No BS Newshour Episode #408
LOCKED OUT
(4:32) EXCLUSIVE: GM closes Renaissance Center forever.
Public not told. Public not wanted.
Dan Gilbert’s latest real estate scam.
(48:47) PLUS- Who’s got custody of Tommy Hearns?
The Hitman heads to probate. The strange true story of the champ.
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Transcript:
One of my favorite things to do in Detroit on a drizzly spring afternoon is to drop into the food court at the Renaissance Center. Normally, I’ll shake off the cold and relieve myself before ordering a cup of coffee and a moist cinnamon bun dripping with glaze while I watch the fishermen troll for walleye along the river. So imagine my surprise earlier this week to find that the Renaissance Center is now completely closed to the public, locked in perpetuity.
The cafe is gone, the Burger King, the tables, the napkins, the salt shakers. General Motors has removed its nameplate from the facade and its rotating display of classic cars has been towed away. Where you going, barked the sleepy-eyed security guard? It’s closed.
Can’t you read the signs, Charlie, unless you’re going to go to the Hotel of Joel Muir’s, but they’re not open yet. So I said, how about the Italian Consulate? I heard the Italian Consulate’s open. The remaining tenants in the Renaissance Center, besides the Marriott and three restaurants, are the Italian and Japanese diplomatic attachés.
Apparently, no one’s told the Italians or the Japanese that the war’s over. Okay, but you can’t take no professional video, he warned, and so we ignored him. The cultural impact of an icon abandoned in the middle of the night simply required video documentation.
Imagine walking up on the Empire State Building or the St. Louis Arch and being told to pound cement. That’s what the Renaissance Center is to us. It’s no secret that the building’s owner, General Motors, beat it out of its five-tower headquarters on the Detroit River with much fanfare.
Remember the much the fanfare? The 117-year-old automobile company announced last month that it had moved its world headquarters into a veritable broom closet of suites, and Dan Gilbert’s half-finished, publicly-financed Hudson’s Tower complex just a few blocks from here. GM has all but turned its back on the Motor City. The company has collected billions of dollars over the years from the state to keep its employees in Michigan.
To smother the criticism, GM is keeping a skeleton crew of a few hundred employees downtown so the locals don’t feel disrespected. Executives with General Motors and Gilbert’s development team have convinced the public that they are going to transform the five million square foot riverfront property into condos, retail space, and open parkland just as long as we the public kick in 350 million dollars. Gilbert and GM are lobbying Lansing hard for the cash and the prizes, but a spokesman for Matt Hall, the Speaker of the Michigan House who holds the dice in this game of municipal monopoly, was surprised to learn the public has been locked out of the building all together.
That’s the first we’re hearing of it, a spokesman has told me. Representatives for General Motors did not immediately respond to questions. They did.
They did. They said, uh, she’s no longer dealing with the real estate. I’m dealing with the real estate.
What’s your questions? I said, when did you lock it? When is everybody else leaving? Did you get the money? Real simple, no nothing. The Renaissance Center, financed with private money, took four years to build and opened in 1977. The public was always welcome to ride the 700 foot outdoor elevator.
As a comparison, the Hudson’s two tower complex, financed in part with a lot of public money, broke ground nine years ago. Even so, the main 49 story tower still lacks pipes and still lacks walls. The shorter block, where GM now rents four floors, is closed to the public.
Now, unable to get an audience with the Council General of Japan or Italy, we left the Renaissance Center with security tailing us at, I might say, a respectful distance. And then over at the new GM headquarters, a security guard snapped our photograph through the plate glass window. I suspect he forwarded it on to corporate security.
They locked us out. No public discussion, no nothing. In fact, here is your video proof, right? Can we ready? Here’s the video proof.
Put it in the time capsule. See the USA in your Chevrolet. America’s asking you to call.
What the fuck? Ladies and gentlemen, General Motors has left the building and locked the doors to keep you out. Good, how you doing? Is it closed? It’s closed. This sign right there.
For good? 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. That’s because Gilbert and GM have some half big plan to redevelop it and they want we, the public, to give them a third of a billion dollars to do it. We didn’t agree to that shit.
We’re being played. Who’s left in here? The hotel? Yeah, the hotel. Just the hotel and the restaurant? Yes, sir.
