No BS Newshour Episode #361
White Devil in Chocolate City
The Lord giveth; and the Mayor taketh away.
(0:04) After being shot and left for dead, Pastor Charles E. Brooks Jr received instruction from the Almighty.
The Lord said: Build and the people would return to Detroit.
So the pastor built it.
And they returned.
And now Mayor Mike Duggan is threatening to take the property.
(5:47) NBN to host the only Detroit Mayoral Debate
(13:11) The resurrection of Pastor Brooks
(41:11) The Henry Kissinger of the midwest.
How Congressman Tom Barrett negotiated the release of two Michigan citizens from a Mexican maximum security prison.
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Transcript:
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They have literally taken my home.
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In our story,
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this is David.
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Oh, they’re muscling you now.
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Because you spoke up.
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And this is Goliath.
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The mayor of the city of Detroit,
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Mike Duggan.
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Some years ago,
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after being shot,
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Charles Brooks Jr.
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received an instruction from God.
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The Lord told Brooks that if he built it here,
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they would come.
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I wanted to stay committed in the city of Detroit.
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And as the Lord blessed me and talked to me,
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I just branched out and started redoing the community.
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And so the faithful servant cobbled together 7 lots
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and built this,
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the castle.
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It is only 10 miles from downtown Detroit,
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but light years away.
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Brooks has one house on his estate left to fix.
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He began the work,
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as you can see,
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but then fell ill.
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Unsatisfied,
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the mayor of Detroit,
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Mike Duggan,
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sued Brooks in court without telling Brooks.
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I have a right to due process.
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Brooks found out the city had put a lien on his property,
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but only when the summon servers showed up.
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I’m not gonna apologize for a tool the city of Detroit
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used to get rid of countless abandoned houses.
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That’s not abandoned.
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That’s not abandoned.
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You all know that’s not abandoned.
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The mayor’s men claim they tacked a blight notice on
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the rear property back in November.
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Brooks said he never saw any notice,
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and one wonders how the inspector could scale a seven-foot
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piked fence.
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So they’re going to war with you just because,
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because you didn’t clean that up,
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and they never told you to clean it up.
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I looked it up.
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You’ve never been issued a flight ticket for it.
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The city and Brooks came to an agreement this past
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Brooks has 180 days to get permits,
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utilities,
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and tenants.
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Otherwise,
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the city will take his land.
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It’s a beautiful thing here.
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What is being done,
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it shows a lot of unity.
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Also this weekend,
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a small miracle of social media happened.
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The neighborhood came to help Brooks because they consider
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him to be their true mayor.
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This is our answer that the community came out here
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and helped me answer.
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The community showed up to help and they’re gonna his
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brand new shoes up.
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And one wonders why the city’s so troubled about Brooks
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anyhow, when the city’s own properties bordering each
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side of his Garden of Eden.
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are hulking hellscapes of filth and feral animals.
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And one wonders about this house on the city’s north
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Well, it’s lieutenant governor’s old house.
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Bought it from the city for 13 grand.
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Had six months to fix it up.
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He didn’t.
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Two years later,
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they let him sell it for $200,000,
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more or less,
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and let him keep it.
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That ain’t the rules.
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That’s not a door.
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Where’s the power meters?
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Dare me to put my tongue on it?
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Sure could use some walls and some wiring and some
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plumbing,
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and it could use a little brickwork.
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That’s been sitting there for a year.
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2,000 other property builders in the city didn’t get
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that kind of treatment.
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It looked like they’d done anything.
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They got their property repossessed,
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not Gilchrest.
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He got to sell the building to a shell company from
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Who would pay that kind of money for a place with no
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walls or wiring or plumbing?
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How did the shell company even find out about it?
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The building was never listed for sale.
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And how come,
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six years and a dozen blight tickets later,
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the shell company still gets to keep it?
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And oh, yeah.
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Your taxes are delinquent.
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So now Duggan and Gilchrist want to be your governor,
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and Charles Brooks Jr.,
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the mayor of the East Side,
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wishes to be left alone to finish his castle.
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He’ll do that,
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and then he plans to rehab the city’s nearby house
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of horror into a trade school to uplift his people.
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That would truly be a miracle.
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So remember,
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the new Detroit is a lot like the old Detroit.
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It’s not what you are,
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it’s who you know.
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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 Lazar.
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And Karen Dumas.
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Assistant breaking the,
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dumb bullshit,
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dumb bullshit.
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I’m Grace Karos,
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and I’m third generation of American Coney Island.
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People say Detroit’s a comeback city.
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I say, where you been?
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We’ve been here for over 100 years.
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My family’s been here on the same corner,
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serving our famous proprietary American Coney Island
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So like always,
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we’re keeping things fresh,
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updated, and new.
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We’d love to have you come downtown and visit us,
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but if you can’t,
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get it delivered fresh right to your door.
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Look at that,
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that’s the mayor downtown.
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the Louis Vuitton belt.
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Now the market is up and down like a wash woman’s ass
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on Monday.
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I mean, do not panic.
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Call Luke Nowacki.
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He’ll tailor a financial plan specifically for you
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from annuities to retirement accounts to college savings.
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He’ll keep you up to date and always a phone call away.
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I just got his quarterly letter.
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The guy’s brilliant.
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Do not panic.
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I’m not panicking.
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I’m taking Luke’s advice.
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I called a couple other people,
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But my first call is always to Luke Nowacki at Pinnacle
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Well Strategies.
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Let Luke worry so you don’t have to.
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248-663-4748.
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And before we get to the mayor of the east side,
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Karen’s got a little news about the mayor of the city
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writ large.
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Yes, we are going to host,
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and I don’t want to call it a debate,
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I’m going to call it a conversation.
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Charlie not going to argue that point,
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but on May 22nd at the Northwest campus of Wayne County
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Community College District.
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And so far,
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all of the candidates have agreed.
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You didn’t announce what?
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I said, I’m calling,
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I’m not calling it a debate.
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I said, we’re calling it a conversation.
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I said, and you and I disagree on that.
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But with the candidates who are running for mayor for
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the city of Detroit.
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All 6 declared candidates have so far agreed to participate.
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And they have been very responsive.
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And I appreciate that.
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And so I’m looking forward to it.
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So the new media,
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the no bullshit news hour is hosting a mayoral debate.
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Conversation.
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I don’t want to call it,
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because I don’t like the whole formality thing.
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You get 2 minutes,
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you get that,
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and then it gets,
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and I don’t,
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I want it to be a conversation.
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I want to find out who these people are,
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why they want to run for mayor,
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what do they want to do,
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and how do they plan to do it?
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I don’t want to hear them tell me what somebody else
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didn’t do and what they’re not bringing.
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And I don’t want to hear that.
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I want to,
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I want some answers just on some simple things that
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give an indication that they know what’s going on,
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that they are anticipating what is
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before them,
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who they are going to cater to.
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I mean, and you and I know we’re going to sit down
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and make sure that,
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you know,
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I mean, we know we didn’t just get here.
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So we’ve got the background.
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So we want to ask some substantive questions and hopefully
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get some substantive responses.
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I love it.
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I love it.
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Brought to you by Karen Dumas.
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She was just discussing it and bang,
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she put it together.
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I mean, and again,
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it’s May 22nd.
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It’s 6 to 8,
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6 to 8, right?
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It’s A Thursday,
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6 to 8 at the Northwest Campus,
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8200 West Outer Drive,
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Northwest Campus,
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the Wayne County Community College District.
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It’s a beautiful campus.
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You’ve got parking.
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I’m going to spring for refreshments because I’m not
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going to have people sitting there.
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I am because I want to make sure my whole family is
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going to leave early.
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No, but you can’t,
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you have to,
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I want people to be comfortable.
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It is open to the public.
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We want you to come out and just hear and see these
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people for who they are,
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you know,
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behind the ad,
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behind a caption and behind a Facebook post or something.
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And you know,
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it’s with the old media,
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it’s not important anymore.
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This used to be a big thing.
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It did, but it’s not,
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But there,
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you know,
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you were talking about the misidentification of John
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But there was a reporter that posted on Twitter and
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said, oh,
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I didn’t know that Dan Gilbert came to Detroit under
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the Kilpatrick administration.
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And I responded a whole lot happened before 2014.
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Like people act like all this stuff is just new.
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You know, the Riverwalk development,
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the redevelopment of Eastern Market.
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You know, somebody wrote a letter to the editor that
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Duggan did not save Detroit,
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that they’re not giving Dave Bing credit for laying
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the groundwork and the variables that happened that
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allowed Duggan to just walk in and act like he was
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the savior.
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And was it?
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You know, like you said about Riverwalk,
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$40 million got embezzled.
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You know why?
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Because that whole consortium had one guy doing the
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books and he would pull up to,
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you know,
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a parking lot and then give the bookkeeper here,
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enter these in.
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So now they got to go back.
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To all the donors and go,
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Hey, you know,
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sorry about that one.
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Yeah, but Kresge when that first happened,
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Kresge wrote them a check for 40 million to cover
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what they said was was lost.
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So, but but all I’m saying is,
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is that you know the things that people are celebrating,
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Eastern Market,
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the Riverwalk,
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you know,
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they were talking,
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you know,
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talking about the the NFL draft.
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OK, well, we had the Super Bowl here,
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like everybody’s so myopic in their perspective and
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approach and opinions.
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Things didn’t just start happening when Duggan took
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No, but you know,
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I want to know what’s for real,
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what they’re going to do.
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We’re facing some issues,
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And one of those,
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well, I’ll save that,
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but no, I just want to get to the pastor,
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Remember the woman who lived in my house 25 years ago
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and I keep going to City Hall and saying she doesn’t
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live here?
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I think it’s Charlie’s alias,
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Janet, you just got more early in-person voting information
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at the house,
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so give me a call and we’ll figure out how to divvy
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up the vote.
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What in the world is going on?
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But nobody cares,
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Nobody cares enough to do the due diligence required
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for the positions that they hold.
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And they keep telling us stuff like,
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we’re going to purge 600,000 people in here.
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We don’t have transparency,
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accountability,
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none of it.
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Now let me welcome in Pastor Charles E.
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Brooks Jr.,
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the man who with his own hands,
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brick by brick,
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built the castle on the east side.
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How you doing,
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Blessed, no complaints.
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Good blessed morning,
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everybody.
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Good morning.
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Thank you,
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We spoke yesterday,
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and in the written article in the Enjoyer,
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it doesn’t say they reached an agreement that he would
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fix it up in 180 days.
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As the pastor explained to me,
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it’s an ultimatum.
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Do you want to explain your feelings about it,
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Yeah, we got the lawsuit originally that we’ve been
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discussing all along.
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And on the lawsuit,
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it has on the back page,
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on the page about the violations,
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the black violations that they wanted me to correct.
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And in talking,
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the only person that I have discussed this with from
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city level is going to be Ray Solomon.
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And exactly what Ray Solomon told me,
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you fix these violations and they’re going to leave
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you alone and this will be over with.
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However, over the,
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at the end of the week,
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I get an e-mail from the Detroit Land Bank and it’s
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a consent agreement.
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And I’m like,
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well, what is this all about?
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Why am I signing a consent agreement about something
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they’ve already filed A lawsuit on.
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I’m not under obligation to be signing a consent agreement
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behind this.
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And this is in spite of all what they’re doing in the
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media trying to right their wrong.
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They keep saying that they didn’t take my house,
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but I don’t have any control over my property.
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Now, God came,
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you were a number of years ago,
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shot in an artery,
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left for dead,
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carjacked on the sidewalk,
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and then the Lord came to you and told you not to
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leave the city,
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but to stay.
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Is that correct?
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And you did?
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I mean, why you do?
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I look at that thing and I just go,
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is responsible for this.
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It’s impressive.
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It is massive and it has been there for a long time.
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Anybody that is on or familiar with the East Side knows
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to go and see it because it is like a physical miracle.
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It’s like the Taj Mahood.
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I like that,
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Thank you.
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Thank you very much.
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If I can, Charlie and the listening audience,
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My son, who was my chief of operations,
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he’s 22 now.
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I got shot in front of three,
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him and two of my other children in the carjacking.
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And I got hit in the main artery and I pretty much
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passed away because they were trying to call the EMS,
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but the EMS kept hanging up the phone on the children
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because they said they were playing on the phone.
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So I laid face down in the streets right here in Detroit
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for 32 minutes,
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face down.
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When the police got there,
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They put the tape up around my body and told my family
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that they couldn’t do anything for me.
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So from that time,
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on the time till I hit the operating table,
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it was an hour and 47 minutes before they actually
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got a chance to operate or do anything with me.
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When they got me to the hospital,
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we had a police escort on the way to the hospital,
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but the EMS driver radioed to the police or some kind
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of way they were able to let them know
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that they had lost me once again in the back of the
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And so the police car slowed down and got behind the
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And the EMS just cruised to the hospital.
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When they got me to the hospital,
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they wheeled me in,
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but they didn’t take me to the operating room.
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I think they like took me off to the side.
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And we always call her angel.
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You know, she was like,
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what happened to the guy that just came in?
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It’s, oh, no,
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he’s gone.
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And she said,
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I want to check for myself.
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And she came to my body and pulled the sheets back
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and found a faint pause.
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and hollered and told them,
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hey, he’s got a pause.
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And that’s when they took me to the operating table
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and, you know,
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worked on me.
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And at what point did the Lord speak to you after this?
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When they had me in the EMS as I was leaving here,
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they said,
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he’s gone,
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he’s gone,
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he’s gone.
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And I started reciting the 23rd Psalm.
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And when I woke up two days later,
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I was still reciting the 23rd Psalm despite having
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tubes in my body and being on life support.
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And I woke up and I was talking just like you and I
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started with doctors and everyone,
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but I finished the 23rd song and I was in protective
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I was a John Doe due to the severity of the crime.
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So my family or no one was in there with me.
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And I woke up and I’m looking around.
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I’m like, what’s going on?
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And the Lord came to me and said that,
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you know,
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I’ve brought you back to life and
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you know, but I want you to do something for me.
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I’m like, what do you need,
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And we’re having this conversation on my deathbed.
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And he said that,
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I want you to do three things for me.
