No BS Newshour Episode #420
Private Parts Unknown
The next Bourdain or Bored-to-Death?
Dean ‘Dino’ Bach- America’s next great travel personality returns home.
Dino’s take on Gov. Whitmer’s data center, the RenCen deal, 60 Minutes and the state of journalism TV.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Good evening, I’m Scott Pelley. Things are getting weird at the old Northland Mall site. Tough guy tactics, a federal sting, the Donnie Brasco boat, dirty dirt, and now a soccer terror dome.
Workers for developers at the 114 acre plot in the middle of Southfield were picking cement blocks out of the mountains of dirt there, and then moving the dirt to the northern end of the urban wasteland. Across the street from the new mountains of dirt are Providence Hospital, a child daycare center, and a megachurch. Previously, tons of this dirt made its way into Detroit’s demolition holes.
Remember Mike Duggan? Detroit officials had the soil tested, and it’s shown to be excessively contaminated and suspiciously similar to highway junk. Like how bad? Like children shouldn’t play near it bad, like long-term cancer bad. My partner Kenny’s right over there, and I went there last Friday to film the plumes of dust being kicked up by the excavator, a dump truck, and a bulldozer pushing the dirt around the lot.
That’s when the surly dude in the heavy-duty pickup rolled up on us. He gave us the stink eye, the voodoo vibe, the grim peeper. He never rolled down his window and never said a word.
He just idled for some time before driving away, only to cut a circle and do it all over again. They shut the job down for a good hour and a half while the dude worked his phone. Now, we all know the FBI’s on the case, which sprawls across two counties in southeastern Michigan.
Workers and subcontractors are spilling their guts, Mike Duggan was forced to fall on his sword and drop out of the governor’s race, and the city of Southfield can’t, or won’t, produce soil analytics. Weird. Now, in the midst of all this, the Southfield City Council last month approved 120,000 square foot sports dome on the site that will be home to the Detroit City Football Club South Oakland soccer team.
When reached by telephone, the soccer club CEO, Marcel Schmid, said he hadn’t seen any soil testing, and I’m quoting here, but it was discussed before the vote. If the city’s not concerned about it, then we’re not concerned about it. Suit yourself, Marcel, but you’ll never see me at the concession stand.
Why doesn’t the city of Southfield simply have the soil tested and post the results to the public? Where is the county in all this? The states? The Fed? While the FBI is indeed investigating the environmental scandal, I don’t have much surety that much is going to come out of this, considering that the Northland developer, Contour Companies, may be a confidential source for the federal government. Now consider, Contour Companies was involved in a major FBI public corruption sting way down there in Jackson, Mississippi. In short, FBI agents posed as out-of-state developers, proposing a multi-million dollar hotel project to the mayor of Jackson.
The FBI straw company, totally fake company, manned by undercover agents, they partnered with the real-life Contour Companies of Southfield to create a bogus development scheme used to bribe local Jackson officials. In a scene straight out of Donnie Brosco, the mayor of Jackson was plied with booze and boobs before he was filmed on a yacht in Miami taking bags of cash from undercover agents. Now, why would a legitimate development company based in Michigan lend its name to an out-of-state FBI sting? It can’t be good for business.
In the phony pitch to the mayor of Jackson, Contour claimed its 500 million dollar Northland Future City project, backstopped with millions of dollars in public subsidies, would be completed by the end of this calendar year. Forget about it. Meanwhile, the federal corruption trial of the mayor of Jackson begins next month.
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What about state tax? Yeah, I’m throwing both in there. What about sales tax? There’s no sales tax. Well, you’re buying the beer.
That’s income. You’re buying the beer. Eh, we write that off.
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Come on. But look, it’s not just about the dog or the delicious fries or the fresh Greek salads, chicken, chicken, chicken, kids, chicken. No.
Today, I want to tell you, Gene, what the fuck? I want to tell you about the cheesecake. So good, so criminal. Dean’s stealing it.
It looks like I took a bite. You did. That’s graham cracker crust.
Here, take that out. That’s apple moonshine. That’s apple moonshine compote.
Yeah. Now, here’s the deal. Here, hold it up, Dean.
Hold it up. Dean Obak, he’s doing big things now. Everybody around here knows Dean Obak.
We’re going to do that in a minute. Okay. So here’s the story.
A guy breaks into the American Coney Island at three in the morning, thinking that the day’s receipts would be left in the cash register of a building whose walls are made out of glass. Okay. He’s not MIT material.
All right. Smashes the window, which you can’t anymore. Smashes the window, goes over to the register.
Can’t get it open. So he takes soda pop and pours it all over the machine like this, magically going to trigger the Aladdin’s lamp open. Right? Okay.
You know what kind of soda pop he used? Red pop? I don’t know either. It was a refill because refills are free at the American Coney Island. He didn’t pay.
Okay. So genius is wiggling, wiggling, wiggling, getting worked up. It’s all on closed circuit TV.
It’s right there. And it’s right there. And it’s right there.
He’s got triptychs in his guy. So he’s jiggling. Gets a little tired.
Pops over here. He finally turns to the left. It’s the pie cooler.
He looks at the pie cooler. He opens the pie cooler. He eats a whole fucking cheesecake right there.
Never gets the register open, but he takes it and they catch him on the bus with the chill in his lap. Cops take him down to lock up over there at Mount. There’s nobody working the lockup desk.
They said, I just turned yourself in tomorrow. Okay. That’s, that’s, that’s Detroit.
That’s come back city. Now, anyway, the point is we blew that closed circuit TV picture up and I came up with the genius marketing scheme. Cheesecake.
