No BS Newshour Episode #410
Forever Young
Nice guys finish last. Bad boys live forever.
I’ll see you at the end of times, MFers.
(12:58) In the meantime, Who poisoned Southfield? Who poisoned Detroit?
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Transcript:
So last night for the first time in like over a year I smoked the weed Not you charlie I used to really smoke the weed back when I was a kid. I used to just make me laugh a kid Now maybe a kid crazy, you know 20s. Wait, that wasn’t legal then because you know You know that was about Years ago So Yeah, so I smoked the weed And but I wrote this really great 60 year old birthday short story.
Okay, it’s a short short story. It’s called the old man and the p Is that pea or no, it’s just the old man or pe so here it is It’s very okay. Hold on.
Where’s the this story starts she said I don’t know how to act around you anymore So he said then learn how to act better or go find another theater roll it Live from downtown detroit. It’s the new bullshit news hour with my main man Forgot the last part of the story the cat came through the window roll it So Live from downtown detroit. It’s the new bullshit news hour with my main man Okay, so uh Hi care.
Did you come in because it was my birthday? Yes So you were bullshitting You’re like, I don’t know if like oh, oh, whoa. No Oh, look at telly savalas with the good hair just walked in what’s up, bro. Oh, he’s bought you mclaren Hey, this is very nice This is very nice, okay, so I was smoking the weed last night sit down bro I’ll smoke i’ll catch you up on the short story, right? Starts out like this She said I don’t know how to act around you anymore He said then take acting lessons or find another theater The cat came through the window the end That’s just that’s really a moment man.
That’s a moment. Every moment is precious, but i’m not worried about dying. I look forward to it I’m anxious for it because I heard it’s paradise bro.
Not for you. Nice and easy I think i’m getting told you that You know, I mean everybody who? Somebody that’s died. I mean, how do you know that? I don’t exactly.
I mean now that you say it that way. Oh my god, what if what if there’s nothing on the other side? Just calls for a drink want to drink I never thought of that No when I was Not 60 but six I thought it all the way through to the end And I remember crying in my mom’s bedroom to my sister. I don’t want to die So what’s changed I could give a fuck I had a bad week.
I I got I got some I got some threats some Veiled threats some oblique references like what basically this story i’m going to show you now here I got a watch your ass Tell the duff to watch his ass And then I the guy that told him he said these are the kind of people push in a trunk Okay I hope it’s a 77 Fleetwood, you know, that’s a nice roomy trunk. You can live in there But it it put me off center because I don’t know who i’m dealing with here But that’s it. But i’m just gonna say fuck you Yeah, bring it bitch no You just you just Invited him We love mark.
Should I let myself out? Take that cake with me couldn’t find it unless I showed you man. What do you mean so much? Um, yeah, so the whole point is Uh, by the way, I don’t think I want to do that first. I think I want to do this first.
Okay The detroit poisoning, oh, you’re a political guy. Oh, you’re a political chick Well, I got a call this morning man. Guess who’s sleeping with him? I told him I didn’t care I’m glad she’s sleeping with him.
Oh, I didn’t hear you. I can’t tell you. Oh, okay gets rid of the migraines You don’t want your leadership having migraines Think about it I will fix it in post.
Okay Detroit okay fine Demolition my fine. It’s spreading to oakland county, bro Okay, ready? Let me I filed a complaint with the southfield police department this week requesting an investigation into potential crimes against humanity Are the citizens of southfield like the people of neighboring detroit the unwilling and unwitting victims of mass poisoning there Must be a benign explanation and if there is we’d love to hear it and if there isn’t Why aren’t we getting it because the officials from the city of southfield the county of oakland the state of michigan? And u.s. Federal authorities have not provided one. Listen to me southfield.
We found ourselves in your police department Why it’s no secret that there’s a sprawling criminal investigation into the origins of the dirt Used to fill the holes in detroit by mayor mike dugging during his decade-long demo blitz But the detroit office of the inspector general Alleges that at least one unscrupulous contractor with close ties to duggin brian mckinney of guyanga Diverted contaminated soil into detroit and uses to fill the holes where the houses once stood stay with me here D.i.g Had some holes excavated Tests reveal soil so toxic that it’s unfit and unsafe for human Contact. So where did the sickening soil come from? the Inspector general alleges it came from the old northland mall site just across eight mile road In southfield a city that bills itself as the center of it all So the question is obvious if the people of detroit have been poisoned then what about the people of southfield city leaders Fancying themselves to be high-end developers Purchased the hundred acres of buildings and parking lots that comprised the iconic and abandoned northland mall while demolition was ongoing Mayor then mayor and current mayor ken ziver encouraged contractors from all around the region to bring him dirt Mountains of dirt I’m gonna quote him on box 2 in 2017 Stockpiling clean dirt for free and storing it on the site because we have the space free clean dirt Really? Because remember this was the same time detroit was caught up in a federal grand jury investigation suspected of using Contaminated highway slag because no clean affordable dirt could be found and all of a sudden this dipshit Out-of-fucking southfield says i’ve got acres and acres and acres of clean dirt. I gotta tell you something here Did you know there’s miles of tunnels underneath southfield? Uh the northland mall miles of tunnels Miles 20 feet deep so thick it could withstand a nuclear bomb.
