No BS Newshour Episode #411
Pure Mel-chigan
M is for Mel
M is for Mullet
M is for Michigan
M is also for Miami
What does Miami have to do with Michigan?
Donny Brasco. Poisoned Dirt. Dirty Government.
And the people done dirty.
It is Massive.
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Transcript:
Ladies and gentlemen from all across America, the scam of all scams from Detroit to Southfield to Jackson, Mississippi to a yacht in Miami’s harbor. I’m telling you, but it is Easter week and I want to give you just, if you’ll bear with me, Tara Brown and Mike Evans and Charlie Miles, a little uplift, a little Easter message. When the ice breaks in the Straits of Detroit and the tankers begin running toward Lake Superior, you know, spring has dawned on Detroit, but nothing, nothing quite signals the arrival of the Equinox than the traditional Easter haircut of Mel Coyka.
Twice a year and only twice a year do scissors touch the golden drapery of Mel Coyka’s outrageous mullet. Once for Easter and once for Thanksgiving, that makes the cutting a must-see event for someone with nothing better to do. It is Michigan’s equivalent of the swallows returning to Capistrano.
Easter means birth, explains Coyka, 67, and Thanksgiving is for thanks, so he celebrates rebirth and giving thanks. I know, Coyka’s no poet, but he is among the last of America’s radiator repairmen. Localmen flock to his garage.
They come not so much for a new thermostat or a radiator recoring, but rather for a can of beer and a cup of human companionship. There is John the Antenna Man, Todd the Bookie, Sam the Claims Adjuster, Brute the Six-Fingered Mechanic, Sandy the Tow Truck Driver, Matt the Mooshiner, and Al the Welder. Like Coyka, they’re all experts in their field, all semi-retired.
Mel is their unofficial clubhouse president. On any given afternoon, you will see these men through the grimy windows of Ferndale Auto Radiator Repair, laughing at the same jokes they probably laughed at a month ago. The flames from the gas lamps give the place the vibe of a wild laboratory, and the beer is always cold.
Founded more than a hundred years ago by Art Coyka, a follically challenged forbearer of Mel’s, the motto there is, we repaired your granddad’s radiator. But today, the club convened to witness the renewal of the monarch of the mullet, the prince of the pompadour, business in the front, party in the back. The sculpting was performed by Austin the Barber, a man so in demand that his chair is never empty, house calls by appointment only.
Now it was obvious that the Coyka job would be no easy task, and would take every bit of the barber’s skill and knowledge. It was three haircuts in one, the pompadour on top, high and tight on the sides, and the slightest straight trim on the back side. The mullet measured a full one foot six inches from the crown of Coyka’s head to the bottom of his beaver tail.
The mullet is more popular these days than you would think, that’s what the barber said. And it was quickly revealed by the barber that the mullet is becoming all the rage with the young set. And it was quickly decided among the men in the audience at Mel’s that this younger set had obviously, obviously cast an envious eye on Mel the mullet, liked what they saw, and decided they simply must have one of their own.
And just like that, the 1980s started calling. Now after 15 minutes of scissor and razor work, the Easter rebirth of Mel the mullet was nearly complete, but not quite. Not until Tilly the dog walked in with her master, Todd the Rum Runner.
Coyka, the last of the radiator men, had to coax his four-legged manicurist with three dog biscuits before she would lick his cuticles clean. The end of the Easter story. I have a little video if you don’t believe me.
The ice breaks on the Strait of Detroit, and the tankers begin their run to the iron fields of Superior. The cherry blossoms are erupting in an orgy of fragrance, but nothing quite says spring in Detroit like this guy. This is my radiator guy Mel, best in town.
Mel, what’s with the mullet? I didn’t know I had a mullet. Mel Coyka, the monarch of the mullet, prince of the pompadour, all business in the front and party in the back. Yeah, I’m it.
Twice a year, and only twice, do scissors touch the golden drapery of Mel’s mullet. Once for Thanksgiving, and once this week for Easter. Why Easter and Thanksgiving? Because Easter’s like the rebirth.
Thanksgiving’s like we’re all thankful, so I like to be cleaned up. It’s deep. Yeah.
Wait, how long is it? Is that ruler clean? No, nothing in here’s clean. It’s 18 inches. It’s a foot and a half, I believe.
How often do you see a mullet? Lately, a lot more often. It’s becoming popular again. You think it’s because of Mel, they walk by? 100 percent, it’s Mel’s fault.
How long have you been sporting a mullet? I don’t know, 15 years? So this was like you woke up one day going, you know, you know what would look good up here? You don’t know what possessed you. This happened. Look, he looks like a businessman until you see the party.
The last of the radiator men, last of the glam rockers, known from New Brunswick to New York City. Like that mullet. And they’re throwing up all kinds of things in there.
That mullet’s bigger than his boat. No one’s doing it. That is quality.
So grab a dime, mullet Mel, and a Stroh’s. The 80s are calling you. Ferndale, happy spring, Mel.
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Now, let’s get to it. Stay with me here. We’re going to take you from dead in the middle of Detroit to the shores of Miami beach.
