Adios Muchacho

No BS Newshour Episode #377

Adios Muchacho

 

(00:04) Captured! After 3 long years of my reporting, ICE finally apprehends Dearborn terror suspect for deportation. The Full story. You’re welcome, Michigan.

 

(10:02) Comedian Detroit Red- first on the Jimmy Hoffa scene on this, the 50th anniversary of the disappearance of the Teamster boss. (46:16) Nothing new to report. “It’s hot out here.”

 

(26:08) Beleaguered Flint- Vehicle City suffered one of the largest mass shootings in Michigan history this weekend, and almost no one has a damned clue it happened.  18 shot, no arrests.   

 

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TRANSCRIPT:

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Did he wash dishes?

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Now why is this guy giving me the finger?

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Because I got his buddy locked up by ICE last week.

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That’s why.

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His buddy,

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a guy named Assam Bazi,

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is a high-level,

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known or suspected terrorist according to classified

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federal documents.

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A guy with ties to Hezbollah and the authoritarian

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regime of Venezuela.

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Allegedly.

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Even so, the Biden administration knowingly led him

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into the country anyway three years ago.

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A first…

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You’re a stupid son of a bitch.

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Senor Vazi!

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Escarlitos leduff el perio disto tu erres un terrorista.

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Senor.

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Senor Bazzi.

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We the people paid for Bazzi’s ticket to Dearborn,

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Michigan,

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where he lived with his family.

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This is his dad.

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Is he home?

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No.

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Police, yeah.

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Oh, the police.

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Oh, they took him.

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Immigration?

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Yes.

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Oh.

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Bazzi claimed asylum at the Rio Grande River when he

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was caught three years ago.

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Unbelievably,

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he was given permission to work,

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a social security number,

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and even issued a driver’s license.

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Bazi got pulled over here by a fugitive strike team

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last week on his way to his job at a diner in Ypsilanti.

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Sheesh! Hi.

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Hello.

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Does this woman work here?

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Yeah, he’s not here today though.

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No, he’s not coming back.

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Immigration victim much.

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He’s a wanted terrorist.

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Allegedly.

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Trippy, right?

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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Do you want me to chip it off?

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Nothing.

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Just tell the boss he won’t be coming back.

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Okay.

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Normally when I go to a diner,

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I leave a tip.

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This time,

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the angry owner gave me the tip of his middle finger.

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Here, take this.

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Get the fuck out of here.

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Out.

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Thank you.

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Out.

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Did he wash dishes,

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cook?

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Go out.

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Maybe it’s the lawyer.

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Bazzi will wait for his appeal behind bars in Baldwin,

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Michigan,

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here at the Lake County Leavenworth.

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The lunch menu apparently has a large selection of

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halal, and that’s good.

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Asam, good,

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good, good,

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good.

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Good.

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Live from downtown Detroit,

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it’s the No Bullshit News Hour with my main man,

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Charlie LaDa and Karen Dumas.

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It’s just a break in this double or bullshit,

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double or bullshit.

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Well, they finally got him.

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Wow.

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Good job.

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Good work.

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Take that music down there,

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bro.

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They finally got him.

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Three years,

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dude.

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Three years.

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After three years of doing whatever he pleased,

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Assam Bazi,

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the first person ever allowed entry into the United

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States, despite being designated as a known or suspected

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terrorist,

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was apprehended in Dearborn during a routine traffic

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stop.

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The 54-year-old Venezuelan was pulled over last week

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on the I-94 entrance ramp by undercover ICE agents

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who had been surveilling him for weeks.

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Bazzi was served with an arrest warrant and taken into

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custody.

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Apparently,

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Bazzi was on his way to work at that Ypsilanti diner,

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and workers at the diner confirmed that Bazzi was

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indeed an employee,

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but was off for the day.

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Now, when informed that Bazzi would never be coming

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back to work ever,

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as you saw,

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you didn’t see all of it.

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The owner of the restaurant

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said unsociable things about my mother,

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and invited me to vacate the premises with a wave

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of that finger.

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Bazi’s father,

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as you saw,

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also confirmed his arrest by immigration officials,

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but insisted the authorities have the wrong idea about

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his son.

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Good, Godly.

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That may be so,

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but when immigration officials in Texas arrested Bazzi

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on the banks of the Rio Grande in December of 2021,

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he was flagged on the FBI’s terror watch list as a

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person who was a quote,

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category 5 group member of an unspecified terrorist

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organization with substantive high side derogatory

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information.

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That means he’s a big deal.

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While Bazzi’s Dearborn relatives described him as a

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mild mannered clothing store owner,

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Joseph Humiri,

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the current Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense,

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described him to Congress earlier this year as something

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more ominous.

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Humiri said in Venezuela,

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Bazzi owned luxury apartments,

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yachts, and helped finance a commercial building with

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ties to the Venezuelan government.

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notably with the family of Tariq El-Asami,

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a former Venezuelan vice president and minister,

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accused of corruption,

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money laundering,

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with alleged ties to Hezbollah,

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and he is on the ICE Most Wanted international list.

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Only weeks prior to making his trip to the U.S.-Southwest

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border, Bazi reportedly attended the funeral of relatives

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of El-Asami.

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Bazi’s profile,

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according to Hamiri,

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fits more

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as a logistical financee rather than a political asylum

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seeker, he said.

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Immigration agents recognized Bazzi as a flight risk

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back in 2021 and recommended his continued detention.

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Now normally,

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a person on the terror watch list would be detained,

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interrogated,

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and then summarily deported.

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Inexplicably,

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officials in the Biden Department of Homeland Security

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back in Washington,

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D.C.

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overrode those

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thoughts and recommendations and order that Bazi be

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released because he was overweight and thus susceptible

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to COVID.

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I know.

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Despite concerns about Bozzi’s comorbidities,

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U.S.

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officials did not require Bozzi to accept a covid vaccination

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shot as a precondition to entry.

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Instead, he was given a one-way ticket to Dearborn.

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And once in Michigan and living at his brother’s house,

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Bozzi was awarded permission to work,

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given a social security number,

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and issued a driver’s license.

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Category 5 people.

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At some point during his American odyssey,

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Bazzi’s claims for asylum were denied and he was ordered

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deported by an immigration judge.

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So now Bazzi’s currently appealing his deportation

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order and now faces one of two choices.

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Wait for years in jail for his court date at the Lake

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County Leavenworth in Baldwin,

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Michigan,

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or take Trump’s offer of 1000 bucks and deport himself.

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Either way,

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Adios muchachos.

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Wow.

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How did that take three years?

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Like whatever you think about immigration,

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right?

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And I respect people’s opinion on it.

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I do.

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We’re a nation of individuals making one whole.

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So there’s room for everybody’s thought.

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But the first guy ever on the terror watch list to

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be let in?

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Yeah.

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Well, and why did it?

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Why did it take so long to find him,

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considering you found him pretty quick?

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Like every twice a year?

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Yeah.

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Not only did you find him,

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you found his whole family,

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his dad, his brother,

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and they could have,

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I don’t know,

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it just seemed like a little bit of feet dragging

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until this administration.

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And they didn’t notify anybody when they let him here.

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Just outrageous.

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So there you go,

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folks.

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That’s why this is the tightest,

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hottest podcast going.

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In terms of news.

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I mean, there’s the Drew Lane Show.

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Yeah, I don’t do anything.

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It’s high comedy there.

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And the sole of Detroit with ML Elric,

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that’s the Red Shovel Network.

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Tune in to all of them.

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You know what today,

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oh, before we get to this,

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later in the program,

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we have a top-notch reporter and a city councilwoman

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from Flint.

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Did you folks know that one of the biggest mass shootings

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in the history of Michigan went down this weekend?

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You know what?

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I had no idea until you told me.

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This morning?

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Yes.

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You’re like,

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what are you talking about?

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Well, you had me,

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you know,

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we talk, we talk about the show and what’s going on.

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And I’m like,

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Flint, what?

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I don’t, I mean,

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I consume an obscene amount of news.

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No idea.

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I had no idea.

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I haven’t seen it anywhere.

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So strap it in,

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Bart, because you’re about ready to hear it.

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Like, again,

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you know,

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that’s our brothers and sisters there.

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I look at that as Detroit North.

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It’s its own thing,

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but that’s our thing,

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right?

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And

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They need help because Jaquanda can’t do it all by

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herself.

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Tanya can’t do it all by herself,

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but we’re going to have them.

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But first,

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today is the 50th anniversary of the disappearance

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of Jimmy Hoffa from the Red Fox restaurant now on

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the Amos in Bloomfield Hills.

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It is Bloomfield Hills,

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isn’t it?

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Yeah.

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at 15 in Telegraph.

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So he disappeared July 30th.

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1975 on a Wednesday.

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Today’s a Wednesday.

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Oh, by the way,

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I’ll see you next Tuesday.

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That one’s coming.

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That one’s coming.

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I’m just rolling them out.

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No, you’re going to see the genius of what I’ve been

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doing.

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I just keep on it.

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Keep on it.

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If it take me 3 years,

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it take me 3 years.

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Take me 5 years,

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take me 5 years.

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Flint, it took 10 years.

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We didn’t get much for him,

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but we know who did what.

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Anyway, so today is the 50 year anniversary of the

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disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.

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And live on the scene is our crack reporter,

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because I told you in this town,

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you could take a comedian from the east side of the

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city and make him the crackest reporter in town is

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a Detroit comedian,

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Red.

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What’s up,

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Red?

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What up, though?

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What’s up,

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00:10:20,320 –> 00:10:23,120
all my Goombas and Goomba it’s out there?

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We’re out here at I’m Diamos.

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What’d you call it?

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I’m Diamos.

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I don’t give a damn.

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Well, Jimmy Hoffa went missing 50 years ago,

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and I realized today my career is about to go missing.

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It’s a big event.

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Hellacious,

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50 years,

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still looking for the same guy.

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It’s so big.

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We got mainstream media out here.

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Can’t look over here for me right quick.

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Such a big celebration.

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We got Fox News and me.

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I’m just saying,

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this is really okay.

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But the restaurant’s not even open.

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00:11:03,440 –> 00:11:05,760
I was looking forward to a half a special.

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Which is what?

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Meatballs under some pasta.

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they say he’s in a sausage factory.

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But we’ve looked around.

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I figured I’d try to find some clues that maybe they

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didn’t find here,

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50 years ago.

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And that would lead us to finding out where he is just

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to find out somebody probably bought him in a six-pack

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00:11:27,840 –> 00:11:30,560
of bratwurst and took him up on Labor Day.

335
00:11:31,120 –> 00:11:32,600
Talk about a damn incinerator.

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00:11:32,600 –> 00:11:34,160
Yeah, that was the BBQ pit.

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00:11:34,560 –> 00:11:35,360
But anyway,

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it’s Hoffa Day.

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00:11:37,320 –> 00:11:39,440
And we’re out here covering this story.

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Didn’t you once do a comedy show in the basement there

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00:11:43,600 –> 00:11:44,320
at Andiamos?

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Yes, I did.

343
00:11:46,000 –> 00:11:48,720
And it was for a banquet and I should have knew then

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that my career was done.

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00:11:50,560 –> 00:11:53,280
Did you look for Hoffa in the basement?

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No, actually,

347
00:11:55,360 –> 00:11:57,440
I was looking for the toilet because I had the piss.

348
00:11:57,520 –> 00:11:59,360
I had a lot of liquor that night.

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And I probably could have peed on him and don’t even

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00:12:02,160 –> 00:12:04,080
know it because I missed the toilet the first time.

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But that’s neither here or there.

352
00:12:06,640 –> 00:12:08,640
Did you look for your career?

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I’ve been looking for it ever since.

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00:12:11,640 –> 00:12:14,240
And look where it got me in the parking lot of the

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Bloomfield Plaza in front of a closed Italian restaurant.

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00:12:19,120 –> 00:12:21,440
That’s not even the same name when the man disappeared.

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00:12:22,240 –> 00:12:22,720
Well, you know,

358
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Mark,

359
00:12:25,240 –> 00:12:30,320
They found the pinky ring recently that Jimmy Hopp

360
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was wearing that day that he disappeared.

361
00:12:32,640 –> 00:12:32,880
Really?

362
00:12:32,960 –> 00:12:33,120
Yeah.

363
00:12:33,360 –> 00:12:34,080
Where’d they find it?

364
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In Red’s mother’s asshole underneath the sofa.

365
00:12:37,960 –> 00:12:39,840
Yo, forget about it.

366
00:12:40,720 –> 00:12:41,440
Red, boom.

367
00:12:45,040 –> 00:12:45,480
Hey, listen,

368
00:12:45,480 –> 00:12:46,800
I, yeah, listen.

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When we come back,

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00:12:47,600 –> 00:12:49,760
right, hopefully somebody,

371
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you would have thought by it being Hoppa Day and so

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much significance connected to the place that you would

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have seen a vibrant staff running around,

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getting ready,

375
00:12:58,900 –> 00:12:59,620
celebration,

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00:12:59,620 –> 00:13:00,180
whatever.

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00:13:00,500 –> 00:13:02,340
But hopefully by next segment,

378
00:13:02,580 –> 00:13:04,980
at least the janitor will show up and we’re going

379
00:13:04,980 –> 00:13:06,100
to try to see if we can,

380
00:13:06,100 –> 00:13:06,500
you know,

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00:13:06,740 –> 00:13:07,940
get that Hoffa special.