That’s why they built it that way Then the city decided they were going by it redevelop it. I’m like, oh, I didn’t know about the pocket tunnels Oh The soil from southland that was dumped into detroit has tested positive for excessive levels of mercury lead chromium Pah which is basically plastic Contamination consistent with roadways and industrial slag stay with me stay with me southfield Southfield found itself these dipshits in your city hall buried in heavy losses in 2021 And sold the site to a private developer with the promise of up to 200 million dollars in public incentives if he built a city within a city at greenfield and eight mile Where they can’t even patch the fucking road a city within a city. Okay, so five years later now There are some half-built condos missing windows wiring and walls The developer began excavating the mountain of contaminated dirt to the area’s landfills a couple years ago And eventually the ig claims the poison dirt made its way into detroit but Not all of it Not all of it huge mounds of this stuff can be seen today All the way from nine mile road to eight mile road the top of the slag heaps have been flattened over the years by the whipping Winds giving them the look of the grand mesas of the colorado plateau.
I mean seriously Seagulls wait in lagoons of brackish water which flows into the sewers and the streets of us all The vista gives one the sickening feeling that he’s staring into a super fun sight Now i was talking to a dude there was sunday. It was great It’s a good 60th birthday. It was great because the dude pulled up he goes newsman Newsman i was telling the boy here newsman standing here looking for his story.
He ain’t leaving Till he finds the story and my brother you’re right And he said to me we were talking about he got a building right across from this and he said, you know It’s been here so long. I just sort of got used to it Nobody told us anything about it We deserve that much we’ve got children and i’m looking at his boy So the city that calls itself the center of it all has indeed become the center of it All the wrong things the center of a potential mass poisoning the center of wasted tax dollars the center of incompetent Political leadership that prefers to bury its head than to fucking dig in and fix the problem the center of a growing Environmental scandal how bad is it? Who knows? That answer my friend is blowing in the wind That’s how serious it is You think i’m a okay motherfucker You’re gonna come on bring it watch my ass i’m watching your ass Unbelievable So me and my daughter we got a call this morning from a politico. He said so and so is so and so I’m like, that’s the so fucking what? here Get yourself busy on this We’re gonna need some money 10 years Remember again The testing in detroit so that shit’s so toxic you can’t touch it, okay Did I read you my shorts I think jason missed it.
Oh, we did a video Do we can? Okay, i’m just i had a shout out to mark knight, uh, sorry man rough week Uh, he wanted us to cut the lawrence of arabia beginning off but the boys down at mel’s garage thought it was great So I think it’s got to stay uh southfield The movie Is that my cue fucking Detroit’s poison dirt scandal has now spilled over eight miles And has infected the good people of southfield. I know you worked. It’s better with this, isn’t it? Sorry southfield.
We had a little fun to hang with this um I did I had to file a police report for I reported Crimes against humanity because nobody’s listening to me. Okay, so they will though charlie Listen do me a favor. I don’t beg for this share share share just to prove The boss who by the way, he’s a very the smart night a guy From the enjoyer.
He’s a he’s an executive. He’s a monitor. I think he gets the new media By incorporating the old media, but sometimes you’re wrong bro watch this this lawrence of arabia Now yeah So Detroit’s poison dirt scandal has now spilled over eight mile road and has infected the good people of southfield In oakland county a decade ago.
The city of southfield bought the old northland mall America’s first and were going to redevelop it themselves And so the mayor of southfield told contractors from all over the place to bring him dirt and they did it was contaminated You can’t use that it went from here to here and got buried here Now there’s a huge scandal brewing in detroit because the soil brought from northland of dumping the holes is so toxic It tested unfit for human contact well a decade later The mall still not redeveloped The toxic soil is blowing all over the place and the mayor Hand told the people a word about it The mayor’s office, please He’s been out of town. She doesn’t know when he’s gonna be back. Yeah, I will i’ll call uh, i’ll call john You got huge mounds over that northland.
Are you gonna tell the public and are you gonna you guys gonna get this out of here? Here’s the problem. I didn’t know anything about northland I mean you can tell me aliens landed there. I wouldn’t know different.
I just don’t know you live here. So yes, I do I’m doing this for you. I Appreciate your good work.
I watch your videos all the time. Maybe I can go to code enforcement. You get your eye Hi Is the head enforcer here, please? 60 percent of it is tested unsafe for direct human contact And nobody in the community knows this.
This is nothing to do with code enforcement Seizure and community relations Hi, is the chief in please? Um, i’m not sure if he’s in do you have an appointment with him deputy chief? No, i’m a reporter i’m here to report a uh crime against humanity Okay, uh, I can take a police report. Okay ready? What’s going on here? I’ll show you brother mercury chromium arsenic plastics Just blowing in the wind. I know you guys got to breathe it If you want to know the status on the case or anything like that, you just call that number Oh, you know, I will appreciate it.
Thanks for doing the work It’s official fix it All right, sir, have a good day to review This guy poisoned his city this guy poisoned his city and these chicks don’t give a damn You At least the guy in southfield was very courteous and professional john’s cool dude like he you know, um He came Stood there. He doesn’t know what he was the deputy city manager know nothing about that site Yeah And that’s the mayor’s out of town. We know he’s gonna be back It’s a scandal it is But did did uh mayor cypher Because he asked for clean dirt So was he doing this on the assumption that the dirt brought would be clean and not contaminated? And that’s the dirt that could be but 10 years later and that property’s not redeveloped Well, there’s a costco there their apartments.
I think they’re there. There are some new as I said the cost goes there But those condos those two buildings, yeah, I actually looked yeah, I didn’t know either Like i’ve been here since 2008 They don’t got walls wiring or windows There was a guy leaning on a bunch of toilets You know porcelain toilets like in on the pallet and i’m like, oh my god. So then that kind of shit gets stolen Yeah, then I was digging and the site is under a consent decree really for Not removing the asbestos Wow Interesting so we need the money The people did not do this The people didn’t do this the people that guy was saying, you know, I just got used to it.
