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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm doing and what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I want to think everybody that supports us, our fans
are doing well, and you know you're giving showing us all.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Kinds of love.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
But we got some new family members and I want
to share that before I go into our sponsorship. The
man behind the make May with Great again, the man
behind the getting the schools together and working with the kids,
the man behind a great idea along with his partner
in crime.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
The partner in crime.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
We got Darien Johnson and we got Porsche and we.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Y'all as part of the team.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
They'll be here on the third Thursday of every month,
third Thursday of every month, so y'all, y'all could check
them out.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
With the porch chronicles.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Porch chronicles and we're gonna, uh, they'll be able to
explain to you what the porch chronicles are.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
But let's pay the bills right now.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
The view one of our sponsors, they're gonna have a
what they call a New Year's Eve New Year's Day
hangover brunch, So if you hangover, they're gonna have a
brunch and then they're gonna have a New Year's Eve
party as well. The blue note they're gonna also have
a New Year's Eve party and tasteful. They're gonna have
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a New Year's Eve party, so you guys give them
a call find out the details, dates and times and
stuff like that, and then we're gonna have Stacy Cafe.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
About two weeks ago, they had a live band in
there and it was decent. It was real nice.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So I don't know if they're gonna do a New
Year's thing as of yet, but if we find out,
we would definitely let you guys know. And the dispensaries
you can go eat in there too. They have some
good specials at the dispension at the Village Dispensary in
Broadview Avenue is up and coming. It's still a secret,
but we'll find out what's going on. Last week, how
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did you like to I mean last time we was here,
How did you like the show with Robert Townsend?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I enjoyed him. He was very humble, very modest guy.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
He's Chicago for real real.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And then we got part of our family too, is
the twins, the Daymon and Ragmon, and they're part of
the family and they're gonna be doing this second Thursday,
and then we have uh Jirell David. He's gonna be
doing the youth part of our program. So we're we're ready,
we we we're finish going to twenty twenty six knocking.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Them boots off a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So the Porch Chronicles are here and we're gonna let
them introduce themselves and tell them about themselves and.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Go from there.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I am the host of Porch Chronicles. This is our host,
Darrian Jay. We're from both raised and well raised in
Maywood than friends since grammar school. The podcast came about,
it was originated from Darien Porch Chronicles. I kind of
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came up with that because growing up we sat on
the porch.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
The porch was the thing, like for us on her
part six and Field more Okay, sat on my porch, talked, laugh,
joke played you know all night loan.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
So it was like authentic conversations. You know, we talked
about any and everything. And I was more of the
one of the guys. So I had a porch full
of fellas just talking and listening to their crazy stories.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Raising that seven eight, two eighty nine fifty three. If
you got any questions or you want to know anything
about what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Please give us a call. DJ.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Yeah, look, Bari and J. Well, everybody knows about the Darien.
I'm from Maywood, from a Maywood story, you know. My
family grew up well, my family came from out west
from to may Within seventy six, nineteen seventy six on
eleventh of Field more maybe like the second black family
on the block. So like I made the page because
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I love Maywood, you know what I'm saying. So I can't.
I got a lot of mentors in Maywood, c BB on one.
But I came up well Lexington Lexton Elementary School, you know,
and fifth and Lexington. Yeah, you know everybody, Yeah, you
know what I'm saying. Everybody know what you know?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
So and going and provided with ease you are you know.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You know, you know, So who were some of your mentor.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
So some of my mentors, like I said, c B David, Google,
Connor Coop, a lot of police officers though, because I
used to be in a bas program, right, So I
was not a bad kid, but we used to be
in a bass program and they had a program.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
That out with the kids after school.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
So I was just one of those ones that lashed
on you know, so me growing up without a father.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I lost my father when I was like three years old.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
So I had a lot of I had uncles and
mentors in Maywood. I used to be at every program
after school, you know when it from from the start
to finished, like far as, like Boys and Girls Club,
when the Boys and Girls Club before we had the
building that they called a two hundred building. Now you
know that's the Boys and Girls. I don't call it
two in the building, it's the Boys and Girls Club.
So before we was at the Boys and Girls Club,
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we used to be at Pace and we had you know,
we had them tournaments at Pace. They used to go
we used to go down and we moved that to
Fifth And I think that's when Michael Philly had donated
like fifty thousand to I got like a picture I
posted on make Maywee Great Again when I probably was
like eleven twelve years old, eleven twelve years old, and
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he posted a picture he gave us fifty thousand dollars
to the members.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I was like the tenth members something like that.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
But yeah, I got I got tons of stories when
they come to Maywood.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
But yeah, I'm like I feel like I'm at an
age now.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
I don't like to say it because I'm getting this
great hoods on what But I'm like, I'm at an age.
I can talk about it like I'm a og or something,
but I really want.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
To stay I'm a big bro.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
But you know, I work at the school, and well
you are a big brother to a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
You know.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
But they be like, oh no, I'll be kind of
I'll be feeling. I'll be feeling the way you know
what I'm saying. But yeah, like Porsche said, we used
to be on her ports a lot, hanging out talking
about all types of stuff, you know, learn and stuff
learn stuff that our parents know what we were talking about,
but talking about a whole lot of stuff. So Porscha
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was like a best friend, you know what I'm saying.
And I never really had so many women best friends
like that. So she was a lady that just we
grew up from being boys and girls to grow with
men and women. So she's just always been one hundred
with everything. She don't she don't sugar coat nothing, you know,
so if I'm wrong, she'll tell me I'm wrong, you know.
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So I like that, you know what I'm saying she
always to tell me like, I don't like the you know,
we'll go back and forth, but we always we we
we might argue, but yeah, well we soleidate each other. Yeah,
for sure, one hundred percent. So well she came up
with the name ports Chronicles. I had cause I'm like
this like a conversation, Pet, we were talking, we need
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to put this.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
On, you know, we need to let people know, like
we got a lot of stories.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
So and then actually came about while we were sitting
in the car talking. Yeah, just having uh you know,
authentic conversation.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah for sure. Right.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well, it's one thing about Maywood that attracted me to Maywood.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
It's a very proud town.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
When I came up over here, I've moved here about seventy.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Nine, and you had.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Mister Folks, and you had Grady Rivers, and you had
Solomon Smith, and you had all of the different police
officers that was involved in the community because they had
the baseball teams and all of that stuff. And then
you had the pride of the Pirates. Uh, it was
a prideful town. I mean winning state championships, all American
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basketball players, it was all American football players from Ray
Nishki to uh to Philip Macklin. He was the last
uh well maybe I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, he was missed Illinois.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
He was all American, but uh, Sergio Brown. You got
to all of those guys, and you know, it was
a proud town. Ray Buchanan and I and I and
I kind of fell in love with it because they
were proud. It was a black community, and you had
a lot of leaders. And and for you to be
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a historian, that means a lot. That means you got
to pull out a whole lot of literature.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
So so much like research. I've been researched so much stuff.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
I don't you know about to even the name how
to you know Maywell got his name and like just knowing,
so just finding out so much stuff, you know, like
the underground railroad, running through running through yeah, run through
First Avenue.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
You know a lot of people don't know about that,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
So for you know how people, you know, they grew
up certain places and stuff and they don't have so
much to talk about. Man, we grew up in Maybe
we have a lot to talk about. Yeah, yeah, you know,
so I pride on that, like we have a lot
to talk about. Yeah, you know this twenty one blocks.
So some people might say twenty four, but twenty one
blocks and it's a lot of things we can talk about.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Twenty one blocks long, twenty one block strong for show.
And we got people that live.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
All over the country.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, that got a part of Maywood, Jack and tell
By when you post something in making maywere great again.
All of these people that are not here anymore, they
come back and back and they join in the conversation.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I enjoyed. That's a I enjoy.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
I get too many notifications, so it's kind of hard
to go through, so sometimes I to go back and
try to read certain comments. Man, I enjoy reading comments
like certain people that talk about this and that, Like
I'm you know, I'm born in eighty six. They talking
about some nineteen fifties forties and I'm like, whoa. You know,
I didn't know Maywell had a series down on Fifth
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I didn't know it was three theaters on down Fifth
Avenue in Maywell. I didn't know nothing about that. I
didn't know about the lead Leto Theater and the Yale Theater.
