No BS Newshour Episode #413
FIX THE S#!T
(0:04) Can someone come help us fix this place?
(3:06) Michigan politics is an incestous orgy of corruption.
The receipts.
(23:45) Teen Takeovers come to Detroit.
Business owners respond, “Do something!”
(44:56) Poison the kids, give them a donut, pat them on the head, and send them on their way.
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TRANSCRIPT:
What are the five gross points cities? Well, look, I’m not here to answer a quiz. A couple of our old stories got reposted on social media this weekend. The other case involved wrongdoing by none other than Nessel’s wife, Elena Maguire.
In that one, Nessel actually called Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to take back a criminal referral, which isn’t legal, and Benson agreed to do it. That’s a collusive act. I mean, that’s cool, but that’s not journalism.
That’s click mining. One guy in the comments wrote they ought to send some reporters to Michigan. Bro, who do you think did the story? Or this one.
What do you think this ranks in terms of skullduggery, pedophiles, puppy abusers, and people who steal old people’s money? Or this one. All in all, the Germans come from Northland the whole time. You get a dirt inspection where they dump approved material, and once they get approved, then here comes all the bullshit.
Or this one. Duncan didn’t leave any money. The city’s broke.
And Mary Mary Sheffield, she was sleeping with the guy who did this. She doesn’t have a plan. Then there’s this one.
This house is in the news. I was wondering if Lisa Cook lives here or do you rent? Okay, the owner, would you have a contact? Number oh. This one.
It appears to me, champ, I think you were the victim of fraud on that house. And this one. Is it closed? It’s closed.
There’s a sign right there. For good? Uh. The Renaissance Center has been open to the public since the building opened 50 years ago.
And now it’s closed and they didn’t tell us. And this one. If you want to live forever, then register to vote in Jocelyn Benson’s Michigan.
Don’t forget about this one. We’re checking to make sure your identity wasn’t stolen. It says that you donated $82,000 to political campaigns.
I will admit I donated $2.50. What about the other $82,000? And there’s that one. The state claims that 7,700 people died in the nursing home. All of them through the pandemic.
When the true number is probably closer to 14,000. Damn! Thanks for reposting. The clicks are nice, but it doesn’t help us much.
Things are bad in Michigan. There’s the corporate goons, the corporate government, and the corporate media all eating us alive. So it doesn’t help much ripping off our content just to get clicks.
What we need you to do is get off your asses and help us fix the shit. Right on. Nice.
Good work. All right. Well, damn.
Good old Red. I told you we’d get you in, bro. You did.
Let me show you this. I received this handwritten note this week. I guess I’ve been sitting around for a while.
It’s a little bit dirty because I’ve been kicking around, but nice and neat and clear. And it’s all in capital letters. Help.
Please hear my story. Wayne County employees and affiliates are bullying me. Big corporations and city officials.
Signed, Linda. I also got a call from Paul, a firefighter, last week. He wanted help looking into the connections between the string of arsons and city officials.
I got another call from Ray, a guy who once helped me identify the victim of a serial killer. He had a convoluted tip about corruption in Detroit. Now I get dozens of contacts like this every week from every corner of the state.
People who’ve been victimized by the very government they voted for. And I try to help them, but I got my hands full. I’m going through thousands of pages of nursing home documents.
That’s what we were doing in that piece, right? And the state of Michigan charged me thousands of dollars to get them. And the best I can make out is nonpartisan shit. I’m tired of everybody being partisan.
Here’s your facts. Here we go. The best I can make out governor Whitmer’s nursing home response was a deadly fraud.
It cries out for an official investigation, but attorney general Dana Nessel refuses to conduct one. Why Whitmer during that same time, hopped on a businessman’s jet plane and took a trip to Palm beach. Remember when I broke that one when caught, she claimed her campaign fund paid for it.
If that’s true, that would be illegal. And again, no investigation. You’ll remember another story I did at that same time.
Nessel took a luxurious vacation with their wife to Turks and Caicos, which was paid for by a prominent law firm with business before the state again, no investigation. Now here’s where it gets sick and twisted. It was the Republican leadership in Lansing that made Whitmer’s nursing home investigation to go away.
Now Whitmer’s hours for our people, our loved ones, our children, our deceased, our investigation. It was the Republicans that made it go away. Why it was a go along to get along arrangement of politics.
Republican Senate majority leader at the time, Mike Shirky was able to avoid felony charges for campaign finance fraud. In the meantime, Shirky’s money raising minions in that scheme were charged. And one is currently on trial and faces 14 years in prison, but not the boss.
The Republican house speaker at the time, Lee Chatfield avoided his own corruption charges until he was out of office. And it was only then that chat, the brat was ratted out by his brother and sister-in-law. He stands accused of using campaign funds for jets, hotel rooms, prostitutes, and drugs.
Now Nestle’s wife was caught up in a similar campaign finance scheme. As Shirky, the Senator, the Republican Senator, the root of the money in both of those cases came from DTE’s dark money nonprofit. Meanwhile, our energy bills continue to skyrocket.
Now documents show that Nestle colluded with secretary of state, Jocelyn Benson, who had issued a criminal referral to Nestle regarding the ballot committee connected to Nestle’s wife. Nestle asked Benson to make it go away. Nestle’s wife or anybody connected to Nestle’s wife has never been charged.
