Better Red Than Dead

No BS Newshour Episode #414

Better Red Than Dead

 

(3:58) Our friend Red was run over last week.

When a stand-up comedian is funnier sedated than on stage, all you can do is pray and roast him.

 

(24:59) What’s Detroit City Hall doing about the poisoned demo dirt peppering the neighborhoods? 

(31:09) The Demolition Department has launched a marketing campaign at its job sites. 

They’re handing out donuts to fat kids and brownies to junkies trying to manipulate them into happy poses for their social media channels.

 

(37:57) PLUS – More corrupt Nessel News.

 

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TRANSCRIPT

Good afternoon, it’s James Harvey with your NBN News weather report. The snow is melting, and the abandoned furniture and old tires are in full bloom. You know what they say, April showers bring May floods on the east side.

Hell, I still haven’t gotten my check, FEMA check from last year. And speaking about things that take too long, with all the rain in the forecast, you can expect the grass in the land bank lots to grow taller than Dan Gilbert’s skyscrapers. Which has a plus side, now you won’t be able to see the abandoned furniture and old tires.

Expect a massive warm front to move through Detroit next week. Forecast for the summer, hot, with a high probability of murder. You might want to take advantage of the rain and gas up your car now, only in the daytime, and don’t forget to stock up on that beer and those lottery tickets, and stay indoors.

And remember, when we get these massive warm fronts, it comes with light winds from the west, and with the light winds comes massive power outages all over Michigan. So after you get through gassing that car up, in the daytime, you might want to stop by the $1.25 store and stock up you some candles. But remember, with inflation, you’re only gonna get 11 candles in a box made for 12.

This is James Harvey with NBN News, reminding you Detroit, gas up in the daytime. Live from downtown Detroit, it’s the No Bullshit News Hour, with my main man, Charlie LaDoc, and Karen Dubez. I’m Grace Karos, and I’m third generation of American Coney Island.

People say Detroit’s a comeback city. I say, where you been? We’ve been here for over 100 years. My family’s been here on the same corner, serving our famous proprietary American Coney Island hot dog.

So like always, we’re keeping things fresh, updated, and new. We’d love to have you come downtown and visit us, but if you can’t, you can always go to AmericanConeyIsland.com, order a Coney Kit, get it delivered fresh right to your door. Is this the hole-in-one? It’s a hole-in-one, $50,000 if you hit it.

Luke Nowacki, Financial Wealth Management. What is 50 grand after tax? 37… That’s 248-663-4748. Yeah, I’m throwing both in there.

What about sales tax? There’s no sales tax. Well, you’re buying the beer. There’s income.

You’re buying the beer. Eh, we write that off. Luke Nowacki, Financial Wealth Management.

248-663-4748. Is that right, Luke? That’s correct. It’s Luke.

That’s weird. Do you use Luke Nowacki as a… Yes. It’s Grace.

That’s weird. It’s a love fest here, folks, because I’m sad to announce a member of our family, dear, dearly beloved Detroit comedian, Red, who got mowed over. He’s been fighting for his life for a couple of days.

He’s pretty bad. Not to bring it down. I didn’t want this to be one of his comedy shows.

Oh! Too soon? Too soon? Don’t die on me, bro. Don’t make me look like an asshole, because I’m going to roast you. We’re going to play… We’re going to have the news on the back half of the show.

Just thinking about Red. He’s going to be okay. He was struck by a car on his electric bike.

And I told him not to get that freaking electric bike. I mean, he’s a 50-year-old man on an electric bike. Bad things happen on those.

Those are terrible. I’ve been saying that, Luke. You’re the financial wealth specialist.

Things are so fucked up in Motown, grown men are riding bicycles. Midlife Christ, Red. Want to ride a bike? Like, seriously.

Yeah, but it’s serious. Fractured spine, punctured lung, three… His ribs are cracked. His hip is cracked.

His hip is cracked. They removed the spleen. Yeah.

