustling and selling.
I don't even know where he got it from, but don't question his methods.
So during COVID, you wanted to buy something.
Chances are you had to order it.
Transactions online.
There's another thing that people do, which I guess I have succumbed to it.
So when you go out to eat, you split the check.
Or maybe one person pays for the check and then the other people will give them cash That's another reason why I like to have cash because I can be a little bit more precise if I go out to eat with a group of people Instead of having to split the check 17 different ways of making it a headache for everybody.
I know what I ordered Let's say I ordered $30 worth of stuff Here you go.
Here's here's 40 bucks.
Here's $42.
Here's my share.
I pay in cash boom I'm good to go and also it's a benefit to the person who might be putting everything on their card
Because they have a little bonus they get a little cash because I paid for my meal or my drinks whatever in in cash They can put that in their their pocket, but they do this thing now, and I don't like it, but you got to get used to it I Go out with some friends bill comes fine.
I got the bill.
I y'all want to do this.
Oh sure when I'll sell you I'll cash up you What's the other one
Zell Venmo Venmo.
I don't like that, but that's how they do it.
Oh, sure.
When can you hear I get the coffee just Venmo me the three dollars and nineteen cents.
Now, I just I've gotten used to it now.
There are some people that get their checks deposited with you can deposit on somebody's check with the cash.
You can buy stocks and bonds with them.
You can buy crypto with it now.
But these are just other additional forms of electronic payment.
Keep records in a world in which we all should be much more concerned about our privacy And I don't think that we quite realize how much of our privacy we are Sacrificing and giving over to merchants and giving over to retailers and giving over to financial institutions where they are creating this really accurate Day at a picture of us the other thing that I want to discuss
During this hour of the program is the number of spam calls that we get night ebbs and flows I might go a whole weekend I don't get any there'll be some days where I'm receiving four five and six of these damn spam calls not depending upon what I'm doing depending upon my mood but also they can get you because some of the numbers That call me could be the number of a friend or someone that maybe it's something that's business related so I am
Likely to answer more calls and I am to send them to voicemail just because I'm expecting calls from from different people and different organizations people are you sure when can I get on the radio show or hey sure when I'm calling from XYZ business We're trying to set something up with one on one seven the truth So I got to answer my phone more than most people do and sometimes they catch You'll always know Because there'll be that pause you answer the phone like a sucker
Here I am hello And then you get more and more frustrated with each hello, don't you?
I Know I do if I say hello once and if I don't hear something back my next hello is going to be a little louder and a little more serious But it's if I got to say hello three times now I'm just gonna be a full-blown racist now.
I'm now I'm very angry.
There's a reason why there is a pause so
They collect all of our data and a lot of times they can track who we are, where we go, our phone data and our financial transactions with our actual cell phone numbers.
And our numbers are packaged and they're sold.
And wait till I give you the details.
There's actually a list called the Sucker List.
The Federal Trade Commission is aware and scammers use it because
If you're noted as a sucker, you are much more likely statistically to fall for a scam.
Could be Medicare, could be Medicaid, could be Social Security.
Here's the other crazy part.
People that have been victims of scams before and I feel so bad.
I really do.
That's one thing that I think the maximum penalties need to be levied on these people.
If you screw trusting elderly people out of their money, they need to put your ass under the jail because that's foul.
These people lose everything.
So they got a sucker list.
The people who have been scammed in the past are more likely to be scammed again.
Can you believe that?
Statistically proven.
I'm going to get into the details opening.
Y'all are going to freak out when you hear this because check this out.
There might be someone who they got scammed.
Let's say they got scammed out of $3,000.
Oh, like, hey.
We're here making sure that you're still enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid, Part D, and we just need a little bit of your information.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Sure.
Here's my social security number.
Because I don't want to interrupt their Medicare and their Medicaid.
Not knowing this is a total fraud.
And they might even say they're calling from a hospital that this individual may have gone to recently and received service.
Oh, we just need to confirm your information, ma'am.
Just making sure we have everything so that Medicare gets built and so that you don't get billed and then the ladies Oh, absolutely.
Here's my information.
Boom.
They got her for $3,000.
Here's what happens.
Okay, and chances are she's never gonna get that money back again You can complain and file a complaint with the attorney general.
You can file a complaint with the federal trade commission Of course, you can report that fraud.