Now Benson hasn’t been investigated for agreeing to that, nor for violating numerous election laws, nor for accepting thousands of donations that appear to have been made from straw donors using the stolen identities of elderly people. Now Benson’s husband, Ryan Friedrichs was investigated for destroying evidence that showed that his then boss Detroit mayor, Mike Duggan was funneling public money into a nonprofit run by Duggan’s mistress. Nestle casually looked into that.
And again, nothing came of it. Friedrichs, now a lobbyist, stands to make millions of dollars from a data center that local residents clearly do not want. Isn’t this twisted? Duggan and current Detroit mayor, Mary Sheffield, are trying to cover up their roles in the mass dirt poisoning in the city of Detroit.
Sheffield was actually sleeping with the accused demolition contractor and even voted to give lover boy millions more in work while they were canoodling. When confronted with these facts, Sheffield lied to the public. They’ll probably get away with it though, just as Republican governor Rick Snyder and his syndicate got away with the mass water poisoning of the people of Flint.
No one did a day in jail for that debacle, that scheme. People died. Nobody did a day.
And you can thank the incompetent and insidious Dana Nestle again. And you can thank Nestle for interfering in a criminal investigation into her drinking buddy, Tracy Kornack, the former treasurer of the Democratic State Party. Kornack was accused of embezzling, a treasurer accused of embezzling, of ripping off a brain damaged elderly woman four years ago.
But as you know, because you listen to the program, Nestle made that case go away. And Whitmer, also a wine pal of Kornack’s, was going to make Kornack a judge, put her in judgment of us. This is un-fucking-real.
That didn’t happen because a local prosecutor in Kent County opened his own abuse case working off of our shit. Kornack now faces four felony charges and 15 years in prison. So there’s that.
Now Nestle was subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee, which was looking into Nestle’s handling of both the cases against their wife and Kornack. When Nestle refused to produce the documents as required by law, the committee hit her with contempt charges. But Republican House Speaker right now, Matt Hall, sits on his hands refusing to bring to a vote the contempt charges because it doesn’t seem to fit his political calculus to hell with accountability.
Michigan’s politics is a massive orgy where politicians get off and the public gets fucked. No one is more frustrated than me, Linda. I’ll call you, but no promises because I don’t have friends in high places.
It’s sickening to really sit here and look at this timeline of raping of the residents of Michigan. As a voter, it’s discouraging because it makes me feel as though no matter who I vote for, they all in the game together to fuck me in the head. It could be the Detroit Red.
I don’t hear you laughing because it’s not funny. I don’t even know where I want to go with this, but it’s exhausting. And again, people I love, people close to me, what is wrong with everybody? If what’s coming out of your mouth isn’t what they want to hear, then they turn on you.
You know what I mean? But this is a lifetime of work. These are facts that are done. So an opinion is great.
I don’t blame anybody for having an opinion. I’m glad you do. But if you want a small talk with me, well, I never moved.
You know what I mean? I just love the people. I’m a guy who’s inherited the earth. I’m on the back nine now.
It’s turned 60. I got to do what I got to do. And you could see it.
Oh, the Democrats, all the Republicans, when it comes down to it, they’re fucking drinking together. They’re the same pool. It’s just like lawyers.
Yeah. It might be a prosecutor. It might be a defending lawyer.
But at the end, they all go to the same bar. Yeah. The lawyers know the judges.
What was that? Was that Wile E. Coyote and the sheepdog? Remember that from the Bugs Bunny cartoon? Yeah. Okay. Would it be like the sheepdog was minding the sheep and the coyote would try to eat the sheep and then hijinks ensue and anvils get dropped on heads and, you know, cannonball shoved up asses.
The coyote keeps getting blown up. And then five o’clock comes. The work whistle blows.
The sheepdog and the coyote both punch out with their time card to go. See you tomorrow, Sam. See you tomorrow.
Yeah. It’s like they keep this shit going to keep their sales paid. That’s all it is.
It’s a big money circle at DTE. Oh, they wanted the biggest corporates behind all of this. They just endless pools of cash that we’re giving them.
And then they’re using the lobby, the crooks that we vote for to again, fuck us. It’s one big circle. DTE.
Watch how this works. That’s real simple. So everybody knows why your bills are going through the fucking roof and that they call the lamestream media and say, you know, bills are too high, like Nestle bills are too high.
And then they always go up. So the campaign finance scheme for Senator Shirky, right. And Dana Nestle’s wife, Shirky had a ballot initiative, unlock Michigan, right.
We need to take the emergency powers, COVID powers from Whitmer, which in the end were ruled unconstitutional. So everything she did during that time was unconstitutional by the letter of the law. DTE’s dark money, their nonprofit funneled the money to an intermediary in the intermediary funneled it to his campaign.
Right. And it, and it’s on trial. So it’s not me alleging it.
This is what the charges are that they were all working in concert DTE’s dark money, the go between fake charity and the end user, Mike Shirky’s people. Let’s call it. I don’t even remember the number 600,000, three quarters of a million DTE intermediary Dana Nestle’s wife’s committee fair and equal to get some gay rights stuff into the constitution.