So, they’ve had him heavily sedated. But he’s going to make it. His lady just called me, and I told her I’d call her back, but she said he’s doing well.

Wonderful. Poor fucking guy. Let’s start with a… We got a piece of Red? Some of Red’s greatest hit here? Yeah.

Luke, say something. Why? Because they’re like, you look like Red. I’m like, there’s fucking two of you.

Two cadavers. All right. Oh, too soon.

It’s scary Halloween. Welcome to another Count Red bearing very scary Halloween special. Between the COVID and inflation, getting fresh blood has been a complete nightmare.

Normally, I would drive the Red bearing mobile, but because a lousy driver hit my car, it’ll be six months before they can repair it. So, I have to fly. To the roof I go.

I got to get the shot a lot. So, I’m going to fly. I’m not as light as I used to be.

Oh, that kind of hurt a little bit. I think I’m going to take the queue line instead. Hello, good citizens of Detroit.

Can you direct me to the queue line? On the other side of Woodward, the train sometimes comes down. He’s going to close the doors on us. Hello.

How are you doing today, sir? Count Dracula. Count Red bearing. Count Dracula was a rip-off of me.

Excuse me, sir. Do you know if I can take this to the blood bank? I need to make a withdrawal. Hell no.

We’re Detroit motherfuckers. Oh my God. I think I ran into a gangbanger.

I finally made it. Thank God. Riding on the queue line was worse than riding in my coffin to go somewhere.

On to the blood. I finally made it to the blood bank. Now to go make a withdrawal.

It’s official business. I’m here to make a withdrawal from the blood bank. That’s fine, but there’s no, you can’t take any pictures, no filming in here because people, the privacy issues.

Some people don’t want people to know that they donated, so. When you say donor, you mean I have to give blood? I was told I could come get the blood. Well, this is a plasma bank, not a blood bank.

You might want to try the red cross. The red cross. Oh, I don’t like crosses at all.

Well, thank you very much. I’m Count Red bearing. Does this guy not know who I am? I am Count Red bearing.

I should bite him on the neck. This sucks. No blood.

And I have to ride the queue line back home. The fucking thing goes in a circle. Oh, that’s really scary.

Welcome to another very scary red cross. Wait, pause. Damn it.

Damn it. Do we get Karen up? We do. I’m here.

Hi, Karen. Hi, Charlie. How are you? Good.

Let’s watch the bloopers and then come back. I’m glad you made it. Hi, Karen.

Luke and Grace are here, by the way. Hey, guys. Hello.

Hi. Luke, earlier, because Karen was getting some sound financial advice from Luke, and Luke goes, are you over 65? I quit. She said she’s younger than me.

I’m like, how old did she tell you? I didn’t give him an age. I just told him I wasn’t 65. That’s funnier than red.

Okay, let’s see these bloopers. I think Count Red bearing. Welcome to another very scary red.

Damn it. Damn it. Damn it.

Okay. Hey. It’ll be six months.

Ah, fuck this. My accent. Hello, ladies.

How are you doing this afternoon? So the shit I do for this show. Oh, that poor fucker. Okay, Karen.

Yes. You know, no one’s talked to red. I did yesterday.

And, you know, I said, how you doing, brother? And he was doing his count scary. So he came in, suck the phlegm out of his lungs. Yeah.

Give me about a minute. I’m recording you. So just give me, give me a minute, like just a good wish.

We’ll record it and I’ll play it in Red’s ear today. Okay, I’ll take it to the hospital. All right, red.

This is Karen. I am just so you’re in the mood. Like I’ll be red and you talk to me.

Ready? Oh my gosh. Too soon. Let me just let me go with the organic message.

I know you’re dealing with this with humor, Charlie, but this is very serious. And we want people to, you know, to encourage and pray for red. I mean, for better or worse, he’s part of the team.

And he’s a good and funny guy. So red, this is Karen know that I am praying and pulling for you. I want you to be better.