They'll usually be a news story on it You guys will see news stories every now and again.
Oh beware of a scam that's going on so we find it
Better and more preventative to use the media to tell people about scams going on because once you get ensnared in the scam Chances are your money is never gonna be returned to you in very few cases his money ever returned But here's what they do when you're on the quote-unquote and it's literally called the sucker list Let's say they get you for 3,000 Someone and they'll know obviously the scammer knows because they have your money They'll call you back three months or six months later.
Okay
Here's the thing, because they're the ones that took your money.
Here's what they say to you.
Hi, Ms.
Smith, and they know your name.
Hi, Ms.
Smith, we understand that you lost $3,000 in a scam.
We're very sorry to hear that, but we do have good news for you.
we have been able to recover your money.
But what we need from you is a $395 transaction fee.
Do you know how many people actually fall for that?
So many people fall for that, that it's a lucrative multi-billion dollar business.
So if you steal money from a vulnerable person once, you obviously keep their information because you got money from them.
You call them at a later date and say, if you send us a little more money, we will recover your 3000.
All we need is your bank account information and we'll direct deposit the money in your bank account in 24 hours.
And as ridiculous as that may sound, do you know how many people are relieved to pay that $395, $295 to get their $3,000 return and then they get them again?
So we're going to talk about that in a little bit.
Because that ultimately is what some of this stuff is leading to, these digital profiles that they can create, because if you combine all the information we share via social media, and then you take that information and you package it with all the information that everybody already knows about us, who we are, where we work, where we live.
Then you look at their financial transactions where they go what they spend their money on etc And all this information can be aggregated where they have these detailed profiles on us and then that information is then sold and We can get targeted sometimes.
It's legitimate stuff sometimes a legitimate telemarketers I would suggest everybody put yourself on the no-call list about 260 million Americans are currently on it doesn't stop a goddamn thing
Because the criminals are still going to call you, but legitimate telemarketing businesses know that they'll be in violation of federal law if they call you anyway.
But Rakesh and Kapoor and all the mother people from Indian Bangladesh, they don't care about no no call this.
Take a break, come back.
Continue our conversation.
Maybe I should read some YouTube commentary.
I'm literally getting a spam call right now.
Unbelievable.
I should answer.
The reason why you answer and there's that pause is because they use very sophisticated dialing software and it can dial numbers at a rate faster than a human would, right?
And so it's dialing and dialing and it's random numbers and it's dialing and dialing and dialing.
And when you pick up.
They have to then route your call to someone who's available to take it and that's what the pause is So you have an automated system that's dialing and dialing and dialing and finally they catch somebody that picks up That has to be routed to someone who actually is available to take your call and sometimes the call Never gets taken.
That's when you hear the disconnect, but that's what that pause is you know
When you hear that pause, you know that they got you and now you're being marked and noted as someone who answers the phone So your record now can get sold to somebody else as a list of people that are actually going to answer the phone And then the next spam call is gonna call from that take a break come back Continue chatting.
I will read a couple of YouTube comments on the other side You're listening to the truth with Sherwin Hughes on one on one seven FM.
I'll be back shortly
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See, I've been watching you for a while.
You smile and style.
But I know I can be with you for the night.
All right?
Is that all right?
Baby, baby.
There is only one for me.
Read some of these YouTube comments.
Scroll back.
I don't know 20 minutes ago.
Not really a city girl says this would be a good one.
She says this to Mr. Monty.
She says she's a hopeful romantic and love the idea of love, but it does appear to be a different type of energy flowing outside.
I stay indoors and keep my peace of mind.
Let me tell you something, not really a city girl.
You don't get no shortage of attention on all that wagon you drag.
You know, she came up here Xavier a couple weeks ago looking for you.
Oh, come back up here then if you got a lot of wagon.
So she comes up to the window and I think that if they, if you guys are in a certain place in a producer's studio, I think they can see you from this window that is facing the market hall.
So she waved to me, of course.
Got a glimpse of you and then she she walked off.
Okay.
Her body.
It actually she walked out the door.
Our ass was still here.
Her ass ordered some pizza.
Oh, so she's a big booty cutie.
Oh, send your pictures in
You gotta stop telling these women to send in a pictures because Lady B said to my My Facebook relationship status said I was in a relationship I'm married y'all know that but don't listen.
Don't worry about that.
That's not your business between me and my spouse
My spouse she does my spouse does her thing.
