Election Time in America

No BS Newshour Episode #431

Election Time in America

 

(0:04) Abdul El-Sayed’s House of Horrors.

(2:11) Did he really fix Detroit’s Juvy Jailhouse?

 

(21:28) Anti-Muslims descend on Dearborn.

(23:01) Politicians capitalize on the fear.

We’re they funded by the Southern Poverty Law Center?

 

Who is really living in Michigan?

 

(42:02) Former Fox 2 anchor Taryn Asher finally makes the Big Time… for all the wrong reasons.

 

 

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Transcript:

I want to know if you were gonna say hi and intro the show or if you just wanted to hit the video. Oh, fuck off. Play the video.

Well, here we are working in the big city again where Abdul El-Sayed aka Dr. Phony El-Baloney said one of his biggest, actually, his only professional accomplishment was… When the juvenile detention facility was in shambles, I declared a public health state of emergency to rebuild it. Well, he really didn’t rebuild it. Actually, he didn’t rebuild it at all.

Let me explain. Back in 2023, the little known El-Sayed was put in charge of the Wayne County Health Department based on political connections and his segments for COVID on CNN. And then a 12-year-old got raped here in juvenile hall and Sayed was put in charge.

He was given three months and $10 million to fix it. He spent the $10 million, but he never fixed it. We’ve been able to change the operation really for the kids looks night and day from what it had been.

So predictably, after three months, there were a lot of words and a lot of sound bites, but nothing changed. The state put this place under supervision twice with the threat of revoking its license. The conditions remained so horrible.

And now there’s a federal lawsuit after a security guard went to prison for raping a couple of boys. I declared a public health state of emergency to rebuild it. Wayne County Juvenile Detention Center faces yet another scandal.

After a decade of planning, the kids were finally moved here to the new Wayne County Juvenile Detention Facility where things aren’t much better. And Sayed, he got gone again to run for U.S. Senate. He wants to manage Medicare for all, but how can you do that when you’ve proven you can’t even manage a candy store? How do you blame an incompetent system when you are the incompetent system? He ain’t did shit.

Ain’t did shit. Yeah, boy. Okay.

Abdul El-Sayed, the unlicensed physician. How’s that? Says he’s got the chops and experience to govern from D.C., but does he? On the campaign trail on television and online, he talks about his tenure as the Wayne County Health Director and his miraculous turnaround of the fetid and violent Juvenile Detention Facility. You heard it.

We had to build it from the ground up, he told a crowd of black pastors. We rebuilt it from the studs up, he told a group of black Democrats. When the Juvenile Detention Facility was in shambles, I declared a public health state of emergency to rebuild it, he told some white guy at CBS.

But those claims don’t hold up when you’re from around here, and when you examine the official records, court filings, or talk to people who actually worked in the juvenile jail. Those employees paint a picture of horror, abuse, and incompetence. Nothing was fixed, said Jalal Malik Ikram, a retired Detroit cop and former security officer at the juvenile jailhouse.

It was like prison, he told me. The kids called the shots, and their care and safety were beyond terrible. Malik Ikram was fired for taking secret photographs to document the abuse.

El-Sayed may have built the studs, but he forgot to lay a foundation. They were giving the kids expired medications, Malik Ikram told me. Or they couldn’t get meds at all because it wasn’t safe.

School, education in the juvie jailhouse, there wasn’t none to speak of. Now, El-Sayed came to work for Wayne County in 2023. His resume before then listed few professional jobs beyond his failed 16 months as the Detroit health director.

Why do I call it fail? Because infant mortality skyrocketed under the guy. He moved on, he quit the job in 2017, ran for governor, and lost. From there, he became a paid talking head for CNN during the COVID pandemic.

Citing standard talking points, El-Sayed got most things wrong, including the benefits of school lockouts, masking outdoors, and the efficacy of the vaccine. But El-Sayed was a get for the scandal-plagued county. I know, because the COVID nursing home response was under intense scrutiny from me as life expectancy was plummeting for Detroiters.

In El-Sayed, however, they had themselves a real live TV doctor. So Wayne County paid him big, about 280 grand a year. That was $100,000 more than his predecessor, a black female.

And $100,000 more than his successor, also a black female. This disparity came despite El-Sayed’s social justice position, decrying the pay gap between white men and black women. You got the tweet? Yep.

You want to read it? Sure. Go ahead. He tweeted out, black women have to work an extra seven months to earn what white men earn a year.

Equal work deserves equal pay. Hashtag black women’s equal payday. And then there’s a community note.

Do you want me to read the community note? Yeah, go ahead. Read the community note. We might as well get the facts out.

There’s no bullshit news out. We’re not bullshitting, motherfucker. The statistic uses unadjusted median earnings of full-time workers without controlling for occupation, education, experience, or hours worked.