I want you to come back down and hang out with us. Take it a minute at a time. The city of Detroit is pulling for you as well.

And we’d love and wish you a speed and thorough recovery. What? Yeah, me too, man. I love you, dude.

So let the roast begin. Red will laugh. He got a kick out of this.

Once he’s alert, this is exactly what he wants. Not a good news. They remove red’s breathing tube yesterday.

The bad news, they had to shove it back in because he started telling them jokes. I mean, how bad was he hurt? We all want to know how bad he was hurt. I’ll tell you really bad.

Put it this way. Now red knows how his audience feels. Oh, we got a little red drop in there.

We didn’t. Yeah, we didn’t get it. Hey, I’m here.

The internet was down. Did you call XG service group? Yeah, they ain’t gonna be able to fix red. I’ll tell you that.

Look, me and red work together here at the American Coney Island. And after his accident, the manager asked if I could fill in for red for a couple of weeks. And I told the manager, I got no experience as a speed bump.

Now, according to the police report, red got run over on his bicycle in broad daylight. But red so pale, the driver never saw him. I mean, the guy’s absolute cellophane.

Now detectives think that it might have been a gang hit instead of an accident. I mean, how could you miss a red Afro the color of a traffic cone? That guy’s so light. He’s I don’t think he knows any black people.

Okay, listen, when the paramedics arrived, they gave him two pints of blood. Faygo type negative. I mean, these are originals.

Red cracked his vertebrae, his ribs and his hip, and it would have shattered his funny bone. But red doesn’t have a single one in his entire body. I mean, that guy’s so broke.

I told the doctor to stitch a pussy on his hip so he can make a little money on the side. I’m talking about. Oh, oh, oh, they took they took a spleen out to read so fucking cheap.

He asked for it to go in a doggy bag. Let’s see a little bit of red’s work. We’ll be right back.

I’m running for governor of Goddamn, Michigan. Ain’t got shit on me. And when I get in office, I’m putting cases on all you bitches.

Come on. Where the fuck is the police at when you need them? This is the fuck they was talking about when I was police chief. I can’t wait to find out who dumbass fucking idealist was to do this shit on Bellisle.

They motherfucking ass is fired. And fuck y’all. Oh, back to the roast.

There’s more. Fix this in post. There we go.

Oh, show killer fell over there. Now, the doctor tried to give him an enema, but Red’s head got in the way. Oh, yeah.

Check that. It was a gerbil. Now, they’re not sure who hit him, but I do know Red’s wife showed up to the hospital in an Uber carrying the divorce papers.

Apparently, Red was bicycling downtown just in time to catch the uptown bus. Now, I was at the hospital carrying the other day talking to red. I leaned over in his hospital bed and whispered in his ear.

I said, bro, next time, make sure the buses stop before putting your bike in the rack. Now, before the accident, Red was complaining about all the weight he was putting on. But looking back at it now, the extra blubber probably saved his life.

I mean, he bounced. Two weeks ago, Red got a flat tire on his new bike. Now, Red’s the flat tire.

He got hit on his left side, and he’s now looking for a right hand man. Let’s hear from Red. What up there, everybody? It’s me, Comedian Detroit Red.

A few of y’all know me. A whole lot of y’all don’t know who the hell I am. Well, I’m a long time, lifetime resident of Detroit who cares about our city.

And I’ve come here on Detroit’s beautiful Belle Isle, which by the way, is leased to the state, to make a very important announcement today. I’m here to let you know that I’ve decided in the next mayoral election race, I’ll be throwing my hat in because the city needs a transparent mayor. And that’s what I’m going to be.

You won’t have to worry about side chicks, secret motorcycles, secret deals, contaminated dirt, because I’m telling you right now, I’m not going to be able to fix any of that shit. But the most important part of it is, is I’m going to be honest with you about it. For instance, worried about if I got a side chick? Hell, I’m divorced.