It’s not fair No, it’s not but I think unfortunately so many people have become accustomed to just Being I don’t want to say abused but just getting the short end of the stick abuse from the public Yeah, I mean from their from their public officials my 60 years on earth. I can’t believe this that’s southfield, man That’s the the center of it all the new city post wars I look there’s two places in southfield the orange towers city center And northland the first mall in the world And this is what it’s come to. I’m not we’re not letting that Just not letting that be i’m sorry.
Sorry folks Today’s show is going to be about strong women I was smoking weed last night So, let me just shout out to elizabeth evangelin nicole amy claudette karen grace Let me think back Christine my first girlfriend mary who asked me to prom I can go on should I go on? Yeah, there was heidi one heidi two and they spelled it if you’re gonna date a heidi you got to get their spelling right But it’s better because you don’t forget their names more than one Two in a row spelling. No he id. I and he id That’s just for the young men you ever call them by the wrong name no because you just keep dating heidi, that’s what i’m saying Okay But did you call heidi heide to mix Yeah, okay good.
Uh, who else there’s gotta be there’s more in this way, but joanne Jenny jenny Liz they’re spelled the same The two jenny’s the cousins you’re gross, dude That’s fucking gross. It’s weird, but they do live in tennessee now So, I don’t know anyway, all right, so that’s that so to all the strong women I know and have known I love you I Said i’ll be the first of my um siblings to make it to 60 There’s three before me that didn’t what? Two before me and one after me so And I was saying this to a guy yesterday. He’s gonna be 60 in a month And he goes we haven’t made it yet don’t jinx yourself I go yeah, but that would be a good fucking tombstone You’re walking by and like he almost made it.
Oh the poor fucker Charlie don’t start focusing on your mortality. You’ve been talking. I mean you just keep going.
I’m i’m good with it I think I think i’m good with it. It’s all good. It’s been a good life Anything more? Oh karen, how much weight have you lost charlie? I’m not about to sit here and have that conversation Okay, you look fucking awesome.
Okay, then just say that you don’t have to you look awesome. How much weight did you lose? So that sounds uh Discriminatory, so are you saying that’s what i’m saying. So don’t say that just say I should be a mayor of a municipality It’s all good.
No, you look absolutely glowing. I mean that okay. Well, thank you charlie.
You look great. You look great Um, I myself lost 12 Pounds good. You look good, too All right here let’s okay a couple things Mark, what do you got for us? Um a couple twitter action.
Okay, let’s do the twitter action. Do we have a open for this? Um, well we can play the clip that um, i’m sure we don’t we don’t we don’t know What what’s bullshitting news? How about that? Oh, yeah, we can do that. Hang on.
Let’s The nobs news hour presents what’s bullshit in the news Just came out of nowhere. All right, what do we got mark? It’s a clip of um, sheriff bushard and he’s talking Uh, this is after the attack on temple israel, right? This is about five days ago Yeah, so this is a week after the attack on temple israel And he has a press conference. He has a press conference a week later kind of makes it about himself Let’s hear it.
I’ll give you this by way of example some pond scum felt empowered and emboldened enough to put this picture of me up to try to threaten and Intimidate me, which of course He didn’t do because I signed up for this And by the way, the person that did this said a bunch of terrible things not just against me, but against a lot of Groups and individuals Who by the way was arrested today in wisconsin. My point is this though if this person is emboldened and empowered enough Or feel safe enough To to do this for me. What does he do to a kid? What does he do to a jewish family walking down the street? And that’s because of the normalization of this watching this on television and saying, okay I feel empowered enough that I can do this Well a you can’t and b If you think you can do it to somebody that’s in law enforcement again, what are you going to do? In an alley or on a street To a jewish family or a kid walking down the street Ah We say no we’re drawing the line Interesting
What’s that mean? Well, first off, I think that’s quite a leap. Look, we all know antisemitism has been on the rise. I mean, I don’t think it takes a genius to realize that, but I do think it’s quite a leap to go from memes to attacking somebody.
Just because you post a meme, you’re going to attack somebody in real life. I don’t buy that. My real problem with it is I tried to find this guy.
I tried to say, oh, this is kind of an interesting story. The guy from Wisconsin. The guy from Wisconsin who was arrested.
I could not find anything online about this, but you figure if you were arrested, you have a lawyer, that lawyer screaming on every news broadcast that my client has been arrested for posting a meme, right? So that being said, was this even real? This kind of just blew up to the point where they put out another tweet last night or yesterday. The Open County Sheriff’s Office. So his Twitter kid? Yes.
You know it ain’t him. Yeah. By the way, good sheriff.
Mike Bouchard is a very good sheriff. It’s a little disturbing on the First Amendment side of things. Exactly.
Thank you. So this goes double viral. One day it goes viral, it dies down, and then it goes again.
Stop hiring kids to do your Twitter. Jesus Christ. Go ahead.
So the post says, for people that are whining that someone was arrested for posting a meme, sorry to disappoint. Not even for threatening racist and anti-Semitic comments. He had prior outstanding felonies, stalking warrants, something completely unrelated, which drew local police attention to him when someone complained.
Someone like who? Well, first off, he had warrants. Why wasn’t he arrested before it took this meme? And that’s when you track the guy down? I think that’s a little odd, right? You know, this guy was out there. Yeah, it sounded like he was arrested for posting a meme.
Was he arrested at all? And who is he? And, you know, if he wasn’t arrested for the meme, then why would you know that he was arrested in another jurisdiction for other shit? Exactly. Yeah. All right.
So he didn’t like the meme. He called somebody in Wisconsin. And look, I mean, he called that sheriff in that jurisdiction and told him to go arrest this guy.