She's cool with it.
She knows Oh,
you're in open marriage
Oh, so you guys are swingers,
Sharing is caring.
Nope.
Some people it works.
The only time I would ever do something like that is by legitimately legitimately do not care about the woman.
They're not literally, I don't care what she does.
I don't need to talk to her every day.
I don't.
Or if I have a relationship with her that is we have an understanding I guess I'd call it.
She does her thing I do my things sometimes that works out because you know, we're busy.
We got stuff going on.
We got family friends You know professional duties we got to tend to there's a particular Person that I know where I don't got to talk to her every day But when we do talk, it's like no time has ever passed She'll be like, hey sure when she's very like straight to the point.
I appreciate that don't inundate me with words anybody trying to hear all that talk Nobody need to hear all that damn lip
They'll be like, hey, Sherwin, what are you doing?
Thursday at 7.30.
You want to go grab a bite?
I'm down.
Simple as that.
And guess what?
We won't talk until Thursday.
Sounds like you need love in your life.
Sherwin's lonely, ladies.
He needs your love.
Here comes Zach.
That's how you know Zach is here.
Look, you know Zach is here when the hot kings start playing.
That's how you know Zach has arrived for his shift.
Watch your mouth.
There you go.
That's how Zach says hello No, I don't need um I Don't know it's not it's not my season yet
It's almost wintertime you gotta start picking who you gonna be cuffing and Cuddling up with kissing in the
No, no, no when I say it's not my season I'm not talking about the the meteorological season.
I mean, it's not my season to where I have to be
Content to be stuck where I'm at because contrary to popular belief when you're in a relationship.
It's not all about Me and what I want to do and my personal advancement I have to give a lot of my time and my effort to another human being so my personal advancement stops and if you think that your personal advancement can continue while you're in a relationship that you don't quite understand relationships That is why I was always cautious of getting married because wherever I was when I got married a lot of what I've done in my life
My career could not have been done if I had another woman in my life that I had to take care of and tend to and support because a lot of my time that I could dedicate to furthering myself in my career I would have to spend some of that time with her not to say I wouldn't have eventually arrived at where I was gonna arrive at but it would have taken longer
I can move in my own turbo speed when it's just me because being in a relationship is going to slow you down.
There are some of you that wanted to go back to school.
There are some of you that wanted to do a whole bunch of things and travel and vacation.
You can and you will go back to school and you will take vacations and you will travel.
It's just that relationship and that other person, especially if you have kids, is going to slow you down.
I can't be slowed down.
I like to go with triple the speed limit, you know what I mean?
But then every now and again your boy wants to take an off ramp and take the scenic route Take the windy road and slow things down a little bit summertime is not usually the time for that because you know Penny for your thoughts That's what we should have titled the show penny for your thoughts
that'll be the title of the third hour.
Title these programs per hour What else we got in the YouTube chat I Think this goes back to Alan's phone call a couple months ago.
He was talking about tips He said he doesn't leave a tip on his debit card that man has a banking account We're talking about Alan Alan probably does have a bank and I think he also mentioned that him and his wife have a shared bank account as well
Then LT is over here talking about honey crisp and Granny Smith apples being so delicious Granny Smith apples can be a bit tart.
Oh, I got an idea for y'all want to idea cuz you know summer is almost over But what is it the one that's going on right now El Nino El Nino that what's the weather system El Nino El Nino.
All right, they said we are gonna have a warm fall and a warm and mild winter
Because of the El Nino so the one supposed to be like 90 degrees next week.
It's gonna be out for a while So y'all want a summertime treat you ready for this?
This is Sherwin's recipe Ready and get a pencil paper or something to write down get her get ready, okay?
You get you a decent little bottle of seven y'all blonde It's a nice crisp white wine.
I mean you can do white Zen Fendelle if you're cheap and you know you can do white Zen
I would prefer you do with seven your blunt.
Here's what you do I'm a human you for a second LT when you say honey crisp apples because they work very very well for this You take you a nice honey crisp They're usually not in season until the fall, but you probably can find a decent honey crisp somewhere around these days Okay, you core it chop it up chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop
Put them in a freezer put them in a little Ziploc bag and freeze to chopped up chunked up and chunks to honey crisp apples.
Okay, put them in a freezer Then get you a couple of nice ripe oranges Slice them leave the rind on leave the peel on them slice them up.
