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Welcome to the program today is Friday, October 23rd, 2026.

It is not too early for me to start planning what I would say are my best.

They're the most fun, most exciting radio programs of the year.

It's when we do the year in review and whatever program that I have that is closest to.

The last work day of the year somewhere around New Year's Eve.

I think that we have off on New Year's Eve if I recall correctly I've probably worked a New Year's Eve or two in the past done a radio show But I think for the most part we are we're not on air.

So maybe it's somewhere around December 30th where we Basically review all the things that took place in the calendar year and so many things happen any year ladies and gentlemen I guarantee you there will be things that we will discuss

During that last week of December that took place during the calendar year of 2026 and you would have sworn it happened several years ago So many things so much breaking news so many things switching and turning direction.

I am starting to put together My end of the year program already and we still got a couple little few months left out of the year where strange things are likely going to continue to happen But just take a snapshot just where we are right now the political things

Aside Donald Trump and the economy and the war that we got into in February of this year and the impact that that's having in the Tariffs in the trade war that probably is going to find a place in a space in my year in review radio program because those things have had a profound impact on people in this country the number of folks who are being kicked off of their Health insurance whether it be the extended subsidies for the Affordable Care Act

or reductions in cuts in Medicare and Medicaid funding so that Donald Trump can give his very wealthy friends a bit of a tax break.

I'm sure those things will probably fit as well.

But I would like to think that the majority of what we are going to talk about when we look back glowingly on the year that is 2026 is.

the fact that David Crowley very well could get elected governor.

I'm going to talk about that today and his debate performance of what I believe it translated into.

And it's more than just increased political campaign donations.

It's more than just people talking about the debate on social media.

There are other tangible results to that debate performance.

I think we're going to be talking about that.

And I know that we're going to be talking about these here Milwaukee Brewers because I firmly believe that they are going to win the World Series and there's so much happening in the city.

So this is the Friday where we do the truth weekend guide.

It's all sports.

I'm just going to tell you right now.

It's where to watch where to park different shuttles.

the debacle if you try to get watch party tickets which were supposed to be $15 then they went to $100 then they went to $400 I understand it literally is a once in a lifetime event for our small little very segregated overwhelmingly too poor on certain sides of the city little po-dunk town but we're being showcased

Internationally and I think that this is a good thing.

Let's make sure that we're still mindful of the problems that we have in this city But when we can get a global spotlight on this town because of our sluggers, well, then let's take advantage of it.

Shall we?

I've got a bone to pick Mostly because I'm incredibly selfish and I want to go to the world series I want to go to every single game.

I can't I can't get tickets.

I can't or

Then put it in a different way.

I'm not spending.

I'm not.

I can't do that.

I can't spend that kind of money.

I can't do it.

I can't do it.

I have a story.

That shows.

Exactly how extreme this situation is in this city.

If you want to get a ticket to the world series, I mean, the actual game, not a watch party.

Hell, you can't even get watch party tickets.

It's cheaper.

more efficient and more economical, to fly to Tampa, have transportation from the airport to your hotel, book a hotel room, buy a ticket to game three or four, have transportation back to your hotel room, eat, hop on your flight the next day and go home than it is.

So that whole package.

is about $700 less expensive than just buying a single ticket game here in the city of Milwaukee.

I think the cheapest I've seen is like $24.95, but then parking is $77.

Here's the problem that I have, and I have many.

We subsidize, taxpayers do, the five-serve form of the bucks a home opener is today.

Nobody cares.

Nobody cares that the bucks

are starting their home, their season at home today.

In fact, the Bucks moved the start time of their game.

The Bucks were supposed to play at seven.

They moved it up to three o'clock because they knew.

That if they kept their regularly scheduled time of starting the Bucks home opener game at it with a tip off of seven o'clock No one would have been there cert The Bucks may not have even been there for their home opener because they would have been watching the world series So the Bucks play the Chicago Bulls today at three o'clock They move the game up tip off is at three instead of seven because they want to make way for the

Game one of the world series, but the bone that I have to pick is this so we subsidized The five serve forum and I was very much involved in the fight To try and convince people that it it is a good idea for taxpayers to chip in To build a new arena.

I think at the end of the day it was worth it We ended up getting an NBA championship out of it and the additional revenue that came to the city paid the taxpayers back and then some

For what they contributed to build the Pfizer form here's where we got screwed Tremendous amount of income a lot of people were coming to Milwaukee getting hotel rooms renting cars going to games going out to eat going to bars and drinking Spending a lot of money and all of those things for the most part are taxed but those taxes go to Madison

So we had increased activity increased excitement increased spending in the city of Milwaukee that only the city of Milwaukee itself could provide because you can't go watch a bucks game in person anywhere else.

But here you see not to mention every single professional sports player.

That plays a game in the city of Milwaukee and I believe that American Family Field is the city of Milwaukee.

Some people say it's West Alice, it's West Milwaukee, but I think it's still considered.

City of Milwaukee.

I think about this if I'm gonna use round numbers here if the average NBA player makes two hundred thousand dollars per game If that is what the average is Every game that they play both the home and visiting team they are required to pay a six percent Wisconsin income tax per game that they play

Do the math on that so that means that each player if they average $200,000 a game is paying $12,000 per player per game While they are playing in Milwaukee baseball probably add a zero onto that so that's revenue that is made that is created Right here in the city of Milwaukee because we have the damn arenas now the arenas are very expensive

But worth subsidizing with our taxpayer dollars because every time a team plays every time a player collects a salary from playing in Milwaukee, we get a piece of that money.

Madison gets a piece of that money.

So the Republicans withholding our fair amount of shared revenue actually hurt the city of Milwaukee and they took the money that was raised here from people coming to bucks games and brewers games and all of the additional spending and all of the additional taxes and all of the taxes, income taxes and all the player salaries.

Madison decided to give a larger share of that money to other counties and to other cities, mostly red counties and red cities than they did the city of Milwaukee.

That is why the city is in the shape that it's in, why we don't have the revenue that we have.

And that is why we were required to raise our taxes.

And it's political because when our taxes went up, when our sales taxes went up here in the county and the city of Milwaukee, the Republicans knew exactly what they were doing.

They were going to take.

A large share of the money that was generated from the amenities that we have here in Milwaukee.

They're going to take that money that we were able to collect or we were able to get from the things happening in Milwaukee.

They're going to divvy that money up amongst their little pet projects and their rural conservative towns and put money into schools and some of these low red cities.

And then Milwaukee is starving and Milwaukee is left having to tax its people even though we have the money.

We're actually a rich city, believe it or not.

We are.

But this is why Republican control of the legislature has hurt this city because when we see our taxes going up Property taxes going up sales taxes going up.

What are the Republicans doing?