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I want you to go get my children,
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go get the city of Detroit and go and get my church
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because they’ve all been stolen from me.
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I’m like, oh no,
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you don’t want me to do that.
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I’m the biggest whoremonger in town.
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And that’s why I stepped down from the pulpit right
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before I got shot because of,
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you know,
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I wasn’t worthy to continue to keep preaching.
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But God said,
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I know you.
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And I’ve chosen you to do this because you’re the chosen
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one and you can’t do this.
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I’m like, okay,
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And he’s like,
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I know we are.
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So at that time,
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he said, the blood that’s running through your veins
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is not the blood from man.
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It’s the blood from my son that dripped on Calvary.
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I didn’t find out till two years later that the blood
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that he was talking about,
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they actually ordered our bodies hold 10 to 12 quarts
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of blood.
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and they ordered 11 and three quarters of blood to
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put in my body because I bled out.
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I didn’t have any blood in my body throughout this
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And so he said,
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go and get them.
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And I said,
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well, Lord,
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if that’s what you want me to do,
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then may I ask of something from you?
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And he said,
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And so I said,
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well, I want to preach again.
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I want to walk again and I want to pour concrete again.
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And it was kind of like me and God just high fived
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and did a dapping on my deathbed and we had a deal.
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And from that point forward,
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I stayed five days in ICU in grave condition because
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they did not think I was going to make it because
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my body was trying to accept all of the new blood
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in my organs.
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They weren’t acting right.
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And so I came home in a wheelchair.
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Eventually I came home in a wheelchair and I weighed
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less than 150 pounds.
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I couldn’t take care of myself.
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I had to learn how to live life all over again.
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I couldn’t walk.
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To get a whole sentence out,
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it would take me about 5 minutes.
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And at the time my wife and I were separated so there
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was really no one to take care of me because the children
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were on their way back to school.
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So my children’s mother and some of my other children
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pitched in to take care of me.
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And then the community pitched in to assist to take
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care of me.
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So someone brought the chicken,
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someone brought the mashed potatoes,
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someone brought the bread,
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someone bought the Kool-Aid.
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And between them,
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my children’s mother and the community and my children,
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They took care of Charlie.
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Now, you’re a contractor,
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so for those listening and not watching,
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you can go to YouTube,
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you can go to my X account,
517
00:18:04,917 –> 00:18:06,997
you can go to the MichiganEnjoyer.com,
518
00:18:07,237 –> 00:18:08,717
theEnjoyer.com is what it is,
519
00:18:09,157 –> 00:18:10,037
and watch this.
520
00:18:10,037 –> 00:18:11,637
But if you haven’t seen it,
521
00:18:11,677 –> 00:18:14,037
I mean, I’m talking two,
522
00:18:14,357 –> 00:18:15,797
three-story homes,
523
00:18:17,037 –> 00:18:19,237
an aerial gangway that connects them.
524
00:18:19,237 –> 00:18:21,237
It’s topped in copper.
525
00:18:21,717 –> 00:18:23,317
It’s got an 8 car garage.
526
00:18:23,317 –> 00:18:25,077
It has a 12 car garage.
527
00:18:25,397 –> 00:18:30,277
It has a beautiful stone and granite and iron fence.
528
00:18:30,357 –> 00:18:30,877
All, you know,
529
00:18:30,877 –> 00:18:32,677
it’s seven lots.
530
00:18:32,997 –> 00:18:34,597
It’s incredible.
531
00:18:36,277 –> 00:18:38,517
And you built it yourself with your people,
532
00:18:38,517 –> 00:18:39,397
your company.
533
00:18:39,477 –> 00:18:40,677
And how did you pay for it,
534
00:18:42,277 –> 00:18:45,637
Well, I got to give credit where credit is due.
535
00:18:46,197 –> 00:18:49,637
With the help of a few good angels and my wife,
536
00:18:49,717 –> 00:18:50,597
my children,
537
00:18:51,317 –> 00:18:54,437
We were able to construct this over a number of years.
538
00:18:54,837 –> 00:18:55,437
My company,
539
00:18:55,437 –> 00:18:56,597
Unique Construction Company,
540
00:18:56,597 –> 00:18:59,557
has been very successful here in the city of Detroit,
541
00:18:59,557 –> 00:19:00,717
our home-based business.
542
00:19:00,717 –> 00:19:01,957
So, you know,
543
00:19:01,957 –> 00:19:02,917
I didn’t hit the lottery.
544
00:19:02,917 –> 00:19:04,277
I didn’t get grants or anything.
545
00:19:04,277 –> 00:19:07,917
It’s just the success of our company allowed us to
546
00:19:07,917 –> 00:19:08,677
build as such.
547
00:19:08,757 –> 00:19:11,277
And it’s not like we built this overnight and it was
548
00:19:11,277 –> 00:19:11,717
a one, two,
549
00:19:11,717 –> 00:19:12,317
three punch.
550
00:19:12,317 –> 00:19:14,997
You know, we did this over a number of years.
551
00:19:14,997 –> 00:19:16,997
We went from the single house on the corner
552
00:19:17,477 –> 00:19:19,357
and then just doing this and doing that.
553
00:19:19,357 –> 00:19:21,877
And as the Lord blessed our company and prospered us,
554
00:19:22,197 –> 00:19:23,237
we did a little bit more.
555
00:19:23,477 –> 00:19:25,477
We did a little bit more because the family was growing
556
00:19:26,037 –> 00:19:27,717
and the business was growing as well.
557
00:19:27,797 –> 00:19:28,757
And, you know,
558
00:19:28,957 –> 00:19:31,037
I would take assignment from the Lord and he would
559
00:19:31,037 –> 00:19:31,397
say, okay,
560
00:19:31,397 –> 00:19:32,357
do this, do that.
561
00:19:33,077 –> 00:19:35,477
And that’s how we were able to do it.
562
00:19:35,477 –> 00:19:36,917
Can I ask a spiritual question?
563
00:19:37,157 –> 00:19:38,597
I mean, and I mean,
564
00:19:38,597 –> 00:19:39,397
no disrespect.
565
00:19:39,397 –> 00:19:42,437
I am sincerely asking because I hear people say that
566
00:19:42,437 –> 00:19:43,157
all the time.
567
00:19:43,397 –> 00:19:46,357
You know, God spoke to me and I had a conversation.
568
00:19:46,677 –> 00:19:47,797
How does that come?
569
00:19:47,797 –> 00:19:50,277
Is that mental?
570
00:19:50,277 –> 00:19:51,077
Is that, I mean,
571
00:19:51,077 –> 00:19:52,037
do you close your eyes?
572
00:19:52,037 –> 00:19:52,837
Do you hear it?
573
00:19:52,837 –> 00:19:55,997
Is there, just give me a thumbnail of what that’s like
574
00:19:55,997 –> 00:19:58,037
because I hear it all the time and I just,
575
00:19:58,797 –> 00:19:59,997
I’d like to understand it better.
576
00:19:59,997 –> 00:20:00,997
This guy doesn’t talk to you.
577
00:20:00,997 –> 00:20:03,797
I’m, Karen,
578
00:20:03,797 –> 00:20:04,917
I’m glad you asked that.
579
00:20:04,917 –> 00:20:08,117
It’s kind of different with me because I built this
580
00:20:08,117 –> 00:20:09,877
through everything that you could imagine.
581
00:20:09,877 –> 00:20:11,237
So, you know,
582
00:20:11,957 –> 00:20:12,597
I’d been there.
583
00:20:12,597 –> 00:20:14,797
I was dealing with my sickness and the whole 9 yards
584
00:20:14,797 –> 00:20:15,757
and a bunch of other stuff,
585
00:20:15,757 –> 00:20:16,437
foreclosure,
586
00:20:16,837 –> 00:20:17,917
lights and gas cut off.
587
00:20:18,437 –> 00:20:19,997
And in the middle of the night,
588
00:20:20,197 –> 00:20:22,837
the Lord would just wake me up and say,
589
00:20:22,837 –> 00:20:23,717
come on and go with me.
590
00:20:23,717 –> 00:20:24,757
I want to take you somewhere.
591
00:20:24,757 –> 00:20:28,117
So I would literally get up and he don’t say get clothes
592
00:20:29,077 –> 00:20:32,077
You know, I had my pajama pants on and I might throw
593
00:20:32,077 –> 00:20:32,997
on a coat or whatever.
594
00:20:32,997 –> 00:20:33,877
And he said,
595
00:20:34,237 –> 00:20:36,837
And I get in my house shoes and I would walk around
596
00:20:36,837 –> 00:20:38,997
the block over there with Chalmers and I was on my
597
00:20:40,477 –> 00:20:42,037
and two or three o’clock in the morning,
598
00:20:42,357 –> 00:20:44,117
surrounded by garbage and debris,
599
00:20:44,197 –> 00:20:46,237
praying, and I asked the Lord,
600
00:20:46,237 –> 00:20:47,317
what am I doing here?
601
00:20:47,797 –> 00:20:48,237
And He said,
602
00:20:48,277 –> 00:20:50,997
I want you to pray for the new Detroit that I’m about
603
00:20:51,037 –> 00:20:51,637
to give you.
604
00:20:52,357 –> 00:20:55,797
And it was like an out of body experience because God
605
00:20:55,797 –> 00:20:57,877
would have me do strange things.
606
00:20:57,877 –> 00:20:58,837
And you know,
607
00:20:59,237 –> 00:20:59,877
it was really,
608
00:20:59,877 –> 00:21:02,677
really, I’m not going to say it’s strange because
609
00:21:02,677 –> 00:21:03,797
nothing is strange with God,
610
00:21:03,797 –> 00:21:04,997
so I always say divine,
611
00:21:05,477 –> 00:21:07,957
even when you look at the pillars that have the scriptures
612
00:21:09,397 –> 00:21:11,797
We were laying a brick with my bricklayers and what
613
00:21:11,797 –> 00:21:14,677
would happen where you see the scriptures that the
614
00:21:14,677 –> 00:21:15,957
Lord would speak to me and say,
615
00:21:16,037 –> 00:21:18,597
I want 2 Chronicles 7,
616
00:21:18,597 –> 00:21:19,717
verse 14 here.
617
00:21:19,957 –> 00:21:21,557
Put the 23rd Psalm right here.
618
00:21:22,117 –> 00:21:25,157
And so we would block that out and I would call my
619
00:21:25,157 –> 00:21:27,877
stone guy and have him to make the stone.
620
00:21:28,277 –> 00:21:30,557
And then after calling him and having him making about
621
00:21:30,557 –> 00:21:31,197
5 stones,
622
00:21:31,197 –> 00:21:31,517
he was like,
623
00:21:31,517 –> 00:21:32,117
hey, Charlie,
624
00:21:32,597 –> 00:21:32,917
you know,
625
00:21:32,917 –> 00:21:35,437
you could really just have us to cut a whole sheet
626
00:21:35,917 –> 00:21:37,957
and you could save a lot of money and we’ll make it
627
00:21:37,957 –> 00:21:38,437
off of that.
628
00:21:38,437 –> 00:21:38,837
But I say,
629
00:21:39,397 –> 00:21:39,957
I said, Gino,
630
00:21:39,957 –> 00:21:40,917
you don’t understand.
631
00:21:40,917 –> 00:21:42,637
The Lord is speaking to me as I build this,
632
00:21:42,757 –> 00:21:43,157
you know,
633
00:21:43,517 –> 00:21:45,037
because everybody’s calling me crazy.
634
00:21:45,037 –> 00:21:48,357
I mean, we’re building this as God is speaking to me.
635
00:21:48,997 –> 00:21:51,637
So it’s a listening thing too.
636
00:21:51,637 –> 00:21:52,357
Am I correct?
637
00:21:52,357 –> 00:21:54,517
I mean, you have to be still and listen.
638
00:21:54,517 –> 00:21:56,037
Yeah, there you go,
639
00:21:56,477 –> 00:21:56,837
Thank you.
640
00:21:56,957 –> 00:21:59,037
That’s so beautiful.
641
00:21:59,037 –> 00:22:00,837
Like, what a great question because,
642
00:22:01,077 –> 00:22:01,237
you know,
643
00:22:01,237 –> 00:22:04,197
I’m A reporter and all the details.
644
00:22:04,437 –> 00:22:05,797
I want all the details.
645
00:22:06,997 –> 00:22:08,117
Look, he’s not a rich man,
646
00:22:08,117 –> 00:22:08,517
and he’s,
647
00:22:08,757 –> 00:22:09,357
I’m telling you,
648
00:22:09,837 –> 00:22:10,677
But he’s wealthy.
649
00:22:10,917 –> 00:22:13,477
Yeah, he’s beyond belief.
650
00:22:13,557 –> 00:22:15,357
And the community’s responded to him,
651
00:22:15,357 –> 00:22:17,277
and they have a sense of pride,
652
00:22:17,277 –> 00:22:18,837
and it’s spring cleaning in the neighborhood.
653
00:22:18,837 –> 00:22:19,957
That’s the Detroit I miss.
654
00:22:19,997 –> 00:22:21,117
And all up and down,
655
00:22:21,117 –> 00:22:22,357
they respond to what he’s doing.
656
00:22:22,557 –> 00:22:23,637
And he could have saved money,
657
00:22:23,637 –> 00:22:26,197
but no, he’s waiting for the inspiration for what
658
00:22:26,197 –> 00:22:26,917
should go there.
659
00:22:26,997 –> 00:22:31,477
Now, that’s the Lord on the east side of Detroit.
660
00:22:31,477 –> 00:22:32,797
Let’s talk about the white devil.
661
00:22:32,897 –> 00:22:34,377
Devil Mayor Mike Duggan.
662
00:22:34,737 –> 00:22:35,897
OK, because.
663
00:22:36,857 –> 00:22:38,617
OKOK, we’ll fix that in post.
664
00:22:39,297 –> 00:22:39,817
No, don’t.
665
00:22:41,097 –> 00:22:41,737
You said God,
666
00:22:41,817 –> 00:22:43,257
you said God didn’t talk to me,
667
00:22:43,257 –> 00:22:44,417
so that’s the least.
