February 24th, 2020-24 if it's 7 o'clock on Saturday morning it's time for this week
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special guest and to accommodate his very busy schedule. We're actually doing this on Tuesday night.
That's 20th but for those of you far away in Saturday, the 24th, happy Saturday, and we're coming
to you again, prerecorded and local from the office of former Alderman Don Paul Brown here in the
WAU case studios in downtown Wakusha in the Old Namibilding right around the corner from Theodora
Yalman's Park where we are proud to honor our suffragette heritage here in the show. And
this morning's guest for those of you that are in real time was referred to me by Dan Shryer,
the Assistant Principal and Athletic Director at Wakusha South. And as many of you know, civic media
is, I believe, pulling out all the stops to recognize Black History Month. And I very
own Earl Ingram from the Earl Ingram show is a real driver for that and really grateful to have
that association, that friendship with Earl and so many other great people throughout the civic media
stratosphere, if you will. And I wanted to do something about Black History in Wakusha because
in general, we don't know enough about our overall city's history, except for Les Paul, the
Springs era. I mentioned Theodora Yalman's and nobody has any idea who she was or what I'm talking
about. And but I also know through, you know, living here, there are a lot of inspiring young men
and women of color that are living Black History in the present day and making a mark and making
history now. And as someone that's a huge history and a huge social history buff, you know, I
really believe in that that history is happening right now. And this young man is a perfect example.
I'm proud to introduce from Wakusha South, Black Shirt Nation class of 2014, Tyree Pope,
the third Tyree. Welcome. How are you? Good. Good. I'm so glad you're here. So Dan thought you'd
be an exceptional guest because in your kind of, if you were our second in a series, our first
guest was Eli Fields is a couple years behind you. Yep. I know Eli. All right. Fantastic.
Yeah. And so yeah, and he we had a great show with him a few weeks back. Tyree is a very successful
comic series called the Fair Fight. And tell us about that. Um, the Fair Fight is a comic book
series based on these three characters who escape a alien concentration camp on Earth. And they
go throughout the galaxy trying to overthrow that or planning to overthrow that alien government
that captured them. So it's just a series of stories that lead up to a certain point that is
not out yet. So that's kind of. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Stick around for a while. Is volume two out yet?
Yeah. Volume two is out. So volume one and two is out. Volume three is still being worked on.
I don't know. I'm kind of waiting for the perfect time to put that out. Sure.
It's the end of a trilogy. You know, okay. And then it starts a new trilogy, which is four, five,
and six. Wow. So it, uh, so I'm just waiting for the first perfect time. You know, yeah.
I feel like volume one and two can still, you know, build popularity in animation is also part
of this that there's an addition to being in still life comics. It's going to be some. Yep.
Uh, we, uh, actually premiered our animated pilot last year at the Oriental on my birthday. Um,
it was pretty successful. Wow. I wish it could have been a little bit more public. It had to
be private because we, it was a private showing and okay. I didn't want it to be too public,
but we did it at the Oriental. Yeah. Uh, which has a lot of, you know, history to it. And I
really wanted to do it there. So it was nice to like be able to have all my family and friends see
it in. So is the, is the animated production? Is that available? Like on any of like the live
streams or, um, it's not available at this moment. Um, it will be available. Okay. Um,
on this service called even. Okay. It's a service that, um, allows creators to, um,
pretty much serve their product to their audience. Okay. But the audience can pay what you want
to see. Right. Oh, you can pay 50 cents a dollar. Oh, that's cool. And it, it allows us to still
fund in, uh, you know, create freely because I'm just putting it out there. Yeah. It's a lot of
money that's competing thrown in a drain. I feel like, sure. I want to still be able to raise
money and still create more. So that's what we're going to do. And just, that's fantastic. Put it
out there for the audience to be like, Hey, you want to see more of this? Sure. You know, donate
however much you can so we can keep creating and keep creating stories. Sure. Sure. So even though
we're pre-recorded, there, there is a lot of news that's already happened here in this, um,
this younger part of the week that we're coming to you from. And we'll be talking about that,
throughout the show. But, um, returning with, um, Tyrie Pope, the third of Waka Shasal's class
of, uh, 2014, there's three characters in the first three central characters, ultra Linux and
human. Tell us about them. Oh, so, so ultra Linux and human, uh, ultra is, I will say she is,
I don't, I don't know how to, uh, put her because she's like, I don't want to say a
center's around her, but it starts with her. Um, I'll say it's a bunch of short stories that kind
of center around ultra in how they became who they are in fair fight. Okay. I did a short film called
Owl. It's about ultra's dad and his, his journey, a backstory. Yeah. It's like a backstory.