So the same thing. Yeah. So you got the conservative right-wing taking money from DTE and you got the liberal left-wing washing money from DTE.
And our, our, nobody can seem to get DTE under control. D DTE gives to every politician in Lansing, except maybe four smart, smart of them. Yeah.
Yeah. And, and they donate, they’re a major they’re going to be a big player in this gubernatorial election. Our money.
I don’t know why we got highest, some of the highest rates, top five and everything. Most top five power outages, top five, the longest to get the power back on. We all know this.
And we’re wondering why when you got a monster as big as DTE, like you said, nobody has control over them. Now they’re a corporation. They have 1.4 billion in profits or more per year.
They’ve been in Michigan as a monopoly, like Ken said for what almost two decades now, which never should have happened in the first place. How do you monopolize all the energy under one company? No competition. Some developer or like Whitmer’s study about her nursing home debacle.
Whenever you need something, you go to university of Michigan to get a study, to say what you want it. And they never turn out. So there were studies on Gilbert’s phony skyscraper, the nursing home, you name it.
So Ann Arbor has become a cesspool. What do you think, Ken? It’s like a, an entity unto itself. Yeah.
And then during COVID, I don’t know if he remembers, remember that goofy health director, Robert Gordon? Oh, we got, we got you, Robert. We’re in those documents. We got you, bro.
It’s coming. We’re not done with the nursing home. He resigns and it’s got to do with all of this shit, right? He resigns non-disclosure agreement, 155 grand keeps his health benefits.
And they find him a job as a lecturer at the law school at the university of Michigan. You know how long it takes for a, like a real person with no connections to land a job like that. Right.
And Gordon’s assistant in the department of health and human services also got work at the law school, nice cozy landing spot. Rest of us are working, write notes to each other and say, help me. And I, you know, Linda, I I’m going to hear you because you took all this effort, you know, and everybody that sends stuff and I don’t get back to you, I do read it, but it becomes overwhelming.
It does. And then we were talking before the show comes on, it’s like this show goes far and wide. The Michigan enjoyer goes far and wide.
So does this resonate with the inner city? Does it resonate with the outer country, the excerpts, the suburbs, you know, it’s, there’s gotta be a, we somehow, you know, it’s a, it’s a lot to fulfill. It is. And, and, and that’s part of the game they use.
They keep the, we against each other because everybody has their own interests out in the country. They got their own interests down in the city. We got interest in things we won’t solve in the Metro Detroit area, in the outer state.
So everybody has these individual interests to better their lives, which keeps us from ever becoming we against the powers. That’s again, fucking us over. So I’m later in life, fourth quarter, I’m trying to be a unifying force, you know, give you some, some information you need that you can use that DTE affects all of us, you know, that nursing homes affect all of us.
And yell all you want. I’m not moving. And Ken and I can text him.
He goes, Hey, dude, these big outlets are commonly picking up our stuff now. I go, well, that’s great. That’s cool.
Right. It’s clicks, but it’s sort of fraudulent. Like thanks for pushing it, but you’re not advancing it.
So this is all just around click jerk. Yeah, it is. It’s good work.
It shows the modern day journalism has really become fucking lazy. I can’t even refer to you to really find nothing out because they so busy doing the same shit. The politicians do the major media outlet corporations are taking all the advertising dollars, all the money.
That’s all they really care about in the end. They don’t get out and do the work like they used to. And we see it.
Or, you know, it’s, it’s good. Look, it’s good. Everybody got a camera.
There’s a place to put it out, right? You walk around your community and point out what’s fucked up. It’s fucked up and scream. Well, why is it fucked up? Right.
How do we get it fixed? And is there a pattern here? Right. Like Nick Shirley. I mean, it’s cool.
You got the word out and everything and things are moving. Excellent. But the Leering Center and the Somali daycare fraud was uncovered by some local guy in Minneapolis.
They’ve been staring at the shit for five years called Nick Shirley, and they walk around together. Same in California with the hospice care that all came not from CBS news that came from an audit conducted by the state itself. You could turn on your camera and show it.
Right. But that ain’t digging it up. No, no, that’s sharing.
That’s all it’s doing. And it’s not giving no solutions to the problems that you’re sharing. So now you might know how hard it is because I’m looking at a kid.
That was good work, dude. That is cool. Like, how do we do a roundup? Because we’re working in so much shit.
We got to remind you. Yeah. What like what we were doing, you know, when we did the nursing home, like got to remind you, we’re still on it.
They got to be interesting. TV died because they’re not interesting. Then you got to be able to do the work and to be screamed at for it.
It’s like people don’t want a solution. Today’s public really lives in a bubble. They really prefer, like you said, to hear what they want, instead of hear the facts and the truth, because the facts and the truth can get very ugly, very messy, and it may disturb and blow up a lot of shit.
But sometimes you have to blow it up to rebuild it correctly. Yeah, don’t be fucking fooled. Yeah.
Don’t be. Okay. So I’m going to show you something later in the program.
Okay. Fucking crazy. Now, you know, just how they pat the people of Detroit on the head.
Say, you know, here, eat cake and shut the fuck up. This is insidious. This is terrible.