What about the Japanese and Italian consulate? They still open? Yep, they’re still open. So GM’s gone, everybody’s gone except the Japanese and the Italians? Yes, sir. That’s weird.
It’s all empty. All the cars are gone. The Italian consulate? Grazie.
I’m sorry? Good day. I’m looking for the Italian consulate. Do you have an appointment? I do not.
I can’t set you up without an appointment. Okay, where’s the Japanese consulate? They’re here. What do they think? The war’s still going on? What are they doing in here? I don’t know.
Are you doing this video? Yeah, we’re doing a story. It’s closed, except for you. You’re the last one in.
Yeah, you really can’t video me or anyone. Okay, we’ll blur you. Do you know where the light switch is when you have to be the last one out? It’s all gone.
I have to look over to Canada to see my American dream. Full buildings. Man, we’re scrapping it already? Okay, you want the news? Here it is.
General Motors has all but abandoned the city of Detroit. They closed the rents and didn’t tell us and moved up the street here to this broom closet. Four floors in a new building built by Dan Gilbert with public money as well as the tower next to it, which still doesn’t have walls nine years later.
And you want to see the funny part? Do you know how we can get to the atrium? No, it’s bad. Jack’s is open. Oh, it’s not open to the public? Not open to the public.
Thank you. Not open to the public with public money. None of them are open to the public.
I mean, honestly. Live from downtown Detroit, it’s the No Bullshit News Hour with my main man, Charlene LeDuc, and Karen Neumann. Let’s just break it up.
No more bullshit. No more bullshit. What’d you say just now, Jason Rowe, Republican political hitman? That’s really sad.
In what way? Detroit’s lucky. We have a lot of iconic buildings, but you and I of the generation, we remember the fanfare of the Renaissance Center and, of course, the great renaissance of Detroit in the 70s, but that’s a symbol of Detroit and it’s kind of ignominiously being taken away. What was that word? Ignominiously.
I remember as a kid, my dad used to take me to the Grand Prix. We stood on the top of one of the towers and would watch the cars going down below. Yeah.
I was 10 when it opened. I was talking to my mom, who’s very upset about not being told that the icon of the Detroit skyline, which is one of the top five in American cities, in my opinion. She was just absolutely livid that without her consultation, you could just close it, especially since we floated the building practically for Jesus, the last generation.
You know what she used to do, she told me? We had a flower shop at Marlboro and Jefferson on the east side and whenever there was a delivery to the Renaissance Center, my mom would take, she was the owner, but she would take it because she liked to get a coffee and then she liked to go to the DIA and have a salad. The funny thing is, we invited the Republicans, Matt Hall, the Speaker of the House, Brian Posthumous, the majority floor leader, to explain to us how this deal is going through, because you can’t get a third of a billion dollars without the say-so of the state legislature. We deserve an explanation.
I feel good about being ghosted by everybody, tells you we’re keeping it fair and even, but have you heard anything about this? Because I’m talking to people up there. Yeah, GM’s lobbying hard to get the transformational brownfield credit, that’s what they call it, and I was told this is a non-starter. You hear anything about it? I haven’t tracked it closely.
I know I had some conversations a couple months ago where the interested parties were definitely trying to get the legislature to move on something, but it doesn’t get reported on much. That’s not anything we’re going to read in the papers. To me, Matt Hall was pretty clear early on that he’s not for taxpayer subsidies of anything, let alone, and he was very specific about this, that there wouldn’t be any state dollars going towards that.
It would be interesting to see if something changes there. What happened to capitalism? If it works, it works. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t.
I believe, just coming from my memory bank, that 50% of the empty office space in downtown Detroit is the Renaissance Center, and now when you’re building a new skyscraper without walls, it’s taking a decade to build, and how do you build a skyscraper over a decade without losing your ass? It’s because of the public subsidies. I think it’s a bait and switch. That’s what I think.
Here, where is it? I want them to know, where is it? Where’s my one share of General Motors? Who took my one share? It’s over there somewhere. I think we bid wrong. Go ahead, just keep talking, Jason.
He found it. All right. One share of General Motors, which makes me a voting member, and I can bring lawsuits.