382
00:13:08,260 –> 00:13:09,460
Maybe, you know,

383
00:13:09,460 –> 00:13:10,740
get a fork or something,

384
00:13:10,740 –> 00:13:11,300
you know what I mean?

385
00:13:11,460 –> 00:13:13,340
Yeah, so I can eat my Mr.

386
00:13:13,340 –> 00:13:14,660
Chalope in the car.

387
00:13:14,940 –> 00:13:17,620
Hey, I got a Jimmy Hoffa haiku for you if you want

388
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to hear it.

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00:13:19,060 –> 00:13:19,820
Go ahead, shoot.

390
00:13:20,020 –> 00:13:20,820
Bada bing,

391
00:13:20,980 –> 00:13:21,780
bada boom,

392
00:13:22,100 –> 00:13:23,060
bada fuco.

393
00:13:23,060 –> 00:13:24,660
No, forget about it.

394
00:13:25,700 –> 00:13:26,220
Jimmy Hoffa.

395
00:13:26,220 –> 00:13:28,540
That’s why you’re a journalist and I’m a comedian.

396
00:13:31,260 –> 00:13:32,420
He’s actually alive.

397
00:13:32,660 –> 00:13:35,980
Jimmy Hoffa apparently from this parking lot was supposed

398
00:13:35,980 –> 00:13:39,300
to meet, was it Tony?

399
00:13:39,300 –> 00:13:39,620
Tony?

400
00:13:40,500 –> 00:13:42,660
No, Tony Provenzano from the East Coast.

401
00:13:42,900 –> 00:13:43,700
He wanted to take the,

402
00:13:43,940 –> 00:13:46,220
he wanted to take the Teamsters over and he was gonna,

403
00:13:46,260 –> 00:13:48,420
he was gonna win and he’s had a beef on the East Coast.

404
00:13:48,820 –> 00:13:52,500
and he and he shows up and nobody else shows up,

405
00:13:53,220 –> 00:13:53,540
right?

406
00:13:53,780 –> 00:13:55,620
And then he’s making a phone call,

407
00:13:55,860 –> 00:13:59,420
gets into a car in that parking lot,

408
00:13:59,420 –> 00:14:00,340
is never seen again.

409
00:14:01,140 –> 00:14:06,340
we just heard that Scott Bernstein special last week.

410
00:14:06,340 –> 00:14:06,940
I went to that.

411
00:14:06,940 –> 00:14:11,380
They seem to think he was not picked up by Provenzano,

412
00:14:11,380 –> 00:14:12,260
but a guy named…

413
00:14:15,540 –> 00:14:16,460
Palazzolo.

414
00:14:16,500 –> 00:14:16,980
That’s right.

415
00:14:16,980 –> 00:14:17,300
Yeah.

416
00:14:18,140 –> 00:14:22,060
And they then they took him to Eastern Market and put

417
00:14:22,060 –> 00:14:23,460
him through a sausage grinder.

418
00:14:25,100 –> 00:14:27,940
Either incinerated him or fed him to the fishes.

419
00:14:29,460 –> 00:14:32,580
Or either the Johnson family for their Labor Day celebration.

420
00:14:34,340 –> 00:14:35,300
Nothing goes to waste.

421
00:14:35,460 –> 00:14:36,380
Try the sausage.

422
00:14:36,380 –> 00:14:37,380
He’ll be there all day.

423
00:14:37,580 –> 00:14:38,100
Hey, yo.

424
00:14:39,780 –> 00:14:42,420
No, Jimmy Hoffa is not dead.

425
00:14:42,500 –> 00:14:43,060
He’s a I.

426
00:14:44,500 –> 00:14:48,820
You can find his number in the white pages under cement.

427
00:14:49,140 –> 00:14:50,580
Oh, yeah.

428
00:14:52,100 –> 00:14:52,580
Okay.

429
00:14:52,660 –> 00:14:56,420
So that’s just as bad as Jimmy Hoffa and Tupac is on

430
00:14:56,420 –> 00:14:57,780
the beach in the Bahamas.

431
00:14:58,740 –> 00:14:59,940
They’re both out of here.

432
00:15:00,260 –> 00:15:01,220
You know, I was,

433
00:15:01,300 –> 00:15:04,420
it was one of my first assignments ever as a reporter.

434
00:15:04,420 –> 00:15:05,460
It was the New York Times.

435
00:15:06,420 –> 00:15:08,460
Tupac got shot and they’re like,

436
00:15:08,580 –> 00:15:09,380
get to Vegas.

437
00:15:09,380 –> 00:15:10,020
I was in Oakland,

438
00:15:10,020 –> 00:15:10,500
California.

439
00:15:10,500 –> 00:15:10,980
I get, I’m like,

440
00:15:10,980 –> 00:15:11,980
I don’t have a credit card.

441
00:15:12,740 –> 00:15:12,860
Right.

442
00:15:13,140 –> 00:15:14,540
So they got me a flight.

443
00:15:14,580 –> 00:15:15,620
I didn’t have anywhere to stay.

444
00:15:15,620 –> 00:15:16,380
I didn’t have any money.

445
00:15:16,420 –> 00:15:20,500
So I just sat in the hospital parking lot all freaking

446
00:15:20,500 –> 00:15:23,620
day in the Vegas sun into the night.

447
00:15:24,740 –> 00:15:26,580
And I watched him bring Tupac’s corpse out.

448
00:15:26,660 –> 00:15:26,820
Oh, wow.

449
00:15:27,540 –> 00:15:27,820
Right.

450
00:15:28,420 –> 00:15:29,140
I saw, well,

451
00:15:29,140 –> 00:15:30,740
it was under a sheet.

452
00:15:30,740 –> 00:15:31,900
So maybe it wasn’t Tupac,

453
00:15:31,940 –> 00:15:33,740
but I definitely saw it.

454
00:15:33,740 –> 00:15:35,300
And then later that night,

455
00:15:35,460 –> 00:15:38,260
guess who’s driving around playing his radio and signing

456
00:15:38,260 –> 00:15:40,180
autographs in the hospital parking lot.

457
00:15:41,940 –> 00:15:42,740
MC Hammer.

458
00:15:43,300 –> 00:15:43,700
Really?

459
00:15:43,860 –> 00:15:44,060
Yeah.

460
00:15:44,060 –> 00:15:45,940
I was like this down and down.

461
00:15:46,180 –> 00:15:46,660
It’s over.

462
00:15:47,860 –> 00:15:48,420
That’s funny.

463
00:15:48,420 –> 00:15:48,540
Yeah.

464
00:15:48,820 –> 00:15:51,260
Your first story was on the death of Tupac.

465
00:15:51,300 –> 00:15:54,100
My last story going to be on goddamn half a day.

466
00:15:56,500 –> 00:15:57,540
You are killing me.

467
00:15:59,420 –> 00:16:00,180
And my career.

468
00:16:00,500 –> 00:16:00,820
Okay.

469
00:16:01,940 –> 00:16:05,220
So we’ll come back to you in a little bit.

470
00:16:06,300 –> 00:16:09,100
Maybe I can interview the guy from Fox that’s here

471
00:16:09,100 –> 00:16:09,940
to interview.

472
00:16:10,180 –> 00:16:11,860
I guess whoever he’s here to interview.

473
00:16:11,940 –> 00:16:12,900
Yeah, get on over there.

474
00:16:12,900 –> 00:16:14,180
Maybe he can interview you.

475
00:16:14,820 –> 00:16:16,020
Oh yeah, get us on Fox,

476
00:16:16,020 –> 00:16:16,420
Red.

477
00:16:17,220 –> 00:16:17,780
Okay.

478
00:16:17,940 –> 00:16:18,420
All right,

479
00:16:18,860 –> 00:16:19,300
here we go.

480
00:16:20,900 –> 00:16:21,740
We’ll come back to you.

481
00:16:24,340 –> 00:16:25,900
We’re from American Coney Island.

482
00:16:34,620 –> 00:16:35,860
American Coney Island.

483
00:16:35,940 –> 00:16:39,300
So good, even Al Roker from the Today Show eats here.

484
00:16:39,460 –> 00:16:40,500
Not like that other guy,

485
00:16:40,500 –> 00:16:41,620
Al Joker,

486
00:16:41,780 –> 00:16:43,020
who eats at Lafayette.

487
00:16:43,660 –> 00:16:46,420
So make sure you’re a Roker and not a joker.

488
00:16:46,740 –> 00:16:47,780
American Coney Island.

489
00:16:58,740 –> 00:17:01,300
I asked Luke Nowacki at Pinnacle Wealth.

490
00:17:02,340 –> 00:17:03,780
for all your investment needs.

491
00:17:03,940 –> 00:17:06,580
248-663-4748.

492
00:17:07,300 –> 00:17:11,060
So I want to let you know how Luke’s mind works.

493
00:17:11,460 –> 00:17:12,980
This is an investment strategy,

494
00:17:12,980 –> 00:17:14,100
not allowed to do that,

495
00:17:14,260 –> 00:17:14,580
right?

496
00:17:15,620 –> 00:17:16,340
But I said,

497
00:17:16,340 –> 00:17:18,180
Luke, what do you make of these trade deals?

498
00:17:18,180 –> 00:17:18,500
Okay.

499
00:17:19,620 –> 00:17:20,660
And Luke says,

500
00:17:20,660 –> 00:17:21,620
here’s how I see it.

501
00:17:21,700 –> 00:17:23,780
Anyone saying that they know for certain how this is

502
00:17:23,780 –> 00:17:25,620
going to play out is lying.

503
00:17:25,860 –> 00:17:27,540
There’s too much yet to be determined.

504
00:17:28,020 –> 00:17:30,180
The preliminary agreement reduces U.S.

505
00:17:30,180 –> 00:17:31,860
tariffs to the European Union,

506
00:17:32,180 –> 00:17:34,940
and it increases EU tariffs here with 15%

507
00:17:35,620 –> 00:17:36,820
of most goods.

508
00:17:37,220 –> 00:17:38,540
Trump had threatened 200%

509
00:17:38,540 –> 00:17:40,100
on pharmaceutical imports,

510
00:17:40,420 –> 00:17:43,540
and pharma compromises the largest percentage of trade

511
00:17:43,700 –> 00:17:44,820
from the EU.

512
00:17:45,220 –> 00:17:46,820
Ursula von der Leyen,

513
00:17:46,820 –> 00:17:48,580
the head of the EU,

514
00:17:48,820 –> 00:17:51,620
insists that pharma is included in the 15%

515
00:17:51,620 –> 00:17:52,020
cap.

516
00:17:52,180 –> 00:17:55,380
Trump says that pharma is going to be negotiated separately.

517
00:17:55,940 –> 00:17:57,220
Novo Nordisk,

518
00:17:57,220 –> 00:17:58,420
the makers of Ozempic,

519
00:17:58,660 –> 00:18:01,300
already built a factory in North Carolina and could

520
00:18:01,300 –> 00:18:03,300
very well expand production domestically,

521
00:18:03,540 –> 00:18:06,100
obviously a positive for the U.S.

522
00:18:06,820 –> 00:18:09,140
liquid natural gas exports to the EU,

523
00:18:09,300 –> 00:18:10,740
nothing is set.

524
00:18:10,980 –> 00:18:14,660
However, if the preliminary number of $750 billion

525
00:18:14,860 –> 00:18:17,220
over three years plays out,

526
00:18:17,460 –> 00:18:20,180
that would be very big for both the US and EU.

527
00:18:20,420 –> 00:18:22,180
We have an abundance of natural gas,

528
00:18:22,420 –> 00:18:25,740
and that’s $250 billion a year that the EU wouldn’t

529
00:18:25,740 –> 00:18:26,820
be buying from Russia.

530
00:18:27,620 –> 00:18:31,460
And that single-handedly balances the trade deficit

531
00:18:31,620 –> 00:18:33,140
based on 2024 numbers.

532
00:18:33,540 –> 00:18:36,060
Alcohol is not completely cemented in the agreement

533
00:18:36,060 –> 00:18:36,420
either.

534
00:18:36,660 –> 00:18:37,220
However, a 15%

535
00:18:37,220 –> 00:18:41,420
import tax from the EU would encourage consumers to

536
00:18:41,420 –> 00:18:43,700
buy from domestic distillers,

537
00:18:43,700 –> 00:18:44,020
breweries,

538
00:18:44,020 –> 00:18:44,660
and vineyards.

539
00:18:45,140 –> 00:18:47,940
The fear is that the trade agreement will add to inflation.

540
00:18:48,180 –> 00:18:49,060
It’s possible.

541
00:18:49,300 –> 00:18:52,180
However, the panic over liberation day never materialized.

542
00:18:52,420 –> 00:18:54,180
Growth was supposed to be crushed by now.

543
00:18:54,420 –> 00:18:55,540
That didn’t happen either.

544
00:18:56,420 –> 00:18:58,180
I don’t believe that these tariffs will generate the

545
00:18:58,180 –> 00:19:00,780
revenue predicted as people adjust their spending

546
00:19:00,780 –> 00:19:03,060
habits, but they should create a higher demand for

547
00:19:03,060 –> 00:19:05,780
American goods domestically and overseas.

