No BS Newshour Episode #391
She’s the Man Now
Mary Sheffield elected as Detroit’s first female mayor.
(0:44) Regardless of gender, she’s now the man.
We’ll continue to hold power accountable – including Mayor Sheffiled.
No matter how loudly her father fusses.
(24:17) Time is almost up, Governor.
Those nursing home documents are coming due.
(37:24) AND- the latest on the Dearborn terrorism plot.
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Transcript:
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Live from downtown Detroit,
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it’s the No Bullshit News Hour with my main man,
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Charlie Ladau and Karen Dumas.
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Assistant breaking this double or bullshit,
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double or bullshit.
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Okay, joining me today is Emil Elric.
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Chief and principal columnist of the Detroit Free Press.
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What’s up,
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my brother?
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Good to be with you.
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It’s like we haven’t seen each other in a while.
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Like since yesterday?
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Well, it’s a while.
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The heart,
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you know,
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the heart wants what the heart wants.
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You were up all night.
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That’s what we were talking about,
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as a matter of fact.
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You were up all night because Mary Sheffield has been
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elected the first female mayor of Detroit with 77%
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of the vote.
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Not unexpected.
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But I will say,
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Now that you’re elected mayor,
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don’t matter your gender,
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you’re the man.
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And you’re going to be held to the standard that Snyder,
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Whitmer, Nestle,
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Duggan, Bob Foconnell,
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that’s the way it goes.
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Am I right?
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Excuse me,
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yes, you’re absolutely right.
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And I will say Sheffield,
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at the end of her victory speech last night,
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said that she knew after the party that today,
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meaning this day,
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the first day after she was elected,
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it was time to get to work.
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So I hope so,
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because there’s a lot of work to do.
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There’s a lot of questions to answer.
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Yeah, because you know,
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like
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In the October surprise,
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she walks in limping in here on a scandal.
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You can’t say it any other way because she admit,
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she admitted her people,
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her dad, that she had a personal relationship with
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a disreputable contractor who had millions of dollars
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of business before the council.
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And Sheffield’s first inclination was to mislead the
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public about having voted to award contracts to the
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guy.
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Sure, to me,
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what’s particularly interesting,
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although it doesn’t have any real relevance to what
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happened,
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is that she didn’t want to talk to anybody about it.
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She sends her people out there to face these questions.
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And I’m always concerned when a public official wants
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to put basically some apparatchik between us and them
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because we deserve to hear from the principal.
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We deserve to hear from the man or the woman.
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Why do we deserve that?
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I guess we have to do some civics here.
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Like, okay,
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77%, nobody cares.
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Do they?
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Don’t they?
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Is that our worry whether they do or not?
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Well, I think they care.
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I think this story,
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which of course you broke with the Michigan Enjoyer,
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came out too late to really be a factor in this election
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because of,
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I think there were 44,000 absentee ballots that had
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already been turned in by the time this made the news.
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And in the end,
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there were only 100,000 votes.
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So that’s about half the electorate.
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But particularly in this era of deep fakes,
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you know,
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when you have a spokesperson,
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a guy I work with calls them fart catchers,
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talking to you.
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don’t know,
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is that what the official said?
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Is that what their lawyer said?
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Is that what their team of consultants said?
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Now you don’t know,
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is it ChatGPT?
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I mean, you know,
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even with deep fakes,
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you’re never sure that the person whose lips are moving
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are their lips.
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Exactly.
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But in this case,
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I like to hear from the official themselves because
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I want to know how well-versed they are in the subject,
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how well they react in live fire exercise,
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and whether they’re good on their feet.
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When they’re into something spontaneously,
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do they say more than they should?
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Do they say the wrong thing?
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It’s just good to know that the people who are in charge
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are up to the challenge.
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And one way is to stand and face the questions,
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face that music.
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And there’s,
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without question,
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she voted to award the guy with the personal relationship.
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She had contracts.
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A simple Google search would show that.
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And then when caught out by you,
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Violet, you know,
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Detroit News,
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they shifted.
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And they claimed that it was,
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get this,
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they claimed that it’s okay under the city’s ethic
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rules to mix business and personal pleasure.
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And since the contractor was neither Sheffield’s father,
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uncle, brother,
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or cousin,
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then their extracurricular association was not a conflict
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of interest by the letter of the ordinance.
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But any plain thinking person knows this is ridiculous.
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you’re not supposed to,
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let’s just say good manners dictates that you don’t
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vote for a lucrative contract for someone with whom
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you have a personal relationship.
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And beyond that,
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the city’s gift ban says you can’t take a penny,
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not one zinc,
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because they’re not copper anymore,
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and I guess they’re going to be outlawed soon.
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You can’t take one of those pennies
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from anybody who has business with the city,
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who wants to do business with the city,
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or who is in a position where your actions as a city
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employer official could affect their business,
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which pretty much means anybody within these 36 square
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miles, or is 136 square miles,
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it’s a big ass place.
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Now, I was on your podcast yesterday,
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Sean Windsor,
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good dude,
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smart guy.
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You know, he doesn’t care much about politics or what
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it means really,
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right?
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He’s living the life.
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Yeah, he actually holds his wallet out when he walks
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through train stations so people can take,
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you know,
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take one,
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leave one.
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Just nobody ever leaves one.
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Calling him naive.
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I think the word’s knave,
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but yeah.
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Or totalometric or whatever the hell that word was
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you used yesterday.
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Pedophoggery.
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I can’t even come close to spelling it to look it up.
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It means petty fogging of the mind.
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You’re fogging my mind with petty fucking details.
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Misdirection.
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I know that word now.
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Yes, I get petty fogged all the time.
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So why is this important?
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I’m going to tell you why.
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city, suburb,
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state, because it’s all going to affect you financially
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and physically.
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Because this guy’s accused of poisoning the city,
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throwing radioactive shit in the ground and being
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paid millions of dollars.
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And the final reports coming out,
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holes are being extracted.
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Out of 40,
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they caught them,
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over 30 of them are poisoned.
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But this guy’s done over 2,500 of these.
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This has been going on for so long.
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Mary, in 2019,
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I mean, Mayor Sheffield,
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knew it was so bad that she called for congressional
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hearings,
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wanted everything to stop,
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called for congressional hearings and find out what
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was going in the ground.
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And that’s gone.
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And now she’s the man.
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And that’s not going away,
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dude.
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No, I used to work with this guy at Fox.
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I always say,
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what about the babies?
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it looks like the babies may be playing in yards that
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have poison dirt.
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Not good.
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Class action,
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class action.
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So, you know,
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it was neither her father,
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uncle, brother,
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or cousin.
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But so it begins because her father,
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Horace, you know,
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he’s known known entity around here in the political
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circles.
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You want to describe him?
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Well, I mean,
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he’s the he’s the son of basically a legend,
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Horace Sheffield Jr.,
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who was a civil rights and labor leader.
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revered by almost everybody.
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His son grew up to be a pastor,
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got very involved in politics,
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ran for Congress against John Conyers one time.
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You know, there’s some allegations that maybe he didn’t,
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wasn’t treating somebody as well as he should have.
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He’s had a school and some people question,
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you know,
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how well that school was run.
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He’s got an explanation,
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but he’s someone who’s been in the public eye for
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as long as I’ve been covering politics in Detroit,
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and that’s at least 25 years.
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And it’s amazing when you talk to voters,
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every single person you talk to has an opinion about
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Horace Sheffield the Third.
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And I’m just like,
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how could he possibly have met a million people?
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But there seems to be no neutral ground.
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Some love him.
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So, not so much.
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I find him to be an interesting,
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interesting man.
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I met him at that school,
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when he was having a meeting about his run with John
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Conyers.
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That’s where I met the Mongo Brothers.
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It was interesting.
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But for what it’s worth,
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he’s a fascinating guy.
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He’s great to talk to and he’ll,
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he doesn’t hesitate to let you know how he feels about
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you.
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Oh yeah, he,
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He’s talking,
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he’s talking now.
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What’s this up on Facebook?
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Facebook, yeah.
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All right,
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so this, I don’t know.
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This is hours after the results are in.
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So I got it,
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Horace.
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It’s, I saw it,
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so here we go.
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Here’s what he wrote.
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I’ve been,
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this is Mary Sheffield’s father.
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He wrote, quote,
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I’ve been deliberately quiet,
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so the voice we heard was Mary.
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So today, let me break that silence.
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First to Pastor Kinloch,
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with whom I’ve had a long and good relationship.
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I salute you and encourage you to continue to serve
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as relentlessly now as you have.
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To those who sacrificed,
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contributed,
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and supported my daughter,
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thank you and bless you.
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To others who ministered to me as others attempted
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to harm Mary and malign me,
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know that your prayers and
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concerns, upheld me,
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helped me,
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blessed me,
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and I say thank you.
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Finally, to the two.
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One a journalist and the other a retired police officer,
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neither of whom live in Detroit,
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were intentionally vile and vicious.
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I forgive you and continue to pray for you and others
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like you.
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Last night’s results is proof that no weapon form will
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ever prosper.
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Obviously,
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God has something else in mind.
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God bless.
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Actually, I think it says vile and viscous.
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So perhaps there was a density issue.
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Maybe this is all about you’re a little more mucusy
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than you should be.
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In which case,
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might I suggest some emergency?
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Who do you think he’s referring to there?
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Can’t be you,
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live in the city.
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Yeah, it ain’t Nolan Finley.
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Could it be Serge Kovaleski?
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How’s he doing?
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I haven’t heard from him in a while,
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but he seems like he’s doing okay.
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Good old Serge.
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Yeah, I think he’s talking to me.
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Well, here’s the deal.
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I was, my money was on Laduff,
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too.
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Yeah.
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Vile and viscous.
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That’s the job.
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You are a little mucousy.
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It could be viscous.
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I’m a little stuffed.
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The weather’s changed.
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Guilty as charged there.
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You know, they’ve switched cigarettes,
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you know,
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so let me get used to it.
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But
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No, The facts go where they go.
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Again, everybody’s personal business is their personal
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business,
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period, until it’s co-mingled with the public’s business.
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That’s just how it goes.
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Well, here’s the other thing,
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and we’ve seen this game so many times here,
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shoot the messenger,
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we get it,
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fake news,
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all that other baloney.
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Everything you’ve reported and that the free press
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has reported as well,
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Violet, Aikenamova,
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my colleague,
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our friend,
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looked at contracts only in 2019 when Sheffield’s
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chief of staff said,
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you know,
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this is, you know,
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she didn’t really vote on anything for her then partners
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or, you know,
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whatever,
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romantic counterparts contracts.
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It was actually $4.4 million in one year.
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So that’s not true.
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Here’s the one thing that you’re not hearing when you
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hear all this other stuff.
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You’re not hearing,
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you’re wrong.
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Can I get a correction?
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I’d like to clarify my comments.
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Here’s what you left out.
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What you’re hearing is name calling.
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And you know what?
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You can call us anything you want.
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The only one that hurts is,
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hey, pal,
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I think you made a mistake and you need a correction.
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Haven’t heard it yet.
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I think you would have come out by now.
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So vile and viscous,
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you know,
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other than the alliteration,
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kiss my butt.
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because now here it comes,
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the state of the city.
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Like after your podcast,
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I want to get something specific people can understand
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why Duggan,
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who claims to be as popular as he is,
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leaving and running a Quixote-esque campaign as an
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independent for governor.
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So I went and looked.
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Fiscal year 2015-16,
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like we’re 10 years later,
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we’re in 25-26,
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10 years.
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They came out of bankruptcy in July of that year.
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The budget then and the budget now,
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when adjusted for inflation,
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the budget now is 1/2 of 1%
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smaller.
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Revenues have not grown.
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In that time,
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through that 10 years,
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Detroit never had to pay its pensions $150 million
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every year for tenure,
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1.5 billion.
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Now they do and nothing grew.
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We are at a cliff.
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You won’t see it tomorrow.
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You might not see it next year.
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Same with Mamdani in New York.
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He’s got to put in his budget.
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It’s got to play out for a year and then you’ll see
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it.
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So
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This is serious.
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Contracting has to be open,
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honest, fair,
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right?
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And you can’t go around closing your eyes and poisoning
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people.
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Yeah, I mean,
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what we saw was the city went into bankruptcy in 2013.
