No BS Newshour Episode #387
Secret Government
(0:04) The Feds sue to see Joselyn Benson’s bloated voter rolls.
17,000 people over the age of 99 registered to vote.
(16:56) Detroit Police and Fire Pension fund on the rocks.
Will Detroit go broke again?
(37:31) Tiger’s owner Chris Ilitch is a conniving creep.
His old man is interned in a marble crypt.
The city gets nothing.
But Let’s Go Tigers, anyway…
(51:46) With Comedian Detroit Red.
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Transcript:
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You hiding something?
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big? Well,
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Rolls-Royce Joyce is back in the news.
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Don’t even think about it.
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That’s what she told the federal government after
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it asked her for all the voters’
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information in Michigan,
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where 100%
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of adults are registered to vote.
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The next highest is Minnesota at 80%.
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And they all go to college there.
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But Joyce won’t give the feds the information.
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And now she’s getting sued.
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Again. So I went to the DMV to get an enhanced driver’s
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license to see exactly what information Joyce collects.
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Driver’s license,
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passport.
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Thank you.
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Social Security.
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Okay. I know the website told you to bring all five
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things, but we already know you.
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So you don’t need this stuff?
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Nope. Because we already know you.
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But I never showed it to you before.
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Sure you did.
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When we first got our driver’s license,
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we had to bring all those in.
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They’re updating this.
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For the enhanced,
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you have to bring that.
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They say it’s to try to make the world a safer place,
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’cause the terrorists got their first driver’s license
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using false documents.
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Let’s go take your photo.
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Okay. How’s my hair?
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This is okay.
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Very nice photo you like?
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That’s not bad.
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60, you know.
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Still got some hair.
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Well, that was pleasant enough.
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I gave him my federally issued passport,
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my federally issued social security number to get
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a federally enhanced driver’s license.
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So the feds already have all this stuff.
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All they’re asking Jocelyn Benson for is my voter
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registration number,
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which is required by the Civil Rights Act.
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Why won’t you give it,
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Jocelyn?
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You hiding something?
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Something big?
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Jocelyn Benson,
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what are you hiding?
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Something big?
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Now Benson,
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who was inexplicably named the Dean of the Wayne State
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Law School without ever having litigated a single
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legal case,
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now finds herself named yet again as a defendant in
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a legal case.
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This time it’s the United States Department of Justice.
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The Trump administration filed suit last month against
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Benson in her capacity as Michigan’s Secretary of
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State after Benson refused to hand over complete and
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unredacted voter registration information to the federal
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government as required by law.
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Let me quote her.
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She said,
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I told them they can’t have it.
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I’m required to file a law.
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Do I sound like her?
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A little bit.
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Not bad. State and federal law includes strict privacy
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protections to keep people’s personal data confidential
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and keep everyone safe from identity theft.
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Identity theft read by the federal government,
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bro. What the fuck?
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Benson claims to have written a book on election law,
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but clearly she doesn’t understand election law.
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Our reporting,
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you all remember,
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last year showed that 105%
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of Michigan adults were registered to vote,
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far out of line with the national average.
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So in August,
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the DOJ asked Benson to provide the name of every
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active voter,
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their driver’s license number,
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and the last four digits of their soc.
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It should be pointed out that the federal government
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already has access to every citizen’s driver’s license
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and social security number.
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And even so,
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Benson refuses to provide the unredacted information
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to the DOJ
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including the information of a supposed 17,000 registered
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voters in Michigan who are over the age of 100,
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even though the Social Security Administration says
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there’s only 2,000 people alive in Michigan over the
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age of 100.
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Now consider this.
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Title 3 of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 states that
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Benson must retain all election materials and produce
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them upon demand to the United States Attorney General.
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It’s the Civil Rights Act read.
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That’s Martin Luther King stuff.
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Yes. Required to.
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The National Voter Registration Act of 1995,
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remember Motor Voter?
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That requires Benson to keep an accurate list of eligible
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voters and remove the…
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I was just thinking.
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Was that Motor Voter?
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I think it was.
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I think so,
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yeah. Now,
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the National Voter Registration Act requires Benson
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to keep an accurate list of eligible voters and remove
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those who have died and those who have moved away
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in a timely manner.
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The Help America Vote Act of 2003 requires that the
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state may not,
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you may not,
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you may not process a voter application without a
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driver’s license or the last four digits of a social
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security number for those applications.
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with neither a driver’s license or a last four digits
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of a social security number,
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a special number must be assigned to the voter by
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Benson. And in the case of the Chinese national who
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voted in Ann Arbor,
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Benson’s office could not provide even that.
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Then there’s the matter of the Real ID Act.
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Y’all remember that one,
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which requires Benson’s office to keep copies of all
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passports,
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birth certificates,
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and social security numbers.
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presented by people applying for real and enhanced
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IDs and produced them to the federal government upon
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request. That’s the law.
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As we have previously reported,
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Benson’s office does not generally archive that sensitive
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information,
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but in this case,
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they took my passport.
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And she is now the subject of the federal audit because
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of it. In the Real ID case,
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Benson again makes unconvincing claims of privacy
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protections.
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So what’s so suspicious in all this,
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Red? Get this,
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folks. Michigan participates in an organization known
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as the Electronic Registration Information Center,
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or ERIC, designed to quote,
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assist states in improving the accuracy of America’s
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voting rolls,
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unquote. And how does ERIC accomplish this?
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It creates a database of voters’
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dates of birth,
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driver’s license,
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and social security numbers sent by Michigan and other
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participating states.
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ERIC is a private organization that lacks any enforcement
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authority.
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So Benson farms out our private information to a private
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entity, but screams privacy when the government comes
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to dig through her mess.
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She thumbs her nose at the DOJ and the Civil Rights
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Act. She tells election workers to ignore absentee
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signatures.
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She is held in contempt by the Michigan House for
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refusing to turn over the most basic election training
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manuals. What Benson has is contempt for the people.
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and it shows in her ridiculous influencer videos where
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she dresses down in an Elmer Fudd ball cap while holding
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an empty cup of coffee in a pathetic attempt to plug
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into the kitchen table crosstalk.
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What we see in those videos is a privileged commissar
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disguised in the costume of a common housewife.
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It’s a card trick,
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a sleight of hand,
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a deflection of something bigger going on.
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What is it?
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Take it from me.
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We’re closer to finding out.
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Live from downtown Detroit,
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it’s the New Bullshit News Hour with my main man,
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Charlie LaDa!
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And Karen Dumas.
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Assistant breaking this double bullshit,
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double bullshit.
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You know what,
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man? Everything stinks.
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But you shouldn’t.
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I mean, the grass smells good,
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the leaves smell fresh.
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So why shouldn’t your balls in your pits?
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They should.
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That’s what I want to know.
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So I just got a box of all the Mando products and
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I really like the Mando deodorant plus sweat.
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This thing is light.
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We all checked it out.
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Smells citrusy,
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it’s not overpowered.
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Check that out,
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Reg. Yeah,
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we had a small focus group downstairs and the females
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like it too.
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Yeah.
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That’s pretty nice right there.
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I normally don’t wear deodorant,
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but this I do.
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I do it now.
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Right, Ashton Kutcher.
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Look on Red’s face.
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It’s for real working,
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guys. Formulated to stop odor before it starts and
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doesn’t mask odor with overwhelming frankness like
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I told you.
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This stuff I think is better.
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The whole body deodorant.
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Yeah, I like it.
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Body deodorant translation,
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nut spray.
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Nut spray,
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right? This is the nut spray.
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I don’t know if I want my.
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I’m not smelling like vanilla though.
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What do you care?
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I want to smell it better.
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Buy yourself a girlfriend that likes vanilla.
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That’s actually really good.
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My favorite part,
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because I tried this stuff,
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was the acidified body wash.
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So it’s really light,
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not oily.
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And why I like it is when it gets cold,
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you can see my fingertips.
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Mine shrivel.
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You know,
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as you get older,
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like your circulation doesn’t work.
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It leaves my fingertips like full.
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You know what I mean?
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Like they’re clean.
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You know how you use soap in the winter and it gets
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really rough and you’re dry.
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No, this is really,
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really smooth.
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It’s a really good product.
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I’m glad they sent it.
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So stop buying shitty deodorant from the drug or grocery
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store and go to shopmando.com to order Mando’s starter
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pack. It’s perfect for new customers.
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Hey, I’m going to go see if they got some walnut smelling
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dude. They had it roasted.
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Real quick,
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man. Come on.
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Moving along.
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I don’t know.
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I got a lot of weed residue on my fingers.
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I can’t smell that.
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Well, that’ll cover that up too.
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I just needed to get my bed.
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Let the trays wipe over my license.
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Right. Oh,
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that is nice.
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There you go.
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That’s the hand wipes bill.
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Cidified deodorant wipes for pits.
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Try them on your balls.
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Oh, and on the feet too.
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Yeah, anywhere.
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You know when the weather gets wet and damp and then
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so do your shoes and then your feet start to shrivel,
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then they dry up and crack.
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Bang. Perfect.
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All right.
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So, dude,
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the mayor’s race.
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I was thinking about like,
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because Kinloch dodged the debates.
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Right. And he promised,
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he’d show up here because he obviously can’t really
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discuss ideas in a group.
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But I don’t know if I even give a fuck at this point.
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I mean, I tell you like this,
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I haven’t seen one Kinloch commercial.
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I see.
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Have you seen him anywhere?
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It’s almost like he’s conceded the race.
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Right. I see three Kinlochs on a condo building.
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Well, you can’t leave a message and nobody answers
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the bell,
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dude. You know,
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I mean, I think we ended him pretty much with that
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house up there.
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Yeah, that was at 36 mile.
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Yes, something like that.
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So far from Detroit.
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where everybody dies at old age.
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On the voter rolls,
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that was the one act where timely removal.
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Remember we did the senior junior?
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Yeah, 108,
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we made national news with that one.
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108 year old voter.
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I want to check them because we still have that.
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It was William Bradley,
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right? William Bradley.
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William Bradley.
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William Bradley Junior.
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William Bradley died back in the 80s.
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Kid still lives at the house.
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So they sent him dads.
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No, they sent both.
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and he filled out dads.
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Right. And so dad did vote.
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Did vote.
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Right. I mean,
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the kid voted,
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but… I mean,
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and that was late 2000s.
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That don’t seem timely,
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25 plus years to take somebody off the voter rolls.
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So…
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So, what’s going on?
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Why wouldn’t you turn that shit over?
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What are you hiding?
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Exactly. Right.
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I mean, in Ohio,
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you know,
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their secretary of state says,
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whatever you want to see.
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I mean, again,
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again, is there a master list of people that,
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remember we had Ramon the Advocate?
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Yes. And he was living in Ohio.
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Great guy.
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And he said he voted absentee in Detroit.
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And he goes,
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I didn’t vote absentee in Detroit.
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I mean, if he’s out there doing this,
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We could put this to bed if 40%
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of the country doesn’t believe in the sanctity of
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the election.
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Then put it to bed.
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Right? Yeah.
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And anytime you don’t turn something over,
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you’re hiding something.
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And the only reason you hide something is because
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you did something wrong.
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Right. I mean,
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think of a child,
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right? Yeah.
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They only hide stuff because they did something wrong.
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And then I want to say this.
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If there’s 100%
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of adults registered to vote in Michigan,
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Why in the hell did you keep sending these people to
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annoy me to sign a petition to register to vote in
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Michigan?
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It shouldn’t be no need for these people.
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You gotta keep the numbers up.
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And do they ask you for a social security number,
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your driver’s license when they come to ask to sign
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up? No, actually,
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it’s been so long.
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I don’t remember because I’m registered.
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I’ve been registered since I’m 18.
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Yeah, but it’s just every voting season.
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is at least six people going to ask me to register
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to vote. I mean,
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and yeah,
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the law is pretty clear,
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isn’t it?
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You know,
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with all these federal acts,
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which usurp state law and they certainly usurp the
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will and the want of a temporary secretary of state.
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The law is forever.
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Right. You know,
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I don’t get it.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist.
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I don’t jump into pools headfirst without looking
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to see if there’s water.
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But, you know,
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They’re looking and she knows it.
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And I’m just going to say this,
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I can’t, I’ve been very busy this week.
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Lots of stuff we’ve been doing over the years is coming
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to a fucking head.
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Let’s put it this way.
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I got to drive out to the west side of the state tomorrow.
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Oh, okay.
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County. Got some meetings,
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Allegan County.
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There’s secret meetings going on between these people
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in Lansing.
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It’s not looking good,
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man. But it looks good for democracy.
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Good. Put it that way.
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So
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in Detroit.
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So yeah, it’s fait accompli,
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but Kinloch,
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at the very least,
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needed to explain to us how you got the house.
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In 2013, the church bought the house for 800 grand
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and put 200 grand down.
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The next year,
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somehow Kinloch bought the house for 800 grand and
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took out a mortgage for 600 grand.
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Question is,
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did you pay the church back the 200 grand?
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And he’s been awfully quiet since you exposed that
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too. Yeah,
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and they never return my call like you’re going to
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release your tax filing.
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Yeah. No,
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I’m just going to be quiet so everyone forgets about
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me until,
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you know,
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10 years down the road.