It does not measure for equal work. There was more to that, I believe, which is when you do the scaling of it, same skills, same resume, same everything. Guys earn a buck and chicks are 99 cents.

I am against this penny difference. I am. This is a problem.

And all you gaming guys, you’re living in your girlfriend’s basement. Get a fucking job. Or is that too right wing? I don’t know.

I’m from old school Detroit. You know, you get a fucking job, motherfucker. Get off the fucking couch.

But you know what? You go to work, you work hard, and you demand a good day’s pay for good day’s labor. The problem is that disappeared. And that’s what we’re bitching about.

That’s what this is, simply put. Now, I should also say culturally, I understand from here, right? But according to the US census, the way they count people, Middle Easterners and North Africans are considered white. So, you know, white man, he’s a rich one, by the way, tweeting shit that he don’t live by.

So I want to hear, Mr. Syed, that you now advocate for your successor to be paid what you were paid. Back to the issue. The month El Syed came aboard full time with the county, March 2023, a 12 year old boy was gang raped in the juvenile jail, squalid and overcrowded.

The deteriorating facility with overflowing sewage was a dumping ground, not just for Detroit and Wayne County delinquents, but also for juveniles from across the state, because Whitmer couldn’t get it together to get them decent housing. These are kids, very troubled kids, but couldn’t even get beds, decent beds, education, medications, and help for these kids. We what the fuck, man? Let me just take a break.

Hold on. This is this is what’s real. Now, it was the embarrassed Wayne County executive, Warren Evans, not El Syed, who declared a three month state of emergency.

That’s the CEO’s power. You don’t use, you co-sign the order saying it’s going to be under your department. You didn’t declare shit, dude.

And it was Evans who appointed El Syed his juvenile jail czar and handed him $10 million. And El Syed spent the money. And the kids got fresh underpants and the guards got a pay raise.

But little else changed. And I quote here from Syed to the Detroit News. We reorganized health care at the facility, raised salary and wages by 35 percent to retain staff and provided daily access to hygiene products and clean underwear.

And this is the stuff of leadership, I’m telling you. And it was Evans. And we go way back.

The county executive, former chief of police. He got fired for that one night. We’ve made up.

It was Evans who lifted the emergency declaration in June of 2023, calling El Syed’s 10 week tenure a great success. But let me just be clear. It wasn’t a great success.

It was a failure. It was media hype because a week later, another kid got raped. Another week and another beating.

And a few months after that, the facility’s license was downgraded to a provisional status. That means requiring state supervision. The findings by a state investigator were appalling.

And you can look it up online. Violence, irregular meals, 22 hour lockdowns. These are kids.

There are requirements here that weren’t met. Then in December 2023, two nurses filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that they were fired after complaining to superiors that the children were being given expired medications. Is that what we get? Expired medications for all? Then in February of 2024, the juvenile jail was given a second provisional license after a boy was savaged by other inmates.

There are no third provisions. Once you get, there are no third. You don’t meet it by the end of the second.

Close the facility. It gets condemned. That’s the law.

Now, weeks later, a detention worker was charged and later convicted of the sexual assault of two boys. She’s currently doing six to 15 in the state penitentiary. One of the victims is now suing the county and federal court.

I suggest you look it up. It’s very deep and meaningful. The weakest among us.

Look up this report. Anyway, that’s when Malik Ikram began snapping his surreptitious photographs. He tells the story of a gay teenager so distraught about being left in the general population that the kid pulled the fluorescent light bulbs out of the ceiling to harm himself.

First of all, why are there exposed glass light bulbs in a detention facility? Now, Malik Ikram told me this. The kid ate the glass, so they take him to the hospital. That way, the kid figured he’d come back to lock up and to get placed on the safe floor.

But they wouldn’t put him on the safe floor, so the kid would eat glass again. This happened four or five times, he told me. And when it didn’t work, the kid got violent.

And that’s when security officers slammed the kid’s head into the wall. He saw that and he took pictures. And then he was fired.

And he, too, has an active whistleblower lawsuit. Now, last year, the children were moved into the new Wayne County criminal justice complex. And if you follow my work, you know that project was engulfed in corruption and cost overruns for the better part of two decades.

Violence and staffing levels there remain serious issues. Now, El-Sayed is asking voters to consider his record at the juvenile jail as he pushes for Medicare for All, when the truth is that he couldn’t manage medical care in a juvenile jailhouse. But on the upside, and we always like to end things on an upside, he did get the kids toothbrushes and underpants.

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Disclaimer, man. Make no promises. So, you know, Mike Rodgers is going to get it too.