You know, I didn't know nothing about I'm too young.
You know, but then tell me, you know, in the
comments to talk about stuff like that. It was fascinating
to me, right, you know, and I had to do
more research on that, you know, to know about that.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
One of the people that you probably want to talk
to also is Missus Bradley Fife's mother and she's in
the class of sixty something that provides zoise and she
got a lot of history.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
So we'll will try to introduce you to her.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah, because I would love to have on the show.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah and come in. So but now the Porch Chronicle,
we're gonna hear about that. When when you guys were
coming up, were you sharing information that your parents didn't
know about or how did that go?
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Definitely, definitely were sharing information that our parents were unaware
of because those were our friends, were our safe spaces.
If you think about it, I don't know how what
type of relationship you may have had with your mother
and father, or you know, others may have had with
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their mother and father. But even if you have a
close relationship with your parents, they still don't know you, right,
and you really don't know them because there's a lot
of things. It depends on what they've been instilled in
your mind, and you know, the morals that they gave you,
and you may have did something that you were ashamed of.
You can't talk about it with them. You can talk
about it with your friends, you know. So that's most
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of our conversations. Yeah, was things like we got in trouble, or.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
The boys or the girls that we're dealing.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
With, or just even bodily changes, you know, things that
you're going through growing up as a child, you know.
So those are the type of conversations we would have, you.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Know, running around, just running around. They would just getting
all types of trouble.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
You didn't care like these kids, We didn't care how
cold it was outside, how hot it was outside. I
remember we were walking blocks and it was freezing outside.
Just we had hacked cloth song gloves on. But we
stayed outside, just walking talking.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
It was fun.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
It was outside.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Yeah, it's I'll see the transition to working at the
schools and talking to the kids and stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I see how it's so much.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
It's so different now, and I'm trying to uh, because
you got to be able to adjust and adap, you know,
being an eighties baby, we came up and cassettes and
CDs and into m P three's and digital, so I
kind of got both. You know, a lot of kids
on you know, I'll be trying to let them know about,
you know, both sides of the defensive. But at this age,
when you're in your thirties or late thirties, we kind
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of seen everything, so you know, we we I tend
to say that eighties babies are smart, you know, so
we're kind of smart because we've been through the change
or whatever, the transition. So I man so much stuff
that if I said so much stuff I learned in
May would and I take it everywhere go.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
But you learn how to use social media.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh yeah, and that's very important because actual this is
this is my purpose of doing my show and bringing
in my family is because it's time to turn it over. Yeah,
you know, it's time to go young and have the
young people do their thing. I mean, I've been there,
I've done that, but I learned.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
From you guys. I learned a lot. And some of
the things are so creative.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
With this social media stuff and the apps that they
put on there, I can't do it, so I'm not
going to even try to do. But they can make
videos that that that just like professional videos and so
I'm like, okay, let me watch them.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
But I think what I need to do on the
show is bring in some youth.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Bring okay, well, he's referring to y'all too.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
By way, I was.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Out of town.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Look, I was out of town having fun and it
was a lot.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
After that.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Somebody referred me to called so RA s O r
A and they, you know, it's a you can make
AI videos And I basically made a video about my
life and an intervened. I blended it into promotion for
you know, the party, having a party and stuff.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
So and it was fun doing it because you just
speak what.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
You speak and you come up with the scenes yourself
and then it takes about five minutes to produce and
then you.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Just see it.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I think it's dope and scary at the same time.
You know, to be able to create a video up
yourself as you say, your life story. Mind you, everything
is being recorded. So this computer, this phone is listening
to everything that you're saying, anything you're talking about, anything
you're typing, and they're learning you as a person. So
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for them to be able to create that, that's scary.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, because if you feel like they listening.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, they are.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Ain't no feeling.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
They are. They can see you.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
They know everything about you with the social media and
and and even you're sitting at home watching TV, they're
looking at you. That's just how they got it. And
and that's that's part of it. Everything you put on
your phone, they recorded your social Security number, your card number,
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for whatever the case might be. If I order something
on TikTok, they already got my information.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
T tac TikTok whatever. Yeah, so they already got the information.
They hold it, hold it.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And then I'm at home the other day I'm I'm like, man,
I'm getting too many calls. So I get a letter
from a mortgage company and they tell me that they
have all my information and they share it with other
different people. I said, now, what's wrong with you? So
I cust the lady out. Don't share my information with nobody.
So I signed a disclosure. Don't. That's not what you're
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supposed to be doing. That's why I'm getting all these calls.
And since I did that, they haven't been calling me
as much. I still get a few calls, but not
as much. And I say, man, my mortgage company is
against me.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
You did get what I'm saying. So you guys, you
guys have.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
An opportunity to change the game for the younger kids,
to bring them in and that's one of the things
that I'm gonna be doing.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I got some nine, ten.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Eleven year olds that I'm gonna have on the show
and they're gonna have their own show. So that way
the training and things that you do. But they're one
of the things that I'm gonna do is have they
have to have their parents with them, gotta have a
pair with them, and then y'all can have the show
because I'm not gonna be responsible for your child. So
we were just trying to do some things different. But man,
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welcome to the family. And this this makes it easier
for us because it was kind of tough trying to
be here every Thursday.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
And I sit down and I thought about it.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I said, hey, let's give somebody else a chance to
share their thoughts, share their feelings, or whatever the case
might be. Now, any kids, and y'all got any kids?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Oh? Yeah, I have three?
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Three, yes, well, one is not a kid anymore. I
have an adult daughter, she's twenty good. I have a
fifteen year old son and also have a nine year
old son.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Okay, okay, that'll working mother out here.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I got a two year old. That's my baby, Dakota.
That's my baby. I'll be I'll be posting a lot,
you know.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I love I gotta, I love you on. I got
a grand daughter named Dakota, niece named the Cocha.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Y'all do anything, man, that's my baby death. I do
everything for the Golden That's my everything.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
And that and that's what it's all about. Family is
very important, and you know the challenges and the changes
we went up. When you guys are growing up, there
was a uh cocaine epidemic. Crack cocaine was prevalent out here,
and a lot of people you know, got involved in
Some people made it out and some people didn't. So
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you you guys came up in that generation. But now
I noticed that you uh have a campaign for the schools.
What are you trying to do? What is your message
to the for the people in the schools?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Well like far as like well, I've been doing a
lot with Park.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
District though in Mayward though too because my my youngest
brother is the president of the board.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Him and Sterling.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying, yeah, yeah, that's my
that's my man, my guy.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I remember when we were Yeah, yeah, when he was little.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
I ain't told me now, Yeah, but yeah, I've been
working with them. We got a program tomorrow actually for
the kids between four and eight at the Park District tomorrow. Yes,
we're giving away one hundred toys and thirty coats. We
got a few vendors and stuff out there we got.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I wanted the vendors, by the way, I got a
success from Yeah. Look also hot chocolate. I'm donating hot
chocolate for tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Yeah, we're doing you know.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
I love giving back, you know, saying that's something I do.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I do it.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
I don't even put cameras on it. I've been giving
back my whole life. I used to go in California
Harrison all the time and give back and give food
and stuff like that. I just I've just never been
the person that put cameras to it. I never. I
never was into that. A lot of people, like I
had a ex that we used to do it with
me and she'd be like, why you ain't, And I'm like,
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you ever been messed up before? And somebody you asked
them for ten dollars and you want a camera.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
In your face.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
You's like, nah, say exactly, That's why I don't do that.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
So I never was that type of person. I just
always gave back, you know, because you know that's I love.
I love to give back I've been doing. I've been
a person that is shared my everything with my friends.
Growing up. I always gave you know what I'm saying,
because if I look good, you gotta look good too.
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So I've always been that type of person. Everybody I've
been around can vouse for me when it comes to that.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
And a peacemaker too, Yeah, for.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Sure, keep to peace, you know, always trying to be positive.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
We can take it that, but you know I'd rather
be positive, you know what I'm saying. So I like
to bring people together. That's why I used to throw
parties when I was a kid too. I just like
to bring people together, see people smile and have fun
and then talk about it.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Just create memories. I love.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
I love to create memories, you know, because I used
to hear how my uncles to talk about this and
talk about these clubs back in the day at the
rolls and at the you know back how to have fun.