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So he goes,
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who is that ran against Mayor Sheffield?
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Whatever happened to that guy?
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It’s kind of like he said at home one night and said,
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I really hate that I ran for Mayor.
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Yeah, this isn’t worth it.
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Is it worth it?
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No, You know what he’s going to do?
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What? About a year,
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maybe probably 2.
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He got to go,
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woo, woo,
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I dodged that bullet,
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right? Because now I got like,
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you know,
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I was checking up on the Craig Brothers.
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We’ll get in that in a minute.
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You know,
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people wearing uniform asking me,
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what do I be thinking about this?
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mayor’s resident,
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I was probably if I had to bet my house would be Mary
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Sheffield,
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but you don’t want the job.
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Okay, bear with me,
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folks. This is a big deal.
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The public safety unions believe that the city is
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rich because of all the cranes.
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And they’re like,
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oh, yeah,
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the city going to have to pay.
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We took it up to ass since bankruptcy.
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We took a 10%
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pay cut. We took a cut to our pensions.
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Inflation ate it away.
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We want something.
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And I’m like,
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Those cranes don’t belong to the city.
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They belong to private developers who got tax breaks.
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Sweet deals.
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And won’t be paying near the city to pay for your
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pension. Right?
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So I had a buddy come in,
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big Wall Street baller.
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This guy used to make the trades for the Illinois
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Employee Pension Fund.
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Okay.
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Teamsters,
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I believe,
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like big dude.
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Oh, we have some fish and chips.
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We’re watching the Lions,
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right? And he starts asking me about the pension board.
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And I go,
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he says, who manages it?
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Who’s in charge?
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I go, the board itself.
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He goes, no.
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I go, yeah,
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kind of. They make the decisions.
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And he goes,
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well, what’s it comprised of?
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I said, 8 appointees by the mayor,
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2 by fire,
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2 by the police,
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and then two retirees,
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something to that effect,
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right?
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So he starts looking it up because this is what this
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guy does.
531
00:18:03,380 –> 00:18:05,540
And there was an audit recently.
532
00:18:05,700 –> 00:18:06,660
Listen, folks,
533
00:18:06,900 –> 00:18:08,620
listen, you want this guy to be covered.
534
00:18:08,740 –> 00:18:09,540
Wake up, listen,
535
00:18:09,540 –> 00:18:10,620
I’m ready to tell you.
536
00:18:11,060 –> 00:18:13,460
Detroit went bankrupt because it couldn’t make its
537
00:18:13,460 –> 00:18:13,900
pensions,
538
00:18:13,900 –> 00:18:14,340
remember?
539
00:18:14,780 –> 00:18:15,700
And then everybody got caught,
540
00:18:15,700 –> 00:18:16,260
remember?
541
00:18:16,340 –> 00:18:17,180
Yep, the grand bargain.
542
00:18:17,180 –> 00:18:19,220
And then the grand bargain was for 10 years,
543
00:18:19,220 –> 00:18:21,380
Detroit does not have to make its pension payments.
544
00:18:21,700 –> 00:18:23,060
Who made those pension payments?
545
00:18:23,460 –> 00:18:24,260
The suburbs,
546
00:18:24,660 –> 00:18:26,100
okay? Know that.
547
00:18:27,140 –> 00:18:29,140
That 10-year recess is over.
548
00:18:29,140 –> 00:18:30,980
The city now got to pay the pensions.
549
00:18:31,220 –> 00:18:32,740
But the city’s revenue,
550
00:18:33,140 –> 00:18:33,700
listen to me,
551
00:18:33,700 –> 00:18:35,620
folks, it’s tax collections,
552
00:18:36,020 –> 00:18:37,380
adjusted for inflation,
553
00:18:37,700 –> 00:18:38,900
have not increased at all.
554
00:18:39,700 –> 00:18:40,820
Flat, debt.
555
00:18:40,980 –> 00:18:43,940
Now you got to come up with $150 million a year to
556
00:18:43,940 –> 00:18:44,860
make the pension payment.
557
00:18:44,900 –> 00:18:45,940
You see the problem?
558
00:18:46,420 –> 00:18:47,620
Do you guys see the problem?
559
00:18:48,100 –> 00:18:48,540
Definitely.
560
00:18:48,540 –> 00:18:50,020
When you give away your assets.
561
00:18:50,500 –> 00:18:51,660
Yeah, give away your ass.
562
00:18:52,500 –> 00:18:53,220
Sets.
563
00:18:54,340 –> 00:18:56,420
So we’re going back and forth.
564
00:18:56,420 –> 00:18:59,220
Here’s my buddy found the audit last year,
565
00:18:59,220 –> 00:19:00,100
June 30th,
566
00:19:00,740 –> 00:19:02,580
2024. He doesn’t have this year’s yet.
567
00:19:03,460 –> 00:19:08,820
It says that approximately 1.2 billion,
568
00:19:10,340 –> 00:19:11,500
nearly 50%
569
00:19:11,740 –> 00:19:14,380
of the pension system’s position,
570
00:19:14,380 –> 00:19:15,060
net position,
571
00:19:15,060 –> 00:19:16,020
its investments,
572
00:19:16,020 –> 00:19:16,540
right? 50%
573
00:19:16,540 –> 00:19:20,820
of its investments don’t have a readily determinable
574
00:19:20,900 –> 00:19:21,860
market value.
575
00:19:23,060 –> 00:19:24,180
They can’t value it.
576
00:19:24,820 –> 00:19:25,940
Like what did you invest?
577
00:19:26,180 –> 00:19:27,940
They invested in vulture funds,
578
00:19:28,100 –> 00:19:28,820
hedge funds,
579
00:19:29,380 –> 00:19:31,860
places that do things like buy up art van,
580
00:19:32,020 –> 00:19:32,820
borrow money,
581
00:19:33,220 –> 00:19:34,500
buy up art van.
582
00:19:34,500 –> 00:19:35,700
Distressed companies,
583
00:19:35,700 –> 00:19:37,260
yep. Or make them distressed.
584
00:19:37,260 –> 00:19:38,620
Yeah, that’s true.
585
00:19:39,620 –> 00:19:41,700
Sell the assets like the land,
586
00:19:41,700 –> 00:19:42,420
the buildings,
587
00:19:42,980 –> 00:19:43,660
pocket it,
588
00:19:45,060 –> 00:19:46,180
take the company,
589
00:19:46,660 –> 00:19:47,300
rent
590
00:19:48,580 –> 00:19:51,180
the building’s back and they try to make your bank
591
00:19:51,180 –> 00:19:52,020
note, right?
592
00:19:52,260 –> 00:19:53,540
Oh, we restructured it.
593
00:19:53,540 –> 00:19:55,300
Then they try to go out and sell it.
594
00:19:55,780 –> 00:19:57,300
Lots of pension funds have done this.
595
00:19:57,460 –> 00:19:59,860
They’re in serious freaking trouble.
596
00:20:00,180 –> 00:20:01,540
Serious trouble,
597
00:20:01,540 –> 00:20:02,980
right? Because these funds are dying.
598
00:20:03,300 –> 00:20:05,860
There’s moves in the federal government to try to
599
00:20:05,860 –> 00:20:06,260
save them,
600
00:20:06,260 –> 00:20:08,420
to let them be like publicly traded.
601
00:20:08,820 –> 00:20:11,940
So I don’t know where we go.
602
00:20:12,020 –> 00:20:12,900
The other thing is,
603
00:20:14,020 –> 00:20:15,140
according to this audit,
604
00:20:16,700 –> 00:20:17,140
about
605
00:20:18,020 –> 00:20:20,300
Six-tenths of a percent go to management fees.
606
00:20:20,300 –> 00:20:21,860
There are like twenty-seven.
607
00:20:21,860 –> 00:20:23,340
Wait, six-tenths of 1%
608
00:20:23,500 –> 00:20:24,860
or six-tenths of 1%.
609
00:20:24,860 –> 00:20:25,860
OKOK.
610
00:20:26,180 –> 00:20:27,460
If you need a comparison,
611
00:20:27,460 –> 00:20:30,340
let’s say you get a Vanguard 500,
612
00:20:30,580 –> 00:20:34,820
like a index without a financial guy or yeah.
613
00:20:34,900 –> 00:20:35,780
No, with a financial.
614
00:20:35,780 –> 00:20:36,860
OKOK.
615
00:20:36,900 –> 00:20:40,340
So you get you get your 401K Vanguard 500.
616
00:20:40,580 –> 00:20:42,180
Vanguard’s grown 15%
617
00:20:42,180 –> 00:20:42,740
year to date.
618
00:20:43,140 –> 00:20:43,300
OK.
619
00:20:44,580 –> 00:20:45,620
Just mimics the market.
620
00:20:45,700 –> 00:20:48,260
Your fees are about two-tenths of a percent.
621
00:20:48,820 –> 00:20:51,220
So how are these managers for Detroit’s struggling
622
00:20:51,220 –> 00:20:54,020
pension fund getting three times the management fees?
623
00:20:54,300 –> 00:20:56,180
And why are there 27 managers?
624
00:20:56,980 –> 00:20:57,540
How many?
625
00:20:58,020 –> 00:20:58,900
27.
626
00:20:58,900 –> 00:21:03,660
I know managers at McDonald’s that run whole crews
627
00:21:03,660 –> 00:21:04,460
that don’t need that.
628
00:21:04,460 –> 00:21:05,380
27.
629
00:21:05,380 –> 00:21:06,260
27.
630
00:21:06,900 –> 00:21:08,020
So let’s see.
631
00:21:09,540 –> 00:21:13,260
Pensions are supposed to be invested in safer options.
632
00:21:13,260 –> 00:21:15,300
They’re supposed to grow slowly,
633
00:21:15,300 –> 00:21:17,060
so they’re all there in the future.
634
00:21:17,460 –> 00:21:19,620
Yeah, you’re supposed to make solid investments,
635
00:21:19,780 –> 00:21:21,860
stocks, bonds.
636
00:21:22,100 –> 00:21:22,780
A public pension?
637
00:21:22,780 –> 00:21:22,980
100%, yeah.
638
00:21:23,060 –> 00:21:23,380
Right.
639
00:21:23,460 –> 00:21:24,180
Yeah, not risky.
640
00:21:24,180 –> 00:21:24,900
So it’s there.
641
00:21:24,900 –> 00:21:25,220
Yeah.
642
00:21:26,340 –> 00:21:29,060
Well, it looks like they invested into hiring more
643
00:21:29,060 –> 00:21:31,700
managers of a pension that’s not there.
644
00:21:32,820 –> 00:21:37,740
How do you audit a management team of 27 individual
645
00:21:37,740 –> 00:21:38,740
management firms?
646
00:21:39,220 –> 00:21:39,940
Take forever.
647
00:21:40,180 –> 00:21:40,340
Yeah.
648
00:21:40,820 –> 00:21:41,260
See what I mean?
649
00:21:41,260 –> 00:21:42,180
And they’ll all conflict.
650
00:21:42,180 –> 00:21:43,620
You know they got their figures and they just pull
651
00:21:43,620 –> 00:21:44,100
the nickels,
652
00:21:44,100 –> 00:21:45,060
dives, dollars.
653
00:21:47,060 –> 00:21:47,860
I don’t get it,
654
00:21:47,860 –> 00:21:48,260
man.
655
00:21:48,900 –> 00:21:49,540
I don’t get it.
656
00:21:49,700 –> 00:21:52,420
It’s just like the crime numbers.
657
00:21:53,860 –> 00:21:54,820
So you go ahead with that.
658
00:21:54,820 –> 00:21:56,340
Like you were the one bitching about it.
659
00:21:56,420 –> 00:21:56,820
Yeah.
660
00:21:56,980 –> 00:21:57,780
It’s a comedian,
661
00:21:57,780 –> 00:21:58,460
Detroit Red.
662
00:21:58,460 –> 00:21:59,900
Everybody knows Red.
663
00:21:59,900 –> 00:22:01,660
Where, can they find you?
664
00:22:01,660 –> 00:22:02,580
When’s your next show?
665
00:22:02,820 –> 00:22:06,020
Actually tonight at Quiche Comedy Club in East Point,
666
00:22:06,020 –> 00:22:06,500
Michigan,
667
00:22:06,500 –> 00:22:07,980
right on 8 Mile and Grass.
668
00:22:07,980 –> 00:22:10,620
Your brand new comedy club just opened on the east
669
00:22:10,620 –> 00:22:10,780
side.
670
00:22:10,900 –> 00:22:13,540
So we do an open mic and a feature act on Wednesdays.
671
00:22:13,900 –> 00:22:15,380
And I get the honor of being the host.
672
00:22:15,380 –> 00:22:17,180
So I’ll be over there tonight.
673
00:22:17,180 –> 00:22:18,660
And I’ll be in Grand Rapids,
674
00:22:18,660 –> 00:22:20,100
Michigan on Sweetie’s Day.
675
00:22:20,980 –> 00:22:21,780
Sweeties day.
676
00:22:21,780 –> 00:22:23,380
Yeah, we call it side chick day.
677
00:22:23,380 –> 00:22:24,020
But anyway,
678
00:22:25,940 –> 00:22:27,300
we talk about this city.