My next wife would probably be a stripper who was a side chick. No worries there. Worried about if I’m going to make special deals and give contracts to friends? Hell, of course I am, because that’s how modern day politics works.

So you may not get much change, but what you definitely get is a bunch of honesty. So if you want an honest mayor for the city of Detroit, remember, he might not fix shit and he might be a little crooked, but at least he was honest about it. So remember, Comedian Detroit Red.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Yes.

Thank you. Thank you. He didn’t have no pants on? Did he? No, I couldn’t see his legs at all.

He’s so pale, this guy. Oh, okay. Back to the roach.

That’s funny Red said that. You might not know me. This is a little scene that happened at the hospital.

I went to the front desk and I asked the lady working the desk. I said, what room was Comedian Detroit Red in? She checked the computer once. She checked it twice.

Then she said, I’m sorry. I never heard of him. I said, that’s okay, sweetie.

Nobody has. I mean, not even in heaven. I sent a prayer up for Red.

I got an answer back. It said, who? When they wheeled him in the hospital, I mean, the recording in the elevator said, going down? Well, they got him in the ICU now. And the place kind of reminds me of one of Red’s shows.

I mean, everybody was asleep. At least now he’s got a room with heat. You know what I’m saying? Even threw in the light bulb for him.

Oh, when Red started flat lining, they didn’t use the paddles. They handed him a Newport and a glass of Covassie. It’s going to be a long recovery.

It is. It’s going to be a long recovery and Red doesn’t have insurance. So they’re teaching him to limp.

Yeah. More bad medical news for Red. I don’t know how to break it to him.

They don’t fix teeth in the ICU either. Let’s hear from Red. Don’t tell me what’s important.

You didn’t care. You went on, signed the paperwork, put me on out the house, but I’m going to make it. Yeah, I got put out.

Red, you got to get out the house. 20 year marriage. Things didn’t work out.

I’ll show you ass. I’m out of here. All I need is what I got.

Started from the bottom, now I’m here. Chelsea, I’ll be the fucking man. She’ll regret it.

Damn. If you’re listening, just go to YouTube or whatever, social media, and watch. I do believe we have a folder in YouTube of all of Red’s work, don’t we? We do, yeah.

All those days at the Normandy when he moved into the Flophouse. It’s great shit. The guy’s super talented.

He is. Nobody knows him, though. I mean, comedy’s been Red’s whole life.

This accident and everything, let’s look on the bright side. It’s the closest he’s ever gotten to killing it in his career. No, seriously, don’t die, bro.

If you did, I’d look like a total dick here. I’m really dealing with grief. And I remember the first time I saw you perform, my friend.

It makes me sad, because I’ll never get those five minutes back. Get better. I love you.

What are we doing now? Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on. Abrupt, weird silence. You’re back, Red! Let’s hear from XG Service Group for getting us Karen back.

Well, you know, when it rains, the power goes out. And when the power goes out, the internet goes out. When the internet goes out, I call my friend Matt and Bernie at XG Service Group.

Look at Bernie here on his hands and knees, giving it everything he’s got. Look at that man crack. So busy, he forgot to wear a belt.

There’s Matt right there getting the board together. That’s 734-245-4100. If you need Matt and Bernie to come take care of your voice over internet, your security cameras, off campus access control, Wi-Fi and cameras for homes and business, they’ll design it for you.

You got restaurants, they do drive-thru systems, railroad cameras for public safety, total wireless camera systems for your home and business. Yeah, that’s right. Call XG Services at 734-245-4100.

Man, that shit ain’t easy doing stand-up. I’m sweating. You’re putting that Mando in there.

It’s like acidically balanced, light. It’s stuff for men. Yeah, I don’t like that old spice or the, you know.

Okay. Oh, yeah. And they got these spray.

Look, it’s for pits, your junk, your toes. ShopMando.com. Be like me. Be a real man.

ShopMando.com. No BS. Code get 20% off. Okay.