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There’s been a lot written,
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a lot said about how,
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oh, there’s been some inherent problems.
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There’s some structural issues and stuff like that.
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But the plain and simple fact is the mayor at the time,
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Kwame Kilpatrick,
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didn’t adjust the city’s expenditures to its revenues.
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In other words,
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unlike Mayor Coleman Young in the 70s and Mayor Archer
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in the 90s,
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he did not slash the budget because we didn’t have
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enough money to cover what we were spending.
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And Bing as well.
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And yeah, and I mean,
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this is where we’re headed.
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And
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Kilpatrick,
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when he came into office in Kilpatrick-esque fashion,
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said, I talked to mayors all over the country and
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he told me,
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pick two priorities.
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Just pick two things that you’re going to do and do
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those two things well.
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And he said,
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because we’re us,
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we decided to do three things.
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So we’re going to do kids,
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cops, and clean,
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which was brilliant.
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It was great.
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And that would have been wonderful if that’s all he
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did.
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Really what he did was he kidded us,
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that he was going to be clean,
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and then the cops ended up getting him.
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But what ended up happening last night with Mary Sheffield
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is she listed about 8 to 10 things that she wants
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to do as mayor.
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All laudable goals,
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all things that she needs to do,
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all things that we want to do.
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Neighborhoods,
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affordable housing,
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children’s programs,
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money for home repair.
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We’re going to make
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affordable housing,
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we’re going to invest in our commercial courts,
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things that are going on right now,
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all expensive.
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And she has acknowledged to her credit during the campaign
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that we are going to have a revenue problem in the
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next mayoralty.
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She started mentioning that when we did the mayoral
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forum.
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That was some must-see TV,
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by the way.
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That was
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You and Karen really put people on the spot in a way
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that they hadn’t had to account for their actions
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before or since.
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And this is what I brought that night,
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which is the projected budgets,
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the current budget.
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And you can see it’s starting to collapse going into
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next fiscal year.
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And it’s a,
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we have a revenue problem.
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So what’s the answer here?
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It’s a lot of,
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you know what I mean?
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So there were two stories,
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big ones.
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in this cycle.
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It was pretty sleepy as you guys wrote.
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There was Kinloch in his house.
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Right?
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He lived way up there and how did you get this house?
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And I did that story.
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So I’m being fair.
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And when Horace goes,
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I want to thank Minister Kinloch,
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et cetera,
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et cetera.
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He was the one the last couple of days running around
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with this.
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Southfield Theater.
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Who bought the Southfield Theater?
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How’d he do that?
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Another transaction involving Kinloch and his church.
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Horace was just talking about that.
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I think he was on Saturday when I was on his radio
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show.
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Yeah.
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You know, Horace at an event came up to me and started
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trying to drop Apple research on Kinloch’s church’s
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bills.
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So what is he talking about?
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Because Kinloch was out there,
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because you were following him around,
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was out there kicking Sheffield’s ass over this for
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the last couple days.
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He was saying that if he said something to the effect
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of, if we elect this woman,
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she will enter the mayor’s office under a federal
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cloud.
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I mean, he,
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For being a fairly mild-mannered pastor,
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Kinloch was bringing it.
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He was bringing the heat at the end.
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Too little,
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too late.
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But he found his voice and,
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you know,
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it would have been interesting to see how this race
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may have played out if this had happened.
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three months ago or a year or two ago when many of
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us started chasing this rumor,
533
00:16:54,720 –> 00:16:56,040
which we couldn’t pin down.
534
00:16:56,040 –> 00:16:57,480
We could pin down the votes and everything,
535
00:16:57,480 –> 00:16:58,520
but the relationship,
536
00:16:59,160 –> 00:17:02,000
nobody closed that circle till you did last week.
537
00:17:02,000 –> 00:17:05,080
Till this letter showed up at my house,
538
00:17:05,080 –> 00:17:09,240
this anonymous letter detailing trips and dates and
539
00:17:09,240 –> 00:17:09,920
hotels.
540
00:17:09,920 –> 00:17:10,360
And I’m like,
541
00:17:10,680 –> 00:17:12,280
oh, so let me just ask,
542
00:17:12,680 –> 00:17:15,480
because that is the public’s business when this guy
543
00:17:16,360 –> 00:17:18,360
$64 million in contracts,
544
00:17:18,360 –> 00:17:20,520
and we don’t know how bad this is.
545
00:17:20,680 –> 00:17:21,960
And other contractors,
546
00:17:21,960 –> 00:17:22,920
over the years,
547
00:17:23,080 –> 00:17:24,680
every time they stuck a shovel in the ground,
548
00:17:24,840 –> 00:17:25,920
it came up fucking hot.
549
00:17:27,400 –> 00:17:28,360
What happened to all this money?
550
00:17:28,680 –> 00:17:32,360
Okay, Detroit is a massive brownfield.
551
00:17:32,360 –> 00:17:36,200
We’ve been cranking out heavy industry for almost 200
552
00:17:36,200 –> 00:17:36,680
years now,
553
00:17:36,680 –> 00:17:36,920
right?
554
00:17:36,920 –> 00:17:38,640
I mean, so the ground is poisoned.
555
00:17:38,640 –> 00:17:41,800
What all this money from Washington and from the people
556
00:17:41,800 –> 00:17:42,440
of Detroit
557
00:17:43,160 –> 00:17:45,640
What we’re supposed to do was start the regeneration,
558
00:17:45,640 –> 00:17:47,520
clean up the whole brownfield,
559
00:17:47,720 –> 00:17:49,560
take out those dirty lots,
560
00:17:49,640 –> 00:17:50,240
put fresh,
561
00:17:50,240 –> 00:17:52,840
clean stuff in there and start fixing this city,
562
00:17:52,840 –> 00:17:53,240
right?
563
00:17:53,400 –> 00:17:53,680
Yeah.
564
00:17:54,320 –> 00:17:55,720
And the money vaporized.
565
00:17:55,720 –> 00:17:56,520
We didn’t do it.
566
00:17:57,000 –> 00:18:00,760
went from the largest environmental urban renewal program
567
00:18:01,080 –> 00:18:05,560
to perhaps the largest environmental industrial cleanup
568
00:18:05,560 –> 00:18:06,400
that needs to be done.
569
00:18:06,400 –> 00:18:08,120
That’s what happened with the billion dollars.
570
00:18:08,800 –> 00:18:10,320
Yeah, I defer to you on that.
571
00:18:10,320 –> 00:18:11,880
You’ve been covering that for a decade.
572
00:18:11,880 –> 00:18:12,200
I know.
573
00:18:12,280 –> 00:18:14,200
Broken fucking record over here.
574
00:18:14,200 –> 00:18:15,320
Yeah, I mean,
575
00:18:15,480 –> 00:18:17,640
to me, the simplest thing,
576
00:18:17,640 –> 00:18:20,120
the clearest thing that I’ve seen is the Office of
577
00:18:20,120 –> 00:18:21,320
the Inspector General,
578
00:18:21,600 –> 00:18:25,160
who’s supposed to be kind of Detroit’s ethical policeman,
579
00:18:26,920 –> 00:18:28,480
barred Guyanga,
580
00:18:28,480 –> 00:18:30,280
which is the contractor in question,
581
00:18:30,680 –> 00:18:33,720
in September from doing work for 90 days while they
582
00:18:33,720 –> 00:18:35,080
do more investigation.
583
00:18:35,640 –> 00:18:39,320
And they thanked Mayor Duggan’s own people for performing
584
00:18:39,320 –> 00:18:41,920
the test and found out that most of the dirt that
585
00:18:41,920 –> 00:18:44,040
they’ve been using to fill these holes in the homes
586
00:18:44,040 –> 00:18:47,080
they knocked down was not safe.
587
00:18:47,880 –> 00:18:52,000
Now, that’s pending a final report due sometime in
588
00:18:52,000 –> 00:18:52,520
December,
589
00:18:52,520 –> 00:18:53,080
next month.
590
00:18:54,080 –> 00:18:56,920
in which he faces permanent disbarment,
591
00:18:57,080 –> 00:18:57,280
right?
592
00:18:57,280 –> 00:18:58,040
20 years.
593
00:18:58,400 –> 00:18:59,160
And there’s a sprawling.
594
00:18:59,240 –> 00:19:00,520
Yeah, 5 to 20 years.
595
00:19:00,520 –> 00:19:04,120
Yeah, 5 and the 20 if there’s criminal charges.
596
00:19:04,120 –> 00:19:04,640
Right.
597
00:19:04,640 –> 00:19:08,040
So the inspector general has the power,
598
00:19:08,040 –> 00:19:09,480
I think, to bar for five years.
599
00:19:09,480 –> 00:19:11,800
And then the 20 is if there’s criminal stuff attached.
600
00:19:11,960 –> 00:19:13,960
And there’s this sprawling criminal investigation.
601
00:19:14,200 –> 00:19:15,720
I know because my phone rings all the time.
602
00:19:15,880 –> 00:19:16,520
They just talk to me.
603
00:19:16,520 –> 00:19:17,160
They just talk to me.
604
00:19:17,240 –> 00:19:17,960
What’d you give them?
605
00:19:18,440 –> 00:19:19,160
Give it to me.
606
00:19:19,160 –> 00:19:20,040
Let me see what you got.
607
00:19:20,120 –> 00:19:20,360
Right.
608
00:19:20,400 –> 00:19:21,600
And what I see is like,
609
00:19:21,600 –> 00:19:22,520
oh my God.
610
00:19:23,440 –> 00:19:24,120
That’s what I see.
611
00:19:24,120 –> 00:19:27,480
Now, this guy’s appeal hearing,
612
00:19:27,720 –> 00:19:30,200
I think, is the 18th.
613
00:19:30,600 –> 00:19:31,320
Two weeks.
614
00:19:31,320 –> 00:19:33,040
Yeah, it’s coming up in November.
615
00:19:33,040 –> 00:19:33,200
Yeah.
616
00:19:33,240 –> 00:19:34,160
Just in time for things.
617
00:19:34,160 –> 00:19:35,760
So we’re going to see if he shows up.
618
00:19:35,760 –> 00:19:39,080
We’re going to see if she recuses herself because welcome
619
00:19:39,080 –> 00:19:40,040
to the big leagues.
620
00:19:40,120 –> 00:19:41,160
This is how it goes.
621
00:19:42,120 –> 00:19:43,560
Yes, city council members,
622
00:19:43,560 –> 00:19:44,840
particularly since
623
00:19:45,120 –> 00:19:47,640
We’ve lost so many reporters in the last decade or
624
00:19:47,640 –> 00:19:50,680
two, really flying to the end of the radar.
625
00:19:51,080 –> 00:19:52,040
And frankly,
626
00:19:52,040 –> 00:19:54,840
whether a council member is running for mayor,
627
00:19:55,080 –> 00:19:56,920
running for dog catcher or whatever,
628
00:19:57,240 –> 00:19:59,880
if you’re voting for contracts for someone with whom
629
00:19:59,880 –> 00:20:01,400
you have a personal relationship,
630
00:20:01,880 –> 00:20:02,600
it’s news,
631
00:20:02,600 –> 00:20:03,440
it’s important,
632
00:20:03,440 –> 00:20:04,200
it’s relevant.
633
00:20:04,520 –> 00:20:05,800
And the people of Detroit,
634
00:20:05,800 –> 00:20:06,640
and by extension,
635
00:20:06,640 –> 00:20:08,200
the people of Michigan and the United States,
636
00:20:08,200 –> 00:20:10,680
because all those tax dollars are flowing through
637
00:20:10,680 –> 00:20:11,480
this program,
638
00:20:11,920 –> 00:20:14,360
Deserve to know whether you’re on the level,
639
00:20:14,480 –> 00:20:15,640
and you should answer for it.
640
00:20:15,880 –> 00:20:17,560
You should step up and say something.
641
00:20:18,040 –> 00:20:19,800
I believe that to my core.
642
00:20:19,800 –> 00:20:21,360
This shit’s so hard.
643
00:20:21,480 –> 00:20:24,360
Like, I don’t need another war with another politician.
644
00:20:24,360 –> 00:20:25,320
I’m not looking for one.
645
00:20:25,680 –> 00:20:26,920
I’m looking for it to be clean.