668
00:22:44,457 –> 00:22:45,417
No, don’t fix it,
669
00:22:45,657 –> 00:22:46,697
Well, here’s the thing.
670
00:22:46,737 –> 00:22:48,697
I mean, everybody knows this guy.
671
00:22:48,777 –> 00:22:52,417
Everybody knows what an uplift the man is and what
672
00:22:52,417 –> 00:22:53,897
he’s, it’s gorgeous.
673
00:22:53,897 –> 00:22:55,977
It’s at Chalmers and Warren,
674
00:22:55,977 –> 00:22:57,977
south of Warren at Chalmers,
675
00:22:58,457 –> 00:23:01,417
just a mile maybe from the points.
676
00:23:02,497 –> 00:23:06,017
Charlie, Charlie,
677
00:23:07,897 –> 00:23:09,417
before we dive into that white devil,
678
00:23:10,777 –> 00:23:11,577
We’ll fix it in post.
679
00:23:12,697 –> 00:23:15,537
Okay, I want to address something that Karen said right
680
00:23:15,537 –> 00:23:18,617
at the end of her conversation about being still.
681
00:23:19,177 –> 00:23:20,137
And she said something about,
682
00:23:20,137 –> 00:23:21,337
is it mental or physical?
683
00:23:21,817 –> 00:23:23,337
Karen, you’re absolutely right.
684
00:23:23,657 –> 00:23:25,577
No matter what was going on,
685
00:23:26,057 –> 00:23:29,897
God unctioned the Holy Spirit to allow me to be still
686
00:23:30,297 –> 00:23:34,217
and understand and tune my ears so I could hear,
687
00:23:35,257 –> 00:23:38,217
guide my eyes so I can see where he was guiding me
688
00:23:38,537 –> 00:23:41,297
and understand what he was taking me through in spite
689
00:23:41,297 –> 00:23:45,097
of the circumstances that I was going through in order
690
00:23:45,097 –> 00:23:47,377
to carry out this divine assignment.
691
00:23:47,977 –> 00:23:49,817
And so when you say be still,
692
00:23:49,817 –> 00:23:51,977
a lot of people think it’s just sitting still and
693
00:23:51,977 –> 00:23:52,697
not doing nothing.
694
00:23:52,697 –> 00:23:55,017
God wants to steal everything so he can have
695
00:23:55,577 –> 00:23:58,857
full control and direct you like the traffic lights
696
00:23:58,857 –> 00:24:02,137
direct us on a red stop and a green to go.
697
00:24:02,497 –> 00:24:05,137
And that’s just what the being still with God means.
698
00:24:05,137 –> 00:24:09,177
So that actually happened with me in building this
699
00:24:09,697 –> 00:24:12,177
And I went through everything to build it,
700
00:24:12,177 –> 00:24:12,857
you name it,
701
00:24:13,457 –> 00:24:14,857
I’ll just tell you where it fell.
702
00:24:14,937 –> 00:24:17,257
And I actually went through all of that.
703
00:24:19,097 –> 00:24:20,217
Now the white devil.
704
00:24:23,977 –> 00:24:25,657
I don’t know why they’re fucking with you,
705
00:24:25,657 –> 00:24:28,857
Pastor, because one block to the east and one block
706
00:24:28,857 –> 00:24:29,377
to the west,
707
00:24:29,377 –> 00:24:31,337
they look like the old,
708
00:24:31,817 –> 00:24:34,137
the beautiful old Detroit schools,
709
00:24:36,617 –> 00:24:37,857
The windows are blown out,
710
00:24:37,857 –> 00:24:38,937
trees growing through the roof.
711
00:24:39,257 –> 00:24:41,017
People use it as a garbage dump.
712
00:24:41,017 –> 00:24:42,457
There’s wild pit bulls,
713
00:24:42,457 –> 00:24:43,577
wild pheasants.
714
00:24:44,937 –> 00:24:48,617
Why the mayor in City Hall would be so stressed out
715
00:24:49,817 –> 00:24:52,617
One small house gated in your state,
716
00:24:52,657 –> 00:24:54,457
obviously you’re going to build it.
717
00:24:54,617 –> 00:24:55,897
It’s half built already.
718
00:24:56,217 –> 00:24:57,977
And they leave that monstrosity,
719
00:24:57,977 –> 00:25:03,097
that landscape of doom that they own all around you.
720
00:25:03,257 –> 00:25:05,017
That’s what trips me out.
721
00:25:06,537 –> 00:25:09,617
Well, what I’ve been told as this has been getting
722
00:25:09,617 –> 00:25:10,097
attraction,
723
00:25:10,097 –> 00:25:12,137
because you know I got shared over a billion times
724
00:25:12,617 –> 00:25:17,257
in the last month with all that attraction and everybody
725
00:25:17,257 –> 00:25:18,217
knowing me
726
00:25:18,537 –> 00:25:20,137
And what I’ve done in the city,
727
00:25:20,457 –> 00:25:22,697
what’s been told to me out of several stories,
728
00:25:22,697 –> 00:25:26,377
but the biggest one is that you outdid the mayor,
729
00:25:26,377 –> 00:25:30,057
you’ve done more in the community than the mayor has
730
00:25:30,057 –> 00:25:31,657
actually done for the people.
731
00:25:32,057 –> 00:25:32,937
And he’s pissed off.
732
00:25:33,177 –> 00:25:35,017
And I’ve been told by this,
733
00:25:35,497 –> 00:25:38,297
not by just some people that are like us laymen,
734
00:25:38,697 –> 00:25:40,617
I’ve been told by some people downtown,
735
00:25:41,017 –> 00:25:43,137
hey, you done pissed the mayor off because what you’ve
736
00:25:43,137 –> 00:25:44,577
done is epic.
737
00:25:44,577 –> 00:25:46,457
What you’ve done in the 48205,
738
00:25:46,817 –> 00:25:48,297
what you’ve done in that community,
739
00:25:48,457 –> 00:25:51,657
how you attract the people and how you got so many
740
00:25:51,657 –> 00:25:53,817
followers and people giving you the thumbs up.
741
00:25:53,857 –> 00:25:55,377
And when people look at it,
742
00:25:55,377 –> 00:25:56,937
I mean, if 100 people look at it,
743
00:25:57,497 –> 00:26:00,017
98 of them are going to be inspired.
744
00:26:00,377 –> 00:26:02,937
And they say that the mayor is pissed off because this
745
00:26:02,937 –> 00:26:03,697
is bigger than him.
746
00:26:04,857 –> 00:26:06,457
And I hate to say it,
747
00:26:06,617 –> 00:26:07,977
but that sounds about right.
748
00:26:07,977 –> 00:26:10,857
And that’s also why people don’t speak up in the city,
749
00:26:10,857 –> 00:26:13,337
because they know that if you say something or do
750
00:26:13,337 –> 00:26:14,297
something wrong,
751
00:26:14,457 –> 00:26:16,857
if it goes against the grain of what he wants you
752
00:26:16,857 –> 00:26:17,577
to believe,
753
00:26:17,817 –> 00:26:20,697
then you will be reprimanded in some form or fashion,
754
00:26:20,697 –> 00:26:21,617
which is unfortunate.
755
00:26:22,697 –> 00:26:24,057
I know that very well.
756
00:26:25,577 –> 00:26:26,217
Okay, so what?
757
00:26:26,537 –> 00:26:27,217
He’s pissed off.
758
00:26:27,217 –> 00:26:28,697
Are you going to fix the place?
759
00:26:30,937 –> 00:26:31,737
Absolutely,
760
00:26:32,617 –> 00:26:33,737
Like I’m saying,
761
00:26:34,217 –> 00:26:35,817
We took that house off the demo list.
762
00:26:35,817 –> 00:26:37,577
They were actually gonna tear it down.
763
00:26:38,137 –> 00:26:41,697
And in the crucible of my assignment from God,
764
00:26:41,697 –> 00:26:42,897
what I ended up doing,
765
00:26:43,017 –> 00:26:44,937
that was one of the parcels of land that the Lord
766
00:26:44,937 –> 00:26:45,737
wanted me to get.
767
00:26:46,217 –> 00:26:47,977
And he arranged for me to get it.
768
00:26:48,457 –> 00:26:51,177
And we started immediately working on it.
769
00:26:51,577 –> 00:26:52,777
And down through the years,
770
00:26:54,057 –> 00:26:55,097
I had been working on it,
771
00:26:55,097 –> 00:26:55,737
but you know,
772
00:26:56,137 –> 00:26:58,977
life happened and I just kept chipping away at it.
773
00:26:58,977 –> 00:27:00,937
I mean, I built all this with my bare hands.
774
00:27:01,657 –> 00:27:05,497
and just doing it and attempting to finish it and everything.
775
00:27:05,497 –> 00:27:08,097
But I had a stroke.
776
00:27:08,777 –> 00:27:09,897
I lost my mother,
777
00:27:09,897 –> 00:27:10,697
my father,
778
00:27:10,697 –> 00:27:12,137
my son, and my uncle.
779
00:27:12,137 –> 00:27:15,177
And I just buried my stepfather not too long ago,
780
00:27:15,497 –> 00:27:16,497
plus having a stroke,
781
00:27:16,857 –> 00:27:19,217
having a couple of times and being,
782
00:27:19,337 –> 00:27:19,657
you know,
783
00:27:19,737 –> 00:27:20,777
sick on multiple occasions.
784
00:27:20,817 –> 00:27:23,417
And then I’ve been sick under the weather actually
785
00:27:23,737 –> 00:27:25,737
since November of 2024,
786
00:27:26,017 –> 00:27:28,377
and I’m just not getting back in the swing of things.
787
00:27:29,017 –> 00:27:30,537
And then this happens.
788
00:27:30,777 –> 00:27:31,657
So I’m like,
789
00:27:32,417 –> 00:27:33,897
I’m in a state of shock right now.
790
00:27:34,217 –> 00:27:37,657
I never thought in a million years after the city has
791
00:27:37,657 –> 00:27:39,257
never, because you know I’m the one that put those
792
00:27:39,257 –> 00:27:42,617
sewers, curves and sidewalks in around the entire
793
00:27:42,617 –> 00:27:45,097
state from Chalmers all the way around to Lakewood.
794
00:27:45,097 –> 00:27:47,697
So I never thought in a million years that the city,
795
00:27:49,577 –> 00:27:50,537
I didn’t hear you,
796
00:27:50,737 –> 00:27:52,217
I said you should send the city a bill.
797
00:27:54,257 –> 00:27:54,857
Yeah, you’re right.
798
00:27:55,017 –> 00:27:55,577
And listen,
799
00:27:55,577 –> 00:27:55,897
you know,
800
00:27:55,897 –> 00:27:57,577
if they, if they pay you,
801
00:27:59,057 –> 00:28:01,377
and you’re an entrepreneur looking for a safe and socially
802
00:28:01,377 –> 00:28:03,097
responsible real estate investment,
803
00:28:03,497 –> 00:28:06,297
consider contacting Archangel Senior Management.
804
00:28:06,537 –> 00:28:08,057
Dig this, you might be interested in this.
805
00:28:08,457 –> 00:28:10,537
It’s a very spiritual company.
806
00:28:10,777 –> 00:28:12,977
Senior living is one of the fastest growing markets
807
00:28:12,977 –> 00:28:13,657
in America,
808
00:28:13,977 –> 00:28:17,017
and Archangel offers small communal living for senior
809
00:28:17,017 –> 00:28:20,777
citizens in homes right inside our own neighborhoods.
810
00:28:21,017 –> 00:28:24,377
It’s the opposite to the cold corporate nursing homes
811
00:28:24,537 –> 00:28:26,297
we’ve all now heard so much about.
812
00:28:26,617 –> 00:28:28,897
Archangel has formed partnerships with the school
813
00:28:28,977 –> 00:28:31,417
School of Nursing and Majestic Residences,
814
00:28:31,537 –> 00:28:35,177
which is a home-based assisted living franchise system.
815
00:28:35,497 –> 00:28:38,577
The partnership provides authentic caregivers with
816
00:28:38,577 –> 00:28:41,657
the tools and training necessary to manage their own
817
00:28:41,657 –> 00:28:42,377
care homes,
818
00:28:42,537 –> 00:28:45,817
and Archangel investors in that real estate can feel
819
00:28:45,817 –> 00:28:48,617
secure in both their investment and their care teams.
820
00:28:48,697 –> 00:28:49,737
The care is genuine,
821
00:28:50,057 –> 00:28:51,097
the owners are local,
822
00:28:51,297 –> 00:28:52,617
and Archangel has overwatch.
823
00:28:52,857 –> 00:28:54,697
If interested in this opportunity,
824
00:28:54,937 –> 00:28:58,737
contact Joe LeBlanc at 989-614.
825
00:29:00,017 –> 00:29:02,537
But that’s the core of this,
826
00:29:03,057 –> 00:29:03,657
The community.
827
00:29:03,657 –> 00:29:04,697
That’s why I was like.
828
00:29:04,697 –> 00:29:06,137
Yep, that’s exactly the same.
829
00:29:06,177 –> 00:29:07,737
That is exactly the same thing.
830
00:29:08,217 –> 00:29:09,257
Okay, write the number down.
831
00:29:09,497 –> 00:29:10,297
Write the number down,
832
00:29:11,697 –> 00:29:13,857
Give it to me again.
833
00:29:17,857 –> 00:29:18,497
I’m telling you,
834
00:29:18,497 –> 00:29:19,977
I’m going to set you two guys up.
835
00:29:21,017 –> 00:29:21,697
Okay, his name,
836
00:29:21,697 –> 00:29:22,697
what’s his first?
837
00:29:22,697 –> 00:29:23,297
I got the last name,
838
00:29:23,657 –> 00:29:25,257
Joe LeBlanc,
839
00:29:25,537 –> 00:29:27,417
L-E-B-L-A-N-C.
840
00:29:29,657 –> 00:29:32,457
So you’re Pastor Chuck and he’s Nursing Home Joe.
841
00:29:34,057 –> 00:29:35,257
I’m gonna make it community.
842
00:29:35,257 –> 00:29:36,777
I’m gonna make it community.