What’s next? Politics? I’m out. Not for me. I came on for Red and everybody prayers up because Red is very, very serious.

He is getting better. His whole life is going to change though. And he’s going to be, it’s going to be a whole different way of living and just everybody keep him in your purse.

Yeah. I, you know, I don’t want to put any photo of him up because it’s his privacy. I don’t want to do it to him, but it’s bad.

Yeah, it is. It’s very bad. Yeah.

Okay. One bike, no electric bikes. Hey, Karen.

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I think she, is she there? I’ve got like four minutes left. Yeah. Give us a last message of uplift to read and we’ll let you go.

Well, I think Grace said it best, you know, I mean, I know you are celebrating him in a manner that makes us laugh, which laughs should remind us of red, but he is in a compromised position and he’s going to require a lot of our support, our prayers, our sympathy, and whatever we can do to help pull him through. So it is important that we look at the serious side and wish him. Well, red’s a good guy for, for better or worse.

And he has given 200% to the show and to the people that know and love him. So we want the best for him. Yeah.

I mean, I’ll, I’ll feed his cat, but I ain’t doing any more than that. What? Okay, Charlie, why lie? That’s true. But you know what, that’s true, Charlie.

I mean, but if that’s what you’re willing to do, then that’s helpful too. Oh, you made me feel like a heel, which, which Mando really makes smell sweet. All right.

I love you, Karen. Take care. Stay off the bicycles.

Love you too. I’ll see you soon. Thank you guys.

Bye. All right. Let’s not, let’s just get to what we prepared this week for you.

The exclusive stuff that NBN is known for is news. You’re not going to get anywhere else. Okay.

Now I’ve seen a lot of dumb shit from the Detroit political class over the years, but this one literally takes the cake, Luke. What Detroit city hall doing about the poison demo dirt, peppering the neighborhoods dirt that has been found too toxic for human touch. The demolition department has launched a marketing campaign at its job sites.

They’re handing out doughnuts to fat kids and brownies to junkies, trying to manipulate them as props into happy poses for their social media channels. Look demolition and doughnuts board up in brownies. Nevermind your elected leaders have poisoned you.

Detroit eat. Two weeks ago, there was a picture of a happy face kid licking the glaze Krispy Kreme. What is the contract on that? Krispy Kreme.

Couldn’t you touch girl? Something local. Why are you doing that? And having the kids standing from in front of an active demolition site in the background, nevermind the poison dust blowing all over him post it. Can you imagine the Flint water department handed out cups of Kool-Aid to kiddies? Think about that.

This is the city solution to a ballooning scandal that may have costing more than 100 million of your dollars to clean up money. The city doesn’t have what Detroit does have is a giant scandal, one big giant scandal, a second federal investigation into the dirt and zero answers. An ex-con was walking by the pop-up brownie stand.

Just last week, I’m going to show you the video after this. Influencers from the demo department. Yes.

Influencers from a demolition department in a broke-ass town tried to wrangle him into a photo op. He declined both the selfie and the sweets explaining that he has extra judicial issues and promotional photographs being posted all over the place were of little help to him. Now, I explained the purpose of the event and he said to me, I knew it was something, man.

I’m the fuck like brownies and board ups. The fuck’s that about? And now the neighborhood knows it’s not been a good first quarter for Mayor Mary Sheffield. Predecessor Mike Duggan left the city impoverished, poisoned and under police.

Duggan left office, left the Democratic Party and then launched a bid for governor of Michigan as an independent. To return the favor, the Democratic Party launched an anti-Duggan billboard campaign this week, showing how Mike Magoo has poisoned the people. Before he jilted them, the Democrat brass took Duggan’s largesse all along and kept the fuck quiet.

Now they want his ass. Sheffield better figure out something and better figure it out soon. After her lavish inaugural parties and perpetual Insta posts, people are starting to call her Mary Antoinette.

The let them eat cake strategy is wearing thin, madam. The people are tired of crumbs. Look at Luke OG and over there going, damn.