And this is like, you know, Casper the Friendly Ghost. He got his walk unchallenged. You know, we do the work.

But what I tell you there is fact. You know what I mean? It’s bothersome to me. National media come in here and no records looked up.

And, you know, a doctor, the epidemiologist, Dr. Ells, come on, man. They equate the spending of the $10 million with something happening. They don’t look at any result.

Yeah, I could spend $10 million. Yeah, it’s like Brewster’s million and have nothing to show for it. Well, that’s it.

I mean, he just, he did something. Look at, look at what I did and said, it is the optic of the spending. That’s it.

And, and, and the press release, but again, you know, sometimes I, I have fun, you know, with local media. There’s, there’s some killers here that do like hard, hard work, right. And, you know, at michiganjoyer.com. Yeah.

Christine McDonald at, at, uh, Detroit Free Press. She’s an animal. She’s great at this.

Now she’s toiling. All you gotta do is Google her work. She’s toiling.

It’s not sexy to do 150 kids locked up in a cage. I mean, you know what I mean? But it’s, it’s the right thing. And now it comes around.

What’s the end result of Syed’s tenure there. You’re going to have all those kids coming out and doing worse things. That’s it.

Yeah. No one’s going to improve. You know, it’s funny you say that.

Creating a bigger problem down the road. Okay. And watch this.

Look at the totality of the system that we’re all angry about. But if there’s anything that binds us together, it’s like we’re fucking pissed because the day’s finally arrived where there’s no more rope, right? We’re dangling. So what you just said, plus the fact we’re important kids from the countryside, you know, kids robbing trailers and shit and whatever they’re doing.

And now you’re putting them in the stir as children. And what are they doing? They’re going to graduate school. This isn’t fixing anything.

It’s warehousing. And we’re all running around doing silly Christmas cookie videos and, you know, dancing in cowboy hats. And this, I want serious people that know us, you know, like that talk like us, that have grown up like us and my nephews here, you know, the kids from Westland.

There’s a lot of us like we know the world. We know how to get around. We’re smart.

We’re educated. We could do math. I’m expecting to see that.

I don’t see it. Do you? I think he’s saying Charlie’s running for governor. Oh, hell no, man.

You want someone to talk? I can’t bake Christmas cookies. Come on, let’s go do it. No, you know, this bullshit that we see, we could get more done or point more things out, expose things like the corrupt jails thing that was going on and juvenile detention.

When you’re sitting in Lansing or whatever, out of sight, out of mind, it’s not about us. So, so many layers below, you know, but I don’t see a record. Who cares about us? Who is it? Look to that.

I could say that person’s legitimate. I know that person. That person has been doing stuff for us.

I don’t see it’s it’s a silly TV game. No, it’s not TV anymore. You don’t even watch TV, brother.

No, it’s an internet game. Gigantic behemoth of multiple layers with zero accountability at any level. I just agree.

You know, I just, I just, I think everybody, I think you said you disagree. No, I agree. Well, politics has always been a little bit of a cult of personality, right? You have to, I mean, even Stephen Douglas debates or the kitchen debates, like those, the people who had the bigger personality wins.

I feel like with social media, you kind of get the dumbest personality because people like to look at dumb things. People like to consume and you’re consuming a ton of it now that it’s, it’s a popularity contest of idiots and non-serious people. Yeah, but I, you, I, I got to blame us.

Oh, a hundred percent. Because you know what we’re being fed now. Sure.

Right. Is what we were fed a hundred years ago. Chicken in every pot.

Well, I mean, a good example is yeah. The story you just did on the, on the, on Juvie hall and his failures there. Like that’s a rough fucking story.

I don’t want to hear about a kid. You know, that’s tough. It’s a lot easier to look at him.

Line dancing on a, for Taylor Swift’s birthday and laugh at it. It’s just easier. But that’s your boat of PD.

So go back to the pot analogy. Go ahead. Oh no.

All right. Our era. Who’d have thought that Kurt Cobain was so prescient.

Here I am now. Yeah. Yeah.

Exactly. Okay. I mean, it’s always been that way.

It’s just worse now. I don’t know if it’s always been that way. I would have put it like this.

The chicken at every pot deal. Yeah. Great depression and shit.

You had less access to information. All right. You, you, maybe you read a newspaper or something, right? Who could afford it? Who’s who’s buying newspapers back? So you just heard something.

That’s what your neighbor thought. That’s what you thought. Today, you, you would think that the access to information will make us more aware, smarter.

So when we talk about Medicare for all it, does anybody want to just go online for a night and read and talk about how they come up with the estimates of the costs of things? No, we just get chicken in a pot, Medicare for all, or like, I don’t even know what the Republicans are talking about. I don’t even know what they’re talking. They don’t got a message.