I'm like, look when I get old, I'm finna, I'm
gonna do the same thing. I'm gonna create these memories
so I can have things to talk about with my kids.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Speaking of clubs, you have created a club of your
own for the Proviso Alumni Picnic Club five six seven.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
So I don't know if Chris is aware they have
a whole tent and Proviso Picnic.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Well, this is what I do. Because I'm not a member.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I know what you be walking around everybody and go through.
But you can't miss this test when i'm they have
combined years, what is it, twenty two thousand and five,
six and seven, and they have created a club. I'm
assuming you guys like kind of come together every year.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
We had a committee meeting, right, and.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
They have one big tent. They got their own DJ,
they own drinks, their own food. They pretty much being
there by theyself. I remember last year Toya, and I'm
gonna speak on she's not here. She was with her sisters.
Her sisters are older than her, so they got their
old school tent. She's talking about y'all born. I'm gonna
go to the club and she was talking about.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Darius tit what's what's she called five? Club seven is
in the park. That's love.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
So the whole parts it's section off in years, right,
so you got the fifty sixty.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Seventy nineties, the millennium.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
So we got we on the side where the millennium
was at, right, So we came together. We came together.
I had a person from O seven contact me, asked
me to combine, and I talked to people that from
six and like, let's just do it together.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
And we came together like three years ago.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
And we've been getting the cracking and ever since three
or four years ago and were getting cracking ever since.
We get we you know, come and get a few
donations from the class and then we put our own
money and we.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Get food and drinks. Keep the drinks.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Everybody be out there, well be having people that's not
fun enough.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
They're not They didn't.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Even go to East They out of there. No, it's
been it's been like two three thousand. They've been out
there deep, super deep, super deep.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
So I think it's an awesome thing. So definitely keep
it going and hopefully, you know, as the years go on,
more people are donating, so you're not having to come
out of your pocket, cause I don't feel I feel
like you shouldn't have to come out of your pocket.
So it's enough of us to donate ten and twenty
dollars here and there, and people, you know, sometimes they
got to see it, you know, before they can actually
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come out of their pockets. But my thing is, you
want to have a great time. It don't cost you much,
like you say.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
And stuff, but we've been putting it together.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Seven O eight two two three eighty nine fifty three.
Seven O eight two two three eighty nine fifty three.
Call in if you have any questions for Porsche or
DJ and you know they'll answer them. We I'm, I'm, I'm,
I'm pitching the cold Horse.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
I got you. You ain't picnics, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
So you won't come on out, You won't look down
at the fat field and see all.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
He's probably like past by but didn't know exactly what
was going on inside the town.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
No I haven't, I haven't seen. Well.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
See this is another thing too. I come early. Say,
like I walked from my house I live in Westchester.
I walked from my house straight down Roosevelt nowhere, make uh,
make my rounds and then come back out.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I'm not the morning.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Yeah, so you're walking straight through or you jump on
the bus here and there ain't no bus.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
That's my exercise down.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
That's good, that's good for me, great, But I never
knew that that's what you That's all I do.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
That's all right, get up that morning.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
The same thing that they do with the tailgate for
the football they have it in Yeah, that same area,
and I walk down there too. But yeah, no I've
never seen it. But it's interesting now since you said it,
I'm gonna make sure making my business.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Gotta have a wristband, I think to get up there.
But what I'm gonna need you to do this year,
next year, twenty twenty six, there is shut that thing
down at five thirty. We have to have a police
come pull at the park. It be a lot of them.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
You got it good like that?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah, well, I guess you and your brothers, you know, my.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Cousins off from my westby.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
Yeah, it'd be super deep down there, super dupid, and
we'll be having DJ Devil he makes and he getting
the crack and he getting the crawd going, and then we.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Can go home.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Nobody wants to Nobody be wanting to go home for
a little I'm not picnic, to be honest.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
My mom, stay on that little cart coming down on
our side, cracking over here, like they eating salmon croquetes
down here, y'all over they got they cooking tacos down.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I don't know if to call your mama, my sister,
or my daughter, because she is something special. She makes
sure she look out for some Chris Brown. Anything that
go down come to me here.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
She's just been so much fun. Ever since I came
to Maywood, she's been great. And uh, your brothers Jan
and Darius, I mean just just good people.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
With Gene Moore, Yeah, it's been a black That's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
It's with me, it's been a it's been a blast
in Maywood for sure. My brother, my brother, grandfather e
Gene Moore, that's you know, his nickname is Maywood's son.
So I've been you know eleventh and what's that van
Buren uh named after him? You know, he got the
street named after him.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
We I've seen a lot.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Yeah, yeah, like as far as politicians and stuff, I've seen.
I remember him introduced me to Michelle and Barack Obama
when he was running for States Senate in Illinois.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
You know, I've been everywhere, done everything. You know.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
They family is very big in Maywood too, the Rails,
the Robinsons.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
You know, it made what his deep you know what
I'm saying a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
But he when I came to Maywood, and uh, it
was Ted Leverance. You got to look him up. He
was the state senator, state rep. And Jeane Moore decided.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
To run for office. And I watched this man walk Maywood,
go to door to door to door.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Introducing itself to people. And when he got in got
in office, he brought people along with him, kimberly like
Chris Welch.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
All of them.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
And Maywood has been one of the strongest towns in
the whole state of Illinois.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
We are known. Everybody in Illinois know where it Maywood is. Yeah, everybody.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah. But I mean he brought people along with him.
He gave him her first start. She was the trustee,
then she went to the state side and now she's
the U.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Sending majority leader majority leader.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
She's very powerful.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Chris Well, she is the UH representative, the he s
he's the speaker of the house. You got powerful before
Caring y'all bro passed away, she was running the Cook
County and the Clerk's office, and man, we got a
lot of powerful things, and now we just got to
put it together.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
To put it together the right way.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
I've been That's why I made the page, and I've
been voice in my opinion, you know, on the page
about a lot of stuff from a different perspective.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
You know, I'll be having a lot to say.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
A lot of people might not like it, you know,
but you have to have a person that can come from.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
A different direction.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Yeah, because Maywood is a sports town, like you said,
and that's that's what made Maywood great.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Yeah, So I had a person. I had a person.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
I was wondering why I started that page and said
and asked me when was Maywood great?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
And they had to break it down when when?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
When it was it's always been great and it was
still great?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Answer that question?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
No, And I came up into the early two thousands.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
I can tell you about if I said, I tell
you about the basket program, I can tell you about
the Boys and Girls Club, I can tell you about
these I can tell you about the early two thousands
when we had back to back mister Illinois you know
who that those two guys Brown and that other kid kid,
you know, and I was I was a freshman when
Shannon was a junior and d was a singing Yeah,
(29:28):
I bet you know.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
I used to being in your house office. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
You know one of my friends, Courtney is you know, yeah,
I think that's your exs cousin.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
So I've been around, you know what I'm saying. I've
seen a lot. That's when it was great. I used
to man, listen when Shannon was at East College, coaches
was walking around and like it was regular. I remember.
I remember at the Christmas tournament. I was sitting next
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to time. His assistant was a black guy, tall black.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Guy, and every and and Shannon was playing his Hubbard.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
You know, he was going crazy.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
And I remember Thomas a study study tapping the guy
next to him, just tapping on his leg. And I
didn't think he was gonna go to Michigan State. I
ain't gonna like you know what, you know. I thought
he was gonna go Louisville because Rick was done. When
I seen Rick Patino come to the East for a
basketball game and crossed them legs like that and was watching.
It was like, listen, it's serious that you know. That's
(30:28):
when Provis East was a powerhouse school. To the point
it was people who couldn't even make the team. We
was on the team. We wore them shirt jerseys. It
was people who could have made the team, but it
was just not enough room. Like that's what I'm talking about.
You Maywell was so great.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
The twenty one Blacks were producing so many.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
Basketball players, so many football players, baseball players. Yeah, Jason Gibson,
you know, he got the athletic connection, but they were
some athletes, you know what I'm saying. So I came
up and that's when I could talk about it so much.
