No BS Newshour Episode #388
See You Next Wednesday
Chris is a Bum (0:31)
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Transcript:
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I did a wake and bake before I came here.
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You did?
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Yes.
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We are rolling now.
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And you want to hurry up and get to the American Coney
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Island spot?
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Yeah.
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Because you’re chosen.
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Yeah.
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I’m all high and you hand me a fucking Coney and make
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me wait a half hour.
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Because you love him,
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don’t you?
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I do.
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What do you love best about him?
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He is high.
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Roll it.
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Fraud alert!
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Fraud alert!
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You’re a bum,
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Chrissy! You’re a bum!
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Sell the club!
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You’re a bum!
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Well, the tight wad owner of the Detroit Tigers,
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little Chrissy Illich,
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was too cheap to buy a professional bat or a competent
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arm at the trade deadline,
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and now the Tigers are out of the playoffs.
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We the people own this stadium,
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but cheapskate Chris keeps all the revenue.
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We the people also own the hockey arena just up the
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road, but the penny-pinching pizza punk keeps all
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that money too.
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I bet you squat when you pee,
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Chrissy.
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You’re probably wearing a lady’s tong.
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I bet you like dominoes better.
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I bet you throw like this.
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Silver club,
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ya bum.
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Biscuit enjoyer.
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What a beautiful day.
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Chris Ilitch is a bum.
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The tightwad owner of the Detroit Tigers wouldn’t pay
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for a professional hitter or a competent pitcher at
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the trading deadline,
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and as we all now know,
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the club’s out of the playoffs.
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Here’s the thing,
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I’m driving around,
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listening to the radio,
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I’ve talked to people.
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There’s a lot of armchair analysts claiming Ilitch
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has in fact spent money to improve the club.
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It’s just not true.
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The numbers,
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folks, when politics meets the playing field,
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you come to Leduff.
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Here’s the numbers.
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The last time the Tigers made it to the World Series
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was in 2012 when Illich’s father,
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Mike, was guiding the club and spending whatever it
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took to win a championship.
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Back then,
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the Tigers had the fifth highest opening day payroll
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in the major leagues.
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Adjusted for inflation,
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that payroll was $190 million in today’s money.
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This year’s opening day payroll was $138 million,
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ranking 17th in the major leagues.
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That’s A 27%
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cut over 13 years.
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Now, over that same time period,
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again, and just for inflation,
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the average Major League Baseball payroll increased
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47%.
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See where I’m going with this?
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Christie’s a skin flint.
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Ilitch took control of the club in 2017 following the
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death of his father,
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who was laid to rest in the $1,000,000 suburban mausoleum
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built with Sierra white granite imported from California.
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Now Michigan has granite.
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Why not buy locally?
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But I digress.
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Since Chrissie took the reins,
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the Tigers record is a combined 592 wins and 761 losses,
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the 6th worst record in all of baseball.
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See where I’m going with this?
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Chrissy’s a penny pincher.
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And when Chrissy’s staff is given the green light to
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spend some money,
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the baseball decisions are bush league.
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This past offseason,
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the Tigers spent $15 million on a pitcher who never
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made the club,
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another $20 million for a pitcher who finished this
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season with an 8-15 record,
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and an additional $7.5 million for a closer who ended
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up the year with a 4.43 ERA.
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Most galling of all are the welfare checks Illich sucks
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from Detroit,
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the poorest big city in America.
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The Illich family is fantastically wealthy.
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Little Caesar’s Pizza Incorporated is valued at $7
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billion.
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The Motor City Casino pulls in more than $385 million
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a year.
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The Detroit Red Wings Hockey Club is valued at $2.5
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billion.
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And the Tigers estimated value,
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$1.5 billion.
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Now the thing about the Tigers and Red Wings,
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however, is that their total worth includes the value
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of the stadiums where they play,
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both of which are paid for and owned by the public.
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Illich pays $1 a year to lease these stadiums,
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but keeps all the revenue from the beer,
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pizza, jerseys,
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ticket sales,
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etc.
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Now the bond payments for Little Caesars Arena are
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more than $20 million a year for the next 30 years.
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Now that’s enough bread to keep Scoobble around.