A hundred percent. We talked about it last week. Remember when it was Conspiracy Ken over there? Conspiracy Ken, Conspiracy Ken.
It’s never the cock. It’s always the end. Conspiracy Ken.
And rhetoric. But, you know, and you said, and Bouchard is a good chair. He’s been there for a long time.
And he knows how to control, manage, direct the message and the media. Every opportunity he has, he takes advantage of it. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing because it maintains his visibility.
But why is he doing that? Is it to maintain his visibility? And I don’t know. I mean, that’s the thing. But, you know, there are, he’s always, he’s, he’s never met a camera.
His son is running for Congress. And so the Bouchard name in the press isn’t a bad thing for him. Yeah.
Maybe in this situation, it might be, though. It might be. Yeah.
Yeah. Well, I like the fact that he’s saying that, you know, like anti-Semitism can’t stand. But Of course.
As we were saying last week, Ken didn’t like the guy that tried to blow up the synagogue and the community center and the preschool when he’s related to members of Hezbollah. Am I correct? Hezbollah. And he went to a wake, I guess, for the Ayatollah in Dearborn.
And Ken didn’t like it, which he’s welcome not to like it. And I don’t like it, but it’s the fucking guy’s right. You got to live with the shit, right? So, you know, Sheriff, you got to live with this shit.
It’s true. I’m not into anti-Semites whatsoever. So stupid, probably hateful.
Well, of course it was hateful. But the problem also is the Streisand effect, because if you look at that original, when the guy put that clip out there, everything underneath it is memes about him looking like that. You know, the original mean songs about it’s just bloated up and it’s coming back.
They go like this conspiracy, Ken. They’re not that good. Okay.
So like it’s ugly to be free, but don’t take my freedom. Just clear up the fucking mall. Sheriff, do me a favor, man.
Go investigate that. That’s Oakland County. You’re the Oakland County Sheriff.
Something happened. That’d make a great press conference. Wouldn’t it? We’re getting to the bottom of this.
All right. So good. Good bit there, bro.
There’s another tweet too. Oh, there is that? Yeah. The Joshua Hall tweet.
Oh, Joshua. Okay. So here’s the deal.
Ready? You guys hear this all the time. Main street media is dead. Twitter.
We’re the new media, right? We’re the media now. All right. Here’s the media.
This motherfucker went viral, right? Ken, what was it? Oh, sorry, Mark. I do have a microphone. Yeah.
Sorry. Breaking. He’s got the big breaking thing.
Former democratic mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick says. Slow down, man. Nobody can understand what you’re saying.
Breaking news. Breaking. Former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick says he has friends in Wayne County who oversaw the 2020 election who have informed him that Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer and secretary of state Jocelyn Benson personally, all caps, ordered the shipment and counting of hundreds of thousands of fraudulent Biden ballots in the middle of the night on election night.
When it became evident that president Trump was going to win the state, Kilpatrick says that stealing elections is the democratic favorite pastime in order to maintain power over the city of Detroit and that Whitmer and Benson received millions of dollars from hostile foreign governments in order to rig the 2020 election in Michigan. In other words, president Trump was right again. He was the lawful winner of the state of Michigan in that stolen election, all caps, and these two evil women committed treason, all caps, to overturn the will of the people.
The radical left democratic party is in fact, all caps, the enemy and the greatest existential threat to the United States of America today. My God, my God. Wow.
And I was there. I didn’t know except then our good friend Alan Langell from deadline Detroit, which I’m an alumnus. Is it alumni or alumnus singular, right? Yeah.
What is alumnus? Yes. I’m an alumnus of deadline Detroit. So Alan called Kwame.
Kwame said, the fuck you’re talking about? I never said that shit. That’s a bot. So you go to this guy, Josh Hall, 2024, I’m giving him a plug because he’s funny.
If you go to his page, he’s just doing conspiracy theories and they’re going berserk. It’s a joke fucking site, right? What else we got? What’s the latest one you got there? Uh, Komi and Schiff indictments eminent in Russia gate, federal conspiracy case, former FBI director call me and, uh, these trolling the trolls. Yeah.
Yes. All right. All right.
How many, how many likes does that guy dude or whatever? What’s her metric? Let me see that here. 140,000 views. Yeah.
Okay. Like, uh, a thousand likes. Okay.
What’s the next one? Um, Rand Paul on the take from the former Venezuelan president. Nicholas Maduro has reportedly implicated Senator Rand Paul as one of the leading us politicians on the Venezuelan list. How many likes we got there? What do we got? Uh, 4.6,107,000 views.
But that also speaks to the fact that people can say things and people run with it and they like it. They don’t check. There’s no verification.
There’s no questioning, no thought process, nothing. I have a friend who’s an anchorman in another state and another market who routinely sends me links to things on Twitter, confirming the wildest conspiracy theories. And then I find myself going back and forth trying to litigate this with them.
And you realize this fucking guy is a newsman. He is an anchorman in a major market and he believes this shit. And I cannot talk him off the ledge of shit.
That’s almost as ridiculous as this parody. But that’s how, that’s why the average person is so confused that that’s why we don’t know what to believe. And unfortunately, the mainstream media does nothing to fucking reassure us that they are telling us what we need to know, which is the problem.
And they have yet to take ownership of this colossal failure. Please go ahead. This is berserk.
It is, you know, and I know, thanks for listening. I know, it’s on a lot of, a lot of people’s radar now. I mean, we’re trying.
I know it’s boring, Derek, it’s boring, but it’s not really when it, this is true and this shit is not. It’s not boring, Charlie. No more boring than water was in Flint.