So if General Motors, my company that I own, owns it outright and is going to put $250 million into this boondoggle called the Renaissance Redevelopment, and then insists to the public in order to get us to buy into it, that if they make any money on the new development, they will donate this to charity. Now, I took a couple business courses, studied some economics. I do believe the fiduciary responsibility of General Motors is to maximize my profit.
So how about you sell the building for $20 million? That’s a $270 million swing. What’s really going on here? And I’m going to say it again and remind you all, the players behind this, Dan Gilbert, obviously, but in GM, the guy running the real estate deal is a guy named Dave Masseron. Dave Masseron was the bond attorney for not only Flint, but for Genesee County and the Karaganda Water Authority.
He’s the guy that put the deal together for the Mass Flint water poisoning. And then he was given a new job by Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan as the chief operating officer during this time. Federal grand juries into the demolition, reports of poisoning.
He put Proposition N together, more poisoning, and now we got this. Oh, and he did a pit stop a year with Whitmer as her budget director. That’s where all that COVID money went.
And then he was the, now the guy is not a, as far as I understand, he’s not an accountant, he’s not a CPA, but he was put in charge of finances for Wayne State University at, I think about a cool $400,000 a year. How does this happen? How does he fail upward so many times? How does this happen? I don’t know. Geez.
I just want a cinnamon fucking bun. Is that too much to ask? Now, what do you really think is going to happen over there? If Matt Hall holds true to his word, we’re going to have the grandfather of all grandfathers of abandoned buildings. How many years do you think it’s going to sit like that? Now the Marriott’s open, but they’re due to go.
I think they’re going to move into the new Joe Lewis thing. Joe Muir’s and Andiama’s going to go. The Highland, is that what the restaurant up on top? Yeah.
That’s scheduled to close next year. I don’t even know how it’ll last that long. Right.
There’s not any foot traffic. Ken, you were in there. The building’s solid.
Actually looks pretty good. I smell a rat. Then four floors of office.
Jesus. You see the video. That’s another sad commentary on where we are now.
GM’s footprint’s that small. Researching this, you got to read things. You got to prospectuses and news articles and bullshit watercolors and plants.
When they invited the lapdog media down there, hey, look, GM, they didn’t report we’re not allowed into. They’re reporting on the artwork and stuff that you’re never going to get to see, despite the fact that you paid for it. They wrote stuff like, oh, the couches in the atrium are the same leather as the new 2026 Corvette.
Who gives a shit? Who cares? Well, I wanted to fucking sit in it. The Lenox Lounge in Harlem on 125th, it reopened famously, and I went there to do it. More than once, the media tour, they’re like, Billy Holiday sat there.
I go, Billy Holiday sat there. Billy Holiday sat there? Is it scratch and sniff? I’m in front of him going, yep, yep, yep, it’s Billy. Little Attar water and heroin.
Nice mix. I do think it’s interesting, too, though. Wasn’t there a threat, you know, this threat about tearing down the Ren Center? I don’t know many people who really care if it’s, I mean, sell it and then tear it down.
Well, I mean, I’m not that, I just want to know what’s going on with it. I’m not that tied to it, right? I mean, I’m younger, but I just, it’s never been a thing. What’s that? I’m kind of tied to it.
You are, so you don’t want it torn down. No, I mean, it keeps the main towers. It is our skyline.
It’s the defining part of our skyline. Well, we’re going to tear two down or whatever they’re saying. But the taller ones that are the symbolic ones of our skyline, I would hate to lose those.
Yeah. Okay. So we’re going to do high-end condominiums on the Detroit River, right? And yet, open up the grounds is a public park.
Yeah. Do you want like a massive public park in front of your- Other cities that works. It does.
I think it would work here. I’m not- Like which city? Orlando. Orlando doesn’t work, dude.
Yeah, it does. Usually that lake- Those condos around that lake? That lake is like a algae swamp in the middle of Orlando. Orlando? It’s the Detroit River, dude.
Come on. What are you comparing? Dude, I used to live in Orlando. So did I. You did not.
I did too. Where’d you live? I was chief of staff to an Orlando- I didn’t have to be a resident. I asked, where’d you live? I lived in Oviedo.
Oviedo? Yeah. I lived in my van till the cops told me to move it. I went to Daytona, Orlando.
Okay. The Dakota Hotel in New York City, Central Park. Yeah.