843
00:29:37,097 –> 00:29:39,737
I think that’ll be a good fix.
844
00:29:39,737 –> 00:29:41,657
Two more, two more questions I got,
845
00:29:42,057 –> 00:29:42,297
you know,
846
00:29:42,297 –> 00:29:43,577
’cause we gotta get to the Congressman.
847
00:29:45,017 –> 00:29:48,217
In the video that we ran at the top of the show,
848
00:29:48,217 –> 00:29:49,017
World Premiere,
849
00:29:50,297 –> 00:29:51,937
You saw Garland Gilchrist,
850
00:29:51,937 –> 00:29:53,097
the lieutenant governor,
851
00:29:53,177 –> 00:29:54,937
a guy who’s connected.
852
00:29:55,257 –> 00:29:57,737
You see the treatment that he got.
853
00:29:57,737 –> 00:29:58,857
You saw this house.
854
00:29:59,017 –> 00:30:00,657
This is 8 years running.
855
00:30:01,195 –> 00:30:02,875
Is this a tale of two cities?
856
00:30:03,035 –> 00:30:04,795
Not what you are,
857
00:30:04,795 –> 00:30:05,595
but who you know?
858
00:30:05,755 –> 00:30:07,115
Does that upset you to see that?
859
00:30:08,075 –> 00:30:09,635
It goes back to what Karen said.
860
00:30:09,635 –> 00:30:12,955
Well, if you’re not well connected and you know,
861
00:30:13,275 –> 00:30:14,635
I’m just a little guy down here.
862
00:30:14,635 –> 00:30:17,635
So yeah, he’s well connected and they wouldn’t attempt
863
00:30:17,635 –> 00:30:18,795
to do anything to him.
864
00:30:18,835 –> 00:30:20,195
I mean, they’re going to help him.
865
00:30:20,195 –> 00:30:22,315
And based on what you’ve shared with me,
866
00:30:22,715 –> 00:30:24,155
they literally helped him,
867
00:30:24,555 –> 00:30:28,555
even though he was 100 times over in blight than what
868
00:30:29,795 –> 00:30:32,235
but they helped him and he didn’t lose his.
869
00:30:32,955 –> 00:30:35,195
And he’s not doing nothing for the community.
870
00:30:35,275 –> 00:30:35,915
I mean, you know,
871
00:30:35,915 –> 00:30:39,395
he was, he’s totally against what the nuisance,
872
00:30:39,395 –> 00:30:40,955
I mean, not against the nuisance abatement.
873
00:30:41,275 –> 00:30:42,035
He’s the actual,
874
00:30:42,475 –> 00:30:43,915
based on what I’ve seen and heard,
875
00:30:44,315 –> 00:30:47,915
his property fell right within the nuisance and abatement
876
00:30:47,995 –> 00:30:51,035
portion and they took real good care of him.
877
00:30:51,355 –> 00:30:53,115
But when it comes to me,
878
00:30:53,595 –> 00:30:56,315
After all I’ve done and it’s been publicized,
879
00:30:56,315 –> 00:30:57,515
it’s been in CNN,
880
00:30:57,755 –> 00:30:59,355
CBS, Fox 2 News,
881
00:30:59,675 –> 00:31:00,675
Michigan Chronicle,
882
00:31:01,035 –> 00:31:01,915
the Free Press,
883
00:31:02,795 –> 00:31:04,315
online editorials.
884
00:31:04,315 –> 00:31:08,395
It’s been in over 50 different publications and news
885
00:31:08,395 –> 00:31:09,035
media stories.
886
00:31:09,435 –> 00:31:12,635
And the city of Detroit has never given me a glass
887
00:31:12,635 –> 00:31:13,115
of water.
888
00:31:13,435 –> 00:31:15,115
Why not just call me up and say,
889
00:31:15,115 –> 00:31:15,955
hey, Chuck Brooks,
890
00:31:16,395 –> 00:31:17,915
I know you’re not into politics,
891
00:31:17,915 –> 00:31:18,795
but hey, man,
892
00:31:18,795 –> 00:31:20,715
we love what you’ve done with these communities.
893
00:31:21,115 –> 00:31:22,715
Can we just partner up with you?
894
00:31:22,875 –> 00:31:24,075
Let’s just do this together.
895
00:31:24,075 –> 00:31:24,995
If, if, if,
896
00:31:25,515 –> 00:31:27,555
if, and let me say this for the record.
897
00:31:28,075 –> 00:31:30,955
I’ve never met Mayor Duggan a day in my life.
898
00:31:31,435 –> 00:31:33,115
I don’t know nothing about him.
899
00:31:34,235 –> 00:31:35,955
I can only go by my experience,
900
00:31:35,955 –> 00:31:37,675
but his name is at the top of this.
901
00:31:37,995 –> 00:31:41,275
And this is all boils down to him because he could
902
00:31:41,275 –> 00:31:42,275
stop it in an instant.
903
00:31:42,275 –> 00:31:43,275
So let me address him.
904
00:31:43,755 –> 00:31:44,555
Why not say,
905
00:31:44,795 –> 00:31:45,755
hey, Chuck Brooks,
906
00:31:46,795 –> 00:31:49,035
you know, let’s partner up and do this community.
907
00:31:49,195 –> 00:31:53,755
And I see your expertise and let’s use your expertise
908
00:31:53,795 –> 00:31:57,195
and let’s use this as a foundation model and do these
909
00:31:57,195 –> 00:31:57,835
communities.
910
00:31:58,155 –> 00:31:59,675
I see what he did downtown.
911
00:31:59,675 –> 00:32:00,595
Well, no, let me stop.
912
00:32:00,595 –> 00:32:01,715
No, I ain’t gonna tell that lie.
913
00:32:01,915 –> 00:32:05,035
Because Dave Bing had a lot to do with downtown.
914
00:32:05,035 –> 00:32:07,355
Coleman Young had a lot to do with this stuff.
915
00:32:07,355 –> 00:32:09,835
So I don’t want to say what he did with downtown.
916
00:32:09,835 –> 00:32:12,355
Actually, what he’s doing is piggybacking off of what
917
00:32:12,355 –> 00:32:14,795
the people that was before him.
918
00:32:15,275 –> 00:32:17,275
And so I don’t want to get this twisted,
919
00:32:17,275 –> 00:32:18,235
but a lot of people,
920
00:32:18,475 –> 00:32:21,515
they get the reward and get the accolades about what
921
00:32:21,515 –> 00:32:22,635
someone else has done.
922
00:32:22,635 –> 00:32:25,315
But we got to give credit where credit is due or whatever.
923
00:32:25,315 –> 00:32:27,595
So downtown looks beautiful.
924
00:32:28,075 –> 00:32:30,075
And they keep calling him the mayor of downtown and
925
00:32:30,075 –> 00:32:31,195
they call me the mayor of the Eastside.
926
00:32:31,195 –> 00:32:34,915
Well, my Eastside looks good and their downtown looks
927
00:32:35,515 –> 00:32:38,035
But why not do a Coley’s movement in the effort and
928
00:32:38,035 –> 00:32:38,475
say, hey,
929
00:32:39,155 –> 00:32:42,075
And I know I’m not a big old Dan Gilbert or a big old
930
00:32:42,155 –> 00:32:43,675
Ford Foundation or Crestview Foundation.
931
00:32:43,675 –> 00:32:44,795
I’m just a little old guy in Lakewood.
932
00:32:44,795 –> 00:32:49,035
But why not just partner up with this guy and do this
933
00:32:49,035 –> 00:32:52,075
together so we can rebuild our city together if we
934
00:32:52,075 –> 00:32:52,955
truly mean it?
935
00:32:52,955 –> 00:32:54,875
Because that goes against the narrative.
936
00:32:54,875 –> 00:32:57,915
That goes against the savior mentality that everybody
937
00:32:57,915 –> 00:32:58,955
has been sold.
938
00:32:59,195 –> 00:33:02,395
That goes against the willingness to share credit.
939
00:33:02,555 –> 00:33:04,835
I was just telling Charlie that someone wrote a letter
940
00:33:04,835 –> 00:33:07,955
to the editor saying that they heard his state of
941
00:33:07,955 –> 00:33:08,875
the city speech.
942
00:33:09,115 –> 00:33:12,475
And how dare he not give credit for what Dave Bing
943
00:33:12,475 –> 00:33:14,915
did to help lay the groundwork for him to come in
944
00:33:14,915 –> 00:33:16,395
and flip the switch to turn,
945
00:33:16,395 –> 00:33:16,635
you know,
946
00:33:16,635 –> 00:33:17,115
those things,
947
00:33:17,115 –> 00:33:18,235
the things that you just said.
948
00:33:18,395 –> 00:33:19,275
So, you know,
949
00:33:19,275 –> 00:33:21,635
not everybody is comfortable sharing credit and not
950
00:33:21,635 –> 00:33:25,355
everybody is comfortable giving the opportunity
951
00:33:25,915 –> 00:33:26,995
You know, everybody says,
952
00:33:26,995 –> 00:33:27,195
you know,
953
00:33:27,195 –> 00:33:29,635
Detroit is like in Grace’s commercial,
954
00:33:29,635 –> 00:33:31,915
Detroit is coming back from where Detroit has never
955
00:33:32,715 –> 00:33:35,755
And the support that you receive from the community
956
00:33:36,075 –> 00:33:38,155
in your illness and in cleaning up that space,
957
00:33:38,475 –> 00:33:41,915
that’s the Detroit that still exists that I’m looking
958
00:33:41,915 –> 00:33:42,635
to come back.
959
00:33:43,675 –> 00:33:44,875
I mean, it’s been suppressed.
960
00:33:44,875 –> 00:33:45,995
It’s been whitewashed,
961
00:33:46,315 –> 00:33:47,355
no pun intended,
962
00:33:47,515 –> 00:33:48,635
but you know,
963
00:33:48,635 –> 00:33:49,635
it has been,
964
00:33:49,635 –> 00:33:50,955
and that’s not who we are.
965
00:33:52,195 –> 00:33:53,235
Now, if I could,
966
00:33:53,635 –> 00:33:54,155
go ahead,
967
00:33:54,235 –> 00:33:54,635
go ahead,
968
00:33:56,235 –> 00:33:57,795
Karen, you’re my Facebook friend.
969
00:33:58,155 –> 00:34:00,555
Do you remember a few years ago back when I was on
970
00:34:00,635 –> 00:34:03,515
the air and they had that thing about the committee
971
00:34:03,515 –> 00:34:07,275
to save Detroit and they had all of the big name players
972
00:34:07,275 –> 00:34:11,075
in there and we went back and forth with that and
973
00:34:11,075 –> 00:34:13,995
I was inboxing you and they ended up pulling back
974
00:34:14,035 –> 00:34:15,515
on it because I said no.
975
00:34:16,115 –> 00:34:18,635
There’s nobody on the committee to save the Detroit
976
00:34:18,635 –> 00:34:19,435
from the community.
977
00:34:19,755 –> 00:34:21,755
They had all them big major players on there.
978
00:34:21,835 –> 00:34:22,515
You remember that?
979
00:34:22,555 –> 00:34:23,835
Yeah, I do remember that.
980
00:34:24,395 –> 00:34:25,355
But that’s the thing.
981
00:34:25,515 –> 00:34:27,035
I mean, and that’s the conversation,
982
00:34:27,275 –> 00:34:29,795
Charlie, that we have to have going forward.
983
00:34:30,475 –> 00:34:32,715
Well, let me do this because we’ve got the congressman
984
00:34:32,715 –> 00:34:33,555
waiting, but in the,
985
00:34:35,195 –> 00:34:35,595
first of all,
986
00:34:35,595 –> 00:34:36,635
thanks for being with us,
987
00:34:36,715 –> 00:34:37,675
Pastor Charles E.
988
00:34:37,675 –> 00:34:38,715
Brooks Jr.,
989
00:34:38,875 –> 00:34:40,235
the mayor of the East Side.
990
00:34:41,355 –> 00:34:43,275
In the spirit of the Easter season,
991
00:34:43,355 –> 00:34:44,715
if we bow our heads and
992
00:34:45,835 –> 00:34:47,355
Recite along with me if you would,
993
00:34:48,555 –> 00:34:50,715
The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want.
994
00:34:51,435 –> 00:34:56,315
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
995
00:34:56,555 –> 00:34:59,195
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
996
00:34:59,435 –> 00:35:00,875
He restoreth my soul.
997
00:35:01,115 –> 00:35:04,475
He leadeth me in the paths of the righteousness for
998
00:35:04,475 –> 00:35:05,555
his name’s sake.
999
00:35:05,995 –> 00:35:08,115
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow
1000
00:35:08,115 –> 00:35:08,555
of death,
1001
00:35:08,875 –> 00:35:10,155
I will feel no evil,
1002
00:35:10,475 –> 00:35:11,515
for thou art with me,
1003
00:35:11,675 –> 00:35:12,955
thy rod and thy staff,
1004
00:35:13,435 –> 00:35:14,475
they comfort me.
1005
00:35:15,515 –> 00:35:18,035
Thou preparest the table before me in the presence
1006
00:35:18,035 –> 00:35:19,035
of mine enemies.
1007
00:35:19,275 –> 00:35:21,355
Thou anointest my head with holy oil.
1008
00:35:21,595 –> 00:35:22,875
My cup runneth over.
1009
00:35:24,795 –> 00:35:27,355
Surely goodness and mercy.
1010
00:35:29,275 –> 00:35:30,355
The days of my life.
1011
00:35:32,075 –> 00:35:33,075
And I will dwell in the house.
1012
00:35:33,075 –> 00:35:35,035
The Lord forever.
1013
00:35:35,075 –> 00:35:36,875
In the house of the Lord forever.
1014
00:35:39,435 –> 00:35:39,995
I love you dear.
1015
00:35:41,835 –> 00:35:42,955
Love you guys too.
1016
00:35:43,315 –> 00:35:44,835
I guess we have to talk about this later,
1017
00:35:44,835 –> 00:35:45,515
but remember,
1018
00:35:46,195 –> 00:35:51,835
they said that me and the mayor is beefing.