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Well, all the city kids must have heard that, and they all did come on downtown, running wild down here, man. Woo! Hey, uh, see, hey, Ken, can you do me a favor? You see if Grace is downstairs? I want to, I want to ask her about that, about the kid. All right.
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Here she is. Hey, Grace, come on. Come on in.
Hey, guys, what’s up? Hello. What up? What up? All right, kid. We got enough comedians on set.
Hey, what’s going on? Oh, good. Okay. So over the weekend, I saw you all over the place.
Yes. What is going on with the youth and the policing down here? We have a problem. We have a big problem.
They’re teen takeovers, and it’s disrupting business. It’s disrupting the streets of Detroit. It’s disrupting a lot of things.
And pretty much, the DPD is already stressed enough. The police department is highly stressed. There’s so much stuff going on.
They’re doing a great job. However, when there’s groups of 30 and 40 and 20 kids running amok all around different parts of the downtown, downtown, where can they be first? So what happens is the youth, and we all love the youth. I’ve done, and I still do so much work with youth, with schools, churches, fundraisers.
Oh, yeah. I’ve been doing this for, I took over 40 years ago. I’ve been doing a lot of things.
And we definitely want to support the youth. And I love the message of, let’s give them something to do. Listen, I’m the first one that said, come on, I have some, I need workers.
I will give several of them a job. Come over here, make a little money, learn some things, go out and have some fun. But this fun that they claim that they need and they’re having is disrupting the whole community.
And the kids deserve to be part of downtown, but we are all one community, are we not? Just as we deserve to have peace in our businesses. As visitors, Detroit depends on people coming in from all across the state and Canada to make, to fill the restaurants up, to fill the stadiums up. And when there’s this perception of trouble or people getting harassed and people blocking traffic and jumping on cars, which is what’s happening, come down and sit with me one Saturday night when this happens.
And I’ll tell you what’s going on. You can see it. You got any video of what was it Saturday night? Okay.
Just so people can see. Who’s this video from? So we can give them some credit. Metro Detroit News.
Okay. Metro Detroit News. And honestly, that’s just a very, a hair of it.
That’s nothing really. Well, there’s dozens of kids running around wild. Yeah.
But it’s happening at the same time, simultaneously, all over and every 50 feet, every 100 feet. This isn’t new. A couple of years ago, it was called what? Flash mobbing? So it’s just back, right? No, it’s team takeovers.
Okay. It’s the same thing? Same difference. But Chicago got destroyed because of this shit and they didn’t do anything about it.
Our leadership right now, I totally appreciate and love what they’re trying to do with the youth. What are they trying to do? They are trying to offer after hours programs. After hours program? Which is dangerous.
Or after school program? No, later. So they can come down to the city and maybe go to a rec center, go play basketball until midnight. That had happened one time, but that didn’t work out very well a couple of years back.
That’s because you got to police them. Midnight basketball. Yes, you have to police them.
They were all brought together for a press conference. By the mayor’s office. By the mayor’s office.
Wonderful. I like it. Talk to them, help these youth.
All right. So press conference and what? Hold on. Bring them together, but they have to understand what they did has consequences.
Just because they all want to run amok, it has consequences on the businesses, the people who are down here trying to have a good time. Nowhere in there did I hear that this caused a problem. It was all about them.
Yes. Okay. We love our kids, but I mean, look, every kid of every socioeconomic racial category, when a young person starts feeling their ass, when the balls drop, when the Adam Apple pops out, right.
When the boobs perk up, like you smelling a sale, smelling themselves, that’s, that’s everywhere. And like every kid be out there drinking beer, vandalizing shit, doing, doing dumb shit. Yes.
Right. But in most places, when kids start doing that and the parents aren’t involved, they don’t even know you’re doing that. It’s called the police department.
Right. Now you were saying earlier, I mean, I’m just going to break it down, break it down as a, as a Detroit resident, a father who drew this with his son. Yeah.
Went through this with my teenage really good son, Sergeant in the United States army, making a life for himself. He was 16 and a punk. Oh my God.
I was a teenager. I was a punk. We all did stuff, but we didn’t have the internet.
We couldn’t write. And this is the thing of it. The parents are a big part of the blame and they’re not too, because a lot, like you said, your kids are going to do shit when you have no idea they’re doing it.
And in today’s era, the kids can move a lot more than we could. We normally have to wait on a buddy with a car or get on the bus. Now they got Uber, live scooters.
So wild that the buddy with the car. A lot of times they it’s called a shitting on you. Yeah.
They just want to come get the right. You don’t get the whole car in trouble. This guy’s nuts.
Like Grace said, she went to this press conference. There was no mention of consequence. So just the people that don’t know when the kid gets caught for out, uh, after curfew, it’s only 150 bucks.
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That may not seem like a lot, but to some people it is. It got higher. It got, well that was last year.
We fought for that to go higher too, people fought us. Some are 500 if it’s a second or third. Yeah.
And, and, and now I feel as though it really needs to be more accountability held to the parent. Yes. You may not know.
Yes. Your kid may be moving without your knowledge, but I guarantee you if the parent gets a $500 ticket right along with they kid, I know me, my son cost me a thousand bucks out of the household on some bullshit, my foot’s in his ass sideways, and we’re going to lock this shit down. Here’s what’s got to happen.