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You see where I’m going with this?
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Ilitch is a mooch.
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No professional sports owner siphons more out of his
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community than Chrissy Icehole.
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Chrissy Icehole.
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Mr.
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I.
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Chrissy Icehole.
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We deserve a winner in Detroit.
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A decent beer at a decent price,
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a hot dog that’s actually edible,
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and a stadium with a place to smoke a cigarette.
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But we’re not gonna get any of that with Ilitch.
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Sell the club,
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ya bum! Live from downtown Detroit,
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it’s the New Bullshit News Hour with my main man,
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Charlie Ladeau!
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And Jaren Dumas.
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Assistant breaking this double or bullshit,
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double or bullshit.
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They should tell American Coney Island at that part,
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man.
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They’re so good.
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What are the dogs there?
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You go to the games.
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I don’t know.
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Those limits.
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They’re awful.
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They’re like…
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Isn’t it Slotkin’s family’s hot dog company?
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I think it’s ballpark,
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yeah.
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And also the dogs that are plump in the Slotkin family.
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They, you’re walking around jonesing for something
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good to eat,
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something like,
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a proprietary sausage with Vidalia onions,
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a chili with 100-year-old proprietary recipe.
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You know, you can only get that at the corner of Lafayette
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and Michigan Avenue in downtown Detroit at the American
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Coney Island,
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which is also
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Michigan’s first speakeasy.
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Bet you didn’t know that.
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At least Detroit’s.
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I don’t know what they were doing.
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Good history.
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Yeah.
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So.
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It’s good bones.
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You go ahead and eat it.
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I can have mine.
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Yeah, you can eat it.
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I’ve been waiting for this thing.
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No, I have to say,
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before we came up here to do this,
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I used the bathroom downstairs.
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And it’s worth noting that it is the cleanest,
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best smelling bathroom I’ve ever been in.
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I wanted to lay on the floor.
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It was so nice.
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Is that true?
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It is true.
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That’s right.
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You wouldn’t be the only one,
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man, that people we got to pull out of there sometimes.
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Hello, big city,
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but it is big city.
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And you know what was cool today?
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A young man came in and he’s with a tourist association
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for handicapped people.
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And, you know,
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he’s measuring the steps here.
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You know, there’s a handicap entrance where you can
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wheel right in.
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You can wheel right into that very clean bathroom.
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I told him I love it because,
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you know,
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when that crowd comes in,
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they’re so freaking cool.
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right?
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Because they’re out and about and they’re happy.
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And it’s cool that this place applies the law,
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takes it,
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takes everything serious.
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The health,
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everything,
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the health,
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it’s just a great,
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great place.
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And how’s the dog?
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You don’t hear me talking,
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do you?
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I had this fuck around to drink and eat and be out
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of business,
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man.
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I’m kind of jealous.
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By the way,
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Jason Rowe just…
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I don’t even like your title,
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man.
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Just like all things politics,
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this guy is the Svengali.
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Okay, you everybody knows Jason Knight listens to this
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show.
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Thanks for being here,
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brother.
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So if you want a Cony kit delivered to your home for
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your parties,
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you know,
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holiday seasons come and go to AmericanConeyIsland.com,
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get a dozen of them,
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ship right to your door.
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Luke Nowacki,
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financial wealth specialist.
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I trust him.
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I recommend him.
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248-663-4748.
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The guy can math it.
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Hit it.
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Is this the hole in one?
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It’s a hole in one,
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$50,000 if you hit it.
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Luke Nowacki,
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Financial Wealth Management.
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What is 50 grand after tags?
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37,750.
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What about state tax?
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Yeah, that’s,
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I’m throwing both in there.
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What about sales tax?
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There’s no sales tax.
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Well, you’re buying the beer.
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It’s income.
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You’ll buy the beer.
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Yeah, we write that off.
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Luke Nowacki,
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Financial Wealth Management.
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Expense allowance.
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248-663-4748.
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Some went to see Luke a couple years ago,
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did a lot of talking.
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The economy was all over the place.
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I don’t know the little gal.
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I’m just going to say,
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here’s what I did.
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I talked to Luke.
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I got myself an I bond.