It’s real and it affects people’s communities. It’s very real. Exactly.
And people will overlook it or trivialize it until it directly impacts them. And they may not even realize it. It may be six months, it may be two years, but it will have a residual effect.
The problem is consuming it. There’s no winner and loser, right? I mean, we’re all losers with that whole dirt story. So is it really that much fun to share when your side doesn’t win or the other side doesn’t lose? I used to cover LA.
There’s a couple of people in LA. I love you. Hey, what’s up, Gary? Another girlfriend of mine.
Gary? Gary? Wow. You go girl. That was a phase.
My realtor. No, she’s a friend of mine. Man, the pool parties in West Hollywood, wild, wild.
You ever been to the Abbey? Oh yeah. I remember I lived in West Hollywood. Oh fuck.
Is that place the best? It was the best. The fucking greatest gay bar in the world. It’s so gay that too many straight people are coming.
Yeah. They’re wrecking the whole fucking thing. I used to have to go to Barney’s because it was the only straight bar in West Hollywood.
Thought you meant the store? No. Hey, Gary. Okay.
So Gary’s a realtor. Used to be a sheriff, but he got so drunk one night at the Abbey, he left his gun on the bar. He was out.
Oops. You know, what are you going to do? If I was in LA, I’d still be doing stories on the fires and why nothing got built and what the graft is. Right.
And it would be interesting to me in Ferndale, Michigan. It would be interesting to me. What the fuck is going on? What’s it going to cost us? We’ll pay it.
And why ain’t it fixed? You know what you’re highlighting with Southfield and you’ve highlighted in Detroit, taxpayers at the federal level, at the state level, at the local level are paying millions and billions of dollars to fix these problems. The problems aren’t getting fixed and we’re being gaslit about them. They’re just not talking about them.
If the deputy city manager of Southfield has no idea what’s going on on a major parcel in their city is crazy. But then you look at Minneapolis and Minnesota and the fraud of welfare systems there. You look at the fraud that was exposed first by Nick Shirley in Los Angeles and then by CBS in which you had Gavin Newsom calling them racist for talking about something that we now know is hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars in fraud.
And what I get frustrated with too is what is happening is less of less concern to the mainstream media than who breaks it. And if it doesn’t come from their ideological camp, they fucking ignore it. And then even when it’s staring them in the face and everybody knows, they still don’t report on it.
We’re still not getting enough coverage of what happened in the last. What’s happening there, Charlie? I mean, on the things that you’ve covered again, and since they didn’t break it, they ignored it until they couldn’t anymore. Tracy Kornack.
I mean, we can go, you know, the nursing home deaths. I mean, the whole nine yard and it’ll be the same way with the dirt until it just gets to the point where it’s like, OK, we got to give in. But they don’t.
It is. But again, we’ve talked a lot about how being in the media now is no longer responsibility or an obligation for accountability. It’s about popularity, like, you know, because elected officials, business leaders will shut you out if you don’t align with their way of thinking.
And you were both at the Detroit News, and we know what the business model is. The clicks on the stories that you write are what they are looking at in terms of measuring how good their journalists are, not the quality of the journalism, not the value to the community of investigative journalism. It is merely how many clicks did this story get? How many shares did this story get? And that’s where you rank within.
But it’s always been that way. I mean, it’s called ratings. It’s called subscriptions.
Right. Yeah. So you just found out you sold advertising.
You had a subscription. You are now monetizing the information itself. And whatever gets the most fucking clicks is what the business side pays attention to.
But that’s not the sexy thing. Dirt’s not sexy. Scandals are.
You’re talking about an affair. And a million fake ballots is sexy. Right.
And Ted Nugent’s retweeting it. It’s like it ain’t true. What people like to be is like, oh, this is salacious.
This is, you know, and so they want to be another smoking gun. Look, I want to be in the conversation. Exactly.
We were right. I mean, this is like when they talk the other. I saw something the other day and they were talking about there was a stash of money that Kwame was hiding.
And I read that it was thirteen thousand dollars. That’s not a stash. Like me.
I was just going to say, give me some caviar and some April 15th around the corner. Yeah. Thirteen grand.
But I mean, the way it was, you know, like and I’m thinking like, there are a few hundred thousand dollars somewhere. And I read and I was like, thirteen thousand dollars. You’re not hiding, especially when the tab is exponentially larger.
You’re not hiding thirteen thousand. That’s not enough to hide. Anyway.
So, yeah. It’s all relative. Yeah.
It’s all relative. Right. And I’m not related to it.
Speaking of which. Hey, I’m going to say this. Did you know there’s going to have no King’s rally again this weekend? Who’s paying for this yet? It’s really paying off.
Did you know that if you have a green card, legal residency in the United States, you must carry that at all times? Really? Yeah. Yeah. So the due process that the goofballs get in the way of law enforcement talk about, you’re not entitled to bond if ICE picks you up.
If you’re an illegal, you don’t you don’t get what we get. You’re not allowed to fucking possess a gun. You’re not allowed to profess loyalty to terrorist groups.
There’s there’s a you don’t get due process in the fact they want to change it. We shut down DHS, Department Homeland Security, because now when they issue warrants for the arrest of illegals, it’s an administrative warrant, meaning immigration officials, not circuit court downtown here. Right.
And we got 20 million illegals. We talk about every day to go to court. The process isn’t the same.
You don’t know what the process is out there. And like, don’t get in the way of law enforcement. They’re out there with fingerprint readers.
One know how they arrest people. They monitor them like you’re a felon. I’m going to watch you for three days.