Leadership has to take a stronger tone. Yes. I did.
I haven’t heard it. Well, strong, tough tone. People get caught.
Half the people pulled over in the city don’t have a license or insurance, right? So it’s not being enforced. People don’t have that money. So if you’re going to do 500, then it has to be a priority of public safety that we’re seeing that through.
Yes. Right. Yes.
Cause if there isn’t, I’m not paying. Right. I’m not going to pay.
Well, that’s the other thing. The police will do their job, but what’s the court system doing and what’s the prosecutors doing? That’s, that’s, that’s the whole problem. Actually, that’s a big problem.
And where’s the, the, the cops, why aren’t you monitoring social media? I mean, this social media is not new. It’s like older than some of these kids now. Well, I think they’re monitoring.
Yeah. In some cases they are, but the kids are so savvy and quick. As soon as you monitor this page and they get wind, it’s like a two second tick tock and all of a sudden there’s a thousand.
We’re we’re sorry. Go ahead. Adele.
Go create more fake accounts and just keep on moving. It’s like lightning speed. But when we had this problem last summer, then all of a sudden we got more police.
Yes. We had paddy wagons, the buses, right? You’re getting picked up. You’re out.
Get in there. Right. And calling your parents, getting fun.
That’s not around. And if you, if you remember, ladies and gentlemen, after that month, well, what, like 20 kids got shot? Yeah. Couple dead.
And this shit was going on. The fireworks dug in, came out and said, Hey, you know, I’m going to have overtime cops out there, this, that, et cetera, et cetera. Et cetera.
And I said at the time, what did I say? I said, well, it’s July. So it’s a new fiscal year. That means new budget.
And I’m like fresh money in the coffers. They going to burn through so much overtime to get this thing into winter, to get him out of office that I said, just walk. You guys remember this? Yeah.
I said, just watch come spring and summer when there’s no money left in the city. Boom. And here it is.
Well, they better find some money because they’re finding plenty of money for other programs. And here’s what’s going to end up happening. Someone’s going to get hurt and nobody wants the youth.
We want them to do have a great time, but when we don’t want any of them to get hurt, let’s start with the young kids, let alone people that are down here, visiting the city or a business or the staffing of any business, because every business has suffered for the last two Saturdays. Why am I closing my doors at eight 15 or nine o’clock and townhouse and prime and proper and Chick-fil-A and Shake Shack and everybody else to, to protect their people, the customers that were in there who haven’t already run out their staff, because that’s priority. So someone’s going to have to get hurt.
And God forbid a youth gets hurt because there were guns. Someone did have a prominent businessman who shall not be named, was actually punched out and robbed. So this video going around now, a pack of teenagers chasing a guy down for his jewelry.
This all happened last Saturday. And was it that white dude with the white jogging? He had on a dark track suit. The white dude with the yeah.
Yeah. But I, yeah, he was some kind of influencer. I think he was, he got influenced.
But he goes out there baiting this shit. Yeah. Right.
Like, Oh, come get it. Motherfucker. Who wants it? I’m like, man, what people are due for clicks for clicks.
And, but in young people are young though, too. You know, they’re going to do some dumb things and it’s going to have a serious consequence. And then we’re all fucked.
And I’m going to put this out here and like Grace said, and I concur with this. We don’t want nothing to happen to the youth because basically they are our future. These are the people that are kids and they are kids, but I’m going to say this.
And I’m going to just put it blank as point as I can. As a grown man who wants to be around to see my grandkids and to see my son and whatever else life has to offer me, I am not going to blink an eye to protect myself against a pack of teenagers because it can become they they’re deadly. They like, they like how this savagery, and I’m not going to do that.
I’m not going to say, Hey, your kid’s life and this recklessness is worth more than my wellbeing and my family. So when we say get hurt, this ain’t just something they’re going to do to each other, it may end up being a responsible tax paying citizen in fear, protecting themselves and unfortunately have to hurt one of these kids. So to the city, to the mayor, to the police, don’t offer 11 o’clock.
A rec centers. Cause that makes no sense. If the curfew is 10, why the hell would you let them be out? I’m going to interrupt you about that curfew.
That curfew is great. Everyone should have a curfew. This doesn’t start at 10.
This starts at six, seven and eight o’clock. They don’t care. The curfew has, the problem is happening between six and nine.
Well, here, here’s what, what did you just get to it? How old is the curfew applies to what top age? 16? Is it eight? Different times of like 13 to 15, I think. And then it goes from 15 to 18 or 17 at a certain time. There’s two different.
18 year olds can be out. I guess. Yeah.
Isn’t that normal? What, why, you know, aren’t you when you’re like a young teen, you’re supposed to be at home. Right. We’re not supposed to be open at rec centers.
No, no, no. Go, go look at your phone. Oh, right.
That’s what we used to do. Yeah. Used to call each other.
Till you got, I don’t work with 16 year olds. It doesn’t. Again, this starts way earlier.
The curfew has nothing to do in this, in this particular situation. They’re getting dropped off. They’re coming on the buses.
They’re getting dropped off in groups from vans and cars. It’s five 36, six 37. I see a right in front of my store.
I see them fighting with each other. Well, they’re hurting each other. It’s kind of, I’m going to make an observation because I’m down here a lot.