They're blaming David Crowley They're playing politics with us They are the reasons why our taxes went up and they know that we are much more likely to blame our local elected officials than blame Republicans in Madison They control the budget.

I just want folks to be mindful of this

So when we agreed and there wasn't a handshake deal essentially between Herb Cole the new Ownership of the Bucks this goes back to 2016 2017 and the taxpayers they're gonna put in some money Herb Cole is gonna put in some money the taxpayers are gonna put in some money They gave us all the revenue models.

Hey if the Bucks do this amount of ticket sales and this year Here's how much money we're gonna generate it actually was worth it in that calculation.

Nobody thought the Bucks will win a championship

Money came flooding into the city.

Milwaukee barely saw a goddamn penny because the Republicans have robbed us.

And that's why it was real tough for me to talk to Shondling yesterday.

I've known that woman for a very long time, but why she decided to run for the assembly as a Republican because she is tied to the legislative action that has stolen money from this city and this city is starving and we shouldn't be got a goddamn world series in our city right now.

Now here's the good news.

Oh, that's going to late generate a lot of revenue to.

Oh.

We there's white people coming from everywhere.

You know what's funny is they're typically afraid of Milwaukee.

I don't want to go to Milwaukee.

It's so violent and it's so dangerous.

I don't like to go to Milwaukee.

Wait.

So you see all these goddamn cars flooding in from 43 and from 94.

They ain't scared of Milwaukee tonight.

I guarantee you that now all this is going to make it into my

Year in review program.

I'm gonna do the last week of December I'm just giving you a bit of a preview now because we got a monumental year ahead of us and one behind us actually If David Crowley wins and I'm gonna give you a scenario in which he can doesn't mean he will But I'm gonna give you a scenario in which he can and if he does the revenue that will be generated

From this world series run just as an example not to mention all the other things that we have in this city that generate revenue That money with a democratic control legislature, which we need to More of that money will return to this city where we will have more of a say so on where it gets invested That's when you lean on your older person When the city has this additional revenue because the democratic legislature will understand

far better than a Republican one.

If you invest in Milwaukee, all of the boats around the state will lift instead of stealing and robbing Milwaukee.

OK.

OK.

That being said, the price gouging for tickets is offensive because the taxpayers are subsidizing American family field.

I don't care what the game is.

I don't care if it's a regular season game.

Hell I don't care if it's cactus league People should be able to afford To go to a baseball game in a city in which their taxes are subsidizing that stadium if a developer wants to build an apartment building and They get some money they get some grants from the federal government.

You know the federal government requires

They require a certain number of units in that apartment building to be available for folks who don't have high income, subsidized housing.

A lot of these big tall apartment buildings and high rises, there are people that live in that, and you would never know it because we think the Section 8 people are all African-Americans that are walking around smoking marijuana.

While that may be true.

The number of well to do looking white people, Asian people and Latino people that also get section eight will blow your mind.

Here's the thing.

They don't talk about it.

They don't discuss it with nobody.

And they don't look the part.

And so when some of these buildings are built, these apartment buildings, because you know that this current mayor and the previous mayor.

They really wanted to increase the housing stock and even Kamala Harris made mention of that when she was running in 2024 Oh, by the way, I think she's gonna be here next week for David Crowley Don't know if that's a good idea or not because she she lost Wisconsin.

So all right, whatever you got to do David to win Hope it hope it works didn't work the last time she was here.

She lost everything but that's that's cool We're just at a war and tariff war and Donald Trump is looking at men's butts.

No, no, no, it's fine Kamala.

I'm not mad at you or anything because it wasn't your fault

Or was it?

Oh, Kamala, please don't mess it up for us because Kamala also endorsed Mandela Barnes for the U.S.

Senate in twenty twenty two and he ain't when Kamala endorsed herself in twenty twenty four.

She ain't when now Kamala is coming for David.

OK, I'm going to relax.

Plausible scenario in which David Crowley could potentially win and maybe we'll get to that in a little while I hope he does would make for a monumental year So these apartment buildings get built and these developers are like hey federal government We want to because the federal government wants more houses built too because housing is too expensive Because our housing stock in the United States of America is not commensurate with The demand I saw a statistic that shocked me.

I'm gonna tell you this.

I'm gonna take break The average age

of a first home purchase is 40.

Most mortgages are 30 years.

These folks are not going to have their house is on average.

People are not going to have their home, their first home paid off until they're 70 years old.

That's a long time.

About a generation ago, so roughly when I was coming of age, the average age.

of a first-time home buyer was 29.

The price of housing has been pushed so high, mostly because of demand.

Another thing that's going on in our society, it's just greed.

What we're seeing, ladies and gentlemen, a lot of this price gouging that we're seeing, it's greed.

These brewer's tickets are greed.

People are greedy.

They're gouging people.

They're ripping people off, and only a small segment of people can afford to live the good life these days.

If you're rich, you're partying every single night.

I have a couple of rich friends, and I hate them and love them at the same time.

Sherman, what do you mean you can't join us to be in Tampa for all two weeks of the world series?

What do you mean you can't afford to fly back and forth with us on a private jet?

What do you mean, Sherman?

Are you one of the pours?

Yes, I am, clearly.

If the taxpayers are subsidizing a sports arena, there needs to be tickets set aside that are $5 and I don't care if it's for the World Series.

Just like we'll subsidize housing and apartment units whenever there's taxpayer money involved in building those units because developers will go to the federal government, they'll go to state government, they'll go to WETA and say, hey, can we have some money to build this building?

And the government will say yes, but here's what you got to do.

Reserve 15%, 20%, or 30%.

of your units for people that don't make a lot of money.

And that's usually the deal.

We're going to have to start doing that with some of these these sports tickets because this is insane.

I'm taking a break.

Come back.

I'm going to tell you how far you have to go in order to get a World Series ticket.

I've been going really far.

I'll donate.

Well, I don't know.

Do I need two testicles?

You don't need.

You don't need to.

Do you?

I mean, for symmetry, it's not like bio because I don't

Because I don't need the testicles to do what testicles do you know I mean to produce the sperms so I would I Would borrow somebody a testicle.

I don't know if I'd want it back though Somebody So if I if I went to the doctor and they took out my left one or maybe my right it doesn't matter and it gave it to somebody else and Then I get a brewers ticket for that, but then when the world series is over I get it.

I don't think I'd want it back

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I'm going to give you some details of the dozens of watch parties throughout the city.

If you are not fortunate enough to be able to attend Game One of the World Series tonight at 7 p.m.

There are plenty of places.

In fact, some of the watch parties at different bars and restaurants and parks are going to start at noon.

Hell, I don't even know if I'm going to go home after my show.

I might just stay out in the damn

streets.

I might not sleep tonight.

I might just stay awake until game two.

Brewers are gonna go up to nothing.

You mark my words.