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I remember you telling me about this four years ago.
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Yeah, so I was getting paid 10%
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of my money.
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It was still growing through inflation.
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I bought gold two years ago.
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When it was at 1800 an ounce,
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right now it’s 4200 an ounce.
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DTE, can’t beat them,
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join them.
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Do you know what I mean?
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Fuck that bitch at 110,
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it’s at 140.
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They’re never going to lose money.
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Are you an activist shareholder?
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If they don’t clean the shit out,
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also GF too.
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Oh, I bought GF for 51.
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It’s 58.
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I mean, I’m like.
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Didn’t you buy one share of GF?
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Yes, I did.
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It’s sitting right here.
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And I hear that Rensen deal real quietly up in Lansing.
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That thing’s back on the table and they’re pushing
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it.
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And that’s a garbage deal,
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man.
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You know what I mean?
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I’m tired of making billionaires another $100 million.
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Do it yourself.
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Join the capitalistic world.
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I got to say this though.
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It was, was it,
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fuck, it seems like,
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was it last week,
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the Tigers last game when Seattle was here?
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Right.
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Beautiful day.
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Come back.
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Riley Green steps up,
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he dribbles the ball,
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the crowd boos the shit.
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I’m like, why are you booing your guy,
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man?
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You know, you’re a fan.
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Next time he comes up,
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he strokes and puts it in the seats,
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you know.
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Now everybody loves him again.
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Now everybody hates him again.
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I just, I want to thank my community because I don’t
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go out anymore.
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You know what I mean?
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I just, I just hide.
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And I love baseball.
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I love the Tigers.
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I can’t stand the owner.
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I want them to sell it.
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But I love that old English D and I love the city.
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And I went there and the seats were really good,
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too good.
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I didn’t like them.
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So I went up to that deck,
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you know what,
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the subette deck where you could stand around.
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Yeah, and the TVs are there.
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It was,
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This, my community was so nice to me,
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warm and welcoming and thanking me for the work we’re
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doing.
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Like, they see it.
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And I don’t know if they see it.
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You know what I mean?
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And I met the guys from Cass Tech football team,
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1992, guys from my own football team,
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1984.
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I want pictures of you in a football uniform.
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That was pretty good,
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dude.
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That was the missile,
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man.
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Were you nose guard?
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Fuck it.
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I was everything,
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yeah, but I was a nose guard.
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And I would hit you back when you could leave with
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your head.
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I hated blocking people like you.
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Fuck, right.
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Small and wiry,
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hardest kind of block,
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yeah.
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Chopped blocks were legal in,
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they coached him,
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they coached him,
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practice.
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You all of a sudden like you’re playing Ann Arbor Pioneer
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and this guy’s going to Michigan,
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you know,
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he’s on his way and like you’re doing the film work
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and it’s like you got him.
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Oh, took him out in the first quarter.
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He’s like,
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my job’s done.
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We got smoked,
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man.
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I think we got shut out.
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But
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there was a guy,
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a hockey player,
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a couple hockey players from Churchill.
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Guy was a year older.
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So of course I don’t know you.
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Sophomores don’t,
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I mean, juniors don’t hang out with seniors.
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He goes, look up,
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you don’t recognize me.
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I go, dude,
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that was 40 years and 40 pounds ago.
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But it was great.
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The cops, the sheriff’s deputies.
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So I just want to reiterate.
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I moved back here to raise my daughter because I wanted
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her to be of you.
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You are the greatest people in the world.
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I love you.
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I love this city.
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I love what we’re about.
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We’re a very unique people.
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And thank you all very much for a really good afternoon.
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Well, I’ll tell you,
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when I read your book,
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Detroit, an American tragedy.
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Autos.
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Autos.
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We’ll fix that post.
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But I remember
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you talk about in the book why you moved back here.
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And I think that’s the first time that I started thinking
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about moving back to Michigan when I was living in
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California.
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First time I started to think about the same reasons
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you did.
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Our mutual friend,
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Tim Alberto,
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about six months before I moved back,
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he moved back from Washington,
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D.C., same kinds of reasons.
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And you know what,
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you’re an icon in this place.