646
00:20:27,160 –> 00:20:29,080
I don’t need to have my heart palpitating.
647
00:20:29,240 –> 00:20:30,600
I don’t need to be sweating,
648
00:20:30,840 –> 00:20:32,120
which is why I use Mando.
649
00:20:36,040 –> 00:20:37,640
Yeah, the ball wipes come in handy.
650
00:20:37,640 –> 00:20:39,720
The deodorant plus a sweat control,
651
00:20:39,920 –> 00:20:40,760
have you,
652
00:20:41,920 –> 00:20:42,360
Do you smell that,
653
00:20:42,360 –> 00:20:42,480
bro?
654
00:20:42,480 –> 00:20:43,320
It is really,
655
00:20:43,800 –> 00:20:45,320
really actually kind of nice.
656
00:20:45,320 –> 00:20:47,160
Everyone leaves the studio smelling great.
657
00:20:47,320 –> 00:20:48,080
I do like that.
658
00:20:48,080 –> 00:20:49,560
Yeah, it’s subtle,
659
00:20:49,640 –> 00:20:49,960
right?
660
00:20:50,280 –> 00:20:54,200
It’s, what products did I get here?
661
00:20:54,200 –> 00:20:56,600
I got, you can get a box.
662
00:20:56,600 –> 00:20:58,680
I got deodorant and sweat control.
663
00:20:58,680 –> 00:20:59,600
I got, try this,
664
00:20:59,600 –> 00:21:00,240
give me your wrist,
665
00:21:00,240 –> 00:21:00,440
bro.
666
00:21:00,760 –> 00:21:01,880
Whole body deodorant.
667
00:21:03,320 –> 00:21:04,480
What are you trying to tell me?
668
00:21:04,480 –> 00:21:05,560
I was just telling you.
669
00:21:06,760 –> 00:21:08,120
It’s very nice.
670
00:21:08,120 –> 00:21:08,240
Yeah.
671
00:21:08,240 –> 00:21:10,360
And then when it gets cold like it is now,
672
00:21:10,360 –> 00:21:11,160
I’m a man.
673
00:21:11,160 –> 00:21:12,520
This is a man’s product.
674
00:21:12,600 –> 00:21:13,800
But, you know,
675
00:21:14,120 –> 00:21:17,960
I like the acidified body wash.
676
00:21:17,960 –> 00:21:21,560
I just kind of use it as a cream because my hands crinkle
677
00:21:21,560 –> 00:21:21,720
up.
678
00:21:21,960 –> 00:21:25,560
But stop buying shitty deodorant from the drug or grocery
679
00:21:25,560 –> 00:21:25,960
store.
680
00:21:26,760 –> 00:21:29,640
Go to shopmando.com and order the starter pack.
681
00:21:29,640 –> 00:21:31,240
It’s perfect for new customers.
682
00:21:32,480 –> 00:21:34,040
What’s the what’s our code,
683
00:21:34,040 –> 00:21:34,360
bro?
684
00:21:34,680 –> 00:21:35,360
No BS.
685
00:21:35,360 –> 00:21:38,680
So you go to SHOPMANDO.com,
686
00:21:38,840 –> 00:21:40,120
use the code no BS,
687
00:21:40,520 –> 00:21:41,480
20% off.
688
00:21:41,720 –> 00:21:44,920
And I don’t pitch any products I don’t like.
689
00:21:45,200 –> 00:21:46,360
I’m not doing that.
690
00:21:46,360 –> 00:21:46,920
You know, I mean,
691
00:21:47,000 –> 00:21:48,200
it could be nice people,
692
00:21:48,200 –> 00:21:48,960
but it’s a,
693
00:21:50,080 –> 00:21:51,040
Yeah, it’s legit.
694
00:21:51,240 –> 00:21:52,200
It’s good,
695
00:21:52,200 –> 00:21:52,680
actually.
696
00:21:52,760 –> 00:21:53,960
It does smell nice.
697
00:21:54,000 –> 00:21:54,440
Doesn’t it?
698
00:21:54,440 –> 00:21:56,160
In fact, I’m thinking of a couple of stinky mother
699
00:21:56,160 –> 00:21:56,600
scratches.
700
00:21:56,600 –> 00:21:58,520
I’ll be getting some Mando.
701
00:21:58,520 –> 00:21:59,120
Look at this now,
702
00:21:59,160 –> 00:22:00,040
the acidified.
703
00:22:00,040 –> 00:22:00,840
It’s a little shame,
704
00:22:00,840 –> 00:22:01,480
I gotta tell him,
705
00:22:01,480 –> 00:22:02,280
but you know.
706
00:22:02,920 –> 00:22:04,200
Sometimes we deliver the news,
707
00:22:04,200 –> 00:22:05,480
we tell the stories we find,
708
00:22:05,480 –> 00:22:06,520
not the stories we want to do.
709
00:22:06,520 –> 00:22:07,960
I told it before it’s true,
710
00:22:07,960 –> 00:22:08,520
because you know,
711
00:22:08,680 –> 00:22:09,720
it’s acidified.
712
00:22:09,720 –> 00:22:10,760
So, you know,
713
00:22:10,760 –> 00:22:12,120
pH, slightly pH.
714
00:22:12,200 –> 00:22:14,120
And when my ass starts stinging,
715
00:22:15,720 –> 00:22:16,840
balances it right out.
716
00:22:17,520 –> 00:22:18,760
It’s like organic gardening.
717
00:22:18,840 –> 00:22:19,400
Well, I’m gonna,
718
00:22:19,400 –> 00:22:19,720
I’m gonna,
719
00:22:19,720 –> 00:22:22,440
I’m gonna skip the Coney on the way out of here after
720
00:22:22,440 –> 00:22:24,240
that, but thank you for that.
721
00:22:24,240 –> 00:22:25,000
Take that with you.
722
00:22:25,040 –> 00:22:25,480
know what I mean?
723
00:22:25,480 –> 00:22:27,480
Yeah, that’s gonna do wonders for my cholesterol.
724
00:22:27,520 –> 00:22:28,640
I wonder what it tastes like.
725
00:22:28,640 –> 00:22:29,120
Oh no.
726
00:22:31,760 –> 00:22:32,120
Acidic.
727
00:22:32,360 –> 00:22:33,080
Not bad.
728
00:22:33,080 –> 00:22:33,800
Like banaka.
729
00:22:33,880 –> 00:22:37,600
Dude, it’s like a nice citrusy kind of vibe to it.
730
00:22:37,960 –> 00:22:38,160
All right,
731
00:22:38,160 –> 00:22:40,440
let’s hear from our friend Luke Nowacki.
732
00:22:42,000 –> 00:22:43,080
Personal Wealth Manager,
733
00:22:43,080 –> 00:22:46,040
248-663-4748.
734
00:22:46,040 –> 00:22:46,440
Hit it.
735
00:22:46,680 –> 00:22:49,320
Is this the hole in one?
736
00:22:49,320 –> 00:22:50,920
It’s a hole in one,
737
00:22:50,920 –> 00:22:51,600
$50,000 if you hit it.
738
00:22:53,480 –> 00:22:54,600
Luke Nowacki,
739
00:22:54,760 –> 00:22:57,160
Financial Wealth Management.
740
00:22:57,720 –> 00:22:59,640
What is 50 grand after tags?
741
00:23:03,000 –> 00:23:05,040
37,750.
742
00:23:05,120 –> 00:23:06,040
What about state tax?
743
00:23:06,520 –> 00:23:07,000
Yeah, that’s,
744
00:23:07,520 –> 00:23:09,000
I’m throwing both in there.
745
00:23:09,600 –> 00:23:10,520
What about sales tax?
746
00:23:10,680 –> 00:23:11,480
There’s no sales tax.
747
00:23:11,480 –> 00:23:12,240
Well, you’re buying the beer.
748
00:23:12,240 –> 00:23:12,680
It’s income.
749
00:23:12,760 –> 00:23:13,400
You’ll buy the beer.
750
00:23:13,640 –> 00:23:14,680
Eh, we write that off.
751
00:23:15,880 –> 00:23:16,600
Luke Gowacki,
752
00:23:17,640 –> 00:23:18,840
Financial Wealth Management.
753
00:23:19,080 –> 00:23:21,360
248-663-4748.
754
00:23:21,360 –> 00:23:21,760
Well, you know,
755
00:23:21,760 –> 00:23:22,440
when it rains,
756
00:23:22,440 –> 00:23:23,240
the power goes out,
757
00:23:23,240 –> 00:23:24,520
and when the power goes out,
758
00:23:24,520 –> 00:23:25,520
the internet goes out.
759
00:23:25,520 –> 00:23:26,520
When the internet goes out,
760
00:23:26,520 –> 00:23:29,720
I call my friend Matt and Bernie at XG Service Group.
761
00:23:29,960 –> 00:23:31,720
Look at Bernie here on his hands and knees,
762
00:23:31,960 –> 00:23:33,320
giving it everything he’s got.
763
00:23:33,880 –> 00:23:35,080
Look at that man crack.
764
00:23:35,320 –> 00:23:36,200
So busy.
765
00:23:36,960 –> 00:23:37,960
He forgot to wear a belt.
766
00:23:37,960 –> 00:23:40,040
There’s Matt right there getting the board together.
767
00:23:40,040 –> 00:23:42,760
That’s 734-245-4100.
768
00:23:42,760 –> 00:23:45,600
If you need Matt and Bernie to come take care of your
769
00:23:45,600 –> 00:23:46,600
voice over internet,
770
00:23:46,760 –> 00:23:47,960
your security cameras,
771
00:23:48,120 –> 00:23:49,720
off-campus access control,
772
00:23:49,960 –> 00:23:52,360
Wi-Fi and cameras for homes and business,
773
00:23:52,360 –> 00:23:53,480
they’ll design it for you.
774
00:23:53,840 –> 00:23:54,520
got restaurants,
775
00:23:54,520 –> 00:23:55,720
they do drive-thru systems,
776
00:23:55,720 –> 00:23:57,480
railroad cameras for public safety.
777
00:23:57,720 –> 00:24:01,000
Total wireless camera systems for your home and business.
778
00:24:01,240 –> 00:24:01,720
Yeah, that’s right.
779
00:24:01,720 –> 00:24:05,400
Call XG Services at 734-245-4100.
780
00:24:05,680 –> 00:24:06,360
Guy’s a stud.
781
00:24:08,040 –> 00:24:10,440
Okay, let’s move on here.
782
00:24:12,840 –> 00:24:12,880
$3,147.90.
783
00:24:14,720 –> 00:24:18,520
Because keep the dime.
784
00:24:18,520 –> 00:24:19,720
Call someone who cares.
785
00:24:21,480 –> 00:24:22,200
I’m not giving up.
786
00:24:22,200 –> 00:24:23,240
See, here’s the deal,
787
00:24:23,240 –> 00:24:23,880
Horace.
788
00:24:24,600 –> 00:24:25,640
Madam Sheffield.
789
00:24:26,280 –> 00:24:27,320
I don’t give up.
790
00:24:28,159 –> 00:24:29,319
You’re fucking with the people,
791
00:24:29,319 –> 00:24:30,079
you’re harming them.
792
00:24:30,639 –> 00:24:31,679
That’s what I do in life now,
793
00:24:31,679 –> 00:24:31,999
dude.
794
00:24:32,559 –> 00:24:34,159
You know, I made my career,
795
00:24:34,159 –> 00:24:34,999
I wrote my books,
796
00:24:34,999 –> 00:24:38,799
and now maybe I can squeak into heaven with a C minus
797
00:24:38,879 –> 00:24:41,279
if I actually do something for somebody besides myself,
798
00:24:41,519 –> 00:24:41,839
right?
799
00:24:41,919 –> 00:24:42,959
So I’m committed to this.
800
00:24:43,279 –> 00:24:46,399
Whitmer, I’m not done with those nursing homes.
801
00:24:46,799 –> 00:24:46,839
$3,147.90.
802
00:24:47,759 –> 00:24:51,439
That’s an extra dime.
803
00:24:51,599 –> 00:24:52,559
Call someone who cares.
804
00:24:53,119 –> 00:24:54,119
That’s what they charged me.
805
00:24:54,119 –> 00:24:55,159
I FOIA’d.