679
00:22:27,620 –> 00:22:28,020
Okay.
680
00:22:28,020 –> 00:22:28,820
So, you know,
681
00:22:29,060 –> 00:22:32,020
I happen to have the news on when I’m getting ready
682
00:22:32,020 –> 00:22:33,980
and I keep hearing over the last 28,
683
00:22:33,980 –> 00:22:38,420
24 hours or 48 hours that the crime rate is supposedly
684
00:22:38,420 –> 00:22:43,980
lower or as low as it was in 1965.
685
00:22:43,980 –> 00:22:45,540
They’re doing that headlighting in.
686
00:22:46,340 –> 00:22:47,060
They did that.
687
00:22:47,700 –> 00:22:48,260
Last year,
688
00:22:48,260 –> 00:22:49,020
the year before that,
689
00:22:49,020 –> 00:22:49,940
the year before that.
690
00:22:49,940 –> 00:22:50,500
Okay, go ahead.
691
00:22:50,820 –> 00:22:55,420
So I happen to live in the Davidson-Liver Noise area,
692
00:22:55,420 –> 00:22:58,260
more affectionately known as the Red Zone.
693
00:22:59,540 –> 00:23:00,740
No one calls it that.
694
00:23:00,740 –> 00:23:01,140
Gee, yeah,
695
00:23:01,140 –> 00:23:01,540
they do.
696
00:23:02,500 –> 00:23:03,700
We do in the community.
697
00:23:03,740 –> 00:23:05,220
I know what y’all call it out in the suburbs,
698
00:23:05,260 –> 00:23:07,580
but we call it the Red Zone.
699
00:23:07,580 –> 00:23:09,140
It’s a don’t go there zone.
700
00:23:09,620 –> 00:23:10,820
You know what we call the red zone?
701
00:23:11,380 –> 00:23:12,260
Fuck, I’ve lost.
702
00:23:12,420 –> 00:23:12,860
Exactly.
703
00:23:15,140 –> 00:23:16,300
Where’s the next turnaround zone?
704
00:23:16,300 –> 00:23:17,460
I love my neighborhood,
705
00:23:17,540 –> 00:23:19,860
but this report is bullshit.
706
00:23:19,940 –> 00:23:25,700
It does not take a crime analyst to know this is bullshit.
707
00:23:25,700 –> 00:23:29,140
How can you say this when the five stories before this
708
00:23:29,140 –> 00:23:30,900
was home invasion,
709
00:23:30,900 –> 00:23:31,700
somebody shot,
710
00:23:31,780 –> 00:23:32,780
carjacking,
711
00:23:32,820 –> 00:23:35,180
party shooting and drive by?
712
00:23:35,180 –> 00:23:36,780
I mean, huh?
713
00:23:39,300 –> 00:23:40,180
Yeah, it doesn’t add up.
714
00:23:40,740 –> 00:23:43,060
I feel like I live in Los Angeles.
715
00:23:43,060 –> 00:23:46,100
We actually get coppers looking for people.
716
00:23:46,260 –> 00:23:48,340
Somebody just got shot at the liquor store 2 days,
717
00:23:48,500 –> 00:23:50,220
two, three days ago last week,
718
00:23:50,500 –> 00:23:53,860
and the helicopter for 20 minutes disturbing me while
719
00:23:53,860 –> 00:23:54,980
I’m drinking my cognac.
720
00:23:54,980 –> 00:23:56,900
Like not even 24 hours before this,
721
00:23:56,900 –> 00:24:00,340
like 2 teens get mowed down in a halo like 38 bullets.
722
00:24:00,460 –> 00:24:00,620
Yeah.
723
00:24:01,780 –> 00:24:04,420
Now this is this shit is anecdotal what you’re saying,
724
00:24:04,420 –> 00:24:04,820
right?
725
00:24:04,980 –> 00:24:06,580
It doesn’t feel safe to me.
726
00:24:06,740 –> 00:24:08,500
Well, let me remind everybody a couple of things.
727
00:24:08,660 –> 00:24:11,460
One, in 2021,
728
00:24:11,460 –> 00:24:13,580
the FBI was supposed to switch over to a new way to
729
00:24:13,620 –> 00:24:16,420
count crime and it just became a fuck up.
730
00:24:16,580 –> 00:24:19,860
FBI quietly fixed its own fuck up,
731
00:24:19,860 –> 00:24:20,140
right?
732
00:24:20,140 –> 00:24:21,540
I don’t even think it’s fixed.
733
00:24:21,660 –> 00:24:24,140
They’re estimating crime because people still don’t
734
00:24:24,140 –> 00:24:25,140
know how to use the system.
735
00:24:26,340 –> 00:24:27,940
Well, let’s go back to reporting.
736
00:24:28,260 –> 00:24:29,700
In 2015,
737
00:24:30,660 –> 00:24:31,860
They, my God,
738
00:24:31,860 –> 00:24:34,740
it was a crazy drop in crime in 2014.
739
00:24:34,900 –> 00:24:36,420
You go to 2016,
740
00:24:36,420 –> 00:24:38,100
they say the same about 2015.
741
00:24:38,340 –> 00:24:39,460
You go to 2017,
742
00:24:39,460 –> 00:24:41,140
they say the same about 2016.
743
00:24:41,380 –> 00:24:41,780
Then I go,
744
00:24:41,780 –> 00:24:42,420
wait a minute,
745
00:24:43,020 –> 00:24:44,860
because I keep the papers they hand out.
746
00:24:44,940 –> 00:24:49,020
I’m like, they just went back and raised the numbers
747
00:24:49,020 –> 00:24:49,620
from 20.
748
00:24:50,100 –> 00:24:51,860
14 and 2015.
749
00:24:52,420 –> 00:24:53,620
So 2016 looks,
750
00:24:53,620 –> 00:24:54,940
they kept doing it every year.
751
00:24:54,940 –> 00:24:58,980
Like they’d report 10,000 for 2015.
752
00:24:59,260 –> 00:25:00,820
And then in 2016,
753
00:25:01,300 –> 00:25:03,860
they’d say last year it was 11,000 crimes.
754
00:25:05,100 –> 00:25:05,380
I was like,
755
00:25:05,380 –> 00:25:06,100
what the fuck?
756
00:25:06,100 –> 00:25:08,740
It got so bad that in 2018,
757
00:25:08,980 –> 00:25:12,260
the FBI refused Mike Duggan and the police’s
758
00:25:12,660 –> 00:25:13,140
Crime day,
759
00:25:13,140 –> 00:25:14,660
the first time it ever happened in history.
760
00:25:14,900 –> 00:25:16,420
Now in 2019,
761
00:25:16,580 –> 00:25:17,820
when Duggan’s out there going,
762
00:25:18,580 –> 00:25:21,380
police are responding at the national average rate
763
00:25:21,380 –> 00:25:21,940
of speed.
764
00:25:22,180 –> 00:25:23,940
You see that in your neighborhood?
765
00:25:24,260 –> 00:25:26,020
Well, now I will say,
766
00:25:26,660 –> 00:25:27,860
to do credit,
767
00:25:28,180 –> 00:25:30,980
they do respond kind of quick in my neighborhood,
768
00:25:31,220 –> 00:25:34,820
but I fucking live two blocks around from the police
769
00:25:35,060 –> 00:25:35,540
station.
770
00:25:35,940 –> 00:25:37,460
Now you go past that,
771
00:25:37,460 –> 00:25:38,020
I don’t know,
772
00:25:38,020 –> 00:25:39,140
you might be in trouble.
773
00:25:39,140 –> 00:25:39,980
I’m just saying.
774
00:25:40,540 –> 00:25:42,220
what happened in 2009,
775
00:25:42,980 –> 00:25:44,620
I took a million data points,
776
00:25:44,620 –> 00:25:46,660
a million 911 calls over two years,
777
00:25:46,900 –> 00:25:47,020
okay?
778
00:25:47,420 –> 00:25:48,340
A million calls.
779
00:25:50,340 –> 00:25:54,420
And 10,000 of the calls were 911 calls,
780
00:25:54,820 –> 00:25:56,020
were for traffic stops.
781
00:25:56,020 –> 00:25:58,100
I didn’t know that was a 911 call.
782
00:25:58,740 –> 00:25:59,940
I can tell you why.
783
00:26:00,580 –> 00:26:03,220
Well, do you know the average response time to a traffic
784
00:26:03,220 –> 00:26:03,540
stop?
785
00:26:04,100 –> 00:26:04,740
More or less?
786
00:26:05,980 –> 00:26:07,300
From last time I heard never,
787
00:26:07,300 –> 00:26:08,980
’cause you gotta go to the police station to make
788
00:26:08,980 –> 00:26:09,700
two reports.
789
00:26:09,700 –> 00:26:12,660
No, comedian just jumping on my joke.
790
00:26:12,820 –> 00:26:15,780
It’s not a joke,
791
00:26:15,780 –> 00:26:16,300
it’s serious.
792
00:26:16,500 –> 00:26:19,780
The average response time for a traffic stop is approximately
793
00:26:20,740 –> 00:26:20,900
0.0.
794
00:26:21,499 –> 00:26:22,019
Zero.
795
00:26:23,299 –> 00:26:26,659
So they were adding in traffic stops and averaging
796
00:26:26,659 –> 00:26:29,939
them to 911 responses and say we’re getting close
797
00:26:29,939 –> 00:26:30,699
to the national anthem.
798
00:26:30,699 –> 00:26:32,139
It’s 0 because they’re already there,
799
00:26:32,139 –> 00:26:32,499
right?
800
00:26:32,539 –> 00:26:34,779
I mean, it’s not a 911 call.
801
00:26:34,939 –> 00:26:36,339
No, why would it be a 911 call?
802
00:26:36,499 –> 00:26:37,219
That’s insane.
803
00:26:37,299 –> 00:26:39,379
So you take those out and all of a sudden we’re back
804
00:26:39,379 –> 00:26:40,899
up to 40 minutes again.
805
00:26:41,299 –> 00:26:42,259
This is the bullshit.
806
00:26:42,259 –> 00:26:46,179
Now, the insult of all insults,
807
00:26:46,659 –> 00:26:49,659
I hope everybody remembers earlier this year or late
808
00:26:49,659 –> 00:26:50,419
last year,
809
00:26:52,979 –> 00:26:55,379
The 1st 10 years of Mike Duggan’s administration,
810
00:26:55,379 –> 00:26:57,779
it’s like the pension shit and the revenue shit.
811
00:26:58,339 –> 00:26:59,779
The 1st 10 years,
812
00:27:01,139 –> 00:27:01,739
homicide.
813
00:27:02,579 –> 00:27:04,499
Now the police investigate homicide,
814
00:27:04,659 –> 00:27:07,939
the prosecutor decides the legality of the homicide,
815
00:27:08,099 –> 00:27:10,779
and it’s the medical examiner determines if it is
816
00:27:10,779 –> 00:27:11,379
a homicide.
817
00:27:12,579 –> 00:27:17,539
What the Detroit police reported to the FBI and what
818
00:27:17,539 –> 00:27:19,379
the Wayne County medical examiner reported,
819
00:27:20,099 –> 00:27:21,779
We’re missing 300 bodies,
820
00:27:21,779 –> 00:27:22,819
30 bodies a year,
821
00:27:23,299 –> 00:27:25,699
10% of the homicide count a year.
822
00:27:26,019 –> 00:27:30,899
They’re reclassifying as unknown or justifiable or
823
00:27:30,899 –> 00:27:31,059
what.
824
00:27:31,219 –> 00:27:33,779
You’re supposed to just report the homicide like they
825
00:27:33,779 –> 00:27:35,299
did back in 1965.
826
00:27:35,979 –> 00:27:36,219
Right.
827
00:27:36,739 –> 00:27:38,179
So the shit’s fakery.
828
00:27:38,819 –> 00:27:42,099
Now the police promised me
829
00:27:43,459 –> 00:27:45,379
That when they did the reporting of these numbers,
830
00:27:45,619 –> 00:27:47,659
they would give the total homicide number.
831
00:27:47,779 –> 00:27:49,379
They have not done that yet again.
832
00:27:49,539 –> 00:27:52,499
I’m not cynical,
833
00:27:52,539 –> 00:27:53,859
I’m skeptical of this.
834
00:27:53,859 –> 00:27:57,099
is just mirage with numbers,
835
00:27:57,099 –> 00:27:57,259
bro.
836
00:27:57,259 –> 00:27:58,979
I feel like this.
837
00:28:00,419 –> 00:28:02,259
It may have dropped in certain areas,
838
00:28:02,259 –> 00:28:03,699
but I can’t tell like you,
839
00:28:03,939 –> 00:28:06,019
1965, first of all,
840
00:28:06,019 –> 00:28:08,059
carjackings wasn’t around at night.
841
00:28:08,059 –> 00:28:08,659
What were they doing?
842
00:28:08,659 –> 00:28:09,579
Buggy jackings?
843
00:28:09,579 –> 00:28:10,579
What the hell?
844
00:28:10,779 –> 00:28:11,499
I’m just saying,
845
00:28:11,699 –> 00:28:14,099
the comparison is nowhere near there for you to keep
846
00:28:14,099 –> 00:28:14,579
saying.