Right. But there’s still a buffer of Sixth Avenue, Fifth Avenue, right? Broadway. Not in Orlando.
Not in Orlando. Right there. You walk outside and you’re on the boardwalk going around the lake.
Give Orlando another try. It’s actually the only nice part of Orlando. Apparently, I just got a superficial view from my windshield.
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Now, just a little quick stuff. I want to ask the Republicans, election year. I’m just going to let everybody know.
You’re going to, well, we got an ICU nurse in here who’s running for Senate downriver, smarter than most. If you want to win, as you know, Jason wrote political hitman strategies, everything, everything, Washington, California, Orlando. Hi, Orlando.
We both know that the margins are thin. In order to win, you have to take the true independents, the ones that are going to get out and actually vote. Is that right? Razor thin.
It’s even people that call themselves independent lean, don’t they? There’s very few true independents who will flip flop. And that’s generally where elections these days go, right? That’s that’s the group. If you want to dodge us.
So be it. So be it. But well, there’s there’s turnout, the base elections and there’s persuade swing voters elections.
Primary in general. Yeah. And, you know, what you’re seeing right now is the intensity for Democrat candidates all around the country is 400 percent.
What you’re seeing on the Republican side, Republicans aren’t turning out right now. And it’s because Democrats are fucking pissed off. And you don’t even have to work too hard to turn them out, turn them out.
And our folks aren’t showing up. And that’s going to be a problem in November. So it’s the never Trump.
Really? No, it’s not even that Democrats are running on. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
For them, it is just because they can’t believe the shit they’re talking about. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. It’s a fury at Trump on the left. Yeah.
But it’s also infecting independent voters. And I think beyond the ones that are independents, but really behave like Democrats, I think there genuinely are people in the independent space that even lean right that that are probably moving in that direction right now. Well, let’s talk something concrete, right? Instead of like Trump or which is a failing, I got to say, that’s a failing thing to run on.
What’s that? Just not anybody but Trump. Like, give it give us some ideas. That’s that’s their entire agenda.
They can’t get out of their own way. That’s they should be able to work. I mean, I don’t know.
They’ve got enthusiasm right now, but they offer absolutely nothing other than we hate Trump and every action they take, every position. I mean, look, he trolled them in the State of the Union, but they took the bait. Like they just can’t get out of their own way over, you know, try to offer the American people any proposal on anything other than I’m going to do the opposite of Trump.
And before the attack on Iran, there were the beginning of some trends on some economic indicators. Revisions in some of these numbers are not great. And the unemployment rate just, you know, came out this morning and it’s up, I think, three tenths of a percent.
That’s not a great trend for the Trump administration. But the jobless numbers, you know, they revised those numbers and we didn’t have growth last month. We ended up losing.
So, you know, we’re in a bad spot. But what’s happened with immigration, what’s happened with the stock market, productivity, on sourcing and bringing back some of the jobs that we’ve been hemorrhaging overseas, that stuff was starting to take effect. And now it’s just dwarfed by this.
Well, your household income, including the tariff tax, because that’s what it is, is not inflation. It’s a shock. It’s a real income’s gone up for the first time in a long time.
So add inflation plus the tariff tax and you do have more money. Oh, your gas went up. And by the way, gas prices, we were at a four year low before the Iran attack.
I paid 267 a gallon the week before. And, you know, I think I paid yesterday 347. That’s what a big swing.
Egg prices were down four year low. There’s a lot of things that there was some good. Let me throw something in there.
See, you’re not going to get any podcasts because they don’t think they’re not really reporters. They just get their comedian buddies that we all yak about bullshit we saw on TV. Let’s just say gas 250, right? 25 percent unemployment.
I mean, 25 percent inflation since four years ago. So that’s 50 cents. OK, so like 20 percent of 250 is 50 cents.
That means compared to four years ago, gas is two bucks. It’s important that, you know, nobody went down to sixty one dollars for a barrel of oil. Last last couple of days, it broke 100 and was headed towards 120.
It’s now down below 100. But and I think once if this thing passes quickly and all and all the indications are this is not going to be a long term war, there is no Navy. There are no ground forces.
The new Ayatollah, the son of the old Ayatollah, has reportedly already been murdered. He’s out. We have united all of the Middle East behind Israel.