A backstory. So it's about ultra's dad and it's literally a day in the life of ultra's dad. Wow.
And then at the end, he's, he's killed in what's called the Messiah project. Okay. By the alien
government. So the alien government is sent back to, you know, pretty much take out these people
with a certain genetic code. So, so they did that and then it just turned out to be her father.
And then there's another story that we're working on right now. Okay. That centers around ultra
as well called traumatized kids initiative. Oh wow. So that's a short film as well. It's kind
of like showing you the steps that they got there, the making of kind of sort of. Yeah. Yeah.
And then now when you read the stories, you're like, okay, this makes a little bit more sense or
okay, you can kind of humanize the characters a little bit. Sure. Sure. Sure. And in some of the
reading about the character development or um, ultra is essentially the alpha of the three. Mm-hmm.
She's more of the loud. She's going to speak her mind. Right.
Humans more of the, I'm not going to say anything. I'm just going to let it play out. But he
how always has a plan. Sure. And Linux is more of like the know it all. Like we're just going to
tell you when you're wrong. He's going to be the one who's like, no, we should do this. And
sometimes he turns out to be wrong. And what's sometimes is kind of making him like,
not the idiot. Sure. But like the comedic right. Yeah. Yeah. Like kind of the, I think in the
writing, it's had the beta to ultra's alpha. In fact, he even kind of in many ways sets her up to
be that alpha or shows that respect or there's more willing to yield that leadership to her.
Especially when it comes to just like in action in a way, he's more of the one that's going to stay
laid back, have a plan on how he's going to attack the enemy. And she's more of the this is
get it over with. Sure. I love it. Yeah. So what does Sparky to get into comics? Um, I was 18. So
I was pretty much fresh out of college or fresh fresh out of high school. I mean, heading to
Ashkash for college. Yeah, heading to Ashkash in, uh, I started off being a athletic training,
athletic training major. Sure. Sure. Hated it. Um, I just hated all the hours I had to do in
general. Plus I was playing basketball. Plus I, it was just hectic. Sure. And, um, I went to my
advisor, like, I want to be a right, like I want to write stories. Like I've been writing stories
since I was like a kid. Wow. I would like to write a little bit. Yeah. She was like, oh,
you should be an English major worse decision she's ever made. Uh, because I, it wasn't really
English. She was like, I want to write a more film and TV. Okay. Ashkash had like one of the best
film and television really, uh, programs in the nation for public schools. Fantastic.
It just was an easy trans, like, I started, I took my first intro class. Okay. Within like six months,
I wrote Fairfite in real as a freshman in college. Yeah. Okay. But then like six, six months,
I say going into my sophomore year. Okay. Uh, within like six to eight months, I had already written
like five to six books. So unbelievable. Yeah. And staying in top of your grades. Yeah. Sure.
As well as I could, you know. Uh, but a lot of it came over the summer. So I was staying there
over the summer. And, uh, I just had the free time from working. And I just, I didn't even have a
laptop. I would go to the, uh, Ashkash computer. Oh, the lab, the computer, and then I'd write them all
there. Sure. That's how I try to work. So, um, I don't even know where the idea really came from.
I just started writing, you know. Okay. And it kind of just became a thing. Sure. Sure.
What you see now is like the sixth version of it. Okay. It was, it started off at like 10 pages.
And then it got to like 15. And then we had it ending. We rewrote the entire ending. Uh,
sure. And my friend, his name's Kenan Butler. He was, he's like the co-creator of Fairfite.