1019
00:35:51,835 –> 00:35:55,355
So the city of Detroit put out an official diss track
1020
00:35:55,755 –> 00:36:01,555
using Nas’s ether and that it was a diss track and
1021
00:36:01,555 –> 00:36:02,955
it used a part of
1022
00:36:03,875 –> 00:36:06,715
part of the argument with me and Ray Solomon and they
1023
00:36:06,715 –> 00:36:08,715
put a snippet in there and then they turned around
1024
00:36:09,035 –> 00:36:11,795
and created what they’re doing for the blight and
1025
00:36:11,795 –> 00:36:12,115
all this,
1026
00:36:12,115 –> 00:36:12,675
that and the other.
1027
00:36:13,075 –> 00:36:14,555
And it was a straight up diss track.
1028
00:36:14,555 –> 00:36:18,235
Well, it pissed the community off and all of the comments
1029
00:36:18,235 –> 00:36:20,595
in there and people were calling like,
1030
00:36:20,595 –> 00:36:21,355
what are you doing?
1031
00:36:21,515 –> 00:36:25,035
How could a professional outfit do a diss track against
1032
00:36:25,035 –> 00:36:26,075
something that’s so,
1033
00:36:26,235 –> 00:36:26,915
that something,
1034
00:36:27,355 –> 00:36:28,155
it was crazy.
1035
00:36:28,955 –> 00:36:31,035
And if you know anything about the diss track,
1036
00:36:31,115 –> 00:36:32,075
and I can’t say it,
1037
00:36:32,635 –> 00:36:33,635
But the diss track,
1038
00:36:33,635 –> 00:36:34,475
when it comes on,
1039
00:36:34,475 –> 00:36:36,715
if you listen to the unedited version,
1040
00:36:37,115 –> 00:36:40,075
it says F-U-C-K,
1041
00:36:41,595 –> 00:36:43,275
And what they reiterate to me,
1042
00:36:43,595 –> 00:36:45,675
F-U-C-K, Charles E.
1043
00:36:45,675 –> 00:36:46,555
Brooks Jr.
1044
00:36:46,875 –> 00:36:48,355
What city government,
1045
00:36:48,355 –> 00:36:51,315
what mayor would do that to a citizen?
1046
00:36:51,995 –> 00:36:52,955
Who would do that?
1047
00:36:53,115 –> 00:36:55,915
But that’s the foolishness that you see at the state
1048
00:36:56,555 –> 00:36:57,475
They’ve got these kids,
1049
00:36:58,155 –> 00:37:00,715
but they’ve got these kids running these social media
1050
00:37:01,275 –> 00:37:03,355
I mean, and they’re doing the TikToks and all that
1051
00:37:03,355 –> 00:37:03,915
kind of stuff.
1052
00:37:03,915 –> 00:37:07,595
And it has no degree of professionalism or decorum
1053
00:37:07,595 –> 00:37:10,355
or courtesy or consideration for the people that they
1054
00:37:10,355 –> 00:37:11,395
are supposed to be serving.
1055
00:37:12,395 –> 00:37:12,955
But Karen,
1056
00:37:12,955 –> 00:37:13,675
if you look at the,
1057
00:37:13,675 –> 00:37:15,715
if you look at the Free Press article that ran the
1058
00:37:15,715 –> 00:37:15,995
other day,
1059
00:37:15,995 –> 00:37:17,115
the four page article,
1060
00:37:17,595 –> 00:37:19,675
Ray Solomon said in his own words,
1061
00:37:20,155 –> 00:37:24,395
We pulled the diss track because it did what it was
1062
00:37:24,395 –> 00:37:25,435
supposed to do.
1063
00:37:26,555 –> 00:37:27,555
So we pulled it.
1064
00:37:28,195 –> 00:37:28,635
And those are,
1065
00:37:28,875 –> 00:37:33,155
it’s in a free press ad in big bold print.
1066
00:37:33,375 –> 00:37:35,375
And this is the no bullshit news hour.
1067
00:37:36,495 –> 00:37:39,935
You can find the definitive story,
1068
00:37:40,055 –> 00:37:41,095
a nice story,
1069
00:37:41,175 –> 00:37:42,375
a well-written story.
1070
00:37:42,375 –> 00:37:43,495
Okay, let me just give you the,
1071
00:37:43,535 –> 00:37:44,615
I’m gonna find it.
1072
00:37:44,735 –> 00:37:46,415
In the Michigan Enjoyer.
1073
00:37:46,775 –> 00:37:47,375
All the rest of them,
1074
00:37:47,375 –> 00:37:48,015
I can’t even read it.
1075
00:37:48,015 –> 00:37:48,415
All right,
1076
00:37:48,855 –> 00:37:49,295
well Charlie,
1077
00:37:49,455 –> 00:37:51,215
we’ll edit it and put it in a notebook,
1078
00:37:51,295 –> 00:37:51,855
the noble,
1079
00:37:51,855 –> 00:37:53,495
but it’s just a note,
1080
00:37:53,935 –> 00:37:54,655
you know what it is,
1081
00:37:54,655 –> 00:37:55,295
you can’t pass,
1082
00:37:55,295 –> 00:37:55,895
you can’t say that.
1083
00:37:56,615 –> 00:37:58,215
NBN, put it in here Charlie.
1084
00:37:58,895 –> 00:38:00,495
We’re going to put it on the No Bull,
1085
00:38:00,655 –> 00:38:01,975
the No Bull site.
1086
00:38:03,615 –> 00:38:04,895
No BS News Hour.
1087
00:38:04,895 –> 00:38:06,015
My story starts out,
1088
00:38:06,495 –> 00:38:08,575
after being shot and left for dead,
1089
00:38:08,575 –> 00:38:09,815
Charles Brooks Jr.
1090
00:38:09,815 –> 00:38:11,935
received instruction from the Almighty.
1091
00:38:12,415 –> 00:38:13,775
Now you want to read that.
1092
00:38:14,175 –> 00:38:17,575
Not some shithead from downtown telling you about blight
1093
00:38:17,575 –> 00:38:18,415
and diss tracks.
1094
00:38:18,815 –> 00:38:19,935
I mean, the real stuff,
1095
00:38:20,095 –> 00:38:20,895
the real guy.
1096
00:38:21,095 –> 00:38:21,935
And by the way,
1097
00:38:22,015 –> 00:38:23,935
it’s been Chuckapalooza today.
1098
00:38:24,255 –> 00:38:24,775
Chuckapalooza.
1099
00:38:24,775 –> 00:38:25,615
An article,
1100
00:38:25,895 –> 00:38:29,055
a video in this because everybody in this room,
1101
00:38:29,055 –> 00:38:35,375
dude, was just transfixed on how this came to be.
1102
00:38:35,375 –> 00:38:36,895
Just beautiful.
1103
00:38:36,895 –> 00:38:38,815
Now I really feel I have a friend here.
1104
00:38:38,895 –> 00:38:41,615
And if you need some war and help with downtown,
1105
00:38:41,775 –> 00:38:42,815
I know how to war.
1106
00:38:44,415 –> 00:38:45,455
Yeah, and I got to give it to you,
1107
00:38:45,695 –> 00:38:48,495
We’ve been Facebook friends for a number of years,
1108
00:38:48,495 –> 00:38:52,495
but I go back to our inboxes and our conversation.
1109
00:38:52,495 –> 00:38:53,215
You’ve always said,
1110
00:38:53,215 –> 00:38:54,815
I appreciate what you’re doing.
1111
00:38:55,215 –> 00:38:55,935
And I mean,
1112
00:38:55,935 –> 00:38:59,935
so at least I can say you stand behind who you really
1113
00:39:00,735 –> 00:39:01,855
And I really appreciate
1114
00:39:02,695 –> 00:39:03,935
and I’m honored to be your friend.
1115
00:39:04,095 –> 00:39:04,735
Well, thank you,
1116
00:39:04,855 –> 00:39:07,015
and I feel the same for you,
1117
00:39:07,015 –> 00:39:09,455
and you know I have long admired and supported who
1118
00:39:09,455 –> 00:39:10,735
you are and what you do.
1119
00:39:10,975 –> 00:39:12,495
I’m A lifelong Eastsider,
1120
00:39:12,495 –> 00:39:14,815
so I certainly appreciate that,
1121
00:39:15,335 –> 00:39:16,255
Mayor of the Eastside.
1122
00:39:16,455 –> 00:39:16,935
Wait a minute.
1123
00:39:16,935 –> 00:39:20,415
I got something in my eye.
1124
00:39:20,895 –> 00:39:24,095
Mark, just take us to Commercial Park.
1125
00:39:24,575 –> 00:39:25,015
Well, you know,
1126
00:39:25,015 –> 00:39:25,615
when it rains,
1127
00:39:25,615 –> 00:39:26,495
the power goes out.
1128
00:39:26,495 –> 00:39:27,775
And when the power goes out,
1129
00:39:27,775 –> 00:39:28,655
the internet goes out.
1130
00:39:28,655 –> 00:39:29,775
When the internet goes out,
1131
00:39:29,775 –> 00:39:32,975
I call my friend Matt and Bernie at XG Service Group.
1132
00:39:33,135 –> 00:39:34,975
Look at Bernie here on his hands and knees,
1133
00:39:35,215 –> 00:39:36,495
giving it everything he’s got.
1134
00:39:37,135 –> 00:39:38,335
Look at that man crack.
1135
00:39:40,095 –> 00:39:41,095
He forgot to wear a belt.
1136
00:39:41,135 –> 00:39:43,215
There’s Matt right there getting the board together.
1137
00:39:43,215 –> 00:39:45,935
That’s 734-245-4100.
1138
00:39:45,935 –> 00:39:48,775
If you need Matt and Bernie to come take care of your
1139
00:39:48,775 –> 00:39:49,695
voice over internet,
1140
00:39:49,935 –> 00:39:51,055
your security cameras,
1141
00:39:51,295 –> 00:39:52,895
off-campus access control,
1142
00:39:53,135 –> 00:39:55,535
Wi-Fi and cameras for homes and business,
1143
00:39:55,535 –> 00:39:56,655
they’ll design it for you.
1144
00:39:56,895 –> 00:39:57,735
You got restaurants,
1145
00:39:57,735 –> 00:39:58,935
they do drive-through systems,
1146
00:39:58,935 –> 00:40:00,735
railroad cameras for public safety.
1147
00:40:00,895 –> 00:40:04,175
Total wireless camera systems for your home and business.
1148
00:40:04,415 –> 00:40:04,895
Yeah, that’s right.
1149
00:40:04,895 –> 00:40:08,615
Call XG Services at 734-245-4100.
1150
00:40:08,895 –> 00:40:09,615
Well, now,
1151
00:40:10,175 –> 00:40:14,895
Everybody laughs at that XG service group bit.
1152
00:40:15,135 –> 00:40:15,935
They’re great though.
1153
00:40:15,935 –> 00:40:16,575
The internet,
1154
00:40:17,375 –> 00:40:18,575
since he installed all that,
1155
00:40:18,575 –> 00:40:20,255
has not screwed up once.
1156
00:40:21,655 –> 00:40:23,215
No, I love him for that too.
1157
00:40:23,295 –> 00:40:23,935
Fiber optic.
1158
00:40:23,935 –> 00:40:24,975
Makes my life easier.
1159
00:40:24,975 –> 00:40:26,415
But every time I go to Starbucks,
1160
00:40:26,415 –> 00:40:29,135
I think about them because I did not know until he
1161
00:40:29,495 –> 00:40:31,215
pointed out they have cameras there.
1162
00:40:31,295 –> 00:40:33,775
So I don’t make faces anymore when they’re screwing
1163
00:40:33,775 –> 00:40:35,055
up or taking a long time.
1164
00:40:36,575 –> 00:40:37,335
It’s not Bernie.
1165
00:40:37,695 –> 00:40:38,135
I know it’s not.
1166
00:40:38,175 –> 00:40:38,935
Bernie installs them.
1167
00:40:38,935 –> 00:40:39,535
But he does them.
1168
00:40:39,535 –> 00:40:40,055
I know that.
1169
00:40:40,055 –> 00:40:41,135
And I wasn’t aware.
1170
00:40:41,855 –> 00:40:45,015
Now, speaking of international intrigue,
1171
00:40:45,775 –> 00:40:50,335
I want to welcome in the Henry Kissinger of Mid-Michigan.
1172
00:40:51,215 –> 00:40:53,455
Congressman Tom Barrett of the 7th District,
1173
00:40:53,455 –> 00:40:54,895
which is mid-state,
1174
00:40:54,895 –> 00:40:55,295
you know.
1175
00:40:57,295 –> 00:40:57,855
Welcome in,
1176
00:40:57,855 –> 00:40:59,255
Tom, and congratulations.
1177
00:40:59,255 –> 00:41:00,855
You just got back from Mexico doing,
1178
00:41:01,375 –> 00:41:03,535
tell the people who don’t know what happened,
1179
00:41:03,535 –> 00:41:04,055
what happened.
1180
00:41:04,895 –> 00:41:05,935
Sure, and Charlie,
1181
00:41:05,935 –> 00:41:06,775
thanks for having me.
1182
00:41:06,775 –> 00:41:07,815
And like you said,
1183
00:41:07,815 –> 00:41:11,055
we had this really unusual incident happen.
1184
00:41:11,855 –> 00:41:13,295
Starting about a month ago,
1185
00:41:13,415 –> 00:41:16,215
a couple from mid-Michigan was detained down in Mexico
1186
00:41:16,215 –> 00:41:17,455
over what essentially
1187
00:41:17,975 –> 00:41:20,895
arose from a timeshare contract dispute with a Mexican
1188
00:41:20,895 –> 00:41:24,255
resort that landed them in a Mexican maximum security
1189
00:41:24,255 –> 00:41:26,895
prison in Cancun for weeks.
1190
00:41:27,535 –> 00:41:29,375
Was able to travel down there last week,
1191
00:41:29,375 –> 00:41:31,535
arrived Wednesday morning,
1192
00:41:31,815 –> 00:41:32,935
and by Thursday evening,
1193
00:41:32,935 –> 00:41:34,455
we were flying back home to Michigan,
1194
00:41:34,455 –> 00:41:36,935
and it was a great opportunity to get them back home
1195
00:41:36,935 –> 00:41:38,335
to their family safely,
1196
00:41:39,215 –> 00:41:41,055
and something that I was proud to have a part in.