So good. It’s criminal. Beautiful.
Every day. Fresh every day here at the corner of Fort Michigan Avenue. I mean, Lafayette, Michigan Avenue and Griswold.
Why do I say it that way? Cause the whole store is shaped like a red, white, and blue piece of cheesecake. Come on down. Give it a taste.
Just eat. It’s fresh today. My friend had coconut cream this morning.
There’s also apple. That’s some good cheesecake. It’s moist.
Isn’t it? That’s most women’s favorite word moist, but yeah. That’s weird. That’s weird.
This doesn’t definitely should use some compote. I’m going to let that sit there for a minute. Okay.
Listen, so Ken and I cut some video. We didn’t leave. They’re trying to muscle us out.
We ain’t going nowhere. This is Conspiracy Ken’s latest. So does the developer in the city of Southfield are finally moving this questionable dirt, but they didn’t move it to a landfill.
They moved it here on the North side. Next to the heart Institute and the building with cancer patients and the daycare where the babies play outside and pastor Kenlocks church. That’s not what we had in mind.
Oh boy. We don’t know who this dude is, but he walked up to mug us. Just show a little muscle.
Now he driving away. Look at all that dust. Three tons in a cloud of dust.
Wow. Blowing right into the neighborhood. Why did you have it tested? Mr. Mayor and then make the findings public.
Moving Ken. Ken says, let’s a crowd. No, he’s moving the camera to get around the truck.
There’s our mountain Kilimanjaro. He bags up the truck to block. And off he goes to make some calls.
Something’s going on. That’s weird. That’s very weird.
Dean Bach. You’re a big real estate guy from Aruba to Key West to the luscious shores of Lee one eight County. Is that the right County? Like Michigan, anywhere up North is a, there’s counties all over.
All right. Hold up the picture. You’ve got a house for sale.
Just quickly. We get back. Oh yeah.
Uh, you know, three, nine, three, nine blue Heights drive up in the, uh, old mission peninsula. Uh, 1.2, four, 9 million really good piece. Got a great view of the East bay.
Um, you buy this and I will give you a bottle of Dean Bach barbecue sauce. Good stuff comes with every purchase. Did you, uh, get that from, uh, uh, Jean Lafitte’s sunken galleon? The bottle.
Yeah. The, uh, the barbecue sauce. No, I make that stuff myself, man.
Okay. Does that have, um, County water and sewage? Uh, it is well and septic. What? Most places up North are well and septic.
1.5 million, bro. I don’t need to be calling like, you’re never going to have a sewer bill. The water’s good for you up there.
I mean, this is Lake Michigan water stuff. Come to, you know, they dig deep and comes out of the Lake. There’s no crap in that water.
How many bedrooms? There’s a three bedrooms, a two and a half bath. This house actually belongs to my good friend, Brad from high school. And, uh, he says, hi.
Well, you guys tell him, hello. You guys are making it, aren’t you? Anyway, you guys are making it. Let me re let me start this over.
Everybody knows Dean around here. Like you remember Dino’s lounge? That was just the joint of Ferndale. That was just the joint dude.
It was for, for better part of a decade. At least it’s the meeting place, the karaoke, the chili cook-offs, the charity events, funny guy, you know, just very charitable. And, um, you fucked off.
You fucked off. You went up North. Yeah.
Remade yourself. You’ve always been in real estate. Yeah.
And then you went back into a full time. Yeah. Well, yeah.
Tell them, tell them where they can get you. Let me just do the plug. Oh, you call me at a nine, eight, nine, eight, eight, nine, one, five, six, six.
You can look me up on the at properties website. It’s at, at properties, 80 properties. Um, okay.
Facebook me. You’re the guy that can hook up a snowbird wannabe down in the keys, Florida, and you’ve got a pretty tight on the gold coast up here in Northern Michigan, you know, from Lake Michigan to, uh, you know, all the way down to Key West and Malmock beach and Aruba. Uh, you know, I’m a pretty good conduit.
I, I have a lot, I cover a lot of places. I thought it would be fun to just work where you want to hang out. So Northern Michigan and the Florida keys sounded good.
And of course, let’s, let’s throw the South Caribbean in there. And that gets me out of Northern Michigan, snowbird style in the winter time. You live in our dream, isn’t he boys? But you guys hang it out.
Even the young dude, we’re all like, young dude. That’s right. A lot of, Hey, that’s a good way to write off all your travel.
I might not close a single deal, but I can write off all the trips. Do you know how many fucking politicos FBI agents, treasury? We’ll fix that in post. You don’t want to, Hey, it’s all legit, man.
You don’t pad the expenses up. Do you? Of course not. I don’t stay at junk.
This is longer than the cheesecake story. What the fuck? I thought we were talking about Dino’s. That was a lot of fun back then.
That was, that was a lifetime. Let me just get to what you’re doing now. Ladies and gentlemen, Dean is now international.
He’s on an airplane, looking at himself on his new TV show. What’s that called? What’s the name of that? The American dream. ADTV, ADTV, ADTV, ADTV, ADTV, ADTV.
Home and garden television, American dream. Dean is one of the latest international correspondents. I am a regional host for the American dream and a boy, I have a new found respect for the TV people out there, man.
I thought this was easy. What you guys do is not at all. It’s long days.
Do it again. Somebody farted. Hey, a plane went by, say it again.
And that’s 12 hours for a day for two days to come up with a seven minute segment. So you’re doing a travel segment based around real estate and the good life, real estate, lifestyle, culture, American community based on real estate. This is where you want to write.