From the early two thousands was extreme.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Yeah. So like Maywell was really great man, early two
thousand for me.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeah, And you know what it is is that the
tradition kept going and it keeps going and we're still
filling it out. When you start in the nineties with
the Three Amigo's and Michael Finley and all of that,
and they gave back, they came back, talked to the kids,
and I needsed to coach at East now, but nobody knew,
and I told him this, not in the history of
(31:25):
the NBA have anybody from the same that lived in
the same town, products of the same grammar school, district
ety nine and products of Proviso Ways two O nine
won four NBA championships in a row, Michael Finley in
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two thousand and seven, Doc Rivers in two thousand and eight,
and Shannon got lucky and got two and two thousand
and nine, two thousand and two, four in a row.
That you can't you can't get no better than that.
Nobody in the world could say that.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
That's what I'm saying. Great, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
That's what's That's what it's gonna take somebody like yourself
to continue to keep the legacy going because some people will,
you know, they forget, and that's it takes for someone
like yourself to keep reminding people exactly what may would represents.
Now with the Porch Chronicles, what are some of the
conversations or guests that you are committed to having on
(32:29):
your show.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
So we're gonna be like all over the place, because
I'm so I'm all about being organic, right, So I
want to talk about everything, family relationships, outside community, stuff, sports,
everything like that's how you know when we when you're
on the phone or when you on the porch, those
conversations go all types of places, you know, that's what
(32:52):
makes it that But that's what makes it so organic.
Bed We didn't talk about everything, but then the next
day we're talking about something different. So that's what we
wanted to be more organic, you know, having guests on
from all types of people, you know.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
The meeting place like Connie Bradley is her name, that's
who I want.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You to get on the show.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
She's a historian. She got a lot of stuff I want. Yeah,
so it's gonna be interesting. That's why I want to
turn the show. Y'all have fun. And what we do
this is the love line. Anybody call in, they won't
talk to us. They got to call the love line
seven o eight two. So but and I'm gonna tell
(33:35):
you what makes it easier for me to when you
got good help, Well, I see.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
You got good help, and I got good help. And
you know, each show is gonna be different.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
You got your own spill, your own show or whatever
the case might be.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
And I'm proud of you I'm proud of both of
y'all to even come up with this, to even join
the family, to even say, hey, man.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Yeah we got you, Chris, I got your c B.
So you know.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
And I had a birthday party at yours. Oh my god.
The whole day, I know, we was like, yeah, I
appreciate Chopper and uh in.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Cleveland, chopping in Cleveland. I appreciate you guys too, and uh, you.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Know, and I will say this you. I'm sure you
probably know because you see it a lot. But your mother.
I watched her when you walked in the door, her
just smiling. She was so happy to see her son
walk through the door. I know, you know your mama
love you. But it's just funny how just to see
other moms do that, because I found myself staring at
my kids sometimes I'm obsessed. And I think Carly is
(34:43):
obsessed with her boy. She said, I'm like that with
all of you.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
She a good girl. Yeah, Carl, Yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
That's makes a lot of sense. My twenty three year old,
same thing.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
We got a party. We got a party tomorrow, two
of yours.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
We throw parties up there on Fridays, like after work,
set you can come after work drink, chill, just relax,
you know what I'm saying, seven dollars signature drinks between
nine and ten.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Yours Cafe Cafe and b Stros that.
Speaker 7 (35:13):
One one five South Fifth. We we've been up.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
To every Friday, fifteen one one five five. Yeah, and
we've been up to like five Fridays.
Speaker 7 (35:22):
I think it was six Fridays now and it's been
pretty it's been it's been pretty cool. We had our
birthday parties. It was see you were the first person
to come. They came in and he came in. Yeah,
chopped that for a second year. Yeah, he was yep.
And it's been pretty cool. We've been showing love to
everybody in Maywell. We're trying to bring Look, my man,
(35:43):
my man j Name was like, uh, we're trying to
turn Fifth into the Bill Street, you know, just having
to lit down Fifth because that's Maywood downtown, you know,
and I've never seen Maywood have that, like when the
old heads be talking and uh in the in the
group page about how Maywood that was the downtown mayweod
But so.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
I want to bring that back, you know, bring that back.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
And have that type of atmosphere and in Maywood and
people can come to Maywood and have fun, you know,
because at the time people was called in Maywood a
name that I don't like people to say. So I
want I want people to change it up, you know
what I'm saying, Like, Hey, we love to come to
Mayble to have a nice time.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna have you and Porsche, y'all
gonna be a part of that Black.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
And Lines network.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
It's called band.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
We're gonna bring all of.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
All the clubs and all the business owners and everybody
together and we're gonna talk about how we can make
money for each other. Yeah, now, what do you want
to say to the audience?
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
And and let them know what you're trying to accomplish
and how you need them to support you.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Just support Porsch Chronicles conversation.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
But we we are too genuine people, and we.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Some of the portion she wanted. Really, ladies out. I'm
just being honest.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
I'm over here like.
Speaker 7 (37:06):
She is, Like she's one of the kind, you know
what I'm saying. So uh, I never you know, she
she can hold our own and when a woman can
hold on with men, that's powerful, you know what I'm saying.
So she's our righte wise. You know, she can call me.
She knows she called me. She didn't call us some crazy,
(37:28):
but she could call me and our ride for her,
you know.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
So that's why we are.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
We're a dynamic team, you know, dynamic duo, dynamic duo.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
And you know she I run the walls for it.
She needs me to.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
You all can see he has the mouthpiece.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Well, you gotta talk on this show, you gotta, you
gotta exactly she will.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
I think she's planning on it.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
I do.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
I do plan on it because it's really out of
my ordinary. I'm not a public speaker, shall I say,
you know, and it's to help me to get out
my sh know, although I have to do it sometimes
in my in my career. But you know, this hall
helped me, you know, advance and growth with my public speaking.
(38:10):
But which is why I'm here.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
So yeah, I'm gonna talk once I talk.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Once I get to talking, she's gonna jump in.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
I'll engage of course with the chronicles. Are there gonna
be some topics that you are not going to be
afraid to talk about? And if so, what are some
of those topics?
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Go ahead, go ahead. We were talking.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
Oh, of like yesterday when we were having our conversations,
you know, some of the hardest conversations I'm not afraid
to talk about. You know. For instance, of course, a
lot of the podcasts now are based off relationships, you know,
based off relationships, based off gender and you know things.
(39:01):
But at the end, double standards, double standards of course
about how you know here like me and and women
nowadays they are basically against each other, you know, they're
not coming together, which is painful. But you know, so
some of those are those will be some of our standpoints.
Speaker 7 (39:22):
Yeah, I really believe, I really believe that economy kind
of messed it up for black women and women, you
know what I'm saying because like a lot of women want,
you know, the man to do this and do that and.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Be a provider, and I don't. I think men never
stop being.
Speaker 7 (39:36):
Provided, right, It's just got harder, you know, because you
know they say, well, granddad and grandma. I've seen my
granddaddy work at a maintenance man at a warehouse for
forty six years. But he had a house in Lumbard.
He was the only black man and on a black
you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
No one.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
Custodia.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
You know, have three f cars people in the backyard
even no it don't you know. The grass was a
set sixty cent, bread was forty cent. You can do
a lot, you know, and it's different now.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
So people got to start being a lot more realistic.
Speaker 7 (40:10):
Yeah, so you got women and that's that'll be a
lot of stuff. But women got to learn how to adjust.
So yeah, men, men, men, men, adjust. That's what we do.
That's why we're good teammates. That's why we play sports.
You know, we're good at adjusting and adapting. And I
feel like that's the problem right now. Well, it's about
adapting andstin Listen.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
I excited excited about you being a part of the
Family of Love movement team.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Uh and I wish you all the luck in the world. Y'all.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Remember every third Thursday, they will be on this show
and they will be doing their thing and we appreciate them.
And as we close our wander we I just want
to say, listen in my closing, treat people the way
they want to be treated, and never give up, because
if you give up, then you you it's over with.