But there's a story here that appears via our local CBS affiliate that shows not just the good in our community, but also the extent and the difficulty of obtaining

Tickets to see the Milwaukee Brewers.

From CBS58.com, a Brewers World Series run couldn't come at a more meaningful time for a Brookfield woman.

Lindsay DiNardo was supposed to be in the stands for the Brewers run against the Dodgers until breast cancer surgery changed her plans.

Now a surprise from her care team is giving her a chance to be there.

for one of the biggest moments in sports.

For Donato, baseball has always been about more than just the game.

It's about the memories she made with her dad.

Then came the routine mammogram.

Less than a year later, found out she had breast cancer.

She said she was heartbroken.

In early October, Lindsey underwent a mastectomy.

Her strength hasn't gone unnoticed by her care team.

So this time the doctors had a different kind of prescription for Lindsay They surprised her with tickets to go see game one of the world series.

You got to survive breast cancer To get to get a pair of tickets to the world series.

That's that's where we're at.

You have to Have a have your breasts cut off which Again as a man, I'm not making light of this.

In fact, this is a beautiful story of a woman who overcame

Cancer and she's a she's okay.

She's not in remission.

She's gonna go to the game.

She's fine But but this is what you have to have Breast cancer quote I Get to cure cancer for a living not many people get to say say that said dr. Nicole's them Reba a health breast care surgeon at Aurora

It's a chance to trade the hospital room for the ballpark and cheer on the team She loves for Lindsey DiNardo the best part is knowing her family is gonna be right there with her quote I mean, I don't think I know anybody else that would beat two different cancers in the same year and still be able to Be happy to live their life.

It's cuz she's getting World Series tickets.

So you got to get cancer twice I don't even see an article.

She got a second cancer

Geez, that is a really hefty price to pay for World Series tickets.

But at the end of the day, right?

If you beat the cancer, yay.

And then you're rewarded with World Series tickets.

You might look back at the cancer and be like, eh, wasn't that bad?

That's probably scary at first.

This is nothing to joke around about, because I got cancer everywhere in my family.

In fact, on my dad's side of the family.

Everybody died of cancer.

I'm just waiting on my diagnosis.

What should I do?

Should I like exercise more eat more?

Green leafy vegetables.

I don't eat a lot of green leafy vegetables because I've been warned about getting salads at restaurants because they don't oftentimes wash the different vegetables the vegetables the vegetations

In the salad, I've heard the salads and so whenever you hear about like a E coli outbreak, it's like the lettuce at Chipotle for a while.

They weren't serving lettuce at Taco Bell.

There's something about the green vegetables, the leafy green that they have the bacterias in them.

And so I've been warned and I go out to eat.

I don't want to say a lot, but definitely enough.

And I have been told if you're a frequent diner.

To avoid salads now for the most part they're okay.

They're clean, but every now and again you hear about oh you got to Return this brand of bag lettuce back to the grocery store for a full refund because it's got a little salmonella And it's got a little taste of the E. Coli in it Maybe it's got some little autism flakes in it, but it's usually green leafy vegetables But I don't I don't want to get the cancer, but if I do get the cancer and I happen to beat it

Hope the brewers in the world series at that time and take a break come back I want to give you guys a couple of scenarios in which I do believe that a David Crowley could very well potentially Be the next governor in the state of Wisconsin now I don't want to say that and have some of you think that you don't need to vote you do I'm also going to make a plea

And I probably should follow my own advice because the current Attorney General of the United States made it clear that he is not objective He is not the lawyer for the people of the United States.

He said he works for Donald Trump Period point blank and unabashedly so if Trump wants to challenge or question the validity of a number of US Senate and house races

We have a U.S.

Attorney General that will listen to the president over listening to the will of the people and our actual votes.

They are going to cheat and they're telling us.

We didn't believe them about Project 2025 until we saw its impact.

They're not playing with us.

They will cheat.

They will lie.

Donald Trump has more compliant people around him now.

Than he ever has before and he built it brick by brick The only way that I believe That we can counteract what may happen the day is following Election day is if our votes are already cast prior to election day.

I'm an election day voter I always have been I probably always will be but there's something very unique about what is going on right now I shouldn't say it was unique because we got a taste of it

January 6, 2021, but I'm encouraging people to vote early and take a break, come back and give you the early vote totals as of yesterday.

So those totals, I believe reflected David Crowley's fantastic debate performance and the numbers are actually looking good.

We'll talk about that next.

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Oh lady B said yesterday's show was fire.

Thank you

I never know how these shows go.

I'm just happy to get through them.

It was eventful, played some clips from the debate, where I think that David Crowley overperformed.

He overperformed because, so you can't look at, you know, a debate is, obviously people are biased.

You went into it, if you watched it, with expectations for your candidate.

Tom Tiffany is, he's not an exciting guy, but he doesn't have to be.

So here's the thing about MAGA.

MAGA is...

is fueled by the boisterousness and the narcissism of Donald Trump and the Donald Trump Empire and the Donald Trump control of media.

I was looking at just the last like 40 years, right?

Donald Trump was in a Bobby Brown video for the Ghostbusters soundtrack.

Donald Trump has been on the lifestyle of rich and famous, this show where we

Druled over wealthy people like he has been a piece of the tabloid action in the United States of America going back to the late 1970s He is just ubiquitous and popular culture and there's some fascination that Americans have with that There's some fascination we have with not normal celebrity, but a weird skewed kind of celebrity like Denzel Washington Could not get elected president

But Jesse the body Ventura a professional wrestler that used to have used to wear makeup and and wear feather boas and Pink leotards could get elected Governor of Minnesota Arnold Schwarzenegger who wasn't even born in America could run as a Republican and get elected

to the state of California, the largest state in the union, a state that's so big that California's economy is like 10th or 12th in the world.

And Arnold Schwarzenegger, I'll be back.

I'll get to the chopper, not even an American.

It's weird celebrity that gets elected.

So Maga has a draw.

It has that weird celebrity that some Americans

are fascinated with.

But the candidates, they don't have that kind of charisma.

Yesterday, I discussed this phenomenon that is happening, and none of this stuff is on accident.

All of it is planned out.

Republicans are not debating Democrats.

All over the country, they're canceling debates.

They're not responding to debate invitations right here in Wisconsin.

We were supposed to have at least two.

There was one that was scheduled for, like, the first or maybe the second week of October.

Tom Tiffany set a scheduling conflict.

You ain't got no schedule, man.

Your schedule is talking to and debating your opponent.

That's what your schedule is doc He's he said no scheduling conflict.

So they did agree to do The debate that we saw on Wednesday and I think that it was done reluctantly But I gave a list of Republicans all over the country.

They can't debate the Democrats because they have nothing to debate Maga is fixed.

We know what it is.

It's xenophobic.