Get your habits, pull you over on a place where it’s like nobody gets hurt. Right. Run your fingerprints.
Nobody gets deported. That’s a citizen. Nobody gets deported.
This is all lies. It’s fucking lies. And so now we got to know King’s rally.
I got a call from a reporter in town. Good guy freaked me out when a good guy, longtime reporter who’s fucking credible as job calls you before nine. You’re like, oh, fuck, what hit piece you working on? What I do, what I do last night when I was smoking weed, I smoke weed.
I got a short story. Call somebody cares. No, that’s Billy Ray Cyrus.
So guess who’s a sponsor of the no kings? This report is pissed. This meanest reporter. Oh, man, we’re old school, old school.
You know, like he gonna be 68. I’m gonna call him 68. So you can’t track him down.
We grew up here. We’re old school, blue collar, Catholic Democrats. It’s not that many left, Charlie.
There’s a lot of us left. Not old school. Yeah, we don’t call those Democrats anymore.
Yeah. You know, because it’s old school reporter. The reporters in town belong to a union because we’re Detroit.
You want to know what union the writers, not the TV that sag after the writers belong to the communication workers of America pay their dues. Can you blow that up for me, Mark? Yeah, I can zoom in on it. The communication workers of America are backing the no kings rallies across America.
Just read the first two paragraphs, Mark. I can’t. On March 28th, CW airs will gather again with our allies at events all across the country to make it clear that America does not belong to greedy billionaires or those who govern through fear.
It belongs to the people. Leave it. Wow.
All right. What’s that? Our brothers in arms. Look, I get unions.
I’m pro union. I paid my dues. It is the Writers Guild.
What? We’re reporters. No brothers in arms here. Facts.
Objective. Oh, you need to have to be objective. I agree with the billionaire thing.
And I’m going to call every time I can. But I need a fact. I’m not just knee jerk.
Hey, a billionaire. And I respect a billionaire, man. You made a billion dollars, motherfucker.
But honorary ball sack. Let me say that again. Honorary ball sack.
I did that once on Fox just so I could do ball sack like four times in a row. I said to the boss, hey, man, is balls one of the one of which goes, I don’t think so. Then I’m doing ball sack as honorary ball sack.
The great French philosopher ball sack once said behind every great fortune is a great crime. You can’t get that much money, you know, something. I believe that the problem with them doing.
When something like this openly supporting this is it doesn’t help the image that you are biased right if the media is fighting this Whatever side doing something like this. It’s just gonna go. Oh, yeah, there’s there’s proof.
There’s proof Communication workers of America guess what I’m saying. Do you want to go out with ice? You want to see the process but that’s an emotional position, you know, I mean and so people say oh, yeah good You know go against the big guy go against the bad guy Nobody’s looking to look for the objectivity or where should this organization be in a situation like that? So it just it touches an emotional nerve and people like oh, yeah, that’s good. You know, you’re going up against the the billionaires That’s not necessarily the the the the the way that it should be I mean, it’s just not but is that the way it should be? Well, you’re an opinion journalist and an investigative journalist Before you should marry them.
Yes So, you know, I expect to your point about not being objective but for the people that are covering the news and giving us information the the reporters not the Opinion columnists or the investigative journalists that are trying to get to the bottom line on something We’re not I mean they should be the ones that I mean CWA is betraying those members of their guild When they put that shit out there because it does take away from Their even defense that they are unbiased when they’re participating in shit like this. They showed up at a MAGA rally Can you imagine a member of their guild called me? I mean, but but why like what would be the reasoning for them? Well, and they’ve accomplished nothing with these fucking rallies nothing What impact have they had or we’re saving fucking newspaper jobs, right? Or subscriptions so, you know, let’s let’s performative It’s it’s so they can get together and reassure each other that they’re right in all of them And I will go like this like opinion investigate, you know I I dispense with it years ago like Linda if you don’t do journaling you’re part of the reason it’s broken fine But what I like to do is I I think you should put your opinion in I think the the reporter should put themselves in the story so the audience can gauge Exactly who the instrument is talking to now if what’s your point of view don’t hide it Yeah, if 90% of them weren’t liberals, I would agree with you, but I’m not willing to take the risk I have a 90% of them and I don’t even mind to be in there But you know like because like I said, I would read Mother Jones. I’ve written for it Yeah, but you know what you’re getting because they would tell me facts But when I pick up the Detroit news or the Detroit free press I would like to believe that the reporters that are covering are Trying to give you both sides of the story and they don’t typically do that They give the side that reaffirms their values and it’s not a story that I agree.
That’s the point That’s the problem lies the complaint. Nothing is anymore. I should not read a story and know What the reporter thinks I mean and in terms of their position, I just don’t want to do that again if it is an opinion Okay, give me your perspective on that But if you’re doing a story give me the facts and give me both sides not just one side and listen we’re all older not as old as Charlie, but But I I think about you guys what I consume and I I read the spectrum of news because you’re right I do Okay Can I say that but the BBC? used to be this wild left-wing rag that I could not stomach and you know what I started to realize with our Three networks or four networks in particular BBC actually gives you both sides of a story Like if you go watch a BBC segment on a story you will get both sides You go watch the same thing on NBC or CNN and you will not get anything that even resembles at best you get a leave that see a BBC with the mass mandates with the with the side effects there are of the shot high-profile example of the Daily, you go watch their evening news.
You’re gonna get more balance. So yeah, there’s shit like that. I don’t there’s no one Side of that one to get the facts where do people go to get facts so that they can draw their own conclusions? Well, the problem is most enjoy your dot-com.