806
00:24:55,679 –> 00:24:56,759
That’s the oldest trick in the book,
807
00:24:56,759 –> 00:24:57,119
isn’t it?
808
00:24:57,119 –> 00:24:58,879
Yeah, someone that doesn’t apply to Whitmer or the
809
00:24:58,879 –> 00:24:59,559
legislature,
810
00:24:59,559 –> 00:25:01,599
even though when Whitmer was elected the first time,
811
00:25:01,759 –> 00:25:03,999
she said she absolutely would make it apply to them.
812
00:25:04,959 –> 00:25:08,879
So when the DOJ in 2020 asked the state of Michigan
813
00:25:08,879 –> 00:25:11,439
for its nursing home data,
814
00:25:12,719 –> 00:25:14,399
there was a wise ass response.
815
00:25:14,399 –> 00:25:16,399
It was never really fully reported,
816
00:25:16,479 –> 00:25:16,799
right?
817
00:25:17,119 –> 00:25:18,079
We’ve never counted.
818
00:25:18,079 –> 00:25:21,439
We don’t have a real count of who died in there.
819
00:25:21,599 –> 00:25:22,079
So
820
00:25:23,839 –> 00:25:25,199
I asked the attorney general,
821
00:25:25,599 –> 00:25:27,439
okay, because you’re the lawyer for the state.
822
00:25:28,719 –> 00:25:30,319
I want what you gave the government.
823
00:25:30,319 –> 00:25:31,759
I want all communications.
824
00:25:31,759 –> 00:25:32,639
What were you saying?
825
00:25:32,799 –> 00:25:35,359
Because I’ve got documents and there’s missing bits
826
00:25:35,359 –> 00:25:35,759
in there.
827
00:25:36,159 –> 00:25:36,439
Sure.
828
00:25:36,439 –> 00:25:37,839
What were the conversations?
829
00:25:37,839 –> 00:25:39,119
What happened in there?
830
00:25:39,359 –> 00:25:41,839
And they’ve never given them.
831
00:25:41,839 –> 00:25:44,159
So I had to raise the money,
832
00:25:44,559 –> 00:25:44,799
right?
833
00:25:44,799 –> 00:25:47,279
The oldest one in the journalism book is make it so
834
00:25:47,279 –> 00:25:48,319
cost prohibitive.
835
00:25:48,799 –> 00:25:50,399
that you never get the documents.
836
00:25:50,639 –> 00:25:51,359
And in fact,
837
00:25:51,439 –> 00:25:52,239
the FOIA law,
838
00:25:52,239 –> 00:25:54,639
the only modification that’s been made to improve
839
00:25:54,639 –> 00:25:58,799
it recently is to say that you can’t impose an exorbitant
840
00:25:58,799 –> 00:26:04,399
cost on someone requesting records as a virtual denial.
841
00:26:04,399 –> 00:26:05,279
It’s basically a,
842
00:26:05,679 –> 00:26:09,159
yeah, you can come pick it up if you got a forklift
843
00:26:09,159 –> 00:26:10,639
because it weighs 10,000 pounds.
844
00:26:10,639 –> 00:26:10,959
You’re like,
845
00:26:11,279 –> 00:26:12,439
well, I don’t have a forklift.
846
00:26:12,479 –> 00:26:13,759
I guess you don’t really want it.
847
00:26:14,319 –> 00:26:14,719
It’s like,
848
00:26:15,039 –> 00:26:16,199
I guess I don’t.
849
00:26:16,239 –> 00:26:17,119
But I do.
850
00:26:17,199 –> 00:26:18,079
But I do.
851
00:26:18,399 –> 00:26:20,879
And it’s been over half a year,
852
00:26:21,039 –> 00:26:21,919
like, we’re going to need to,
853
00:26:21,919 –> 00:26:23,679
they didn’t think I was going to raise it.
854
00:26:23,679 –> 00:26:25,039
Then we’re going to need 90 days.
855
00:26:25,039 –> 00:26:26,239
We need another 30 day.
856
00:26:26,839 –> 00:26:27,839
I’m a patient man,
857
00:26:28,319 –> 00:26:28,639
right?
858
00:26:28,879 –> 00:26:31,519
But we’re going to find out because a lot of people
859
00:26:31,679 –> 00:26:34,159
got hurt and a lot of people want answers.
860
00:26:34,479 –> 00:26:35,679
And if I can get them for you,
861
00:26:35,999 –> 00:26:36,719
I will.
862
00:26:37,199 –> 00:26:39,599
That’s my responsibility as a man in this society.
863
00:26:40,079 –> 00:26:40,799
End of story.
864
00:26:41,039 –> 00:26:41,519
So
865
00:26:43,639 –> 00:26:45,199
What was that podcast?
866
00:26:45,199 –> 00:26:47,839
She was, she doesn’t talk to us.
867
00:26:48,239 –> 00:26:48,559
Yeah.
868
00:26:48,639 –> 00:26:50,159
She’s not in town anymore.
869
00:26:51,199 –> 00:26:53,919
Not even during lame duck when most governors are twisting
870
00:26:53,919 –> 00:26:56,559
arms, when John Engler would have been putting people’s
871
00:26:56,559 –> 00:26:58,159
heads in vices and saying,
872
00:26:58,639 –> 00:26:59,959
here’s what you’re going to do and you’re going to
873
00:26:59,959 –> 00:27:01,279
do it or else.
874
00:27:01,679 –> 00:27:03,519
She’s selling her children’s book.
875
00:27:04,319 –> 00:27:05,199
She had a children’s book?
876
00:27:06,319 –> 00:27:08,399
I guess I would say I would say the reading comprehension
877
00:27:08,399 –> 00:27:11,719
level is not what I would call PhD level.
878
00:27:11,719 –> 00:27:13,119
You got the 100 page book?
879
00:27:13,199 –> 00:27:13,759
Yeah.
880
00:27:15,519 –> 00:27:17,919
Although I don’t know if I want to read more than 100
881
00:27:17,919 –> 00:27:18,879
pages from a politician.
882
00:27:18,879 –> 00:27:20,239
Well, she’s not running for president,
883
00:27:20,239 –> 00:27:20,799
she said.
884
00:27:20,799 –> 00:27:22,279
So I don’t know what she’s doing.
885
00:27:22,319 –> 00:27:25,119
Getting set up like Granholm for a nice professorship.
886
00:27:25,279 –> 00:27:25,519
Yeah.
887
00:27:25,999 –> 00:27:30,919
But she’s always going to have to answer the question
888
00:27:30,919 –> 00:27:31,879
about COVID,
889
00:27:31,879 –> 00:27:32,639
which, you know,
890
00:27:32,959 –> 00:27:35,519
she’s on a podcast called Financial Audit,
891
00:27:35,519 –> 00:27:36,239
Caleb Hammer,
892
00:27:36,239 –> 00:27:37,639
pretty, pretty big podcast.
893
00:27:38,399 –> 00:27:41,039
And I thought he did a really good job with really
894
00:27:41,039 –> 00:27:43,239
simple questions to her over COVID.
895
00:27:43,239 –> 00:27:43,759
Okay, let’s,
896
00:27:43,839 –> 00:27:44,399
you got some?
897
00:27:44,479 –> 00:27:47,119
Why did we come up with cool names for our shows when
898
00:27:47,119 –> 00:27:49,679
you got a show called Financial Audit and it’s doing
899
00:27:49,679 –> 00:27:50,079
well?
900
00:27:50,479 –> 00:27:51,959
How about tooth extraction?
901
00:27:52,319 –> 00:27:55,599
Is this shit a financial audit show?
902
00:27:56,719 –> 00:27:58,639
I don’t know it too much,
903
00:27:58,639 –> 00:28:00,159
but let me see,
904
00:28:00,159 –> 00:28:02,159
like, there’s his website.
905
00:28:02,159 –> 00:28:04,239
I mean, it looks like a financial,
906
00:28:04,879 –> 00:28:06,519
money questions for younger people.
907
00:28:06,519 –> 00:28:07,639
I don’t know why she’s on there.
908
00:28:07,639 –> 00:28:09,679
It’s an actor commuting Zach Galifankis.
909
00:28:09,679 –> 00:28:11,359
It does look a little bit like Galifanakis.
910
00:28:11,399 –> 00:28:11,719
What is it?
911
00:28:11,719 –> 00:28:12,159
What is that?
912
00:28:12,159 –> 00:28:13,359
Between 2 Ferns or something?
913
00:28:13,839 –> 00:28:14,079
Right?
914
00:28:14,199 –> 00:28:14,879
Is that what it’s called?
915
00:28:15,279 –> 00:28:16,239
And this clip has the same.
916
00:28:16,239 –> 00:28:17,279
That’s what the show looks like.
917
00:28:17,279 –> 00:28:18,159
It has the same feel.
918
00:28:18,159 –> 00:28:18,799
Yeah, here’s the clip.
919
00:28:22,239 –> 00:28:23,119
I was a little,
920
00:28:24,119 –> 00:28:24,599
I’ll be honest.
921
00:28:26,039 –> 00:28:27,759
I was a little annoyed when I came home for Christmas
922
00:28:27,919 –> 00:28:28,799
two years in a row.
923
00:28:29,079 –> 00:28:29,199
Yeah.
924
00:28:29,199 –> 00:28:31,039
Like we had to eat outside,
925
00:28:31,039 –> 00:28:35,039
but we were in inside pods outside.
926
00:28:35,439 –> 00:28:37,319
It was a little weird that I came back here and then
927
00:28:37,319 –> 00:28:38,079
I could just do whatever.
928
00:28:39,039 –> 00:28:40,119
That was a bit weird,
929
00:28:40,119 –> 00:28:40,759
I’ll be honest.
930
00:28:41,039 –> 00:28:43,279
But remember what the temperature was.
931
00:28:43,279 –> 00:28:45,679
Here, you can walk around outside all day,
932
00:28:45,759 –> 00:28:46,079
right?
933
00:28:46,159 –> 00:28:47,839
At home, in Michigan,
934
00:28:47,839 –> 00:28:49,039
in the winter,
935
00:28:49,359 –> 00:28:51,679
we’re all inside and breathing on each other.
936
00:28:51,679 –> 00:28:53,319
But if I was allowed to be inside,
937
00:28:53,319 –> 00:28:54,959
outside, why couldn’t I just be inside,
938
00:28:54,959 –> 00:28:55,439
inside?
939
00:28:55,679 –> 00:28:56,799
Because you were inside,
940
00:28:56,799 –> 00:28:59,599
outside with just your small group of people.
941
00:28:59,679 –> 00:29:01,999
And the servers and bussers.
942
00:29:02,159 –> 00:29:02,879
Listen, Caleb,
943
00:29:02,879 –> 00:29:04,639
none of us wants to go back and relive that.
944
00:29:04,639 –> 00:29:07,039
We were doing the best we could with very little or
945
00:29:07,039 –> 00:29:08,199
very bad information.
946
00:29:09,439 –> 00:29:11,759
She looks like that gymnast with her arms crossed,
947
00:29:11,759 –> 00:29:12,319
Kayla.
948
00:29:12,959 –> 00:29:13,759
Oh, Kayla Maroney.
949
00:29:13,759 –> 00:29:15,519
Yeah, she’s not amused.
950
00:29:15,839 –> 00:29:16,119
No.
951
00:29:16,879 –> 00:29:19,519
But very little or very bad information.
952
00:29:19,519 –> 00:29:21,039
That’s not what we’re being sold.
953
00:29:21,119 –> 00:29:21,399
No.
954
00:29:22,239 –> 00:29:23,159
Science and data.
955
00:29:23,439 –> 00:29:23,759
Yeah.
956
00:29:24,399 –> 00:29:25,359
Well, I mean,
957
00:29:25,839 –> 00:29:27,359
this was an unprecedented time.
958
00:29:27,359 –> 00:29:28,799
I want to give people
959
00:29:29,239 –> 00:29:33,119
some room to err on the side of caution when a pandemic
960
00:29:33,119 –> 00:29:35,679
hits is nobody alive who can speak with authority
961
00:29:35,679 –> 00:29:36,719
to how we should handle it.
962
00:29:36,719 –> 00:29:41,199
But certainly not all of us called the dock installer
963
00:29:41,199 –> 00:29:42,999
and asked to have our dock installed while everybody
964
00:29:42,999 –> 00:29:44,479
else was not supposed to be doing that.