It's racist.

It's anti DEI.

It's anti affirmative action

It's slashing the federal government.

It's giving opportunities and benefits to people that didn't ask for them and didn't need them.

It's a grift.

It's stealing from the American people.

It's lying.

It's getting involved in foreign wars.

It's Donald Trump doing whatever he wants to do with no checks and balances whatsoever.

If you're a Democrat, you would love to talk to someone who is running on that platform because it's easy.

The Republicans can't risk the losses.

in these debates.

And so they're not debating at all.

But Donald Trump actually started that trend in 2024 because during that presidential election cycle, Donald Trump didn't debate anybody because there was a Republican primary.

Donald Trump was able to win every single state and did not participate in a single debate.

Because he would have lost.

There was so much to say about him negatively.

And social media chops these debates up and these little powerful, little packaged sound bites.

Most people are not going to watch the debate because, come on, why would you?

Unless you're a junkie.

I want more people to be junkies, but most people understand their media consumption habits and they would rather scroll TikTok or Instagram or Facebook than watch an actual one hour long contest between two men arguing policy.

But what social media can do, especially with some of the creative people, like I remember back in the day where if you worked on a campaign, you were a political scientist.

That is what you knew that is what you understood that is where your degree was that was all your experience you you work for elected officials you worked on campaigns like you knew and understood the science of Politics of policy creation of how you outreach to voters This whole thing that we call GL TV, which is a whole strategy of getting out the vote It's radio commercials TV commercials.

It's canvases going and knocking on doors.

It's a whole strategy It's really a marketing campaign, but now people that are working working in campaigns more than ever are creatives

They're social media experts because they can take what is usually boring and mundane conversation about policy and they can chop it up into these little bits and these little soundbites which can further extend the impact of a candidacy and their platform.

because you can get a couple of soundbites of David Crowley going absolute ham on Tom Tiffany and then that will be the only clips that people will see of David Crowley and some folks will base their voting behavior just off of that clip that they saw where David Crowley was nailing Tom Tiffany to the crowd.

So these creatives are doing a great job and Republicans can't risk losing a debate fumbling and mumbling and looking unprepared to be in a sink of fan for Donald Trump because the internet will have their way with them.

So they are not debating.

I believe that David performed well.

He wasn't perfect.

Sometimes when you're in those moments, because I think David was prepared Tom Tiffany wasn't, which is disrespect to people in the state of Wisconsin.

As someone who gets in front of a microphone five days a week.

I prepare because the people that take time out of their schedule to listen to me, they deserve that.

I enter this studio of clear and sober mind with information to share because the people that listen deserve all of that.

I try to be unbiased, but come on.

Don't be ridiculous.

No, no, no, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold on.

I am unbiased.

I'm fair.

I talked to a black Republican lady yesterday.

And I didn't I did not know she was a Republican until recently I got an email Saying that She was gonna be sitting down with me.

I'm all fine.

I'm known Shaughlin for years I met her when she was working for Governor Evers, but I think that says a lot about Tony Evers that he would hire a Republican to lead his Milwaukee office.

She's really really qualified to do stuff

I just don't like the fact that she's running as a Republican because there's too much associated with that party.

She's above partisanship, which is great, but now is not the time to be above partisanship.

So I am fair and objective.

Who's the last time I interviewed a Republican?

Oh, my.

Gerard Randall.

You guys know who Gerard Randall is?

He's a black guy.

He's kind of ubiquitous with everything in Milwaukee.

He'd been around forever.

He used to run the...

The private industry council had a bunch of contracts with NPS.

Gerard's been around.

If you're like an insider, which most of you probably aren't, but I interviewed him and he, he came here.

I think he was here in 2021.

No, when do we move here?

2022.

To the third street market hall.

And I don't even know what the subject matter was, but I know that when he was in studio with me, and I've known Gerard for a long time too, he went full Trump.

Like full like we ended up yelling at each other by the end of the interview But he still invited me to his birthday party, which is kind of weird, but I think that was the last time I interviewed a Republican I've never have I interviewed Ron Johnson.

No, I've met him Eric Hove D. No, and I don't really talk to Republicans.

I don't know why is do they not like me Why not I'm a nice guy Okay, so should I give you locations

American Serb Hall, the Clinton Rose Senior Center, the Good Hope Library, the Marquette Alumni Union, the Midtown Voting Center, the Mitchell Street Library, Tippy Canoe Library, the UWM's Alazo Center, Villard Square Library, the Washington Park Senior Center, and of course the Zeidler Municipal Building.

Those are the places in which you can cast your vote early.

Their hours do vary.

I'm going to give you the website.

There's literally a place to vote within a mile of most residences.

In the city of Milwaukee.

So if you want to vote early and I'm really encouraging you I think I'm even gonna break down a vote early because I want my vote already cast and out of my hands by the time Election Day comes and I think these Trump folks are gonna do some foul stuff because they know they're in trouble You understand what happens if the Democrats get a majority in the Senate?

That's where they're real scared.

Let me tell you how scared they are Trump is gonna be in Mississippi You got a brother running in Mississippi his last name is Coulomb

C O L O M. I heard him last night on MS now almost want to give him money and I don't often give money to out-of-state candidates But he was so good.

Also.

I've got a personal family connection to Mississippi Cindy Hyde Smith was about as Trumpy as you can get she's the Republican senator from Mississippi and Trump won Mississippi by like 20 24 points So it shouldn't even be in play.

They're saying that this brother from Mississippi could be the first

African American US senator from Mississippi since since either The early 1980s or the 1880s Donald Trump is so worried about losing a Mississippi Senate seat I state that Trump won by 24 points imagine this Trump wins by better than 20 points in 2024 and those seats are actually in play

If the Democrats get control of the Senate Trump is cooked six ways from Sunday like he's The impeachment is a bit like the impeachment is gonna happen There's gonna be a bunch of articles of impeachment because that's what the house does the Senate Depending on some things depends on what he did the worst of what I believe Trump has done We don't even know about yet, but the Senate will investigate and the house will investigate.

There's like national security stuff going on

The conversation that Donald Trump had with Vladimir Putin, where we lifted the sanctions on a country that has nuclear weapons pointed directly at our faces so that we can buy diesel fuel from our enemy, which helps give Russia more money to fight Ukraine, which is our ally.

If that's not some of the biggest constitutional violations of national security, Donald Trump is a criminal.

And the Epstein files, that's a whole other thing.

That's a whole other set of investigations and committees that's going to be working on.

releasing the Epstein file.

They're scared to death.

Now the pardons are going to come.

Trump is going to pardon himself.

He's going to pardon his attorney general.

That's all going to happen.

But in the meantime, they're scared.

If Trump is going to Mississippi to defend a Senate seat, then that means the house is a foregone conclusion.