We surrounded around real estate. So here’s a little clip. I mean, dude, they’re really not.
They’re really not featuring you very, very well on this thing. I mean, I’m still the new guy. There’s an opening at 60 minutes much.
Oh, I can jump on ADTV. When you’re thinking Aruba, you’re probably thinking sunshine, blue water and sand. Today, we’re going to show it to you from a whole different playing field from Santa Cruz diamonds to the kitchens of San Nicholas, where food feeds more than hunger.
It feeds baseball dreams through competition, community and connection. We’re going to show you a whole different Aruba and we’re going to do the American dream Aruba style. I’m Dean Bach.
Let’s go. Wow. I do.
You are like America’s next Anthony board to death. You know, you never know. Right.
But I want to I need some assistance because who is the guy that said, go ahead and wear a black shirt and Aruba for a shoot, man. It was hot. It’s thinning, though.
Yeah, well, it’s thinning for sure. That’s you know, the camera adds 10 pounds. When I said that to my dad, you know, he said, well, how many cameras they got on you? So I’ve been on a little diet.
Get that cheesecake away from me. No, dude. Like, you know, the jolly guy, you know, and the smart guy.
I bet because you’re a really excellent ball player that what you were doing was this Aruba and there’s a lot of guys in the major leagues from Aruba. It’s a big part of the culture. I bet you were hitting balls.
I had a blast, man. That’s why I did it on baseball. You know, I could have done the beaches and the and the front of the lifestyle scene with all the STRs and the high rises.
But let’s it’s a big baseball community. Xander Bogarts is from the island. He’s playing short for who now? San Diego Padres.
I got to interview his mom. We went to her little soup store. She’s really nice.
Boy, she a sweetheart. Oh, that’s cool. So you got production value in this? Yeah, because that kind of shit’s hard to get.
But you’re learning, like, but somebody’s making the call. Well, I learned from some friends, man. You get on the phone, make calls and use your connections to get get the interviews.
Well, all your connections spring your your well is were is for Dale, Michigan. And I mean, that’s OK. It’s pretty.
I’m going to teach about inflection at the end. That sounded right off the rip, except played again. I’m going to point out right where you could tell this was memorized.
It’s all natural. Watch this. When you’re thinking Aruba, you’re probably thinking sunshine, blue water and sand.
Today, we’re going to show it to you from and sand and sand. Yeah, that’s that’s what I’m learning, man. And you go and sand.
Right. No, but you got him. I mean, how many takes that one was probably just one for that.
That’s pretty good. But everything else was a lot harder. You know, the lines were written.
Do you have to write the lines? I have to write them and memorize. I mean, that’s they pretty much give me creative freedom to do my segments, to storyboard them, to go where I want to do them as long as they approve everything. Right.
Everything gets shot. They send a camera crew out. We shoot everything.
They send everything to California. It gets edited in California. And then I don’t even see it until it’s already ready.
But I had to show a discovery like they had it like week, week, week. Mine was all like bull riding, fight club, trapeze clown, like it was all physical. And then I would get a dummy script from them.
You know, I’m a writer. You know, I get this horrible fucking script and I’d be up to five in the morning, rewriting this thing and then got to go get kicked in the elbow by a bull. So I know what it is.
So are you stuck to what they’re going to tell you to say? Well, they’re doing. No, it’s the basic layout of how it’s going to go. Here’s the dummy script.
If I want the dummy script to go, it’ll go. Right. But I’m like, you can play with it.
Yeah, it’s not good enough. And I was doing the sand. It was they kind of do that for me, too.
They’ll send me something to, you know, if I tell them what I want to do or give them the premise of the segment. Yeah. They’ll send me a storyboard or some scripting and they’ll let me play with it.
And I can change it as long as I change it, send it back to them and give get permission. Yeah, they’re OK. See that.
But you’re my friend. So I’m just going to be honest, man. That’s it’s below your talent level.
I’m working my way up. I mean, if if you want to get to 60 minutes and I think you could be the Andy Rooney there, you could do it. You need more freedom.
You got to go back to your roots back when you were doing you were like first you were like, oh, gee, hyperlocal, self-produced. We were humor commercials. We did a lot of fun stuff.
I got my daughter’s work because she goes, I found it. It’s you have to get through the filters filters. What feel? I have no fucking.
What did you find? Oh, no, I don’t want to. OK, don’t play anything. That’s the leprechaun looking for the magic out of beer.
This is a good one. But that’s not the one we went with. No, we let Gen Z go.
Go with it. Oh, I need to pick it. Where’s the other one, Mark? You get the other one.
Oh, all the fish you can eat. Oh, man. Dino’s Ferndale circa two thousand five, six, eight, maybe eight.
OK, Dino’s Ferndale featuring all you can eat fish. Excuse me, miss. Can I have some more fish for the all you can eat fish? Are you Jesus here? We’re all out.
I am Jesus. That was Ashley’s talking right there. I miss you.
I think I got one of those for you. Believe this will get you through the rest of the evening. Nice touch.
First, give me the glass of water. Water into wine. God love M1 Studios, man.
We had some good times. Very sparse of the script. OK, yeah, it’s basically Jesus walks into Dino’s and gives him fish for the night and water into wine.
They were all out, man. So I couldn’t find the redneck when, you know, the mullet in your walk through the median. That was there’s one we did with Darren McCarty, man.
That was we did three parts of it where he was Billy Bob Cruz, Billy, with and I was the father of a girl who was pregnant. Yeah, sitting on the median. And she’s cracking open bottles of beer with her shoe and dad’s handing her cigarettes.