Let’s do a policing strategy here for a moment. There should be some beat cops over by city hall, the townhouse there. There should be some in campus marshes.
There should be a group, uh, at Greek town. There should be some stuff over by the Fox. Right.
And then here in like Griswold circle here. Right. That’s the main point.
I, I don’t see the police. It’s a big city. You gotta, you gotta police.
You know, they can do it. They’ve done it. We’ve had draft.
We’ve had this, we’ve had that, and it’s controlled. They just have to get serious about it through all the money. Not only that, they did it with Greek town.
We covered that. I covered the story on that. They had Greek town on Monroe street with metal detectors.
It was at least 30 cops in the area just for that one little block. So if y’all can pull that shit off, I know damn well, you can pull it off to, to have the presence so heavy. That’s sometimes all it takes for kids.
It was no present. Watch the cascading consequences. This shit is not getting an argument yesterday about ice.
And I’m like ice or police. Yeah. When a well-known well-regarded Detroit police sergeant pulled over some people, no plates, no driver’s license and notified ice.
She was gone. What did I say then? I go, you started doing that. You, the, this city elders who want to make it look good on TV and they don’t want any problems, you, your police officers aren’t going to work as hard for you if they, if they don’t feel honored and respected and have a backing supported, well, you know, I don’t, I’m not trying to insinuate at all that they’re not doing their job, but to go the extra mile, right? Because again, you, like you said, you have an altercation with a young person and it’s on video, right? And all you were trying to do was keep the peace.
And all of a sudden, you know, you’re on trial in the media, in the court, you lost your job. Like why? Well, we’re all going to work together and collaborate. And I’m part of the Michigan restaurant lodging association.
And well, you know, it’s something helps give me a voice and help make it better. Got a title over there. Yes.
I’m a board member. Oh, board. Ooh.
Okay. So actually we are meeting with, you know, the mayor’s they’ve been in contact with us, mayor’s office, chief of police, and we are trying to come up with some kind of solution. They have to come to us to help us all collaborate together and come up with something.
Cause if not, it’s going to be a long summer. And I have friends in Greek town who have businesses at this point. They don’t even want that construction to be done.
It’s gotten to that point, traffic down over there. Well, keep it. So we have to fix it.
Keep in touch with us because you know, uh, you’ll, you know, it, no way do I want anybody to be afraid of this city. No, no. So we will be an honest broker about getting their hands around this before it gets out of hand.
Cause there’s lots of stuff to do here. And just a shout out from me personally, my opinion, mayor Sheffield honor to have you wish you the best term, do the greatest job, but I hope this last thing showed you that don’t invite them to the table. And treat them with the same level of respect.
You treat an adult. You have to treat a child like a child. And when you bring them and basically pat them on the ass and say, Hey, you know, we going to figure it out.
You see what they did. You see how much respect they had for you. They turned right around the very next weekend and did exactly what they wanted to do with a kid.
You have to use a firm hand with a compassionate and understanding heart. You know, what’s interesting is like, this was going out of Chicago and Chicago should know by now, cause right. Miracle mile was burning.
The same shit came out of the chief of police miles that I’m hearing from city leaders here, which is kids need to be able to enjoy the city as well. And they need safe spaces. It’s like all of a sudden this, this seems to be like some talking point that’s going around.
It is. They’re all using the same lines. Yeah.
To avoid the issue. Yeah. These are our kids.
Let’s let’s raise them. Yeah. And again, all kids act like this.
Yes. Let’s, let’s just pick, let’s, let’s pick a place like look. Inkster.
How about that? Westland kids act like this when it starts to become an issue. Woo. Everybody going home now.
Let’s look at my doing any of these teen takeovers and other bigger cities in Michigan. Let’s just stay with Michigan. Lansing.
Do you eat Jackson? Are they getting mild? Clean. Why is it happening? In other years ago, had an issue like this in their downtown district. That shit didn’t go on for more than two, three weeks.
Because like you said, my claim has got in there. They said, you’re not going to take over our downtown. We going to be tone.
I was at Oak park. Oh, I put a couple of weeks ago. This was a nice evening and all the teams were out.
Oak park. Small. They get the very small script script.
And there’s like a hundred kids hanging there. Right. Like at like Greenfield and nine, uh, nine.
Yeah. Whoa. Everybody go.
I sat and watched just, just to watch, you know, cause that’s what I do. They’re on it. You have to be, you know, this will be recipe for disaster.
It’s it’s, it’s a law. It’s called loitering. Yes.
You can’t do it. So, all right. Thanks for that.
Thank you. Thanks for having me. Good luck.
Let us know. I’ll keep you posted here. All right.
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What are you doing? Make sure I don’t get a ticket. I think he’s looking up jokes. He’s looking up jokes.
He’s like, I do. I got one somewhere. Okay.
We’ll wrap it with this. Cause I’m on it. Okay.
This might be the part where Escanaba gets bored, but don’t be right. Because, because you’re, you’re floating this place. Escanaba is part of Detroit, former mayor of Detroit wants to be your governor.
The number of poisoned holes, dirt so toxic that it’s unsafe for human touch. That’s been dumped into Detroit under the nose of former mayor and current mayor. Is now over 1000 with the testing of these things, the removal and, and the putting back in of new dirt.