Who would have thought that even a month ago? Maybe the Middle East. Yeah. But look at Iran is actually shooting at people.
I know there weren’t even fucking with them. There is each day that goes out. There’s this in the Middle East, first of all.
OK, so the Israelis have full run of the Middle East. I don’t know what this does with the everyday citizen in Bahrain or Saudi. I think that’s an over interpretation.
Well, let’s let’s just have the interpretation. Yeah. I think the Saudis got more swing than Israel in the number two, if you bid there, you don’t like nationalistically country first.
Right. But if you’ve been there, these royal kingdoms are corrupt as fuck. These are Epstein palaces and there’s a lot of discord.
There’s a disconnect between the people and the ruling class. So I don’t know. I don’t know if we’re that interested in even having what do we care about a regime change? Is that even we don’t even know if that’s on the radar as long as the borders don’t collapse.
Like, what is the worst that would happen? No regime change. We would have a theocratic, authoritarian, butcherous ruling class. Well, that’s what they have now.
As long as you don’t got nukes and drones and ballistic missiles. I don’t know. But.
What I do know, something concrete, let’s let’s do this, which is what I was going to ask the Republican leadership. But. House Bill four, seven, six, five, brought by represent representative Jason Wolford.
Am I correct? I believe so. For Livingston. Yeah.
This is the state bill to require proof of citizenship at the voting booth. OK. And at the same time, the Americans for Citizens Voting turned in 750,000 signatures to put it on the ballot.
OK, let’s be middle of the road here. Let’s be eighty five fifteen. You’re going to have to answer.
You’re going to have to answer my questions, Republican motherfucker.
You and your forever war. Trump did not say no war. He said no forever war.
There’s a difference. Mark, just saying. Okay, we’re done with that.
85-15, of course, I completely support citizens only. ID, why not? Why not? But I got two questions. I really do.
You want my vote? I’m reading it. There’s not a lot of material on it. What about women? I mean, it’s not a bullshit question.
You have to prove that you’re a citizen. And if you’re married and you change your name, there’s got to be proof of that. That’s a lot to go through.
Right? It’s a lot to go through. My mom, 81, married three times. She doesn’t even use a cell phone.
No computer, no nothing. Voted in every election since 18 years old. Where’s she supposed to go? How does she prove that as an older person or as a woman who’s lived a modern life? Like, that is a bit onerous.
And I do think about it. You know, she’s homebound now. That’s one of the few things that makes her feel attached to society.
I’ll be honest, it’s a fair question. It’s a very fair question. I only heard yesterday for the first time that there was this citizenship requirement that required you to go provide proof of your citizenship as opposed to just presenting a government-issued ID.
So I’m kind of surprised because that is onerous. They got 750,000 signatures. The addition of that, I don’t think helped in the gathering of those signatures.
And I haven’t read it, so I can’t speak authoritatively on it. But how it’s being characterized by you and what I heard yesterday, it’s going to have an impact on its viability on the ballot. Quite simply, the Secretary of State already has your social security number.
So if you could articulate to me, we just double check. If you’re already registered and we just cursory check your social security, okay. But I’m not just willy-nilly going to yell, but 100% citizens only.
I don’t even believe in dual citizenship for naturalized citizens. Same. Right? United States citizens that want dual citizenship, you can’t revoke a natural-born citizenship.
But when you’re an immigrant who comes here and gets naturalized, in your oath, you reject allegiance to the place you came from. This isn’t Club Med. I don’t know why we’re having people come in and we make them more powerful than we are.
They have more say in more parts of the world than we do. So I’m for it, but it’s not being explained to me and it’s too bad. Another thing that Wolfer did, I thought it was interesting.
He is very interested in fraud. See what’s going on in California now with the hospices. This is so bad.
Why would liberals get mad at trying to clean up the corruption? Because this is money to help those of us with less. Last night on CBS News, they had a pretty significant story of about 1,800 licensed hospice providers in Los Angeles County. CBS News National went through every single one of them, and more than 700 of them met the standard of a red flag from the state of California’s own regulatory oversight, which is in the Attorney General’s office.
More than 700, that is more than 30 percent of the licensed hospice providers. The reporter went to some of the addresses and found buildings with six licensed hospice providers in the building, doors locked, mail and electricity. If I could correct you real quickly, 89 in a building in San Fernando Valley.