And you know, and then she marries Darren McCarty because he’s got insurance. He’s got that insurance from the tow truck company. All right.
Let’s see the this one could use an edit, but, you know, let’s let’s let’s see the leprechaun one. It has to be my lucky pitcher of beer. I want to search.
Oh, look, a rainbow. My lucky pitcher of beer must be in there. But there’s no beer in there, but there’s lots of fun.
Lots of fun. I got the whip and some new chores. Hello.
You know where I might be able to find me lucky beer? Have you tried that place? That must be the place where I can find me lucky beer. Oh, stay out. That was definitely not me lucky beer.
It is fate. My lucky beer. She must be in the twisted shamrock.
Nothing but empty glasses. They have party pills, but no beer at the twisted shamrock. Love this place, though.
Well, it’s not Irish, but it’ll have to do. He thinks I find my lucky beer at Dino’s. Ah, it’s me lucky pitcher of beer.
I suppose if you want to get lucky on St. Patrick’s Day, you have to go to Dino’s. Barkeeper, may I have a straw, please? Yeah, that’s clever, dude. We had so much fun.
You did. You’re missed here. Your spirit is missed, man.
It’s just it ain’t the same, dude. I’m coming back. I’ll be back.
Good. I’ll be back. I’ll be back.
I’ll be back with some hot sauce made by Dean Bach. All you need to do is buy a house. Okay, Dean, let’s do some real estate here, okay? So I go up to Maginot and I portend that the true meaning of this place is two things.
So the non-governmental organizations that get all our tax money go up there and make sure they’re needed and they’re getting their sack of loot and we don’t get shit for it. Meanwhile, nurses are on strike. But the other big news was Dan Gilbert’s been lobbying everybody, spreading a lot of money up there to get the Speaker of the House, Matt Hull, to buy into $200 million in public financing so Gilbert can take over the Rennset.
Just $200 million? I don’t know why GM, who owns it, and I am a shareholder, why they wouldn’t put it on the market to see what we get. Does that make sense to you? Or is this big city politics? Well, absolutely. I mean, it sounds like a backroom pocket deal, but everybody knows the Renaissance is empty and they need to do something with it.
Put a for sale sign on it, man. Start there? Before you’re coming around asking for public goodies? Kind of come up with, everybody give us your highest and best and we’re going to open them up and if none of them meet what we’re looking for, we’ll sell it to Gilbert for what he’s committed to. You want to nerd out? Anthony Bourdieu, and you’re a realtor and you run the downtown development authority in Ferndale, so you know about things.
Sorry folks, real quick, it matters. Tax incremental financing, a TIF, that’s how they’re going to pay for it. Meaning once you develop it, once it’s done, we’re going to let you collect your own sales tax, your own income tax on your employees.
We’re going to give you a prorated lesser property tax note, right? This is all true, right? That’s how TIF works. Well, no, actually TIF is, it’s close, but you know, TIF comes off the top of your tax bill. So if your tax bill is a thousand bucks a year and that’s the cap now, the TIF cap, and then it goes up a hundred bucks, the TIF captures that hundred bucks.
And gives it back to you. Gives it back to whoever, whoever’s getting it. Okay, now it’s important to say that you don’t get that money until the project’s complete, right? You shouldn’t.
Right. So the developer, but here’s the end around. We just did it with the Hudson building.
Basically what Gilbert did was he took that promised money on the back end right for the once it’s built for 30 years you get all this money back he went and took it to Wall Street bundled it or to a bank bundled it got a loan and the bank said that’s good we’re guaranteed payment on your tax capture in the future we’re going to give you the money up front long story short we just gave you a check that’s what we did we gave you a check so you can’t tell me the gobbledygook yeah and what doesn’t make sense is is tiff bonnie only it works when values go up the value has to go up right so the so that the assessment goes up so that your taxes go up and that’s how you capture that money if it’s not going up but how are they going to just kind of make it go up they do go okay again then we’ll get i mean it’s five percent or less you know annually is the cap five percent but what you would do over those watered lines right this is the shit we would talk about you know like we’re grown men in our community but if if you have a year where you have depreciation or uh deep uh and not inflate no inflation yeah what would we call it sub-inflation yeah then there is negative growth you you actually your taxes go down so there’s zero money going that’s how it works once the project is designed right then every business in that district you get a higher assessment under the assumption that this new project is going to make your shit worth more so already they got the pot everybody’s shit goes up right so like in Detroit when we built the hockey arena everybody’s taxes down here went up and this the new stuff that was supposed to go to schools and the library didn’t go went to the developer so there’s another way to do assess value and i guess what this might be what they’re banking on with the renaissance center right now it’s empty there’s no income well they emptied it on purpose right when they start generating by the way the italian and japanese consulates are still there oh well good they have a lot they can have a lot of fun they have a soccer game in that place yeah or they could do it down at northland we’re gonna build a new thing yeah but uh if they you if they start using revenue tax revenue or um rent revenue that changes how they do the assessment and then the value obviously goes up from there so yeah right now their value is kaput because there’s nobody in it but they start filling those seats that money uh starts generating and then the assessor don’t i also said you gotta drive up north are you gonna listen to what you’re saying i sit on the board of review and up north too so i know all about this tax stuff oh yeah update on red what what explain that to me explain that to me put it in the doggy bag you can take it to go um yeah he’s been moved and he’s doing well in speaking now so there you go i love you um how about a see you next tuesday see you next tuesday gretchen whitmer showed up to the data center out there in selene township that nobody wants nobody wants it right 16 billion dollar development and she poses with the dark empire uh what’s his name um sam altman who sam altman yep sam altman from uh open ai yep just uh one lawsuit against elon musk these are so she there it is there she is what are you doing out there now the progressive base loved her to death for everything like bloated budgets and no people dying in the nursing homes and stuff but this this is a step too far getting in bed with big tech your thoughts i don’t quite understand why it’s a big deal i’m