(41:02):
So if you don't give up, you keep going. So
God bless you. We appreciate you, guys.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Thank you for coming.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
We're gonna we're gonna do this. We're gonna have some
fun with this thing.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
All right, and continue to make me it with great
again for sure. Intellectual Radio dot Com love movie podcast.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
Out Pretty Girl. Just fun to
I'm doing and what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I want to think everybody that supports us, our fans
are doing well, and you know you're giving showing us all.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Kinds of love.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
But we got some new family members and I want
to share that before I go into our sponsorship. The
man behind the make May with Great again, the man
behind the getting the schools together and working with the kids,
the man behind a great idea along with his partner
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
The partner in crime.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
We got Darien Johnson and we got Porsche and we.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Y'all as part of the team.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
They'll be here on the third Thursday of every month,
third Thursday of every month, so y'all, y'all could check
them out.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
With the porch chronicles.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Porch chronicles and we're gonna, uh, they'll be able to
explain to you what the porch chronicles are.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
But let's pay the bills right now.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
The view one of our sponsors, they're gonna have a
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a New Year's Eve party and tasteful. They're gonna have
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a New Year's Eve party, so you guys give them
a call find out the details, dates and times and
stuff like that, and then we're gonna have Stacy Cafe.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
About two weeks ago, they had a live band in
there and it was decent. It was real nice.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So I don't know if they're gonna do a New
Year's thing as of yet, but if we find out,
we would definitely let you guys know. And the dispensaries
you can go eat in there too. They have some
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Broadview Avenue is up and coming. It's still a secret,
but we'll find out what's going on. Last week, how
(01:58):
did you like to I mean last time we was here,
How did you like the show with Robert Townsend?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I enjoyed him. He was very humble, very modest guy.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
He's Chicago for real real.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And then we got part of our family too, is
the twins, the Daymon and Ragmon, and they're part of
the family and they're gonna be doing this second Thursday,
and then we have uh Jirell David. He's gonna be
doing the youth part of our program. So we're we're ready,
we we we're finish going to twenty twenty six knocking.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Them boots off a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So the Porch Chronicles are here and we're gonna let
them introduce themselves and tell them about themselves and.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Go from there.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I am the host of Porch Chronicles. This is our host,
Darrian Jay. We're from both raised and well raised in
Maywood than friends since grammar school. The podcast came about,
it was originated from Darien Porch Chronicles. I kind of
(03:11):
came up with that because growing up we sat on
the porch.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
The porch was the thing, like for us on her
part six and Field more Okay, sat on my porch, talked, laugh,
joke played you know all night loan.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
So it was like authentic conversations. You know, we talked
about any and everything. And I was more of the
one of the guys. So I had a porch full
of fellas just talking and listening to their crazy stories.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Raising that seven eight, two eighty nine fifty three. If
you got any questions or you want to know anything
about what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Please give us a call. DJ.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Yeah, look, Bari and J. Well, everybody knows about the Darien.
I'm from Maywood, from a Maywood story, you know. My
family grew up well, my family came from out west
from to may Within seventy six, nineteen seventy six on
eleventh of Field more maybe like the second black family
on the block. So like I made the page because
(04:17):
I love Maywood, you know what I'm saying. So I can't.
I got a lot of mentors in Maywood, c BB on one.
But I came up well Lexington Lexton Elementary School, you know,
and fifth and Lexington. Yeah, you know everybody, Yeah, you
know what I'm saying. Everybody know what you know?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
So and going and provided with ease you are you know.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You know, you know, So who were some of your mentor.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
So some of my mentors, like I said, c B David, Google,
Connor Coop, a lot of police officers though, because I
used to be in a bas program, right, So I
was not a bad kid, but we used to be
in a bass program and they had a program.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
That out with the kids after school.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
So I was just one of those ones that lashed
on you know, so me growing up without a father.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I lost my father when I was like three years old.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
So I had a lot of I had uncles and
mentors in Maywood. I used to be at every program
after school, you know when it from from the start
to finished, like far as, like Boys and Girls Club,
when the Boys and Girls Club before we had the
building that they called a two hundred building. Now you
know that's the Boys and Girls. I don't call it
two in the building, it's the Boys and Girls Club.
So before we was at the Boys and Girls Club,
(05:31):
we used to be at Pace and we had you know,
we had them tournaments at Pace. They used to go
we used to go down and we moved that to
Fifth And I think that's when Michael Philly had donated
like fifty thousand to I got like a picture I
posted on make Maywee Great Again when I probably was
like eleven twelve years old, eleven twelve years old, and
(05:53):
he posted a picture he gave us fifty thousand dollars
to the members.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I was like the tenth members something like that.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
But yeah, I got I got tons of stories when
they come to Maywood.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
But yeah, I'm like I feel like I'm at an
age now.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
I don't like to say it because I'm getting this
great hoods on what But I'm like, I'm at an age.
I can talk about it like I'm a og or something,
but I really want.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
To stay I'm a big bro.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
But you know, I work at the school, and well
you are a big brother to a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
You know.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
But they be like, oh no, I'll be kind of
I'll be feeling. I'll be feeling the way you know
what I'm saying. But yeah, like Porsche said, we used
to be on her ports a lot, hanging out talking
about all types of stuff, you know, learn and stuff
learn stuff that our parents know what we were talking about,
but talking about a whole lot of stuff. So Porscha
(06:44):
was like a best friend, you know what I'm saying.
And I never really had so many women best friends
like that. So she was a lady that just we
grew up from being boys and girls to grow with
men and women. So she's just always been one hundred
with everything. She don't she don't sugar coat nothing, you know,
so if I'm wrong, she'll tell me I'm wrong, you know.
(07:06):
So I like that, you know what I'm saying she
always to tell me like, I don't like the you know,
we'll go back and forth, but we always we we
we might argue, but yeah, well we soleidate each other. Yeah,
for sure, one hundred percent. So well she came up
with the name ports Chronicles. I had cause I'm like
this like a conversation, Pet, we were talking, we need
(07:27):
to put this.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
On, you know, we need to let people know, like
we got a lot of stories.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
So and then actually came about while we were sitting
in the car talking. Yeah, just having uh you know,
authentic conversation.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah for sure. Right.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well, it's one thing about Maywood that attracted me to Maywood.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
It's a very proud town.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
When I came up over here, I've moved here about seventy.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Nine, and you had.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Mister Folks, and you had Grady Rivers, and you had
Solomon Smith, and you had all of the different police
officers that was involved in the community because they had
the baseball teams and all of that stuff. And then
you had the pride of the Pirates. Uh, it was
a prideful town. I mean winning state championships, all American
(08:12):
basketball players, it was all American football players from Ray
Nishki to uh to Philip Macklin. He was the last
uh well maybe I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, he was missed Illinois.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
He was all American, but uh, Sergio Brown. You got
to all of those guys, and you know, it was
a proud town. Ray Buchanan and I and I and
I kind of fell in love with it because they
were proud. It was a black community, and you had
a lot of leaders. And and for you to be
(08:49):
a historian, that means a lot. That means you got
to pull out a whole lot of literature.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
So so much like research. I've been researched so much stuff.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
I don't you know about to even the name how
to you know Maywell got his name and like just knowing,
so just finding out so much stuff, you know, like
the underground railroad, running through running through yeah, run through
First Avenue.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
You know a lot of people don't know about that,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
So for you know how people, you know, they grew
up certain places and stuff and they don't have so
much to talk about. Man, we grew up in Maybe
we have a lot to talk about. Yeah, yeah, you know,
so I pride on that, like we have a lot
to talk about. Yeah, you know this twenty one blocks.
So some people might say twenty four, but twenty one
blocks and it's a lot of things we can talk about.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Twenty one blocks long, twenty one block strong for show.
And we got people that live.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
All over the country.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, that got a part of Maywood, Jack and tell
By when you post something in making maywere great again.
All of these people that are not here anymore, they
come back and back and they join in the conversation.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I enjoyed. That's a I enjoy.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
I get too many notifications, so it's kind of hard
to go through, so sometimes I to go back and
try to read certain comments. Man, I enjoy reading comments
like certain people that talk about this and that, Like
I'm you know, I'm born in eighty six. They talking
about some nineteen fifties forties and I'm like, whoa. You know,
I didn't know Maywell had a series down on Fifth
(10:18):
I didn't know it was three theaters on down Fifth
Avenue in Maywell. I didn't know nothing about that. I
didn't know about the lead Leto Theater and the Yale Theater.
You know, I didn't know nothing about I'm too young.