Nope. They don’t. Right.

Do we agree with that? Yeah, you failing because you guys are doing the old school, which was the TV. Who are you? Where do you rotate? What do you know about us? What’s federal minimum wage? How many people are in the UAW? Do you know anybody in the UAW? You know what I mean? Two messages. There’s two messages out there right now.

One is Trump’s Trump’s evil from one side. The other side is they’re crazy, which is also true. Yeah.

So what are we going to do? You know, what I’m going to do is try to save a couple bucks plan for the future. Call Luke. No, I get two, four, eight, six, six, three, four, seven, four, eight for sound financial advice.

Uh, security’s investment advisory office, the product services reference here. Well done. Well done.

Okay. So here’s what we get. Okay.

Jake Lang. Yeah. Came to town.

Who is this guy? He’s a J six or wasn’t he? Yes. Okay. It’s J six.

He’s a nobody. It’s a social media guy. Okay.

Fear monger. Okay. Yeah.

It comes in and I’m going to do a rally. We can bring bikers, not our bikers, not people from around here. You’re bringing in people from outside.

Right. And, and it’s not much, it’s just rabble rousing, but like what, what did our local politicians do? There’s a video that, by the way, of, of what happened. Does that look like 10,000 fucking people? Do you know half of them? Okay.

A third are the knuckleheads that came in town. A third are people from town going and get the fuck out of town. And the other third of law enforcement is stupid.

Okay. But the local politicians snap it up like turtles in the heat. They stoked the fear they did.

They all put out statements and shit. Ignore these cons. Let the cops take care of stuff.

Right. But no, one side Stokes fear. The other side Stokes hate.

But did you notice what they had in common? Nazi flags, Palestine flags. What do they all have in common? They all hate the Jews. Hey, can we all get along? What is going on, man? Okay.

So, you know, one suspects it’s political season. Yeah, there you go. Okay.

Didn’t Whitmer put out a statement? There’s your statement. Should I read it? Yeah. Might as well.

Right. Kill some time. Okay.

Dearborn is home to one of the most vibrant communities in America. But what about Westland? It’s residents are our friends and our neighbors. It’s residents are our countrymen.

Yeah. It’s residents are our people and we’re their people. What an empty statement.

People don’t always get along. Black people, white people, white people, brown people, brown people, black people. That’s called America, man.

Our what? What was it again? I just got it. What? Back it up. There you go.

It’s residents are our friends. Today, a group of agitators is traveling to Dearborn. Well, thanks for the notice.

I’m getting up there. Way to go for the sole purpose of intimidating that community and provoking a reaction. Well, I’m sure some of them in their heart weren’t trying to intimidate.

They were trying to be heard. I’m not making excuse for people carrying Nazi flags and shit. But as a leader, I’d put it differently.

We have issues and troubles and angst in America, right? He’s trying to kick the horn. But to group up and yell at each other, bring guns and show off for social media is not the answer. Amen.

You know, their plan. How does she know her plan? Maybe Jocelyn Benson from this Southern Poverty Law Center has got some people embedded in there. They get double agents.

I don’t know. Emboldens and contributes to dangerous behavior. And I’m asking every person of goodwill to denounce it.

Well, I think we need to talk to people of badwill. People of goodwill aren’t fucking with each other. They’re getting up, they’re going to work, they’re raising their kids, right? They’re letting each other be.

Their hate has no place in Michigan. My top priority is keeping Michiganders safe. I’ve been in contact with Mayor Hamood and I echo Chief Shaheen and local officials.

Do not confront or engage with demonstrators. That’s a good one. Together, we stand united against hate in all of its form.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer. What a tough statement to come out against hate. Okay.

Now, what about Jocelyn Benson? She fed that through AI. Of the Southern Poverty Law Center Board of Directors, the ones that were funneling money to Nazis. In fact, the CEO has just been charged of funneling money to a white nationalist who she was living with in the same house and they shared a bank account.

Canoodling lovers. Okay. So it’s alleged in federal filings that the Charlottesville Tiki Torch March was funded by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

That one of the guys in charge of it, they paid him while they put him on as like most wanted white nationalist on their website so they could raise money and they were paying. Making a boogeyman. Yeah.

Okay. So this is Jocelyn Benson’s inner parody soul. It’s parody.

I like to call it Jacqueline Benson. Okay. And if I imagine, this is me imagining that here’s what her statement would be.

Fringe far-right media influencer Jake Lang is coming to Dearborn today to roast pigs and burn the Koran. That is, if he doesn’t puss out. We need to uplift people like this.