I read the report and I went through the interactive maps like, wow, and what’s fucking outrageous. See, it goes like this. Hospice is paid for by Medicaid.
It’s the federal government. But the states do the licensing and the inspection. So the state auditor in California just a couple of years ago said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, bing, bing, bing, red flag, red flag.
Since then, if memory serves, seven were inspected. And you couple this with the fraud in Minneapolis. And when you hear Democrats say, this is bullshit, there isn’t rampant fraud, waste and abuse in our government, bullshit.
I mean, this is billions of dollars. This is just L.A. County in California. I mean, this is 40 million people in the state of California.
What’s L.A. County? 20 million of them, probably 15, 10 million. So think about this statewide, the Bay Area, San Jose, San Diego, Orange County, Inland Empire, San Bernardino, all these places. How much of this billions of dollars coupled with billions out of Minneapolis and Minnesota? And this is happening here in Michigan as well.
Yeah, we’re working on a few, you know, a few Medicaid reimbursement. And we’re told we have to raise taxes. We have to spend more money when we are pissing away taxpayer dollars.
And by the way, these are dollars that are supposed to be dedicated to the people that need a social safety net. That’s what I’m saying. These are the least amongst us.
And these politicians are protecting corrupt bureaucracies that are stealing from the people that rely on social assistance. I couldn’t agree more like America first, right? Our people for Detroit. It’s a it’s coming, Mike.
Mike Duggan got you, dude. This is a mass poisoning. And we’re going to need minimum if we are honest about how bad this city’s been poisoned with this demolition there, at least 100 million dollars.
We don’t have it. They’re leaving holes open because they don’t have money to pay for dirt. It will be nice to go somewhere and give me a decimal point like at this point, like we’re talking trillions and billions like we don’t have 10 million and we need it for the for the health of our children.
This is what upsets me about it. So I’m not partisan and I’m not the new mayor’s budget account for any of this. You made an event.
Yeah, it’s unbelievable. But the city’s running out of cash and she’s providing raises to government employees. He raises everybody.
Yeah. Significant raises. That’s to who ranking government employees.
She made a minimum that they can make. OK, but like how much is 20? It’s like a 21 dollar minimum wage citywide. The fire contracts come in due.
Police. Police is next year. But the firemen want forever what the police get.
We get what they get. Oh, oh, oh, five bucks are gone. So let’s play Jason Wolford, representative from Livingston County, talking about himself signing up for some fraudulent benefits.
I brought up the website where you can apply for benefits. I started applying for those benefits using Governor Whitmer’s address. So a real address with a fake name.
I was able to bypass the Social Security alien number and never getting denied benefits at the very end, getting registered to vote. So my question is, why would we not mandate social security numbers or alien numbers on a website? Why? You’re the politics guy. Why? I’m not the policy guy.
I’m not the policy guy. I love Wolford. Good for him for doing that and exposing this.
Well, let’s go to the voting like the last time around. Lots of money was spent for overseas eligible voters, OK? You didn’t have to provide a birth certificate. You here’s what I did.
I used my name. My address was this when I put in the dumpster next to number two Woodward, which is City Hall, the dumpster. So security don’t have one.
Do you attest that one of your parents was a U.S. citizen? I absolutely do press here. And then I stopped like you ain’t catching me in the fraud. It was that easy.
What is that? OK, is here’s the argument. And it’s such a shit one, Mark, because it’s the kind of shit your libtard ass is like a conspiracy. Ken’s in the corner laughing and libtard.
Mark over here, who’s a registered Republican, by the way. What? Yeah. Mark, if you had to vote for president in 2028, who would it be right now? Right now? Yeah.
Right. In twenty twenty twenty twenty eight. Right.
Twenty twenty eight. Yep. I don’t know.
What are my choices? You know what they are. Like any of them. Come on.
Say it. Who’s your preferred? So you want me to say? Oh, no. I want you to say some.
Some Shapiro. Some news. Please.
Jasmine Crockett. I’ll say that one to get fired. I like it was Newsom.
It’s Newsom, isn’t it? Newsom. Shut up, dude. Come on.
I’m just to get Jason fired up. It’s Newsom. Didn’t we just tell you what’s going on in the San Fernando Valley or the entire state? Great.