You know, but then tell me, you know, in the
comments to talk about stuff like that. It was fascinating
to me, right, you know, and I had to do
more research on that, you know, to know about that.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
One of the people that you probably want to talk
to also is Missus Bradley Fife's mother and she's in
the class of sixty something that provides zoise and she
got a lot of history.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
So we'll will try to introduce you to her.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah, because I would love to have on the show.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah and come in. So but now the Porch Chronicle,
we're gonna hear about that. When when you guys were
coming up, were you sharing information that your parents didn't
know about or how did that go?
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Definitely, definitely were sharing information that our parents were unaware
of because those were our friends, were our safe spaces.
If you think about it, I don't know how what
type of relationship you may have had with your mother
and father, or you know, others may have had with
(11:36):
their mother and father. But even if you have a
close relationship with your parents, they still don't know you, right,
and you really don't know them because there's a lot
of things. It depends on what they've been instilled in
your mind, and you know, the morals that they gave you,
and you may have did something that you were ashamed of.
You can't talk about it with them. You can talk
about it with your friends, you know. So that's most
(11:59):
of our conversations. Yeah, was things like we got in trouble, or.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
The boys or the girls that we're dealing.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
With, or just even bodily changes, you know, things that
you're going through growing up as a child, you know.
So those are the type of conversations we would have, you.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Know, running around, just running around. They would just getting
all types of trouble.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
You didn't care like these kids, We didn't care how
cold it was outside, how hot it was outside. I
remember we were walking blocks and it was freezing outside.
Just we had hacked cloth song gloves on. But we
stayed outside, just walking talking.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
It was fun.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
It was outside.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Yeah, it's I'll see the transition to working at the
schools and talking to the kids and stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I see how it's so much.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
It's so different now, and I'm trying to uh, because
you got to be able to adjust and adap, you know,
being an eighties baby, we came up and cassettes and
CDs and into m P three's and digital, so I
kind of got both. You know, a lot of kids
on you know, I'll be trying to let them know about,
you know, both sides of the defensive. But at this age,
when you're in your thirties or late thirties, we kind
(13:10):
of seen everything, so you know, we we I tend
to say that eighties babies are smart, you know, so
we're kind of smart because we've been through the change
or whatever, the transition. So I man so much stuff
that if I said so much stuff I learned in
May would and I take it everywhere go.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
But you learn how to use social media.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh yeah, and that's very important because actual this is
this is my purpose of doing my show and bringing
in my family is because it's time to turn it over. Yeah,
you know, it's time to go young and have the
young people do their thing. I mean, I've been there,
I've done that, but I learned.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
From you guys. I learned a lot. And some of
the things are so creative.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
With this social media stuff and the apps that they
put on there, I can't do it, so I'm not
going to even try to do. But they can make
videos that that that just like professional videos and so
I'm like, okay, let me watch them.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
But I think what I need to do on the
show is bring in some youth.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Bring okay, well, he's referring to y'all too.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
By way, I was.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Out of town.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Look, I was out of town having fun and it
was a lot.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
After that.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Somebody referred me to called so RA s O r
A and they, you know, it's a you can make
AI videos And I basically made a video about my
life and an intervened. I blended it into promotion for
you know, the party, having a party and stuff.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
So and it was fun doing it because you just
speak what.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
You speak and you come up with the scenes yourself
and then it takes about five minutes to produce and
then you.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Just see it.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I think it's dope and scary at the same time.
You know, to be able to create a video up
yourself as you say, your life story. Mind you, everything
is being recorded. So this computer, this phone is listening
to everything that you're saying, anything you're talking about, anything
you're typing, and they're learning you as a person. So
(15:13):
for them to be able to create that, that's scary.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, because if you feel like they listening.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, they are.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Ain't no feeling.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
They are. They can see you.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
They know everything about you with the social media and
and and even you're sitting at home watching TV, they're
looking at you. That's just how they got it. And
and that's that's part of it. Everything you put on
your phone, they recorded your social Security number, your card number,
(15:43):
for whatever the case might be. If I order something
on TikTok, they already got my information.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
T tac TikTok whatever. Yeah, so they already got the information.
They hold it, hold it.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And then I'm at home the other day I'm I'm like, man,
I'm getting too many calls. So I get a letter
from a mortgage company and they tell me that they
have all my information and they share it with other
different people. I said, now, what's wrong with you? So
I cust the lady out. Don't share my information with nobody.
So I signed a disclosure. Don't. That's not what you're
(16:20):
supposed to be doing. That's why I'm getting all these calls.
And since I did that, they haven't been calling me
as much. I still get a few calls, but not
as much. And I say, man, my mortgage company is
against me.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
You did get what I'm saying. So you guys, you
guys have.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
An opportunity to change the game for the younger kids,
to bring them in and that's one of the things
that I'm gonna be doing.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I got some nine, ten.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Eleven year olds that I'm gonna have on the show
and they're gonna have their own show. So that way
the training and things that you do. But they're one
of the things that I'm gonna do is have they
have to have their parents with them, gotta have a
pair with them, and then y'all can have the show
because I'm not gonna be responsible for your child. So
we were just trying to do some things different. But man,
(17:09):
welcome to the family. And this this makes it easier
for us because it was kind of tough trying to
be here every Thursday.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
And I sit down and I thought about it.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I said, hey, let's give somebody else a chance to
share their thoughts, share their feelings, or whatever the case
might be. Now, any kids, and y'all got any kids?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Oh? Yeah, I have three?
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Three, yes, well, one is not a kid anymore. I
have an adult daughter, she's twenty good. I have a
fifteen year old son and also have a nine year
old son.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Okay, okay, that'll working mother out here.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I got a two year old. That's my baby, Dakota.
That's my baby. I'll be I'll be posting a lot,
you know.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I love I gotta, I love you on. I got
a grand daughter named Dakota, niece named the Cocha.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Y'all do anything, man, that's my baby death. I do
everything for the Golden That's my everything.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
And that and that's what it's all about. Family is
very important, and you know the challenges and the changes
we went up. When you guys are growing up, there
was a uh cocaine epidemic. Crack cocaine was prevalent out here,
and a lot of people you know, got involved in
Some people made it out and some people didn't. So
(18:27):
you you guys came up in that generation. But now
I noticed that you uh have a campaign for the schools.
What are you trying to do? What is your message
to the for the people in the schools?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Well like far as like well, I've been doing a
lot with Park.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
District though in Mayward though too because my my youngest
brother is the president of the board.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Him and Sterling.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying, yeah, yeah, that's my
that's my man, my guy.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I remember when we were Yeah, yeah, when he was little.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
I ain't told me now, Yeah, but yeah, I've been
working with them. We got a program tomorrow actually for
the kids between four and eight at the Park District tomorrow. Yes,
we're giving away one hundred toys and thirty coats. We
got a few vendors and stuff out there we got.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I wanted the vendors, by the way, I got a
success from Yeah. Look also hot chocolate. I'm donating hot
chocolate for tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Yeah, we're doing you know.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
I love giving back, you know, saying that's something I do.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I do it.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
I don't even put cameras on it. I've been giving
back my whole life. I used to go in California
Harrison all the time and give back and give food
and stuff like that. I just I've just never been
the person that put cameras to it. I never. I
never was into that. A lot of people, like I
had a ex that we used to do it with
me and she'd be like, why you ain't, And I'm like,
(20:00):
you ever been messed up before? And somebody you asked
them for ten dollars and you want a camera.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
In your face.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
You's like, nah, say exactly, That's why I don't do that.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
So I never was that type of person. I just
always gave back, you know, because you know that's I love.
I love to give back I've been doing. I've been
a person that is shared my everything with my friends.
Growing up. I always gave you know what I'm saying,
because if I look good, you gotta look good too.
(20:27):
So I've always been that type of person. Everybody I've
been around can vouse for me when it comes to that.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
And a peacemaker too, Yeah, for.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Sure, keep to peace, you know, always trying to be positive.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
We can take it that, but you know I'd rather
be positive, you know what I'm saying. So I like
to bring people together. That's why I used to throw
parties when I was a kid too. I just like
to bring people together, see people smile and have fun
and then talk about it.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Just create memories. I love.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
I love to create memories, you know, because I used
to hear how my uncles to talk about this and
talk about these clubs back in the day at the
rolls and at the you know back how to have fun.