965
00:29:44,479 –> 00:29:45,239
Or go to Florida,
966
00:29:45,239 –> 00:29:46,719
if I may.
967
00:29:46,959 –> 00:29:50,359
Yeah, the fact of the matter is she was very slow to
968
00:29:50,359 –> 00:29:52,799
maneuver when new information came in,
969
00:29:52,799 –> 00:29:53,519
my opinion.
970
00:29:53,919 –> 00:29:54,479
Okay, well,
971
00:29:54,479 –> 00:29:57,039
I would say that I agree wholeheartedly,
972
00:29:57,039 –> 00:29:57,559
my brother.
973
00:29:58,079 –> 00:29:58,479
Like,
974
00:29:59,159 –> 00:29:59,959
It’s a pandemic.
975
00:29:59,999 –> 00:30:01,079
We don’t know,
976
00:30:01,079 –> 00:30:02,479
okay, emergency,
977
00:30:02,639 –> 00:30:04,599
emergency procedures here.
978
00:30:04,599 –> 00:30:05,759
We got a situation.
979
00:30:06,479 –> 00:30:06,879
Okay.
980
00:30:08,159 –> 00:30:09,759
I’m not going to go to the airport and act like an
981
00:30:09,759 –> 00:30:12,039
asshole and walk around without my mask because of
982
00:30:12,039 –> 00:30:12,559
my freedom.
983
00:30:12,559 –> 00:30:15,519
I want to make a gesture to my fellow humans.
984
00:30:15,599 –> 00:30:17,359
Small sacrifice just in case.
985
00:30:17,359 –> 00:30:18,159
Just in case,
986
00:30:18,159 –> 00:30:18,479
right.
987
00:30:18,639 –> 00:30:20,999
Now, this starts to bleed out though.
988
00:30:20,999 –> 00:30:21,759
Okay, you know,
989
00:30:21,759 –> 00:30:22,719
science and data,
990
00:30:23,599 –> 00:30:25,519
Cuomo in New York,
991
00:30:25,919 –> 00:30:26,759
sorry for your loss,
992
00:30:26,759 –> 00:30:27,039
sir.
993
00:30:27,719 –> 00:30:28,639
Cuomo in New York,
994
00:30:28,639 –> 00:30:32,959
once he gets called out when they’re bifurcating who’s
995
00:30:33,279 –> 00:30:35,399
dying in the nursing home and who from the nursing
996
00:30:35,399 –> 00:30:36,479
home dies in the hospital,
997
00:30:36,719 –> 00:30:40,559
once they found out that press got onto it,
998
00:30:41,359 –> 00:30:42,279
he reversed course.
999
00:30:42,279 –> 00:30:46,399
So he started it in March and they ended it 40 days
1000
00:30:46,399 –> 00:30:48,079
later in early May,
1001
00:30:48,239 –> 00:30:48,639
right?
1002
00:30:48,719 –> 00:30:51,479
Now, if you test positive for COVID,
1003
00:30:51,479 –> 00:30:53,039
you cannot go back to the nursing home.
1004
00:30:53,039 –> 00:30:53,919
You got to be clean.
1005
00:30:54,839 –> 00:30:56,319
Not only did we not do that,
1006
00:30:56,479 –> 00:30:57,919
we doubled down,
1007
00:30:58,079 –> 00:30:59,919
reinstituting it,
1008
00:31:00,879 –> 00:31:03,879
and it was never rescinded through all of COVID.
1009
00:31:04,319 –> 00:31:07,919
And then we weren’t knowingly,
1010
00:31:08,079 –> 00:31:08,519
knowingly,
1011
00:31:08,519 –> 00:31:10,399
because I’ve got some documents,
1012
00:31:10,479 –> 00:31:11,279
I want some more,
1013
00:31:12,239 –> 00:31:14,799
knowingly ignoring the death toll.
1014
00:31:15,759 –> 00:31:19,359
We might quite possibly have as many people having
1015
00:31:19,359 –> 00:31:21,799
died from the nursing homes as all of New York State,
1016
00:31:21,799 –> 00:31:23,519
which is twice the population,
1017
00:31:23,679 –> 00:31:24,079
and we
1018
00:31:26,439 –> 00:31:26,839
I don’t.
1019
00:31:27,599 –> 00:31:28,719
She is right.
1020
00:31:29,039 –> 00:31:30,559
She’s right about one thing in that clip.
1021
00:31:30,559 –> 00:31:32,479
We’re all kind of over it and done talking about it.
1022
00:31:32,479 –> 00:31:34,399
However, however,
1023
00:31:34,399 –> 00:31:36,639
if you’re a leader and you make decisions,
1024
00:31:36,639 –> 00:31:38,519
you’re never done answering the questions.
1025
00:31:38,519 –> 00:31:41,199
So I felt she was very dismissive at the end there
1026
00:31:41,199 –> 00:31:42,079
by just saying that.
1027
00:31:42,399 –> 00:31:44,959
I don’t think we’re over and done talking.
1028
00:31:44,959 –> 00:31:46,959
I think the way the pandemic is held,
1029
00:31:47,279 –> 00:31:48,239
was handled,
1030
00:31:48,479 –> 00:31:50,879
is one of the reasons for the divisions in our country.
1031
00:31:50,879 –> 00:31:52,639
It caused a lot of suspicion of government,
1032
00:31:52,639 –> 00:31:53,679
rightly or wrongly.
1033
00:31:54,079 –> 00:31:54,679
And I just
1034
00:31:55,119 –> 00:31:57,399
I got the Riviera in the shop and I was talking to
1035
00:31:57,399 –> 00:31:59,679
a guy, having a great conversation with a guy about
1036
00:31:59,679 –> 00:32:02,199
getting the transmission squared around.
1037
00:32:02,239 –> 00:32:02,919
And he just started,
1038
00:32:02,919 –> 00:32:05,799
he brought up masks and now he didn’t want people
1039
00:32:05,799 –> 00:32:06,759
to restrict his freedom.
1040
00:32:06,759 –> 00:32:09,359
I’m like, I hope you can get that tranny going.
1041
00:32:09,359 –> 00:32:10,079
And by that,
1042
00:32:10,079 –> 00:32:12,639
I mean the transmission that makes my car go forward.
1043
00:32:13,199 –> 00:32:15,879
But love who you love.
1044
00:32:15,879 –> 00:32:16,559
I’m not judging,
1045
00:32:16,719 –> 00:32:17,679
but I’m like,
1046
00:32:17,719 –> 00:32:19,079
we’re going to talk about masks here.
1047
00:32:19,079 –> 00:32:19,679
It’s 20.
1048
00:32:20,439 –> 00:32:21,999
It’s 2025,
1049
00:32:21,999 –> 00:32:24,239
but there’s still people who have hard feelings who
1050
00:32:24,239 –> 00:32:26,799
felt like their freedom was restricted.
1051
00:32:27,199 –> 00:32:28,079
To me, I’m like,
1052
00:32:28,799 –> 00:32:29,919
it’s not a big deal to me.
1053
00:32:29,919 –> 00:32:30,479
And frankly,
1054
00:32:30,479 –> 00:32:32,759
most of the politicians and spokespeople I talked
1055
00:32:32,759 –> 00:32:34,439
to, I want them to wear a mask,
1056
00:32:34,439 –> 00:32:35,599
to drink a lot of coffee,
1057
00:32:35,999 –> 00:32:37,519
smoking a lot of cools,
1058
00:32:37,519 –> 00:32:38,079
I don’t know.
1059
00:32:38,079 –> 00:32:38,399
But
1060
00:32:39,199 –> 00:32:42,119
But this is an issue that we are not going to get past
1061
00:32:42,119 –> 00:32:43,039
for a long time.
1062
00:32:43,279 –> 00:32:46,959
It’s why RFK is so popular now and why anybody who’s
1063
00:32:46,959 –> 00:32:49,599
willing to stand up and challenge science is doing
1064
00:32:49,599 –> 00:32:52,479
very well because people feel that they were sold.
1065
00:32:52,919 –> 00:32:54,159
a bill of goods that was,
1066
00:32:54,159 –> 00:32:57,839
stood up to scientific rigor when maybe it didn’t.
1067
00:32:58,079 –> 00:32:58,719
I don’t know.
1068
00:32:58,719 –> 00:32:59,759
I haven’t looked into that.
1069
00:32:59,759 –> 00:33:02,079
I only speak about things I have some expertise on,
1070
00:33:02,239 –> 00:33:04,879
but this much I know people are still pissed off about
1071
00:33:04,879 –> 00:33:05,199
that.
1072
00:33:05,319 –> 00:33:06,799
And if you want to get in a good fight,
1073
00:33:07,039 –> 00:33:09,119
ask somebody with their mind wearing a mask.
1074
00:33:09,119 –> 00:33:09,839
Holy shit,
1075
00:33:09,839 –> 00:33:12,519
you better know where the two exits on that building
1076
00:33:12,519 –> 00:33:14,719
are, because depending on which way you argue that,
1077
00:33:14,959 –> 00:33:15,839
you’re going out a door,
1078
00:33:15,839 –> 00:33:16,639
you’re going out a window,
1079
00:33:16,639 –> 00:33:17,639
or you’re going out in a box.
1080
00:33:17,639 –> 00:33:18,639
See, but that’s the thing.
1081
00:33:18,639 –> 00:33:20,239
I want to avoid all that.
1082
00:33:21,199 –> 00:33:22,759
I want science and data.
1083
00:33:22,879 –> 00:33:24,599
Let’s fight about Spartans and Wolverines.
1084
00:33:24,719 –> 00:33:25,599
I want to know,
1085
00:33:26,079 –> 00:33:28,959
I want an accounting so it never happens again.
1086
00:33:29,199 –> 00:33:32,639
What happened behind those doors?
1087
00:33:33,119 –> 00:33:33,879
I’m not giving it.
1088
00:33:34,719 –> 00:33:36,479
I did the dirt story for 10 years.
1089
00:33:37,039 –> 00:33:39,119
The nursing home story for five years.
1090
00:33:39,599 –> 00:33:44,559
Nestle and her doing legal favors for friends and family
1091
00:33:44,559 –> 00:33:46,479
members for three years.
1092
00:33:46,639 –> 00:33:47,919
I don’t give up.
1093
00:33:48,599 –> 00:33:51,279
I don’t because the people deserve to know.
1094
00:33:51,439 –> 00:33:53,679
If I can’t hold my brother’s hand when he’s dying,
1095
00:33:54,159 –> 00:33:55,839
if you can’t say goodbye to your mother,
1096
00:33:55,919 –> 00:33:58,079
like in 2021,
1097
00:34:00,639 –> 00:34:00,959
you know,
1098
00:34:01,679 –> 00:34:03,439
we got locked down March 2020.
1099
00:34:03,839 –> 00:34:04,639
We’re talking.
1100
00:34:05,479 –> 00:34:07,119
August 2021,
1101
00:34:07,199 –> 00:34:08,399
and you can’t say goodbye.
1102
00:34:08,559 –> 00:34:09,959
And Ohio got rid of it.
1103
00:34:09,959 –> 00:34:11,199
People, they got rid of it.
1104
00:34:11,519 –> 00:34:12,599
The vax was there,
1105
00:34:12,599 –> 00:34:13,759
and we didn’t get rid of it.
1106
00:34:14,079 –> 00:34:15,519
Or, you know,
1107
00:34:15,599 –> 00:34:17,439
those of us that have children of their Gen.
1108
00:34:17,439 –> 00:34:19,479
Z, right?
1109
00:34:19,479 –> 00:34:20,319
What we…
1110
00:34:22,519 –> 00:34:25,319
altered forever their lives in order to protect the
1111
00:34:25,319 –> 00:34:27,839
old people so they wouldn’t go give it to grandma.
1112
00:34:28,159 –> 00:34:31,279
And yet we’re putting infected grandma in with healthy
1113
00:34:31,279 –> 00:34:31,759
grandma.
1114
00:34:32,079 –> 00:34:33,679
No, I’m sorry.
1115
00:34:33,919 –> 00:34:39,519
$3,147.90 and it’s worth every dime.
1116
00:34:39,759 –> 00:34:42,479
I’d say it’s money well spent regardless of what you
1117
00:34:42,479 –> 00:34:42,999
find.