You stay with us. This is getting crazy, Mike, getting crazy, bro. You know what’s crazy? It was my 60th birthday on Sunday.
Today is my 78th Facebook birthday. You know, because when I signed up for Facebook in the beginning, I knew what that fucker, uh, what’s who runs that shit? Zuckerberg. I knew what he was doing.
He was trying to get my birthday so he could send me targeted ads. So I became 65. Nobody loves a 65 year old man.
They love 60 though. When you guys pulled up, there was a guy outside. He goes, Hey, what’s going on, man? It’s my Facebook birthday.
He goes, I hate Facebook. I said, why do you hate Facebook? He said, because all my friends from high school are successful and living in California and drinking champagne. They’re always posting champagne.
He said, they must be car salesmen. And he goes, I got so envious. I had to get off there.
Now I only get on when I want to vent now. So it’s my 60th birthday. It’s very peaceful.
I’m visiting my mother. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. The phone’s going off.
The phone’s going off. It’s Mike Evans, the work of Mike Evans and Charlie miles. What’s your guy’s outfit call? Okay.
Detroit. Okay. Detroit.
That’s what you look it up on what Facebook that where you primarily are. What’s his own Facebook, Charles, you know, more than Charlie hustle nine, two, two. Oh, Instagram on Instagram.
What do you want people to go find you Instagram? Yeah. Okay. Charlie hustle nine, two, two.
This is coming through bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. I mean, unbelievable. And it was the work of you two guys who basically combed this city on the streets trying to write this shit.
Yes. And then what were you, what were you doing when this video we’re going to play was you just came across this. We, we live in the neighborhood.
We own businesses in the neighborhood. So we, we been came across it, but it was just like, this is ridiculous. We got to report it.
Okay. So this would came across my phone. I had to be a half dozen times.
Tara had it. And everybody remembers Tara Brown. We’ll reintroduce you in a minute.
Let’s play that bro. Okay. Detroit happened to be riding down Greenfield.
I saw this. This is unbelievable. This is really unacceptable.
They give us tickets for blight for bushes growing. They give you tickets for cracks in your wall. This is off.
No, this ain’t a third world country. This is a fourth, fourth world country. How is this acceptable on a major street like Greenfield? Look at this.
Who is running this city? This is unacceptable. This is unbelievable. How can we accept this citizens? How look? Oh my God.
It’s cars parked back here. It’s unbelievable. I know no one can be staying here.
Come on city. We got to do better than this. Who is in charge? And you want to get people blight tickets for stuff? Look at this.
I’m showing it to you city. Wake up. Please wake up.
You wake up Mike. Oh, we, I believe the citizens is waking up. We have 40,000 people on our DM with emails, addresses, like whatever you need us to do.
40,000. We started, let me get, tell you how we got started in this. I own a lot of properties and I went to a hearing and I was at zoning.
It was called, I had to get appeal. And I’m like, why is I’m coming to appeal? And you ain’t going to make no decision for me. You telling me you listening to the same folks that had me come to the appeal.
And you know, I’m a veteran. I’ve been in business since I was 15 and I’m older than 60. And I’m like, I’m sitting up here asking y’all for appeal.
And the same person I’m appealing from is sitting up here telling them why not. So why would you make me waste my money for appeal? So a lady in zoning probably don’t even live in the city. Cause I don’t believe none of them live in the city.
And she asked me and my wife, what are y’all going to do for the community? If you open this up, I’m like, I’ve been in business forever. And if you grab all my businesses, they the nicest on the block. Matter of fact, I own the biggest business buildings on the block on James cousin, grand river.
My property’s humongous. And I own a whole blocks. And she asked me that question, like, what are you going to do for the community? And I’ve been in the community all my life.
And when she asked me that, it really made me upset. She should have been, I should have asked her, what is the community going to do for me? Or Detroit is going to do for me because I pay my taxes and all my taxes is current. I don’t own no, you know, tickets.
They give me a black ticket. They gave me a black ticket, Charlie, for a crack in my wall at one of my low take. I’m just a crack.
And we, as soon as they gave it to us, we, we cleaned it up. And then even Chuck on a big apartment building across the street from one of the locations, they took his sign down at his location, took his sign off his property. We own a property across the street to get on a lot of property on properties all over.
And we got it on camera where one person came and took his sign down, messed up his bricks, then wanted him to fix it in a cold, the winter, but he got it fixed. And then so he said, Mike, people will listen to you. You’ve been out here forever.
Cause I’ve been knowing him since Finkle, I owned the whole block of Finkle. And he was younger. And they, you know, how you older, everybody look up to you.
And he, you know, we always been friends. He a good person, a business person helped the community. And then he said he had to fix it in a winter.
Now, listen, in a winter, you giving people black tickets in a winter for something they can’t do to the summer that they tore down the sign off his property. And so he came to me one day and say, Mike, I got all my receipts for this property. And they telling me I didn’t pay this.