It’s about call it 50 grand. That’s per hole. Yeah.
Damn 50 million. Dollars. Okay.
Just, just to imagine this, imagine an oil tanker started leaking in New York Harbor. Right. What would it cost to clean that up? It wouldn’t be 50 million.
50 million is a huge number and it could be well more. So to avoid it, this got sent to me when I’m fielding calls. I, you got, you got any of these, uh, what did we say? Okay.
Yeah. Now this is called, this is what the city of Detroit’s doing. It’s called demolition and doughnuts day.
Okay. So put up a picture. Here’s a demolition.
Okay. That’s what they’re doing in the neighborhood. Then there’s another one.
Okay. All right. Next one.
Now give me the kid, man. Let’s let’s, let’s get with it. Come on now.
Okay. Hey neighbors, come on out and have a Krispy Kreme and stand in front of a car, cynic, carcinogen curse, carcinogenic, carcinogenic cloud. Keep it up, man.
This. Okay. So there’s a mass poisoning going on.
We’re broke. We can’t afford the police. We don’t know how they dug out some holes, right? Ken.
And then they didn’t have money to fill them and left them next to people. Hey kid, have a donut. Wow.
Let them eat cake. Do you see this? Look at it. Put it back, Mark.
I will let you know. Look in the background. See the little child getting a donut.
You see the toy dump truck they brought candy. Yeah. Full of like, looks like popcorn balls to me.
You know, caramelized pop here. Have some fucking refined sugar. Yeah.
To keep your energy up. So it don’t seem like you’re being poisoned and go fuck yourself. How’d that make you feel? That’s your city.
Well, you know, at one point I was out there in the suit. We had 88 and lived right around all of this shit. We still do.
And I’m going to be quite honest about it again. Back to the beginning. Back when we were talking, Hey, it’s a constant fuck us.
We’re tired of you fucking us. And I think it’s time we start fucking you. And that involves people being held accountability.
That involves it be full disclosure, wide open, and we can see what’s going on. Because when all this shit initially started, what was it? 30, 30, almost 30 grand per house. Then you go against Duggan to show that shit.
No, before Duggan got out of office, these things cost less than 10,000. Right. And then when him, they went up to what? 25, 30, 25,000.
And now 50,000 to fix your fuck up your, your, your federal grand jury. Uh, the city was getting nailed. So here’s what happened.
More politics. Duggan went to Biden and they made it go away. And the U S attorney here in Detroit, the feds, the treasury department was here for almost seven years.
And they brought the case to the then United States attorney. She refused to take a criminal case. She refused to take a civil case.
And then they took a couple of dipshit, you know, rednecks that were dumping the highway into the city. Took it to Nestle. Nestle didn’t do any work.
She just took the fed stuff and charged them. And then everybody gets off. Now, me, it’s not a fuck up me and Kel.
We got them. Yeah. Because we go to city council now with a camera and the guy that did all this, you know, the former lover boy of the mayor, he wasn’t even working with construction insurance.
They that’s against the law. They let him do it anyway. So when you fuck up, you go to the insurance company and say, pay us right now.
We, we don’t have it. So we went there and filmed it. The, everybody in city hall knows about this and they decided they were going to make a new contract for a different contractor to fix the contracted work of the other guy who didn’t have insurance.
And they were saying, ah, no, we, we have insurance. No, that’s the new guy. Right.
We’re asking you about the old guy. And we caught him and they voted without a voice ascension. Right.
Like any, all in, uh, any, uh, anybody opposed? So the two people opposed said, no, the rest of them never went on the record. And I believe the then city council president, Mary Sheffield walked out, didn’t come back for the vote. Nope.
So now what are we going to do? So it’s at least a thousand member, 30,000 of these got done. Right. Don’t forget about Southfield.
We haven’t forgot about Southfield. This is one thing I’m starting to really realize. I picked the wrong career.
I shouldn’t have been a comic. I should have been a fucking politician. I mean, that’s the problem.
I should have been a fucked up politician. And that means I would always have worked no matter how much I fucked up. And when you fail, you fail upwards.
Yeah. As a, well, you know, I grew up here, man. I didn’t know how corrupt Wayne County was like there’s guys younger than me.
Got two pensions. You know, the political side of things and their healthcare. And I’m like, the fuck is going on? Okay.
Listen, another guy called whistleblower type dude, truck driver on this shit. He called me up out of the blue. Let me see if let me see if I can get him.
Remember, that’s how this all started. These truck drivers started calling me on a Southfield. Hello? Hey Antonio.
How you doing, Charlie? I’m doing good, brother. I listen, I’m doing my podcast. You’re on the air.
Is that cool? Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. All right.
Listen, by the way, thank you for, for calling and giving a shit. Um, it’s really important. Okay.
Okay. Now we’ll keep the company’s names out of this, right? But you were telling me that you were hauling your truck driver and that you picked up, I, what was it a freeway? I 75, they were ripping it up and replacing it. And then you took the truck and directly drove it into the city of Detroit and dumped it directly into one of these demolition holes, right? That’s correct.
Yeah. Go on. Tell us a little bit.