Okay. And, uh, he created all these characters that are like, uh, pirates. They're like these
space pirates. And he was like, they're, they're super cool. I think we should add them. And I was
like, yeah, we should. So we rewrote the whole ending that add them in. Wow. And it fit way better
than the ending we had. So nice. It worked out pretty well. And you guys get along pretty well
than for being like, uh, creative partners. And it's never easy. Yeah. Yeah. He's kind of really
laid back. He's kind of taking a step back from it in a way where it's like, if I'm like, hey,
let's do this. Yeah. He's up to do it. But he's not necessarily, um, super engaged in it. We do
the tables together. Um, like, we'll go to Comic Con together and stuff like that. But he's not
on the creative side. Super. Okay. He's not super engaged with it. Like he doesn't care. He's
like, I just want to see it happen. You know, yeah. Do you get to display your products at Comic Con?
Mm hmm. I, it's the thing with Comic Con is that, uh, it's very expensive. Okay. Oh, I bet. Yeah.
Very expensive. So sure. You got to kind of plan it out. Okay. Budge it out, which one's
you're going to go to, which ones are important to go to and stuff like that. Speaking of planning,
we're going to learn more about your experiences at Comic Con, um, your, your co-creator for the
Fairfights series, as well as a little bit about in your high school. And, and then some news,
including the Carol Minute, uh, here on this week and watch on WAUK 101.1 FM and the Civic Media app.
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in Makasha WAUK 540 AM 101.1 FM on this beautiful Saturday morning. It should be beautiful. According to
the forecast, again, we're pre-recorded. I'm your host Don Brown joined by Anya here on the board.
And, um, great to have be reunited with Anya because our guest here, Tyree Pope III is a,
as we can say, you're an accomplished illustrator, comic genius, if we will, and cinematographer.
And I didn't tie Anya is a resident movie expert has a strong background in it. And, um,
you even work on the movie festivals right here in Milwaukee. I did last year. I worked as
production manager for the film festival. And, uh, I don't know if I'm doing that again this year,
but I had a really great time doing it. They're great film festival. And I love the Oriental where
where Tyree had his, his film premiere. I have not had a movie play at the Oriental yet. That's a
huge goal of mine. So that's, that's a very cool accomplishment. I love to hear it. So, but you two
have a lot of, a lot to talk about because you know, it's great to, because I'm a huge movie like
Geek. It's great to talk to somebody about movies like Anya. So, yeah, and yourself too. So,
yeah, funny story. My wife sent me a text. She's the president of the Boosters. She's a graduate
of Ashkash class of 98, I believe it was. And, uh, she was a predication. Yeah. But she's,
um, the fundraiser for South Booster Club is, is, um, it's in, um, April, but it's an 80s theme.
And our business, um, I've been writing business. We always sponsor a poster board that's
somewhat 80s related. Like last year it was a monopoly theme, the, the board game. This year,
it's eighties. And so we had to pick a movie or a song. And, uh, you know, of course, all the pop
movies were taken already. And, um, so I chose like Scarface and, um, risky business, which was
probably like that graduate of the 80s in terms of like that generational. I would think that would be
taken right away. And it was. Yeah. But then I put the third one top gun just because I figured
my wife would be all over that, you know, because he wouldn't, but I was also thinking like, um,
the untouchables or any of those Mickey Rork like cult films like rumblefish. I've never seen it.
Oh, that's a great move. The book. It's the same writer that wrote the outsiders and the outsiders
was taken. Okay. And then there was another one, um, called, um, oh gosh, Mickey Rork. It'll come
to me. Uh, well, rumblefish. Oh, well, the Pope of Greenwich Village. Okay. It's fantastic.
And that says, well, there's the Pope of Greenwich Village. And there's the Pope of Waukesha
South, right? The Pope of Milwaukee comics. I repopped the third. Um, I'm really glad to have you here.