847
00:28:14,819 –> 00:28:18,579
Crime is as low as it was in 1965.
848
00:28:18,779 –> 00:28:20,299
Well, we had 250%
849
00:28:20,579 –> 00:28:21,539
more people.
850
00:28:22,179 –> 00:28:23,779
Okay, if you really want to look at it,
851
00:28:23,979 –> 00:28:26,259
according to the FBI numbers that they’re crowing
852
00:28:26,259 –> 00:28:26,579
about,
853
00:28:27,059 –> 00:28:29,539
Detroit is still the third most violent city in America.
854
00:28:29,699 –> 00:28:34,579
So if it’s going down all across America and there’s
855
00:28:34,579 –> 00:28:35,059
an argument,
856
00:28:35,059 –> 00:28:35,819
maybe it isn’t,
857
00:28:35,819 –> 00:28:38,659
it could be this FBI’s miscounting of things,
858
00:28:38,659 –> 00:28:38,939
right?
859
00:28:39,379 –> 00:28:40,819
Could be, might not be.
860
00:28:41,299 –> 00:28:43,379
Can’t hide a body or can you hide a body?
861
00:28:44,099 –> 00:28:44,779
Are you catching,
862
00:28:44,979 –> 00:28:46,739
are you catching murderers?
863
00:28:48,819 –> 00:28:49,979
I want to bring this up.
864
00:28:50,099 –> 00:28:51,059
Do we have that video?
865
00:28:51,059 –> 00:28:51,299
Yeah.
866
00:28:51,699 –> 00:28:53,539
I just want to bring Chris.
867
00:28:54,019 –> 00:28:54,979
Here’s a guy,
868
00:28:54,979 –> 00:28:56,899
Red, that lives in the neighborhood like East Side.
869
00:28:57,859 –> 00:28:58,739
The no-go zone.
870
00:28:59,699 –> 00:29:00,339
Great guy.
871
00:29:01,059 –> 00:29:02,499
Let’s just hear from him for a second.
872
00:29:03,459 –> 00:29:04,979
My son was murdered last year,
873
00:29:04,979 –> 00:29:06,019
May 17th,
874
00:29:06,379 –> 00:29:09,819
and we still haven’t heard anything to this day.
875
00:29:10,179 –> 00:29:12,179
Chris Frazier had a son named Dion.
876
00:29:12,739 –> 00:29:15,459
Dion was gunned down during a family barbecue.
877
00:29:15,979 –> 00:29:17,379
An innocent bystander.
878
00:29:17,859 –> 00:29:20,659
Across the street is an elementary school.
879
00:29:21,099 –> 00:29:24,379
I was contacted by detectives one time since the homicide.
880
00:29:24,379 –> 00:29:26,099
We haven’t heard anything else since.
881
00:29:26,459 –> 00:29:27,299
When I call them,
882
00:29:27,299 –> 00:29:28,579
I never get a return.
883
00:29:28,579 –> 00:29:29,699
I’m leaving messages.
884
00:29:30,859 –> 00:29:31,579
to no avail.
885
00:29:31,619 –> 00:29:33,699
I’m still trying to find out who murdered my son.
886
00:29:34,259 –> 00:29:36,179
My son was shot right out here on the street.
887
00:29:36,539 –> 00:29:37,299
And just like I said,
888
00:29:37,299 –> 00:29:39,819
there’s cameras everywhere and they can’t seem to
889
00:29:39,859 –> 00:29:40,419
solve.
890
00:29:40,659 –> 00:29:42,419
I really don’t think they’re able to solve a lot of
891
00:29:42,419 –> 00:29:43,619
homicides in Detroit.
892
00:29:44,299 –> 00:29:45,619
Do you ever call them?
893
00:29:45,619 –> 00:29:46,419
Do you ever call you back?
894
00:29:46,659 –> 00:29:47,219
I called.
895
00:29:47,219 –> 00:29:50,019
I talked to an officer one time since the homicide
896
00:29:50,019 –> 00:29:52,659
and he wasn’t able to give me any details.
897
00:29:52,979 –> 00:29:54,979
He said they were still investigating.
898
00:29:55,299 –> 00:29:57,339
I feel like you should be able to be in touch with
899
00:29:57,339 –> 00:29:59,939
me to let me know what’s going on as far as the case
900
00:29:59,939 –> 00:30:00,419
is going.
901
00:30:00,579 –> 00:30:01,019
But I haven’t,
902
00:30:01,019 –> 00:30:01,499
like I said,
903
00:30:01,499 –> 00:30:02,659
I haven’t heard from anyone.
904
00:30:02,819 –> 00:30:03,939
Now it’s come to light.
905
00:30:04,419 –> 00:30:08,099
At least 300 homicide victims never made the official
906
00:30:08,099 –> 00:30:10,739
murder count during Mike Duggan’s term.
907
00:30:10,979 –> 00:30:14,059
Too many families do not receive the thorough investigation
908
00:30:14,059 –> 00:30:14,819
they deserve.
909
00:30:15,179 –> 00:30:17,739
And it all comes down to him just being another number.
910
00:30:17,779 –> 00:30:18,579
That’s all I think.
911
00:30:18,859 –> 00:30:19,899
That’s how I really feel.
912
00:30:19,899 –> 00:30:21,939
I feel like other places where you go,
913
00:30:22,179 –> 00:30:24,099
they investigate and they solve homicides.
914
00:30:26,019 –> 00:30:29,859
I had an officer tell me one day that if you want to
915
00:30:29,859 –> 00:30:30,659
commit homicide,
916
00:30:30,659 –> 00:30:31,579
move to Detroit.
917
00:30:32,739 –> 00:30:34,099
He told me that out of his own mouth,
918
00:30:34,499 –> 00:30:35,979
and that had me discouraged.
919
00:30:36,299 –> 00:30:37,939
I just felt like y’all are never fired.
920
00:30:37,939 –> 00:30:39,059
My son is a murderer.
921
00:30:39,379 –> 00:30:40,979
Ask a man like Chris Frazier,
922
00:30:41,219 –> 00:30:42,259
who lost his boy.
923
00:30:42,739 –> 00:30:45,219
It’s the saddest thing to be treated like a number,
924
00:30:45,619 –> 00:30:46,659
except, of course,
925
00:30:47,059 –> 00:30:48,739
when you’re not even a number at all.
926
00:30:49,139 –> 00:30:50,979
My son just had two children.
927
00:30:51,339 –> 00:30:52,059
I’m A granddad now,
928
00:30:52,059 –> 00:30:54,659
and we don’t have any answers to his homicide.
929
00:30:54,659 –> 00:30:56,139
He never got to meet his children.
930
00:30:57,219 –> 00:30:57,739
That was it.
931
00:30:57,779 –> 00:30:58,739
My son got shot.
932
00:30:59,339 –> 00:30:59,939
That was it.
933
00:31:00,579 –> 00:31:01,659
They can’t tell me nothing.
934
00:31:01,939 –> 00:31:02,779
We’ll do our best then,
935
00:31:02,779 –> 00:31:03,059
all right?
936
00:31:06,499 –> 00:31:08,819
I haven’t forgot.
937
00:31:08,819 –> 00:31:11,619
You’re probably the only one that ain’t forgot.
938
00:31:16,819 –> 00:31:17,619
So that’s,
939
00:31:18,979 –> 00:31:19,219
you know,
940
00:31:19,299 –> 00:31:20,059
I’m just,
941
00:31:20,179 –> 00:31:20,579
I’m gonna,
942
00:31:20,699 –> 00:31:22,819
I’m gonna work this election cycle hard.
943
00:31:24,739 –> 00:31:26,179
Beleaguered pension fund,
944
00:31:26,659 –> 00:31:29,779
city that doesn’t have the money
945
00:31:30,259 –> 00:31:31,299
to float what it’s doing.
946
00:31:32,019 –> 00:31:34,019
Homicides aren’t getting counted.
947
00:31:34,099 –> 00:31:35,419
They’re not getting solved.
948
00:31:36,019 –> 00:31:36,339
Right.
949
00:31:36,419 –> 00:31:38,179
You know that park that they’re going to open up on
950
00:31:38,179 –> 00:31:38,979
the riverfront.
951
00:31:39,139 –> 00:31:41,779
You’re seeing that all TV fucking news.
952
00:31:42,659 –> 00:31:45,539
Everything on TV regarding the city is a veneer.
953
00:31:45,939 –> 00:31:46,579
It is.
954
00:31:46,619 –> 00:31:48,979
And it’s, there’s a man.
955
00:31:49,299 –> 00:31:50,339
See the pain on that guy?
956
00:31:51,059 –> 00:31:52,499
And I’m going to say this,
957
00:31:52,499 –> 00:31:53,819
because we as citizens,
958
00:31:53,819 –> 00:31:55,459
we appreciate our officers.
959
00:31:55,459 –> 00:31:57,859
We appreciate the job they’re trying to do.
960
00:31:58,019 –> 00:31:59,459
But like you said,
961
00:31:59,539 –> 00:32:02,699
a city with no money is how can you can’t even float
962
00:32:02,699 –> 00:32:03,299
these guys.
963
00:32:03,299 –> 00:32:04,779
You can’t get them what they need.
964
00:32:04,779 –> 00:32:06,259
You’re not about to be able to pay them.
965
00:32:06,579 –> 00:32:07,139
And I mean,
966
00:32:07,139 –> 00:32:08,899
it’s not about to get no better.
967
00:32:09,699 –> 00:32:11,019
It ain’t been the best,
968
00:32:11,019 –> 00:32:12,419
and it ain’t about to get no better.
969
00:32:12,419 –> 00:32:13,459
And it’s not because they,
970
00:32:13,539 –> 00:32:16,179
I don’t think these folks ain’t wanting or trying
971
00:32:16,179 –> 00:32:16,859
to do the job.
972
00:32:16,859 –> 00:32:18,179
They don’t have the resources.
973
00:32:18,579 –> 00:32:20,099
And they overwhelmed.
974
00:32:20,179 –> 00:32:21,219
That’s another thing.
975
00:32:21,419 –> 00:32:22,099
Of the police.
976
00:32:22,659 –> 00:32:23,779
I mean, right on,
977
00:32:23,779 –> 00:32:24,499
Red, because,
978
00:32:24,579 –> 00:32:27,779
okay, I’m a sad detective won’t pick up the phone.
979
00:32:27,779 –> 00:32:28,819
You know why he won’t pick it up?
980
00:32:29,939 –> 00:32:32,979
Because there’s thousands before you and he can’t solve
981
00:32:32,979 –> 00:32:33,139
it.
982
00:32:33,739 –> 00:32:35,019
And he doesn’t know what to say to you.
983
00:32:37,419 –> 00:32:38,019
I couldn’t do it.
984
00:32:38,259 –> 00:32:38,739
I’m being honest.
985
00:32:38,939 –> 00:32:39,339
I couldn’t.
986
00:32:39,339 –> 00:32:42,339
No, the most powerful line in that piece is when you’re
987
00:32:42,339 –> 00:32:43,379
not even a number,
988
00:32:43,619 –> 00:32:43,819
right?
989
00:32:43,819 –> 00:32:45,779
Because they’re not counting it correctly.
990
00:32:45,779 –> 00:32:47,939
So how do you expect to solve anything or fix anything
991
00:32:47,939 –> 00:32:49,379
on a grander scale?
992
00:32:49,939 –> 00:32:50,259
You know?
993
00:32:50,579 –> 00:32:52,579
So when you get an audit in here and he goes,
994
00:32:52,979 –> 00:32:55,939
we can’t count the value of your pension fund because
995
00:32:55,939 –> 00:32:58,659
you invested in fucked up shit where the mayor’s got
996
00:32:58,659 –> 00:32:59,699
eight seats on there,
997
00:33:00,259 –> 00:33:00,539
right?
998
00:33:00,739 –> 00:33:01,779
Shuffle off the buffalo,
999
00:33:01,779 –> 00:33:03,139
eat it alive and move along.
1000
00:33:04,139 –> 00:33:05,059
this, the park,
1001
00:33:05,059 –> 00:33:05,979
the Centennial Park.
1002
00:33:06,379 –> 00:33:07,259
Hey, it’s opening.
1003
00:33:07,259 –> 00:33:07,779
Look at this.
1004
00:33:08,819 –> 00:33:09,499
Drone shots.
1005
00:33:09,499 –> 00:33:10,179
It’s going to be great.
1006
00:33:10,179 –> 00:33:11,219
They’re going to have a hay ride,
1007
00:33:12,099 –> 00:33:12,419
right?
1008
00:33:13,059 –> 00:33:14,979
You know, women from the suburbs are involved in this
1009
00:33:14,979 –> 00:33:17,859
new park in the city when we’re doing pumpkin rides,
1010
00:33:18,419 –> 00:33:18,739
you know?
1011
00:33:19,299 –> 00:33:19,939
Okay, well,
1012
00:33:19,939 –> 00:33:20,659
here’s the deal.
1013
00:33:20,819 –> 00:33:21,779
The park’s not done.
1014
00:33:21,939 –> 00:33:22,939
I just drove by it.