gonna play a little devil’s advocate on here it’s bringing money to the state somebody’s got these data centers gotta happen why not in the renaissance center well well you know let’s find some urban near the river even even the northland spot you don’t need you’re just throwing a bunch of machines on top of it nobody’s gonna drink out of that you know and actually the water that comes out cool stuff yeah yeah go ahead you know be the devil’s advocate so i mean i don’t necessarily want them cutting down all the trees that’s something that we have a problem with up north nobody wants them and as well as solar panels everywhere i think that it brings money and somebody’s got to have it and michigan’s a great climate climate for this stuff because it’s cool and these things got to stay cold they’re not going to put them in texas they’re not going to put them in florida they’re not going to put them in carolinas cold weather is better for them it keeps the cost down but there’s got to be a way to do this that makes sense and i really don’t like the idea that our governor who just seems to have a lot of money somehow is uh all the time is playing with this let me devil’s advocate people let me devil’s advocate admonicate did you know that consumers energy three months ago got a quarter billion dollar rate increase there’s there’s two power companies in misc well two real ones right two big ones um dte and consumers they got a quarter billion dollar rate increase and they just come around with another half billion dollar rate increase one suspects they’re coming to us to improve this grid keep up with the storm damage in order for these deep-pocketed motherfuckers to be able to build this i’m not against the data center in the right place where you didn’t countermand the wishes of the locals because the locals don’t want it big tech took them to court crushed them place is gone okay fine one half a billion dollars this this is what i stayed up doing i did some math i’m just going to give you a loose math guess how much the saline township data center energy is going to use in a single day i can’t even begin to fathom about 40 percent more than the entire city of detroit in 24 hours really that’s massive that’s that means your energy is going to go up the infrastructure costs are going to go up why wasn’t it negotiated okay it’s 16 billion why don’t you give us four years of rate increases that might make it 18 billion why so now demand goes up and then we pay for prices go up we need more infrastructure you need transformers you need new power lines you need a lot of stuff why wasn’t that negotiated why is jocelyn benson’s husband who’s the chief lobbyist for this he’s going to make 70 million dollars by reports wow see see that like again i agree i like devil’s advocacy because this is the future and we used to be the future now we’re the past around here we’re the pasture excellent pretty good and a contaminated one so if we’re going to do this where’s the public’s subsidy they need to be you laid it out i let you advocate it’s cooler here we have water here but we don’t have the electric infrastructure right so and it’s basically an investment that we’re making for the rest of the world to have a data center just told you was like in the next year if this goes through that’s another 10 increase i got a new accountant right and you got to write a letter your account so they know the scope and history of your finances there’s your returns and everything but i was just giving a list like your utilities in two years 2023 to 2025 my water and sewage bill went up 50 fucking percent and that’s thousands that’s not hundreds it’s not 50s like getting blown out of here man and i don’t like it and i don’t think a lot of people and if i was living in saline township i’d lose my fucking mind well in septic baby well they’re up there trying to get your trees you know that they are oh and then when all the trees blew down the ice storm they didn’t do fuck for you no they shred them they shredded them they had them all there and there’s there’s big chunks of northern michigan being taken out right now yeah i mean again i understand detroit used to be fireman i get it but those were private investors and you know singular inventors do like i i don’t know what we got to pay for everything we got younger people in here going i want to go to aruba key west up north i’m never gonna get there man yeah don’t fight for him fuck it all right so now you hear whitmer is going to get michigan state that’s the other thing that came out of mac and all the scuttlebutt whitmer is going to be the president of michigan state university and duggan is going to be president of the university of michigan is that legal why is every elected representative every business leader telling me it’s fait accompli when the law clearly says that’s an open search may the best person win like they’re already telling you fuck you it’s it’s all for show yeah that’s not gonna happen at least i’m i’m gonna i’m gonna do the reporting and if they are the best person i mean whitmer’s got a hell of a resume you know what i mean i’d like to see the rest of the resume better than duggins i would think because again she’s the executive of the state board of education at least there’s a connection she’s dealt with school budgets i mean maybe so maybe not but don’t tell me that’s what’s happening right what a nice gig if you can get it man which give me some see you next because the elections come in some next tuesday california primary results are in in california they’re non-partisan top two uh go into the general election if you didn’t get 50 in the primary didn’t happen so for governor uh former cabinet secretary to joe biden xavier bracera and steve hilton the rich guy the actually the only immigrant in the whole thing he’s from england or something um that’s kind of neck and neck but the who’s the bill who’s tom steyer steyer were you working with him okay so what did he spend 200 million dollars to take third that’s pocket change for him by the way i mean he’s too far out there california was the best place ever california dream it’s totally wrecked these way out progressive shits just just wipes it out and it’s cool to be a way out progressive but you can’t be in charge you lived there man is a different place now i loved it my daughter was that place is magic it’s it’s people when they get their hands on it okay so there’s those two guys and then there’s karen bass and spencer pratt spencer prance running the internet campaign saying the right things and karen bassini doesn’t have any experience what do you mean like burning down the palaces you mean uh waving homeless in so it’s interesting but i don’t think these outsiders have any chance they don’t have any experience um because you might have took 30 percent of the vote but in the runoff you’re going to take 30 percent of the vote your chance is going to take 60 you know what i mean so it’s interesting to watch what does that have to do with us in michigan a whole lot of nothing but it could you know everything starts in california so