Tonight, even though for you listeners, it's Saturday morning. Um, it's really, um, I feel like I
landed the Golden Goose. And thanks again to Dan Shryer for putting this together. And, um,
you know, part of one of the reasons for having Ty Rion was, um, in honor of Black History Month
as an example of living Black history and making things happen. So I'm, um, it's okay to ask
men. This hold, are you? I'm, uh, I'm 27. I said, yeah, you've been out of college five years,
but you've been already been writing comics since you were freshmen. Yep. I started writing when I was in,
uh, was as a writer even earlier than that. Yeah, I apologize. But in terms of the comic concepts
and the fair fight concept, yeah, I started writing a few years ago. Yeah, it, when I tell people
that I wrote it a long time ago, because sometimes I'll forget, like certain stuff. And I'm like,
oh, I'm sorry, I literally wrote it. Yeah. I'm curious. That's hilarious. And they were like,
if people come up to me, like start talking to me about the comic and like things in it,
now I'd be like, it feels fresh to me because I wrote it so long ago. And I sometimes,
it kind of, I'm writing different things. And it's not really on my mind. Right. And to hear them
talk about it in that way, I'm like, oh, you understand. You understand exactly what I was
trying to get at. Sure. Sure. So it's nice to know that, you know, 19 year-old me can still connect,
you know, sure, almost 10 years later. Wow. That's why I was going to ask too, was that the
characters, like, did they come from your personal life at all, like growing up in Waukeshara,
living in Milwaukee? So I moved to Waukeshara when I was a freshman in high school. So,
oh, okay. So I'll need to went to high school out here. I went to, where'd you grow up by
Paukeshara? Milwaukee. Okay. So I would link the center of the yard. Okay. Oh, wow.
And then I came to South. And I'd say the characters definitely have a bunch of different
people in it. You know, like, these characters, it can draw from somebody in a way they move or
the way they speak and what they talk. So, okay. It definitely comes from probably people I met
in high school, people I've met throughout life and, okay. And we'll continue to kind of just
mold themselves. Sure. Sure. And he and was like, would you say comics was also kind of an escape?
Yeah, I'd say that definitely from a just like college and it gave me something to write about
that wasn't school. You know, that like writing, but I didn't necessarily like writing of
10 page paper or 15 page, you know, research, research paper or something like that. I didn't
necessarily like that, but I like writing stories and creating stories and creating things that
connect with people. And so it kind of gave me that escape like that. Okay. Fantastic. Yes, I was,
you know, like one of the what I've been doing for Black History Month is a look for the
somebody's great documentaries they have. And there's one on Run DMC that's phenomenal. I'm only
like one episode through it. But one of the members growing up in New York City became a huge fan
of comics that that was with everything going on in New York. That was a pretty rough place then
in the 80s. Yeah. For especially for, especially for, you know, people of color. And this,
this one guy's escape was comics like Marvel comics and superheroes. And but he always,
he wanted to get to go. And he wanted to create a black superhero.
No. And that if you did you know about that though? I did not know that at all. But I know a lot of
rappers in that time frame were sure comic. Yeah. And they all read a lot of comics and
graphed about the characters and stuff like that. And there was a lot of influence in that,
especially coming from either the Japanese films. Right. Yeah. And just they all brought that into
kind of like me. Sure. Sure. Sure. Yeah. I definitely knew a little bit about it. Oh, sure. And
I knew like Superman was created by a Holocaust survivor. And so that became the whole concept
of Krypton and ever. That was kind of his way to see a different lens. They're making that kind
of trust in that. And put the energy into something more positive. Yeah. Yeah.
This bill is something a little bigger than that. Sure. Fantastic. And the last forever Superman
has been around for years. Yeah. Yeah. Ageless. Ageless. So, um, hey, in the two minutes we have,
I wanted to take a moment for a Carol minute to congratulate women's basketball coach Lindsey
Shelton being named the CCIW women's basketball coach of the year. The women's pioneer basketball team
were co CCIW champions. It's the first conference championship for the program in the program's
history. And so big congrats. A lot of exciting things going on at Carol University.
So I had to had to take a moment there to congratulate them. And also let's see going back here.
Um, we are going to talk about how we doing on time again on you. Just a little over one minute.
A little over one minute. So, yeah. Um, we have, you know, really quick. Um, how did you meet your
co-creator or your partner, if you will? Um, we saw me at Keenan in the afters, or it wasn't
an afterschool program. It was a summer program before we went to Oshkosh. Okay. So so he was from
the area. Yeah. So he was from Milwaukee, but we all got sent up to Oshkosh. We stayed in the dorms
all summer. Okay. Before we went to college pretty much. So we took like four college courses
over the summer. Nice. And then we had that credit. Sounds great. Okay. We're going to talk more about
Tyree's college adventures, uh, his continuing success. And the fact he also has a, uh, a career,
um, as a media director for a local law firm. And then also about, um, Black History Month
and some more local news here on this week and watch on WAUK 101.1 by 48.