1197
00:41:41,455 –> 00:41:42,175
Yeah, it was really,
1198
00:41:42,335 –> 00:41:42,815
the reason,
1199
00:41:43,055 –> 00:41:43,295
you know,
1200
00:41:43,455 –> 00:41:44,335
one, I know you too,
1201
00:41:44,335 –> 00:41:46,095
I was just interested because one,
1202
00:41:47,775 –> 00:41:49,535
These people aren’t even from your district,
1203
00:41:50,455 –> 00:41:52,815
So it’s not your congressional district.
1204
00:41:53,695 –> 00:41:54,815
US senators aren’t helping.
1205
00:41:54,895 –> 00:41:55,855
How did you,
1206
00:41:57,135 –> 00:41:57,535
first of all,
1207
00:41:57,615 –> 00:41:58,495
habla espanol?
1208
00:41:59,535 –> 00:42:00,735
No, I speak,
1209
00:42:00,735 –> 00:42:02,335
in fact, at the very end,
1210
00:42:03,535 –> 00:42:04,735
as we were closing this whole thing out,
1211
00:42:04,735 –> 00:42:05,775
I said, all right,
1212
00:42:06,695 –> 00:42:08,095
I know about 3 Spanish words.
1213
00:42:08,095 –> 00:42:08,655
That’s one of them.
1214
00:42:08,655 –> 00:42:09,855
Let’s do this and get it done.
1215
00:42:10,775 –> 00:42:12,015
But originally,
1216
00:42:12,015 –> 00:42:12,935
we were under the,
1217
00:42:13,655 –> 00:42:16,935
or thought with quite a bit of sincerity that they
1218
00:42:16,935 –> 00:42:18,335
were constituents of mine.
1219
00:42:18,655 –> 00:42:20,455
Their daughter does live in my district,
1220
00:42:20,455 –> 00:42:22,735
and she was the one that kind of made the story.
1221
00:42:23,695 –> 00:42:26,615
They became a media sensation and everything else and
1222
00:42:26,615 –> 00:42:27,535
got a lot of traction.
1223
00:42:27,535 –> 00:42:29,055
She is a constituent of mine,
1224
00:42:29,455 –> 00:42:32,255
and the couple had lived in my district previously,
1225
00:42:32,255 –> 00:42:35,335
and we were far into this before we realized that
1226
00:42:35,335 –> 00:42:38,455
they technically lived across the border in the adjacent
1227
00:42:38,455 –> 00:42:39,215
district to mine.
1228
00:42:39,535 –> 00:42:40,015
But by then,
1229
00:42:40,015 –> 00:42:42,375
we were so deep into it that I did not think it made
1230
00:42:42,375 –> 00:42:47,295
any sense to shift gears and change out who was going
1231
00:42:47,295 –> 00:42:48,335
to be taking the lead on it.
1232
00:42:48,335 –> 00:42:51,975
I was perfectly comfortable finishing out the project
1233
00:42:51,975 –> 00:42:52,975
and get the couple home.
1234
00:42:53,255 –> 00:42:56,415
felt like we had invested a lot of time from my office
1235
00:42:56,415 –> 00:42:58,895
with the State Department and just myself personally
1236
00:42:58,895 –> 00:43:01,615
with the family back in Michigan to really get this
1237
00:43:01,615 –> 00:43:02,095
resolved.
1238
00:43:02,095 –> 00:43:04,255
And I didn’t want to have them start over with a new
1239
00:43:04,255 –> 00:43:05,295
member of Congress.
1240
00:43:05,935 –> 00:43:07,775
And I was comfortable going down there to make sure
1241
00:43:07,775 –> 00:43:08,655
that they got home safely.
1242
00:43:08,735 –> 00:43:09,655
It was on your own dime,
1243
00:43:09,655 –> 00:43:10,015
wasn’t it?
1244
00:43:11,215 –> 00:43:12,415
Yeah, so we traveled down.
1245
00:43:12,495 –> 00:43:14,975
No taxpayer money used to travel down or back.
1246
00:43:15,335 –> 00:43:15,975
What did you take?
1247
00:43:15,975 –> 00:43:17,015
You take Whitmer’s plane?
1248
00:43:17,015 –> 00:43:17,775
Is that what you did?
1249
00:43:18,895 –> 00:43:21,175
Or Epstein’s plane or El Chapo’s plane?
1250
00:43:21,535 –> 00:43:22,255
Not Spirit.
1251
00:43:23,015 –> 00:43:23,375
Yeah, yeah,
1252
00:43:23,775 –> 00:43:24,255
I think it was,
1253
00:43:24,375 –> 00:43:26,455
I think we flew United Airlines on the way down there,
1254
00:43:26,455 –> 00:43:27,615
which is not common for me.
1255
00:43:27,615 –> 00:43:29,775
Usually I’m on either American or Delta flying back
1256
00:43:29,775 –> 00:43:30,775
and forth out of Michigan,
1257
00:43:30,775 –> 00:43:33,415
but this just happened last week on Tuesday.
1258
00:43:33,415 –> 00:43:35,775
I got a briefing from the State Department that really
1259
00:43:35,775 –> 00:43:38,415
was not satisfactory about their condition,
1260
00:43:38,735 –> 00:43:40,015
the terms of their detention,
1261
00:43:40,015 –> 00:43:40,775
or anything else.
1262
00:43:41,375 –> 00:43:42,455
drifted day after day.
1263
00:43:42,455 –> 00:43:44,015
In fact, when we first found out about it,
1264
00:43:44,015 –> 00:43:45,935
we contacted the State Department and they said,
1265
00:43:45,935 –> 00:43:48,575
well, we need the couple to sign a privacy release
1266
00:43:48,575 –> 00:43:50,895
form before we can share any information with you.
1267
00:43:50,895 –> 00:43:51,655
So they had to,
1268
00:43:52,015 –> 00:43:54,735
the State Department down in Mexico had to go to the
1269
00:43:54,735 –> 00:43:56,495
prison, get them to sign the document,
1270
00:43:56,495 –> 00:43:56,855
which they were,
1271
00:43:56,855 –> 00:43:57,135
of course,
1272
00:43:57,135 –> 00:43:57,735
willing to do,
1273
00:43:57,735 –> 00:43:59,775
which then opened the door for them to begin sharing
1274
00:43:59,775 –> 00:44:00,895
information with us.
1275
00:44:01,335 –> 00:44:02,895
And as the days wore on,
1276
00:44:03,735 –> 00:44:06,055
at the very end of March leading into early April,
1277
00:44:06,055 –> 00:44:08,175
we had been told that they were imminently about to
1278
00:44:08,175 –> 00:44:11,775
be released down to like a home arrest condition in
1279
00:44:11,775 –> 00:44:15,135
Mexico, which would take away the most intense concerns
1280
00:44:15,135 –> 00:44:16,095
about their health,
1281
00:44:16,095 –> 00:44:18,255
welfare and safety inside that prison.
1282
00:44:18,615 –> 00:44:20,855
But it kept getting delayed and delayed and delayed.
1283
00:44:20,855 –> 00:44:22,415
And by Tuesday afternoon,
1284
00:44:23,015 –> 00:44:24,415
It just wasn’t getting resolved.
1285
00:44:24,415 –> 00:44:27,135
And I had no confidence that it was going to actually
1286
00:44:27,135 –> 00:44:30,415
result in anything actionable in any relatively short
1287
00:44:30,415 –> 00:44:31,295
span of time.
1288
00:44:31,735 –> 00:44:33,935
And I made the decision knowing and speaking to their
1289
00:44:33,935 –> 00:44:36,495
family that their conditions were worsening down in
1290
00:44:36,495 –> 00:44:39,135
Mexico to get on the next flight down there that I
1291
00:44:39,135 –> 00:44:41,135
could, which happened to be Wednesday morning.
1292
00:44:41,135 –> 00:44:42,175
We flew out of Dulles,
1293
00:44:42,495 –> 00:44:43,775
direct down to Cancun,
1294
00:44:43,855 –> 00:44:45,375
went straight to the prison from there.
1295
00:44:45,375 –> 00:44:48,335
We were met at the airport by the consulate general
1296
00:44:48,335 –> 00:44:50,335
for that region of the country.
1297
00:44:50,655 –> 00:44:52,895
That’s the American State Department diplomat
1298
00:44:53,015 –> 00:44:53,775
the ground there.
1299
00:44:54,015 –> 00:44:56,255
We went directly to the prison where they were detained,
1300
00:44:56,495 –> 00:44:58,015
met with them for about an hour.
1301
00:44:58,015 –> 00:45:00,975
I got permission to begin negotiating on their behalf.
1302
00:45:01,633 –> 00:45:03,833
I was in touch with their family back home in Michigan
1303
00:45:03,833 –> 00:45:04,833
the entire time.
1304
00:45:05,273 –> 00:45:08,513
And then from there met with the president of the Mexican
1305
00:45:09,073 –> 00:45:12,273
Supreme Court in the state in which we were located
1306
00:45:12,593 –> 00:45:14,713
and began to work the angle of getting them in front
1307
00:45:14,713 –> 00:45:15,313
of a judge.
1308
00:45:15,313 –> 00:45:17,633
Because one of the biggest issues we were running into
1309
00:45:18,113 –> 00:45:20,833
is their next trial date or court date was like nine
1310
00:45:20,833 –> 00:45:22,273
months or a year out.
1311
00:45:22,433 –> 00:45:23,313
And that was just.
1312
00:45:23,833 –> 00:45:24,233
I’m sorry,
1313
00:45:24,273 –> 00:45:27,313
let me just explain what was happening.
1314
00:45:27,473 –> 00:45:29,473
It was basically a couple.
1315
00:45:30,393 –> 00:45:31,713
From Jackson County,
1316
00:45:32,193 –> 00:45:33,153
Arbor Springs.
1317
00:45:34,753 –> 00:45:36,353
Got a timeshare down at Cancun.
1318
00:45:36,833 –> 00:45:38,193
I don’t know the particulars of this,
1319
00:45:38,193 –> 00:45:42,433
but it was $116,000 in charges that was on their Amex
1320
00:45:43,153 –> 00:45:44,513
They were unsatisfied,
1321
00:45:44,833 –> 00:45:49,793
so they put a stop-payment and Amex agreed on 13 of
1322
00:45:50,233 –> 00:45:53,713
I don’t know how you spent $116,000 for.
1323
00:45:55,313 –> 00:45:57,633
I do because I just went through that same sales pitch
1324
00:45:57,633 –> 00:45:59,993
from Palace and that’s their starting point is $100,000.
1325
00:45:59,993 –> 00:46:03,233
I think the 16 must be interest or whatever.
1326
00:46:03,553 –> 00:46:05,313
But like anybody that’s been through a timeshare thing,
1327
00:46:05,313 –> 00:46:05,553
you know,
1328
00:46:05,553 –> 00:46:06,873
they will always go,
1329
00:46:06,873 –> 00:46:08,073
okay, how about 50,000?
1330
00:46:08,073 –> 00:46:08,833
How about 20,000?
1331
00:46:08,833 –> 00:46:09,673
How about 10,000?
1332
00:46:09,953 –> 00:46:11,633
So at some point they must have agreed.
1333
00:46:11,793 –> 00:46:13,313
So they, so Mark,
1334
00:46:13,313 –> 00:46:15,633
so the couple goes down and they spend all this money.
1335
00:46:15,633 –> 00:46:16,833
They’re not satisfied.
1336
00:46:17,073 –> 00:46:17,873
They cancel it.
1337
00:46:17,873 –> 00:46:20,353
They go on Facebook and tell a lot of other people
1338
00:46:20,353 –> 00:46:21,873
who aren’t satisfied how they did it.
1339
00:46:22,593 –> 00:46:24,913
The company in Mexico gets mad,
1340
00:46:24,993 –> 00:46:26,353
sees the Facebook posts,
1341
00:46:27,553 –> 00:46:28,953
and a warrant’s issued.
1342
00:46:29,233 –> 00:46:30,433
Now the question is,
1343
00:46:30,673 –> 00:46:31,393
Congressman,
1344
00:46:32,113 –> 00:46:35,073
they get off the plane and they’re flagged right away,
1345
00:46:37,153 –> 00:46:38,513
They went back to Cancun.
1346
00:46:38,593 –> 00:46:40,833
Where were they going to stay at the same timeshare?
1347
00:46:41,553 –> 00:46:43,233
No, they were staying somewhere else.
1348
00:46:43,233 –> 00:46:46,753
They had disputed these charges two or three years
1349
00:46:46,753 –> 00:46:49,793
ago because they felt that there had been a breach
1350
00:46:49,793 –> 00:46:51,313
of contract from the resort.
1351
00:46:51,313 –> 00:46:53,713
The resort felt that the couple had breached their
1352
00:46:54,113 –> 00:46:56,993
So there was like a mutual back and forth between the
1353
00:46:58,073 –> 00:46:58,753
And then a few,
1354
00:46:59,073 –> 00:47:01,793
and the couple was able to dispute the charges through
1355
00:47:01,793 –> 00:47:02,593
American Express,
1356
00:47:02,593 –> 00:47:03,313
like you said.
1357
00:47:03,553 –> 00:47:06,913
It was a recurring monthly charge on their credit card.
1358
00:47:06,913 –> 00:47:09,633
So each instance that they challenged it was another,
1359
00:47:10,113 –> 00:47:10,353
you know,
1360
00:47:10,353 –> 00:47:11,393
another addition
1361
00:47:11,513 –> 00:47:12,753
that disputed amount,
1362
00:47:12,753 –> 00:47:17,193
which ultimately totaled about $116,000 over the term
1363
00:47:17,193 –> 00:47:19,713
of that time that the billing was going on.
1364
00:47:20,113 –> 00:47:20,913
They disputed it.
1365
00:47:20,953 –> 00:47:24,353
American Express held in favor of the couple.