So after they took his property and he’d been going down there for years, I said, we got to do something. Cause I’m a quiet person. I’m shy.
So he, I am shy. Now y’all don’t know. So no, he said, Mike, they’ll listen to you.
So me and him got, I’m just going to tell you how we got started. Keep it tight. Keep it tight.
Cause we got to get all the way to Miami. Okay. Okay.
I’m sorry. Get to Miami. No, no, no, no.
So I just want to know. That’s why we start doing videos from the injustice, how the community and our city leaders are treating citizens who’ve been supporting Detroit forever. And the people who treat us this way, I hate to say it.
Don’t even live in the city of Detroit, Charlie, or if they do, we’re living in a particular part of this city. It shall be nameless, but particular city leaders hit me. Like, what do we do? It’s embarrassing.
Well, not like that. Listen to this. Why one of the city leaders have enrolled by that area and saw that.
Okay. So when my daughter was, I’m showing her a way to get home from campus, right? And I’m like, does Southfield is ever closed or snowed over here’s here’s, um, here’s telegraph and here’s Greenfield. Now this was two years ago.
And this shit was there two years ago. So when you and Chuck show up all of a sudden, it’s a thing. And then I’m like, I remember dugging something about the low income market rate, 20,000 shits going offline.
We got a big government grant. We’re going to take care of it. And this was particularly the spot.
And then I’m like, wow. And then I called Tara Brown, who knows all things homeless, low income housing, section eight vouchers. Right.
And I go, I pulled over after talking to you and I pulled nine, like I got to talk. I pull over, I go, you know, anything about this place on Greenfield? And you said to me, I used to live there from 2002 to 2009. I used to live over there and I hadn’t seen that neighborhood.
I saw it in 2020 and it was still that both of those buildings were still occupied, but I was shocked because when I pulled up, I was scared to go inside. And then I saw the video and I’m like, where the hell are they at? And then I said, that looks like Greenfield, but it can’t be. And it was, I can’t believe that was a bustling.
I mean, shit. They lived over there. I don’t have to tell them it was a bustling neighborhood.
Like there’s a Coney Island next to that gas station at the corner. I was just telling y’all, I would get up at two or three o’clock at night and walk to the Coney Island and get something to eat. Like it was not a place that I didn’t feel safe.
It was well lit down there. It was the bus running all night. It was a neighborhood.
And now I would be scared to get out of my car over there in the daytime. So I asked her like, how does this, how does this be? And I said, this was, you know, let’s not get too technical. Right.
But it was like at market prices, but it was low price and a lot of, a lot of impoverished people there. So there would be federal help funnel through the city to help pay the rent, like section eight or whatever. Now, when I lived there, there were people with vouchers, but we were all working class.
Right, right, right. I mean, just because you get a voucher doesn’t mean you’re working. Yeah.
Like, yeah. Okay. So that was supposed to be inspected right.
All the time, all the time. And you’re just making the left going, what the fuck? So this is the miracle. Like, you know, people listen to this program is like, who’s ever listened.
It’s your billions that funneled in here. And we were down there before the show going, where did it go? Where did the money go? Where did it go? And it’s gone forever. And nobody’s accountable for it.
It’s like, you’re asking, where did it go? People are like, I don’t know. But the funder of this money is not like, go find my money. So until that happens, we’ll all, we hear it in homelessness.
We hear it in housing. We hear it in these buildings and you know, you paid the fines that they told you to pay. So where did that money go? Now you hear it, you know, people like you, like what’s that kid’s name, Nick Shirley.
Minneapolis. I mean, it’s like, okay, it’s citizen journalism. And then, you know, hopefully when I take us to Miami, like, oh, I love these guys.
I got, you know, I love you. Now we got to get even deeper into journalism to connect them. Right.
First of all, you pointed out you got their attention at sidebar. Wasn’t it kind of funny? Like all the media followed you? Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
Like all of a sudden it’s been sitting there for years and everybody’s like repeating you. Yes. Let me walk around and yell.
But let me tell you one thing about the whole thing. If people listen to me, citizens of Detroit, I’m just being honest with you. They cleaned that site up in 20, 48 hours after we aired it.
There’s no way in the world you can tell me it’s no funding to keep the city clean. But also since they cleaned that area up, everyone in there, if you see anybody tossing anything over there, film it, send it to Charlie Hustle. We have put it on air and we hope someone do something about it because cleaning it up, cleaning it up, that’s taxpayers money.
It ain’t the cities of Detroit money. That’s our money. So we’re going to have to keep.
We got so much enforcement bureaucracy. It’s like, wait a minute, make the landlord do this shit. Yep.
But they ain’t going to do it, Charlie. Now, now, you know, the media, right? It’s like, we still don’t know who the owner is. But Charlie, they gave the Lehman house hotel right across the street.
This is going to keep going on, Charlie. They just gave them. I was at the meeting, $700,000 for a damn generator, 700.
You could have paid the light bill. It kept the damn lights on and let the people got they shit before you was trying to think that the citizens of Detroit going to believe it costs $700,000 for a generator. Now come on, Charlie.