1118
00:34:43,039 –> 00:34:44,079
But the thing is,
1119
00:34:44,399 –> 00:34:45,919
you want to do something better,
1120
00:34:46,399 –> 00:34:46,959
you…
1121
00:34:48,079 –> 00:34:50,159
Has anybody ever heard of an after action report?
1122
00:34:50,159 –> 00:34:52,799
This is a pretty common thing where you take a look
1123
00:34:52,799 –> 00:34:56,359
at what did we do and how can we do it better next
1124
00:34:56,359 –> 00:34:56,479
time?
1125
00:34:56,639 –> 00:34:56,959
Boom.
1126
00:34:57,199 –> 00:35:00,799
And the people who don’t do those or don’t divulge
1127
00:35:00,799 –> 00:35:02,479
the results of what they did,
1128
00:35:03,679 –> 00:35:07,759
that tends to be a sign that they didn’t do great.
1129
00:35:07,999 –> 00:35:10,519
And they don’t want you to know what you’re entitled
1130
00:35:10,519 –> 00:35:11,279
to know, which is,
1131
00:35:11,999 –> 00:35:12,559
hey man,
1132
00:35:13,319 –> 00:35:13,999
Give me a break.
1133
00:35:13,999 –> 00:35:15,199
No one’s ever done this before.
1134
00:35:15,199 –> 00:35:16,839
Maybe we made some mistakes,
1135
00:35:16,839 –> 00:35:18,079
but we’ll do better next time.
1136
00:35:18,479 –> 00:35:21,599
When you don’t take a hard look at what you did,
1137
00:35:22,239 –> 00:35:23,679
you’re not going to do better next time.
1138
00:35:23,679 –> 00:35:24,119
And by the way,
1139
00:35:24,119 –> 00:35:25,599
we’re not going to trust you in the meantime.
1140
00:35:25,679 –> 00:35:26,319
Right, man,
1141
00:35:26,319 –> 00:35:26,599
right.
1142
00:35:26,599 –> 00:35:28,159
That’s the vestigial piece of this.
1143
00:35:28,399 –> 00:35:31,639
And now during COVID,
1144
00:35:31,639 –> 00:35:35,359
we got to look at the state of end of life care.
1145
00:35:35,759 –> 00:35:38,399
What we all do know is the nursing homes are fetid
1146
00:35:38,399 –> 00:35:39,279
places to be.
1147
00:35:39,679 –> 00:35:42,319
Have you heard anything about a national
1148
00:35:43,599 –> 00:35:45,839
remodeling of how these things work?
1149
00:35:46,319 –> 00:35:46,799
No.
1150
00:35:47,599 –> 00:35:49,359
We just threw a shitload of money at it.
1151
00:35:50,159 –> 00:35:51,199
I’m tired of talking about it.
1152
00:35:51,199 –> 00:35:52,079
That ain’t going to work.
1153
00:35:52,079 –> 00:35:54,959
And that’s why she got to go to Texas to talk.
1154
00:35:55,279 –> 00:35:56,799
I won’t talk to the people of Michigan.
1155
00:35:57,199 –> 00:35:59,279
She flew to Texas for that podcast?
1156
00:35:59,279 –> 00:35:59,759
Mark?
1157
00:36:00,479 –> 00:36:01,679
I believe that.
1158
00:36:01,679 –> 00:36:02,479
I’ll look it up,
1159
00:36:02,479 –> 00:36:03,919
but I believe that’s where he records.
1160
00:36:04,119 –> 00:36:05,519
She was talking about it’s warm here,
1161
00:36:05,679 –> 00:36:05,999
right?
1162
00:36:06,079 –> 00:36:07,519
So I think it’s Austin.
1163
00:36:07,599 –> 00:36:08,639
And he said that,
1164
00:36:08,679 –> 00:36:09,639
when he goes back home,
1165
00:36:09,639 –> 00:36:10,719
meaning Michigan.
1166
00:36:10,719 –> 00:36:14,639
So, but I’m I don’t know what she was doing.
1167
00:36:14,639 –> 00:36:15,839
Oh, dude, get on it.
1168
00:36:15,839 –> 00:36:18,679
No, You’re a misogynist.
1169
00:36:18,959 –> 00:36:20,719
No, violent viscous.
1170
00:36:21,199 –> 00:36:24,559
Yeah, it does not feel like a good use of state taxpayer
1171
00:36:24,559 –> 00:36:24,799
money.
1172
00:36:24,799 –> 00:36:25,679
But by the way,
1173
00:36:26,159 –> 00:36:28,719
We’ll never know because we don’t have Freedom of Information
1174
00:36:28,719 –> 00:36:29,359
Act reform.
1175
00:36:29,679 –> 00:36:31,119
So whatever she does,
1176
00:36:31,359 –> 00:36:33,919
we really don’t know unless she wants to tell us.
1177
00:36:33,999 –> 00:36:35,759
And like most public officials,
1178
00:36:35,759 –> 00:36:38,319
we found out they don’t want to tell us much.
1179
00:36:39,519 –> 00:36:41,919
Now let’s just let last story and we’ll get out of
1180
00:36:41,919 –> 00:36:42,399
here, man.
1181
00:36:42,399 –> 00:36:42,919
I know you’re tired.
1182
00:36:43,239 –> 00:36:44,879
I’m getting all fired up now.
1183
00:36:44,879 –> 00:36:45,239
I’m.
1184
00:36:45,799 –> 00:36:46,599
My heart’s palpating,
1185
00:36:46,839 –> 00:36:47,959
but I’m all sweating.
1186
00:36:47,959 –> 00:36:49,239
Thanks, Amando.
1187
00:36:50,439 –> 00:36:51,079
Yeah, it’s,
1188
00:36:51,239 –> 00:36:51,799
yeah, is that,
1189
00:36:51,799 –> 00:36:52,519
is that, is it,
1190
00:36:52,599 –> 00:36:53,959
is it ass crack sweat time,
1191
00:36:53,959 –> 00:36:54,199
is it?
1192
00:36:55,239 –> 00:36:55,839
We’ll get to that.
1193
00:36:55,839 –> 00:36:57,399
When your taint’s like a haint,
1194
00:36:57,559 –> 00:36:58,199
Amando.
1195
00:37:01,719 –> 00:37:02,439
Say it again.
1196
00:37:03,279 –> 00:37:05,319
When your taint’s getting to be like a haint.
1197
00:37:06,519 –> 00:37:07,079
Mando.
1198
00:37:07,399 –> 00:37:07,799
Boom.
1199
00:37:08,999 –> 00:37:10,279
I’ll let him know that’s pretty good.
1200
00:37:10,279 –> 00:37:11,599
Yes, it’s temporaneous.
1201
00:37:11,719 –> 00:37:14,119
Tell him to send me a little something.
1202
00:37:14,119 –> 00:37:14,519
All right.
1203
00:37:14,839 –> 00:37:18,439
For those nether regions where I’m burying my toxic
1204
00:37:18,439 –> 00:37:18,839
dirt.
1205
00:37:19,399 –> 00:37:24,519
ISIS link terror plot foiled in Dearborn last week.
1206
00:37:25,159 –> 00:37:27,559
How it was supposed to go off for Halloween,
1207
00:37:27,559 –> 00:37:27,799
right?
1208
00:37:28,679 –> 00:37:28,799
Yeah.
1209
00:37:28,799 –> 00:37:29,199
These guys,
1210
00:37:29,199 –> 00:37:30,759
what their names are 20 year old guys,
1211
00:37:30,759 –> 00:37:35,799
Muhammad Ali and Makhjed Mahmoud living in Dearborn.
1212
00:37:39,119 –> 00:37:41,319
encrypted apps overseas.
1213
00:37:41,319 –> 00:37:43,799
Some guys are talking about joining ISIS in Syria.
1214
00:37:44,279 –> 00:37:44,839
They’re like,
1215
00:37:44,839 –> 00:37:48,439
no, we’re going to do a Paris 2015 nightclub shoot
1216
00:37:48,439 –> 00:37:48,679
up.
1217
00:37:49,159 –> 00:37:51,959
Yeah, that was like 150 people were killed.
1218
00:37:51,959 –> 00:37:52,199
Yeah.
1219
00:37:52,759 –> 00:37:55,239
And they were going to my neck of the woods,
1220
00:37:55,719 –> 00:37:56,599
Ferndale,
1221
00:37:56,999 –> 00:37:58,279
to shoot up gay people.
1222
00:37:59,479 –> 00:38:00,599
Insane.
1223
00:38:00,999 –> 00:38:01,319
Now,
1224
00:38:02,599 –> 00:38:03,519
Very similar to,
1225
00:38:03,519 –> 00:38:04,759
it was 2015,
1226
00:38:04,759 –> 00:38:06,359
2016 in Orlando,
1227
00:38:06,359 –> 00:38:07,319
the Pulse Nightclub.
1228
00:38:07,559 –> 00:38:08,719
Omar Martine.
1229
00:38:08,839 –> 00:38:09,799
Oh yeah, there’s that one.
1230
00:38:10,239 –> 00:38:16,439
So, yeah, it was.
1231
00:38:17,319 –> 00:38:19,399
The street that they busted one of these dudes on in
1232
00:38:19,399 –> 00:38:20,039
his parents’
1233
00:38:20,039 –> 00:38:22,079
home was less than 1/2 mile,
1234
00:38:22,119 –> 00:38:22,999
on the same street,
1235
00:38:23,319 –> 00:38:24,599
less than 1/2 mile.
1236
00:38:25,399 –> 00:38:27,399
from where we got Isam Bazi,
1237
00:38:27,559 –> 00:38:29,799
the first known guy on the terror watch list,
1238
00:38:29,959 –> 00:38:31,399
to be led into the country,
1239
00:38:31,719 –> 00:38:33,639
given work papers and a driver’s license.
1240
00:38:33,759 –> 00:38:34,799
And for three years,
1241
00:38:34,799 –> 00:38:35,159
I’m like,
1242
00:38:35,479 –> 00:38:36,999
get him the fuck out of here.
1243
00:38:37,319 –> 00:38:38,519
Terror watch list,
1244
00:38:39,239 –> 00:38:40,359
Hezbollah ties,
1245
00:38:40,559 –> 00:38:41,639
get the fuck out of here.
1246
00:38:41,879 –> 00:38:43,079
Now, having said that,
1247
00:38:43,559 –> 00:38:45,399
right, that’s for all of us.
1248
00:38:45,399 –> 00:38:47,519
Like, I do not like here,
1249
00:38:47,519 –> 00:38:48,039
and it just,
1250
00:38:48,199 –> 00:38:49,119
it pisses me off.
1251
00:38:49,799 –> 00:38:50,519
You get the right,
1252
00:38:50,519 –> 00:38:55,079
far right-wing chatter on social media about Dearborn
1253
00:38:55,199 –> 00:38:57,359
and the caliphate and Sharia law.
1254
00:38:57,359 –> 00:38:57,719
It’s like,
1255
00:38:57,719 –> 00:39:01,199
dude, Dearborn’s like one of the coolest cities in
1256
00:39:01,199 –> 00:39:02,119
the Midwest.
1257
00:39:02,439 –> 00:39:03,399
It really is,
1258
00:39:03,719 –> 00:39:03,959
right?
1259
00:39:03,959 –> 00:39:05,159
Good freaking people,
1260
00:39:05,319 –> 00:39:06,519
place is clean,
1261
00:39:06,759 –> 00:39:08,239
food is gorgeous.
1262
00:39:08,439 –> 00:39:09,439
Family oriented,
1263
00:39:09,439 –> 00:39:10,919
everybody’s working.
1264
00:39:11,159 –> 00:39:15,159
The value of an education is one of the prizes.
1265
00:39:15,159 –> 00:39:17,719
I mean, you want to see the next generation.
1266
00:39:18,599 –> 00:39:19,479
like we all do,
1267
00:39:19,479 –> 00:39:20,439
do better than us.
1268
00:39:20,479 –> 00:39:22,759
I mean, Dearborn’s pretty cool.