I'm like, look when I get old, I'm finna, I'm
gonna do the same thing. I'm gonna create these memories
so I can have things to talk about with my kids.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Speaking of clubs, you have created a club of your
own for the Proviso Alumni Picnic Club five six seven.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
So I don't know if Chris is aware they have
a whole tent and Proviso Picnic.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Well, this is what I do. Because I'm not a member.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I know what you be walking around everybody and go through.
But you can't miss this test when i'm they have
combined years, what is it, twenty two thousand and five,
six and seven, and they have created a club. I'm
assuming you guys like kind of come together every year.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
We had a committee meeting, right, and.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
They have one big tent. They got their own DJ,
they own drinks, their own food. They pretty much being
there by theyself. I remember last year Toya, and I'm
gonna speak on she's not here. She was with her sisters.
Her sisters are older than her, so they got their
old school tent. She's talking about y'all born. I'm gonna
go to the club and she was talking about.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Darius tit what's what's she called five? Club seven is
in the park. That's love.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
So the whole parts it's section off in years, right,
so you got the fifty sixty.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Seventy nineties, the millennium.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
So we got we on the side where the millennium
was at, right, So we came together. We came together.
I had a person from O seven contact me, asked
me to combine, and I talked to people that from
six and like, let's just do it together.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
And we came together like three years ago.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
And we've been getting the cracking and ever since three
or four years ago and were getting cracking ever since.
We get we you know, come and get a few
donations from the class and then we put our own
money and we.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Get food and drinks. Keep the drinks.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Everybody be out there, well be having people that's not
fun enough.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
They're not They didn't.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Even go to East They out of there. No, it's
been it's been like two three thousand. They've been out
there deep, super deep, super deep.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
So I think it's an awesome thing. So definitely keep
it going and hopefully, you know, as the years go on,
more people are donating, so you're not having to come
out of your pocket, cause I don't feel I feel
like you shouldn't have to come out of your pocket.
So it's enough of us to donate ten and twenty
dollars here and there, and people, you know, sometimes they
got to see it, you know, before they can actually
(23:35):
come out of their pockets. But my thing is, you
want to have a great time. It don't cost you much,
like you say.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
And stuff, but we've been putting it together.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Seven O eight two two three eighty nine fifty three.
Seven O eight two two three eighty nine fifty three.
Call in if you have any questions for Porsche or
DJ and you know they'll answer them. We I'm, I'm, I'm,
I'm pitching the cold Horse.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
I got you. You ain't picnics, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
So you won't come on out, You won't look down
at the fat field and see all.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
He's probably like past by but didn't know exactly what
was going on inside the town.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
No I haven't, I haven't seen. Well.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
See this is another thing too. I come early. Say,
like I walked from my house I live in Westchester.
I walked from my house straight down Roosevelt nowhere, make uh,
make my rounds and then come back out.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I'm not the morning.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Yeah, so you're walking straight through or you jump on
the bus here and there ain't no bus.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
That's my exercise down.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
That's good, that's good for me, great, But I never
knew that that's what you That's all I do.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
That's all right, get up that morning.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
The same thing that they do with the tailgate for
the football they have it in Yeah, that same area,
and I walk down there too. But yeah, no I've
never seen it. But it's interesting now since you said it,
I'm gonna make sure making my business.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Gotta have a wristband, I think to get up there.
But what I'm gonna need you to do this year,
next year, twenty twenty six, there is shut that thing
down at five thirty. We have to have a police
come pull at the park. It be a lot of them.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
You got it good like that?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah, well, I guess you and your brothers, you know, my.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Cousins off from my westby.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
Yeah, it'd be super deep down there, super dupid, and
we'll be having DJ Devil he makes and he getting
the crack and he getting the crawd going, and then we.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Can go home.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Nobody wants to Nobody be wanting to go home for
a little I'm not picnic, to be honest.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
My mom, stay on that little cart coming down on
our side, cracking over here, like they eating salmon croquetes
down here, y'all over they got they cooking tacos down.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I don't know if to call your mama, my sister,
or my daughter, because she is something special. She makes
sure she look out for some Chris Brown. Anything that
go down come to me here.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
She's just been so much fun. Ever since I came
to Maywood, she's been great. And uh, your brothers Jan
and Darius, I mean just just good people.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
With Gene Moore, Yeah, it's been a black That's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
It's with me, it's been a it's been a blast
in Maywood for sure. My brother, my brother, grandfather e
Gene Moore, that's you know, his nickname is Maywood's son.
So I've been you know eleventh and what's that van
Buren uh named after him? You know, he got the
street named after him.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
We I've seen a lot.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Yeah, yeah, like as far as politicians and stuff, I've seen.
I remember him introduced me to Michelle and Barack Obama
when he was running for States Senate in Illinois.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
You know, I've been everywhere, done everything. You know.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
They family is very big in Maywood too, the Rails,
the Robinsons.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
You know, it made what his deep you know what
I'm saying a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
But he when I came to Maywood, and uh, it
was Ted Leverance. You got to look him up. He
was the state senator, state rep. And Jeane Moore decided.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
To run for office. And I watched this man walk Maywood,
go to door to door to door.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Introducing itself to people. And when he got in got
in office, he brought people along with him, kimberly like
Chris Welch.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
All of them.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
And Maywood has been one of the strongest towns in
the whole state of Illinois.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
We are known. Everybody in Illinois know where it Maywood is. Yeah, everybody.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah. But I mean he brought people along with him.
He gave him her first start. She was the trustee,
then she went to the state side and now she's
the U.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Sending majority leader majority leader.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
She's very powerful.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Chris Well, she is the UH representative, the he s
he's the speaker of the house. You got powerful before
Caring y'all bro passed away, she was running the Cook
County and the Clerk's office, and man, we got a
lot of powerful things, and now we just got to
put it together.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
To put it together the right way.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
I've been That's why I made the page, and I've
been voice in my opinion, you know, on the page
about a lot of stuff from a different perspective.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
You know, I'll be having a lot to say.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
A lot of people might not like it, you know,
but you have to have a person that can come from.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
A different direction.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Yeah, because Maywood is a sports town, like you said,
and that's that's what made Maywood great.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Yeah, So I had a person. I had a person.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
I was wondering why I started that page and said
and asked me when was Maywood great?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
And they had to break it down when when?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
When it was it's always been great and it was
still great?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Answer that question?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
No, And I came up into the early two thousands.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
I can tell you about if I said, I tell
you about the basket program, I can tell you about
the Boys and Girls Club, I can tell you about
these I can tell you about the early two thousands
when we had back to back mister Illinois you know
who that those two guys Brown and that other kid kid,
you know, and I was I was a freshman when
Shannon was a junior and d was a singing Yeah,
(29:28):
I bet you know.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
I used to being in your house office. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
You know one of my friends, Courtney is you know, yeah,
I think that's your exs cousin.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
So I've been around, you know what I'm saying. I've
seen a lot. That's when it was great. I used
to man, listen when Shannon was at East College, coaches
was walking around and like it was regular. I remember.
I remember at the Christmas tournament. I was sitting next
(29:59):
to time. His assistant was a black guy, tall black.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Guy, and every and and Shannon was playing his Hubbard.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
You know, he was going crazy.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
And I remember Thomas a study study tapping the guy
next to him, just tapping on his leg. And I
didn't think he was gonna go to Michigan State. I
ain't gonna like you know what, you know. I thought
he was gonna go Louisville because Rick was done. When
I seen Rick Patino come to the East for a
basketball game and crossed them legs like that and was watching.
It was like, listen, it's serious that you know. That's
(30:28):
when Provis East was a powerhouse school. To the point
it was people who couldn't even make the team. We
was on the team. We wore them shirt jerseys. It
was people who could have made the team, but it
was just not enough room. Like that's what I'm talking about.
You Maywell was so great.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
The twenty one Blacks were producing so many.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
Basketball players, so many football players, baseball players. Yeah, Jason Gibson,
you know, he got the athletic connection, but they were
some athletes, you know what I'm saying. So I came
up and that's when I could talk about it so much.