I’m telling you, where’s the money, Charlie? I don’t know. And I’m not happy about it. And I’m almost getting us to Miami.
We’re still on Greenfield. We’re going to go up Greenfield, right? Then we’re going to make a right turn. Then we’re going to get, then we’re going to get on an airplane, go down to Jackson, Mississippi and say, like I’m sitting at my desk, 60 years old, watching your shit going Detroit to Southville, back to Detroit, to Jackson, to Miami.
What the fuck are we in? This is the three idiots walking around with cameras going, what the fuck? Okay. Now I’ll watch, I get, I get to finish up at Binkle and, and, um, and Greenfield. What, what’s the Gen Z employee? Is it Terry Olivera, Tyler, Tyler Olivera.
You guys heard him. Cause you’re not Gen Z. Okay. Tyler got ahold of me.
This dude is probably with Gen Z. My daughter knows him. He called me, he goes, Hey, we’re coming to Detroit. Uh, can we talk to you? I look him up and I’m like, Oh, this dude’s wild.
What he, what he does is destitution drugs and shit like that across America. Like he’ll be under a bridge in Oakland, California, hanging out with a hooker, smoking rock, and just talking to her about the price of a blowjob and shit. Is he the white underbelly guy? Yeah.
Yeah. The white underbelly guy. I know who that, I did watch that.
Yeah. Okay. So white underbelly guy, Tyler Olivera came to Detroit last summer, posted this shit in October.
And as of today, 13 million views on this 40 minute documentary. There’s a apartment complex that a gang of dope boys took over and they’re charging 300 bucks. They turned the water on and use it.
And you got to pay the dope boy, right? You want to play just a little bit? One of his crew’s rental properties, where he gives drug addicts, prostitutes, and murderers a place to live for an affordable price. You manage it like a property manager or what? Yeah. We, for people who’s doing bad.
So who lives here? Okay. Whoever can, we take whoever. See for a drug addict, this is like five stars or if you just pour his hill.
So we see somebody established, they’re going to pay 500. Here we have some needle caps, all sorts of lighters. Got a little bit of rubbish stuff behind.
What do we got here? What’s this? Poop? Place is a little bit rough, but for a couple hundred bucks, a good deal. And you get to use drugs in here. Okay.
Housing first. Where is that? It looks like, is that on the West side? It looks like it’s near Finkel. Let me just tell you how my brain works here.
I go, I’ve never seen that fucking thing. Wait a minute. I’m like, and then I said, can you see the address of the audit? Just a little bit.
Okay. Just, and I go, okay, man, fucking, I see Google earth. That’s a half a mile from where you were a half a mile.
So you’re like, Hey, there’s cars back there and all that garbage. It’s a glorified gigantic dope house. This was last year.
What’d you mean? You didn’t know this was happening. So I went to check up, see if you got the respect and you got the city to move, which you did, sir. Thank you.
The people thank you. And I looked and, um, here’s a photograph of it. Same place right now.
Just yesterday. Dope deal going on. Oh, wow.
A bunch of garbage out the front. And I’m like, come on, please. And you’re calling me on a Sunday going, I’m like, everybody knows, please.
No neighborhood. No. Oh, and you’re still, you know, the place you went, they boarded it up and everything.
There’s still people living in it. Oh yeah. You could tell by the window that they caught a picture of that, that board being removed on the one that they shot that that’s people.
Yeah. You have to remove the board. Yeah.
I got another one in here. I’m like people hanging over the balustrade and I’m like, damn, but I’ll say this. He’s doing just as good a job housing folks as the homeless shelter.
Shit. Some of the federal grant money should be going in because he’s at least making repairs. Now, let me get us to Miami after a word for bad though.
I am sweating, bro. You out there, you’re out there on the streets working hard. It’s hot.
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Okay. Let’s get the female point. Give me a risk.
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It’s a really great product. Okay. If it helps your show.
Absolutely. And then if your internet goes down, call my friends. Hey Chuck, because you’re the, you’re the, um, the it guy behind, behind this gig, you two guys, right? If you’re, if you’re, you need to have technical problems, you call this guy.
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.
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Call XG services at seven, three, four, two, four, five 4,100. Okay. Who are you texting? President? No, no.
Oh, you’re shopping. Mando. No.
Shopping. Mando. It’s like, God, that smells all good.
All the way over here. That’s shop Mando.com. Okay. So let’s, let’s stay on Greenfield and let’s go three miles north.
Just three miles north on Greenfield, which puts us where near North land, North land mall. Oh, three miles. I went one mile.
My bad. It’s okay. You know, you’re new to the city.
I am not new to the city. You better shut up. Okay.
That’s where, as we reported last week, I don’t know, like just mounds of toxic dirt were dumped because the city leaders in Southfield are dumb. They took over development of the mall. All of this toxic shit was sitting there.
They’re going to bury stuff. The tunnel’s full of shit underneath the mall. Cause they forgot there were two miles of tunnels down there and provided contractors from all over the state to dump their bullshit there.