Speaking of dumpster fire, I have I think I have time to decide. I have time to maybe I’ll do what I did in twenty sixteen and vote for nobody. Mark just wants to be light of reference.
Oh, I’m well beyond that. The PTA meetings. Have you hugged the trans kid? Because they’re very brave.
I tell Rico loves them. Oh, my God. Now, again, we we did a report.
I did a report. We did the data. Most of violence against trans people are sex workers on the streets.
It’s period. It’s normally black on black. And when we went out to six in Woodward, hung out with the ladies, had a few drinks.
It’s my people. Oh, I hate you. I love you.
You go, girl. Fuck it. A week later, one of the ladies took a bullet in the head.
Now, you want to stop violence against trans people. Let’s have some police out there. You know where they work.
We they there was not a cop assigned to that for weeks because Highland Park doesn’t have a homicide squad anymore. Had to wait for the state police to come in. If we just tell the truth, we can fix shit.
You know what I mean? And when my Internet goes down and I need to fix, you know, I call XG service group. Well, you know, when it rains, the power goes out and when the power goes out, the Internet goes out. When the Internet goes out, I call my friend Matt and Bernie at XG service group.
Look at Bernie here on his hands and knees, giving it everything he’s got. Look at that man crack. So busy.
He forgot to wear a belt. There’s Matt right there getting the board together. That’s 734-245-4100.
If you need Matt and Bernie to come take care of your voice over Internet, your security cameras, off campus access control, Wi-Fi and cameras for homes and business, they’ll design it for you. You got restaurants. They do drive through systems, railroad cameras for public safety, total wireless camera systems for your home and business.
Yeah, that’s right. Call XG services at 734-245-4100. You know, that thing can’t be really good.
Really good. It smells nice now, too. Oh, just a slight accent from Mando.
I swear by a match made in heaven. I was going to get a Kony after this. Not now.
Speaking of severed wieners, Gavin Newsom. You hear what else is going on in L.A.? Greasy Gavin’s California. You’re going to vote for him.
The guy downtown near Skid Row, near the convention center, cut his pee pee off. He died. You know, Jeffrey Dahmer showed up, said, you’re going to eat that? Not only that, in Downey with Inland Empire, L.A. County.
A guy goes to plug in his electric car at the public library. He plugs in his car and then gets stabbed by an insane homeless dude. Lots of problems at the Downey Public Library.
We all know a lot of homeless go there. We’re not taking care of them despite spending. Twenty five billions have gone missing.
Okay. He stabs the guy. It’s not mortal at first.
And the ambulance shows up and they might be able to save the guy. But then another homeless steals the ambulance and the ambulance isn’t equipped with a trigger to shut it down. So the guy bleeds out in front of the library.
This. This is your California, Mark. This is this is the Gavin Newsom story.
Sunday, a woman who apparently every week feeds the homeless in L.A. was beaten to near death with a pipe by one of the homeless people that she was serving. Motive? No motive. Just crazy.
Oh, gee. See, we got so many in Detroit that you can’t even see them because they live in abandoned houses. And we keep decriminalizing possession of narcotics that makes these people violent and more prone to commit crimes.
But California’s got better schools in Michigan. They do. Barely.
What are they, 43? No, they’re like in the 30s. No, we’re 44. What happened here? Another thing I wanted to ask.
Oh, Mike Duggett, like he said, that’s the school tirade. Remember the bond money, Mike? Remember? I’m just going to save in that. Oh, he’s afraid of me.
I call this press person. Hey, can I get on the list? You know, when he’s going to appear, you know, some statements. Hello, Charlie.
That’s what I got. Hello, Charlie. I know his every move because I’m a crack reporter.
Because this ain’t Joe Rogan. We’re doing work. We’re not sitting around with comedian buddies.
We got guys that know the political landscape. Like, it’s cool. I watch them.
But it’s like speculation. And we’re all reading the Wikipedia and stuff. And it’s like, what do you really know about it? It’s what guys like us tell you.
Did you hear that 60 Minutes thing about hiring him? I learned that today. He’d be good at it. You know why? Because it’s fraudulent anyway.
Because Lowell Bergman, everybody knows Lowell Bergman. He was my professor at UC Berkeley. And he was so stupid.