hopefully there’s if there’s some change there there could be change everywhere and you know i’m watching the talking heads here with uh the bush pratt thing and they’re saying she didn’t get her 50 which automatically makes her mayor yeah and she’s not even coming close to that that’s a big red flag for her and uh you know there was another there’s a third person in that that wound up with like 17 yeah right yeah uh who are those people are gonna vote for those they’re gonna be fighting for those votes they’re they’re more to the left than bass’s people so i i don’t i do they want change or the or you know i mean man we all want some change in our fucking pockets i got some times are good for you and just oh do we have a donate button yet burn oh we’re gonna have a donate button because we know you can’t always advertise but i forgot to bring it uh brother man thank you for the check that will go to some drinks and dinner for the for the crew i i totally appreciate what you did there i’ll give you a shout out next week proper um so what’s this got to do with us abdul el-sayed you’re kind of worried about him at least you know democratically i think even the republicans but like you don’t have any experience the guy doesn’t have any experience he did one year with mike duggan as a health director and actually told duggan you’re poisoning the kids with the demolition and now he’s got a job with the same kind of thing governmental sinecure you’re not a doctor you’re a phd because you studied medical science but you never took the boards you never had a residency you’re jill biden doctor that’s what you are and i don’t see a lot of experience he’s a well-spoken guy decent man no doubt but is that being said because that’s i’m why am i i love california that’s why i pay attention but we all know bass’s uh rip on spencer pratt which is you don’t have any experience so if that means anything to you then let it mean something consistently does does being a good person count for anything i mean he seems like a pretty decent guy bass is you know i don’t know her personally either but you know she just kind of seems like she doesn’t get into it maybe he’s maybe we should dress them all in a leprechaun yeah that’s right man put them all in green and put some moonshine in front of them so i i i don’t know okay ten percent rake hikes okay the northland job they got brownfield credits they got city brownfield credits they got state brownfield credits in order to get brownfield credits you have to prove that it’s polluted so you have to have the soil analytics southville pretended they don’t have them so i went to the state you know the michigan economic development court that’s the one with the 4500 coffee pot we all remember that okay they say we have 242 pages of dirt documents send 105 and 70 cents and we’ll get them to you in an illegal time frame of three months i sent my money in i got the receipt i go to the website did you get my receipt we don’t have your receipt i went there this morning we don’t have your receipt you got my receipt it’s been taken out of my account let me make a call that number don’t work that number don’t work that number don’t they stole wow like this is a cover-up dude like where’s my money at least it amazes me that you need to get the brownfield you have to have contamination and then a proof of the contaminant proof of it and then they’re telling you on the other end it’s not contaminated there’s nothing wrong with it no they’re saying stall stall stall but you guys know how i did guys you know how i did the nursing homes i told you i’m only asking for what i already got and if you don’t give me what i already got then you’re pulled into it so medc you’ve already got the state attorney general investigation we’ve got felony charges i’m just giving you a friendly warning okay the law department this all starts from detroit detroit digs up some holes because some whistleblowers at the northland job said we took it to detroit we dumped it we took it from here here’s the manifest here’s the tickets detroit digs it up tests it i’m not a scientist people but it’s too contaminated for human contact meaning it’s bad for you okay it’s like don’t go around in the attic with the insulation without a mask on it’s kind of like that here’s what detroit’s engaged in now the guy that’s accused of doing all this has filed a hundred million dollar counter lawsuit to his criminal charges he’s being looked into from the city law department the corporation council issued a privileged and confidential memorandum to the city council it won’t be made public and it’s not to be discussed what kind of government is that okay they started testing this shit back in october in november they came out with the first test results since then the number of their testings gone up they haven’t told the public about a new one no results is this good enough for you people no this can’t be good enough it’s right in your fucking face is there’s is there a place where they have to post this stuff and they’re just not i mean this is do they have to post it they don’t have to do anything obviously we need the people to get fucking mad because every time i tune into the city council man sorry you’re dumb as rocks but i know you’re not dumb you got no real life business experience not one of them had a private industry sector job sort of like community activists or politicians right you don’t know yeah that’s for fucking you oh here’s lisa l syed knows how to get his his minute in the sun san altman is in town declaring victory on a data center project they had to pass without public comment we need terms of engagement at the federal level to keep big tech from rolling over the state local governments you don’t even know how to do it abdul you’re just saying shit right now all the progressives are mad because whitmer sold them out but again he didn’t even mention her but you could mention what you did with the nursing homes he’s supposed to be a health expert where is it and then the people going i love whitmer but this is a bridge too far and too late everything else was good with you how you like your roads how you like your data center how like you like your dead grandma all right oh here’s one you guys can never just read this i’m not going to say who it is i’m a candidate for blah blah blah i filed sex assault charges against the city guy he filed them against a woman it’s still under investigation my video can be found on youtube i’m now a candidate i suffer from schizophrenic affective disorder i’m having suicidal thoughts and extreme shaking i’m running against the mayor’s wife the detective will not return my calls city halls run by demons nobody will take my call i have become caps an enemy of the state intimidation threatening they kicked in my door and seized my devices evidence of stalking intimidation threatening harassment and cyber bullying after i began posting about the matter online this is my phone number what day did i get this tuesday hit me see you next tuesday okay brother i’m gonna call you okay bro i’m gonna call you i will but don’t go