I mean, we need to ignore people like this. And we need you, people like you, to go to the SouthernPovertyLawCenter.com and donate where your dollars will secretly get to fund these irrelevant douchebags and pump them up so we have a boogeyman who will get us paid and get us elected. Lang himself was kicked off the ballot this year when he failed to legally register with the Florida Secretary of State for his run for U.S. Senate.

I also failed to do so here in Michigan, but rules don’t apply to me. Remember, hate has no place in Michigan, but it sure is good for business. It is.

Hate pays, man. She didn’t answer for that. You know, that doesn’t resonate with the electorate with her.

Nope. What do you mean? Hey, what are those called, dude? Those internal pollings? Is that what that’s called? Got it. Got a political in the audience.

Yeah. And that’s why he’s paid the big bucks. Yeah.

Well, he’s here monitoring, right? He’s, he’s live. He’s like, he doesn’t realize we’re actually broadcasting this. He thinks he’s got something super secret going on.

The internal polls, like where’s Benson strongest and weakest? The fact that you’re on the board of directors, you set up secret bank accounts, right? With dummy corporations to pay these white nationals. You’re on the board of directors, right? It’s my nephew. He’s studying finance, right? They have a fiduciary responsibility to know what’s going on with the money.

And she comes out and says, it’s a ceremonial post. Is it, is it director of the board, a ceremonial post? No. Was she paid with ceremonial money? Would it matter? Would it matter if you were paid or not? No, not if you’re on the board, you have a duty board.

Okay. So when we’re talking about let’s turn over private corporations to the public, I don’t need a bunch of hippies running general motors, right? But you’re a shareholder. Don’t forget.

In a sense, publicly traded companies are non-profit. The public does, you can buy stocks in a company, right? There’s a board of directors, an elected board of directors. It’s not some fascistic group running along.

The problem is again, the big banks, the big insurance companies, the big three, you’ve legally taken the levers of our economy and manipulated it to benefit you. And it doesn’t benefit us. NAFTA did not benefit us.

Obamacare did not benefit us. Banking deregulation did not benefit us. Led to the world financial collapse.

We’ve been trying to tell you. So anyway.

I got a call from a major news organization national. We talked to you about changing demographics. The rise of the influence of the Arab vote in Michigan.

What? You know, you see what they want to do. You want to stoke fear and hate. You tie it in with this and here we go.

Right. But it’s folks, we’re from here. It’s a media mirage.

Okay. So ethnic enclaves like Hamtramck and Dearborn and Troy, they have definitely expanded. And so you have these groups, political voices expanding over the last 20 years and they pool their political money.

Of course they do. Every group does. Sure.

Okay. But the, the fear of the Islamic court, let me, let me just give you some numbers. If I could, if you’re all just driving and you’re bored and you want to just look out the window and think about numbers as one does.

Okay. The growth of foreign born people represents just 2% of the Metro Detroit population in the last 20 years to Detroit is 75% black while 20 years ago it was 82% black. The majority of that 7% difference are white and Hispanics been here forever.

Dearborn is majority Arab American with roughly 55% of its 110,000 residents claiming Middle Eastern or North African ancestry, but it is not yet majority Muslim. So why are you driving any on your motorcycles and shit? Oh my God. We watching TV in the internet.

Turn it off. Dearborn is a cool fucking city. Yeah.

It is a cool fucking city. People there are cool. Do they got nuts, racist and shit? Yeah.

Who the hell does it? Yeah. Okay. Now there are approximately 500,000 people of Middle Eastern and half North African descent living in the entire state of Michigan of all ages in a state of 10 million people.

Nearly 60% of them are Christians. Now, as a comparison, the automotive industry employs over 1.1 million people here in Michigan. So it’s worth noting that Dearborn is home to the headquarters of the Ford Motor Company and Trump won Dearborn and he lost Hamtramck by just 3% in short.

The political roilings around here are about the economy, man. That’s my view. Anyway, now we’ve been getting fucked for 30 years since Washington turned the economy over to the big corpse.

Some people have made money. A lot more haven’t. We can fix it.

I really believe it, but we don’t have to blow it up. It’s not the system. It’s the people in the system.

It would be stupid to blow up the system because as my father told me when he got back from Nam and he was driving the bread truck for Wonder Bread during the riot, the bread truck don’t show up in a riot. It doesn’t show up during times of deprivation because there is no bread and no rich ass kid is going to tell me any different. I don’t hate.

I might be an asshole, but I don’t hate. Well, you know, when it rains, the power goes out. And when the power goes out, the internet goes out.

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Can I guess? Green. 248-663-4748 for sound financial advice. Luke Nowacki right over there.

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All right. Hit me. Mark.

Yes. She’s gone in January. Yes.

I’m going to miss that. I know. Well, let’s hear it again.

I mean, give her some credit. She’ll, she’ll do something stupid even out of office that we can follow. So don’t worry.