And he was so annoyed about having to do all the work, all the reporting, type up the notes, give it to the reporter, they get on the plane, they read it, they sit there, they shake their head. Lowell Bergman got so pissed off with the artifice of it. That if you watch his later work, he always makes a cameo in the background.
So if doing a stand up on Capitol Hill, you’ll see Lowell Bergman walking through the background. Just to let you know. He did the work.
Yeah. Just the same as Scott Pelley or who’s ever interviewing Kamala Harris. I mean, it’s not difficult.
Hopefully it gets better. I love what is happening at CBS. Love it.
Do tell. Watch the evening news. It is substantive, but it always has some positive unifying thing about America that brings us together, where all the other networks seem to always be trying to figure out ways to pit us against each other.
I don’t want to say media anymore, because they’re dead to me. Is it the press’s job to make everybody come together and feel good? Or is it just to lay it out? Well, I think it’s to lay it out. But when our worldview is shaped by what the media has us focus on.
We don’t have a monoculture anymore. We don’t do things communally at all. We used to, whether I liked it or not, have three networks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal that set public opinion in America.
So five sources of news that everybody else fed off of. Now you’ve got thousands of sources of news. We all self-select what we want to consume.
A lot of that shit puts us in silos and has us at each other’s throats. I like when I see the national media has the biggest footprint, try to do something that gets us on the same page. Why do you know these lyrics? Shit.
What was his name? Fucking Uncle Miltie Noe, the guy from CBS. Walter Cronkite, most trusted man in America. The New York Times, Walter Cronkite, all of them led us into Vietnam and didn’t admit anything until the Tet Offensive.
So I don’t know if they’re the good old days. At least like us on the same page on some things. We’re on nothing.
Did somebody do some work? Like it’s all handout stuff now. I don’t know. Tommy Hearns.
Tommy Hearns, I guess, is in probate court today as we speak. Anybody help me out here? Yeah. So I got into Tommy world and then I’m getting out of Tommy world.
The champ made $40 million. Is he homeless? Is he all there? Is he being taken advantage of? Was he kidnapped? Living with the girlfriend. Girlfriend goes away for a minute.
The family comes over, knocks on the door, need to talk to Tommy, take him out to eat. I think if I’ve got this right, girlfriend shows up at the restaurant. There’s a big deal.
A bunch of cops are called. Family takes him away. They go to probate court.
The judge says give him back to his son and the girlfriend. So now they’re back in probate court. Everybody’s an expert.
And how many GoFundMes are there? Please, I’m not. I love Tommy. You know that.
I’m not getting involved in any of it. There’s no protection for him. And I’m not helping raise any kind of money until that thing would be locked down.
Poor dude. Probate. And where to just bring it all around, again, Republicans.
Dana Nessel, contempt of the legislature. You didn’t bring the unredacted documents. Where is that? Where is that? She aided and abetted her friend who is on trial.
The preliminary exam is this Friday. Tracy Kornack, former treasurer of the Democratic Party of Michigan. There will be witnesses.
So for the first time, she will face her accusers. There’s that. There’s the fact that Nessel’s wife was criminally referred.
Their fundraiser, the pollster, Richard Zuba, was criminally referred for campaign finance fraud. We’re still publishing his polls. And then Nessel and Benson, it is confirmed, discussed tanking the criminal referral against the wife’s ballot proposal.
Where are we with this? Where is the clean government? Yeah, wish you could have asked somebody today. Okay, we’re getting into the nursing homes. Are we going to have, we have an ICU nurse here.
Oh, the stories he was telling me. The lies, the bullshit, the death. Well, we’re getting to it.
First of all, we know the data is fake. We know the science was fake. We now know all that.
That is confirmed. What if we get to the, she knew this and he knew that, and this is, would anybody do anything? You mean for accountability or? Yeah, yeah. No.
Will anybody be held to account? I feel like there’s very little accountability. Will California be cleaned up? I feel like there’ll be no accountability there either. We don’t do accountability very well in this country.
I think we should have a concert at the Renaissance Center or a rave. Great acoustics. Maybe a Save the Renaissance Festival.
That’s a branding issue. I just got that. Save the Renaissance Festival.
Harketh. Sir Cinnamon Button. I mean, you know, one last time.
Yeah. One last, can we say goodbye? Speaking of which, bye. Bye.