Well, we would, we would pick up, you know, debris from a demolition jobs off 75 and different, uh, uh, locations where they did demos and we would haul the dirt into Detroit and backfill. Some of the holes that, um, that, you know, that, that, that tore down the houses in the neighborhoods, you know, and over in the hood when they had tore down houses, we were backfilling and take dirt over there and dumping in the holes and it was a free dump for the company and a free bed for, you know, but for the city, but the dirt was, it wasn’t the dirt that was supposed to be there. A cop shot.
I’m gonna say that contaminated his shit. Now tell him, tell, uh, everybody listening the story about when you went there once and he told you to park around the corner. Oh yeah.
We went there to dump a load of dirt and, uh, the guy working the bulldozer told us to wait, wait, wait around the corner until the inspector leaves. I didn’t understand it at the time. I didn’t know what was going on.
I was just like, okay, this is some real messed up dirt. So I guess he don’t want the inspector to see it. I didn’t know it was toxic dirt, but he just said, wait.
And then, uh, we waited for a while. And then when the inspector left, we came and dumped the dirt in the hole, dumped the dirt and he pushed it in the hole. Yeah.
That actually happened when I was training the guy because I told him to follow me around the corner, you know? Wow. So like the city knew, right? I mean, why didn’t the inspector stay there all day? You get what I’m saying? Yeah. Yeah.
I didn’t, I had no idea. I would have said something a long time ago. I had no idea.
I was kind of new to the job, new to this, to this, uh, you know, construction thing, I didn’t know about the contaminated dirt, but I would have said something a long time ago. Cause no one was testing the dirt. They didn’t even tell us it was contaminated.
We hauling dirt from these construction sites and that dirt is supposed to go to landfills. It’s not supposed to go to any residential neighborhoods or any, anything whatsoever. Whether it was the backfield holes or whatever, that dirt was never supposed to go into the neighborhood.
Yeah, brother. If you think about it, people like, eh, well, whatever, you know, just think about a decade of trucks and automobiles and the shit coming out of that tailpipe. You know, a chromium, you know, lead even, you know, like, and that goes, that goes next to where a kid lives and they give him a fucking donut and pat him on the head.
Yeah. Yeah. And that’s something I thought about and you know, I’m glad we were able to connect Charlie cause the people need to know what’s going on.
They need to know that this happened and you know, I was a part of it unknowingly, unwillingly, and I, I bought some of that dirty end, you know, not knowing what I was doing at the time, but you need to know that this is, this is true. This is not something you fabricated or I fabricated. This is something that actually happened.
Now we were talking, you know, as we do, we just bullshitting and you’re like, Hey, you know, fuck it. It’s, it’s, it’s the hood. The hood pays for it.
And I go, yeah, they do. And then everybody else pays for it because it’s tax dollars. We paid for the dirt that we were supposed to get.
We didn’t get that. We’re going to have to pay to take it out. So, you know, and people that pay the taxes, now you’re not getting the ambulance or a police officer downtown or a fire truck.
So I think it’s a huge public importance. Yeah. I agree, Charlie.
It’s again, these people had no idea, you know, what’s going on until now. And we don’t, we don’t want to flip to happen all over again. Well, it already did, dude.
Did you ever haul any dirt out of the Northland site? Can you repeat that? Did you ever like in your, your recent career, go to the Northland demolition site in Southfield and pick up shit from there? Yes, I picked up dirt at Northland when they tore it down. And you know, that’s when it was starting to, they had tore down a lot of stuff. I can’t remember exactly where I took, took the dirt, Charlie.
I’m not going to sit here and act like I remember, but I, cause I don’t, but I have picking up dirt from that site, the Northland site when they tore down Northland. They had mounds and mounds of dirt. And then you, you don’t remember specifically where you took it, but you took it into the city.
Yeah. Yeah. I can’t tell you exactly where, but yeah, we were dumping it in the city.
You know? All right. I love, I, I’ll call you later, man. You know, we’ll, uh, we’ll, we’ll have a drink over the phone.
How’s that? Okay. Okay. Yeah, that’s fine, Charlie.
One more thing, uh, Antonio, uh, can I pass along your number to, uh, some investigators? Sure. Sure. You can Charlie.
Beautiful. All right. Thanks, dude.
Be safe. Okay. All right.
Have a great day, man. Later brother. Well, geez, that’s not the guys I introduced you to this.
This is more, this is more. Well, yeah, because there’s so many people, I mean, white collar, blue collar coming out on this whole thing. It’s massive.
And it’s think about that, dude, a ground up fucking highway. Would you put your, we stopped traffic. There’s a parade, right? We’re walking down, uh, Woodward.
Would you put your tongue on the ground? Woodward Avenue? No, I wouldn’t put my nose in the air and breathe it either. You know, one time that I was in New York, it was raining. It was Chinatown.
It was a big, as New York is New York’s just a cesspool. And there was a big puddle of water next to the drain that wasn’t draining. And there was antifreeze in there.
And then my buddy goes, bet you 10 bucks. You won’t stick your tongue in it. Easiest 10 bucks I ever met.
You’re still here. That’s when 10 bucks is worth something. All right.
Well, we’re going to keep on Linda. I’m going to call you and I know y’all like at a breaking point, but don’t give up. Stick together.
See you next week.