Oh, you mean she’s not going away? Do you really expect someone who is so into themselves to just go away? How would you know she’s into herself? Well, she certainly isn’t into the, I mean, what has she done as attorney general? And now as she’s going out, she’s kind of bombing her own political party by not supporting them. She fucked up the nursing home investigation. She fucked up Flint.

She fucked up, uh, her pal, the democratic party treasurer. She also was now in the middle of plea negotiations for ripping off and brain damage. Oh, woman.

Um, she also messed up the arrest of, um, one of Nassar’s buddies. Remember the guy that killed him? Yeah. The one come turn yourself in and then on his way to turn himself in the next blues brains out on the, that’s on her.

Hey, she fucked up the whole Nassar investigation and the president of MSU called that one a fraud. We could go on and on and on. What about the Wolverine Watchman? All that shit got, uh, the Whitmer kidnappers that all got overturned.

Anyway, I only say that because you remember this dodo right there in the middle there’s, well, it’s three dodos. Really? It’s really some dopes. Okay.

The one in the middle is Sunita. Uh, I’m not going to look the dummy. Thank you.

Took a minute. So needed the dummy, a Nestle protege and dance partner. Put some clothes on girl.

Jesus Christ. Who went on to become an assistant United States attorney. Now dodo was fired by the DOJ for alleged misconduct by using federal law to politically target pro-life activists while hiding potentially exculpatory evidence that may have proved their innocence.

You can’t do that. Dodo the dummy claims it was politically motivated. Trump was Trump and she filed suit.

She wants to be reinstated with back pay. Okay. This is the same, a woman who is Nestle’s lead prosecutor of the three men convicted for their roles in supporting the plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer.

The one where the FBI walked them all through it, paid for everything, volunteered to buy the dynamite, right? And the weapons and the transportation, the fucking snack cakes. Yeah. The conference room.

Now all three of those convictions were returned because the dummy did not understand the law. Your us attorney, your attorney general, the do not understand the law. Isn’t that the minimal requirement for being a us attorney? You would think so.

No, it’s all press conferences. Oh, that’s right. Yeah.

I mean, get a job fixing the juvie jail. You didn’t understand the law. The law in Michigan says that a kidnapping plot does not constitute a violent crime as a predicate for state level terrorism charges.

And then that’s got to come out and call the appellate courts. Dopes. Dumb dumbs.

Oh, good thing she’s done though. What’s it like? A really cool video for gay pride month. Like a tick tock she put out, right? Roll it.

Oh, I thought you’re going to play the tick tock video. We weren’t ready for it. My trigger, my hand is on that other Jimmy.

You’re right now. We should have just done a little research. I positive thing I can think of.

Well, I can think of one. Okay. Maybe it’s not positive, but I can think of one relatable thing that she’s done and that was, you know, getting hammered and then carted out of a football game.

I mean, what’s more of the people than that, right? I had no problem. I didn’t have a problem with it either. It was honestly the most relatable thing.

I think she’s done fucking human beings. This is just about how you do your job. Yeah.

I’m sick of the rest of it. Sick of the rest of it. See, I blame the people around her for that though, actually for not drawing on her face while she passed out for over serving her.

Yeah. Okay. Well, you know, there’s another Dana Nessa wine pal in the news.

Why I need to get her job back. Hit it. Wait, which one am I hitting here? Sorry folks.

You think I don’t like this challenge? Now what was it you were going to play bro? Well, her other pallets in the news. Oh, we got a video there. Right, right, right, right, right.

Right. We’re going to call this segment. Keep my name out your mother effing court filing.

No, another data. That’s a wide pal disgraced. Former anchor Taryn Asher is suing Fox two news for sexual discrimination.

Now she whined that she didn’t get similar assignments as her male peer, never once thinking that she lacks the talent to be the number one. Maybe you just, you do dispense with the baby. You lack the talent.

Now she filed put my name in. I don’t know what I’m doing in that core father that told you to take it out. It’s incorrect.

First of all, go back. It’s incorrect. First of all, incorrect, but you didn’t, you doubled down on it.

So anyway, here’s a little background, a little inside. Now the Fox corporation fired back, responded in court with their filing. And here’s a leaked video that led to a prior suspension.

This is a pattern of behavior. This I want to call it an Alpers, but this is kind of tells you what was going on behind the scenes and Fox. Go ahead.

I’m going to have to do that again. What’s up? Trace. I am.

I’m in Amy’s script. The Amy’s angels one. There was the second thing didn’t make sense.

I was just trying to fix that part. And I know, but I didn’t have time because we have to do this. So I was still reading it.

See, I mean, I can’t wait for you to go through them all. And then I go through them because then I’m already getting ready by then. But this time we get to do the PSA.