I saw a schematic where the best night for the Republicans, the best night they could possibly have on Tuesday, November 3rd.

This is their best scenario.

They lose the house by five seats.

That's the best scenario.

Their worst case scenario is they lose the house by 30 seats.

So it ain't looking good for them.

So they've given up on the house, but it's the Senate is what they're really worried about.

Take a break, come back.

I'm going to give you the early vote totals.

I was probably supposed to do that this segment, but whatever.

I'm excited.

The Brewer's in the World Series.

It won't be a sweep.

It'll go to game seven.

Game seven will be in Milwaukee.

It is scheduled for Saturday.

October 31st.

Yeah, that's right.

Halloween.

Also, daylight saving time ends.

So you're going to get extra drunk tonight.

Let me tell you something.

The Brewers are going to win the World Series at home on Halloween.

The city is going to be on fire.

I'm going to walk out wearing a hazmat suit or or or naked.

I don't know.

I don't know what I'm going to wear.

I'll be naked.

What are you going to do?

The Brewers won the World Series on Halloween.

I'll just say it's my costume.

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I'm going to give you the daily early vote totals from, we got three days now.

First day of early vote was Tuesday.

The debate was Wednesday, so I got Wednesday totals.

Also I have Thursday totals, which I think reflect.

David Crowley's debate performer, so I'm gonna give you guys some numbers We're gonna do a little math.

I don't like doing math on the air We gotta do a little math because this election is gonna come down to math.

It's gonna be a 30,000 vote race No matter how you slice it no matter how you dice it Tom Tiffany should not be anywhere near anywhere within 30,000 votes of potentially being the next governor, but that's just

How it has been about the last 10 years pretty consistently 22 25 27 30,000 votes decide and statewide contest between Democrats and Republicans typically unless Tammy Baldwin is on the ballot Tammy just does very well.

It's interesting because even Republicans have a respect for Tammy I'm gonna do an 80-20.

Okay, that's a safe number 80%

of the early votes cast in the city of Milwaukee.

I'm not including the county.

The county gets wacky because there's conservative pockets and Republicans and while it's host of West Alice and all throughout this, it's wacky.

But the city of Milwaukee has more population as one municipality than the other 18 municipalities that make up the suburbs.

Okay.

80% of the early votes.

that will be cast at the different sites that I just mentioned in Milwaukee will be for David Crowley.

It is possible that the 30,000 votes, the margin that David Crowley needs to be victorious can come from early votes in Milwaukee.

I'm gonna dive into that scenario, but first let's talk to Marty.

You're on 101.7 Truth.

How are you?

I don't think I could be better, Sherwin.

Oh, good.

We got the

World Series.

Are you kidding me?

This is the greatest day in the city of Milwaukee's history.

I just wish that everybody was going to be partaking in it.

Because we got, as you've spoken so

eloquently about, we've got some problems in this city.

And you're talking about the money.

And that's my deal.

And you are right on.

And he just had a commercial on prior to this and talking about the billionaires.

Well, we got our own billionaire right here in town, baby, owns the Bloors.

And I'll tell you, the standing room only tickets were $80 at the box office before he got into town.

When he arrived, those standing room only tickets at the box office, which is scalping tickets for the first time in the history of the Bloors.

Those tickets were up to thirteen hundred dollars at the box office Jesus Not only that Sherwin You got to go back in time a little bit remember when the Brewers You know and their finances were a little shaky for a moment and they came to the county board the Milwaukee County Board and and said

Boy, if we could get a hold of the parking revenue, the parking revenue used to go to the county.

And the brewers came to the county board and said, boy, we really need that parking money.

10,000 parking spaces a day.

And now you say they're selling for $77 a piece?

Well, help me out here.

Is that $770,000 a day?

It's a lot of money.

That's what I saw them listed at last.

They very well could potentially go up.

And I think that that was general parking.

The preferred parking might even be more expensive.

So let's go ahead and say a million bucks a day for parking.

Sure.

There's one parking ticket for $770.

Think about that.

This is the billionaire coming to town and he's one of the lowest ranked owners.

in all of baseball.

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I want to go over some scenarios in which I think that David Crowley could be elected the next governor of the state of Wisconsin, but don't hear that and think that your responsibilities have been dissolved.

They have not need you to work extra hard and knock on some doors and talk to the people.

If you have a person in your family that can't read and you can,

Get a sample ballot and go over it with them and just just show them Get them to understand pattern recognition of David Crowley and then they mark the little circle right next to David's name and then They can kind of go home after that.

You know what I mean?

They don't really need I mean there's no no no no you got a vote for a turn to general I guess you could vote for Congresswoman Gwen Moore.

Can't nobody beat her

I don't even think Congresswoman Gwynne Moore could beat herself.

What else?

What's Joe Castor running for?

I just received a piece of mail, so she's an alder woman.

She's terrible.

She's awful.

She's a turncoat, backstabber.

Just two-faced.

Just awful.

Just a horrible person.

But she's running against the Trumper, though.

Vote for her if you want to.

It's up to you.

All right, let's talk to Marty.

Marty, you had some interesting...

things to say about this billionaire that's ripping us off for all these tickets.

Here's what I think, Marty.

I'm going to let you continue.

I think there needs to be some legislation that if a sports arena of any type and kind that is subsidized by the taxpayers, they have to reserve subsidized tickets.

Not a bunch, but there has to be somewhere regular, average, hardworking folks that don't make a lot of money.

can enjoy the fruits of their labor and the fruits of their labor are their tax dollars that go and subsidize these sports arenas.

Are you there, Marty?

I am.

I am.

Thank you for an odd and I could not talk to anyone else other than you, Sherwin.

You're the only one that I know of that has the depth and understanding of what I'm talking about, where I'm trying to get to.

And you are absolutely right.

The election is is foremost.

Number one, that is all we should be talking about.

Except if the world's sorry.

But you're absolutely right.

You've got to get out and vote, man.

They got the night riders are coming.

They are shining up their boots.

They are creasing their masks.

They're washing their masks in their little delegates.

They are getting ready to come.

So get out and vote now.

Today's voting day.

Tomorrow's voting day.

It's voting day next week.

And when you vote, don't go alone.

And if you're on paper, this is your chance.

Do you think Scott Walker was up there for eight years?

He did not pardon or, what's the other word, release one person off of paper in eight years.

Do you think Tom Tiffany's going to do any difference?

If you're on paper, be a soldier.

Get out there.

Get 10, get 50, get 100 people to go.

Drive them.

This is the time man.

We don't get 97% out of the north side of Milwaukee.

There's something wrong with us.

And then we don't deserve anything better.

This is the time man.

I ran into a black guy the other night and he didn't even know what was going on.

He went and voted the next day, told me.

This is number one, but it's all related.

Everything we're talking about when we talk about the money.