I’m still 100% free. I Will say the dispatch I think writes pretty neutrally they are center, right Trump haters But they get you get really good news. That’s I’m gonna set her left, you know, but you know what? I like to I like the week Weeks great love it because one I don’t need a lot of fluff I just just tell me boom boom boom what and let me wine so I’d I love the week I’m check that out.
What about the free citizen is that what that’s called? DC the aggregator the new drudge The good thing about the week is that it will excerpt from pretty much a lot of different Opinion writers reporters so you get the balance I Don’t know if she wants me to say her name I’m gonna say her name’s Dakota and she is a committed citizen of the city of Detroit and she’s Fucking angry about this dirt. She’s the one going to Lee’s Eldon Like the the secretary of the EPA she going everywhere. We’re getting something done She she wrote me a letter that she’s working with the Environmental Protection Network or whatever that she was referred by the EPA and I’m reading this beautiful layout this beautiful layout of the law section this they did that the history of it and I text her and I and her father’s a Very reputable contractor.
He’s amazed at this and I said to her Wow That’s such a well put together argument. I Couldn’t do it. How’d you do it? She goes I And That’s the other side of it you you got all this all this information now Information graphics commercials.
If you look at the small print on commercials like I always do gender powered by AI What so we’re now in a position where we don’t know what’s real anymore Generally takes a little bit of willingness to maybe dig yourself if you’re the consumer to go What is what is the angle this person’s coming at? What is this based on? Where’s this? Pop in on there Gen Z It’s a lot easier to do. What are we doing when everything’s fake? But first of all Gen Z my daughter Claudette one of the very strong women that I didn’t say Kirby I should say Kirby to another strong woman. I know Are you Gen Z are you what are you? It doesn’t that suck like the previously worse like it sucks like nobody likes Millennials Gen Z we like it’s like being a boomer now Nobody likes anybody Charlie.
Oh, everybody likes everybody Everyone wishes. I don’t know how we took a rundown fucking 80s bullshit with big fucking hair What was the big hit shot through the dark in your to blame? That’s cool. I Mean even MTV died But when you’re talking about what people need to do to delve down to Be able to understand people are trying to figure out how to fill up their gas tanks They’re trying to they don’t have the time or don’t have the time and they don’t bad You know, it’s beautiful about that thought is not only didn’t scary look so great and so fit and lean She’s also now become Gen Z Gen Z do you got do you know what’s fake online? I mean personally, I think I’m better at seeing AI as AI then I guess older people or other people.
Hey, sorry But don’t call us boomers. I’m not experienced people but Xers It’s because I don’t know you have to like if you’re looking at an AI video You have to look in the details for like if the shadows are moving right or fingers We can’t Yeah, I mean I definitely tend to ignore things when I see something with information that isn’t Sighted so basically you guys are aware like you’re being fucking late. Yeah, you’re suspicious, right? Is it I mean I look for people using it in essays and stuff at school You can tell because the AI hallucinates information, right? Well Dakota, like I thought it was like spectacular.
I’m like I I couldn’t I couldn’t have done this better You could have you did now conspiracy Ken over here. We have a thought I’m a Charlie did it and this is what we’re doing with the enjoyer and and we’re like, he’s a younger guy and more fit But Ken and I Had long discussions about what’s gonna happen in the world so you could take AI and do videos with it, right you can Nobody wants that anymore AI is so good that there’s no art in it It’s it’s ripped off art. So we actually want to see clumsy human editing That’s why I hope Mark’s listening because I think he gets sick of me now.
He hangs up the phone I’m high on weed. Do you gotta leave it? You gotta leave because It was so clumsy the edit was beautiful. Like I thought Ken here’s what we were supposed to do with AI Can put me in the the Saharan desert right have me walking like I’m Peter O’Toole No, it’s just like I’m gonna take a panavision.
Is that what it’s called? It was panavision. It was panavision. Yeah.
Yeah panavision. What was the color? Take a color panavision technicolor. This was the giant clot.
What’s the giant screen now my max? It was the IMAX of the time, you know All right, even Gen X knows IMAX dude, we don’t need to get the Gen Z No, Ken just takes the shot and then cuts to be on the fucking hill play it Everybody here wants to leave I don’t want to leave How gorgeous is that Look at the Mesa Reminded could you for those of you watching watch this? Okay, so here it doesn’t pause Look at the okay. You see what do we call these? Standards. No, look at the mountains back there.
They’re more than dunes. See you see in the background plateaus plateau Mesa’s Mesa’s Mesa’s There’s a word for him if this is Africa then there’s a different word than Mesa right but okay, look at those now play God, it’s gorgeous. The world’s so gorgeous.
Life is so grand There’s a Mesa of bullshit Look, see look at it. Look at that. Look how flat the top is Why isn’t top flat like that on this junk pile? Because the wind has sheared the top off just like in the Saharan Desert go back to it.
I don’t see Why does my barber not want to cut my hair but anyway, I digress look at what are you doing? Why is it blurry? Show record Fucking Ken’s beautiful shit up Okay, pause. Okay. What do you notice in in this hill? First of all, it’s giant.
You see me I’m a six-foot man even six foot 179 Thank you very much Body fat. I did eat some corn chips yesterday as a celebration. I really did.
Do you feel below it? No, I feel fit as a fiddle. I’m doing my steps. I’m Yeah, I can do pull-ups again Yeah, yes Again, I can but you know what when I blew my knee out It pops sometimes no now I’m doing these workouts would wait Want to see it? To get the knee because it’s the inside of the knee.
So I take a weight Charlie we’re really indulging you for you And I go like this and I touch the knee like that And then it touches the knee like that see how that is and the knee feels like Really good. It didn’t even pop. I might I might be able to get back on the playing field again I’d love to please You know what? I you know what man? Can you guys just bear with me? I love sports so much.