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I mean, the news that you’ve broken over the decades
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since you came back,
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you’ve made an imprint and you’re a voice for a lot
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of people that don’t think anybody in the media pays
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attention.
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You know what,
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thank you.
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So my book triggered some thinking?
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Absolutely.
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Look, you know,
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00:13:40,440 –> 00:13:43,040
a guy from Wayne Road and Joy Road,
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and you’re out there doing big things in politics
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in California.
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There’s something I wrote that got you to think about
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your life.
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Oh, yeah.
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00:13:52,680 –> 00:13:53,720
That’s really meaningful,
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man.
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I really mean that.
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Who would ever guess,
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you know?
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00:14:00,960 –> 00:14:02,720
So I was talking to my Bob.
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Talk about Trump.
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00:14:05,560 –> 00:14:06,880
Everything I called her.
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00:14:07,360 –> 00:14:10,600
You know, she’s in her in her twilight.
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00:14:11,360 –> 00:14:12,160
And she goes,
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00:14:12,160 –> 00:14:14,560
are you watching this stuff from Gaza?
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And I said,
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no, I’m driving,
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ma.
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And
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So we, we started about talking about Trump.
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She, she voted for,
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but she’d vote for him again 1000 times,
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right?
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But she says,
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there’s things about him I don’t like.
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I go, really?
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We’ve never had that talk.
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You know what I mean?
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What is it you don’t like about the guy?
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And she says,
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he’s an egomaniac and he,
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and he, and he,
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the way he talks like a,
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a New York developer,
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00:14:42,520 –> 00:14:42,800
you know,
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that gets on my nerves.
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I’m, I’m from the
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in the Midwest.
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We don’t, we’re not like that because,
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but she says,
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well, it’s effective.
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So I could vote for him.
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She likes what’s going on.
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I mean, what are you hearing out there?
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You’re in all political circles.
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I think that’s the trade-off that everybody that voted
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for him made,
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that there’s a lot of things they don’t like about
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him.
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But in some cases,
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there’s a lot more things they don’t like about the
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current situation in our country.
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and somebody that’s going to go shake it up.
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But then, whether you like him or not,
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you can’t argue that this guy just blows through any
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wall put in front of him to get what he wants.
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And you’re seeing that on the stage.
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And if you go through the list of things he said he
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was going to do when he ran and how many of those
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things he’s accomplished,
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and he did it in extra legal ways in some cases.
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And I don’t mean he openly violated the law,
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but he
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He found a way to work around congressional opposition,
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executive branch opposition within his own departments
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and agencies and even within the courts.
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I mean, you know,
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we talk about weaponizing the justice system.
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That’s been going on for a long time.
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It is certainly not unique.
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I would say what’s different about Trump is rather
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than just taking it the way folks on the right had
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for so many years,
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He decided if that’s the game,
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I’m going to play it.
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And he’s using the courts to his advantage.
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He’s not breaking the rules,
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but he is using the courts to pursue his agenda and
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to go after his enemies.
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So I think he studied a lot of people like,
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wait, OK,
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well, why are we not doing this if they’re doing it
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to us?
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00:16:20,040 –> 00:16:21,960
But we’re going to stay within the parameters.
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I’m not going to spy on you.
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I’m not going to.
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00:16:24,520 –> 00:16:26,600
fake evidence for FISA warrants,
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right?
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We’re okay.
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Things that get brushed under the rug by the mainstream
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media is if they’re inconsequential because if they’re
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targeting him,
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they’re justified.
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00:16:34,760 –> 00:16:36,600
That’s the problem with the left,
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that breaking the law,
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00:16:38,280 –> 00:16:41,800
that doing these kinds of manipulations of our institutions,
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of public opinion,
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of the information that we have.
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I mean, when you think about it,
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00:16:45,680 –> 00:16:46,360
it’s remarkable.
535
00:16:47,480 –> 00:16:51,320
What are the three biggest influencers on our culture
536
00:16:51,480 –> 00:16:52,120
in America?
537
00:16:52,520 –> 00:16:53,400
It is the media.
538
00:16:53,880 –> 00:16:56,760
It is Hollywood and it is academia.
