ADS Evidence Based Programs - #16: Micheal S. - Non Participant

Michael Singleton 00:00:00 - 00:00:01

Okay.

Speaker B 00:00:01 - 00:00:05

All right. So could you go ahead, state your name and introduce yourself.

Michael Singleton 00:00:05 - 00:00:07

All right. My name Michael Singleton.

Speaker B 00:00:07 - 00:00:09

Mm hmm. Tell me a little bit about yourself.

Michael Singleton 00:00:09 - 00:00:11

I'm from Gary, Indiana.

Speaker B 00:00:11 - 00:00:11

Okay.

Michael Singleton 00:00:11 - 00:00:14

Moved to Milwaukee, I think it was in 85.

Speaker B 00:00:14 - 00:00:15

85?

Michael Singleton 00:00:15 - 00:00:18

Yeah. I never went to school up here. I went to school in Indiana.

Speaker B 00:00:18 - 00:00:19

Okay.

Michael Singleton 00:00:20 - 00:00:21

Oh, you can't hear me?

Speaker B 00:00:21 - 00:00:23

No, I can hear you. Go ahead.

Michael Singleton 00:00:23 - 00:00:27

And I work right now. I work at Walmart. 60th and brown deer.

Speaker B 00:00:27 - 00:00:28

Okay.

Michael Singleton 00:00:28 - 00:00:37

That one right there. What I enjoy doing, playing basketball, but I don't play it that much. But that's what I used to love doing.

Speaker B 00:00:37 - 00:00:42

Okay. Playing ball and staying active in general.

Michael Singleton 00:00:42 - 00:00:56

Yeah. Lifting weights and stuff like that. Yeah. So, yeah, you gotta stay active at my age, at least, you know what I'm saying? Cause your knees give out and your back hurt and. Ugh, it's horrible.

Speaker B 00:00:56 - 00:00:57

Is it that bad?

Michael Singleton 00:00:57 - 00:00:59

Yes, I'm serious. It's bad.

Speaker B 00:01:00 - 00:01:01

And how old are you?

Michael Singleton 00:01:01 - 00:01:01

56.

Speaker B 00:01:02 - 00:01:02

Okay.

Michael Singleton 00:01:02 - 00:01:03

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker B 00:01:03 - 00:01:07

All right. And can you introduce yourself?

Ernestine Wallace 00:01:07 - 00:01:11

Yes, my name is Ernestine Wallace. I'm from Lake Providence, Louisiana.

Speaker B 00:01:11 - 00:01:12

Okay.

Ernestine Wallace 00:01:12 - 00:01:16

I'm 70 years old, hoping to make it to 80.

Speaker B 00:01:16 - 00:01:16

All right.

Ernestine Wallace 00:01:17 - 00:01:25

I love fishing, running my mouth, very active with kids, but just a people person in general.

Speaker B 00:01:26 - 00:01:26

Okay.

Ernestine Wallace 00:01:26 - 00:01:38

I worked on one job for, like, 22 years. I just like a lovely all around person sometime. But other words, that's about it.

Speaker B 00:01:38 - 00:01:43

Okay. Okay. So you said you're from Gary, Indiana, and you're from Louisiana, right?

Ernestine Wallace 00:01:43 - 00:01:43

Yeah.

Speaker B 00:01:43 - 00:01:45

How did you all end up here?

Michael Singleton 00:01:46 - 00:01:47

What you mean?

Speaker B 00:01:47 - 00:01:49

How do you end up. How did you end up in Milwaukee? Yeah.

Michael Singleton 00:01:49 - 00:01:57

Oh, my mother moved up here. My mother moved up here and, well, she came up here to visit and she liked it.

Speaker B 00:01:57 - 00:02:00

So what side of town did you grow up on?

Michael Singleton 00:02:00 - 00:02:02

In Milwaukee? Yeah, over there on 30th, in Juneau.

Speaker B 00:02:02 - 00:02:03

Okay.

Michael Singleton 00:02:03 - 00:02:22

Yeah, we was over there, and then we moved to fifth and locust. Right down the street. Yeah. So. But it was all right when I moved. I really didn't want to stay up here, but my mother up here, so it was all right. Yeah, but that's where we stayed at, though. I don't feel okay.

Speaker B 00:02:22 - 00:02:23

What about you, Miss Ernstein?

Ernestine Wallace 00:02:23 - 00:02:33

Well, I had a friend up here I come to visit for two weeks, and she was going on a job hunt, and I wasn't with her, so I got hired through manpower.

Speaker B 00:02:33 - 00:02:33

Okay.

Ernestine Wallace 00:02:33 - 00:02:39

So I went back and got my baby and came back and been here ever since. And ever since from 1975.

Speaker B 00:02:39 - 00:02:41

Oh, right, right.

Ernestine Wallace 00:02:41 - 00:02:58

But I didn't stay on that job. I moved on up to different jobs. And one of my favorite jobs was working with the retarded? Mm hmm. I loved it. And then from there, I did, like, factory work. That was my next main job.

Speaker B 00:02:58 - 00:03:05

Gotcha. Gotcha. What are some of your interests and activities that you enjoy?

Michael Singleton 00:03:07 - 00:03:10

Well, like the boys club and stuff like that.

Speaker B 00:03:10 - 00:03:11

You tell me.

Michael Singleton 00:03:11 - 00:03:14

I used to go there, play ball and stuff.

Speaker B 00:03:14 - 00:03:15

Oh, the boys and girls club.

Michael Singleton 00:03:15 - 00:03:16

Yeah. But I just.

Speaker B 00:03:16 - 00:03:17

What about today?

Michael Singleton 00:03:18 - 00:03:30

Well, I really ain't doing too much today, but working. Okay, that work take up my time. Ten hour shifts. Yeah. So, um. But, yeah, that's really. I'm active like that. Really good.

Michael Singleton 00:03:30 - 00:03:40

You know what I'm saying? Going to work and stuff like that. Be on Facebook, seeing what's going on on there and stuff like that. You know? That's what I basically do, though.

Speaker B 00:03:40 - 00:03:40

Okay.

Michael Singleton 00:03:40 - 00:03:46

Cause them hours kill me, so. Yeah, for real, they kill me. Yeah. So I just do that.

Speaker B 00:03:46 - 00:03:48

Okay. What about you, Miss Ernestine?

Ernestine Wallace 00:03:48 - 00:03:52

Well, I don't work or anything, but I do volunteer, like, twice a month.

Speaker B 00:03:52 - 00:03:53

Okay.

Ernestine Wallace 00:03:53 - 00:03:59

Because of my help. Other than that, I'm a tv person and on that Internet thing.

Speaker B 00:04:00 - 00:04:08

Okay. Okay, sounds good. On a typical day, 24 hours, how do you spend it?

Ernestine Wallace 00:04:08 - 00:04:22

Well, with me, I spend mine sleeping and looking, like I said, during the Internet, most times, like I said, I be sleeping and I might babysit a little bit, but other than that, I'm not doing anything, sitting around all day.

Speaker B 00:04:22 - 00:04:24

Okay. Okay. What about you, other than working?

Michael Singleton 00:04:25 - 00:04:34

Well, I go down to Pottawatomie sometime and probably go get my mother and take her places and stuff like that.

Speaker B 00:04:34 - 00:04:35

Got you.

Michael Singleton 00:04:35 - 00:04:40

Yeah, that's basically what my day is, you know? So that's all I be doing.

Speaker B 00:04:40 - 00:04:47

Okay. Looking back, what are some life experiences you think have shaped you the most?

Michael Singleton 00:04:49 - 00:04:55

Let me see you say life experience.

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