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The Cripescast Podcast

Episode 77 - Rick Banks and Ayrton Bryan

The Cripescast Podcast

Charlie Berens

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

MKE Black’s co-founder, executive director, and board president, Rick Banks and director of strategic partnerships and initiatives, Ayrton Bryan, join the Charlie on the Cripescast this week. They talk about the work that MKE Black is doing, the importance of supporting Black owned businesses, and ways to help further their mission of promoting, advancing and empowering Black businesses in Milwaukee. Find out more about MKE Black at mkeblack.org or download the app MKE Black. Want to contribute to the movement? Please donate here to further support the MKE Black mission: https://mkeblack21.givesmart.com/

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to the Cripescast sponsored by Jolly Goods.

0:04.2

So do the best gosh darn soda this side of the Mississippi or that side if you're asking me.

0:10.1

This is the podcast ladies and gentlemen where we talk to people for and or from the Midwest.

0:14.9

And she's Louise, how's everyone doing out there?

0:18.1

Who got a deer, huh?

0:20.0

We had the opening weekend of, uh, deer hunting. Uh, now if you're a vegan, uh, sorry about

0:26.8

this, you might want fast forward, but I saw a nice racks on, uh, on the backs of trucks

0:32.5

over the past weekend. Everyone did good. And if you had a nice rack, I did roll down my window

0:37.3

and in customary Midwest fashion. I said, Hey, that's a nice rack you got back there.

0:43.1

Only a few people took it the wrong way. We got a great interview today with MKE Black. We've got

0:48.2

Art and Brian and Rick Banks, uh, who run the organization. It's a, it's a great app that allows

0:53.7

you to support, uh, Black owned businesses in Milwaukee and they, uh, they're going to expand

0:58.4

outwards and just hearing their mentality about how, you know, we often hear about, uh, these

1:04.8

societal issues with respect to race relations in this country, whether it's the police or schooling

1:10.8

or, you know, redlining neighborhoods and all that sort of stuff. And this is just, uh,

1:15.4

presents a very practical way that everybody can, you know, do something as simple as downloading

1:20.8

an app and you're already helping and actually helping, uh, the problem get better. So it's,

1:26.0

it's a cool thing. It's cool talking to these guys because they're very creative in their

1:29.7

approach to, uh, making the world a better place and, uh, it's really an honor to highlight them.

1:35.0

Before we get to that interview, I want to thank all of you sincerely from the bottom of my heart

1:39.9

for buying a copy of the Midwest survival guide over the past couple of weeks. We did end up

1:44.5

getting on the New York Times best seller list. That's just like one of those moments where I'm, uh,

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