Okay You get you a nice glass pitcher.
Okay, you pour that seven y'all blunt in that picture
You add the frozen apples because that's gonna keep it cold.
Okay, then you add the orange slices I ain't done with you yet.
Listen to me.
I'm trying to put you on damn it Though you a cinnamon stick in there, you understand it get you a bottle of Savignon Blanc Get you a nice couple of sweet honey crisp apples core them chop them up
Put them in the freezer so they get real good and frozen and cold.
Then you get you a couple of oranges, throw you some orange slices in there.
Leave the rind on.
Okay, get you a nice glass pitcher.
You pour in that sauvignon blanc.
You pour in your frozen apples.
You throw in your orange slices.
Throw in a cinnamon stick.
And if you really want to go to town, you want to go to town.
Let me show you how I go to town.
You can drink it just like that.
Serve it.
A little outdoor, a little backyard, a little get-together, a couple little friends, get you some nice little wine glass.
You got them frozen apples in there, keeping it nice and cold.
It'll knock your socks off, and that cinnamon adds just enough spice.
If you really want to get freaky with it, though, you want a couple of shots of caramel-flavored vodka.
Good night.
Watch yourself.
I'm telling you, you watch yourself.
I call that the Sherwin Special.
Alright, now don't get Bill Cosby with that because it'll get good to you.
You know what I mean?
You'll get to drinking it.
Next thing you know, the time for the Jell-O pudding, then you're gonna get Bill Cosby.
I warned you.
That's not funny at all.
Where is Bill Cosby?
Has anybody checked on him lately?
Just curious as to where.
You got to put the cinnamon stick in to put it in the seven y'all but Theo Claire You're listening to the truth with Sherwin Hughes on 101 7 fm.
I want to talk about these spam calls and Where they come from why they do what they do and what you can do to protect yourself from them only on Claire
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At your 10 drop the beef up.
Wonder
crass
I think she was coming up here to see
Oh,
Well, if you ever want to come back here and get some lunch, Sherwin's show ends at 12.
Oh, yeah.
Well, that was more for you anyway.
Yeah
Miss his cause
he was very upset.
I he must have been having some kind of episode
that.
Yeah, he's really he's really a tank.
Did he get shot multiple times?
That's pretty young.
That's pretty gnarly Yeah, he got mad because I found somebody sent me the video because he told the story about how he got shot by a cop and nobody believed him a Listener my program searched Milwaukee police body camera footage found the video and I made a reaction video to it and put it on my YouTube channel My YouTube channel is Hughes views 414 go subscribe.
I'm trying to get to a thousand subscribers on that junker
We made some progress.
I probably added like 400 subscribers in the last like month and a half two months.
Let's keep it going What else we got Sorry not really a city girl, but That ass is offensive I was like, how dare you don't you have any home training leave that ass at home
That has probably would I gotta cut it.
I got like sponsors.
I can't talk like this.
Yeah,
seem quite mesmerized.
What does she look like?
Yeah, what do you mean?
She's in her 40s
Oh,
okay Won't you just comment your age on the cop in the comments
Sure.
When first of all, you're obsessed And she knew what she was doing because as she's walking away, you know how they do They look back to see if we look don't do that because you're gonna catch me every time Happen to me yesterday when I was walking out of here
I happen to be arriving at the exit door to when we get into the parking garage.
So there's a young lady who was coming in as I'm walking out.
And I got to tell myself, Sherwin, don't look.
Don't turn around.
It's tacky.
It's classless.
And I got to actually tell myself this.
And you would think as I get older, I would grow out of it.
I'm getting worse as I get older.
And she walked toward me.
She's walking in.
I'm walking out.
She gave me a little smile.
I said, hey, how you doing?
She said, hi.
She's walking in.
I was like, don't, don't, don't look, Sherwin.
Please don't look.
And I'm walking.
I just walked out of the doors.
I'm headed to my bed.
I said, please, Sherwin, don't look.
Don't turn around because she's going to be, she's going to catch you.
And that's embarrassing when you get caught looking at ass.
And what did I do?
Turn around.
And there she was looking at me, looking at her.
I was like, damn it.
A nice, beautiful Jehovah witness.
I'm trying to catch in Jehovah this weekend
trying to catch the Holy Spirit
Yeah The religion of atheism
If you're dynamic in the sack, oh God a woman will totally change her religion for you.