All right. You don’t believe me, huh? America’s most effective mayor I heard. Oh shit.

What did you just say, brother? America’s most effective mayor. Yeah. God damn.

Well, it’s catching up. And after, man, you know what? Here’s what I’m realizing. I’m just blowing up sources now.

If you can’t help me, forget it. Right. If you’re in private business, except Wall Street and you’re caught in a crime embezzlement or whatever it’s going to be that come for you.

If you’re a public official, they got the control of the machinery. They never get charged. We never get our do this.

This was, this was a racket. This includes, and I’m coming for you. M dot.

How did the highways end up in the holes in the city of Detroit and at the old mall site in Southfield and you’re paying for it to be dumped at the landfill? Who the fuck is working over there? You’re letting them do it. The demolition department, all the contractors, the lawyers, this is so fuck. Remember the first time the federal investigation, the first time when we were using federal money, Duggan hired Hillary Clinton’s email lawyer and destroying the server lawyer, big swing and Dick.

She was like the number two to Eric Holder in the department of justice. Then she goes to work for Wilmer Hale thousand an hour. And then she really pissed the, uh, the feds off because she’s a good lawyer.

Duggan Duggan’s lawyers being paid for by the land bank. They’re washing the money. And the lawyers say to the, to the feds, uh, every, you can’t talk to any employee in or X and former employee or retiree in Detroit because they’re all part of this case.

The lawyer, I think her name is Jeannie Ree. She, she leaves Wilmer Hale. It leaves Duggan in the middle of it because she needs, she goes back into public service.

You know where she went? She became, she became the right hand woman to Muller in the Trump Russia hoax investigation. This tells you what the fuck, how deep it is, how wide it is. Yeah.

Nobody, nobody did a day for Flint, not one day in jail and nobody’s done a daily day in jail for poison in Detroit. And I’m doing everything I can to keep this thing in the public eye because it’s horrible, too toxic to touch, too toxic to touch. And having said that, have a good time with what you’re about to see and look how fucked up this is.

Okay. Ready? Come on. We gotta go get a brown.

Oh, you got grits on the stove. Better than a brown. The city’s putting on a board up in brownies party.

Asbestos may cause cancer, cause damage to lungs. We got grits on the stove. I’m going to have some brownies.

The fuck? Like last week, it was probably you guys tore down that house and they gave the donuts out. Yeah. That was you guys? That was us.

They got a little kid standing there. A donut and breathing the shit in. Yeah.

Two blocks away. Brownies and board up. Let’s have a look, shall we? Are you with the city? You have a moment? No, I can’t do any interviews.

No, no interviews. Well, then what are we doing here? Are you telling the neighbors about the toxic soil? They don’t seem to know. Is this a attempt to deflect attention to a major scandal? How were those donuts last week? That little boy was breathing in dust.

That didn’t seem smart. So here we are at Detroit city’s board up and brownies. Last week, it was demo and donuts.

Maybe next week it’ll be taco Tuesday and toxic soil, but they don’t want to tell the neighbors about that. Thousands of holes, millions of dollars, but they can’t give interviews. It’s the dumbest shit.

Is that a board? Where are you going to use nails? Fascinating hammers and nails and boards. Fascinating. There’s no one from the neighborhood here.

Brownies. They have peanuts in them. No.

Don’t want any peanuts buried in my brownie. Very rich. Are you Panazzola? I am.

I think I remember. Director of demo. So what’s this about? Is brownies important? Why? The number’s over a thousand now.

These are too hot to touch. How bad is this and where are we getting the money to fix it? Any questions you have, put them in writing. What’s the budget for it? Where’s the money? Writing.

Right on. Brownies. Brownies.

They’re delicious. You didn’t bury any peanuts in it, did you? Let me put it in writing. What’s up with the poison dirt? There’s my, it’s in writing.