1269
00:39:22,919 –> 00:39:25,479
Right, and I got a fishing shack up in the thumb in
1270
00:39:25,479 –> 00:39:26,079
Deckerville,
1271
00:39:26,079 –> 00:39:28,039
which is just a few miles from Decker,
1272
00:39:28,479 –> 00:39:31,319
which is where the Nichols farm,
1273
00:39:31,559 –> 00:39:35,319
yeah, who were henchmen with Timothy McVeigh,
1274
00:39:35,879 –> 00:39:38,279
who blew up the Oklahoma City Federal Building,
1275
00:39:38,279 –> 00:39:40,039
killing 160 some people.
1276
00:39:40,199 –> 00:39:41,399
The second biggest
1277
00:39:42,039 –> 00:39:44,279
terror event in the history of the United States.
1278
00:39:44,439 –> 00:39:45,879
So are we going,
1279
00:39:46,039 –> 00:39:47,879
hey man, the thumb is a hotbed of,
1280
00:39:48,039 –> 00:39:49,639
and they did do that to the thumb.
1281
00:39:49,959 –> 00:39:52,079
Hot bed, a radical redneck,
1282
00:39:52,079 –> 00:39:52,679
and you know,
1283
00:39:52,999 –> 00:39:54,199
they did do that to the thumb.
1284
00:39:54,479 –> 00:39:55,799
I’m not willing to do that.
1285
00:39:55,799 –> 00:39:58,199
Yeah, and those were all American boys.
1286
00:39:58,279 –> 00:39:58,839
Yeah, well,
1287
00:39:58,919 –> 00:39:59,239
you know,
1288
00:39:59,279 –> 00:40:00,279
I mean, so is Dearborn,
1289
00:40:00,279 –> 00:40:00,959
you know what I’m saying?
1290
00:40:00,959 –> 00:40:03,079
Like, we’re like a melting pot,
1291
00:40:03,399 –> 00:40:06,079
but we pushed back on that,
1292
00:40:06,079 –> 00:40:07,159
and I just…
1293
00:40:08,119 –> 00:40:10,679
I want to really thank the authorities for doing an
1294
00:40:10,919 –> 00:40:11,839
amazing job.
1295
00:40:12,359 –> 00:40:12,639
Right.
1296
00:40:12,759 –> 00:40:14,759
One of the guys in there was an informant for the FBI.
1297
00:40:14,919 –> 00:40:16,199
They were tailing these cats.
1298
00:40:16,439 –> 00:40:17,959
They did an amazing job.
1299
00:40:18,359 –> 00:40:18,919
You know, well,
1300
00:40:18,919 –> 00:40:21,159
one of the attorneys said they jumped the gun.
1301
00:40:21,159 –> 00:40:24,199
These guys were just playing games and doing tough
1302
00:40:24,199 –> 00:40:26,039
talk and they’re just dumb kids.
1303
00:40:26,039 –> 00:40:26,239
And
1304
00:40:26,919 –> 00:40:29,479
we’ve seen cases like the Hutari where people were
1305
00:40:29,719 –> 00:40:32,439
playing war games in the forest and it turned out
1306
00:40:32,439 –> 00:40:34,839
that the feds got a little itchy.
1307
00:40:35,319 –> 00:40:37,719
There are people who would say that the Whitmer kidnapping
1308
00:40:37,719 –> 00:40:42,679
plot were some guys who were bored and maybe not very
1309
00:40:42,679 –> 00:40:45,599
judicious in their language and had what I would consider
1310
00:40:45,599 –> 00:40:48,359
to be some weird recreational pursuits.
1311
00:40:49,879 –> 00:40:51,079
You know, they were convicted.
1312
00:40:51,079 –> 00:40:53,159
So this is one of these cases where,
1313
00:40:53,159 –> 00:40:54,199
I mean, I always
1314
00:40:54,479 –> 00:40:56,559
encourage people not to rush to judgment,
1315
00:40:56,559 –> 00:41:01,079
but sometimes they get to the bottom of it and we
1316
00:41:01,079 –> 00:41:02,759
feel like we averted a tragedy.
1317
00:41:02,759 –> 00:41:04,839
Other times we get to the bottom.
1318
00:41:04,839 –> 00:41:05,239
It’s like,
1319
00:41:06,359 –> 00:41:07,399
might have jumped the gun there,
1320
00:41:07,399 –> 00:41:08,039
Uncle Sam.
1321
00:41:08,039 –> 00:41:09,119
I don’t know where this is going.
1322
00:41:09,119 –> 00:41:10,239
But I’ll go like this.
1323
00:41:10,279 –> 00:41:12,039
That’s a good point as well.
1324
00:41:12,039 –> 00:41:13,399
I am not saying they’re guilty.
1325
00:41:13,399 –> 00:41:14,679
They haven’t had their day in court.
1326
00:41:16,359 –> 00:41:18,999
But the FBI more than acted appropriately,
1327
00:41:18,999 –> 00:41:19,199
right?
1328
00:41:19,199 –> 00:41:20,359
You’re going to defuse it.
1329
00:41:20,919 –> 00:41:21,879
You’re going to bust it up.
1330
00:41:21,959 –> 00:41:23,239
I don’t care if you guys are fucking
1331
00:41:24,439 –> 00:41:26,599
dressing up for Halloween and shooting guns and shit.
1332
00:41:26,759 –> 00:41:28,519
You seem awfully serious.
1333
00:41:28,679 –> 00:41:29,879
So I’m going to step in.
1334
00:41:30,039 –> 00:41:33,079
Now, let’s say they pulled it off and the FBI says,
1335
00:41:33,239 –> 00:41:34,199
we didn’t have enough.
1336
00:41:34,599 –> 00:41:35,479
Oh, yeah, no,
1337
00:41:35,799 –> 00:41:39,079
This is law enforcement’s nightmare.
1338
00:41:39,879 –> 00:41:44,359
You don’t wait long enough and you can’t make your
1339
00:41:44,359 –> 00:41:44,919
case.
1340
00:41:45,399 –> 00:41:47,799
You wait too long and there’s body bags.
1341
00:41:48,199 –> 00:41:51,799
I mean, I don’t know which one of us could make the
1342
00:41:51,799 –> 00:41:52,479
right call.
1343
00:41:52,519 –> 00:41:53,639
I could make the right call.
1344
00:41:54,119 –> 00:41:55,079
You know, okay,
1345
00:41:55,159 –> 00:41:56,999
you guys are meeting in the park and you’re buying
1346
00:41:56,999 –> 00:41:59,759
weapons and you’re really talking to people overseas
1347
00:41:59,759 –> 00:42:00,439
and whatnot.
1348
00:42:01,319 –> 00:42:03,519
Maybe you should throw a smoke bomb in that house,
1349
00:42:03,519 –> 00:42:04,279
arrest that guy,
1350
00:42:04,279 –> 00:42:04,839
take the gun,
1351
00:42:04,839 –> 00:42:05,319
see what’s up.
1352
00:42:05,399 –> 00:42:08,679
Plus it’s a deterrent too for anybody that might be
1353
00:42:08,679 –> 00:42:09,359
going down that road.
1354
00:42:09,359 –> 00:42:10,919
I don’t want no government coming to my house.
1355
00:42:10,919 –> 00:42:11,639
I didn’t do anything.
1356
00:42:11,639 –> 00:42:14,959
I’m like, then don’t be talking about killing people
1357
00:42:14,959 –> 00:42:16,359
online and going and buying guns,
1358
00:42:16,359 –> 00:42:16,759
man.
1359
00:42:17,319 –> 00:42:18,959
I got to draw the line there.
1360
00:42:18,999 –> 00:42:22,599
I mean, this is where’s the line between free speech
1361
00:42:22,599 –> 00:42:22,999
and
1362
00:42:23,719 –> 00:42:25,959
and taking somebody seriously.
1363
00:42:26,279 –> 00:42:29,679
But what I find fascinating in these situations,
1364
00:42:29,679 –> 00:42:30,839
and when I say fascinating,
1365
00:42:30,839 –> 00:42:32,839
I mean soul-crushingly depressing,
1366
00:42:33,239 –> 00:42:35,159
is that the same people who will say,
1367
00:42:37,639 –> 00:42:40,959
these, the law enforcement’s overstepped its bounds.
1368
00:42:40,959 –> 00:42:42,359
They’re persecuting these people.
1369
00:42:42,759 –> 00:42:43,799
depending on the situation,
1370
00:42:43,799 –> 00:42:45,239
they’ll be the same people who say,
1371
00:42:45,639 –> 00:42:47,879
thank God they got those dirty rot and whatever,
1372
00:42:47,879 –> 00:42:48,199
whatever.
1373
00:42:48,199 –> 00:42:48,759
I’m just like,
1374
00:42:49,079 –> 00:42:49,279
you know,
1375
00:42:49,279 –> 00:42:52,119
I don’t, I never know enough to say until it’s over.
1376
00:42:52,519 –> 00:42:58,519
And I tend to err on the side of law enforcement.
1377
00:42:59,399 –> 00:43:01,559
You know, I think prudence is important.
1378
00:43:01,959 –> 00:43:02,999
And I think saying,
1379
00:43:03,319 –> 00:43:03,959
boy, I wish we’d
1380
00:43:05,239 –> 00:43:08,759
I wish we’d listen to that FBI agent in Minnesota when
1381
00:43:08,759 –> 00:43:09,559
she called and said,
1382
00:43:09,559 –> 00:43:11,079
hey, why don’t these guys want to know how to land
1383
00:43:11,079 –> 00:43:11,719
the planes?
1384
00:43:11,959 –> 00:43:13,239
That might have been a time to say,
1385
00:43:13,239 –> 00:43:15,159
yeah, I think maybe we want to get in there.
1386
00:43:15,159 –> 00:43:16,359
Well, they’re just talking.
1387
00:43:16,679 –> 00:43:18,319
Yeah, they’re just talking.
1388
00:43:18,319 –> 00:43:19,879
And what they’re saying is,
1389
00:43:21,159 –> 00:43:22,639
boy, that building’s getting real big in front of
1390
00:43:22,639 –> 00:43:22,839
me.
1391
00:43:23,239 –> 00:43:24,119
You know, I mean,
1392
00:43:24,119 –> 00:43:26,439
that’s, you know,
1393
00:43:26,439 –> 00:43:29,079
everybody wants to pile on law enforcement and I know
1394
00:43:29,079 –> 00:43:29,959
they make mistakes,
1395
00:43:29,959 –> 00:43:32,759
but for what they’re paid and for what they have to
1396
00:43:32,759 –> 00:43:34,599
do in the situations they encounter,
1397
00:43:35,399 –> 00:43:36,599
If you can do it better,
1398
00:43:37,159 –> 00:43:38,439
get off your ass and do it,
1399
00:43:38,439 –> 00:43:40,519
because they’re going,
1400
00:43:40,639 –> 00:43:42,039
they’re going to,
1401
00:43:43,079 –> 00:43:44,639
the legal authorities like the U.S.
1402
00:43:44,639 –> 00:43:47,679
Attorney’s Office and they’re coordinating and they’re
1403
00:43:47,679 –> 00:43:49,479
like, I think we have to look,
1404
00:43:49,479 –> 00:43:50,079
if the U.S.
1405
00:43:50,079 –> 00:43:51,799
Attorney can’t bring the case and I’m not going to
1406
00:43:52,519 –> 00:43:53,159
mock them,
1407
00:43:53,479 –> 00:43:53,799
right?
1408
00:43:54,039 –> 00:43:54,319
Yeah.
1409
00:43:54,519 –> 00:43:57,559
No, these aren’t decisions that are made on the spur
1410
00:43:57,559 –> 00:43:58,079
of a moment.
1411
00:43:58,159 –> 00:43:58,559
I pull you,
1412
00:43:58,559 –> 00:43:59,159
you’re swerving.
1413
00:43:59,159 –> 00:44:01,239
I pulled you over suspicion for drinking and driving.
1414
00:44:02,039 –> 00:44:02,439
You’re not,
1415
00:44:02,439 –> 00:44:03,039
you’re not drunk.
1416
00:44:03,039 –> 00:44:03,719
Okay, listen,
1417
00:44:03,879 –> 00:44:05,879
here’s a ticket for regulars driving or whatever.
1418
00:44:06,119 –> 00:44:07,159
Yeah, fix a tail light,
1419
00:44:07,159 –> 00:44:07,559
asshole.
1420
00:44:07,559 –> 00:44:09,279
Yeah, fix a tail light and fucking go home.