And the state’s also responsible. I’m coming. You got the highways getting dumped there.
You got the sewer works getting dumped there. Then, Oh shit. Fuck.
We get a new developer because Southfield figures, we don’t know what we’re doing before we get to there. We got to go. Where’d that dirt go? It’s still there.
They haven’t told nobody. They haven’t told anybody that this dirt is toxic. How do we know it’s toxic? Because the new developer was having the demo contractors in Detroit truck it away and they were dumping it in the holes and the office of inspector general excavated the whole test of the dirt and said, it’s too hot for human touch.
This is what they put in the neighborhoods. Now, again, Mike and Chuck are out there. You were standing around some empty holes.
You play a little bit of this. Okay. Detroit.
I’m out here on the East side. Yo independent governor said all these holes was taken care of. Now, listen at me, listen, independent governor.
Who would that be? He was trying to run. Who’s that? Who’s that? Who is it? Mayor Duggan, Mike Duggan, who’s making an independent run for governor based on his fantastic work here in Detroit. So far, Greenfield’s a mess.
You’re standing here at some, Oh wait, by the way, I got a new nickname for him. Mike Magoo. He looked like Mr. Magoo.
You know where I got that from a lady calling in the city council going, Mike Magoo poisoned us. I’m like, Mike Magoo, I didn’t think of that. Oh my God, he looks like he got beat with a feather pillow, this guy.
It’s not going good. So play a little more. If it rain, if it rain, and it’s going into the rainy season, if one of these little kids get up under here, because this ain’t nothing and fall into this hole full of water, which it ain’t no water there yet, but you know how things can happen.
Pause. It’s going to be a big, where was this on the east side, brother? Do you remember? Tacoma. Tacoma.
When did you do this? Yesterday. Oh, yesterday. You went out there.
I went out there a couple of weeks ago. Yep. Oh my God.
Oh, fucking plagiarism is still there. The girl and her baby that lives next door. No, we got, we’re thinking to say, dude, we went there a couple of weeks ago.
They were full of water. A woman living next with, with, with four children, toddlers going on fucking bullshit. You want to know what those holes are doing there? Those are the ones inspector general said, dig them up.
I think it came from Northland talking to his fuck. And then he keeps going on and let’s, let’s see if, let’s see if he brings, brings it up. It’s going to be a big, big situation, but your previous mayor, your previous mayor saying he took care of all these holes.
Now I can see this been covered. Let’s tell the truth. I can see it has been covered, but when you open up something, okay.
A hundred percent. Right. That was in our video, which is I’ve left the money in, you know, every poison hole has been excavated in field.
No, it wasn’t dude. No, it wasn’t. You can see that’s, you know, how long they’ve been sitting there? No, I do not.
Five months now. Cement ponds. Well, those are dangerous.
You’re so right. Like if you, I’m going to send you my video, my, my feet sunk into mud and pulling my boots off. Oh, that’s worse than, than a water.
If a kid get in there, they’re going to say, you won’t even see him. My God. Oh my God.
Now almost total over the, over those 12 years, almost a billion dollars for this. The dude that put the poison in there got paid for the poison because he pretended it was good dirt. Oh my God.
Right. And, and what do you mean? We didn’t know he was unscrupulous. You’ve got a whole bureaucracy.
Everybody knew what was going on. The federal government was here for seven years. This is what’s okay.
So let’s go back to Greenfield now. So we went just, uh, Chuck, can you, on our high-tech led GPS locator map, can you point out a generally where Greenfield and eight mile is for me, sir? Hold on now. Hold on, hold on.
We got the camera in place. Go ahead. So Oh my God.
Where spring is hit and meld the mullet is fresh and clean. Okay. So right about there.
So we go from five mile and Greenfield to eight mile in Greenfield over to seven mile in Gratiot. And we’re back at eight in Greenfield. Okay.
With the toxic clouds getting dumped in. Here’s where it gets weird. This gets sent via secret source.
This is the beginning of it. I’m going to make some more video and write more about it, but here’s where I’m going. You can expect my call.
The company that has the half a billion dollar development deal to make the city of tomorrow at the Northland site, which is nothing but a super fun site at the moment scheduled to be done at the end of this year. Is it according to this? Okay. It’s a joint project from the company that’s got the Northland job.
They’re called contour. I think they’re based in Birmingham and FST. So it’s a joint deal between contour companies and FST who’s at FST.
Preliminarily FST is a straw company create out of nothing. No history, no, nothing. That’s why you need contour, contour.
You can Google it. Oh, we’re redeveloping the city of tomorrow in this toxic wasteland where they’re poisoning your neighborhood. So who’s behind FST F B I FBI and contour going to this development deal in Jackson, Mississippi.
We’re going to build some hotel convention type shit downtown, $55 million job. We’re going to meet with the mayor. We’re going to meet with the district attorney.
We’re going to meet with the former city council president. And we’re going to get this in the FBI posing as a developer and contour. Is this a setup for them? What is happening here? Well, the mayor, the DA and the former city council president are scheduled to go on trial in June.