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yourself a favor. Download the Civic Media app. And again, my, my guest is the Honorable Tyree Pope,
the third accomplished award winning, uh, comic book creator of the Fairfights series. And, um,
we were, you know what I mentioned at Eli Fields in the show a couple weeks back. And, um,
in the big question I wanted to raise, like, why, you know, why does this, you know,
pasty white kid from Orchard Park, New York care about black history month. And for me, you know,
as a history major, a history major, but history buff for one and someone who's, you know, proud of my,
my own heritage as the as a child of Irish immigrants that, um, there's a debt of gratitude we have
to the black community, black community because it was, was during that civil rights movement
that I really, I guess, had kind of, shall we say, peaked or escalated in the 60s.
There was also a black cultural awakening. And what that also did was it, it inspired people
of other ethnic faiths to do a deeper dive into their own culture and their own identity. Because,
um, you know, I grew up, my dad was one of those Americans. He was like, if you ever seen Madman,
he was like a Donald Draper, you know, not the womanizing part, but, uh, doing whatever you could
to hide your, your past, your poverty or your humble roots. And my dad went out of his way
to not be, it was a huge angle of file. You know, you watch Masterpiece Theater on PBS and, uh,
and all the things, um, he had, he never stopped being a devout Catholic. And it's hard to hide
your Irishness when you marry a girl named Mary Alice McNamara and you have, you bring 10 kids
into the world, me being the youngest. Um, but it really did. And one of my, I guess you'd say,
mentors was a professor of Irish and Irish American history who came of age during that civil
rights movement. A lot of the scholarship became available to a lot of these other cultures
so that they could, um, and so, you know, I mean, I mean that in earnest. And it's,
you know, I'm also the son of a Latin teacher. That was my mother. And there was, I think the only
words of Latin, and I probably forgot them were words from, um, Cicero that were not to know what
happened before you were born is to be forever a child. And so we all have an obligation to learn
about our own history and the history of those around us, the history of people we call our
fellow Americans and fellow brothers and sisters. And so that's why for me, like here in Waukesha,
where it's still like Waukesha County for many people, it's still kind of the Mason Dixon line.
Yeah. And it kind of is. Yeah. I became friends with, um, uh, candidate for the US Senate in the
last run. And we are talking on the phone one day and I say, I'm, I'm guessing from your last name
that you're urban ethnic Catholic or Jewish like me. And, um, a couple days later, we're meeting at
Euros West and it's still open and he's like, he's like, by the way, Don, I'm Jewish, you know,
it's like, it's okay, Pete, you know, we're, you know, that is bad. I'm not as you think here. So,
but there is still like a reluctance of different, I guess, um, people of different
faiths or cultures, um, to express an identity here in Waukesha County. And I, and I do know,
especially from, you know, being the father of, uh, of, uh, of black shirt students when you travel
to these other schools that it's, it's, it really is a problem. And we saw them, the news with
Arrowhead recently and some of these others, you know, yeah, I don't know. We're really
happening with Arrowhead or any of that. But from my perspective, um, coming here was like a
culture shock in a way where it's like, from Milwaukee to Milwaukee. Yeah. Yeah.
Milwaukee to walk a shot. It's like a pure culture shock. You, uh, you go from being in
probably the most diverse place because I went to art school and we had, sure, we had a bilingual
section where it was all Puerto Rican and Mexican and different Spanish speaking, uh, people.
And then a, a real mix of Asian, white, black, uh, Mexican in the school to come here where it's
like, it's like 1% or yeah, I won't say 1% like 3%, right, right. Sure. Uh, just minority in general.
So it was a big culture shock and it was, it felt like it was only at South that we really had
as many to minority. Yeah. Yeah. Or had the diversity that all the other schools did not. Right.
When you did go to the other schools, it was like they treated South like it was the ghetto school.
Oh, I know. Yeah. And all that stuff. And that just, yeah, was always just race underlined.
You know, like, big time because we had the most diversity. We had the most minorities. So they
just like the second class school, you know, right. So that's how it always felt being. Yeah.
That's awesome. Sure. But it's like my children were educated in the early years.
Not far from you at the Bruce Guadalupe community school. My wife was an educator there for more
than 20 years. Right. And they love the experience and we moved to Wankasha from Brookfield.