548
00:19:06,100 –> 00:19:07,540
If they play out as indicated,

549
00:19:07,540 –> 00:19:10,980
that will be great for our producers and workers.

550
00:19:11,300 –> 00:19:14,020
There’s also the price of labor and wages.

551
00:19:14,500 –> 00:19:16,940
The most encouraging aspect to come out of the EU trade

552
00:19:16,940 –> 00:19:21,060
deal is that multiple EU prime ministers are not happy

553
00:19:21,300 –> 00:19:24,660
with it and believe that von der Leyen got policed.

554
00:19:25,140 –> 00:19:27,300
If the EU believes that this trade agreement is to

555
00:19:27,300 –> 00:19:28,060
their detriment,

556
00:19:28,180 –> 00:19:28,940
by default,

557
00:19:29,140 –> 00:19:30,500
it has to be to our benefit.

558
00:19:30,740 –> 00:19:32,100
That’s my primary take.

559
00:19:32,260 –> 00:19:35,620
We’ll see how this plays out through the implementation

560
00:19:35,620 –> 00:19:37,540
phase, but I’m not panicking.

561
00:19:38,500 –> 00:19:40,020
Sounds like a guy that knows about money.

562
00:19:40,020 –> 00:19:41,020
Yeah, that’s astute,

563
00:19:41,020 –> 00:19:41,540
I think.

564
00:19:41,940 –> 00:19:42,260
Right?

565
00:19:42,420 –> 00:19:42,660
Yeah.

566
00:19:43,460 –> 00:19:44,380
I mean, what’s going to happen?

567
00:19:44,500 –> 00:19:48,020
Well, what I like about Luke is that seems to be a

568
00:19:48,020 –> 00:19:49,700
very level-headed take on it,

569
00:19:49,940 –> 00:19:50,260
right?

570
00:19:50,620 –> 00:19:52,820
I’m still sick of the sky is falling or we’re going

571
00:19:52,820 –> 00:19:54,020
to be awash in money.

572
00:19:54,020 –> 00:19:56,740
I mean, that’s just because it’s never the extremes.

573
00:19:56,860 –> 00:19:58,100
Remember Liberation Day?

574
00:19:58,100 –> 00:19:58,660
Oh, yeah.

575
00:19:59,060 –> 00:20:02,500
The day that Trump originally announced tariffs and

576
00:20:02,500 –> 00:20:02,940
the market,

577
00:20:02,940 –> 00:20:06,620
what, lost 7000 points or something?

578
00:20:06,620 –> 00:20:06,900
Yeah.

579
00:20:07,380 –> 00:20:10,100
Now we’re on a record closes.

580
00:20:10,100 –> 00:20:10,900
A wild run.

581
00:20:10,900 –> 00:20:12,340
Yeah, like 10.

582
00:20:13,060 –> 00:20:13,860
days straight,

583
00:20:13,860 –> 00:20:14,580
record close.

584
00:20:14,740 –> 00:20:16,660
So he doesn’t panic.

585
00:20:16,740 –> 00:20:18,420
No, I’d let him manage my money.

586
00:20:19,380 –> 00:20:19,900
You know what I mean?

587
00:20:19,900 –> 00:20:20,180
I do.

588
00:20:20,180 –> 00:20:20,340
I know.

589
00:20:20,900 –> 00:20:23,940
So yeah, he’s a bright guy and that’s the way he’s

590
00:20:23,940 –> 00:20:24,620
seeing the world.

591
00:20:24,740 –> 00:20:25,380
And again,

592
00:20:26,580 –> 00:20:29,220
prices will go up once,

593
00:20:29,620 –> 00:20:29,940
right?

594
00:20:29,940 –> 00:20:31,060
The shock of the tariff.

595
00:20:32,100 –> 00:20:33,100
That’s not inflation.

596
00:20:33,100 –> 00:20:34,500
That’s an increase in price.

597
00:20:35,220 –> 00:20:38,260
Inflation means it increases that amount every year,

598
00:20:38,340 –> 00:20:39,060
compounded.

599
00:20:39,460 –> 00:20:41,140
15, then another 15,

600
00:20:41,140 –> 00:20:42,460
then that’s not inflation.

601
00:20:42,580 –> 00:20:46,020
This is good for American workers in the sense that

602
00:20:46,020 –> 00:20:50,460
real wages have gone up the many past months and.

603
00:20:50,700 –> 00:20:51,740
Hopefully they continue to.

604
00:20:51,940 –> 00:20:55,300
And this encourages Americans to reshore their factories.

605
00:20:55,540 –> 00:20:57,980
This encourages the Europeans who already make a ton

606
00:20:57,980 –> 00:20:58,500
of cars here,

607
00:20:58,500 –> 00:20:59,220
Volkswagen,

608
00:20:59,220 –> 00:20:59,860
Mercedes,

609
00:21:00,020 –> 00:21:00,300
right?

610
00:21:00,820 –> 00:21:02,100
So it’s chops for us.

611
00:21:03,260 –> 00:21:03,500
Okay.

612
00:21:04,260 –> 00:21:05,060
Okay, anyway,

613
00:21:05,540 –> 00:21:08,300
I’m going to bring in the ladies from Flint after

614
00:21:08,300 –> 00:21:08,980
this word.

615
00:21:08,980 –> 00:21:10,540
And ladies from Flint,

616
00:21:12,660 –> 00:21:14,340
Jaquonda Johnson reporter,

617
00:21:14,660 –> 00:21:15,460
Tanya Burns,

618
00:21:15,460 –> 00:21:16,500
City Councilwoman,

619
00:21:16,860 –> 00:21:20,180
I want you to pay close attention to XG Service Group.

620
00:21:20,500 –> 00:21:20,940
Well, you know,

621
00:21:20,940 –> 00:21:21,620
when it rains,

622
00:21:21,620 –> 00:21:22,420
the power goes out.

623
00:21:22,420 –> 00:21:23,740
And when the power goes out,

624
00:21:23,740 –> 00:21:24,700
the internet goes out.

625
00:21:24,700 –> 00:21:25,700
When the internet goes out,

626
00:21:25,700 –> 00:21:28,940
I call my friend Matt and Bernie at XG Service Group.

627
00:21:29,140 –> 00:21:30,900
Look at Bernie here on his hands and knees,

628
00:21:31,140 –> 00:21:32,500
giving it everything he’s got.

629
00:21:33,060 –> 00:21:34,260
Look at that man crack.

630
00:21:34,500 –> 00:21:37,060
So busy, he forgot to wear a belt.

631
00:21:37,060 –> 00:21:39,140
There’s Matt right there getting the board together.

632
00:21:39,140 –> 00:21:41,860
That’s 734-245-4100.

633
00:21:41,860 –> 00:21:44,700
If you need Matt and Bernie to come take care of your

634
00:21:44,700 –> 00:21:45,700
voice over internet,

635
00:21:45,860 –> 00:21:47,060
your security cameras,

636
00:21:47,220 –> 00:21:48,820
off-campus access control,

637
00:21:49,060 –> 00:21:51,420
Wi-Fi and cameras for homes and business,

638
00:21:51,420 –> 00:21:52,580
they’ll design it for you.

639
00:21:52,820 –> 00:21:53,660
You got restaurants,

640
00:21:53,660 –> 00:21:54,860
they do drive-thru systems,

641
00:21:54,860 –> 00:21:56,580
railroad cameras for public safety.

642
00:21:56,820 –> 00:22:00,100
Total wireless camera systems for your home and business.

643
00:22:00,340 –> 00:22:00,820
Yeah, that’s right.

644
00:22:00,820 –> 00:22:02,940
Call XG Services at 734-2450.

645
00:22:03,020 –> 00:22:04,500
245 4100.

646
00:22:06,420 –> 00:22:08,220
Now let’s let’s set this up,

647
00:22:08,220 –> 00:22:08,540
Mark.

648
00:22:08,580 –> 00:22:08,980
Yes.

649
00:22:09,700 –> 00:22:09,900
Okay.

650
00:22:10,260 –> 00:22:10,980
Inform me.

651
00:22:11,140 –> 00:22:13,860
A nut job in Traverse City.

652
00:22:13,860 –> 00:22:14,420
What’s his name?

653
00:22:14,900 –> 00:22:16,100
Brad Gillet,

654
00:22:16,100 –> 00:22:17,380
42 year old nut job,

655
00:22:18,340 –> 00:22:19,380
schizophrenic,

656
00:22:19,460 –> 00:22:24,500
has unearthed bodies and manhandled them,

657
00:22:24,500 –> 00:22:25,620
broken headstones,

658
00:22:26,020 –> 00:22:27,140
been arrested a million times,

659
00:22:27,300 –> 00:22:28,340
goes berserk.

660
00:22:30,340 –> 00:22:32,900
at an outlet store and stabs 11 people.

661
00:22:32,900 –> 00:22:38,100
He is charged with terrorism and 11 counts of attempted

662
00:22:38,100 –> 00:22:38,500
murder.

663
00:22:38,820 –> 00:22:39,100
Right.

664
00:22:39,300 –> 00:22:44,020
Somehow he was wanted for a couple of days and apparently

665
00:22:44,020 –> 00:22:45,620
the sheriff’s were looking for him but couldn’t find

666
00:22:45,620 –> 00:22:45,780
him.

667
00:22:45,940 –> 00:22:49,220
I don’t know how you can’t find a homeless guy up in

668
00:22:49,220 –> 00:22:49,940
Traverse City.

669
00:22:49,980 –> 00:22:50,700
Traverse City.

670
00:22:50,700 –> 00:22:53,140
I would think it’d be kind of easy.

671
00:22:53,140 –> 00:22:55,220
No wonder that the sheriff was talking dumb shit.

672
00:22:55,300 –> 00:22:56,820
You want to know how dumb it is up there?

673
00:22:56,820 –> 00:22:59,060
There’s not that many homeless people up there.

674
00:23:00,420 –> 00:23:01,980
you’re hearing is starting to turn into that,

675
00:23:01,980 –> 00:23:04,100
but you can tell who homeless is.

676
00:23:04,820 –> 00:23:05,060
Yeah.

677
00:23:05,060 –> 00:23:05,660
All right.

678
00:23:05,700 –> 00:23:08,740
Well, then everybody in the world knows.

679
00:23:08,740 –> 00:23:09,940
The international press,

680
00:23:09,940 –> 00:23:12,260
everybody knows on the front page of everything.

681
00:23:12,820 –> 00:23:14,460
Let’s pay a little bit from his arraignment.

682
00:23:14,500 –> 00:23:17,380
Watch this nut accusing the judge of poisoning people

683
00:23:17,380 –> 00:23:17,900
with cigarettes.

684
00:23:17,900 –> 00:23:18,420
This is insane.

685
00:23:18,460 –> 00:23:21,380
An individual that’s been before this court in 30 some

686
00:23:21,380 –> 00:23:21,740
years.

687
00:23:23,940 –> 00:23:25,220
You know, the Tibet,

688
00:23:25,780 –> 00:23:26,540
y’all like,

689
00:23:27,100 –> 00:23:29,940
have the tobacco company and you’re selling cigarettes

690
00:23:29,940 –> 00:23:33,220
with fiberglass and chemicals in them just to kill

691
00:23:33,220 –> 00:23:35,780
off this population.

692
00:23:36,020 –> 00:23:38,260
And you can’t really accuse me of anything if you’re

693
00:23:38,260 –> 00:23:38,900
doing that,

694
00:23:38,900 –> 00:23:39,380
you know,

695
00:23:39,620 –> 00:23:39,820
so.

696
00:23:39,820 –> 00:23:43,540
Okay, so I’m going to mute you for right now because

697
00:23:43,540 –> 00:23:46,620
I need to let you know what my decision is with regard

698
00:23:46,620 –> 00:23:47,180
to bond.

699
00:23:47,700 –> 00:23:47,980
Mr.

700
00:23:47,980 –> 00:23:50,740
Galey, your bond is going to be a $100,000 cash or

701
00:23:50,740 –> 00:23:51,300
surety bond.

702
00:23:51,300 –> 00:23:51,460
What?

703
00:23:52,180 –> 00:23:54,380
Conditions on the bond are that you may not use or

704
00:23:54,380 –> 00:23:55,820
possess any alcohol,

705
00:23:55,820 –> 00:23:56,940
any illegal substance,

706
00:23:57,020 –> 00:23:58,380
or any controlled substance,

707
00:23:58,860 –> 00:23:59,780
including marijuana.

708
00:24:00,100 –> 00:24:00,180
Wow.

709
00:24:01,060 –> 00:24:02,340
Okay, when did he do that?

710
00:24:02,340 –> 00:24:03,300
Was that Saturday?

711
00:24:03,300 –> 00:24:04,020
I believe so,

712
00:24:04,420 –> 00:24:04,620
yeah.

713
00:24:04,740 –> 00:24:05,540
Okay, it was Saturday?

714
00:24:05,540 –> 00:24:06,300
Saturday or Sunday,

715
00:24:06,300 –> 00:24:06,500
yeah.

716
00:24:06,580 –> 00:24:07,860
It definitely wasn’t Sunday.

717
00:24:07,860 –> 00:24:08,740
Okay, then it was Saturday.

718
00:24:08,740 –> 00:24:10,020
Okay, it’s Saturday.