So finish what? Okay. Cause Sean just came in here and said something about marking off. Go ahead.

I don’t think you are. You’re walking out really angry, bitch. Jeez.

Oh, Pete. Can I feel please finish what I’m going to say? What the fuck grow up. I’m so done with her antics telling on me every five seconds.

Seems like a nice lady. That is, is that not a shot across the bow saying, yeah, it’s the tip of the iceberg. We have other things we could put out there.

It sure seems that way. All I know. It’s probably the most watched clip of that failing news stations since I worked there.

No, I wonder how TMZ caught onto it. It’s crazy. Maybe I get better.

Call my buddy at TMZ and go, how did you? Oh, wait. I did call my buddy at TMZ. I told you, you know, I just called my guy over there.

You know, I was in LA when they were doing the first casting call for TMZ. I know, you know, I know some guys that built that place. So I wonder how that clip got to TMZ.

I don’t know. If I was you, I’d take my name out of the filing. That’s all I can say, you know, oh, man, geez.

Like this is okay. Fuck it. Well, I care.

Okay. But I’m only joking because, you know, there’s a lot of great people that work at Fox too. You know, I, I consider them my friends.

I don’t know if they considered me their friend, but I consider them my friends. And, um, also this week here is one of the funniest clips from the station since geez, when I worked there, these are friends of yours. Oh yeah.

Yeah, definitely. Oh, this is great. This is the morning show, man.

This is Dina and Kevra and, uh, Ryan Armani. Yeah. That is the, if you can, if you can provide yourself with food and again, uh, now they’re ice fishing because everything’s frozen and, um, you’re looking for fat in the beaver.

Yeah. The beaver is the most sought after it is right. Would you, do you think you could eat beaver? It’s fat and then it’s me.

It made them all sick though. They all got sick after it. Well, you can’t eat diseased animals.

Oh God. What about a moose? Yeah. I don’t know.

I don’t know anything about this show Dina, but you’re really funny. You are a really funny gal. Oh, the setup.

What about a moose knuckle? Oh God. Gross. Camel toe.

By the way, my favorite part about that clip is whoever is in the production room, leaving the camera on Ryan. Oh yeah. I mean, getting the joke and realizing what’s going on.

Cause a lot of people wouldn’t, but just to leave it on them and get a joke. A lot of people, a lot of people don’t wouldn’t get that joke right away. What’d she say? Basically paraphrase, you know, a lot of people got sick from eating the beaver.

Yeah. And some TV show, I think it’s alone is the TV show that eat beaver on there. I don’t know.

I’ve never seen it. Where do you see this show on Pornhub? You’d have to ask Ryan. That thing went viral.

Sure did. I said, I saw it and I said, my wife, have you seen this? She goes, Oh, I, Oh yeah, I’ve seen that a lot of times. So I thought it was like really old.

No, it’s it’s bright. Yeah. And I texted Ryan.

And here’s the best part about Ryan too, is then, uh, yesterday on Twitter, then he’s just putting out every other time he broke and laughed about things. Um, you know, the dark meat, which went viral too with him and Mary Lou. And then another time he broke just doing a story about a graffiti artist who painted Beavis and buttheads.

Uh, that’s what I like about Ryan. He’s real, right? He’s not going to be that, that tight of newscaster. He’s got a really good popular.

Uh, I think it’s two to four drive. I guess it’s sort of drive type, right? Two to four WJR. It’s a really good show.

He had me on once and, uh, we were just talking about approval ratings of the election and all that. And my mind and we kind of got into it, which is good radio. And then, okay, we’ll see you later.

We’ll go to the break top of the hour. And then I, I called a couple pollsters. I did a little Googling and I called back in.

All right. So, uh, that’s what we got for you this week. One more thing.

The Stevie wonder hole. You remember that’s, that’s the one that was supposedly super poisoned and the house next to it with the lady, they had to wrap it in plastic. She’s still in there.

And the word is it’s, Oh, I went over there. It’s full of fucking water. The hole’s still open.

It’s like, it’s like a swamp. And allegedly you can’t get an answer. I’m waiting for the boy.

I have to foil this. How poison was it? Rumor is it had lead levels 18 times. What’s safe for human contact.

I told you before if that’s true, but this is what’s being said in that industry, her house at 18 or that hole, the dirt that they put in there. Yeah. You know, the one that the, the current mayor’s all tied up in it and all we’re working on now, what, it ain’t going to be good news for Detroit city hall.

I’m telling you it’s, it’s starting to burn. Um, it’s still open. So I go over there cause I care about the lady.

I met her. I care about it. And it’s full of water.

A guy went over there. The lady that lives there called a, uh, a guy to look at her cellar. Okay.