Brookfield. That's another story. But um, I went to pick up my son over at Buckner Park,
he was just playing like home-run Derby of his friends. And it was like late summer early fall
and we're driving back. And he's like, I want to thank you for for taking moving us here to
Wankasha because this is why, you know, like, this is where I want to live. This is the kind of people
I want to be around. I want to have a good mix of friends. And, um, I, you know, when he wasn't happy
when he was in Brookfield, even though he didn't go to Brookfield schools, he had Brookfield neighbors.
And, and so yeah, it's, um, it's, it's great. The people forget that this is a university city.
So we have those resources to benefit from and that there is a, there is a diversity.
But there's still like a set in terms of that history. There's a lot we have to unlock.
And, um, speaking of which, uh, Wankasha unlocked is coming back and get your entries in
by April 1st to the parks department. It's a great opportunity to share your history, your business
or your organizational history, um, with the fine people who watch or anyone that's just
interested in, and that loves history and coming here, great exposure to architecture, culture,
different things like I, my wife's now at La Casa de Esperanza. And she called me on the first one
in 2021. And she's like, nobody's here. She come out, you know, like, and so I go in the basement,
there's an art gallery. And there's a picture of, um, Caesar Chavez, a painting. He's in Latoma
organizing a farmer's strike. And when he's home, I was constant. And, you know, and you think of
say the Chavez you figure like a lot of his work was in California. But he traveled the nation,
helping different, uh, labor farm labor groups, uh, fight for the rights. And it was, it's just
sort of like that thing that should be in shrine somewhere. It should protect it. Right. If you
didn't go on this, uh, yep. So, and then, um, a few years ago when I was in city council,
the mayor invited everyone. There was a special event at the county, uh, airport. And, um,
not many people know this, but one of the Tuskegee Airmen was from Waukeshaw,
Alfred M. Gorham, the only Tuskegee Airmen from Wisconsin. And they're not know that. Yeah,
we get the Alfred M. Gorham was his name. And we get there and, um, his, his family's there.
And then the, the out, now he's, he's now outgoing fire chief, uh, Steve Howard shows up.
And he wasn't even at the city council meeting at night. So I was like, how do you know? And
the mayor sees him. He's like, what do you do? You know, hey, how did you hear about this? And he's
like, well, Alfred Gorham has been extra neighbor going up Waukeshaw. In the whole time I grew up,
I knew him and he was kids. I had no idea he was a Tuskegee Airman. He never talked about it.
He was just that kind of like, like, like many of that greatest generation. And I'm like,
that's, that's history. That's awesome. Yeah. And that's how you, that should be, I'd say,
shown in, right? No. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You shouldn't go to a high school in Waukeshaw for four
years and I know. Right. Right. That's a Tuskegee Airman. Yeah. He wasn't from here. You know,
and he went to Waukeshaw high school, which was in the, which now left Paul Middle School and, uh,
so Steve and I have this argument that like, he's really a black shirt. Steve went to North. He's
like, no, I went, he's, he would have been in the North. He would have went to Waukeshaw North.
He wasn't there then. So he's a black shirt. But it's, uh, it is great history. And, um,
a potential guest, although I don't think I'll have her in time for February. Well, this will be
the last time in February. But, um, my friend Karen Treadwell, the, the outgoing, the retired executive
director of the food pantry, serving Washa County is good friends with Alicia Hayes, the, the owner,
the founder of Path Ribs. Talk about a great story. She is also the first, um, her family is the first
black family to buy a house. I believe build a house in the city, Waukeshaw. So she's got a story
to tell. And so I'm really looking forward to having her on. And it doesn't have to be in
February. It's, it's, it's our history. It's Waukeshaw history. And, you know, just like Earth
days every day, um, their Valentine's days every day is my wife reminds me, you know, black history
months is every month. Yes. And so I think, uh, so I really look forward to having Alicia on. I think
that'll be true because she's, she has, uh, agreed and she'd love to contribute and some great
stories. And, um, I, she's also Oprah's cousin. Oh, yes. So that's who that is. Okay. Now I understand
exactly who that is. So, but she was already a celebrity in her own right with the past,
past ribs. They were like unbelievable. And I, you know, I spent a lot of time in Chicago and one
of the restaurants I ran was a barbecue place. And of course, I frequented some of the other great
rib places. But, uh, past ribs rivals all of those fantastic. So I've never had past ribs.