719
00:24:10,660 –> 00:24:12,900
And do you hear what that judge just did?

720
00:24:13,220 –> 00:24:13,940
I think that’s…

721
00:24:14,580 –> 00:24:15,420
utterly insane.

722
00:24:15,420 –> 00:24:17,300
I mean, the juxtaposition of what he’s saying and then

723
00:24:17,300 –> 00:24:18,420
offering that guy bond.

724
00:24:18,460 –> 00:24:19,820
Let me explain to people,

725
00:24:19,860 –> 00:24:21,580
cash is surety.

726
00:24:21,580 –> 00:24:23,620
$100,000 cash means you got the cash.

727
00:24:24,020 –> 00:24:25,540
So you got to put 100 grand down.

728
00:24:25,700 –> 00:24:28,740
Surety means if you go to a bail bondsman,

729
00:24:29,140 –> 00:24:31,580
it’s you give the bail bondsman 10%

730
00:24:31,940 –> 00:24:35,460
down and he fronts the other probably back with collateral.

731
00:24:35,700 –> 00:24:37,060
Now, the guy’s homeless,

732
00:24:37,460 –> 00:24:38,820
so he’s not living with his parents.

733
00:24:38,900 –> 00:24:40,020
He doesn’t have a home to put up.

734
00:24:40,180 –> 00:24:41,220
But having said that,

735
00:24:41,500 –> 00:24:43,540
what the fuck is wrong with this judge?

736
00:24:44,820 –> 00:24:45,940
Terrorism?

737
00:24:46,020 –> 00:24:47,500
We got terrorists all over the place.

738
00:24:47,500 –> 00:24:48,580
Nobody wants to get rid of them.

739
00:24:48,580 –> 00:24:51,140
They don’t want to let them out and go work at Leo’s

740
00:24:51,140 –> 00:24:51,540
and shit,

741
00:24:51,540 –> 00:24:52,180
allegedly.

742
00:24:52,660 –> 00:24:52,980
Right?

743
00:24:53,380 –> 00:24:54,820
This judge is a nut.

744
00:24:55,460 –> 00:24:55,700
Insane.

745
00:24:56,740 –> 00:25:00,420
Okay, then when did the Manhattan stuff go down?

746
00:25:00,420 –> 00:25:02,980
Was that?

747
00:25:02,980 –> 00:25:03,860
I believe was Sunday.

748
00:25:04,020 –> 00:25:05,860
Was that Sunday or was it Monday?

749
00:25:06,500 –> 00:25:07,460
God, I don’t know.

750
00:25:07,660 –> 00:25:09,300
All my days run together now,

751
00:25:09,340 –> 00:25:09,900
you should know that.

752
00:25:10,180 –> 00:25:10,740
It was okay,

753
00:25:10,740 –> 00:25:12,060
so we know this guy,

754
00:25:12,740 –> 00:25:14,100
Devin Tamura,

755
00:25:14,420 –> 00:25:14,740
right?

756
00:25:15,220 –> 00:25:18,340
Goes into the NFL headquarters on Park Avenue there

757
00:25:18,580 –> 00:25:21,140
and drops a bunch of people.

758
00:25:21,140 –> 00:25:23,860
By the time we go to bed,

759
00:25:23,860 –> 00:25:25,780
we know everything about this.

760
00:25:26,900 –> 00:25:28,180
He drove from Vegas,

761
00:25:28,180 –> 00:25:28,900
you know what I mean?

762
00:25:28,900 –> 00:25:31,300
Like what the note that was in his pocket,

763
00:25:31,540 –> 00:25:32,740
who his target was.

764
00:25:32,900 –> 00:25:33,940
We knew everything.

765
00:25:33,940 –> 00:25:36,060
We even knew his route that he drove because he was

766
00:25:36,060 –> 00:25:36,500
spotted.

767
00:25:36,500 –> 00:25:38,900
You know, his car was spotted on,

768
00:25:39,540 –> 00:25:40,700
you know,

769
00:25:40,980 –> 00:25:41,540
license plate.

770
00:25:41,700 –> 00:25:43,700
Cameras and whatnot across the country.

771
00:25:43,700 –> 00:25:43,860
Yeah.

772
00:25:44,100 –> 00:25:45,100
So they tracked his route.

773
00:25:45,140 –> 00:25:45,300
Yep.

774
00:25:45,540 –> 00:25:46,340
That quickly.

775
00:25:46,500 –> 00:25:46,820
Yep.

776
00:25:47,220 –> 00:25:49,620
So that’s all in a damn database,

777
00:25:50,020 –> 00:25:50,260
Yep.

778
00:25:50,420 –> 00:25:52,420
So there’s no getaway with anything anymore,

779
00:25:52,740 –> 00:25:53,140
right?

780
00:25:53,300 –> 00:25:53,980
Wouldn’t think so.

781
00:25:54,180 –> 00:25:54,340
Yeah.

782
00:25:54,420 –> 00:25:56,180
There’s no Hoffa disappearing anymore.

783
00:25:56,180 –> 00:25:56,860
No, no, no,

784
00:25:56,900 –> 00:25:57,060
no.

785
00:25:57,060 –> 00:25:57,340
Right.

786
00:25:58,700 –> 00:25:59,620
Well, that’s amazing.

787
00:25:59,620 –> 00:26:00,900
That’s cameras,

788
00:26:00,900 –> 00:26:02,260
license plate readers.

789
00:26:02,500 –> 00:26:05,740
But on Saturday night,

790
00:26:05,740 –> 00:26:07,540
which was actually Sunday morning,

791
00:26:09,300 –> 00:26:10,500
There were two separate incidents.

792
00:26:10,500 –> 00:26:14,020
One was four people in a house,

793
00:26:14,180 –> 00:26:15,620
two injured,

794
00:26:15,780 –> 00:26:16,420
one dead,

795
00:26:16,420 –> 00:26:17,380
family dispute,

796
00:26:17,380 –> 00:26:18,340
was in Flint,

797
00:26:18,900 –> 00:26:19,220
right?

798
00:26:19,260 –> 00:26:20,340
An hour later,

799
00:26:21,460 –> 00:26:23,380
there was like a rolling gun battle.

800
00:26:23,540 –> 00:26:27,380
And I don’t know how many people even died.

801
00:26:27,380 –> 00:26:28,620
Here’s the press conference,

802
00:26:28,820 –> 00:26:29,700
just a snippet.

803
00:26:30,100 –> 00:26:31,380
What’s the chief of police name?

804
00:26:31,460 –> 00:26:32,500
Terrence Green.

805
00:26:32,820 –> 00:26:33,460
Trust me.

806
00:26:34,060 –> 00:26:35,980
He didn’t graduate top of his class.

807
00:26:35,980 –> 00:26:36,580
Listen to this.

808
00:26:36,740 –> 00:26:37,620
What things went,

809
00:26:37,780 –> 00:26:38,100
you know,

810
00:26:38,100 –> 00:26:41,500
haywire and officers that responded were overwhelmed

811
00:26:41,860 –> 00:26:42,500
within a short,

812
00:26:42,500 –> 00:26:43,820
very short period of time,

813
00:26:44,180 –> 00:26:49,260
but two for basically 3 critical incidents.

814
00:26:52,100 –> 00:26:55,620
Okay, so let me welcome in Jaquanda Johnson,

815
00:26:55,620 –> 00:26:56,740
a good friend of mine,

816
00:26:57,460 –> 00:26:58,420
crack reporter,

817
00:26:58,420 –> 00:27:00,020
met her during the water crisis.

818
00:27:00,180 –> 00:27:00,580
How are you,

819
00:27:00,580 –> 00:27:01,220
Jaquanda?

820
00:27:02,820 –> 00:27:03,100
I’m good.

821
00:27:03,460 –> 00:27:03,860
How are you,

822
00:27:03,860 –> 00:27:04,260
Charlie?

823
00:27:04,260 –> 00:27:04,620
I’m good.

824
00:27:04,620 –> 00:27:05,540
Explain to me,

825
00:27:05,540 –> 00:27:08,020
like, why we don’t know what happened,

826
00:27:08,180 –> 00:27:10,780
why nobody knows it even happened,

827
00:27:10,780 –> 00:27:11,940
and what you found out.

828
00:27:15,300 –> 00:27:16,420
Just let her rip my flag.

829
00:27:17,140 –> 00:27:19,700
I think I would like to believe that the police know

830
00:27:19,700 –> 00:27:20,380
more, of course,

831
00:27:20,380 –> 00:27:21,460
than what they’re telling us,

832
00:27:21,700 –> 00:27:21,940
you know,

833
00:27:21,940 –> 00:27:24,100
because it is an open investigation.

834
00:27:25,220 –> 00:27:27,220
It happened on an early Sunday morning.

835
00:27:28,660 –> 00:27:31,980
There’s no communication to media about the incident

836
00:27:31,980 –> 00:27:36,340
until about 3.30 or so PM on Sunday when we got a

837
00:27:36,340 –> 00:27:38,620
press release from the police department saying that

838
00:27:38,620 –> 00:27:42,380
there would be a press conference on Monday,

839
00:27:42,380 –> 00:27:43,860
which was July 28th.

840
00:27:44,740 –> 00:27:46,900
We just dealt with it like everybody else.

841
00:27:46,900 –> 00:27:49,060
It was a social media and text pipeline.

842
00:27:49,060 –> 00:27:51,620
The information that I got was from community leaders

843
00:27:51,620 –> 00:27:55,940
and people in Flint about the shootings.

844
00:27:56,420 –> 00:27:59,940
And we were just as confused as anyone else in that

845
00:27:59,940 –> 00:28:00,420
case.

846
00:28:02,100 –> 00:28:03,100
One media outlet,

847
00:28:03,620 –> 00:28:04,500
to his credit,

848
00:28:04,980 –> 00:28:06,980
he used to be a TV journalist.

849
00:28:08,100 –> 00:28:10,540
He did put out something asking questions.

850
00:28:10,820 –> 00:28:11,300
Dave Bondi.

851
00:28:11,300 –> 00:28:11,500
Hey y’all,

852
00:28:11,500 –> 00:28:12,180
what’s going on?

853
00:28:12,620 –> 00:28:13,260
Dave Bondi.

854
00:28:13,260 –> 00:28:14,980
Dave Bondi is on Twitter going,

855
00:28:14,980 –> 00:28:15,860
I heard

856
00:28:16,420 –> 00:28:18,100
17 people got dropped,

857
00:28:18,180 –> 00:28:18,460
right?

858
00:28:18,660 –> 00:28:20,180
Yeah, he literally was like,

859
00:28:20,180 –> 00:28:22,100
look, I got this picture from Hurley.

860
00:28:22,900 –> 00:28:23,700
People are here.

861
00:28:23,700 –> 00:28:24,620
People have been shot.

862
00:28:24,620 –> 00:28:25,180
What’s going on?

863
00:28:25,180 –> 00:28:25,740
What’s going on?

864
00:28:25,740 –> 00:28:27,940
Yeah, I was thinking,

865
00:28:28,340 –> 00:28:28,740
you know,

866
00:28:28,820 –> 00:28:30,260
Jaquan, I was getting texts too,

867
00:28:30,500 –> 00:28:31,860
but, you know,

868
00:28:31,980 –> 00:28:33,460
we’ll just let Dave handle it.

869
00:28:33,540 –> 00:28:34,580
But Dave,

870
00:28:35,380 –> 00:28:37,660
isn’t in the Flint media scene anymore.

871
00:28:37,660 –> 00:28:38,740
He’s doing other stuff now.

872
00:28:38,740 –> 00:28:39,700
He’s doing his own stuff.

873
00:28:40,260 –> 00:28:40,660
Nope.

874
00:28:40,660 –> 00:28:42,380
Flint media didn’t put anything out.

875
00:28:42,940 –> 00:28:44,380
Flint media didn’t put anything out.

876
00:28:44,420 –> 00:28:45,740
I was just a surprise.

877
00:28:45,740 –> 00:28:46,740
So we don’t really,

878
00:28:47,060 –> 00:28:47,620
my news outlet,

879
00:28:47,620 –> 00:28:48,980
we don’t show up to yellow tape.

880
00:28:49,140 –> 00:28:50,500
That’s, we cover issues,

881
00:28:50,500 –> 00:28:51,660
more deeper stories.

882
00:28:51,660 –> 00:28:53,380
We’re kind of relying on other news outlets.

883
00:28:53,380 –> 00:28:54,580
And I need people to understand,

884
00:28:54,580 –> 00:28:55,300
we have what,

885
00:28:56,260 –> 00:28:57,740
three TV stations,

886
00:28:57,820 –> 00:28:59,780
a legacy news organization,

887
00:29:00,380 –> 00:29:02,180
and then some smaller niche papers.

888
00:29:02,500 –> 00:29:03,020
in Flint.

889
00:29:03,020 –> 00:29:06,020
So we don’t necessarily have like a news desert,

890
00:29:06,020 –> 00:29:07,140
like some communities,

891
00:29:07,140 –> 00:29:09,060
we might have sometimes have a content desert.

892
00:29:09,540 –> 00:29:10,980
But I was just a surprise.

893
00:29:10,980 –> 00:29:12,020
So on Sunday,

894
00:29:12,980 –> 00:29:14,420
I got up and I’m looking for it.