1015
00:33:22,939 –> 00:33:24,259
I’m like, there’s no way it’s done.
1016
00:33:24,819 –> 00:33:26,059
they got a lot of work to do.
1017
00:33:26,059 –> 00:33:28,219
They got to get the construction sets and shit out
1018
00:33:28,419 –> 00:33:30,099
and throw the sod down.
1019
00:33:30,259 –> 00:33:32,659
Why would you throw sod down before the winter?
1020
00:33:32,899 –> 00:33:34,499
Why would you open a basketball court?
1021
00:33:35,219 –> 00:33:35,899
You wouldn’t.
1022
00:33:35,899 –> 00:33:36,899
Just before the winter.
1023
00:33:36,899 –> 00:33:37,499
You wouldn’t.
1024
00:33:37,499 –> 00:33:38,179
Okay, the part,
1025
00:33:38,179 –> 00:33:39,459
the other parts is it’s not done.
1026
00:33:39,619 –> 00:33:41,459
They put a hurricane fence around it.
1027
00:33:43,299 –> 00:33:45,579
Hoping that you won’t notice the other side of the
1028
00:33:45,579 –> 00:33:47,139
hurricane fencing.
1029
00:33:48,179 –> 00:33:50,299
is a mud lot with construction.
1030
00:33:50,299 –> 00:33:51,539
That’s part of the park.
1031
00:33:51,859 –> 00:33:52,579
No, it’s not.
1032
00:33:52,579 –> 00:33:53,619
It’s to see the fence.
1033
00:33:54,019 –> 00:33:54,659
Oh my God.
1034
00:33:55,219 –> 00:33:55,899
80 million,
1035
00:33:55,899 –> 00:33:56,979
100 million,
1036
00:33:57,819 –> 00:33:59,139
40 million embezzled.
1037
00:33:59,139 –> 00:34:00,379
I’m going to be honest,
1038
00:34:00,379 –> 00:34:01,859
as a citizen of Detroit,
1039
00:34:01,859 –> 00:34:03,459
we don’t need no more damn parks.
1040
00:34:03,459 –> 00:34:05,139
The ones we got is empty.
1041
00:34:05,139 –> 00:34:06,659
I was just riding with a buddy of mine,
1042
00:34:06,659 –> 00:34:09,379
some beautiful parks they’ve put throughout the city.
1043
00:34:09,619 –> 00:34:10,659
They’re empty.
1044
00:34:10,739 –> 00:34:11,619
Guess why?
1045
00:34:11,779 –> 00:34:15,299
Because crime’s not down like you keep reporting.
1046
00:34:16,339 –> 00:34:18,019
Yeah, wouldn’t that money be better?
1047
00:34:18,219 –> 00:34:19,859
with maybe more police on patrol.
1048
00:34:20,499 –> 00:34:21,339
Bro, I mean,
1049
00:34:21,339 –> 00:34:22,419
it’s just reality.
1050
00:34:22,499 –> 00:34:24,579
I was me and my buddy ran down the street.
1051
00:34:24,579 –> 00:34:25,819
The parks are beautiful.
1052
00:34:25,859 –> 00:34:27,139
I will commend the city.
1053
00:34:27,139 –> 00:34:30,739
They put together some very nice neighborhood parks.
1054
00:34:30,979 –> 00:34:32,259
Problem is,
1055
00:34:32,579 –> 00:34:36,019
they’re not that safe because it pops off all the
1056
00:34:36,019 –> 00:34:36,499
time.
1057
00:34:36,499 –> 00:34:38,659
There’s no police around there and force it.
1058
00:34:38,659 –> 00:34:42,099
So you’re basically putting open spaces that nobody’s
1059
00:34:42,099 –> 00:34:44,659
going to use because it’s not safe.
1060
00:34:44,779 –> 00:34:45,339
I’m just saying.
1061
00:34:45,339 –> 00:34:47,059
Do we cut the grass when?
1062
00:34:47,499 –> 00:34:48,819
Finances turn sideways.
1063
00:34:49,939 –> 00:34:50,459
You know what I mean?
1064
00:34:50,459 –> 00:34:51,379
It’s going to be like,
1065
00:34:51,539 –> 00:34:52,019
I don’t know.
1066
00:34:52,179 –> 00:34:53,059
But let’s,
1067
00:34:54,019 –> 00:34:54,419
you know,
1068
00:34:55,219 –> 00:34:56,859
let’s talk some positive stuff,
1069
00:34:56,899 –> 00:34:57,779
some sports.
1070
00:34:57,779 –> 00:34:58,819
Well, let’s go.
1071
00:34:58,899 –> 00:35:00,419
I’m going to the Tiger game tonight.
1072
00:35:00,779 –> 00:35:02,939
I’ll tell you all about it right after this.
1073
00:35:02,939 –> 00:35:03,699
I’m Grace Karos,
1074
00:35:03,779 –> 00:35:06,019
and I’m third generation of American Coney Island.
1075
00:35:06,419 –> 00:35:08,179
People say Detroit’s a comeback city.
1076
00:35:08,179 –> 00:35:08,979
I say where you’ve been.
1077
00:35:08,979 –> 00:35:10,659
We’ve been here for over 100 years.
1078
00:35:11,059 –> 00:35:12,979
My family’s been here on the same corner,
1079
00:35:13,219 –> 00:35:16,459
serving our famous proprietary American Coney Island
1080
00:35:16,459 –> 00:35:16,699
hotdog.
1081
00:35:17,459 –> 00:35:18,179
So like always,
1082
00:35:18,179 –> 00:35:19,299
we’re keeping things fresh,
1083
00:35:19,499 –> 00:35:20,739
updated, and new.
1084
00:35:23,059 –> 00:35:24,819
We’d love to have you come downtown and visit us,
1085
00:35:24,899 –> 00:35:25,619
but if you can’t,
1086
00:35:25,779 –> 00:35:27,939
you can always go to americanconeyisland.com,
1087
00:35:28,019 –> 00:35:28,899
order a Coney kit,
1088
00:35:28,899 –> 00:35:30,579
get it delivered fresh right to your door.
1089
00:35:32,259 –> 00:35:34,899
Is this the hole-in-one?
1090
00:35:34,979 –> 00:35:36,579
It’s a hole-in-one,
1091
00:35:36,699 –> 00:35:37,219
$50,000 if you hit it.
1092
00:35:39,059 –> 00:35:40,179
Luke Nowacki,
1093
00:35:40,339 –> 00:35:42,739
Financial Wealth Management,
1094
00:35:43,299 –> 00:35:45,219
what is 50 grand after tags?
1095
00:35:48,579 –> 00:35:50,699
37,750.
1096
00:35:50,739 –> 00:35:51,699
What about state tax?
1097
00:35:52,099 –> 00:35:52,659
Yeah, that’s,
1098
00:35:53,219 –> 00:35:54,499
I’m throwing both in there.
1099
00:35:54,499 –> 00:35:56,179
What about sales tax?
1100
00:35:56,259 –> 00:35:57,099
There’s no sales tax.
1101
00:35:57,099 –> 00:35:57,899
Well, you’re buying the beer.
1102
00:35:57,899 –> 00:35:58,339
It’s income.
1103
00:35:58,419 –> 00:35:59,059
You’re buying the beer.
1104
00:35:59,539 –> 00:36:00,259
We write that off.
1105
00:36:01,699 –> 00:36:02,179
Luke Gowacki,
1106
00:36:03,139 –> 00:36:04,019
Financial Wealth Bank.
1107
00:36:04,019 –> 00:36:08,339
2486634748 for sound financial advice.
1108
00:36:08,339 –> 00:36:08,979
Luke Gowacki,
1109
00:36:08,979 –> 00:36:11,939
2486634748.
1110
00:36:12,419 –> 00:36:13,219
I got to say,
1111
00:36:13,219 –> 00:36:14,299
Luke, if you’re listening,
1112
00:36:14,299 –> 00:36:16,939
a lot of commercial way better than the Halo thing.
1113
00:36:16,979 –> 00:36:17,619
I’m just sorry.
1114
00:36:17,699 –> 00:36:20,899
I know, it’s a low budget outfit.
1115
00:36:20,899 –> 00:36:25,139
At least we’re the only ones that have like video commercials.
1116
00:36:25,299 –> 00:36:25,899
Yeah, that’s true.
1117
00:36:26,019 –> 00:36:26,179
Yeah.
1118
00:36:26,619 –> 00:36:27,059
I’m proud of them.
1119
00:36:27,779 –> 00:36:28,259
Thanks for that,
1120
00:36:28,259 –> 00:36:28,499
Red.
1121
00:36:28,739 –> 00:36:29,059
Now,
1122
00:36:29,979 –> 00:36:31,139
I’m going to the Tigers game.
1123
00:36:31,219 –> 00:36:32,659
I don’t like going.
1124
00:36:32,659 –> 00:36:34,019
I love the Tigers.
1125
00:36:34,339 –> 00:36:34,899
By the way,
1126
00:36:34,899 –> 00:36:36,939
I was a very good baseball player,
1127
00:36:36,939 –> 00:36:37,539
I must say.
1128
00:36:37,619 –> 00:36:39,299
So you have a cannon for an arm.
1129
00:36:39,379 –> 00:36:39,659
Thank you.
1130
00:36:39,659 –> 00:36:41,859
I feel like a lot of people don’t know that.
1131
00:36:42,259 –> 00:36:44,179
I can get it to home plate from center field.
1132
00:36:44,179 –> 00:36:44,579
Oh, yeah.
1133
00:36:44,579 –> 00:36:45,259
Not on a bounce.
1134
00:36:45,259 –> 00:36:46,979
Yeah, I’ve heard I’ve heard people rave about it with
1135
00:36:46,979 –> 00:36:47,779
you out of the room.
1136
00:36:48,419 –> 00:36:49,459
Mainly Elric.
1137
00:36:51,659 –> 00:36:53,059
I play ball with Elric and he’s like,
1138
00:36:53,299 –> 00:36:54,179
putting you in right field,
1139
00:36:54,179 –> 00:36:54,499
bro.
1140
00:36:54,819 –> 00:36:55,459
I go, why?
1141
00:36:55,459 –> 00:36:57,259
He goes, it’s the longest throw to 3rd.
1142
00:36:57,259 –> 00:36:57,699
And I’m like,
1143
00:36:58,099 –> 00:37:00,219
yeah, but center fielder can’t catch.
1144
00:37:03,179 –> 00:37:04,139
Plus it blew my knee out,
1145
00:37:04,139 –> 00:37:05,259
which bums me out.
1146
00:37:05,859 –> 00:37:07,059
I love sports,
1147
00:37:07,059 –> 00:37:07,299
man.
1148
00:37:07,299 –> 00:37:08,419
I played them all.
1149
00:37:08,779 –> 00:37:12,099
And you get older and my knee just pops out of joint.
1150
00:37:12,739 –> 00:37:16,339
I tore my hamstring playing Capture the Flag with first
1151
00:37:16,339 –> 00:37:17,659
graders, second graders,
1152
00:37:17,659 –> 00:37:18,019
I’m sorry,
1153
00:37:18,019 –> 00:37:18,619
second graders.
1154
00:37:18,619 –> 00:37:19,699
That’s how out of shape I am.
1155
00:37:19,939 –> 00:37:22,219
I bruised my thigh getting out the bleachers while
1156
00:37:22,219 –> 00:37:23,259
I was smoking a blunt.
1157
00:37:25,059 –> 00:37:26,139
See, funny thing about the,
1158
00:37:26,339 –> 00:37:28,099
see, funny thing about the bleachers,
1159
00:37:28,099 –> 00:37:29,299
like back in 84,
1160
00:37:29,619 –> 00:37:30,499
when I was 18,
1161
00:37:31,499 –> 00:37:32,179
It was summer,
1162
00:37:32,499 –> 00:37:33,219
graduated.
1163
00:37:33,379 –> 00:37:37,059
We were the bleacher creatures in the old Tiger Stadium,
1164
00:37:37,139 –> 00:37:38,259
right, on Trumbull.
1165
00:37:38,819 –> 00:37:40,419
And, you could party.
1166
00:37:40,739 –> 00:37:42,739
Nobody’s stopping you and you drink beer there.
1167
00:37:42,979 –> 00:37:44,059
Nobody’s carding you.
1168
00:37:44,499 –> 00:37:45,539
And, you know,
1169
00:37:45,619 –> 00:37:46,659
a little ruckus,
1170
00:37:46,819 –> 00:37:48,259
little ruckus breaks out,
1171
00:37:48,339 –> 00:37:48,659
you know,
1172
00:37:48,659 –> 00:37:49,379
in the bleachers,
1173
00:37:49,459 –> 00:37:51,499
which is not unheard of in the bleed.
1174
00:37:52,019 –> 00:37:52,539
The bleed,
1175
00:37:52,619 –> 00:37:53,619
yeah, it was.
1176
00:37:54,059 –> 00:37:55,459
Yeah, it was the red zone.
1177
00:37:55,459 –> 00:37:56,179
Rough and tumbling.
1178
00:37:56,259 –> 00:37:58,859
It really was.
1179
00:37:58,859 –> 00:38:00,099
That was the first red zone.