Yeah. The bricks and mortar restaurants not open anymore, but they do tons of catering. So
you'll find them. And I think they still have a restaurant in Milwaukee. I think the original
might have been in Milwaukee and still be open. Yeah. So I had to check that out for sure.
Well, it's fantastic. So, and like any good barbecue place, it's a little pricey, but you
certainly get what you pay for. The quality is like second and none. Hey, I'm willing to pay premium
price for quality, you know, sure. Sure. Sure. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. So no, I'm glad you, you shared
your experiences, especially that transition from Milwaukee to walkishah. Yeah. Yeah. It was just,
like I said, it's, it's a big culture shock. And, right, you don't, if you don't know many people,
me, at least I had sports, you know, yeah, sports kind of sure could, you know, introduce you
to everybody. Right. And at least you have friends via that. And you can make friends and meet new
people doing that. If you don't have sports, what do you have? Absolutely. As a black kid going
to a new place, whereas majority, white people, sure. And you've never seen that before, you know.
Right. Right. And that was your freshman year at South was when you started to transition.
Okay. Certainly. So, but hey, just real quick, speaking of sports, I want to congratulate
Aidan Schlieb, the 120 pounder in Aidan, Zerbell, 150 pounder and Ben Lauer, 144 pound,
sectional champs all from walkishah North, who all qualified for the individual state wrestling
tournament this past Saturday, they will compete at the call center in Madison Thursday through
Saturday and the state championship. So congratulations to Aidan, Aidan and Ben and go North
stars. Even though you're not black shirts, we still love you. And I know you, we know you'll
represent walkishah proud. So, but so yeah, we know we're talking about black history walk show,
but also Milwaukee. And so like Oprah spent some time here in her youth, didn't go well, I believe.
The great business icon, Chris Gardner grew up in a walkishah, but he didn't, excuse me, Milwaukee,
I apologize. He didn't make his fortune here. You know, a lot of these people left a lot of people
have to leave Milwaukee to, especially as I'll say a creative, you do have to leave most of the time
to, either you have to leave or you have to spend a lot of your time traveling, right elsewhere,
to, you know, build up your name and so people can see your face and get familiar with you as a
person, as as today as a brand, because everybody's a brand, you're creative. Like people have to
get used to who you are and you have to put yourself out there. They have to know your personality,
you're whatever you are, you have to come as you are and then people will be attracted to you
and you'll just end up in the right place, right time. And that's kind of how it's literally
always been for me. So you did some travels recently related to your craft. You were at the Sundance
Film Festival. Yep. I was at Sundance as a member of the press. So, okay. I've been working with
Carved in Stone for probably the last like four, four years. Carved in Stone. Yep.
They're a media news company. They're in Milwaukee. Wow. But we've been traveling
pretty much across the world doing not across the world yet, but we've been across the States
doing a different media outlets. So we've done rolling loud and then we get this Sundance.
So we're going to learn more about who you met and interviewed at Sundance as well as some of
the other things you're working on here on this week in Waukesha on 101.1 FM and the Civic Media app.
Be sure to download that if you haven't already and again, really glad to have Tyree Pope the
third here on this Saturday the 24th.
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Saturday morning the 24th and I'm joined by Anya on the board. And I was just talking to my
guest Tyree Pope the third award-winning comic artist cinematographer and also a member of the media
through Carved in Stone just came back from or was a few weeks ago now.
I'd say it was about three weeks ago. Sure.
Sundance was as a filmmaker. It's a it was kind of eye-opening.
Sure. So you're so close you know like because that's like the biggest I won't say it's the
biggest stage. It's the biggest stage for like independent filmmakers. So you feel so close to it
and you're like okay that goal is like within reach it felt like so it was like inspiring
for me to be there and interview people I interview to meet Matt.
And so we we were talking off air about another rising star in media. Our producer Anastasia
she gives me a grimace but she's taken on a very large role producing shows like Busted Pencil pencils
pencils pencils that's six to seven Monday through Friday is that correct. So and then you're
still producing Maggie Don in that's three to four two to four. Two to four. I'm the two to four
weekdays now. Yep. So starting this you're hearing this Saturday. So this coming Monday. Oh my goodness.