895
00:29:14,420 –> 00:29:15,620
You know, I’m looking for the coverage,

896
00:29:15,860 –> 00:29:17,140
because usually we,

897
00:29:17,460 –> 00:29:19,060
our outlets cover shootings,

898
00:29:19,220 –> 00:29:19,620
right?

899
00:29:20,100 –> 00:29:20,980
It was nothing.

900
00:29:21,620 –> 00:29:23,420
And so then I wondered,

901
00:29:23,420 –> 00:29:24,420
like, what happened there?

902
00:29:24,460 –> 00:29:26,340
And it was really communication.

903
00:29:27,300 –> 00:29:29,220
Some reporters don’t live in Flint.

904
00:29:29,220 –> 00:29:30,020
Some do.

905
00:29:30,420 –> 00:29:32,260
trying to catch up on social media,

906
00:29:32,260 –> 00:29:32,980
who’s in your loop,

907
00:29:32,980 –> 00:29:33,860
who’s in your circle.

908
00:29:34,100 –> 00:29:36,100
I happen to sit on the gun violence committee.

909
00:29:36,340 –> 00:29:37,940
So my text message was blowing up,

910
00:29:38,580 –> 00:29:39,060
you know,

911
00:29:39,060 –> 00:29:40,020
about what’s happening,

912
00:29:40,020 –> 00:29:40,860
what we’re hearing,

913
00:29:40,860 –> 00:29:42,020
what updates are.

914
00:29:42,260 –> 00:29:44,260
So I had more information than most.

915
00:29:44,980 –> 00:29:47,460
I took for granted that it was being covered.

916
00:29:47,940 –> 00:29:49,140
I think I dropped the ball.

917
00:29:49,140 –> 00:29:51,420
Our news agency dropped the ball because we at least

918
00:29:51,420 –> 00:29:54,340
should have put something out to help with some misinformation

919
00:29:54,340 –> 00:29:55,380
based on what we had.

920
00:29:55,380 –> 00:29:59,300
But I did not expect it just not to be covered.

921
00:29:59,460 –> 00:30:00,100
You know, like.

922
00:30:00,340 –> 00:30:02,780
Let me ask you this.

923
00:30:03,220 –> 00:30:05,780
The chief of police is trying to make it 3 separate

924
00:30:05,780 –> 00:30:06,180
incidents.

925
00:30:06,180 –> 00:30:10,980
It was a let me just I’ll ask Tanya in this,

926
00:30:10,980 –> 00:30:12,740
but can you give me a number?

927
00:30:13,940 –> 00:30:14,900
it’s actually three.

928
00:30:15,300 –> 00:30:16,500
He said four calls.

929
00:30:16,820 –> 00:30:18,100
No, one, I know,

930
00:30:18,100 –> 00:30:19,140
one was the house.

931
00:30:19,140 –> 00:30:20,100
That’s separate.

932
00:30:20,660 –> 00:30:22,740
One was a great big party going on.

933
00:30:22,900 –> 00:30:24,980
How many have been shot?

934
00:30:24,980 –> 00:30:25,820
We don’t even know.

935
00:30:25,820 –> 00:30:27,300
What is your reporting revealing?

936
00:30:27,580 –> 00:30:28,660
What do you estimate?

937
00:30:30,420 –> 00:30:33,020
So the last numbers we got was a total of 17.

938
00:30:33,020 –> 00:30:33,140
Whoa.

939
00:30:33,140 –> 00:30:38,500
We are working to confirm the number.

940
00:30:39,020 –> 00:30:41,380
of how many people because it’s kind of sketchy.

941
00:30:41,380 –> 00:30:42,540
So right now we’re working on,

942
00:30:42,540 –> 00:30:45,540
we’re gonna put a call out to one of the local hospitals

943
00:30:45,540 –> 00:30:46,740
to see how many people,

944
00:30:47,060 –> 00:30:51,780
but it’s hard to discern exactly what it looks like.

945
00:30:51,780 –> 00:30:53,260
Because you don’t have subpoena power,

946
00:30:53,260 –> 00:30:53,900
you’re not the cops.

947
00:30:53,900 –> 00:30:54,460
Let me bring in.

948
00:30:54,460 –> 00:30:55,700
So a total of 17,

949
00:30:55,700 –> 00:30:58,140
so maybe 14 at the event and then three the house

950
00:30:58,180 –> 00:31:00,020
that I keep neglecting to separate.

951
00:31:00,100 –> 00:31:04,500
So maybe about a 14 for the industrial area event that

952
00:31:04,500 –> 00:31:05,060
happened.

953
00:31:05,060 –> 00:31:07,380
How many dead separate from the house with the family

954
00:31:07,380 –> 00:31:08,340
just in this event?

955
00:31:09,140 –> 00:31:10,260
If I remember,

956
00:31:10,940 –> 00:31:11,300
too.

957
00:31:11,380 –> 00:31:12,340
That’s what I think as well.

958
00:31:12,340 –> 00:31:12,820
Now let me.

959
00:31:13,540 –> 00:31:15,220
We have people in critical condition.

960
00:31:15,540 –> 00:31:19,180
We do not have an update on everybody was listening

961
00:31:19,180 –> 00:31:19,980
to critical condition.

962
00:31:19,980 –> 00:31:22,260
It’s on one person so far.

963
00:31:22,340 –> 00:31:23,300
Any suspects,

964
00:31:23,340 –> 00:31:24,100
any arrests?

965
00:31:24,900 –> 00:31:26,380
Not that I’m aware of.

966
00:31:26,420 –> 00:31:28,660
Let me just let me bring in Tanya Burns,

967
00:31:28,900 –> 00:31:29,940
city councilwoman,

968
00:31:30,340 –> 00:31:33,100
real, just real crackerjack here,

969
00:31:33,100 –> 00:31:35,940
trying to trying to get to city straightened out here.

970
00:31:36,580 –> 00:31:37,060
Tanya.

971
00:31:38,020 –> 00:31:40,380
We got a guy driving all the way from Vegas and we

972
00:31:40,380 –> 00:31:42,900
got his plates and we know exactly the route where

973
00:31:42,900 –> 00:31:47,540
he got his gas and we don’t have a suspect in Flint.

974
00:31:49,300 –> 00:31:50,580
That’s not unusual.

975
00:31:50,900 –> 00:31:53,860
We have had last and good morning and thank you for

976
00:31:53,860 –> 00:31:54,900
having me on the show.

977
00:31:54,940 –> 00:31:55,540
It’s a pleasure.

978
00:31:56,460 –> 00:31:57,220
And to your staff.

979
00:31:58,100 –> 00:31:59,300
I show up to yellow tape.

980
00:31:59,940 –> 00:32:02,820
I did get calls and I got confirmed with emergency

981
00:32:02,820 –> 00:32:05,820
staff with it was stated 18.

982
00:32:06,820 –> 00:32:08,340
that the hospital was closed off,

983
00:32:08,340 –> 00:32:10,260
that people were praying in the parking lot.

984
00:32:11,220 –> 00:32:13,140
There were four separate incidents.

985
00:32:13,540 –> 00:32:17,460
And we then had another shooting the next day where

986
00:32:17,780 –> 00:32:20,900
another four people were shot on Alpha Way.

987
00:32:21,540 –> 00:32:23,740
And a 15-year-old lost his life.

988
00:32:24,100 –> 00:32:27,140
We have a gun violence problem that is continuously

989
00:32:27,140 –> 00:32:28,100
being suppressed,

990
00:32:28,340 –> 00:32:29,220
continuously.

991
00:32:29,540 –> 00:32:32,020
And when we look at what are the issues,

992
00:32:32,500 –> 00:32:34,900
we know that Flint is an urban or Black community.

993
00:32:35,300 –> 00:32:37,940
But we also have a problem with enforcement.

994
00:32:38,260 –> 00:32:42,020
I literally have been down to industrial down there.

995
00:32:42,020 –> 00:32:44,540
It used to be a after hours,

996
00:32:44,540 –> 00:32:45,180
a strip club,

997
00:32:45,540 –> 00:32:46,500
and it was closed.

998
00:32:46,500 –> 00:32:48,500
So they know that they’re down there.

999
00:32:48,980 –> 00:32:53,340
Simple patrolling would have uncovered the big gathering

1000
00:32:53,340 –> 00:32:54,340
that was out there.

1001
00:32:55,060 –> 00:32:57,540
I’ve been actually twice down there.

1002
00:32:57,700 –> 00:32:59,300
And so we have these problems.

1003
00:33:00,020 –> 00:33:02,100
It’s not that Chief Green doesn’t know.

1004
00:33:02,540 –> 00:33:03,740
about how to police.

1005
00:33:03,780 –> 00:33:07,140
I’ve talked to him about a comprehensive public safety

1006
00:33:07,140 –> 00:33:09,740
plan with the Gang Violence Task Force.

1007
00:33:10,020 –> 00:33:12,220
He knows it’s just implementing it.

1008
00:33:12,260 –> 00:33:14,180
I don’t understand the issue.

1009
00:33:14,260 –> 00:33:16,900
You have a policing problem because I listened to that

1010
00:33:17,460 –> 00:33:20,180
press conference and the chief said,

1011
00:33:20,420 –> 00:33:22,780
this used to be an after hours club a year ago.

1012
00:33:22,780 –> 00:33:23,580
A lot of problems.

1013
00:33:23,580 –> 00:33:24,660
We closed it down.

1014
00:33:24,980 –> 00:33:27,700
And then people would be congregating on the weekends

1015
00:33:27,700 –> 00:33:28,580
in the parking lot,

1016
00:33:28,580 –> 00:33:29,300
drinking,

1017
00:33:29,300 –> 00:33:29,860
et cetera.

1018
00:33:30,420 –> 00:33:32,180
And they were aware of it.

1019
00:33:32,820 –> 00:33:34,180
Well, if you’re aware of it,

1020
00:33:34,380 –> 00:33:35,460
what a dumb shit.

1021
00:33:35,700 –> 00:33:36,820
If you’re aware of it,

1022
00:33:36,980 –> 00:33:40,420
then you send cars there and you make it go away.

1023
00:33:40,740 –> 00:33:42,100
To put this in perspective,

1024
00:33:42,660 –> 00:33:45,540
the biggest mass shooting in the history of Michigan

1025
00:33:45,940 –> 00:33:47,540
was last year in Detroit,

1026
00:33:47,540 –> 00:33:48,820
July 7th or so.

1027
00:33:49,060 –> 00:33:50,900
21 people shot at a block party,

1028
00:33:51,140 –> 00:33:52,020
just like this,

1029
00:33:52,180 –> 00:33:52,500
right?

1030
00:33:53,700 –> 00:33:57,460
Now this is perhaps this is bigger than Oxford.

1031
00:33:58,100 –> 00:34:01,700
This is bigger than Michigan State by far.

1032
00:34:02,100 –> 00:34:03,300
No information.

1033
00:34:04,340 –> 00:34:06,020
We still don’t have a body count.

1034
00:34:06,500 –> 00:34:09,140
I got a chief of police saying we can’t count them

1035
00:34:09,380 –> 00:34:10,980
because they came by private car.

1036
00:34:11,540 –> 00:34:12,900
That’s no excuse.

1037
00:34:13,300 –> 00:34:14,020
This city,

1038
00:34:14,100 –> 00:34:17,220
that mayor is a disaster.

1039
00:34:17,220 –> 00:34:17,940
Am I wrong?

1040
00:34:19,460 –> 00:34:21,900
he has continuously suppressed gun violence.

1041
00:34:22,660 –> 00:34:23,820
And it’s easy to count.

1042
00:34:24,260 –> 00:34:25,300
You check with the hospital.

1043
00:34:25,300 –> 00:34:25,660
Wait a minute.

1044
00:34:25,660 –> 00:34:28,020
You mean he suppressed the level of it,

1045
00:34:28,020 –> 00:34:30,060
not actually suppressed gun violence?

1046
00:34:30,060 –> 00:34:32,100
Correct, suppressed the level of it.

1047
00:34:32,100 –> 00:34:34,980
He has not spoken out against the violence and it’s

1048
00:34:34,980 –> 00:34:35,940
not uncommon.

1049
00:34:36,180 –> 00:34:38,900
He has not made a statement personally himself against

1050
00:34:38,900 –> 00:34:41,620
the violence or domestic violence which we’ve had.

1051
00:34:42,020 –> 00:34:43,060
with the council member.

1052
00:34:43,220 –> 00:34:44,580
So when we look at this,

1053
00:34:45,060 –> 00:34:47,140
if you’re working towards a solution,

1054
00:34:47,380 –> 00:34:49,340
you have to first acknowledge the problem.

1055
00:34:49,940 –> 00:34:50,780
We’re not acknowledging.

1056
00:34:50,780 –> 00:34:54,180
And it’s not just this street down here,

1057
00:34:54,340 –> 00:34:54,940
industrial,

1058
00:34:54,940 –> 00:34:55,820
has been a problem.

1059
00:34:55,820 –> 00:34:58,340
They drag race not too far from here.

1060
00:34:58,860 –> 00:34:59,620
I’m 56.

1061
00:34:59,620 –> 00:35:01,460
They’ve been doing that for 50 years.