Now, according to this article in Mississippi today, and then hitting the links because they put the government documents, but you got to give them their credit. They did their one of the ways they caught him. They got him on film.
They got him on film, right? They go to kiddie clubs in Miami. They they’re on a yacht. They’re on a yacht drinking champagne and shit.
Now FBI doing a sting in Miami on a yacht is directly out of the movie, which was based on the real life of Johnny Brasco, Johnny freaking bro. They Johnny Brasco this whole shit. So what in the world is going on? Okay.
The forgotten people of Greenfield auto, you know, all the way into Oakland County, right? Wayne County, Detroit, Southfield, by the way, uh, Oak park, Fergdale, Pleasant Ridge, Beverly Birmingham, all that shit blows on you. Now one little whiff, not going to kill you, but it’s been there for 10 years. You and I want, Hey, can you two do me a favor? I’d like, do we double check each other’s work? Okay.
Can you make a trip please? To the Northland site and notice the Mount, the mountain is no dirt and there’s no point to it. There’s no trees growing. Yes.
There’s actually trees growing in the back, but it’s gone. It’s been there so long. Yeah.
And a lot of businesses moved on because they were pissed off that when it blew, it would coat their cars, their windows, their offices. I want you to go district three in Detroit, which where’s district three where the concrete crusher is over like, uh, by Hamtramck, like Benson’s district. Yeah.
Oh him. Those holes are in Benson’s district. What’s this guy doing? Didn’t his house get raided by the FBI too.
And his district costs their way with that concrete doesn’t to the polls to vote for him every time. Whatever happened to that? It went away. Just went to Miami.
What is this? This is deep. So, you know, we’re on the money and the money is not adding up, man. Never did it.
Now, what are you doing now? You, you, you’re not on the continuum of care board, which was the, it looks scammy to me. Federal money sent to the County, to a nonprofit agency. Everything gets dispersed.
We still got a shitload of homeless and a shitload of people with substandard housing. And, and they, they got it on video. Okay.
The shit you’ve been yelling about now, now what are you doing? I’m on the Michigan homeless policy council now, and I’m still on the react. So that is a step further up the pipeline. And I just finished actually the objection to the state homeless action plan, which isn’t a plan at all.
It’s just a wish, a hope in the next five years, they plan the house eradicate. Yes. No, with 1500 people in Michigan, that that’s how they plan the house in the last five, the next five years, because then Michigan pay a half million dollars for a report that said, we’re going to eradicate homelessness in five years.
Okay. Wouldn’t that like three years ago, didn’t Gavin Newsome do that in California. I’m going to eradicate homelessness in 10 years when he was like mayor of San Francisco and it’s, it’s fucking 15 years later and all the money’s missing.
Well, you should take a look at the policy development and research video that hood is going to put out showing how, when we decided to do housing first, it escalated homelessness. I just want to know what the, everything’s a wash through these little LLCs and nonprofits. And it’s like, you look them up and their, their audits are red flag.
They’re and the money is off and the, and the shelters don’t have certificates of occupancy. And Mary Sheffield promotes them. But I guarantee you, I believe, I hate to say this.
Y’all might get mad at me, but I don’t agree. I do not believe with low income properties, low income properties. I hate to tell y’all I’m from a low income family.
I just got fortunately to me, low income properties bring crime, drugs, people sitting on their butts, not going to work, standing all day, thinking of things to do. I think the low income should be spread it out throughout Michigan, not just based in Detroit. You don’t hear people in Northville.
You don’t hit a marathon while we build low income houses. You don’t hear people in Livonia’s talking about we built low income house. I think the low income should be spread amongst the people.
Therefore, if you own low income and you see someone going to work and nobody ain’t sitting around a damn projects all day, you’re going to get your ass. I’m saying, man, can I go to work with you? Or can you get me a job? Because some systems fail my community, Charlie, that low income is the main, but everything you hear with low income bring dollar stores, no big development. So I think even I heard the mayor say this last night, we built a flow income.
I mean, I know some people need it. So I’m not saying it need to be spread out amongst Michigan to get people. Do you know where that works? New York, New York has it.
Right. It’s called Mitchell Lama. And so when they build a project, I want to say projects, that’s something different.
Yeah. A project like a city of tomorrow. Right.
Like they pretend they’re going to do a North, North land. It’s 8020. They said that about Dan Gilbert skyscrapers.
Right. So what you’re doing is you’re mixing the well to do and, and, and it’s, it spreads a culture. Okay.
Right. An opportunity. New York, it works because it’s got density.
So when you’re building something on the East side, it’s going to be nice. Right. So it’s not going to be a place we’re tearing it up because it’s a pilot ship.
Right. It’s going to be nice. And it works in New York.
Can it work here? Where, you know, what’s our culture? We built the car. We got a sprawl. Where do we have a concentration like that? Well, here’s the thing.
It works. What you all don’t see is, and I say it, I’ve managed housing projects, bad property managers, make bad housing projects. And I’m sitting at the table with Mitch to watching this happen, where we have this idea, a developer comes, we have this idea for this low income building.