Oh Yeah Who can I offend today?
You know these spam calls are really a problem exam.
Yeah, they are spam calls are best understood as not random nuisances
but as a large-scale targeting and sorting system.
Some operations are legitimate, but aggressive telemarketers, as aggressive telemarketers, others are outright fraud enterprises.
The technology allows them to dial enormous amounts of telephone numbers very cheaply, determine who answers, identify promising targets,
and then concentrate human efforts on the people most likely to engage and potentially pay them.
It's a very big problem, ladies and gentlemen.
The Federal Trade Commission received more than $2.6 million.
Do not call complaints in 2025 with robocalls making up most of those complaints.
Debt reduction, imposter schemes, medical slash prescription pitches.
for all leading categories.
Well you may ask, how do they get my phone number in the first place?
Via several different pipelines.
You may have given your phone number away without even realizing it.
Online insurance quotes, mortgage inquiries, sweepstakes, contests, warranty forms and surveys, quote, check your eligibility sites and comparison shopping sites can function as lead generators for these scammers.
The Federal Trade Commission has brought cases involving consumer information collected through websites and then sold for telemarketing purposes.
A 2026 academic study gives a striking example of the modern ecosystem.
Researchers instrumented more than 100 health-related lead generation websites and found information being shared with more than 70 third parties.
their controlled numbers ultimately receive thousands of telemarketing calls.
Other sources include commercial databases and data brokers, public records, old customer lists, breached or stolen databases, lists acquired from other marketers, and numbers generated or tested randomly and automatically.
And the number displayed on your phone may have nothing to do with the caller.
Caller ID spoofing
allows a scammer to impersonate another number.
Neighbor spoofing makes the number appear to have your area code or even the first three digits of your phone number to increase the likelihood that you'll answer.
So when someone says, quote, they keep calling me from different local numbers, there probably aren't 30 different people in your community calling.
It may be the same person changing their caller ID repeatedly.
Why is there a strange pause when you answer that pause is an important clue that you might be getting scam large Calling operations use automated or predictive dialing systems the dial numbers faster than human agents could do manually when you say hello The system may need a moment to determine that a human actually answered and connect the answered call to an available agent.
This creates the familiar
Ring.
Ring.
Answer.
Silence.
Click.
Click.
Hello, Mr. Hughes.
Sometimes nobody becomes available and then the call will automatically disconnect.
There's another reason some suspicious calls matter even when nobody speaks.
Answering your phone provides information.
At a minimum, the calling system can learn that your number is active and someone will actually answer it.
Depending on the operation, subsequent behavior, answering, pressing a button, calling back, or interacting with the agent can make that number even more useful as a marketing fraud lead.
Now that doesn't mean merely saying hello automatically compromises your phone or your bank account.
The danger is primarily engagements and information gathering, not some magical ability to steal your identity because you spoke one word.
Take a break, come back.
Talk about these spam calls that are trying to scam us We're listening to the truth with Sherwin Hughes.
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know they said something where he said I'm gonna be single till I'm 70 and they make it seem like it's a bad thing That's crazy And I don't know if you're a man or a woman whatever but women obviously get jealous cuz you know what women hate
to see a man doing successful without a one.
Hate it.
Make some sick.
Why would I be settled down with one person?
That's not fair to all the other women.
But also for men that and I'm listen, I'm glad that y'all have found love.
But yo, you think that it's productive to share when you need to get married.
Get married now.
Be miserable like the rest of us.
Not all of them are miserable, but the marriages that Have the least amount of misery oftentimes don't even look like marriages their weird partnerships or their business relationships The wife has her own life and the husband has his own life if that's what happiness is y'all are just basically dating but legally tied together until death So there's that but also for men that defend it and there's shout out to the man to do it right But if you as a man
Don't like to date have trouble dating and don't have a lot of options Your best bet is to find a woman that you love that loves you back and be with her forever Because it's it is rough out here and you got to put forth effort if you want to actually meet women it's getting tougher actually because you have to be Substantially more In order to even get their attention and some men just don't have it in them.
I mean But I don't I don't want people to think that I'm against the institution because it's not for me
I just like to not be controlled and you, you're gonna give up some autonomy in a relationship.