1180
00:38:01,019 –> 00:38:02,499
Well, I was issued a ticket,
1181
00:38:02,819 –> 00:38:04,099
something to appear,
1182
00:38:04,339 –> 00:38:06,099
a little swordly conduct.
1183
00:38:06,579 –> 00:38:08,819
And it wasn’t,
1184
00:38:10,179 –> 00:38:12,259
the notice to appear was in late October.
1185
00:38:13,059 –> 00:38:17,939
Well, preceding my court date was the Tigers championship
1186
00:38:18,659 –> 00:38:20,739
and the riots and the fire.
1187
00:38:22,019 –> 00:38:23,059
And then my court date.
1188
00:38:24,179 –> 00:38:24,619
And I went,
1189
00:38:24,619 –> 00:38:24,899
I’m like,
1190
00:38:25,139 –> 00:38:25,939
it’s misdemeanor,
1191
00:38:25,939 –> 00:38:26,259
whatever,
1192
00:38:26,259 –> 00:38:26,659
I show up,
1193
00:38:26,739 –> 00:38:27,979
but pick up some garbage.
1194
00:38:27,979 –> 00:38:29,259
And judge looks at me,
1195
00:38:29,259 –> 00:38:30,979
he goes, this is what he said,
1196
00:38:31,539 –> 00:38:32,979
because I’m a season ticket holder.
1197
00:38:33,819 –> 00:38:38,099
And it’s assholes like you that ruin this city.
1198
00:38:38,939 –> 00:38:40,739
30 days, Detroit Heist of Corrections.
1199
00:38:41,139 –> 00:38:41,419
Oh, wow.
1200
00:38:41,739 –> 00:38:44,619
Because he was a season ticket holder,
1201
00:38:44,619 –> 00:38:45,779
it seems kind of subjective.
1202
00:38:45,779 –> 00:38:46,979
Like I didn’t burn nothing,
1203
00:38:46,979 –> 00:38:47,299
bro.
1204
00:38:47,539 –> 00:38:48,659
Yeah, 30 days,
1205
00:38:48,699 –> 00:38:49,859
it’s got commuted to 10,
1206
00:38:49,859 –> 00:38:51,499
10 in the Detroit House of Corrections.
1207
00:38:51,499 –> 00:38:54,419
Well, if they somehow happen to win this time,
1208
00:38:54,739 –> 00:38:57,019
I don’t think we got to worry about no razz down here.
1209
00:38:57,019 –> 00:38:57,379
These.
1210
00:38:57,859 –> 00:38:59,219
I’ll be in the guest bedroom.
1211
00:38:59,419 –> 00:38:59,539
Yeah.
1212
00:38:59,859 –> 00:39:00,139
Oh, yeah.
1213
00:39:00,419 –> 00:39:02,819
Watching it on the little TV all by my lonesome.
1214
00:39:02,819 –> 00:39:07,539
It is crazy how the 84 celebration really became like
1215
00:39:07,859 –> 00:39:11,859
the image anytime there’s a bad celebration in a city,
1216
00:39:11,859 –> 00:39:12,179
right?
1217
00:39:12,179 –> 00:39:14,659
I mean, it happens not just here in Detroit.
1218
00:39:14,659 –> 00:39:15,499
It happens in LA.
1219
00:39:15,939 –> 00:39:17,459
The worst one ever was Vancouver,
1220
00:39:17,459 –> 00:39:18,179
Canada.
1221
00:39:18,619 –> 00:39:22,419
I think Detroit though,
1222
00:39:22,419 –> 00:39:24,259
but we get we get all the did it first.
1223
00:39:24,339 –> 00:39:27,299
I think 84 was the first 84 was the first big one.
1224
00:39:27,299 –> 00:39:31,299
Yeah, so they started putting the world on wheels.
1225
00:39:31,459 –> 00:39:32,659
Yeah, you know what I mean?
1226
00:39:32,659 –> 00:39:33,899
Hey, we
1227
00:39:33,999 –> 00:39:36,639
I get the credit for being the 1st place to tip a car
1228
00:39:36,639 –> 00:39:39,279
over because we won a championship that none of us
1229
00:39:39,279 –> 00:39:40,439
will see a penny from.
1230
00:39:40,479 –> 00:39:42,959
Yeah, and here’s like the famous picture.
1231
00:39:42,959 –> 00:39:43,639
Detroit News,
1232
00:39:43,639 –> 00:39:45,479
Detroit News picture went all around.
1233
00:39:45,479 –> 00:39:46,679
Describe it for LSP.
1234
00:39:46,679 –> 00:39:47,479
You see a car,
1235
00:39:47,479 –> 00:39:49,879
a cop car that is a cop car that’s upside down on
1236
00:39:49,879 –> 00:39:50,439
fire.
1237
00:39:50,959 –> 00:39:53,519
A lot of blurry people celebrating and one guy wearing
1238
00:39:53,519 –> 00:39:54,439
baseball pants.
1239
00:39:54,519 –> 00:39:54,999
White guy.
1240
00:39:55,239 –> 00:39:57,079
White guy with his stomach sticking out,
1241
00:39:57,319 –> 00:39:58,759
holding up a pennant.
1242
00:39:58,759 –> 00:39:59,999
His name is Bubba Helms.
1243
00:39:59,999 –> 00:40:02,679
I mean, like I remember that name because the story
1244
00:40:02,679 –> 00:40:04,159
became so big.
1245
00:40:04,159 –> 00:40:07,719
And the story of Bubba Helms is unbelievably tragic.
1246
00:40:07,719 –> 00:40:08,879
He’s like the youngest kid.
1247
00:40:08,879 –> 00:40:10,279
His dad was an auto worker.
1248
00:40:10,999 –> 00:40:12,839
He just went down there to party.
1249
00:40:12,879 –> 00:40:14,079
I mean, smoked weed,
1250
00:40:14,079 –> 00:40:15,399
drank some whiskey.
1251
00:40:15,759 –> 00:40:16,679
And by the time he got down there,
1252
00:40:16,679 –> 00:40:17,559
things were already on fire.
1253
00:40:17,559 –> 00:40:18,759
But he told his sister like,
1254
00:40:18,759 –> 00:40:19,959
hey, I’m going to get on TV.
1255
00:40:20,519 –> 00:40:21,479
So he found the pennant,
1256
00:40:21,479 –> 00:40:21,999
held it up.
1257
00:40:21,999 –> 00:40:24,879
And the next thing that happens is people start calling
1258
00:40:25,079 –> 00:40:25,759
his house,
1259
00:40:25,759 –> 00:40:26,999
his mom’s house saying like,
1260
00:40:26,999 –> 00:40:28,279
how could you raise such a bad,
1261
00:40:28,359 –> 00:40:31,079
like really attacking him viciously.
1262
00:40:31,479 –> 00:40:34,399
So Detroit being what it was in the 80s,
1263
00:40:34,399 –> 00:40:36,119
he leaves heads down.
1264
00:40:36,199 –> 00:40:38,119
I want to say Florida heads down to Florida.
1265
00:40:38,119 –> 00:40:40,919
I think gets involved in meth,
1266
00:40:42,039 –> 00:40:43,879
has a girl gets her pregnant.
1267
00:40:44,359 –> 00:40:46,279
That doesn’t turn out too well.
1268
00:40:46,919 –> 00:40:48,999
Florida becomes dead and comes back to Detroit,
1269
00:40:49,559 –> 00:40:50,039
ends up
1270
00:40:50,519 –> 00:40:51,319
getting clean,
1271
00:40:51,559 –> 00:40:53,079
but then ends up committing suicide.
1272
00:40:53,079 –> 00:40:54,839
And there was a series,
1273
00:40:54,879 –> 00:40:58,519
a history in his family of mental illness and suicide.
1274
00:40:58,759 –> 00:41:01,279
He tries to shoot himself in his face in front of his
1275
00:41:01,279 –> 00:41:03,479
child, lives,
1276
00:41:04,039 –> 00:41:05,399
sends him to the hospital,
1277
00:41:05,639 –> 00:41:06,919
gives him painkillers,
1278
00:41:06,919 –> 00:41:07,799
releases him,
1279
00:41:08,199 –> 00:41:10,119
takes the whole bottle and kills himself.
1280
00:41:10,999 –> 00:41:11,919
It’s a, that’s a,
1281
00:41:11,919 –> 00:41:13,399
it’s such a tragic,
1282
00:41:13,559 –> 00:41:14,839
tragic Detroit story.
1283
00:41:15,079 –> 00:41:15,959
Sorry to bring the room down.
1284
00:41:15,959 –> 00:41:16,999
Let’s go Tigers.
1285
00:41:16,999 –> 00:41:17,279
I know.
1286
00:41:17,399 –> 00:41:17,559
Right.
1287
00:41:17,559 –> 00:41:20,239
I don’t even want to watch the game.
1288
00:41:20,359 –> 00:41:23,799
A lot of people celebrate that photo without thinking,
1289
00:41:24,559 –> 00:41:25,959
whatever happened to that guy?
1290
00:41:26,799 –> 00:41:29,519
It’s just a tragic story of Detroit in the 80s.
1291
00:41:29,519 –> 00:41:32,439
I just want to say this on behalf of the black community.
1292
00:41:32,439 –> 00:41:34,919
We kind of glad it’s a white guy in front of the burn
1293
00:41:34,919 –> 00:41:36,319
the police car upside down.
1294
00:41:36,319 –> 00:41:37,399
It wasn’t us.
1295
00:41:38,679 –> 00:41:39,719
You’re glad there’s photographic.
1296
00:41:40,399 –> 00:41:43,519
Yeah, it’s a wild story.
1297
00:41:43,519 –> 00:41:45,479
It’s a good joke though.
1298
00:41:45,639 –> 00:41:47,199
Interesting piece of history though it is.
1299
00:41:47,239 –> 00:41:47,799
It really is.
1300
00:41:47,799 –> 00:41:50,999
It just shows what despair the city was in and I don’t
1301
00:41:50,999 –> 00:41:51,959
want to go back to it.
1302
00:41:52,519 –> 00:41:53,399
Yeah, now here’s,
1303
00:41:54,319 –> 00:41:55,159
I think I sent it to you,
1304
00:41:55,159 –> 00:41:55,479
Mark.
1305
00:41:56,439 –> 00:41:59,479
That’s 84 by 89 I graduate college.
1306
00:42:00,759 –> 00:42:02,559
And I’m off somewhere in the world.
1307
00:42:02,559 –> 00:42:03,559
Like I’m overseas,
1308
00:42:03,559 –> 00:42:03,799
right?
1309
00:42:03,799 –> 00:42:05,959
So I missed that era here.
1310
00:42:06,279 –> 00:42:06,999
The bad boys.
1311
00:42:06,999 –> 00:42:08,039
Like the bad boys,
1312
00:42:08,359 –> 00:42:08,639
right?
1313
00:42:08,639 –> 00:42:09,759
Oh man, that was the greatest.
1314
00:42:09,839 –> 00:42:10,719
I was here for both of those.
1315
00:42:10,719 –> 00:42:12,439
Dude, I didn’t know that.
1316
00:42:12,439 –> 00:42:13,359
I thought 84,
1317
00:42:13,359 –> 00:42:13,679
right?
1318
00:42:13,679 –> 00:42:15,319
That lives in infamy.
1319
00:42:15,799 –> 00:42:18,159
But this came across my Twitter feed.
1320
00:42:18,159 –> 00:42:18,679
This is
1321
00:42:19,599 –> 00:42:20,359
What’s his name?
1322
00:42:20,679 –> 00:42:21,279
Peter Jennings.
1323
00:42:21,279 –> 00:42:23,919
Peter Jennings from ABC News in 1990.
1324
00:42:24,199 –> 00:42:26,359
This was leading World News Tonight.
1325
00:42:26,359 –> 00:42:26,759
Roll it.
1326
00:42:26,919 –> 00:42:27,799
Elsewhere in the Midwest,
1327
00:42:27,799 –> 00:42:28,999
it was another bad night.
1328
00:42:29,279 –> 00:42:31,119
Thousands of people took to the streets of Detroit
1329
00:42:31,119 –> 00:42:34,319
to celebrate the Pistons winning the National Basketball
1330
00:42:34,439 –> 00:42:35,719
Association Championship.
1331
00:42:35,719 –> 00:42:36,679
Some of it was ugly.
1332
00:42:37,319 –> 00:42:39,399
Looting, cars overturned and burned.
1333
00:42:39,399 –> 00:42:41,079
One car ran into a crowd.
1334
00:42:41,479 –> 00:42:42,559
Four people were killed.
1335
00:42:42,559 –> 00:42:45,479
Another man died when he fell from a window while trying
1336
00:42:45,479 –> 00:42:46,599
to light a Roman candle.
1337
00:42:46,999 –> 00:42:48,439
Seven people died,
1338
00:42:48,439 –> 00:42:48,679
you know.
1339
00:42:49,079 –> 00:42:50,039
Seven died.
1340
00:42:50,279 –> 00:42:51,239
Seven died.
1341
00:42:51,559 –> 00:42:52,159
I didn’t know that.
1342
00:42:52,159 –> 00:42:52,839
Did you know that?