There’s also, you know, the part where you submit it through the communications office. No, that’s actually not how a FOIA works. He’s denying the FOIA.

He’s breaking state law. We had drivers say they took I-75 directly and dumped it into the former mayor’s best buddy’s holes and the current mayor’s former lover. So what’s up with it? Nothing.

It’s crazy, bro. Doesn’t look, not a good look. Through the process.

I’m gonna knock on every door in his neighborhood and tell him what’s going on. I’m gonna do, you watch me. Come on over and have a brownie.

I’m cooking right now. He don’t want any brownies. He just wants the dirt cleaned up.

Now they’re throwing a little brownie parties because they don’t want you to know. I knew it was something. I was asked how many brownies and board ups.

Let’s, let’s finish that sentence. Brownies and board up and bullshit. Okay.

Did that, did they react? Thank you. Did the reaction of the director of demolition? What? Oh my God. A good one, man.

A little cavalier. What? This is what I’m dealing with. Put it in writing.

Here’s what they’re doing. We got social media. I said to the clip, I know it’s not loaded.

Okay. This is what, that’s my story. Okay.

Now for all of you only downloading and listening, you can go to you. What are we on YouTube? No BS news hour. You can go to Charlie Duff on all socials, um, michiganenjoyer.com. Hey, it’s a beautiful day.

Okay. Here’s what they did. Well, how much are we spending for this bullshit? Just here’s your friendly neighborhood demolition department.

Brownies and board up. It’s just the music video folks who are listening. Nobody’s there.

Nobody’s there. Great baseline. Whoa.

Here’s a backhoe. Oh, boards and nails before and after. Wow.

Whoa. Way to beautify the neighborhood. And Charlie there, I think they were using screw guns there and not nails.

Just want to clarify. Thanks. We like to be accurate.

It’s no, see they’re misleading the public on that. I heard nails get your facts straight. Can’t get it by Luke.

No wacky financial wealth specialist. Give him the number. Luke two, four, eight, six, six, three, four, seven, four, eight, four, five sound.

Eh, I don’t know about sound financial advice. Well, Ken Ken’s a conspiracy. Ken’s mishearing it and he, he thinks he hears free financial advice, man.

He was all over your jock man outside. Oh, totally free. Yeah.

You’ll get the bill. No, I don’t bill anybody. I don’t charge anybody.

How do you, how do you work that? It works out commission. There’s some commission. There’s some, uh, advisory fees.

Okay. But we worked that out beforehand. I don’t charge a sit down with anybody.

Exactly. All of a sudden you got a bill from Luke Owen. Actually I got a PSA for later.

Okay. 45 seconds at the end. Okay.

So let’s, let’s bring it around to the end. Um, this, this is how crooked it is. This is so fucking okay.

Dude, people, we got, we, we, you gotta be aware of things and you gotta take it back because they’ve quietly a cabal of dirt bags has quietly taken over the machinery. The greatest system ever in the history of mankind, the United States political system, it’s the greatest, but it’s been infected by the contemptible and the corrupt. Put up that picture.

Look at this one. Woo. This is a night out.

I don’t know what band they’re listening to. On the left is Dana Nessel, Dana Nessel, the attorney general of Michigan. We all know she covers up for nursing home deaths and lets her friend allegedly bilk the estate and abuse a brain damaged old woman in the middle.

Oh, the one on the right. This is, thank you for letting us use this off of your Facebook page. That is a, that is a, the judge that put me out of my house for six months and wouldn’t let me get my underpants back.

Also swore in Dana Nessel, right? Huh? Jamie Powell Horowitz. Yeah. Yeah.

She swore in Dana Nessel. She’s the one that held the Bible for Nessel. Yes, indeed.

Indeed. No connection at all there. And the one in the middle, what does she do? What is she wearing? It’s like a halter top.

Did somebody tell her like she doesn’t look good in that. I’ll just say that. All right.