1062
00:35:01,700 –> 00:35:03,780
So it’s not as if no one knows

1063
00:35:03,980 –> 00:35:07,380
where they’re hanging out or Clio Road or in the parking

1064
00:35:07,380 –> 00:35:07,700
lot.

1065
00:35:07,940 –> 00:35:08,980
If I know,

1066
00:35:08,980 –> 00:35:11,300
there’s no way the police should not know.

1067
00:35:11,380 –> 00:35:13,780
It’s just they should they should know.

1068
00:35:15,060 –> 00:35:16,540
Jaquan, let me just ask you,

1069
00:35:16,540 –> 00:35:17,460
know, as a reporter,

1070
00:35:17,820 –> 00:35:20,820
this is like great shame,

1071
00:35:20,820 –> 00:35:22,420
not only in the local media,

1072
00:35:22,420 –> 00:35:25,060
but the media in Detroit and the national media.

1073
00:35:25,300 –> 00:35:26,740
Like we we’ve got everybody.

1074
00:35:27,980 –> 00:35:28,860
I’m sorry.

1075
00:35:28,860 –> 00:35:31,220
I’m just when it’s true.

1076
00:35:31,860 –> 00:35:32,820
I got to say it.

1077
00:35:34,180 –> 00:35:35,300
Traverse City,

1078
00:35:35,340 –> 00:35:36,500
white town,

1079
00:35:36,820 –> 00:35:37,260
right?

1080
00:35:37,260 –> 00:35:39,780
White guy all over the world.

1081
00:35:40,020 –> 00:35:41,940
Flint, majority black town,

1082
00:35:43,300 –> 00:35:44,180
down on its heels,

1083
00:35:44,180 –> 00:35:44,900
more broke.

1084
00:35:45,060 –> 00:35:49,060
Not a, Mark didn’t know a single thing about this.

1085
00:35:51,540 –> 00:35:53,300
So I do agree.

1086
00:35:53,300 –> 00:35:53,940
It’s a shame,

1087
00:35:53,940 –> 00:35:54,260
right?

1088
00:35:54,420 –> 00:35:57,020
I talked to a community member the other day for a

1089
00:35:57,020 –> 00:35:58,420
story that I’m working on,

1090
00:35:58,620 –> 00:36:02,100
and it’s a shame that this has become

1091
00:36:02,940 –> 00:36:04,820
our norm, where it’s not,

1092
00:36:05,700 –> 00:36:08,460
it doesn’t carry the same weight and news value when

1093
00:36:08,460 –> 00:36:09,700
we have a mass shooting.

1094
00:36:10,420 –> 00:36:12,380
You know, I talked to community members.

1095
00:36:12,380 –> 00:36:15,700
They compared it to like the 80s and the 90s when the

1096
00:36:15,700 –> 00:36:16,900
drug game was really,

1097
00:36:16,900 –> 00:36:17,460
really strong,

1098
00:36:17,620 –> 00:36:17,980
right?

1099
00:36:17,980 –> 00:36:21,620
When drugs were flooding streets and one young lady

1100
00:36:21,620 –> 00:36:24,020
mentioned how there was a shooting at a house.

1101
00:36:24,980 –> 00:36:27,060
About 5 people were shot in the shut the city down.

1102
00:36:27,860 –> 00:36:31,380
I drove to every location on Monday.

1103
00:36:32,820 –> 00:36:33,860
just to see what it looked like.

1104
00:36:33,860 –> 00:36:34,980
It looked like every day.

1105
00:36:34,980 –> 00:36:37,660
I mean, the gas station was doing its normal work.

1106
00:36:37,660 –> 00:36:42,060
I didn’t see any yellow tape anywhere as if it never

1107
00:36:42,060 –> 00:36:42,620
happened.

1108
00:36:42,660 –> 00:36:44,500
I drove down an industrial

1109
00:36:45,060 –> 00:36:46,260
at Pasadena,

1110
00:36:47,060 –> 00:36:47,700
at Carton,

1111
00:36:48,420 –> 00:36:51,420
the gas station the police chief mentioned in the

1112
00:36:51,420 –> 00:36:52,580
press conference.

1113
00:36:52,740 –> 00:36:53,820
I had to address this.

1114
00:36:54,100 –> 00:36:56,260
I even drove down the one that we’re not talking about.

1115
00:36:56,260 –> 00:36:58,100
Looked like a normal house to me.

1116
00:36:58,580 –> 00:37:03,540
So this has become a norm and that shouldn’t be.

1117
00:37:04,260 –> 00:37:06,660
Gun violence shouldn’t be normal for any community.

1118
00:37:07,140 –> 00:37:08,260
About seven years ago,

1119
00:37:09,060 –> 00:37:12,420
We wrote a story and it basically said that Flint kids

1120
00:37:12,420 –> 00:37:15,620
were dying at the rate of kids in Chicago and Detroit,

1121
00:37:16,020 –> 00:37:18,740
even though our population didn’t speak that.

1122
00:37:19,060 –> 00:37:22,380
You know, we may have at this time maybe 80,000 or

1123
00:37:22,380 –> 00:37:24,260
so people that live in the city.

1124
00:37:24,500 –> 00:37:27,060
And so we need to change the narrative.

1125
00:37:27,140 –> 00:37:29,700
Gun violence and shooting shouldn’t be a fucking norm.

1126
00:37:30,340 –> 00:37:30,780
For true.

1127
00:37:31,340 –> 00:37:31,780
And you know,

1128
00:37:32,500 –> 00:37:33,140
I’ve done this,

1129
00:37:33,140 –> 00:37:33,540
Tanya.

1130
00:37:33,540 –> 00:37:34,660
The other thing is,

1131
00:37:37,180 –> 00:37:37,780
They’re not fully,

1132
00:37:37,780 –> 00:37:40,300
it’s just like Detroit because Detroit infected Flint

1133
00:37:40,300 –> 00:37:42,420
with the bullshit police statistics.

1134
00:37:44,100 –> 00:37:47,220
They don’t tell everybody about all the homicides.

1135
00:37:47,220 –> 00:37:49,300
They say it’s justifiable.

1136
00:37:49,300 –> 00:37:50,180
So for instance,

1137
00:37:50,500 –> 00:37:54,260
everybody’s at the parking lot here and one guy pulls

1138
00:37:54,260 –> 00:37:54,700
out a gun,

1139
00:37:54,700 –> 00:37:55,460
starts shooting,

1140
00:37:56,060 –> 00:37:58,100
another guy shoots him in self-defense.

1141
00:37:58,100 –> 00:38:00,020
Okay, you won’t charge the guy,

1142
00:38:00,260 –> 00:38:04,420
but it’s a homicide that gives you a reflection

1143
00:38:04,820 –> 00:38:09,060
of what’s happening in the community and just everything

1144
00:38:09,060 –> 00:38:10,020
going on up there.

1145
00:38:10,140 –> 00:38:11,860
What happened to the ARPA money?

1146
00:38:11,980 –> 00:38:14,540
What happened to the water settlement?

1147
00:38:15,860 –> 00:38:18,660
What’s going on with the empty seat and city council?

1148
00:38:18,660 –> 00:38:21,380
It’s the garbage contract.

1149
00:38:21,380 –> 00:38:22,980
It’s there’s so much going on.

1150
00:38:23,300 –> 00:38:26,660
You know, that’s a major town and nothing’s getting

1151
00:38:26,700 –> 00:38:27,140
exposed.

1152
00:38:27,940 –> 00:38:30,180
Tanya, what ward is industrial?

1153
00:38:30,420 –> 00:38:31,300
What ward is it?

1154
00:38:32,100 –> 00:38:33,860
Industrial is third warbital.

1155
00:38:34,080 –> 00:38:36,040
which 2026,

1156
00:38:36,280 –> 00:38:38,200
it’ll be war two and three.

1157
00:38:38,440 –> 00:38:39,080
But Charlie,

1158
00:38:39,080 –> 00:38:42,560
we had over 10 children shot last year in the city

1159
00:38:42,560 –> 00:38:42,880
of Flint,

1160
00:38:42,880 –> 00:38:46,040
10, and some of them were at home sleeping in their

1161
00:38:46,040 –> 00:38:46,440
bed.

1162
00:38:46,680 –> 00:38:50,160
We have a problem with gun violence against our children

1163
00:38:50,160 –> 00:38:50,800
in the city of Flint,

1164
00:38:50,800 –> 00:38:52,280
and no one wants to talk about it.

1165
00:38:52,680 –> 00:38:56,120
We’ve had several children literally gunned down under

1166
00:38:56,120 –> 00:38:57,240
the age of 18.

1167
00:38:57,480 –> 00:39:02,040
We’ve had infants killed in our city as young as 10

1168
00:39:02,040 –> 00:39:04,920
months old in 2021.

1169
00:39:05,080 –> 00:39:06,600
So we have a problem.

1170
00:39:06,840 –> 00:39:08,400
We have a gun violence epidemic.

1171
00:39:08,600 –> 00:39:11,000
And when we speak about it,

1172
00:39:11,000 –> 00:39:13,160
it doesn’t take or carry the same weight.

1173
00:39:13,480 –> 00:39:15,600
And I personally feel because they’re black.

1174
00:39:16,120 –> 00:39:17,760
You know, we talk about black people,

1175
00:39:17,760 –> 00:39:19,080
black lives being killed.

1176
00:39:19,320 –> 00:39:20,360
It’s not the same.

1177
00:39:20,600 –> 00:39:22,200
There’s not that rush to,

1178
00:39:22,440 –> 00:39:23,040
oh, my God,

1179
00:39:23,080 –> 00:39:24,200
we got to fix this.

1180
00:39:24,360 –> 00:39:26,600
You know, we have a high poverty rate.

1181
00:39:26,840 –> 00:39:29,560
You know, we have issues with literacy in our community.

1182
00:39:29,800 –> 00:39:32,520
And then we have politicians who are elected officials

1183
00:39:32,760 –> 00:39:34,840
who worry about themselves and that’s it.

1184
00:39:35,480 –> 00:39:37,960
If I could give a parallel,

1185
00:39:37,960 –> 00:39:38,240
you know,

1186
00:39:38,240 –> 00:39:39,720
like you’re our sister city,

1187
00:39:40,040 –> 00:39:45,320
Detroit had 20 kids under 17 and under shot last month.

1188
00:39:45,960 –> 00:39:47,160
And now this month,

1189
00:39:47,320 –> 00:39:50,600
we get TikTok videos out of City Hall,

1190
00:39:50,680 –> 00:39:52,360
how crime is down.

1191
00:39:53,080 –> 00:39:53,640
You know what I mean?

1192
00:39:53,640 –> 00:39:54,680
Because our mayor,

1193
00:39:55,160 –> 00:39:57,000
phony, phony,

1194
00:39:57,160 –> 00:39:58,120
just like your mayor,

1195
00:39:58,120 –> 00:40:00,040
phony, is running for governor.

1196
00:40:00,840 –> 00:40:04,600
I don’t know how in three weeks we’re putting out TikTok

1197
00:40:04,600 –> 00:40:09,080
videos of what a paradise this is when our own eyes

1198
00:40:09,240 –> 00:40:10,960
tell us something else in Jaquanda,

1199
00:40:10,960 –> 00:40:14,880
it goes right back to the press has gotten so fucking

1200
00:40:14,880 –> 00:40:15,480
lazy.

1201
00:40:15,720 –> 00:40:17,240
They bought and paid for.

1202
00:40:17,480 –> 00:40:18,840
I don’t know what they’re doing,

1203
00:40:19,320 –> 00:40:21,320
but they let them get away with this shit.

1204
00:40:21,480 –> 00:40:23,800
And it can’t be fixed without people knowing.

1205
00:40:24,520 –> 00:40:25,320
I agree.

1206
00:40:25,360 –> 00:40:27,560
I mean, the Third Ward doesn’t even have representation

1207
00:40:27,560 –> 00:40:28,520
on the council right now,

1208
00:40:28,520 –> 00:40:28,920
right?

1209
00:40:29,080 –> 00:40:30,360
And they just had a mass shooting.

1210
00:40:32,280 –> 00:40:36,120
I, again, I just personally,

1211
00:40:36,320 –> 00:40:38,320
my newsroom doesn’t even have a reporter right now.

1212
00:40:39,600 –> 00:40:39,960
What?

1213
00:40:39,960 –> 00:40:40,760
I’m back on.

1214
00:40:41,400 –> 00:40:42,520
Yeah, my last reporter,

1215
00:40:42,520 –> 00:40:45,360
she took leave because of some things she had going

1216
00:40:45,360 –> 00:40:45,800
on.

1217
00:40:46,840 –> 00:40:48,960
And so now I’m the reporter.

1218
00:40:48,960 –> 00:40:50,680
And so that’s why I’m handling the story.

1219
00:40:50,680 –> 00:40:52,920
And so I’m back out there writing.

1220
00:40:54,520 –> 00:41:00,040
And also, I have to have people who care about the

1221
00:41:00,040 –> 00:41:00,600
city

1222
00:41:00,840 –> 00:41:03,240
and who want to be here to do the coverage.

1223
00:41:03,560 –> 00:41:05,400
We’re working with some freelancers,

1224
00:41:05,840 –> 00:41:06,840
which is fine,

1225
00:41:06,840 –> 00:41:11,320
but we know Flint is a place where we need talent.