Professional waters seeping in. I don’t know him. He calls me, he goes, dude, that house has to be fucking poison.

I wouldn’t even go in there. It’s all flowing in, into her house. Now I’m hearing the reason they won’t fill it in is they don’t know what to do.

I don’t know. I don’t like to usually do this, but this is what I’m working on. They tested the woman’s house and it’s fucking infected with lead and they haven’t told her if this is the case, will we do call the former health director of Wayne County? Who’s helping us? Where’s the EPA? Where’s Eagle? Where’s anybody who fucking cares about us? They wanted to go away.

Remember what she’s, I said, they don’t care. I said, you don’t matter what she’s saying. It was devastating.

I matter. Of course you matter. In fact, I’ll go over there later.

We’ll see y’all next week. Oh, what? Two, four, eight, six, six, three, four, seven, four, eight. You can text that, right? You can.

There’s an improvement. Luke Nowacki sound financial advice. Don’t go it alone.

What happened to the bond market? What’s the TLT trading at? 81 something like that. So with this, me, the TLT is like an electronically traded fund for, for bonds. It’s like any other index fund and it plummeted in about five points.

Bonds don’t move like that. They don’t. So this means what rates should be rising.

So this means we got so much debt, so much paper out there that’s coming due, right? Yes. We roll over bonds every year. The, actually the fed sits on $6 trillion of our debt.

So correct me just for regular folks. It’s sort of like you got a credit card and you’ve committed to the payment in full on a and you don’t have it. What do you do? You get another credit card at a higher rate at a higher rate and you pay that off.

So what the world is saying is, Hey America, your credit ain’t worth shit. I want to sell the old credit card. I’m going to issue.

I’m going to get rid of it. I got your credit card in order for me to give you a new credit card. You want to borrow my money.

You’re going to have to pay me more, which drops the value. Bonds, uh, bonds and interest rates are work inversely. So interest rates go up, bond values go down because I bought a bond and it’s paying me 4% and all of a sudden the market’s saying you got to pay me 5%.

I’m stuck at a 4%. I’m going to sell it. You can’t sell in the secondary market unless you sell it for lower.

Yeah. So at an equivalent yield of the five. So your $10,000 bond, you can sell for 8,000 bucks.

It’s probably best if you’re a regular person. I mean, you can’t give advice because of the laws, but me just, just to hold on to your bond because it’s guaranteed for a percent. And you hold it to maturity as long as it doesn’t default.

And actually that’s what we’re, uh, we were talking about that bond issue earlier. Um, are those bonds being issued by the state being backed by a federal grant? Oh, that’d be the only way that they’re talking about Gilbert’s bonds for his skyscraper. That never seems to get done.

Right. Brad. Okay.

So if they’re issuing $750 million of bonds and the wall street’s going to price them at like a B quality or sub prime quality because the default, the risk of that means, that means they’re not, they’re risky. They’re below investment grade. Yeah, right.

They’re high risk because of the ability to pay it back. It’s like, um, if you have a low credit score, you pay a high interest rate for a car, right? Right. Um, if we have a low credit score nationally or in the city, we have to pay a higher interest rate.

The only way they could, they would not risk default is if they’re backed by the federal government. What’s the United States credit rating? Do you know, is it, it’s not still AAA. It’s not, they bump back up to AAA.

Okay. Well, the market’s saying differently. Yeah.

The, the investors are saying differently, but okay. So we’re the only game in if I could, if I could just to wrap this up, I’m looking, I’m looking for somebody Medicare for all week, you know, and we’re going to get to it and I’m going to invite Mr. El-Sayed to come sit here and we just discuss it like men, what the outlook is. We’re arguing over what the true price would be.

Where’s the savings, the government that goes, et cetera, to engage in something like that at this point. And again, insurance rates are too high. It’s fucked up.

You know what I mean? I, I pay high premiums and a high deductible. It locks me out of, I pay for healthcare that I can’t afford because I got to spend 15 grand out of my pocket on top of the 15 grand for my insurance. It’s fucking whack, but we’re going to do a huge risky government redo at the same time that our debt now costs us more, more of federal, we’re going to, we have to borrow to service our debts just okay.

So now we spend $1.2 trillion dollars just on interest on the debt, which is more than we spend for the military. Absolutely. Biggest line item, biggest line item in the federal budget is interest on the debt that we’ve already accrued.

And debt is the total debt is now 40 trillion, more than a hundred percent of the whole economic engine in a year of the United States. More than the entire GDP. Wow.

So far as y’all, I’d call two, four, eight, six, six, three, four, seven, four, eight, where you can give it to you in plain English. Again, look out for yourself and look out for your neighbor and do not hate.