on and on i mean it sounds a little nutty do you know i know forgive me but we can talk about some things i’m i’m gonna give you a call but i gotta look after um sheila sheila’s an old lady calling me moved out of the city moved up to bloomfield black mold bad uh llc management old invalid can’t move nobody’ll pay attention to her she was old and crying though you see what you see what goes on it’s nuts man yeah maybe i’m going nuts but the old lady i said look i can’t promise you one huh that’s one person i know there’s advocate or a lawyer or whatever you know i mean i wish i had that kind of power but i’ll make a call the housing i don’t think it’s right somebody’s renting in bloomfield and somebody’s being forced to live in black mold that’s that that shit goes on in westland and garden city and inkster and detroit and uh you know macomb and you know but bloomfield holds itself up to some kind of level so please return the call uh i i got i i’m not gonna put this one on the floor i’m gonna call you okay uh fireworks fireworks are coming and so are the teams probably do you guys want some insight yes i like fireworks the number three in charge of the detroit police department is out out on his a-hole okay you have the chief the chief is the pr wing for the for the mayor you have the assistant super chief who’s got an extra star now he’s more administrative and then you had a guy named chuck fitzgerald who was the street cop troops you know the map right where cars go crime stats three things happen one you didn’t hear about this in october a rookie pulls a woman over she got a big mouth she’s not calling people not getting out of the car pepper sprayed it’s a she takes off they chase her you’re not supposed to chase her she does a ue they do a ue you’re not supposed to do a ue cop ends up shooting her six times where’s the ice protesters right you know why because i as i wrote you’re not fucking around with the local police because that’s why you don’t fuck around with guys with badges and guns shit can go wrong okay cop didn’t get fired cops out getting investigated right then there’s the arbitration and the board of police commissioners etc so he’s still on the job so this comes down to the number three cop Fitzgerald but now i didn’t talk to Fitzgerald but i’m quite sure all this is pretty correct so he’s going to take the heat for it and the chief’s like i didn’t know anything about it okay you didn’t know anything about it number two Fitzgerald told city hall that the way you deal with these kids is you got to put hands on them not beat them up you got to move them rest them ticket them well that wasn’t good and then there was the incident with the police calling ice downtown which by the way is required is required by the in state law local jurisdictions must cooperate with other jurisdictions especially superior ones like the feds so but by that time the mayor’s asking for Fitzgerald’s resignation and if she doesn’t get it then the chief and Fitzgerald are going to be resigned so i don’t think there’s real world appreciation for how rugged a big city is right budgeting protection garbage pickup i think we’re starting to see that and there’s going to be hearings because city council needs cover will there be a downtown super um what you call that when the kids got to go home curfew right will it be at eight o’clock okay fireworks are at nine o’clock right maybe 9 30 you sit on your roof and watch them that’s where the fuck i will be i ain’t gonna be on the river walk dude be crazy there’s no fucking plan so they need to have a hearing to prepare the people of the city for uh if you’re under 18 you can’t be here after eight i don’t know i just know when it first happened and the mayor comes out and says kids need a place to go that you gave up a bishop right on the right on the board game right away so now you’re locked into it when’s the last time you were at the fireworks actually went down there i had a good time uh it was a couple years ago it might have been pre-covid be honest with you it’s been a long time for me and i’m just primarily because there’s so many people down there and we didn’t have a good i had an ant that got mugged and yada yada yada up north we have fireworks too so you know they’re not the detroit’s fireworks but you know is it getting better is are the streets i mean tell me how safe it is down there it was pre-covid that’s six years now believe it or not man covid six years ago that’s crazy uh but how is it now i mean is this planning that they’re doing right now or kind of plan what are the fireworks i don’t know come on fucking down you pussy what are what are the statistics man i mean i ain’t going to follow the papers in front of you where you’re at like what gaylord grayling everywhere everywhere up every day man we don’t need we don’t have to have fireworks they just blow them off my neighbor probably i like to have a drink as much as the next guy but i ain’t doing it blowing shit up all the time crazy fuckers that’s all i can tell we got a guy down the street that throws a piece of dynamite out once in a while just for shits and giggles that’s northern michigan for you right there all right real quick can’t get over here conspiracy cat because okay again sorry if the show blew it was just me and my bud here ken you can’t sit down without some apple moonshine show killer fucking please please give him some barbecue sauce yeah here’s some barbecue sauce all right so scott pelly out at 60 minutes we’ll be seeing him next tuesday on msnow see you next tuesday see you scott let’s be on it okay so just and before you start reading three seconds set it up don’t go on long we don’t got much time going scott pelly got fired from cbs this guy that’s exactly scott pelly yeah that’s him okay he got wait let me let me just set this up scott pelly the the grand poobah of 60 minutes gets a new boss they broom out some of these has-beens and he tells the new boss in front of everybody you’ll murder the show you you are what was slender had slender credentials yeah okay scott freaking penny and he and this was like this was not like just one outburst like he went like it was a back and forth like other executives like at the meeting were like tell him to shut up like he was running the joint they just fucking sold it the new boss is in and you’re like you’re a murderer and you’re not qualified to be here in the hallowed halls of harvard failure school let me set it up for you scott pelly came from 60 minutes 2 died and he came to 60 minutes in 1999 that year 30 million people on average would tune into the show
Last year, it was 9 million, you lost 70% of your audience, right? That’s not a winner. Now, 9 million does not include the summer, they don’t even measure ratings. June, July, August, September, no ratings.
So no, you don’t even know how bad it is. Their main ratings are in football season. Football.
Okay, so now you’re averaging 9 million with the 430 game right into 60 minutes, right? Okay. On the weekends, like March, April, and May, their viewership’s 5 million. It’s broken and people tuned out.