Yeah. So big big developments right and and I knew plays a big role. I know in Maggie Don's show
and so it's really so definitely and those shows are very important to us. Busted pencils pencil
pencils. I don't know what is that. I'm gonna have to like get a copyrighted at our ownership
because I think that could go somewhere. Pencil but anyway Busted Pencils and it's a couple great
educators talking about our challenged education system. It's a very important and of course
Maggie Don, a great legal career, great legal mind talking about the important legal and political
issues of the day. And so those are those are must attends if you will here in civic media and
especially at here at WAUK we're honored to have this growing this deep bench of talent here.
So now we're turning to your time at Sundance. Who'd you meet?
We got to interview a long list of people. It's I'm trying to let me the most famous one was
not why am I blanking on his name right now? The most famous one was honestly my favorite interview
because he said a lot of you know actor though right? But it was a final virtue. I know why I
really was nice. So that was probably the most famous one. I don't know if you remember when he
was at the Commodore. Yeah. On my age here. So that was the most famous person we interviewed while
we were there. But we got to interview you know ask your winners. Nice golden globe winners. One of
the clips of I'm blanking on their names. He was so many people. One of the clips from his name
Jesse Eisenberg. He's in the social network. He plays. Oh yeah. He has he's done tons of films.
He's done a lot of good work. Yeah. May I jump in with a film question, Tyrie? Was Jesse Eisenberg
there to promote Sasquatch summer or which? It was a real pain with him and him and
is it Kylie Mondeu against him in that film? It was him and Kieran Culkin in that. Okay. And
he was there for a Sasquatch. Sasquatch pain. But I didn't go to that one because we were going to
his other premier the next day. Sure. Early in the morning. So we didn't end up going to that one.
That's a jarring trailer. If you haven't seen it, it's about big feet that live in the forest.
And it's very weird. I heard it. I heard it. I heard it. I heard it. I heard it too. Sure.
Sure. People who've seen it while they're there. Yeah. And he says some things about Milwaukee
and how he loves Milwaukee. Okay. And that's been a really good clip. That's pretty much one viral.
Oh neat. And you don't expect that type of stuff because when you tell people like,
oh, where did that story from? Sure. You say Milwaukee and then they they have a story or
they have a story about Milwaukee, especially if they're, you know, been doing this for a very long
time. They might have done medium publicity everywhere around the country. So you never know
where somebody's been before. Sure. And he said like the city planner actually took him on a
full tour of the whole city. Oh, that's it. And he's he just talked about how he loved the city
pretty much. That was a cool, that was a cool experience. And uh, yeah. Met Sue Bird. Uh,
she's a WNBA player. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. More time maybe a WBA champion. Uh,
met so many people like, I guess it all becomes like a blur. Sure. Because when you're doing it,
it has to go through your phone and catch the pictures. It's all becomes a blur because you
we did it so much. And uh, each day was just such a rush. Like we're trying to get to this place
that place. And within time frames and stuff like that. And uh, when you do, let's say we do like
13 interviews in a day, yeah, it all becomes like a blur together. It's hard to like remember
what that person name was. Like, did we interview them or did we just meet them while walking around?
Um, uh, another person I met who I did not know had connections to Milwaukee. Uh,
his name's Danny Putty. D was okay. Um, he plays a bed in community. If you ever seen that.
Yeah. Oh, oh, yes. He's a mystic. Well, the young woman who's friends with him in college.
Yeah. We were at her wedding. Nice. So everyone's point. That's a guy from community. Yeah. Yeah.
So that's terrific. So I met him and then I have no idea. He's from Milwaukee. I'm just like,
oh, I'm from Milwaukee. He's like, Oh, I went to market. And it's such a small world like that.
Yeah. You never know. Yeah. Milwaukee's got a great history of talent.
If you're, I mean, this is probably, you know, you may not be old enough to remember those old
naked guns, slapstick movies. Those writers are from Milwaukee. I don't know. They always put war
and spawn the legendary left-handed picture in the cast. And at the end of the movie,
there would be disclaimer that he wasn't in actually in the movie, but he's the greatest left-handed
picture ever. That's so. Yeah. And so that's terrific. We're going to talk more about Milwaukee
and Waukeshaw's great history of talent. And more about local black history here in this
week in Waukeshaw in WAUK 101.1 FM as we approach the second hour. And don't forget to try us on
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