1366
00:47:25,633 –> 00:47:27,713
There were letters back and forth between the resort
1367
00:47:27,713 –> 00:47:28,433
and the couple,
1368
00:47:28,513 –> 00:47:28,793
you know,
1369
00:47:28,793 –> 00:47:30,473
and their attorneys in the United States.
1370
00:47:30,473 –> 00:47:32,353
And then about three years went by.
1371
00:47:32,513 –> 00:47:34,833
They had traveled in and out of Mexico multiple times
1372
00:47:34,833 –> 00:47:35,473
to different,
1373
00:47:35,633 –> 00:47:35,953
you know,
1374
00:47:35,953 –> 00:47:38,033
vacation destinations they were going to.
1375
00:47:38,513 –> 00:47:40,753
They thought this chapter was behind them.
1376
00:47:40,873 –> 00:47:43,793
And then just about a month or six weeks ago,
1377
00:47:44,193 –> 00:47:46,033
they went down to Mexico to meet some friends,
1378
00:47:46,193 –> 00:47:47,113
staying somewhere else.
1379
00:47:47,113 –> 00:47:48,433
They got snatched up.
1380
00:47:48,473 –> 00:47:49,633
They had an Interpol,
1381
00:47:49,953 –> 00:47:51,233
you know,
1382
00:47:51,233 –> 00:47:53,513
warrant against them.
1383
00:47:53,513 –> 00:47:55,033
Dude, it’s a financial dispute.
1384
00:47:55,153 –> 00:47:58,193
They got an Interpol warrant and they threw him in
1385
00:47:58,193 –> 00:48:01,393
a maximum security prison as in lieu of a jail.
1386
00:48:02,913 –> 00:48:04,433
So to me, you know,
1387
00:48:04,513 –> 00:48:06,513
you start from the fact that in the United States,
1388
00:48:06,513 –> 00:48:09,473
this would be a litigation civil claim between parties
1389
00:48:09,473 –> 00:48:10,873
in dispute over a contract.
1390
00:48:10,873 –> 00:48:11,673
So you start from there.
1391
00:48:11,673 –> 00:48:13,393
We don’t put parties in prison.
1392
00:48:14,393 –> 00:48:16,513
you know, over a financial dispute of this type of
1393
00:48:16,913 –> 00:48:19,553
Like there’s litigation and one party ultimately is
1394
00:48:19,553 –> 00:48:22,113
found responsible and that’s how the proceedings go.
1395
00:48:22,513 –> 00:48:23,073
From there,
1396
00:48:23,073 –> 00:48:24,193
it had been so long,
1397
00:48:24,193 –> 00:48:26,393
part of the issue again with the Mexican court system
1398
00:48:26,393 –> 00:48:27,553
was how slow it went.
1399
00:48:27,873 –> 00:48:31,073
That apparently these charges were originated back
1400
00:48:31,073 –> 00:48:33,233
in 2022 or 2023.
1401
00:48:33,473 –> 00:48:36,193
They just didn’t process until more recently.
1402
00:48:36,193 –> 00:48:36,913
So when a couple…
1403
00:48:36,913 –> 00:48:38,753
Okay, we’ve got a congressman because you’re gonna
1404
00:48:38,753 –> 00:48:40,633
you’re gonna be running out in 5 minutes.
1405
00:48:40,633 –> 00:48:41,953
I got stuff to get to here.
1406
00:48:42,113 –> 00:48:42,993
Let’s just say…
1407
00:48:44,513 –> 00:48:45,713
Estes pinchy loco,
1408
00:48:46,713 –> 00:48:50,113
and they don’t then do not play around in Mexico,
1409
00:48:51,593 –> 00:48:53,393
Yeah, it was crazy.
1410
00:48:53,393 –> 00:48:56,233
And the prison was absolutely awful.
1411
00:48:56,233 –> 00:48:56,833
I mean, Paul,
1412
00:48:56,833 –> 00:48:57,393
the husband,
1413
00:48:57,713 –> 00:49:00,513
said that he was in a six-man prison room with 30
1414
00:49:00,593 –> 00:49:01,313
other guys.
1415
00:49:01,313 –> 00:49:02,913
They were sleeping on the ground.
1416
00:49:03,073 –> 00:49:04,673
They only had intermittent running water.
1417
00:49:04,673 –> 00:49:06,873
They had to fill buckets of water during the day because
1418
00:49:06,873 –> 00:49:07,993
the water shut off at night,
1419
00:49:07,993 –> 00:49:10,113
and they had to use that to flush the toilet.
1420
00:49:10,113 –> 00:49:12,513
It sounded like the old 13 precinct here on Woodward.
1421
00:49:12,513 –> 00:49:13,233
They locked us up
1422
00:49:13,633 –> 00:49:14,473
It was a hot weekend.
1423
00:49:14,473 –> 00:49:16,353
It was a 4th of July weekend.
1424
00:49:16,593 –> 00:49:17,953
We were drinking out of the toilet.
1425
00:49:18,673 –> 00:49:19,233
They gave,
1426
00:49:19,313 –> 00:49:19,553
you know,
1427
00:49:19,633 –> 00:49:20,313
the rights,
1428
00:49:20,313 –> 00:49:21,313
your Miranda they give you.
1429
00:49:21,633 –> 00:49:22,793
We had to make it into a cup.
1430
00:49:23,433 –> 00:49:24,433
Drink, I was terrible.
1431
00:49:24,513 –> 00:49:25,313
Okay, anyway,
1432
00:49:26,193 –> 00:49:27,793
just one more thing before you go.
1433
00:49:28,353 –> 00:49:29,873
I want to show you this.
1434
00:49:29,873 –> 00:49:34,353
The White House posted this.
1435
00:49:36,593 –> 00:49:37,793
John James Reed
1436
00:49:38,793 –> 00:49:39,313
posted it,
1437
00:49:39,313 –> 00:49:41,473
and you haven’t touched it,
1438
00:49:41,713 –> 00:49:43,233
and I want to know why right after this.
1439
00:49:55,433 –> 00:49:57,553
Now here’s what’s left of the area around the once
1440
00:49:57,553 –> 00:49:59,673
sprawling Delphi facility in Flint,
1441
00:49:59,673 –> 00:50:00,313
Michigan,
1442
00:50:00,553 –> 00:50:02,313
the birthplace of General Motors,
1443
00:50:02,553 –> 00:50:04,313
Delphi’s one-time parent company.
1444
00:50:04,793 –> 00:50:05,953
And it’s not just Flint.
1445
00:50:06,513 –> 00:50:09,233
A recent study estimates that the total number of American
1446
00:50:09,233 –> 00:50:12,553
jobs lost due to NAFTA is about one million.
1447
00:50:15,993 –> 00:50:19,073
And Delphi is now one of Mexico’s largest employers
1448
00:50:19,233 –> 00:50:21,873
with about 50 factories south of the border.
1449
00:50:25,153 –> 00:50:28,433
They shut right down and tore it down and took our
1450
00:50:28,753 –> 00:50:32,033
jobs and put them over in Mexico and paid them people
1451
00:50:38,113 –> 00:50:40,193
Flint used to be Motor City.
1452
00:50:40,913 –> 00:50:42,473
It’s no longer Motor City,
1453
00:50:42,473 –> 00:50:43,473
where’s all the motor?
1454
00:50:43,833 –> 00:50:46,113
What about the kids here that are going hungry?
1455
00:50:46,433 –> 00:50:47,913
They’re not worried about those kids,
1456
00:50:47,993 –> 00:50:48,673
obviously,
1457
00:50:48,673 –> 00:50:50,593
and that’s the kids they should be worried about.
1458
00:50:50,593 –> 00:50:52,513
They shouldn’t be worried about what’s happening in
1459
00:50:52,513 –> 00:50:53,433
some other country.
1460
00:50:54,193 –> 00:50:55,473
Now, when you were down to Mexico,
1461
00:50:55,473 –> 00:50:56,993
did you see our jobs?
1462
00:50:58,273 –> 00:51:00,473
I didn’t have an opportunity to see our jobs down there.
1463
00:51:00,473 –> 00:51:02,913
I was only on the ground about 32 hours.
1464
00:51:03,753 –> 00:51:05,953
I mean, I was pretty laser focused on the mission I
1465
00:51:05,953 –> 00:51:06,593
had down there.
1466
00:51:06,593 –> 00:51:07,513
But I will say,
1467
00:51:07,513 –> 00:51:09,713
and I hadn’t seen your video until just now,
1468
00:51:09,713 –> 00:51:13,153
but you’re really pointing to an exact frustration
1469
00:51:13,153 –> 00:51:14,273
that everybody feels,
1470
00:51:14,953 –> 00:51:17,073
I mean, maybe not the corporate elitists that outsource
1471
00:51:17,073 –> 00:51:17,553
the jobs,
1472
00:51:17,553 –> 00:51:19,073
but everybody else among us.
1473
00:51:19,873 –> 00:51:23,633
feels like we have had a crushing blow time after time,
1474
00:51:23,633 –> 00:51:24,273
year after year,
1475
00:51:24,273 –> 00:51:26,753
decade after decade of these jobs leaving our country.
1476
00:51:26,993 –> 00:51:29,833
And it’s had not just an economic impact on Michigan
1477
00:51:29,833 –> 00:51:30,833
and across our country,
1478
00:51:30,993 –> 00:51:32,513
it’s had a cultural impact.
1479
00:51:32,873 –> 00:51:35,953
We have 7 million men in America that aren’t working
1480
00:51:35,953 –> 00:51:37,553
and they’re not looking for work.
1481
00:51:37,593 –> 00:51:40,313
And we’ve taken away the dignity of work and the dignity
1482
00:51:40,313 –> 00:51:41,873
of doing a job and having it,
1483
00:51:42,393 –> 00:51:46,273
you know, serve your family and provide for your livelihood.
1484
00:51:46,273 –> 00:51:48,313
We have stripped that out of our culture.
1485
00:51:48,313 –> 00:51:50,953
And now we have a whole generation of young men that
1486
00:51:50,953 –> 00:51:54,633
are living off marijuana and DoorDash and staying
1487
00:51:54,633 –> 00:51:55,673
in their mom’s basement,
1488
00:51:55,673 –> 00:51:58,273
and they’re not going out and filling their greatest
1489
00:51:58,273 –> 00:51:59,073
potential.
1490
00:51:59,313 –> 00:52:01,553
And that’s not entirely attributable to NAFTA and all
1491
00:52:01,553 –> 00:52:02,833
the conditions that came from that,
1492
00:52:02,833 –> 00:52:05,513
but it is a contributing factor where we’ve taken
1493
00:52:05,513 –> 00:52:06,993
away the dignity of work.
1494
00:52:07,033 –> 00:52:09,113
And this is a huge issue that we have to confront.
1495
00:52:09,433 –> 00:52:10,993
And I want a simple answer here.
1496
00:52:11,673 –> 00:52:13,153
Because you said the corporate elitist,
1497
00:52:13,153 –> 00:52:15,233
that’s who’s losing on Wall Street right now.
1498
00:52:16,113 –> 00:52:17,513
1% owns 50%
1499
00:52:17,513 –> 00:52:18,113
of the stock.
1500
00:52:18,113 –> 00:52:21,233
That’s where all the profit went into overvaluation
1501
00:52:21,273 –> 00:52:22,113
of stocks.
1502
00:52:22,433 –> 00:52:26,193
Okay, so I don’t understand the reciprocal tariff thing
1503
00:52:26,193 –> 00:52:27,313
as the first move,
1504
00:52:27,553 –> 00:52:32,673
because a Vietnamese worker makes $300 a month.
1505
00:52:33,613 –> 00:52:34,133
What is it?
1506
00:52:34,293 –> 00:52:36,373
They’re not buying Silverados from us.
1507
00:52:36,693 –> 00:52:40,093
So the world scheme to me and my sources and the way
1508
00:52:40,093 –> 00:52:40,613
I look at it,
1509
00:52:40,853 –> 00:52:43,973
the real deal here going on is we need to bottle up
1510
00:52:43,973 –> 00:52:47,333
China because they’ve infiltrated every natural resource,
1511
00:52:47,333 –> 00:52:49,013
every market around the world,
1512
00:52:49,253 –> 00:52:51,413
and they’re the ones that own Vietnam.
1513
00:52:51,413 –> 00:52:52,373
It’s their factories.
1514
00:52:52,613 –> 00:52:53,893
They pay the cheap wages,
1515
00:52:54,133 –> 00:52:55,573
and they dump it in here.
1516
00:52:55,813 –> 00:52:57,573
So that has to be stopped.
1517
00:52:57,973 –> 00:53:00,173
Corporate taxes need to be cut if you build in the
1518
00:53:00,173 –> 00:53:00,853
United States.
1519
00:53:00,853 –> 00:53:01,813
That’s long-term.
1520
00:53:02,053 –> 00:53:03,533
Explain to me this
1521
00:53:03,653 –> 00:53:05,493
this reciprocal thing when,
1522
00:53:06,213 –> 00:53:07,733
okay, how’s that a strategy?
1523
00:53:08,373 –> 00:53:10,773
Yeah, so I think it’s to your point earlier about how
1524
00:53:10,773 –> 00:53:13,493
China has put their tentacles into every other one
1525
00:53:13,493 –> 00:53:15,653
of these foreign countries that are then selling into
1526
00:53:15,653 –> 00:53:18,533
the United States and overcoming some of the tariff
1527
00:53:18,533 –> 00:53:20,693
barriers that we’ve erected in other ways.
1528
00:53:20,693 –> 00:53:22,733
We have to really go after the root cause,
1529
00:53:22,733 –> 00:53:25,013
which is the Chinese influence going into it.
1530
00:53:25,013 –> 00:53:26,693
But it’s not just Vietnam.
1531
00:53:26,733 –> 00:53:27,693
It’s also Japan.
1532
00:53:27,693 –> 00:53:29,173
It’s also European countries.
1533
00:53:29,893 –> 00:53:33,133
They set up trade barriers other than even just tariffs
1534
00:53:33,133 –> 00:53:33,533
that make it
1535
00:53:33,653 –> 00:53:36,693
nearly impossible for Americans to sell our products
1536
00:53:37,013 –> 00:53:37,813
in those countries.