She is former assistant, United States attorney here in the Eastern district of Michigan. Sunita Dodamani. Now Sunita just got fired by the department of justice in that sprawling 900 page report about weaponizing the department of justice.

What the DOJ says she did. She got a case in Michigan about, uh, uh, pro-life activists. They were charged, put on trial and she tanked exculpatory evidence that could have benefited the defendants, which is exactly what you is supposed to happen.

That’s jurisprudence. That is minimally ethically dog shit. Yeah.

Now, apparently, you know, she, uh, also did some of the, uh, uh, Whitmer kidnappers. Right. But where it is, I checked into this.

She’s so incompetent that, uh, Nessel had a prop, a couple of underlings underneath her to actually do the case because she didn’t know the fuck she was doing. This is fucked up, right? You going after political enemies that will make all three of them in that picture. Wow.

Okay. Not even a week, not even a week, not even a week later. She got a new job.

Like I’m not sure she’s not going to get federally charged or the DOJ is going to grieve her and try to get her law license. Doesn’t matter. You can’t take a vacation for five minutes.

Name of the law firm is Miller Johnson. I highly suggest you never call them. Wow.

The fuck poison warped jurisprudence, you know, and I’m trying to figure out what’s going on in Southfield and I’m, I want to know why EPA and department national resources in Michigan, you’re doing nothing. I’m here. I ain’t going away.

Red ain’t going away. Mark, you, you can maybe take a couple of days off. Okay.

So that’s that. I love your red. Get better.

Luke, the wacky PSA, please brother. Yes, sir. Um, actually met with a client last night.

Podcast listener didn’t charge them. Meeting. I have a people bring their tax returns in.

So we all filed 10 forties last week. If you worked overtime, if you were tipped, if you have a car loan interest and you make a combined under 300,000 or for car loan interest under one 50, um, there’s a schedule one a new for last year. So this woman was a hairdresser.

Um, some of her income obviously is tipped. And I said, well, how much was tipped? She’s like about at least 10 grand. And I’m like, well, why isn’t that on line 13 B? I heard you saying it to Karen.

Yes. Line 13 B on your 10 40. Take a look at it.

No one never looks at it. They always just say, how much am I getting back or how much do I owe? But, um, it was missed and it’s 10 grand. Uh, she could deduct in addition to the standard deduction so that, um, and that would actually bring them from the 22% bracket to the 12.

So somewhere between $1,625 and 2,625. Uh, they’re going to amend and refile my, I don’t know where the error happened. I don’t know if I don’t blame her accountant.

She was pretty sound there. My guess is the person issuing her 10 99 issued it according to past years and didn’t itemize out tips. So take a look if you haven’t prepared yours or even if you have prepared yours, be aware of that.

Yeah. Yep. Just take a look there.

Um, one other thing, if you have a child that was born after January 1st of 2025 or no one, uh, section five 30 account, you can get $1,000 from the government. U S government will seed that for a grand. Really? Yes.

Hey, Claude, can you climb back up in your mother and come on out next week and I’ll split it with you. You can also contribute to it. I don’t know if it’s the best place for you, but you can get the free grand, 1,000 bucks after 18 years since we got you here.

Hey, okay. The five 29, the education savings account, and you, you know, you see that and it’s in a market, in a fund, high risk, low risk, whatever you want to do. And if there’s anything left over when your child finishes undergrad, what happens if you got extra money in there? So they greatly expanded, uh, the options for that.

It used to be just a, uh, secondary education. So college or any accredited, you could use that for trade schools. Okay.

Now grad school, grad school, you can use it for, um, pre so, uh, private school, private tuition getting you there. And then if there’s anything left over after that, you can transfer it to another beneficiary. You’re the custodian of it.

And, um, if there’s anything left over after that, when the child starts their job, they can actually pre fund their Roth IRA with that. So you could start a savings account and I, a retirement account for your child. Correct.

Within, Oh, that’s sound financial advice. And you’re buying the beer always. All right.

See you next week. Thanks for watching.