It's all related, babe.

This is this is out of hand what they're doing to to the people Not just the black people all the people and you talking about setting aside tickets if bud Zealand was in charge a Milwaukee guy It'd be different.

That's right.

We're the billionaires are coming and they are taking over and we got a chance on November 3rd to do something about it Thank you Marty no no wait wait wait wait

You got a second.

Oh, no, go ahead.

Go

on.

Okay.

No, no, that's that's more important than what I want to say.

But let's just get the numbers straight.

I talked about the parking at the brewery stadium.

Yes.

That's a lot of money.

That's $10,000 parking spaces a game.

That's that's eight to $10 million a year that we gave to the brewers.

And now the brewers are flush.

They're making hundreds and hundreds and hundreds.

of millions of dollars.

I hope they give some of that parking revenue back to the county.

You know, and it'd be nice, as you say, to set aside a couple tickets for the real fans.

You're going to have a bunch of people sitting in our guiles up in the stands, man.

But it's not just that.

It goes to fires of war, too.

You got to remember, we gave them the wand.

Not just that.

Under Abily.

is giving the brewers, excuse me, giving the bucks $4 million, $4 million a year out of the parks fund.

The parks that are dying on the vine, but we have $4 million a year for 20 years to give to the bucks who have some money.

I don't know that those billionaires really need that money, but that's what, and the Baird Center, we're paying a tax to pay for the Baird Center.

We cannot get the numbers whether or not any black man from Milwaukee even worked on the project number one.

But number two, the Baird Center and that tax pays for visit Milwaukee.

If anyone has seen visit Milwaukee, talk about or come over to the north side and say something positive about the north side of Milwaukee.

Help me out because I missed

it.

Full disclosure, I have a partnership with Visit Milwaukee and every two weeks I do a segment called the Truth Weekend Guide that is in fact sponsored by Visit Milwaukee.

They are a supporter of ours here at 1017 The Truth.

They spend money with us, they spend revenue with us, so just...

Are they everywhere

on the north side they are not but at

least I have I've got a partners and I had to fight tooth and nail for it now But they're

showing that that money comes from tonight when we go out and we have a drink We have a meal there's a tax on each one of those and that money goes to the Baird Center and the Baird Center pays for the visit Milwaukee and you get the money from the visit Milwaukee, so

We should just give that

tax money straight to you.

I'd rather do that.

Yes, I agree with that 100%.

Let's make that proposal happen.

Okay, with

that.

But it goes on.

I mean, SummerFest.

SummerFest, we paid a million dollars a year for cops to go to SummerFest.

Never got reimbursed until a couple, three years ago when Mike Murphy figured it out.

And you can't.

There's no cultural event for the black, for the north side of Milwaukee, for the black culture.

We've got Puerto Rican days now.

So I guess that concludes the constellation of cultures in the city of Milwaukee.

Or am I missing one?

I might be missing one if you know what I mean.

Geez.

Thanks Marty.

I don't

know man.

You'll be okay.

Thank you.

You'll be all right.

Have a good weekend.

I got a little uncomfortable there.

I don't.

I'm fully aware we're aware of what black Milwaukee lacks in comparison, but I I also don't want big business and big corporate having an influence on black cultural exhibitions now we could

We could sell out one of the reasons why we don't have African World Festival, which at this point.

It would just be mostly symbolic if we had it Northwestern Mutual many many years ago offered.

To sponsor a weekend of African World Festival, but it would be their branding and their logos and them selling products throughout our festival and at the time that board.

They didn't want that they didn't want.

African World Festival to be an extension of Northwestern mutual and so instead we don't have one at all I mean, I guess there's a righteousness in that But at the end of the day we don't have that cultural exhibition and if we sell out Who knows so I'll say this about about the brewers Cecilia

What's your name?

Is this Cecilia Gore?

Who is the Homer knows the lady?

I met her a couple of times.

I see her all over the city, but we never really talk.

So the brewers have a foundation.

They give a ton of money away.

They give a bunch of money.

A lot of our nonprofits.

You got to keep in mind a lot of like grassroots nonprofits in the black community.

There's tons

of

every single day.

Somebody is starting another nonprofit for another need or another incarnation of poverty in the black community.

And that stuff is quietly funded through.

The Brewers Foundation.

Her name is Cecilia.

Let me look it up.

Some of y'all are probably seeing it in the chat, but I'm not looking at the chat right now.

Brewers Foundation.

They give a ton of money away.

So some of the revenue that the Brewers make, they'll offer grants to different initiatives.

The problem is Cecilia Gore.

That's her name.

That's right.

She's been there forever.

She's been the executive director of the Brewer's Community Foundation since 09 Overseas the foundation's fundraising, which has raised about six million dollars supporting 200 plus Wisconsin nonprofits focusing on health education and recreation.

Those are rookie numbers.

They probably could do more But after the World Series, I think that

It is incumbent upon all of us to ask for more and to demand more because there's a tremendous amount of revenue It's going to be generated just the ticket sales in and of itself and all that money doesn't go to the brewers and I don't know the details of the investments that taxpayers made to subsidize American family field But at the very least price gouging should be made illegal because isn't the big like political conversation these days is affordability Nobody can afford anything

And if affordability is an issue now look the world series is a big deal We know the sports makes a tremendous amount of money and it makes wealthy people even more wealthy and this that and the other but you also have to Give some kind of respect to the taxpayers that go to work every single day and taxes aren't paid taxes are taken We got paid today here in Milwaukee black media My what's the one that you take home net net gross is what you make my gross and my net are strangers

They don't even look like they're in the same family.

They don't they're not even.

Because it starts out as this amount.

But then the government's like, give me this, give me the give the year.

Blacky, give me.

FICA, give me state income, give me.

Take it.

Take your month.

Take that.

Take that.

Take that.

Take that.

Take that.

Take that.

And I got to take it.

And then and then the rest is what I get.

So my gross and my net pay are okay.

Fine.

You got to pay to live in a society.

I'm not going to go out there and show a capital drive.

You got to have somebody that's going to plow the snow.

Okay.

I'm not picking up my own garbage or I'm not taking my garbage to the landfill.

I need somebody to do the garbage in the street lights and you got to do all of the stuff that the city does.

And when I call the police, I want them to come.

If my house is on fire, I want the fire department to come.

So I'm paying for a lot of that stuff.

I'm also paying for this.

I can't even say it.

I'm paying for the schools MP The place where the kids go into buildings then learn about the reading writing and arithmetic I'm paying for that too that one actually aggravates me because I think what we are investing and what we are going to be asked to invest Additionally, I Have a problem with them not being able to keep the kids safe because there's some

physical and sexual abuse things that are going on pretty consistently at NPS.

But I get it, we gotta pay the taxes.

But then what are we getting in return?