1226
00:41:11,320 –> 00:41:13,800
We need reporters in the newsroom that don’t care about

1227
00:41:13,800 –> 00:41:15,080
asking tough questions.

1228
00:41:15,480 –> 00:41:16,760
You know, at the top of my game,

1229
00:41:16,760 –> 00:41:17,960
we’re writing those stories.

1230
00:41:17,960 –> 00:41:18,480
We’re there.

1231
00:41:18,480 –> 00:41:19,880
We’re talking about these issues.

1232
00:41:20,200 –> 00:41:22,520
I’m still in 50 years writing this story right now

1233
00:41:22,520 –> 00:41:26,080
because I also got to handle operating and funding

1234
00:41:26,080 –> 00:41:27,240
and all this other shit.

1235
00:41:27,680 –> 00:41:29,880
when it’s killing me.

1236
00:41:29,880 –> 00:41:34,520
I got FOIAs in front of me that need to deeper dives

1237
00:41:34,520 –> 00:41:36,520
of what’s going on with government and corruption

1238
00:41:36,920 –> 00:41:37,720
in the city.

1239
00:41:37,720 –> 00:41:39,880
I mean, it’s just,

1240
00:41:39,880 –> 00:41:40,600
it’s a lot.

1241
00:41:40,640 –> 00:41:41,560
And why are we here?

1242
00:41:42,040 –> 00:41:44,360
You know, it’s a time where we would have been writing,

1243
00:41:44,400 –> 00:41:47,880
where residents could have talked about this side

1244
00:41:47,880 –> 00:41:49,320
of town, what’s going on,

1245
00:41:49,400 –> 00:41:50,360
and we would erode it.

1246
00:41:50,360 –> 00:41:51,480
We would have wrote,

1247
00:41:51,560 –> 00:41:52,720
this is what they’re dealing with,

1248
00:41:52,720 –> 00:41:54,760
whether somebody was stepping in the gap for them

1249
00:41:54,760 –> 00:41:56,360
or not, we would erode it.

1250
00:41:56,880 –> 00:41:59,960
where are we as journalists that we don’t care about

1251
00:41:59,960 –> 00:42:00,760
our neighborhoods,

1252
00:42:00,760 –> 00:42:01,560
our community,

1253
00:42:01,720 –> 00:42:02,840
and what they’re doing?

1254
00:42:03,080 –> 00:42:04,920
We don’t need elected officials.

1255
00:42:05,000 –> 00:42:06,120
No, not to you,

1256
00:42:06,120 –> 00:42:06,680
Tanya.

1257
00:42:07,480 –> 00:42:09,400
We don’t need elected officials to tell us what the

1258
00:42:09,400 –> 00:42:09,960
news is.

1259
00:42:10,520 –> 00:42:12,840
You know, like we’re not out here.

1260
00:42:12,840 –> 00:42:13,880
We’re detached.

1261
00:42:14,120 –> 00:42:15,640
I feel detached with this story.

1262
00:42:17,000 –> 00:42:18,840
I drove through the neighborhood.

1263
00:42:18,880 –> 00:42:20,520
I’m like, where the hell have I been?

1264
00:42:20,520 –> 00:42:22,440
Like to see the condition of the city.

1265
00:42:22,600 –> 00:42:23,120
I drive down,

1266
00:42:23,120 –> 00:42:25,080
I get up every morning and drive down maybe a couple

1267
00:42:25,080 –> 00:42:25,480
of streets,

1268
00:42:25,480 –> 00:42:27,200
but not necessarily in neighborhoods.

1269
00:42:27,720 –> 00:42:29,920
And just dealing with it and hearing about what’s been

1270
00:42:29,920 –> 00:42:33,000
going on and not knowing that this was still a problem.

1271
00:42:33,160 –> 00:42:34,040
I should have known.

1272
00:42:34,520 –> 00:42:35,240
Well, now you do.

1273
00:42:35,800 –> 00:42:36,920
Don’t be hard on you.

1274
00:42:36,920 –> 00:42:37,880
got a lot to do.

1275
00:42:38,200 –> 00:42:38,600
Okay.

1276
00:42:39,320 –> 00:42:39,840
It’s a lot.

1277
00:42:39,840 –> 00:42:42,280
It seems like your plate is overwhelmed.

1278
00:42:42,600 –> 00:42:45,440
And I will say like other news sources to where I’ve

1279
00:42:45,440 –> 00:42:48,840
always maintained dealing with 25,

1280
00:42:49,160 –> 00:42:53,200
even 12, he wasn’t happy with my conversation and

1281
00:42:53,200 –> 00:42:53,680
five.

1282
00:42:53,960 –> 00:42:55,120
And so reaching out.

1283
00:42:55,320 –> 00:42:57,720
So I think that when we get to it,

1284
00:42:57,960 –> 00:42:59,080
Flint has a gun.

1285
00:42:59,160 –> 00:43:00,680
It’s part of our culture now.

1286
00:43:01,160 –> 00:43:02,840
It’s part of the culture to party,

1287
00:43:02,840 –> 00:43:03,640
to hang out.

1288
00:43:04,120 –> 00:43:05,080
Even at the clubs,

1289
00:43:05,160 –> 00:43:06,840
you will have 10 people in the club.

1290
00:43:07,240 –> 00:43:09,000
and 150 people outside the club.

1291
00:43:09,440 –> 00:43:12,000
And the clubs aren’t making any money and they shoot

1292
00:43:12,040 –> 00:43:12,920
outside the club,

1293
00:43:12,920 –> 00:43:15,080
they throw liquor bottles,

1294
00:43:15,080 –> 00:43:15,880
they fight,

1295
00:43:17,320 –> 00:43:18,280
going to the club.

1296
00:43:18,680 –> 00:43:19,240
Tanya, Tanya,

1297
00:43:19,240 –> 00:43:22,680
was it like New Year’s where like 1000 rounds got

1298
00:43:22,680 –> 00:43:24,840
lit off in a parking lot somewhere?

1299
00:43:25,800 –> 00:43:27,960
Listen, am I right?

1300
00:43:27,960 –> 00:43:28,920
Do I remember that right?

1301
00:43:29,640 –> 00:43:30,600
There was a lot.

1302
00:43:30,920 –> 00:43:32,040
People’s roofs,

1303
00:43:32,200 –> 00:43:33,480
bullets went through their roofs.

1304
00:43:33,720 –> 00:43:34,920
There were car windows,

1305
00:43:35,400 –> 00:43:36,200
windshields.

1306
00:43:36,520 –> 00:43:40,920
It sounds literally like we are in Baghdad on,

1307
00:43:40,920 –> 00:43:43,880
and it’s gotten so bad the past three to four years.

1308
00:43:44,520 –> 00:43:45,400
And in my work,

1309
00:43:45,400 –> 00:43:46,600
which is a mixed board,

1310
00:43:46,760 –> 00:43:49,320
we have people who are really concerned.

1311
00:43:49,720 –> 00:43:52,600
Bullets, I literally had a bullet go through about

1312
00:43:52,840 –> 00:43:58,040
two inches from a resident’s son’s head while he was

1313
00:43:58,040 –> 00:43:58,920
lying in his bed.

1314
00:43:59,400 –> 00:44:00,800
And so the gun

1315
00:44:00,880 –> 00:44:02,280
violence is a problem.

1316
00:44:02,600 –> 00:44:03,880
And when we call,

1317
00:44:04,120 –> 00:44:04,440
you know,

1318
00:44:04,440 –> 00:44:05,440
police are overwhelmed.

1319
00:44:05,440 –> 00:44:06,360
We don’t have enough.

1320
00:44:06,840 –> 00:44:08,280
If they’re taking four calls,

1321
00:44:08,280 –> 00:44:09,320
we have literally,

1322
00:44:09,640 –> 00:44:10,080
honestly,

1323
00:44:10,080 –> 00:44:13,320
more police in city council chambers than we do.

1324
00:44:13,400 –> 00:44:13,560
Yeah.

1325
00:44:14,520 –> 00:44:16,840
I counted one night it was seven in one room.

1326
00:44:17,320 –> 00:44:17,880
And council.

1327
00:44:17,960 –> 00:44:18,160
12.

1328
00:44:18,520 –> 00:44:19,800
12 was the most before.

1329
00:44:20,360 –> 00:44:21,560
I was pissed.

1330
00:44:21,800 –> 00:44:22,120
Yeah.

1331
00:44:22,840 –> 00:44:25,160
Paul and Art Woodson and Jedediah Brown,

1332
00:44:25,160 –> 00:44:25,640
just like,

1333
00:44:25,640 –> 00:44:26,120
you know,

1334
00:44:26,120 –> 00:44:26,280
they…

1335
00:44:27,320 –> 00:44:29,840
You got a political problem because if you don’t have

1336
00:44:29,840 –> 00:44:30,600
enough police,

1337
00:44:30,840 –> 00:44:33,000
then you do to hotspots.

1338
00:44:33,080 –> 00:44:34,360
Everybody knows that.

1339
00:44:34,600 –> 00:44:37,640
But you got a mayor who used to work for the local

1340
00:44:37,640 –> 00:44:38,720
television station now,

1341
00:44:38,720 –> 00:44:39,240
didn’t he?

1342
00:44:39,640 –> 00:44:40,680
Retired from there.

1343
00:44:40,840 –> 00:44:42,280
So they’re not doing shit.

1344
00:44:43,160 –> 00:44:44,920
Well, I got to come up there and straighten that place

1345
00:44:44,920 –> 00:44:45,160
out.

1346
00:44:46,000 –> 00:44:46,440
Well, ladies,

1347
00:44:46,440 –> 00:44:47,400
look, I’m gonna,

1348
00:44:47,440 –> 00:44:48,040
I’m coming.

1349
00:44:48,280 –> 00:44:48,840
I’m coming.

1350
00:44:49,080 –> 00:44:50,200
I appreciate you.

1351
00:44:50,200 –> 00:44:51,960
We didn’t do the steak out before,

1352
00:44:51,960 –> 00:44:52,360
Charlie.

1353
00:44:52,360 –> 00:44:52,960
We’re sick.

1354
00:44:52,960 –> 00:44:53,760
Come on, get it.

1355
00:44:53,920 –> 00:44:54,640
Oh, you’re the shit.

1356
00:44:54,640 –> 00:44:55,160
And I feel,

1357
00:44:55,560 –> 00:45:00,360
I feel bad for you because I remember you as a cracker

1358
00:45:00,360 –> 00:45:02,440
jack, a dynamite stick.

1359
00:45:02,440 –> 00:45:03,640
I’m just tired.

1360
00:45:03,720 –> 00:45:04,520
I hear it.

1361
00:45:04,520 –> 00:45:05,560
So I’m gonna come up,

1362
00:45:06,840 –> 00:45:07,800
say hello.

1363
00:45:07,800 –> 00:45:08,600
We’re gonna,

1364
00:45:08,680 –> 00:45:12,280
we’re gonna have something to eat and we’ll get our

1365
00:45:12,280 –> 00:45:14,000
friends, all our friend friends,

1366
00:45:14,120 –> 00:45:15,240
figure out what we’re gonna do.

1367
00:45:16,000 –> 00:45:16,680
I don’t know what.

1368
00:45:17,000 –> 00:45:18,040
So when’s that election?

1369
00:45:18,040 –> 00:45:19,400
That’s August 5th.

1370
00:45:20,320 –> 00:45:20,840
August 5th.

1371
00:45:20,920 –> 00:45:22,360
Very important election.

1372
00:45:23,080 –> 00:45:26,440
Is it, does the mayor control the city council or does

1373
00:45:26,440 –> 00:45:29,600
the city council control an investigation of the mayor?

1374
00:45:29,600 –> 00:45:33,120
Well, the mayor is really involved in this election.

1375
00:45:33,120 –> 00:45:35,960
There’s some things which are question about some candidates

1376
00:45:36,280 –> 00:45:39,400
and one candidate and specifically was received her

1377
00:45:39,400 –> 00:45:40,880
entire house and new growth,

1378
00:45:41,000 –> 00:45:41,880
new windows,

1379
00:45:42,440 –> 00:45:44,000
her water bill paid off.

1380
00:45:44,440 –> 00:45:45,600
a new front porch,

1381
00:45:45,600 –> 00:45:47,720
and that’s Lashawn Johnson in the third ward.

1382
00:45:47,880 –> 00:45:49,480
So there are some serious questions.

1383
00:45:49,560 –> 00:45:52,200
She’s with at every press conference with the mayor.

1384
00:45:52,200 –> 00:45:54,600
There’s questions of some city council members even

1385
00:45:54,600 –> 00:45:55,400
live in the city.

1386
00:45:55,400 –> 00:45:56,440
It’s a whole mess.

1387
00:45:56,760 –> 00:45:57,800
But ladies,

1388
00:45:57,960 –> 00:45:59,480
we’ll do that another time.

1389
00:45:59,880 –> 00:46:00,840
I appreciate you.

1390
00:46:00,920 –> 00:46:04,200
And I got to find out if Red found Jimmy Hoffa.

1391
00:46:04,240 –> 00:46:04,720
Thank you.

1392
00:46:04,720 –> 00:46:05,240
Thank you.

1393
00:46:06,280 –> 00:46:07,040
Just stay and watch.

1394
00:46:07,240 –> 00:46:07,800
Don’t hang up.