From the early two thousands was extreme.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Yeah. So like Maywell was really great man, early two
thousand for me.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeah, And you know what it is is that the
tradition kept going and it keeps going and we're still
filling it out. When you start in the nineties with
the Three Amigo's and Michael Finley and all of that,
and they gave back, they came back, talked to the kids,
and I needsed to coach at East now, but nobody knew,
and I told him this, not in the history of
(31:25):
the NBA have anybody from the same that lived in
the same town, products of the same grammar school, district
ety nine and products of Proviso Ways two O nine
won four NBA championships in a row, Michael Finley in
(31:46):
two thousand and seven, Doc Rivers in two thousand and eight,
and Shannon got lucky and got two and two thousand
and nine, two thousand and two, four in a row.
That you can't you can't get no better than that.
Nobody in the world could say that.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
That's what I'm saying. Great, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
That's what's That's what it's gonna take somebody like yourself
to continue to keep the legacy going because some people will,
you know, they forget, and that's it takes for someone
like yourself to keep reminding people exactly what may would represents.
Now with the Porch Chronicles, what are some of the
conversations or guests that you are committed to having on
(32:29):
your show.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
So we're gonna be like all over the place, because
I'm so I'm all about being organic, right, So I
want to talk about everything, family relationships, outside community, stuff, sports,
everything like that's how you know when we when you're
on the phone or when you on the porch, those
conversations go all types of places, you know, that's what
(32:52):
makes it that But that's what makes it so organic.
Bed We didn't talk about everything, but then the next
day we're talking about something different. So that's what we
wanted to be more organic, you know, having guests on
from all types of people, you know.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
The meeting place like Connie Bradley is her name, that's
who I want.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You to get on the show.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
She's a historian. She got a lot of stuff I want. Yeah,
so it's gonna be interesting. That's why I want to
turn the show. Y'all have fun. And what we do
this is the love line. Anybody call in, they won't
talk to us. They got to call the love line
seven o eight two. So but and I'm gonna tell
(33:35):
you what makes it easier for me to when you
got good help, Well, I see.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
You got good help, and I got good help. And
you know, each show is gonna be different.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
You got your own spill, your own show or whatever
the case might be.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
And I'm proud of you I'm proud of both of
y'all to even come up with this, to even join
the family, to even say, hey, man.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Yeah we got you, Chris, I got your c B.
So you know.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
And I had a birthday party at yours. Oh my god.
The whole day, I know, we was like, yeah, I
appreciate Chopper and uh in.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Cleveland, chopping in Cleveland. I appreciate you guys too, and uh, you.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Know, and I will say this you. I'm sure you
probably know because you see it a lot. But your mother.
I watched her when you walked in the door, her
just smiling. She was so happy to see her son
walk through the door. I know, you know your mama
love you. But it's just funny how just to see
other moms do that, because I found myself staring at
my kids sometimes I'm obsessed. And I think Carly is
(34:43):
obsessed with her boy. She said, I'm like that with
all of you.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
She a good girl. Yeah, Carl, Yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
That's makes a lot of sense. My twenty three year old,
same thing.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
We got a party. We got a party tomorrow, two
of yours.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
We throw parties up there on Fridays, like after work,
set you can come after work drink, chill, just relax,
you know what I'm saying, seven dollars signature drinks between
nine and ten.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Yours Cafe Cafe and b Stros that.
Speaker 7 (35:13):
One one five South Fifth. We we've been up.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
To every Friday, fifteen one one five five. Yeah, and
we've been up to like five Fridays.
Speaker 7 (35:22):
I think it was six Fridays now and it's been
pretty it's been it's been pretty cool. We had our
birthday parties. It was see you were the first person
to come. They came in and he came in. Yeah,
chopped that for a second year. Yeah, he was yep.
And it's been pretty cool. We've been showing love to
everybody in Maywell. We're trying to bring Look, my man,
(35:43):
my man j Name was like, uh, we're trying to
turn Fifth into the Bill Street, you know, just having
to lit down Fifth because that's Maywood downtown, you know,
and I've never seen Maywood have that, like when the
old heads be talking and uh in the in the
group page about how Maywood that was the downtown mayweod
But so.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
I want to bring that back, you know, bring that back.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
And have that type of atmosphere and in Maywood and
people can come to Maywood and have fun, you know,
because at the time people was called in Maywood a
name that I don't like people to say. So I
want I want people to change it up, you know
what I'm saying, Like, Hey, we love to come to
Mayble to have a nice time.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna have you and Porsche, y'all
gonna be a part of that Black.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
And Lines network.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
It's called band.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
We're gonna bring all of.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
All the clubs and all the business owners and everybody
together and we're gonna talk about how we can make
money for each other. Yeah, now, what do you want
to say to the audience?
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
And and let them know what you're trying to accomplish
and how you need them to support you.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Just support Porsch Chronicles conversation.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
But we we are too genuine people, and we.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Some of the portion she wanted. Really, ladies out. I'm
just being honest.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
I'm over here like.
Speaker 7 (37:06):
She is, Like she's one of the kind, you know
what I'm saying. So uh, I never you know, she
she can hold our own and when a woman can
hold on with men, that's powerful, you know what I'm saying.
So she's our righte wise. You know, she can call me.
She knows she called me. She didn't call us some crazy,
(37:28):
but she could call me and our ride for her,
you know.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
So that's why we are.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
We're a dynamic team, you know, dynamic duo, dynamic duo.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
And you know she I run the walls for it.
She needs me to.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
You all can see he has the mouthpiece.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Well, you gotta talk on this show, you gotta, you
gotta exactly she will.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
I think she's planning on it.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
I do.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
I do plan on it because it's really out of
my ordinary. I'm not a public speaker, shall I say,
you know, and it's to help me to get out
my sh know, although I have to do it sometimes
in my in my career. But you know, this hall
helped me, you know, advance and growth with my public speaking.
(38:10):
But which is why I'm here.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
So yeah, I'm gonna talk once I talk.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Once I get to talking, she's gonna jump in.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
I'll engage of course with the chronicles. Are there gonna
be some topics that you are not going to be
afraid to talk about? And if so, what are some
of those topics?
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Go ahead, go ahead. We were talking.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
Oh, of like yesterday when we were having our conversations,
you know, some of the hardest conversations I'm not afraid
to talk about. You know. For instance, of course, a
lot of the podcasts now are based off relationships, you know,
based off relationships, based off gender and you know things.
(39:01):
But at the end, double standards, double standards of course
about how you know here like me and and women
nowadays they are basically against each other, you know, they're
not coming together, which is painful. But you know, so
some of those are those will be some of our standpoints.
Speaker 7 (39:22):
Yeah, I really believe, I really believe that economy kind
of messed it up for black women and women, you
know what I'm saying because like a lot of women want,
you know, the man to do this and do that and.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Be a provider, and I don't. I think men never
stop being.
Speaker 7 (39:36):
Provided, right, It's just got harder, you know, because you
know they say, well, granddad and grandma. I've seen my
granddaddy work at a maintenance man at a warehouse for
forty six years. But he had a house in Lumbard.
He was the only black man and on a black
you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
No one.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
Custodia.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
You know, have three f cars people in the backyard
even no it don't you know. The grass was a
set sixty cent, bread was forty cent. You can do
a lot, you know, and it's different now.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
So people got to start being a lot more realistic.
Speaker 7 (40:10):
Yeah, so you got women and that's that'll be a
lot of stuff. But women got to learn how to adjust.
So yeah, men, men, men, men, adjust. That's what we do.
That's why we're good teammates. That's why we play sports.
You know, we're good at adjusting and adapting. And I
feel like that's the problem right now. Well, it's about
adapting andstin Listen.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
I excited excited about you being a part of the
Family of Love movement team.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Uh and I wish you all the luck in the world. Y'all.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Remember every third Thursday, they will be on this show
and they will be doing their thing and we appreciate them.
And as we close our wander we I just want
to say, listen in my closing, treat people the way
they want to be treated, and never give up, because
if you give up, then you you it's over with.
(41:02):
So if you don't give up, you keep going. So
God bless you. We appreciate you, guys.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Thank you for coming.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
We're gonna we're gonna do this. We're gonna have some
fun with this thing.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
All right, and continue to make me it with great
again for sure. Intellectual Radio dot Com love movie podcast.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
Out Pretty Girl. Just fun to
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