We’re going to spend X amount of millions of dollars, and we’re going to hand it off to the Duff property management. And then Charlie gets up and he, he spews his bullshit. And here’s what happens.
Nobody asked who’s going to manage it. All the money’s on the table, but not one person. And it’s usually me asking how much are you paying Shemeika? Cause she’s going to be black.
How much are you going to pay Shemeika or Toya to sit in that office with these tenants that you’ve told you only have to pay $25? So how much are you paying her? And usually they’re not paying her right. So when the drug man comes in and brings free breakfast, or when he comes in and says, I appreciate your hard work here and hands her an extra $200, when he’s up there in these senior apartments, taking over peddling his drugs and having his customers come to where people are raising children. She don’t give a damn.
Cause guess what? My boss don’t pay me. He does. And that’s the culture.
And that’s the problem. And I’ll be honest with you. And the problem is just what you said, but also it’s a lot to do.
I hate to say this because I know you got a lot of viewers it’s called the disrespect of Detroit. A lot of people, even our, even our mayors, even our city council, even our, they disrespect our city. They, I hate to say it.
They ride and throw paper out their cars, but as soon as they cross eight mile, the paper stand, their cars, they go over that bridge, right? There’s a big bridge going to another country, Charlie. They I’m just, see, I’m going to start with the basic minimal, where if you take care of the, my mom always said, if you take care of the little things, it won’t be no big things, but there’s a lot of disrespect going on in the city of Detroit. I had never seen a grown person throw shit out the window until I moved to Detroit.
But now where’s the Northland mall site, Oakland County, Southfield. It’s an infection. So again, you could, everybody in this area, we got people listening in LA, Florida, you know, Hey y’all, thank you.
Um, I tell my daughter, like our people founded this place. You live one mile from it. It’s not another planet.
It’s your community. This, how’s this stand? And I’d be damn, I appreciate all three of you. We’re not gonna, we’ll do what we can, but we need people to join.
And whoever wants to be governor, I don’t care if you’re Republican, independent or Democrat. It’s not a Republican, independent. It’s, it’s American We need to eliminate that stigma.
We need this clean. We don’t need, I’m like this. I don’t even like all black people being Democrats.
Do you remember when the former president went and said, if you ain’t black, if you ain’t, you ain’t a Democrat, if you ain’t black, we American, but that’s the thing. I think the democratic party is intended to keep us right where we are. That party got to go.
I’m talking about all three. Yeah. If your ass over 70, get your ass out of office, get your ass out of office, stumbling and mumbling.
Don’t even vote for nobody over 70, Charlie. I will. If you’re vigorous and smart and you’re not going to steal.
Well, you know what I mean? They, you look at, I hate to say it. A lot of them Schumer, they can’t even talk. They can’t even walk.
They pushing around. Come on. They had to roll with the empty words, right? Like you, you’re giving me a catchphrase to be living on.
And like, like what you, what you were just laying out. I would love to hear that. What? But guess what? That’s how it’s working.
But guess what, Charlie? I hate to say this too, because this young lady, this young lady here, I don’t know her, but if I had a contract for a shelter, I’ll give her the money and let her run it. You don’t have to bring nobody body from the outside way from a country. You don’t know, or a city or state, then give them the money, then give it to her.
Then she’d give it to us. Just give it to the young lady, bureaucracy and all the people in between. And the thing about it is, and the other part that hurts us as Detroiters, when they talk about what you don’t know will hurt you.
I’ll go to a public meeting about housing. I’ll be the only one there. And maybe there’s one person owns a home.
I’ll go to a public meeting. Just like Detroit river is international waters. There’s an organization, it’s a government organization.
And I don’t remember when you go to a meeting and what happens. I’ll say what I have to say. And I’ll ask questions, but you know, public comment is so long.
And at these public meetings, you’ll see the bullshit going down and you’ll be like, excuse me, public comment. You can’t talk. So as I’m sitting here with just as much, if not more experience than some of the people at the table, I’m having to take notes to email to people after the fact they’re having votes and shit.
And I’m like, don’t vote for that. And you can’t say anything because if you notice most of the important meetings where you need to address what’s going on in the meeting, public comment is like the first five minutes. Say what you got to say and get out of here.
Listen to what she just told. Just what she just said in a little short time. I know her.
It ain’t about the experience, Charlie, what you got. It’s about the love that she have to make it work. It’s about the love and they go outside of us when we got the love for the city and find other people to come into the city, like the mental health department.
Oh man. Wayne County people giving him a pass, but Evans, all the four, all the foreign money that I’m not for all the county money that he gives the people don’t even love our city. And I’m not saying they, they are not qualified.
They do not love what they do. You got to have love and respect for what you do. If I might, before we wrap it up, because the only bureaucracy that does work properly in the city is parking tickets.
Yeah. And BC write-ups for poor people. So I went out to Taylor, my son got a ticket.
It was $25. He only paid $25. If he got that same ticket in the city of Detroit, that $25 would have so many taxes on it.