1343
00:42:53,159 –> 00:42:53,879
Okay, love,
1344
00:42:53,879 –> 00:42:54,839
so like I was saying,
1345
00:42:54,839 –> 00:42:56,759
84 wasn’t us.
1346
00:42:57,719 –> 00:43:01,319
90, hey, this is a shame anybody died,
1347
00:43:01,399 –> 00:43:03,399
but hey, I was here and…
1348
00:43:03,639 –> 00:43:05,159
Wait, so 90 was who?
1349
00:43:05,879 –> 00:43:06,519
It was us,
1350
00:43:06,599 –> 00:43:12,559
but you don’t want to point out the ethnicity.
1351
00:43:14,399 –> 00:43:15,559
Sports brings people together.
1352
00:43:16,359 –> 00:43:17,439
And don’t forget this,
1353
00:43:17,479 –> 00:43:21,799
the bad boy era did bring us who we now know as Coleman
1354
00:43:21,799 –> 00:43:22,279
A.
1355
00:43:22,839 –> 00:43:24,439
Young Junior,
1356
00:43:24,439 –> 00:43:26,439
because he was at the celebration.
1357
00:43:27,639 –> 00:43:28,079
What really?
1358
00:43:28,079 –> 00:43:28,759
No, I didn’t know that.
1359
00:43:28,839 –> 00:43:29,519
Yeah, his dad.
1360
00:43:29,519 –> 00:43:29,639
Yeah.
1361
00:43:29,879 –> 00:43:31,479
Mary Young was there and he had his.
1362
00:43:31,719 –> 00:43:33,439
That’s when he first publicly accepts him.
1363
00:43:33,479 –> 00:43:33,799
Yep.
1364
00:43:33,959 –> 00:43:35,879
Oh, there’s another piece of Detroit Lore.
1365
00:43:36,759 –> 00:43:37,519
So that’s a trick.
1366
00:43:37,519 –> 00:43:38,759
It’s a good thing that came out of this.
1367
00:43:38,839 –> 00:43:41,279
I was on top of a lamp post right down there on Woodworth.
1368
00:43:41,279 –> 00:43:42,159
I thought I saw you on it.
1369
00:43:42,159 –> 00:43:43,159
Trying to rip it down.
1370
00:43:43,559 –> 00:43:44,679
No, just standing on it.
1371
00:43:44,679 –> 00:43:45,799
Trying to light a Roman candle.
1372
00:43:46,119 –> 00:43:48,119
Who’s that guy from Philly on the lamp post?
1373
00:43:51,279 –> 00:43:51,799
Philly Red.
1374
00:43:51,799 –> 00:43:52,839
Yeah, Philly Red.
1375
00:43:53,159 –> 00:43:53,639
Philly Red.
1376
00:43:55,319 –> 00:43:56,519
I’m jealous you’re going tonight.
1377
00:43:56,519 –> 00:43:56,879
That’s great.
1378
00:43:56,879 –> 00:43:57,759
That’ll be good.
1379
00:43:57,959 –> 00:43:58,599
Yeah, you know,
1380
00:43:58,599 –> 00:43:59,319
the thing is,
1381
00:44:00,599 –> 00:44:02,359
like, I love the Tigers.
1382
00:44:02,359 –> 00:44:03,239
You know, I love them.
1383
00:44:04,359 –> 00:44:06,359
But I can’t stand ownership.
1384
00:44:06,519 –> 00:44:10,039
And I don’t want to put money in his coffers because
1385
00:44:10,039 –> 00:44:13,599
he takes so much money out of town and keeps it for
1386
00:44:13,599 –> 00:44:13,999
himself.
1387
00:44:13,999 –> 00:44:14,759
And I’m just
1388
00:44:15,159 –> 00:44:16,519
Call me a liberal or something.
1389
00:44:16,519 –> 00:44:16,999
I don’t know.
1390
00:44:17,239 –> 00:44:18,839
I’m just not for that.
1391
00:44:18,839 –> 00:44:19,239
I don’t.
1392
00:44:19,479 –> 00:44:20,999
Why are we paying for the stadium?
1393
00:44:20,999 –> 00:44:21,919
No one is for that.
1394
00:44:21,919 –> 00:44:23,199
And this is why he gets away with it,
1395
00:44:23,199 –> 00:44:26,279
because nobody wants to punish themselves by not enjoying
1396
00:44:26,279 –> 00:44:29,079
the Tigers and what fun baseball brings to him.
1397
00:44:29,399 –> 00:44:31,439
So he’s still going to make money and get away with
1398
00:44:31,439 –> 00:44:33,199
this bullshit unless people point it out.
1399
00:44:33,199 –> 00:44:34,599
So I’m going to do it just because.
1400
00:44:35,199 –> 00:44:36,399
Because you don’t want to punish yourself.
1401
00:44:36,639 –> 00:44:37,199
No, I just.
1402
00:44:37,239 –> 00:44:37,639
It’s fun.
1403
00:44:37,639 –> 00:44:38,999
I guess I love baseball.
1404
00:44:39,159 –> 00:44:39,839
I want to see it.
1405
00:44:39,879 –> 00:44:40,679
You got to live.
1406
00:44:40,679 –> 00:44:41,599
You work hard.
1407
00:44:41,639 –> 00:44:44,039
You keep the people on track with a lot of important
1408
00:44:44,039 –> 00:44:44,439
shit.
1409
00:44:44,439 –> 00:44:44,999
Fuck it.
1410
00:44:44,999 –> 00:44:47,679
He gets you 60 bucks for standing room only.
1411
00:44:47,679 –> 00:44:48,599
And you go in there.
1412
00:44:48,599 –> 00:44:49,079
Yeah, I mean,
1413
00:44:49,079 –> 00:44:50,279
I go through a lot of shit.
1414
00:44:50,279 –> 00:44:51,319
I work hard.
1415
00:44:51,919 –> 00:44:53,159
I try to keep my head down.
1416
00:44:53,559 –> 00:44:56,999
But I want to be amongst the people of this area at
1417
00:44:56,999 –> 00:44:57,719
a good moment.
1418
00:44:57,879 –> 00:44:58,999
You know what I mean?
1419
00:44:59,639 –> 00:45:00,999
I want to be happy with people.
1420
00:45:00,999 –> 00:45:02,239
So you think they got it tonight?
1421
00:45:03,399 –> 00:45:04,519
Do I think they got it tonight?
1422
00:45:04,759 –> 00:45:05,719
I think so.
1423
00:45:05,799 –> 00:45:09,719
I think they should take it.
1424
00:45:10,039 –> 00:45:11,439
If not, it’s not the end of my life,
1425
00:45:11,439 –> 00:45:12,199
but I will tell you,
1426
00:45:12,199 –> 00:45:13,359
I was looking it up.
1427
00:45:13,879 –> 00:45:15,399
Detroit, in terms of its payroll,
1428
00:45:15,399 –> 00:45:18,519
is in the bottom half of the league.
1429
00:45:18,519 –> 00:45:19,039
You know what I mean?
1430
00:45:19,039 –> 00:45:21,479
This guy, you’ve got casinos,
1431
00:45:21,559 –> 00:45:23,079
you’ve got the Red Wings,
1432
00:45:23,319 –> 00:45:26,439
you’ve got Little Caesars.
1433
00:45:26,439 –> 00:45:28,039
You’ve got the Tigers,
1434
00:45:28,039 –> 00:45:28,199
right?
1435
00:45:28,199 –> 00:45:30,199
You’ve got the TV contracts.
1436
00:45:30,839 –> 00:45:31,799
You know, how about it?
1437
00:45:36,119 –> 00:45:37,039
I hear sports radio,
1438
00:45:37,039 –> 00:45:39,519
I listen to 97 won the tickets,
1439
00:45:39,519 –> 00:45:40,479
great, great outfit.
1440
00:45:40,479 –> 00:45:42,279
It’s the only thing worth listening to on the radio,
1441
00:45:42,519 –> 00:45:43,559
except for Kevin Dietz,
1442
00:45:43,559 –> 00:45:43,879
you know.
1443
00:45:45,639 –> 00:45:46,119
But they’re like,
1444
00:45:46,119 –> 00:45:47,399
well, that’s maybe not true.
1445
00:45:47,399 –> 00:45:48,319
Like Alex Bregman,
1446
00:45:48,319 –> 00:45:49,199
they, you know,
1447
00:45:49,199 –> 00:45:50,519
he’s with the Red Sox right now.
1448
00:45:50,559 –> 00:45:52,679
They were going to shell out the money.
1449
00:45:53,239 –> 00:45:54,759
But I did some math last night.
1450
00:45:54,799 –> 00:45:55,399
What was it?
1451
00:45:55,719 –> 00:45:58,439
40, 28 million a year,
1452
00:45:58,439 –> 00:45:59,319
30 million a year.
1453
00:46:00,119 –> 00:46:01,319
Even if you added
1454
00:46:02,999 –> 00:46:04,599
30 million a year to the payroll,
1455
00:46:04,919 –> 00:46:05,519
right?
1456
00:46:05,519 –> 00:46:07,959
Yeah, they’re like at 50 percentile.
1457
00:46:08,359 –> 00:46:08,759
It’s like,
1458
00:46:08,759 –> 00:46:09,879
that’s not a real move.
1459
00:46:10,119 –> 00:46:13,079
So we don’t have a deep bullpen.
1460
00:46:13,079 –> 00:46:14,679
We don’t have a professional bat.
1461
00:46:14,759 –> 00:46:16,159
We could have got those at the deadline.
1462
00:46:16,319 –> 00:46:17,079
And he didn’t do it.
1463
00:46:17,079 –> 00:46:18,679
But boy, what a farm club we have,
1464
00:46:18,679 –> 00:46:18,919
right?
1465
00:46:19,079 –> 00:46:20,999
I guess.
1466
00:46:21,279 –> 00:46:22,039
That’s what they’ll sell.
1467
00:46:22,039 –> 00:46:25,719
But see, this is what shows you the die-hard dedication
1468
00:46:25,839 –> 00:46:27,559
of us Detroit fans.
1469
00:46:27,559 –> 00:46:30,359
We really don’t give a damn what team is losing or
1470
00:46:30,359 –> 00:46:31,639
not handling their business.
1471
00:46:31,879 –> 00:46:32,679
We’re going.
1472
00:46:32,959 –> 00:46:33,879
We’re going to support.
1473
00:46:33,879 –> 00:46:35,239
We are die hards.
1474
00:46:35,559 –> 00:46:39,079
I mean, look how many years we had to go through as
1475
00:46:39,079 –> 00:46:42,479
true Lions fans to get to these last couple years.
1476
00:46:42,479 –> 00:46:45,559
And now we’re all really happy and really overcharged.
1477
00:46:45,559 –> 00:46:46,119
Why are we happy?
1478
00:46:46,159 –> 00:46:48,439
Because there’s something to rally around.
1479
00:46:48,439 –> 00:46:48,799
Right.
1480
00:46:48,999 –> 00:46:51,719
And we can be with each other in a happy moment in
1481
00:46:51,719 –> 00:46:53,279
the place where so much shit’s gone wrong.
1482
00:46:53,479 –> 00:46:53,639
Yeah.
1483
00:46:53,959 –> 00:46:54,239
Right.
1484
00:46:54,279 –> 00:46:57,199
No, it boosts morale of a city because people you don’t
1485
00:46:57,199 –> 00:46:58,039
know will walk around.
1486
00:46:58,039 –> 00:47:00,159
Okay, if it boosts morale of a city,
1487
00:47:00,159 –> 00:47:01,239
what is Fox 2?
1488
00:47:01,279 –> 00:47:02,279
What are they doing?
1489
00:47:02,679 –> 00:47:02,879
What?
1490
00:47:04,359 –> 00:47:04,999
last year,
1491
00:47:04,999 –> 00:47:08,039
was it last year when it was the Vikings and the Lions
1492
00:47:08,039 –> 00:47:10,119
for the North and the number one seed,
1493
00:47:10,119 –> 00:47:10,399
right?
1494
00:47:10,839 –> 00:47:11,879
And the halftime report.
1495
00:47:12,519 –> 00:47:13,879
Halftime report this last week,
1496
00:47:13,879 –> 00:47:14,599
the one before that,
1497
00:47:14,679 –> 00:47:15,159
and that.
1498
00:47:16,519 –> 00:47:18,039
Hey, Tigers,
1499
00:47:18,119 –> 00:47:21,319
Tigers are forced to game five and the Lions are winning.
1500
00:47:21,319 –> 00:47:22,039
We’re real happy.
1501
00:47:22,039 –> 00:47:23,319
Like we’ll get you back to the game.
1502
00:47:23,319 –> 00:47:24,119
But first,
1503
00:47:24,279 –> 00:47:25,319
catch up on the news.
1504
00:47:26,039 –> 00:47:27,639
Hit and run last night.
1505
00:47:28,359 –> 00:47:29,039
Last night?
1506
00:47:30,359 –> 00:47:31,399
That’s not even new.
1507
00:47:32,919 –> 00:47:33,479
Murder.
1508
00:47:35,879 –> 00:47:37,119
Motorcyclist hits a cop.
1509
00:47:37,119 –> 00:47:38,279
I’m like, what?