1395
00:46:07,800 –> 00:46:08,640
Just stay and watch.

1396
00:46:08,640 –> 00:46:09,880
Let’s see what Red’s got.

1397
00:46:10,680 –> 00:46:11,080
Red.

1398
00:46:11,560 –> 00:46:12,040
Red.

1399
00:46:12,360 –> 00:46:13,240
Earth to Red.

1400
00:46:15,160 –> 00:46:15,400
Yeah.

1401
00:46:16,440 –> 00:46:18,880
I’m still here in front of,

1402
00:46:18,880 –> 00:46:19,720
I’m Diamo,

1403
00:46:20,040 –> 00:46:21,520
it’s hot as hell out here.

1404
00:46:21,520 –> 00:46:24,120
If he disappeared on this day 50 years ago,

1405
00:46:24,280 –> 00:46:26,040
it was hot as hell then too.

1406
00:46:26,600 –> 00:46:31,160
So we’re here and about four more cars showed up.

1407
00:46:31,520 –> 00:46:34,200
Apparently another journalist career who’s going down

1408
00:46:34,200 –> 00:46:35,800
the drain has showed up too.

1409
00:46:36,240 –> 00:46:38,280
So it’s 3 media outlets.

1410
00:46:38,280 –> 00:46:39,960
Nobody’s found Hoffa yet.

1411
00:46:40,440 –> 00:46:42,040
We’re here in front of the door.

1412
00:46:42,520 –> 00:46:45,240
I’m about to go see if I can get a fork because,

1413
00:46:45,240 –> 00:46:45,480
you know,

1414
00:46:45,480 –> 00:46:48,920
you got to commemorate his 50 years missing with a

1415
00:46:48,920 –> 00:46:50,920
fork from the last place he was seen.

1416
00:46:51,240 –> 00:46:51,880
So come on,

1417
00:46:51,880 –> 00:46:54,880
we’re going to go see if we can get in here and if

1418
00:46:54,880 –> 00:46:57,720
they’ll let us get a 50 year commemorative.

1419
00:46:57,800 –> 00:46:59,560
No, that door is locked.

1420
00:47:00,520 –> 00:47:01,560
He didn’t check before.

1421
00:47:01,640 –> 00:47:02,520
The door is locked.

1422
00:47:02,520 –> 00:47:04,440
This event is so huge,

1423
00:47:04,440 –> 00:47:06,640
they decided to close down because they were going

1424
00:47:06,640 –> 00:47:10,760
to be overwhelmed with Arthur’s missing enthusiasts.

1425
00:47:10,760 –> 00:47:12,120
Maybe it’s closed because of you.

1426
00:47:14,280 –> 00:47:15,640
that would be fine too.

1427
00:47:15,640 –> 00:47:17,080
It’s hot as hell out here.

1428
00:47:17,080 –> 00:47:18,520
I really don’t care no more.

1429
00:47:18,520 –> 00:47:19,480
They could find him,

1430
00:47:19,480 –> 00:47:20,360
don’t find him.

1431
00:47:20,400 –> 00:47:21,720
I mean, really,

1432
00:47:22,040 –> 00:47:22,840
like I said,

1433
00:47:23,160 –> 00:47:24,360
50 years ago,

1434
00:47:24,760 –> 00:47:27,120
BBQ in the Johnson’s backyard,

1435
00:47:27,480 –> 00:47:29,160
sausage, burgers,

1436
00:47:29,240 –> 00:47:30,120
he’s out of here.

1437
00:47:30,200 –> 00:47:31,000
You know what I’m saying?

1438
00:47:31,320 –> 00:47:32,200
That’s all I’m saying.

1439
00:47:32,360 –> 00:47:33,000
Bought a big.

1440
00:47:34,240 –> 00:47:35,720
Yeah, go over there.

1441
00:47:35,720 –> 00:47:37,320
Go over there and fuck with those reporters,

1442
00:47:37,320 –> 00:47:37,480
dude.

1443
00:47:37,480 –> 00:47:38,720
Let’s see what they’re all about.

1444
00:47:38,800 –> 00:47:40,800
Yeah, I tried to get the Fox guy to get on.

1445
00:47:40,840 –> 00:47:44,440
He said something about policy and protocol and all

1446
00:47:44,440 –> 00:47:44,840
that shit.

1447
00:47:44,840 –> 00:47:46,160
I don’t know nothing about that.

1448
00:47:46,160 –> 00:47:47,960
I’m on the ground level.

1449
00:47:47,960 –> 00:47:49,960
So let’s let’s see.

1450
00:47:50,320 –> 00:47:51,160
Hey, we’ll put you on the air.

1451
00:47:51,240 –> 00:47:52,160
I’m gonna get me cussed.

1452
00:47:53,160 –> 00:47:55,320
Get me cussed out by a national reporter.

1453
00:47:55,320 –> 00:47:56,120
Oh, fuck these guys.

1454
00:47:56,200 –> 00:47:56,840
My name’s Felipe.

1455
00:47:58,480 –> 00:48:00,360
I could have sent you to flip Max and straighten it

1456
00:48:00,360 –> 00:48:00,560
out.

1457
00:48:00,560 –> 00:48:03,160
I love how the whole reporting’s become about how miserable

1458
00:48:03,160 –> 00:48:03,720
he is.

1459
00:48:03,720 –> 00:48:06,680
It’s because it’s Hoffa Day.

1460
00:48:06,760 –> 00:48:08,120
Yeah, Paul Hoffa’s dead,

1461
00:48:08,120 –> 00:48:08,760
Red’s dying.

1462
00:48:09,800 –> 00:48:10,280
What’s up,

1463
00:48:10,280 –> 00:48:10,640
fellas?

1464
00:48:10,640 –> 00:48:11,040
What’s good,

1465
00:48:11,160 –> 00:48:11,640
fellas?

1466
00:48:13,880 –> 00:48:14,560
We got advice.

1467
00:48:14,960 –> 00:48:15,560
Excuse me.

1468
00:48:15,560 –> 00:48:16,240
I’m sorry.

1469
00:48:16,240 –> 00:48:17,800
Where dudes are people are you with?

1470
00:48:17,800 –> 00:48:18,000
All right,

1471
00:48:18,000 –> 00:48:18,440
see you later.

1472
00:48:23,800 –> 00:48:24,280
ABC.

1473
00:48:24,280 –> 00:48:24,520
ABC.

1474
00:48:24,520 –> 00:48:25,000
Oh, okay.

1475
00:48:25,000 –> 00:48:26,040
So we got wait,

1476
00:48:26,200 –> 00:48:27,360
WXYZ or ABS.

1477
00:48:29,560 –> 00:48:29,880
OK.

1478
00:48:30,040 –> 00:48:32,760
Well, we got a few of the alphabets out here.

1479
00:48:32,760 –> 00:48:34,280
We got FOX 5.

1480
00:48:35,240 –> 00:48:35,840
And then we got WH.

1481
00:48:35,840 –> 00:48:36,360
Hold on.

1482
00:48:36,360 –> 00:48:36,840
Go back.

1483
00:48:36,840 –> 00:48:37,560
Don’t go away.

1484
00:48:37,560 –> 00:48:38,520
Go back over there.

1485
00:48:39,080 –> 00:48:39,560
You say go.

1486
00:48:40,120 –> 00:48:44,200
Now, are they national ABC or are they local ABC?

1487
00:48:45,400 –> 00:48:46,120
No, local.

1488
00:48:47,320 –> 00:48:48,520
They’re WXYZ.

1489
00:48:49,240 –> 00:48:49,720
Yes.

1490
00:48:50,200 –> 00:48:51,880
Ross Jones investigating this.

1491
00:48:53,240 –> 00:48:54,040
Ross Jones?

1492
00:48:54,440 –> 00:48:56,440
Is Ross Jones investigating it?

1493
00:48:56,760 –> 00:48:57,640
I don’t know.

1494
00:48:57,640 –> 00:48:59,320
It seems like they’re kind of uncooperative,

1495
00:48:59,320 –> 00:49:01,640
like the monsters that really know what happened here.

1496
00:49:02,280 –> 00:49:02,840
Well, you know,

1497
00:49:03,400 –> 00:49:04,440
if you get them on,

1498
00:49:04,440 –> 00:49:05,880
somebody will actually be watching them.

1499
00:49:06,280 –> 00:49:07,160
If you get them on our air.

1500
00:49:10,360 –> 00:49:12,200
So I might be a step or two above.

1501
00:49:12,520 –> 00:49:13,960
But look, this is what we’re gonna do.

1502
00:49:13,960 –> 00:49:17,000
I’m about to get in my air conditioned car.

1503
00:49:19,720 –> 00:49:21,800
because I’ve sweated off about three extra pounds.

1504
00:49:21,800 –> 00:49:22,840
I didn’t plan on it.

1505
00:49:22,840 –> 00:49:24,120
And I hope they find the guy.

1506
00:49:24,520 –> 00:49:26,320
I mean, we’ll find out what happened to the guy.

1507
00:49:26,320 –> 00:49:28,200
As far as what we know,

1508
00:49:28,280 –> 00:49:29,400
he’s still missing.

1509
00:49:29,880 –> 00:49:32,840
The last thing I heard throw it out there was sausage

1510
00:49:32,840 –> 00:49:34,840
factory incinerator.

1511
00:49:35,160 –> 00:49:36,360
That’s the last thing I heard.

1512
00:49:36,520 –> 00:49:40,120
So he was turnt in the food and then burnt.

1513
00:49:41,960 –> 00:49:42,680
My opinion,

1514
00:49:43,000 –> 00:49:44,600
bratwurst or hamburger.

1515
00:49:44,720 –> 00:49:45,560
That’s all I’m going to say.

1516
00:49:46,200 –> 00:49:47,400
I reached out to his son.

1517
00:49:47,720 –> 00:49:49,000
You know, he’s never spoken about it.

1518
00:49:49,000 –> 00:49:51,960
It’s too heartbroken to talk about it.

1519
00:49:51,960 –> 00:49:52,560
But, you know,

1520
00:49:52,560 –> 00:49:53,720
in all seriousness,

1521
00:49:54,040 –> 00:49:55,040
Jimmy Junior,

1522
00:49:55,400 –> 00:49:55,880
you know,

1523
00:49:55,960 –> 00:49:56,440
we’re with you,

1524
00:49:56,440 –> 00:49:56,760
man.

1525
00:49:57,720 –> 00:49:58,600
Yeah, we poke fun.

1526
00:49:59,640 –> 00:50:01,000
But respect to the dad,

1527
00:50:01,160 –> 00:50:03,120
because when I’ve been out here talking a lot of shit,

1528
00:50:03,160 –> 00:50:06,120
I am a working class person.

1529
00:50:06,640 –> 00:50:09,320
And the man did do a lot for the labor force.

1530
00:50:09,640 –> 00:50:12,120
He was a great man that made a lot of changes that

1531
00:50:12,120 –> 00:50:14,520
generations are living from the benefits now.

1532
00:50:14,520 –> 00:50:16,840
So we may talk shit and have a lot of fun.

1533
00:50:17,240 –> 00:50:19,160
Really do hope the family get closure.

1534
00:50:19,320 –> 00:50:21,400
But please don’t send me back out here to find out

1535
00:50:21,400 –> 00:50:23,320
what happened to this man 50 years from now.

1536
00:50:24,280 –> 00:50:26,840
Yeah, with Reds dressed like a blackjack dealer.

1537
00:50:27,640 –> 00:50:28,040
Looks great.

1538
00:50:28,800 –> 00:50:29,960
Arizona casino.

1539
00:50:30,720 –> 00:50:31,400
Which, by the way,

1540
00:50:31,400 –> 00:50:32,280
to end this all,

1541
00:50:32,520 –> 00:50:35,080
if it wasn’t for Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters pension

1542
00:50:35,080 –> 00:50:37,000
fund, there would be no Las Vegas.

1543
00:50:37,080 –> 00:50:37,280
No.

1544
00:50:37,560 –> 00:50:38,600
That’s how it got built.

1545
00:50:39,880 –> 00:50:40,760
Ma built it.

1546
00:50:40,800 –> 00:50:41,160
Yes.

1547
00:50:41,480 –> 00:50:41,840
All right,

1548
00:50:41,840 –> 00:50:42,040
man.

1549
00:50:42,040 –> 00:50:42,800
Thanks for doing that,

1550
00:50:42,800 –> 00:50:43,240
Red.

1551
00:50:43,240 –> 00:50:43,880
Thanks, Ken.

1552
00:50:45,040 –> 00:50:45,960
We’re with you,

1553
00:50:45,960 –> 00:50:46,360
Flint.

1554
00:50:47,240 –> 00:50:47,880
Good luck.

1555
00:50:48,840 –> 00:50:49,800
Get us a sus.

1556
00:50:49,800 –> 00:50:51,000
Get the guy off the street,

1557
00:50:51,000 –> 00:50:51,480
please.

1558
00:50:51,480 –> 00:50:52,040
Jesus.

1559
00:50:53,000 –> 00:50:54,120
If you shoot once,

1560
00:50:54,600 –> 00:50:57,320
chances are you do it again.

1561
00:50:58,280 –> 00:50:58,560
All right,

1562
00:50:58,560 –> 00:50:59,400
we’ll see you next week.