I Love running. I I that’s why I like the outfield because you’re like a bird You’re just flying and you know You’re trying to catch a breadcrumb like I’m Coney Island somebody threw it to you like you’re a seagull and it just feels so wonderful and You know, it’s taken from you as you grow older It no you give You give it away as you grow older. That’s why old fat guys with beards ride motorcycles But so they can fly because the legs don’t work doctor made a point They said you think about when you’re young in high school in college, you’re active you’re moving around whatever Then you get a traditional job and now you are sitting for the next 20 30 years And then you want to get up and go and start doing the thing So if you don’t maintain some degree of activity while you’re sitting through that nine-to-five Athletic I didn’t have the euphoria of those athletic experiences.
So I I don’t have the withdrawal. No. No You didn’t play any sports.
No essential fish oils. I Try and vitamin D. I Know what’s with my hair? This is Shower need some Mando. Oh Yeah, okay, so call Luke nowack if you want to get rich Two four eight I get my speed die two four eight.
It’s all I know two four eight Six six three forty seven forty eight if you want to get rich Luke no wacky two four eight six six three four seven four eight The federal government requires me to say that’s not a guarantee Okay Mando What up, though, I use Mando shop Mando dot-com You guys both know about this product, right? Okay, shop Mando calm Bernie’s XG communications, I love when he had a fat ass But what listen when you know Why is his ass got little why? Because he was running his ass over here when the power went out to get to get the internet back on that’s XG services group just Google it you’re responsive and American Coney Island get the best dog around and Oh Pam oh The adjusters amid the Midwest. Okay. Oh, by the way, I get the new roof LL construction by the way, that’s my man lumpy from high school way back when that was like 40-fucking-two years bring him on the show.
I want to know what Charlie was like 45 years ago What I look like now and talk to lumpy about what you were like, okay, hold on hold that there so Lumpy gonna come do my roof cuz I got pinhole leaks. My wife said to me yesterday Why are we doing the roof? I go we got a bunch of pinhole leaks. You don’t remember him It’s it’s it’s over So I called Pam who basically is your representative when your roof caves in or your pipes blow up Call them first go to What is it mark the call Pam first calm or call them eight five five nine seven five twenty twenty.
Yeah, they’re good I called them because I told everybody if you don’t you should do this, dude Because what’s going on in your nice beautiful fucking ranch that you like ranch houses love them No, she doesn’t she lives in an ornate Tudor, I guess you would Yeah, is it a tutor Fucking great. Your house is great. They are great houses.
You’ve worked hard and When you got big trees Falls on there what you’re gonna do I called Pam for the leaks They’re like can’t do it. You can’t do it because that’s wear and tear in the roof. It’s a scam.
Don’t do it So they’re looking at my insurance shit. They’re looking at my home You want you want to call these people when when when something bad happens? Hopefully it never will but that’s who you call. Okay.
Now you were just saying I said bookmark. Do we take care of everybody? Yes, and all of you people Thank you for taking care of us and all you people listening just If you want to come downtown and eat, you know where to go if a tree falls on your roof God forbid, you know who to call if you got a little extra dough or you’re worried about where your kids Are gonna go to college if they can go to college, you know who to call You know, I mean if you’re stankin if you’re stankin and you don’t wanna put a loofah on your balls, you know what to do I did that you have a loo for your balls That’s right That’s right. You know what the way I gotta tell you this is a true story.
I’m in a frat in Michigan I’m going back now 40 years and there’s a guy. Hey, what’s going on? Gee? What up dough, man? My hubby baby, I’m gonna tell you this story wait, don’t leave I’m gonna tell you this story from college What I know I’m just good quick story. So I’m in a fraternity.
I’m Rushing a fraternity. I didn’t know what rushing was. I just went with the guys on the floor, you know, it’s what’s rushing I don’t know that so we go They did Delta Chi and there’s an alumni there and he’s partying, you know, he’s old guys doing it What are you doing? He’s a What’s this? What’s this? a liar Harp harp.
Okay. He’s a harp player harpist. He’s a harpist for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra an alumni updated alumnus updated Delta Chi is A harpist for the DSO and you know, he said to me all drunk in the frat house He says to me You know how women can’t play harp And I say why can’t women play harp? He says cuz they don’t have the balls True story, I believe I’ve lived so much life.
I forgot it Are we done? What’s happening? Yeah, we’re done. No, I got one more. Okay We were talking Should we do the Gordie Howe bridges a scam next week? Yes Does anybody want to come in and give me a hug? Everybody come in.
Give me a hug. Everybody come in this shot. Happy birthday.
Come on and get everybody get in here Give me a hug everybody. Come on mark. Come on over here Come on, come on.
Give me a hug. I Bleed And never brought to mind should Acquaintance be forgot in the days of Anxiety bring it fucker. You don’t fuck with me.
I’m gonna fuck with you I Used to work at Bennegan’s over at 275 in Ann Arbor Trail, right and when it was people’s birthday Now that I won’t fuck with that’s right. It was people’s birthday. You had to do this Bennegan’s was so cheap You couldn’t sing happy birthday because it’s copyrighted.
So we have to do this. Happy happy birthday, and it’s your special day Happy happy birthday is what we’re here to say. Happy.
Happy birthday. May all your dreams come true Happy happy birthday from Bennegan’s to you. Hey, I got so pissed one night Oh it from daddy gets to you BAM stuck my face in the fucking can’t go on got the door I think I wrecked the place.
I think I ruined it Don’t you say They’ve been too many days at the Abbey next week