And I don't know if we're getting a good return on our investment.

So what I would like to see, and everything is a possibility because Milwaukee will honestly have a policy platform in Madison that I don't know if we've ever had.

In the event that David Crowley, there's more to David Crowley getting elected governor than just a symbolic thing.

I don't even care about the history making thing.

I don't even care about that.

I don't care.

He's a better candidate.

He's better experienced.

He knows and understands the needs of this city.

He's been punched in the face by Republicans that have been been disrespectful to this city.

And as a county executive, he sees that more than anybody else.

But here's the thing about David.

David doesn't.

He doesn't make public his arguments and disagreements with Republicans.

When Republicans argue and disagree with liberals and Democrats and progressives, they make it public.

A lot of times Democrats don't.

They just continue to fight very, very hard, very quietly.

I think David is one of those people but to elevate the wants needs and wishes of I'm gonna say the most important city in Wisconsin by far I don't even know what second place is there is no second place and it's not Madison

Green Bay before Madison it ain't Madison Madison is all sorts of screwed up the racial disparities in Madison Especially with African Americans and the police just as bad or worse than Milwaukee the student and education disparities in Madison public schools just as bad as Milwaukee if not worse and that's the liberal city white liberals are not worth the paper they're printed on But to have somebody elected governor that he's gonna be a governor for everybody

We also have to be okay with that as black African-American people because we know where the want is and where the needs are.

And clearly Marty told us where there's more wants and need from the black people.

Shout out to Marty, I guess.

Not throwing shade at your Marty, but just you gotta be kind of careful.

You know what I mean?

We're sensitive as black people about white people talking about what we don't have.

Because a lot of times we don't have it because of people that look like you.

But it's not you, Marty.

I don't think.

Marty, let's tell you what.

You need to give David Crowley at least a $50 donation for that phone call, buddy.

Then we'll be square.

and make it 100.

We have to be okay with, I gotta give you the scenarios, which I'm gonna do.

I still got time left in the show.

The scenarios in which I think that David Crowley can win this election even before election day, and I wanna make sure that all of the votes are there and the votes are counted, because there's gonna be some foul stuff going on.

Listen to me, David Crowley is running against an election denier.

Please just take a moment and appreciate the gravity of this the time Tiffany if he loses he's gonna say he didn't So we have to make sure that the margin in which David wins is so robust like outside of the 30,000 votes that Tom Tiffany can't say that there was cheating and malfeasance

David Crowley is running against an election denier and Tom Tiffany if he's gonna deny an election when you think about it He is gonna absolutely deny the election that he lost to the black guy that mopped the floor with him on the debate I know Tom Tiffany cried in the car.

I Bet he was more sad After that debate then when his plane crashed in the Lake Walsall

That's what he said is his closing statement y'all remember that when that plane went out We called 911 because mysteriously our cell phones were still operational as we crashed a plane in a lake and we called 911 from our working cell phones.

It took 16 minutes shut up No, no, that's not nice that isn't but he's fine.

Did you see the picture of Tom Tiffany after the plane crash?

He had a paper cut above his eyebrow

It was small, he had a band-aid on it.

I don't believe nothing they say, but they did this to themselves, and I'm not obligated to believe anything they say.

But we have to be okay with David Crowley being a governor for a state that's 79% Caucasian.

We gotta be okay with it, he's gonna have to do a lot of stuff for the whites.

He can do a lot of stuff for Milwaukee because Milwaukee, our black populations, are concentrated.

I believe that if you invest more in Milwaukee, you just help things here.

Pay attention to things here and use a scalpel and out of sledgehammer when you create policy for this city And you're fair to the common council and you have a good relationship with the mayor I think that can help African Americans because Milwaukee

is a

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Until noon Monday through Friday, but welcome

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You're in a black city.

You are.

It's not bad.

Think about this.

The Brewers are going to the World Series in a black city.

The Milwaukee Bucks have their home opener today at three o'clock in a black city.

All the bars, all the restaurants, all the hotels, all in a black city.

So because the plurality is highest amongst African Americans here in the city of Milwaukee by investing in this city, I think that can very much improve the conditions.

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It's like a website.

We pull it's on the it's on the computer But not when I'm logged into my Google Chrome I got to be in a different browser.

Maybe do I have to be what is this browser here?

This one

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back to the program.

All right, Xavier, I'm going to send you this clip.

I tried to send it to you earlier.

You guys know how I feel about tipping.

I found something out about tipping, y'all, that I didn't know.

I am going to get to the math and the David Crowley and people voting early in the early vote totals.

But let me just put this in your brain stem for a second.

I think they've been ripping us off.

And there's a lot of pressure for people to tip.

And I got to reframe how I talk about money and spending money.

I'm sometimes a fool with how I spend money, which I'm on a budget.

I put myself on a budget.

Wrong goddamn week to be on a budget.

I know it is, but I looked at how much money I spent.

I'm just, I'm a side myself.

I got to stop buying people drinks.

Oh, I got it.

I got this.

Oh, no, no, put it on my tab.

I ain't saying that no more Screw you.

I put nothing on my tab.

I'll tell you what, okay Oh, you want me to buy your drink?

I'll buy it.

I'm gonna buy you a little your little dinner Would you get a little buffalo chicken wrap as a fries?

Okay, I got it.

What would you get?

You get you a Miller light.

You get you a high life You get you a genuine drag or you get you with Tito's and soda.

You got okay.

I got it

Give me your social security number and I'm going to claim you as a dependent on my taxes.

I'll buy you a little food.

Oh, you want me to get you dinner?

That girl.

She told me that I was going to take her out to dinner.

How did what?

Look, I get it.

Times is tight, but you don't.

How do you ask tell for a date?

Sure when you're gonna take me out and I will do no such goddamn thing We can go to a place where food is served you go in your wallet I go in my wallet and we keep it separate like a gross and a net Don't tell me we going out no We're not ma'am.

I Don't want to shame anybody For not tipping cuz a lot of servers

They get all mad when people don't tip but you got to be a respectful diner like if you're asking for a bunch of stuff and if you are getting a level of service that you wouldn't get anywhere else because I go to restaurants where the service is just as good as the food or sometimes better.

I'm going for the atmosphere.

I'm going for the environment.

You know what I mean?

I can relax.

They know my table.

They know what I want to eat like that's worth paying for and I don't have to worry about anything.

Everything is always going to be great like that to me is worth a little bit more than the menu price.

I have no problem tipping.

But I've also revised my tipping behavior in that if I order my food and receive my food while I'm standing up, there's no sitting down.

I go to a counter and I order my food and I place my order and I walk away from the counter and they say order for Sherwin.

And I and there's only one Sherwin, which I kind of hate using my real name because if somebody doesn't like me or they hate my radio show, hey, that's Sherwin Hughes.