1421
00:44:09,319 –> 00:44:09,519
Yeah.
1422
00:44:09,799 –> 00:44:10,719
So, you know,
1423
00:44:10,719 –> 00:44:11,439
I’m okay with that.
1424
00:44:11,439 –> 00:44:12,759
But again,
1425
00:44:13,479 –> 00:44:16,119
Another three-year story was Issam Bazi,
1426
00:44:16,119 –> 00:44:17,399
the guy in the terror watch list.
1427
00:44:17,479 –> 00:44:18,679
What’s he doing here?
1428
00:44:18,919 –> 00:44:21,399
This man has no right to be here.
1429
00:44:21,479 –> 00:44:23,239
It’s never happened before.
1430
00:44:23,479 –> 00:44:26,919
And you can’t get the authorities to pay any attention
1431
00:44:26,919 –> 00:44:27,239
to it.
1432
00:44:27,799 –> 00:44:29,079
Terror watch list,
1433
00:44:29,559 –> 00:44:31,239
high derogatory information,
1434
00:44:31,239 –> 00:44:32,519
level 5 guy,
1435
00:44:33,319 –> 00:44:35,639
connections to the Maduro regime,
1436
00:44:36,039 –> 00:44:36,359
right?
1437
00:44:36,999 –> 00:44:37,399
No.
1438
00:44:37,399 –> 00:44:40,919
So do we, do you ever see this video?
1439
00:44:41,559 –> 00:44:43,239
I’m not familiar with this guy,
1440
00:44:43,239 –> 00:44:44,919
but I hope he’s not the next guest.
1441
00:44:44,919 –> 00:44:47,399
No, he’s I don’t want to run into the green room.
1442
00:44:47,559 –> 00:44:48,199
He’s gone.
1443
00:44:48,279 –> 00:44:49,159
I have to find out.
1444
00:44:49,959 –> 00:44:51,799
Can we send him a Coney kit?
1445
00:44:53,319 –> 00:44:57,479
No, but he is in a facility up north that has,
1446
00:44:57,479 –> 00:44:57,719
you know,
1447
00:44:57,719 –> 00:44:59,079
culturally appropriate food.
1448
00:44:59,159 –> 00:44:59,959
He gets halal.
1449
00:45:00,439 –> 00:45:01,919
His father says he’s a godly man.
1450
00:45:01,919 –> 00:45:02,959
I’m assuming he eats halal.
1451
00:45:03,159 –> 00:45:04,039
When we when we roll,
1452
00:45:04,039 –> 00:45:05,279
he’s got that going for ML.
1453
00:45:05,279 –> 00:45:06,759
Did he wash dishes?
1454
00:45:09,239 –> 00:45:12,039
Now why is this guy giving me the finger?
1455
00:45:14,519 –> 00:45:17,359
Because I got his buddy locked up by ICE last week,
1456
00:45:17,359 –> 00:45:18,039
that’s why.
1457
00:45:18,759 –> 00:45:19,559
His buddy,
1458
00:45:19,639 –> 00:45:21,239
a guy named Asam Bazi,
1459
00:45:21,559 –> 00:45:22,679
is a high-level,
1460
00:45:22,679 –> 00:45:26,119
known or suspected terrorist according to classified
1461
00:45:26,119 –> 00:45:27,319
federal documents.
1462
00:45:27,719 –> 00:45:30,999
A guy with ties to Hezbollah and the authoritarian
1463
00:45:30,999 –> 00:45:32,359
regime of Venezuela.
1464
00:45:32,439 –> 00:45:33,239
Allegedly.
1465
00:45:33,559 –> 00:45:36,519
Even so, the Biden administration knowingly led him
1466
00:45:36,519 –> 00:45:38,919
into the country anyway three years ago.
1467
00:45:39,399 –> 00:45:40,119
A first.
1468
00:45:40,359 –> 00:45:41,559
You’re a stupid son of a leader.
1469
00:45:42,199 –> 00:45:43,239
Senor Bazzi.
1470
00:45:46,359 –> 00:45:47,719
It’s Carlitos Leduff.
1471
00:45:47,879 –> 00:45:49,079
El Perio disto.
1472
00:45:49,479 –> 00:45:50,999
Tu erres un terrorista.
1473
00:45:51,239 –> 00:45:51,799
Senor.
1474
00:45:52,759 –> 00:45:53,559
Senor Bazzi.
1475
00:45:53,799 –> 00:45:56,519
We the people paid for Bazzi’s ticket to Dearborn,
1476
00:45:56,519 –> 00:45:57,159
Michigan,
1477
00:45:57,519 –> 00:45:59,159
where he lived with his family.
1478
00:45:59,879 –> 00:46:01,079
This is his dad.
1479
00:46:01,079 –> 00:46:02,199
Is he home?
1480
00:46:02,999 –> 00:46:03,319
No.
1481
00:46:05,239 –> 00:46:05,959
Police, yeah.
1482
00:46:06,279 –> 00:46:06,999
Oh, the police.
1483
00:46:07,879 –> 00:46:08,679
Oh, they took them.
1484
00:46:08,919 –> 00:46:09,639
Immigration?
1485
00:46:09,879 –> 00:46:10,199
Yes.
1486
00:46:10,679 –> 00:46:10,999
Oh.
1487
00:46:11,159 –> 00:46:14,119
Bazzi claimed asylum at the Rio Grande River when he
1488
00:46:14,119 –> 00:46:15,639
was caught three years ago.
1489
00:46:16,359 –> 00:46:17,399
Unbelievably,
1490
00:46:17,719 –> 00:46:19,479
he was given permission to work,
1491
00:46:19,799 –> 00:46:21,319
a social security number,
1492
00:46:21,639 –> 00:46:23,959
and even issued a driver’s license.
1493
00:46:25,879 –> 00:46:29,159
Bazi got pulled over here by a fugitive strike team
1494
00:46:29,159 –> 00:46:32,839
last week on his way to his job at a diner in Ypsilanti.
1495
00:46:33,319 –> 00:46:36,519
Sheesh! Hi.
1496
00:46:36,519 –> 00:46:36,679
Hello.
1497
00:46:37,879 –> 00:46:38,719
Is this one working?
1498
00:46:41,879 –> 00:46:42,999
Yeah, he’s not here today,
1499
00:46:43,559 –> 00:46:43,639
though.
1500
00:46:43,639 –> 00:46:45,079
No, he’s not coming back.
1501
00:46:46,039 –> 00:46:47,079
Immigration victim up.
1502
00:46:47,239 –> 00:46:48,759
He’s a wanted terrorist.
1503
00:46:49,319 –> 00:46:49,959
Allegedly.
1504
00:46:50,839 –> 00:46:51,399
Trippy, right?
1505
00:46:52,679 –> 00:46:52,879
Okay.
1506
00:46:52,879 –> 00:46:53,559
Thank you.
1507
00:46:54,599 –> 00:46:54,919
Nothing.
1508
00:46:54,919 –> 00:46:56,399
Just tell the boss he won’t be coming back.
1509
00:46:57,079 –> 00:46:57,359
Okay.
1510
00:47:00,519 –> 00:47:02,039
Normally when I go to a diner,
1511
00:47:02,039 –> 00:47:02,999
I leave a tip.
1512
00:47:03,399 –> 00:47:03,959
This time,
1513
00:47:03,959 –> 00:47:07,959
the angry owner gave me the tip of his middle finger.
1514
00:47:08,199 –> 00:47:09,079
Here, take this.
1515
00:47:09,119 –> 00:47:10,639
Get the out of here.
1516
00:47:10,639 –> 00:47:10,719
Out.
1517
00:47:10,719 –> 00:47:10,959
Thank you.
1518
00:47:10,959 –> 00:47:11,719
Go out.
1519
00:47:11,959 –> 00:47:14,439
Did he wash dishes,
1520
00:47:14,439 –> 00:47:14,639
cook?
1521
00:47:16,359 –> 00:47:16,679
Go out.
1522
00:47:17,559 –> 00:47:18,359
Maybe it was the lawyer.
1523
00:47:19,279 –> 00:47:22,599
Fozzy will wait for his appeal behind bars in Baldwin,
1524
00:47:22,599 –> 00:47:23,319
Michigan,
1525
00:47:23,559 –> 00:47:26,039
here at the Lake County Leavenworth.
1526
00:47:26,439 –> 00:47:29,239
The lunch menu apparently has a large selection of
1527
00:47:29,239 –> 00:47:29,879
halal.
1528
00:47:30,519 –> 00:47:31,479
And that’s good.
1529
00:47:31,839 –> 00:47:32,759
Asam, good,
1530
00:47:32,759 –> 00:47:33,479
good, good,
1531
00:47:33,479 –> 00:47:33,879
good.
1532
00:47:34,679 –> 00:47:34,919
Good.
1533
00:47:40,119 –> 00:47:42,359
Remember the good old days of Fox too,
1534
00:47:42,359 –> 00:47:42,759
man?
1535
00:47:42,919 –> 00:47:43,919
Oh yeah, yeah.
1536
00:47:44,119 –> 00:47:44,839
Well, you know,
1537
00:47:44,839 –> 00:47:45,559
the thing is,
1538
00:47:45,959 –> 00:47:46,999
if you can…
1539
00:47:47,799 –> 00:47:49,279
entertain while you inform,
1540
00:47:49,279 –> 00:47:50,919
you have a better chance of informing.
1541
00:47:51,239 –> 00:47:51,879
Indeed.
1542
00:47:52,439 –> 00:47:53,079
Thanks for being here,
1543
00:47:53,079 –> 00:47:53,399
man.
1544
00:47:53,599 –> 00:47:54,199
It’s a pleasure.
1545
00:47:54,199 –> 00:47:56,279
Keep, I was going to say keep digging,
1546
00:47:56,279 –> 00:47:59,039
but it sounds like other people need to be digging.
1547
00:47:59,039 –> 00:48:00,159
That’s going to be the new mayor.
1548
00:48:00,159 –> 00:48:02,319
Are you going to be at the special hearing?
1549
00:48:03,359 –> 00:48:03,999
September 18th?
1550
00:48:03,999 –> 00:48:04,759
Yeah, I might be.
1551
00:48:04,759 –> 00:48:05,959
I got to tell you,
1552
00:48:05,959 –> 00:48:06,879
know, with this mayor’s race,
1553
00:48:06,879 –> 00:48:08,919
there have been so many other knuckleheads who are
1554
00:48:08,919 –> 00:48:10,599
getting away without proper scrutiny.
1555
00:48:10,599 –> 00:48:10,839
It’s
1556
00:48:11,159 –> 00:48:12,039
It’s hard to be everywhere,
1557
00:48:12,039 –> 00:48:13,959
but that’s why I’m glad we’re both out there.
1558
00:48:13,959 –> 00:48:14,679
Right on, man.
1559
00:48:14,839 –> 00:48:15,159
All right,
1560
00:48:15,159 –> 00:48:16,519
we’ll see you all next week.
1561
00:48:16,759 –> 00:48:18,199
Oh, hey, you ready,
1562
00:48:18,199 –> 00:48:18,519
Ken?
1563
00:48:20,039 –> 00:48:22,519
We’re going out with ice.
1564
00:48:22,519 –> 00:48:23,719
Can’t give you details.
1565
00:48:23,719 –> 00:48:26,599
This high value target they’re going after.
1566
00:48:26,599 –> 00:48:27,159
So…
1567
00:48:27,879 –> 00:48:28,679
Wear your vest.
1568
00:48:29,079 –> 00:48:31,239
I’ve got a lone Ken one.
1569
00:48:31,559 –> 00:48:31,679
Yeah.
1570
00:48:35,559 –> 00:48:37,159
And he’s going to wear his helmet and it’s going to
1571
00:48:37,159 –> 00:48:38,519
have TV taped on it.
1572
00:48:39,039 –> 00:48:40,039
Like Dukakis.
1573
00:48:40,039 –> 00:48:41,879
Yes, Dukakis.
1574
00:48:42,039 –> 00:48:42,839
Dukenkis.
1575
00:48:42,879 –> 00:48:43,559
What could go wrong?
1576
00:48:43,559 –> 00:48:44,679
What could go wrong?
1577
00:48:44,679 –> 00:48:45,639
Alright, we’ll see you next week.