It would have been $60. We got to talk about everything, everything. We finna expose it on Charlie.
So drive it. It, you know, belt spring in Detroit. It’s how we opened it.
I’m sorry. Bells, you know, he’s got roots in the city. Of course, the, the radiator shop began in like the 19 teens in Highland park next to Henry Ford after the word moves to Ferndale.
And I’m like, uh, okay, that’s Metro Detroit. But then I was really thinking about it. Uh, you ready, Chuck? Point out Michigan is, uh, on that high-tech led map there.
Hold on a second. Uh, the cameras are from last century. Thank you very much.
Wow. That thing is quick with the tech. Um, and I’m thinking nobody in the world knows Michigan.
They know Detroit, right? Detroit is Michigan. It’s the capital city. So Karen says, you know, I’m tired of people.
You’re not living in Detroit stuff. All of it’s Detroit in that way. It’s that’s what you know, right? All of it’s together.
It’s going to take all of us to fix it and care about it. It stopped throwing your shit out the window and voting for assholes and, and getting a fucking contract and taking it home and not doing what you were supposed to be doing or having that job in the bureaucracy and taking the 200 bucks. If you don’t want it.
And another thing I know is your show. And it’s a lot of citizens who live in the city of Detroit, but they cannot vote for the city because they insurance is so hot, Charlie, that the insurance is showing a address in Canton and Northfields and McComb counties, but they read this other city, but they can’t even pay the insurance. So what about them intelligent ones that can’t vote for the right people? Because they insurance are so high insurance that our, uh, our former mayor promised that he was just, just so that’s clear that, that, that everything’s so high here, right? Like auto insurance is the highest in the country that even if you’re living here, you got a relative living outside the city limits and your official address is there, right? Therefore you’re not voting locally, but you live locally.
It’s a strange thing. It really is now. Um, all right, we’ll keep on.
You’ll go to, you’ll go to Northland, right? And now I got your number. Now we’re going to, we’re going to do some work. It’s nice to know others are out there because this is fucked up.
All right. This is, I was doing Mel and I’m like, I did some thing for Fox too, like a long time ago on Mel, but all the old Fox two stuff I did, you can’t find it. I know they blew it out because they’re so cheap over there.
Oh, by the way, Fox two is at Greenfield and nine mile and Detroit, Detroit, Detroit. Yeah. Okay.
So, um, we resident, they blew out, like they keep changing internet providers and then all the archives get blown out. So all that works gone, but I did one Mel was in it and he had a scratched up old CD and the radiator shop. I think they put their, I think they put their rum on it, but we resurrected.
I haven’t seen it, but you got it. Yeah. All right.
Well, I’m going to say goodbye. Thank you, Tara Brown. Thank you, Mike Evans.
Thank you, Chuck Miles. Thank you, Charlie. Hey, so the boss sent me out to Woodward to do something on dream cruise.
What’s left to say? But I started looking at my garage. I realized I’m a car guy. I got a motor from every decade.
I’ve been alive. How good’s my collection? I asked Bobby the stage hand to come along. He’s a closet car guy.
65 Mustang V8 289. This is when we were rocking in Detroit. So what do you think of my ride? It’s pretty nice, Charlie.
I like it. Classic Mustang. Who does your wrenching? Yeah, I do.
You know, with a little help of my friends. Well, we all could use a little help. Your volt meter don’t work.
This is my radiator guy, Mel. Best in town. Mel, what’s with the mullet? I didn’t know I had a mullet.
73 Checker Marathon made in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Old New York taxi cab. Chevy 350.
What do you think of this one? Charlie, this thing’s a piece of American history. What? American history. 81 Harley Sportster, all iron, all American.
61 cubes, thousand cc’s, last of the AMFs. You want to go for a ride? Got a helmet? Oh, do I got a helmet? And remember, motorcycles can be dangerous. Mel, what happened to your head? The cameraman hit me in the head with the lens.
96 Jetta 2.0. Whatever that means. I bought it to kill it because these roads are tearing up my other cars, but it won’t die. It’s a good car.
It started leaking, but I know Mel, he poured milk in there and it stopped leaking. Mel’s good. Mel’s a trip.
2011 Ford Flex, six cylinders, 3.5 liters, four wheel drive, seat seven. Now, I never owned a new car until I moved back to Detroit. Had a kid.
My wife refused to ride in my rust. So what do you think of the new Ford? I think we’re back making good products. Definitely back.
This car is dope. Mel, what the hell are you doing? You’re on the street. Well, there it is, my auto empire.
I do got to admit though, it’s looking a little Beverly Hillbilly. Tell you what, my sister-in-law needs a reliable car, so eenie, meenie, miney, foreign. Jude, I know you need a reliable car.
I want you to have this one. Thanks Charlie. You’re welcome.
You can have my car. A day, woo. Yeah, thanks Judy.
I don’t want this car. If you’ve got any idea what I should do with it, contact me at myfoxatroyd.com. I’m taking suggestions. Reporting from the Dream Cruise, Charlie Leduff.