And why did they tune out, Ken? Well, because the stories weren’t interesting. And they were wrong too many times. They were wrong.
And they pretend to be non-biased. That’s what they say. But everybody knows that they have a severe liberal slant.
Global warming, they left the stuff out. Hunter Biden, they buried it. They went along with the Russian collusion story.
They edited Kamala Harris’ thing in a favorable way. You could go on. When you’re mass communication, you got to keep it wide.
You know what I mean? You can’t do cable. That’s what they did. And that’s why he wasn’t even going to be kicked out.
It turned into MSNBC on Sunday night. That’s what it was. Long form MSNBC, here’s a story we want you to see that’s totally- I’d rather see Dean in the waving boogal and his Dino commercial.
Did you find that one? I found that one. That one was better than Anderson Cooper’s skin diving with sharks. Get the fuck out of here.
But go ahead. So he got canned. The new boss basically said- Nick Bilton.
Yeah. We tried to work with you. Before that explosive meeting, they tried to sit down with him because they knew he had a problem.
And he told him to fuck off. And then at the meeting, he told him to fuck off in the faces. And then they asked for another meeting.
And he didn’t even, he was like, no. So they sent him a letter, told him he was fired. So he issues a statement.
Now he has- Come on. Quick. You just read the statement.
Well, he’s got two of them. He said something to the New York Times. Give a guy a mic.
I want to hear this. Part of his statement to the New York Times, he did two statements. One statement I found was really good.
He said, well, good in a bad way. He said, quote, I have been in combat in Afghanistan. I have been in combat in Iraq.
I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my decision to do this broadcast. Real war hero. Yeah.
The collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone.
Thank you. Scott, you were amongst your colleagues that bought the Scooter Libby, Iraq weapons of mass destruction shit that helped push us in there. That’s also, I never did that.
I don’t know what he’s talking about. Look, here’s how 60 minutes works. I took some courses featuring Lowell Bergman from 60 minutes.
Very famous man. The correspondents don’t do any fucking work. It’s the producers that do it.
You, the reason we’re interested. Sorry, you can tune out is we know TV. We know TV news.
And unlike local TV news at 60 minutes, they get handed a fucking script. It’s all done. Right.
All the interviews are set up. You just fly in and do this. That’s true.
And that’s got to end. That’s dumb. We want, sorry to say it’s mass comm.
It’s got to be accurate. It’s got to be balanced, at least towards the truth. Not to the truth gets halftime and the lie gets halftime.
It’s got to be right. And they just weren’t doing it. No, they saw it, man.
And like Barry Weiss quit the New York times. She was on the woke end of things. And because she walked and go, we’re way too far out there.
She resigned. And now everybody’s like, oh, she’s super conservative. Because no, maybe, maybe she’s a, I rarely use the word.
Maybe she’s a journalist. But Barry, remember when I applied to you, I walked before you did. I saw it.
I’m out of here. So I walk with Fox. I saw it.
I’m out. This is nowhere, man. In fact, when I was at Fox, I was being recruited by David Rhodes, who was the news director of CBS talking about doing 60 minutes.
And he goes, I’m going to have to, you know, easy in there, make clear some space. And it’s like, you mean that pretentious pricks like this, that whole culture was rotten that no new blood can get in. And now they got to go to the woodshed.
You know what I mean? Well, how good would it be? You’re watching the chiefs and the chargers last game of the season, right? Playing for number one seed. And then 60 minutes comes out with some great shit that they’ve been promoting that you absolutely got to see. That’s the formula.
Not some fucking armature sucking asshole. I’m sorry, Scott, fuck off, man. Take, take your millions and fuck off.
We’re here to save the craft. And you weren’t part of it. Dino bot, where do they get you? Well, first of all, okay.
Did you hear, did you read the letter? Did you hear the letter? I want to go back to over here. It’s overtime. Go to overtime.
The letter, donate, share, share, share your fired letter was the best part. When, when, when the boss came out and said, well, you know, I tried this and that didn’t work. And I, we tried that and that didn’t work.
And we tried that. And then right now you’re fucking fired. You know, she came right up with cause, get out of here.
No, Hey, whatever. Get out. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass.
I love it. What’s going on locally here, you know, right locally here, which is Taryn Asher’s. I don’t know if it’s with cause or would not, but you’re not going to be according to her lawsuit.
They’re not there. They were trying not to pay her. So yeah, it looks like it was something for cause there.
So their reasoning is you went ballistic in the newsroom, right? Then, you know, allegedly told off the GM, but she did it in private behind closed doors. He did in front of everybody. Not, not a real bright move on Scott’s part.
He doesn’t care. He’s doing it for show because he’s launching his own thing. Probably dude.
I’m not as old as him, but what’s that? Terry Moran like Jim Acosta. I rotated with those clowns. I mean, Don Lemon, like if you actually speak to them and talked like we’re on the ground in Ferguson, everybody was there.
And this is so distant that what they were doing from what was really going on on the ground. It’s like, this is fraudulent. This is just performative bunk.
And don’t take my word for it. Look at the 70% fallout in your viewership. And then trying to pretend like it’s still successful.
And then when you remove football, you ain’t doing any better than Greg Gutfeld at 10 o’clock on box. Even worse problem in some weeks. Well, he pretty gets about three, three and a half million.
They get five, but for the money put into that show, but you got, it’s Greg Gutfeld versus 60 minutes, you know, my point. Plus he’s giving you five hours of content a week. So technically he’s delivering 15 to 20 million a week.
This is the new reality. Get with it or get gone. See you next Tuesday.