If it's any kind of a decent, loving, caring relationship, it's a whole bunch of stuff you can't do and if you think you can do the same things in a relationship or in a marriage and when you were single, you are aligned to yourself and you're gonna quickly find out.
We meet a wonderful woman and we hope that she stays exactly the same as the woman that we met, dated, courted.
Fell in love with we want we want that woman to be just like that forever.
That's what we want, right?
That's the version that we fell in love with That's the version that got you to fall in love with her then the real her finds out once she she's got you hooked and you can't leave We want her to stay the same I think women marry us and commit to us and they want us to change
Because they see all the stuff that we're not doing right all the things that we need to improve They almost want us custom tailored for whatever their needs are so we have to change And whenever there's a problem in a relationship, it's always
can I talk to you about stuff that you're doing that make me feel uncomfortable?
But then if you as a man, this is the frustration that I have that everybody knows but they never talk about this stuff If a man brings up and I know every woman's gonna say not me sure when y'all they're trained to say not you whenever I bring up these concrete examples
If a man brings up a problem that he has with her, her behavior, her attitude, her disrespect, it's not, she won't even focus on why he's angry and why he's upset.
The fact that he brought it up in the first place.
Why are you targeting me?
Why are you?
I don't like the way you're talking to me.
And what do we do?
We get defensive.
I'm sorry for bringing up a problem that I have in a relationship.
I'll never say another word ever again.
Next thing you know, the man that you've been married to for all these years doesn't even talk to you anymore.
You think I ain't seein' that happen?
I know couples that just, they don't even talk to each other.
There's nothing lonelier than laying in a bed with someone who you don't even know anymore.
It's terrible.
People stop humping.
You don't hump the way you used to.
Y'all used to break stuff.
Y'all used to be adventurous.
What happened?
Oh, I got too old.
No such thing!
You remember back in the day?
Let's do it in the car and listen ain't nothing wrong with the car Sometimes you got to make it happen captain.
I mean you can't always go to somebody's damn house When I go to my house, I want to go I'm going home go to bed.
I ain't bringing you with me You never did it in the car
Well, yes, I have exactly I just made me think about something else, but I don't
Well, I don't want to bring it up.
Yes, you do.
My father's listening.
I can't.
Sorry, Larry, but
you're
Oh, I wasn't even talking about cars stuff.
I was talking about, you know, just doing it outside and having fun and join the breeze, you know.
Have you ever heard of a thing called exhibitionism?
Oh, I was going to say dogging.
What's that?
What do you think I'm talking about?
uh-uh.
Huh?
That happens in Wisconsin.
You're just saying that you've heard of it.
Oh, yes, yes.
This is something that's coming to my mind.
Because I'm about
very sorry.
Oh, yes.
No, no, no, no.
That's just that's what I'm talking about.
Just you talking about doing it outside.
And that just came up to my head, you know,
dog in his wild, bro.
Yes.
What would you use?
Watch.
Yeah, well,
Because
what if the woman looks really nice?
is.
Yes.
Yes.
So that's why I didn't want to talk about it too much into it's too graphic.
Depending on the relationship.
Yeah, that's kind of weird.
Yeah, I have a lot of stories about a lot of things, but.
We have to say that on huge views because I just don't want to get fired for the stories that I have.
So man, I'd known her for years.
We lost touch got reconnected via social media.
This like might have been my space days.
And she's like, Hey, sure.
When I ain't seen you in a while, we should catch up.
Let's grab a drink.
I'm like, cool.
So we met at a spot somewhere in Bayview off a KK.
This was years ago.
And she's like, oh, I know the perfect spot.
We'll go grab a drink.
It'll be cool.
All right.
So we go into the bar and there's literally nobody in there.
It's her sitting at the bar.
And there's another guy sitting way at the other end of this really, really long bar.
And there's the bartender.
And so we're hanging out talking.
We're catching up.
I hadn't seen her in years.
And I noticed the guy that was sitting really, really far away, moving a couple of seats closer.
I was like, that's odd.
I'm like, oh, maybe he's moving to seated TV.
Well, then he moved a little bit closer yet and still and I'm keeping my eye on this dude, but I'm still entertaining her and talking to her.
And then she and I. Because the bar is empty.
There's the bartender who's minding their business.
And then there's the this guy who keeps moving closer and closer.
And she and I start petting just a little bit.
Not nothing outrageous, nothing crazy.
And then I look up and now the guy is one seat next to her.