Get him.

Because this week I managed to make the sororities mad, the fraternities mad, the gays and the transgenders mad.

So I got to be careful when I give my real name at places order for Sherwin I Usually go about the Quavionte That's Hi coffee order for the Quavionte Jenkins.

Yeah, that's me But I don't want to shame people that can't afford to tip and Here's what I'll come to find out Tipped wages are correct me from wrong

233 an hour 213 233 something like that right and that's low and that's terrible but that's legal but if a server Doesn't make enough tips to where they're hourly over a course of a pay period Doesn't add up to at least 725 the employer supplements their income so their servers that tell you they're only making 233 an hour true but

If they their tips combined is less than 725 the employer by law Has to make sure that they're making at least minimum wage now.

That's obviously that's not a lot of money But a lot of servers will have us think you need to tip us and tip us very well because We're only making $2.33 an hour.

No boo boo.

You're making minimum wage and maybe it's a very hard job for minimum wage But what do you want me to do?

I can't be the victim that you're upset that you have a job that doesn't pay you a lot of money.

What do you want me to do about that?

We can't subsidize people's employment like that.

You got it, Xavier?

I'm over here dodging the real stuff I'm supposed to talk.

Should we play it?

This is a conversation that an online creator has with a server who is...

Very obnoxious and shaming people that don't tip is You actually have you got the video.

It's not just the audio, right?

So I can go to YouTube and watch it All right, let's play it then we'll close out this segment then no I promise we're gonna talk about the voting everybody relax The world series is here.

I'm excited.

What do you want?

What do you want for me?

I'm a human being I'm a human.

I'm wearing my lucky underwear today might not take them off

Mean if I do take them off, you know, I mean your boy got lucky, but I'm wet.

These are the lucky ones Okay, let's play the clip shall we so you can hear this content creator have a conversation With a server who and a server is disguising their voice.

It sounds kind of weird But the details of the conversation are fascinating.

Let's take a listen

If you're broke you could just say that you don't have money to tip you could just say that

Many people are too broke to tip and they're victimized by waitresses.

Yeah, you think it's okay and fair

Then don't go out to eat, stay at home and cook.

But that disproportionately harms poor people and working-class people who need to eat out and enjoy themselves the most.

Why do you need to enjoy yourself?

You can't enjoy yourself making food at home.

So you think that poor people deserve to suffer so waitresses can thrive.

Why?

So the waitresses who saving enough money so they can buy formula for their kids, they're evil, for wanting tips because they make 4.25 an hour.

Okay, so no waitress makes $4.25 an hour.

That's a myth.

That's a waitress deception.

But if they make below, like, minimum wage and tips, the employer then pays the minimum wage.

Whenever you go out to eat, you are, by definition, paying that waitress minimum wage for a minimum wage job, and that's okay.

Actually, sometimes when you don't tip, they have to come out of their own pocket.

Illegal.

Federally illegal.

It has been for decades.

Profoundly illegal.

The narrative of, like, waitress victimization is built upon a bedrock of lies.

A bedrock of lies and misinformation, they're not underpaid.

They're not overworked.

They make the same as every other minimum wage worker, but they want me to pay them more.

And if I can't pay them more, the minimum wage, I don't have a right to go outside and eat.

That is the most weird thing I've ever heard.

That's a form of violence, and I don't buy that.

I'm not tipping these hoes ever.

Why should I, though?

I mean, oh, he said it's a form of violence.

The way that man put I don't even know just do his name But the way he framed it Shouldn't poor people deserve the right to go out to eat because they need Like something fun exciting and adventurous in their lives more than anybody else Absolutely, they do and a tip should not be preventative.

I just

Don't know I'm changing my tune a little bit because I thought we actually were subsidizing these $2 and 33 cent per hour Servers no at the very minimum.

They're going to make minimum wage, but they didn't tell you that now I'm minimum wage is not a lot of money, but There's a lot of people making minimum wage.

There's not below also Let me be clear about this at some places at some restaurants servers are making 10 15 20 dollars an hour Not the wrong to put my friends business out there.

Oh, I shouldn't say that

He pays his bartenders 25 bucks an hour and they make $100,000 a year.

But to get good quality bartenders, to keep your regular customers happy, you gotta pay an experienced bartender a whole bunch of money.

The people that remember what people's orders are, they remember their faces, they remember what they like to eat, they remember what they like to sit, like that is a tremendous value to a business.

So paying a bartender $25 an hour plus tips makes the hell of a lot of sense because they can increase the profit and the revenue of your business.

But tipping should not be...

used to shame people.

And it should not be prohibiting to people that want to go out and have a meal outside of the house.

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So this artist, his name is Lake.

Song is Guardian Angel and he is from Milwaukee.

The name of his album is, uh, Apropos.

The world is ending and you blocked my number.

That's the name of Lake's album.

Maybe I should feature.

More Milwaukee artists but not necessarily Milwaukee hip-hop because I gotta say something and some of y'all ain't gonna like it But I'm not here to make friends.

I'm here to make people smarter some Milwaukee hip-hop is absolutely horrible It's terrible.

It sounds like they all went to NPS and are not on grade level in reading.

That's what it sounds like It's low effort It's just it's it's simple like the beat sound like they were made on remember those Casio keyboards from the 1980s.

Remember those?

It's

just it's

really super simple

There's no real depth of production.

It's just I'm not a fan of it.

Maybe because I've aged out of it, but I also think that hip hop was far more intelligent.

A generation ago when smart black people weren't a threat to society like we are now because as majority populations reduce, I got a story here that shows that the American fertility rate is the lowest it's been, I think ever.

There's only 53 births per 1000 women, which if you ask me, that's still enough, but that's the lowest it's ever been.

And when our fertility rate in this country is that low, that means that white people are not having children.

Also, it should be noted that if you are in the United States of America, 50% of the Caucasian population is age 58 or older.

Half of the white people are 58 or older.

They're not having kids.

And then the other half of the white population.

that is under the age of 58, they are having less children.

Black, Latino, Hispanic, and Asians, our fertility rates, steady.

Some of the Asians, I think, is clicking up a little bit.

Latinos, Hispanics are clicking up.

What you'll find, though, is that people, as they make more money, it's a weird, inverse relationship.

As people make more money, they're actually having less children.

Very unusual set of circumstances.

But the hip hop is just...

It's dumb.

Oh, here's someone who knows all about the hip hop.

Let's talk to Al from Sherman Park.

You're on one on one seven.

The truth.

How are you?

I'm doing well.

How about yourself, Sherwin?

Doing great.

The Brewers are in the World Series and Game One is tonight.

I'm beside myself with excitement.

Can't you tell?

Yeah, my grandfather was big into baseball.

It was boring

to me.

I'm

glad for the Brewers.

I bet you like fashion shows.