539
00:16:57,160 –> 00:16:59,240
And what do those three things have in common?
540
00:16:59,240 –> 00:16:59,920
They are 95%
541
00:16:59,920 –> 00:17:02,680
controlled by liberals and progressives.
542
00:17:02,760 –> 00:17:03,520
Hard liberals.
543
00:17:03,520 –> 00:17:04,280
Hard liberals.
544
00:17:05,000 –> 00:17:08,000
Yet this country continues to vote right of center
545
00:17:08,000 –> 00:17:11,360
and behaves right of center in spite of all this indoctrination.
546
00:17:11,360 –> 00:17:12,520
And I think it shows
547
00:17:12,920 –> 00:17:15,400
that that’s who the American people really are.
548
00:17:15,400 –> 00:17:16,960
And they’re sick of what they’re seeing.
549
00:17:16,960 –> 00:17:19,640
And so those institutions that we’re supposed to trust,
550
00:17:19,640 –> 00:17:21,800
that have been betraying us and manipulating us,
551
00:17:22,040 –> 00:17:25,560
no longer have the sway over public opinion and culture.
552
00:17:25,560 –> 00:17:28,200
There’s a 4th now because now there’s the advent of
553
00:17:28,200 –> 00:17:28,840
social media.
554
00:17:28,840 –> 00:17:29,960
So we don’t we can talk.
555
00:17:29,960 –> 00:17:31,480
Which circumvents the other three.
556
00:17:31,480 –> 00:17:31,720
Yeah.
557
00:17:32,040 –> 00:17:33,320
And you know,
558
00:17:35,720 –> 00:17:37,560
You mentioned right of center.
559
00:17:37,560 –> 00:17:38,920
I don’t know.
560
00:17:39,320 –> 00:17:40,400
Because all of a sudden,
561
00:17:40,680 –> 00:17:42,320
the conservative liberal,
562
00:17:42,320 –> 00:17:43,480
I put myself in there,
563
00:17:44,520 –> 00:17:46,120
all of a sudden we’re on the right,
564
00:17:46,120 –> 00:17:47,160
like you’ve thrown that away.
565
00:17:47,160 –> 00:17:48,120
And, you know,
566
00:17:48,120 –> 00:17:49,000
grudgingly,
567
00:17:50,200 –> 00:17:51,560
people that don’t like Trump,
568
00:17:51,560 –> 00:17:54,040
like I talked to a player who,
569
00:17:54,040 –> 00:17:55,000
a Democrat,
570
00:17:55,800 –> 00:17:58,680
And we were talking some deep shit about some shit,
571
00:17:58,680 –> 00:18:00,600
but then Trump comes up and she goes,
572
00:18:00,680 –> 00:18:01,400
can’t stand him.
573
00:18:01,560 –> 00:18:03,000
I go, what don’t you like?
574
00:18:03,320 –> 00:18:04,280
What don’t you like?
575
00:18:05,400 –> 00:18:06,640
you don’t like the border closed?
576
00:18:06,640 –> 00:18:07,960
You don’t like inflation’s low?
577
00:18:08,120 –> 00:18:10,360
The gas is $2.50.
578
00:18:10,360 –> 00:18:11,800
The eggs are back down to two.
579
00:18:12,520 –> 00:18:13,760
What don’t you,
580
00:18:13,960 –> 00:18:14,920
peace in the world?
581
00:18:15,240 –> 00:18:15,800
Do you like it?
582
00:18:15,880 –> 00:18:17,160
She goes, I’m gonna be honest with you.
583
00:18:17,480 –> 00:18:18,760
I just don’t like the guy.
584
00:18:19,160 –> 00:18:20,040
And I said to her,
585
00:18:20,440 –> 00:18:21,560
total respect.
586
00:18:22,280 –> 00:18:23,320
If that’s how you feel,
587
00:18:23,640 –> 00:18:24,480
total respect.
588
00:18:24,520 –> 00:18:25,720
But we’re getting to the point.
589
00:18:25,880 –> 00:18:26,840
I could hear it in,
590
00:18:27,320 –> 00:18:28,360
yeah, you’re right.
591
00:18:28,440 –> 00:18:29,560
I just don’t like the guy.