1510
00:47:38,359 –> 00:47:38,879
Like you’re like.
1511
00:47:40,599 –> 00:47:41,719
And the crime numbers are down.
1512
00:47:42,719 –> 00:47:45,479
Yeah, this last week it was like there’s a hit and
1513
00:47:45,479 –> 00:47:48,679
run and the crime numbers are down and he’s going
1514
00:47:48,679 –> 00:47:50,279
to announce it tomorrow and we didn’t even bother
1515
00:47:50,279 –> 00:47:50,839
looking into it.
1516
00:47:51,639 –> 00:47:52,239
Right, it was just,
1517
00:47:52,239 –> 00:47:53,839
here’s a free campaign commercial.
1518
00:47:53,839 –> 00:47:54,839
Back to the game.
1519
00:47:55,039 –> 00:47:56,519
Okay, so the ratings,
1520
00:47:57,079 –> 00:47:57,959
these things are like…
1521
00:47:59,079 –> 00:48:00,679
They treat these things like state secrets,
1522
00:48:00,679 –> 00:48:01,319
these ratings.
1523
00:48:01,879 –> 00:48:02,679
Here’s just.
1524
00:48:04,119 –> 00:48:05,479
Here’s just a day last week.
1525
00:48:05,559 –> 00:48:07,559
OK, 6 o’clock news,
1526
00:48:07,639 –> 00:48:08,199
Channel 7,
1527
00:48:08,199 –> 00:48:08,679
Channel 4,
1528
00:48:08,679 –> 00:48:09,319
Channel 2,
1529
00:48:10,039 –> 00:48:14,439
all totaled in the demo of 25 to 55.
1530
00:48:14,439 –> 00:48:15,239
The money demo.
1531
00:48:15,399 –> 00:48:19,079
Yeah, 35,000 people watching.
1532
00:48:21,239 –> 00:48:24,679
30,000 people watching at 10 and 11.
1533
00:48:27,159 –> 00:48:28,599
In a metro area of what,
1534
00:48:28,759 –> 00:48:29,879
7 million?
1535
00:48:30,279 –> 00:48:33,319
well-being that I’m in that demographic at 52,
1536
00:48:33,319 –> 00:48:34,239
I’m going to tell you right now,
1537
00:48:34,239 –> 00:48:35,199
at 10 and 11,
1538
00:48:35,199 –> 00:48:36,799
I’m usually drunk and high as shit.
1539
00:48:36,799 –> 00:48:39,159
I don’t give a damn about no nude that ain’t nude.
1540
00:48:39,159 –> 00:48:40,559
Look at the birds flying overhead.
1541
00:48:41,559 –> 00:48:43,999
Like in this devil alone.
1542
00:48:44,119 –> 00:48:45,559
Okay, so the average,
1543
00:48:47,719 –> 00:48:48,919
all this added up,
1544
00:48:49,559 –> 00:48:50,359
we get more,
1545
00:48:50,439 –> 00:48:53,639
we get more than double that just on audio downloads.
1546
00:48:54,439 –> 00:48:56,799
Like it’s nobody wants it.
1547
00:48:56,999 –> 00:49:00,679
So the staff of Fox is aces,
1548
00:49:00,679 –> 00:49:00,919
right?
1549
00:49:01,399 –> 00:49:02,279
Family, friends.
1550
00:49:03,519 –> 00:49:05,159
There’s a problem with management.
1551
00:49:05,719 –> 00:49:07,479
Okay, so you got the Lions.
1552
00:49:07,639 –> 00:49:12,519
That is by far your biggest audience all week,
1553
00:49:12,519 –> 00:49:12,919
right?
1554
00:49:12,999 –> 00:49:14,439
Probably add it up.
1555
00:49:14,719 –> 00:49:15,639
Maybe close.
1556
00:49:16,119 –> 00:49:16,599
Half.
1557
00:49:16,919 –> 00:49:17,639
I wouldn’t doubt it.
1558
00:49:17,799 –> 00:49:19,479
Yeah, it’s the most eyeballs you’re going to have at
1559
00:49:19,479 –> 00:49:19,719
all.
1560
00:49:19,719 –> 00:49:21,639
Yeah, you’re going to have a million people watching,
1561
00:49:21,799 –> 00:49:22,199
right?
1562
00:49:22,439 –> 00:49:22,919
So
1563
00:49:24,199 –> 00:49:25,879
Why not prepare for that?
1564
00:49:26,279 –> 00:49:29,719
Like Ellen Longstreet and Darren Kever,
1565
00:49:29,719 –> 00:49:32,119
they got a bit going called the Weather Boys.
1566
00:49:32,119 –> 00:49:32,999
Yeah, I’ll be watching that.
1567
00:49:33,239 –> 00:49:34,159
Yeah, you’ll be watching that,
1568
00:49:34,159 –> 00:49:34,319
right?
1569
00:49:34,439 –> 00:49:37,119
Yeah, they catch me at my eye.
1570
00:49:37,119 –> 00:49:39,759
I’m like, just give them the 90 seconds.
1571
00:49:40,519 –> 00:49:41,559
You know, I’m watching it.
1572
00:49:41,559 –> 00:49:42,359
I want to be happy.
1573
00:49:42,359 –> 00:49:43,399
They make me happy.
1574
00:49:43,799 –> 00:49:44,959
Or better yet,
1575
00:49:44,959 –> 00:49:46,759
promo that for when it’s going to be on.
1576
00:49:47,399 –> 00:49:48,519
Just have them on.
1577
00:49:48,759 –> 00:49:50,679
Or like go to Woody Woodruff,
1578
00:49:50,919 –> 00:49:52,759
just like he’s at a bar or whatever,
1579
00:49:52,759 –> 00:49:53,919
he’s in the press box,
1580
00:49:54,279 –> 00:49:54,559
right?
1581
00:49:54,599 –> 00:49:55,719
We want to be happy.
1582
00:49:56,119 –> 00:49:56,999
Keep it rolling.
1583
00:49:57,159 –> 00:50:00,039
Let me throw this out there again from that demographic.
1584
00:50:00,599 –> 00:50:03,399
I really don’t need to see your halftime report on
1585
00:50:03,559 –> 00:50:04,359
murder, murder,
1586
00:50:04,359 –> 00:50:05,039
murder, murder,
1587
00:50:05,039 –> 00:50:05,679
kill, death,
1588
00:50:05,719 –> 00:50:06,279
hit, run,
1589
00:50:06,279 –> 00:50:06,759
whatever,
1590
00:50:06,759 –> 00:50:09,239
because I’ve already watched it on.
1591
00:50:09,799 –> 00:50:12,759
the internet while I was watching the game and keeping
1592
00:50:12,759 –> 00:50:13,399
up with that.
1593
00:50:13,399 –> 00:50:16,199
So you’re not even current and giving me nothing new.
1594
00:50:16,439 –> 00:50:19,079
The guy with the phone that’s doing St.
1595
00:50:19,079 –> 00:50:22,359
hood news is even beating you to this report.
1596
00:50:22,519 –> 00:50:24,479
So maybe try something different,
1597
00:50:24,479 –> 00:50:25,679
maybe update some shit.
1598
00:50:25,679 –> 00:50:26,599
Maybe I should do St.
1599
00:50:26,599 –> 00:50:27,159
hood news.
1600
00:50:28,199 –> 00:50:28,439
I’m good.
1601
00:50:28,439 –> 00:50:29,759
No, I’m not sure what we’re doing.
1602
00:50:29,759 –> 00:50:30,679
Life from the red zone.
1603
00:50:30,679 –> 00:50:31,279
I changed,
1604
00:50:31,279 –> 00:50:31,479
man.
1605
00:50:31,479 –> 00:50:32,919
I did the street stuff.
1606
00:50:32,919 –> 00:50:33,799
I did the features.
1607
00:50:33,879 –> 00:50:35,079
You know, now it’s like,
1608
00:50:36,359 –> 00:50:39,399
People in Lansing that made these decisions need to
1609
00:50:39,399 –> 00:50:40,639
be held to account.
1610
00:50:40,919 –> 00:50:43,879
And that’s why I got to do it this agent in life,
1611
00:50:44,119 –> 00:50:44,439
right?
1612
00:50:44,639 –> 00:50:45,079
I’m doing it.
1613
00:50:45,239 –> 00:50:48,439
So I’m loving the street hood news guy.
1614
00:50:48,759 –> 00:50:50,199
I’m loving the weather boys.
1615
00:50:50,279 –> 00:50:53,759
Like this is good content,
1616
00:50:53,759 –> 00:50:54,879
original content,
1617
00:50:54,999 –> 00:50:55,999
true content.
1618
00:50:56,399 –> 00:50:56,679
And
1619
00:50:57,719 –> 00:51:00,759
if management needs help in any of these media outlets,
1620
00:51:00,759 –> 00:51:01,559
just call me out.
1621
00:51:02,159 –> 00:51:02,639
I’ll help you.
1622
00:51:02,639 –> 00:51:06,519
And don’t be afraid to change because the traditional
1623
00:51:06,919 –> 00:51:12,679
news look is not what the 25 to 55 age graphic wants
1624
00:51:12,679 –> 00:51:13,479
anymore.
1625
00:51:14,039 –> 00:51:14,519
We don’t.
1626
00:51:14,519 –> 00:51:16,919
And we don’t need our news becoming a talk show.
1627
00:51:17,079 –> 00:51:18,199
Nope, exactly.
1628
00:51:18,199 –> 00:51:19,839
And so I want to talk to the,
1629
00:51:20,279 –> 00:51:20,999
before we go,
1630
00:51:20,999 –> 00:51:24,359
the police and the firefighters and the EMTs.
1631
00:51:25,559 –> 00:51:27,399
Spread that around what I just told you.
1632
00:51:28,199 –> 00:51:30,279
Half of your pension doesn’t have a value.
1633
00:51:30,519 –> 00:51:32,599
You’re not getting a raise in pension because the city
1634
00:51:32,599 –> 00:51:33,639
doesn’t have the money.
1635
00:51:34,279 –> 00:51:36,919
Look at it that way when you’re making your decisions
1636
00:51:36,919 –> 00:51:37,959
because without you,
1637
00:51:38,759 –> 00:51:39,879
this shit doesn’t roll.
1638
00:51:40,359 –> 00:51:41,399
Appreciate your service.
1639
00:51:41,479 –> 00:51:42,079
Thanks for being here.
1640
00:51:42,079 –> 00:51:42,719
Where are you at tonight,
1641
00:51:42,719 –> 00:51:42,999
Red?
1642
00:51:43,479 –> 00:51:47,079
Keisha’s Comedy Club and Grill located at 2
1643
00:51:47,959 –> 00:51:50,519
0985 Gratiot Avenue,
1644
00:51:50,519 –> 00:51:51,639
right across Gratiot.
1645
00:51:51,639 –> 00:51:52,759
And what’s your social media?
1646
00:51:52,759 –> 00:51:53,239
Give it out.
1647
00:51:53,479 –> 00:51:55,759
Comedian Detroit Red on YouTube,
1648
00:51:55,759 –> 00:51:56,599
Instagram,
1649
00:51:56,599 –> 00:51:57,599
and Facebook.
1650
00:51:58,519 –> 00:51:59,159
Hold on a minute,
1651
00:51:59,159 –> 00:51:59,559
Red.
1652
00:51:59,639 –> 00:52:02,439
Your next appearance is down at the Coney hustling
1653
00:52:02,439 –> 00:52:02,639
dogs.
1654
00:52:02,679 –> 00:52:04,559
The dog pound.
1655
00:52:08,119 –> 00:52:08,999
Look at the enthusiasm.
1656
00:52:09,959 –> 00:52:10,359
See ya.
1657
00:52:10,959 –> 00:52:11,759
What’s in the special?
1658
00:52:12,119 –> 00:52:14,439
Oh, can you put the fucking lid on the coffee pot?
1659
00:52:15,879 –> 00:52:16,479
This fucking guy.
1660
00:52:16,719 –> 00:52:17,999
Every time I come in at the board,
1661
00:52:17,999 –> 00:52:19,159
I got to pour a cup of coffee.
1662
00:52:19,319 –> 00:52:21,239
That was my first time doing that.
1663
00:52:21,239 –> 00:52:22,439
Oh geez, it’s all over me,
1664
00:52:22,439 –> 00:52:23,559
all over everywhere.
1665
00:52:25,199 –> 00:52:25,559
And I’m like,
1666
00:52:25,559 –> 00:52:26,159
what the fuck?
1667
00:52:26,159 –> 00:52:27,719
I go, who the fuck did this?
1668
00:52:27,719 –> 00:52:28,919
And I turn around and Red’s going,
1669
00:52:28,919 –> 00:52:30,839
he’s got the rag in his head,
1670
00:52:30,839 –> 00:52:31,639
Mark, going like this.
1671
00:52:34,279 –> 00:52:35,039
Claping it up and I’m like,
1672
00:52:35,399 –> 00:52:36,879
it ain’t like that motherfucking clean up somebody
1673
00:52:36,879 –> 00:52:37,239
else’s mess.
1674
00:52:41,319 –> 00:52:42,039
See you next week.