1537
00:53:37,813 –> 00:53:38,933
You can get a Toyota,
1538
00:53:39,253 –> 00:53:39,573
you know,
1539
00:53:39,573 –> 00:53:40,933
anywhere in America that you want,
1540
00:53:40,933 –> 00:53:43,413
but you can’t buy a General Motors product in Japan.
1541
00:53:43,413 –> 00:53:45,813
So that’s that’s also,
1542
00:53:45,893 –> 00:53:46,133
you know,
1543
00:53:46,133 –> 00:53:47,413
that’s partly due to tariffs,
1544
00:53:47,413 –> 00:53:50,013
but it’s also due to trade barriers that exist beyond
1545
00:53:50,013 –> 00:53:52,493
just tariffs that make it an absolute
1546
00:53:52,933 –> 00:53:55,253
prohibited barrier to entry into Japan.
1547
00:53:55,253 –> 00:53:56,413
It can change even,
1548
00:53:56,413 –> 00:53:56,573
you know,
1549
00:53:56,573 –> 00:53:58,213
I was talking to some of our General Motors folks,
1550
00:53:58,213 –> 00:54:00,853
they were saying the color of the brake lights will
1551
00:54:00,853 –> 00:54:03,813
be a slightly different shade of red in the United
1552
00:54:03,813 –> 00:54:04,853
States than in Japan.
1553
00:54:05,253 –> 00:54:06,213
Neither one of them.
1554
00:54:06,213 –> 00:54:07,653
That’s the smaller problem.
1555
00:54:07,973 –> 00:54:11,173
The bigger problem is getting Delphi back here,
1556
00:54:12,653 –> 00:54:15,333
And all the cheap parts for Delphi being made.
1557
00:54:15,653 –> 00:54:17,813
in a third world country that’s important,
1558
00:54:18,133 –> 00:54:19,413
importing stuff from China.
1559
00:54:19,573 –> 00:54:21,333
Is this reciprocal tariff?
1560
00:54:21,493 –> 00:54:23,493
We got to lower the trade imbalance,
1561
00:54:23,493 –> 00:54:25,653
but we beat people up.
1562
00:54:26,373 –> 00:54:27,773
And then what we say to Vietnam,
1563
00:54:27,813 –> 00:54:31,053
Mexico, Canada is it’s your right under the world
1564
00:54:31,053 –> 00:54:33,253
trade structure to slap a 30%
1565
00:54:33,253 –> 00:54:34,373
tariff on China.
1566
00:54:34,373 –> 00:54:36,133
Is that what we’re really trying to do?
1567
00:54:36,853 –> 00:54:39,253
Yeah, I think we’re definitely trying to outmaneuver
1568
00:54:39,733 –> 00:54:40,613
And, you know,
1569
00:54:40,693 –> 00:54:43,013
it’s a pretty big game of chess and maneuvering and
1570
00:54:43,013 –> 00:54:44,053
how we do that,
1571
00:54:44,853 –> 00:54:46,853
looking at other countries as well along the way.
1572
00:54:46,853 –> 00:54:47,413
But you’re right,
1573
00:54:47,413 –> 00:54:50,213
the Vietnamese worker there is not going to be buying
1574
00:54:50,213 –> 00:54:51,773
a Silverado or a Cadillac tomorrow.
1575
00:54:51,773 –> 00:54:52,853
That’s not going to happen.
1576
00:54:53,173 –> 00:54:55,413
But it is about a whole effort,
1577
00:54:55,413 –> 00:54:57,973
a collective effort to bring a lot of this manufacturing
1578
00:54:57,973 –> 00:54:58,893
back to the United States.
1579
00:54:58,893 –> 00:55:01,933
It’s going to take time to ramp back up the opportunities
1580
00:55:01,933 –> 00:55:03,333
that we’re going to have to do that.
1581
00:55:03,333 –> 00:55:05,493
There’s going to be some market disturbance along the
1582
00:55:05,653 –> 00:55:06,293
To your point,
1583
00:55:06,813 –> 00:55:09,133
Most of the stockholdings are among the wealthiest
1584
00:55:09,133 –> 00:55:11,333
Americans that hold the greatest number of stocks.
1585
00:55:12,053 –> 00:55:12,693
But, you know,
1586
00:55:12,693 –> 00:55:15,693
these are all part of a total effort to do that.
1587
00:55:15,693 –> 00:55:16,653
And I look at it too,
1588
00:55:16,653 –> 00:55:19,013
from the national security standpoint.
1589
00:55:19,013 –> 00:55:19,853
If we have to,
1590
00:55:19,853 –> 00:55:23,333
or when we have to go to war someday and defend the
1591
00:55:23,333 –> 00:55:25,413
United States and defend our interests abroad,
1592
00:55:25,413 –> 00:55:28,493
and we’re not able to manufacture the
1593
00:55:29,373 –> 00:55:32,053
particular machinery and weaponry and everything else
1594
00:55:32,053 –> 00:55:33,493
that it’s going to take to do that,
1595
00:55:33,813 –> 00:55:35,413
we are putting ourselves in a very,
1596
00:55:35,413 –> 00:55:37,653
very vulnerable position.
1597
00:55:37,813 –> 00:55:38,693
But again,
1598
00:55:38,693 –> 00:55:40,853
it’s got nothing to do with reciprocal trade in that
1599
00:55:41,973 –> 00:55:44,373
And Americans have a very short attention span.
1600
00:55:44,453 –> 00:55:45,893
If they don’t get what’s going on,
1601
00:55:45,893 –> 00:55:46,533
they freak out.
1602
00:55:46,533 –> 00:55:48,453
So we don’t know the plan.
1603
00:55:49,133 –> 00:55:52,573
But if outcome of that is bringing more onshored manufacturing
1604
00:55:52,573 –> 00:55:54,133
and production into the United States,
1605
00:55:54,453 –> 00:55:55,573
then that will be,
1606
00:55:55,893 –> 00:55:58,213
it’ll have the effect of making us in a better national
1607
00:55:58,213 –> 00:56:01,613
security posture and giving us the ability to rebuild
1608
00:56:01,613 –> 00:56:03,653
our economy with the middle class that builds things.
1609
00:56:03,693 –> 00:56:05,413
Okay, I know you need to go,
1610
00:56:06,613 –> 00:56:09,333
The one last you found that the clip?
1611
00:56:09,653 –> 00:56:10,413
Yeah, they found,
1612
00:56:11,173 –> 00:56:11,813
Ken found it.
1613
00:56:11,973 –> 00:56:13,413
So a little closer to home,
1614
00:56:13,413 –> 00:56:13,773
we’ve got a,
1615
00:56:13,773 –> 00:56:13,933
you know,
1616
00:56:13,933 –> 00:56:17,253
a big governor’s race going on and from your party,
1617
00:56:17,413 –> 00:56:22,453
John James kind of announced he didn’t really do anything.
1618
00:56:22,453 –> 00:56:24,453
He just kind of put out a piece of paper.
1619
00:56:24,933 –> 00:56:30,053
But the Free Press posted it and it was buried on their
1620
00:56:30,053 –> 00:56:30,693
front page.
1621
00:56:30,693 –> 00:56:31,333
Where’s it at,
1622
00:56:32,053 –> 00:56:32,893
It’s up there right now,
1623
00:56:32,933 –> 00:56:33,893
so there’s I can’t see it.
1624
00:56:33,893 –> 00:56:34,293
Where’s it at?
1625
00:56:34,373 –> 00:56:35,053
You can’t see it on the.
1626
00:56:36,013 –> 00:56:37,813
Well, they originally had the wrong photo up.
1627
00:56:37,933 –> 00:56:39,013
Well, that’s that’s what,
1628
00:56:39,253 –> 00:56:40,613
That’s the correct photo.
1629
00:56:41,253 –> 00:56:42,133
That’s the correct photo.
1630
00:56:42,613 –> 00:56:43,173
I know John.
1631
00:56:43,173 –> 00:56:43,453
That’s him.
1632
00:56:43,453 –> 00:56:44,453
Where’s the Free Press 1,
1633
00:56:44,613 –> 00:56:45,253
I don’t see it.
1634
00:56:47,813 –> 00:56:48,573
So John James,
1635
00:56:48,573 –> 00:56:48,933
John James.
1636
00:56:49,013 –> 00:56:50,573
There it is right there.
1637
00:56:50,573 –> 00:56:51,253
That’s the Detroit.
1638
00:56:51,813 –> 00:56:54,613
So John James,
1639
00:56:54,613 –> 00:56:55,333
if you don’t know,
1640
00:56:55,333 –> 00:56:55,933
is, you know,
1641
00:56:55,933 –> 00:56:59,893
a decorated military veteran,
1642
00:57:00,533 –> 00:57:03,093
well-to-do black man,
1643
00:57:03,413 –> 00:57:05,293
and Garland Gilchrist.
1644
00:57:05,853 –> 00:57:06,893
He’s also a black man.
1645
00:57:06,893 –> 00:57:08,053
He happens to be lieutenant governor,
1646
00:57:08,053 –> 00:57:10,293
but the free press can’t tell him apart.
1647
00:57:12,213 –> 00:57:13,733
Oh, the white hipsters.
1648
00:57:14,813 –> 00:57:15,573
And that’s what it is,
1649
00:57:15,973 –> 00:57:17,333
You got all these young people,
1650
00:57:17,333 –> 00:57:18,213
they don’t know,
1651
00:57:18,213 –> 00:57:19,813
and they don’t do their research.
1652
00:57:19,893 –> 00:57:20,533
They don’t know.
1653
00:57:20,533 –> 00:57:21,253
They don’t know.
1654
00:57:21,333 –> 00:57:22,293
At the end of the day,
1655
00:57:22,933 –> 00:57:23,253
you know,
1656
00:57:23,253 –> 00:57:26,093
one of my frustrations in journalism more recently
1657
00:57:26,093 –> 00:57:26,773
has just been
1658
00:57:27,453 –> 00:57:31,093
the laziness of people not doing their due diligence
1659
00:57:31,093 –> 00:57:31,893
around reporting.
1660
00:57:31,893 –> 00:57:32,773
They just knee-jerk.
1661
00:57:32,773 –> 00:57:33,733
They want the clickbait,
1662
00:57:33,773 –> 00:57:34,293
and then,
1663
00:57:34,373 –> 00:57:34,693
you know,
1664
00:57:34,693 –> 00:57:36,573
it’s lost on the people consuming it.
1665
00:57:36,573 –> 00:57:38,293
And that is a frustration that I’ve felt.
1666
00:57:38,493 –> 00:57:39,733
This is one example of it,
1667
00:57:39,733 –> 00:57:41,653
but you can point to many others as well.
1668
00:57:42,133 –> 00:57:42,613
Well, you know,
1669
00:57:43,733 –> 00:57:45,013
Gilchrist gets all the breaks.
1670
00:57:45,013 –> 00:57:46,493
He gets John James glory,
1671
00:57:46,493 –> 00:57:49,333
and he doesn’t have to pay on that crappy land bang
1672
00:57:49,333 –> 00:57:51,733
house he left rotten in hell.
1673
00:57:52,373 –> 00:57:53,493
Congressman Tom Barrett,
1674
00:57:54,973 –> 00:57:55,893
Henry Kissinger.
1675
00:57:55,973 –> 00:57:57,493
He’s going to be the he’s going to be known as the
1676
00:57:57,493 –> 00:57:58,773
congressman who cares.
1677
00:57:58,773 –> 00:57:59,973
Like he told us the how,
1678
00:57:59,973 –> 00:58:01,093
but he didn’t tell us the why.
1679
00:58:01,093 –> 00:58:02,653
So the next time I want to know the why.
1680
00:58:02,653 –> 00:58:03,813
I’ll tell you why.
1681
00:58:03,853 –> 00:58:05,013
I’ll tell you why quickly,
1682
00:58:05,013 –> 00:58:06,853
because I thought about this and I’m like,
1683
00:58:07,173 –> 00:58:09,973
if this were my mom and dad in a Mexican maximum security
1684
00:58:09,973 –> 00:58:13,093
prison, I would want somebody or anybody to do absolutely
1685
00:58:13,093 –> 00:58:14,773
everything they can to get them out.
1686
00:58:15,133 –> 00:58:16,453
And I was committed to doing that.
1687
00:58:16,613 –> 00:58:17,653
And when I got there,
1688
00:58:17,653 –> 00:58:18,253
I said, listen,
1689
00:58:18,253 –> 00:58:19,253
I’m here for one reason.
1690
00:58:19,693 –> 00:58:22,053
to get Paul and Christy home and I’m not leaving without
1691
00:58:22,293 –> 00:58:25,693
And it took the next 32 hours to get everything done
1692
00:58:25,693 –> 00:58:27,813
and do the tightrope dance and getting everybody’s,
1693
00:58:28,213 –> 00:58:28,453
you know,
1694
00:58:28,453 –> 00:58:29,413
maneuvering in place.
1695
00:58:29,413 –> 00:58:30,213
But, you know,
1696
00:58:30,293 –> 00:58:32,173
they’re home safe with their family and that’s,
1697
00:58:32,693 –> 00:58:32,853
you know,
1698
00:58:32,853 –> 00:58:33,733
something I’m proud of.
1699
00:58:35,093 –> 00:58:36,293
So we’ll keep that in mind,
1700
00:58:36,333 –> 00:58:38,773
even though we’re not in this district.
1701
00:58:42,053 –> 00:58:42,693
Thanks for being here.
1702
00:58:43,133 –> 00:58:44,773
Now get in there and vote and vote often.
1703
00:58:47,693 –> 00:58:47,893
All right,
1704
00:58:47,893 –> 00:58:49,293
we’ll see you all next week,
1705
00:58:49,733 –> 00:58:51,693
Oh, I’ll see you Friday.
1706
00:58:55,093 –> 00:58:55,733
All right.
1707
00:58:56,573 –> 00:58:57,333
Arrivederci.
1708
00:58:57,333 –> 00:58:59,533
It’s in case I got to go to Sicily and get somebody
1709
00:59:00,733 –> 00:59:01,173
out of prison.