592
00:18:29,560 –> 00:18:31,200
And I’m not going to hate it for that’s my friend,
593
00:18:31,200 –> 00:18:31,480
you know?
594
00:18:33,000 –> 00:18:36,560
Listen, I think I’m known within the conservative movement
595
00:18:36,560 –> 00:18:38,520
and the Republican Party as a Trump critic,
596
00:18:38,520 –> 00:18:41,560
but set all that stuff aside.
597
00:18:41,560 –> 00:18:42,440
I don’t like him either.
598
00:18:42,840 –> 00:18:44,680
But on the things he said he was going to do,
599
00:18:44,680 –> 00:18:45,160
he did.
600
00:18:45,720 –> 00:18:47,000
And as a conservative,
601
00:18:47,480 –> 00:18:49,960
most of those things are things that I have agreed
602
00:18:49,960 –> 00:18:51,560
with and supported for decades.
603
00:18:52,040 –> 00:18:54,600
and they became merely lip service that no one actually
604
00:18:54,600 –> 00:18:56,920
had an expectation that ever be accomplished.
605
00:18:56,920 –> 00:18:59,280
It was more that we were fighting for the sake of the
606
00:18:59,280 –> 00:19:01,560
fight than we thought we would ever get what we wanted.
607
00:19:01,960 –> 00:19:04,640
And he skipped all the nonsense and just went right
608
00:19:04,640 –> 00:19:05,480
to the, you know,
609
00:19:05,480 –> 00:19:07,080
the solution.
610
00:19:07,160 –> 00:19:09,280
Yeah, you get you got my mind thinking.
611
00:19:11,320 –> 00:19:13,960
The problem that I guess the Democrats,
612
00:19:13,960 –> 00:19:16,240
I won’t say the left or the because it’s just a blur,
613
00:19:16,240 –> 00:19:16,640
right?
614
00:19:18,600 –> 00:19:19,880
Trump’s co-opted
615
00:19:20,840 –> 00:19:22,920
all the stuff the Democrats used to talk about,
616
00:19:22,920 –> 00:19:23,160
right?
617
00:19:23,160 –> 00:19:24,600
Like freedom of speech,
618
00:19:25,320 –> 00:19:29,000
no war, good pay,
619
00:19:29,080 –> 00:19:29,800
blue collar,
620
00:19:29,800 –> 00:19:30,920
good pay.
621
00:19:31,320 –> 00:19:33,840
And he used to be a Democrat.
622
00:19:33,840 –> 00:19:34,520
He used to be,
623
00:19:34,520 –> 00:19:37,240
and he probably still is pro-choice,
624
00:19:37,720 –> 00:19:38,040
right?
625
00:19:38,520 –> 00:19:40,080
Let the states decide,
626
00:19:40,080 –> 00:19:40,520
let the people.
627
00:19:40,760 –> 00:19:42,440
So what’s left for these clowns?
628
00:19:43,320 –> 00:19:43,760
Okay, well,
629
00:19:43,760 –> 00:19:44,360
what’s his name?
630
00:19:44,440 –> 00:19:46,120
Who’s the mayor of Chicago?
631
00:19:46,120 –> 00:19:46,680
Johnson?
632
00:19:47,160 –> 00:19:47,720
Brandon Johnson.
633
00:19:47,720 –> 00:19:48,320
Brandon.
634
00:19:49,720 –> 00:19:50,560
So 2 years ago,
635
00:19:50,560 –> 00:19:54,960
he’s bitching that the governor of Texas is putting
636
00:19:54,960 –> 00:19:57,800
illegals on buses and dropping them off in his city.
637
00:19:57,960 –> 00:19:58,760
He’s bitching about it.
638
00:19:58,920 –> 00:20:00,000
Now he’s bitching about,
639
00:20:00,120 –> 00:20:02,120
we’re coming to get the illegals out of his city.
640
00:20:02,200 –> 00:20:04,680
I don’t understand these shitheads.
641
00:20:05,000 –> 00:20:05,720
Well, but you know what?
642
00:20:05,720 –> 00:20:07,720
You get the government you deserve.
643
00:20:08,120 –> 00:20:10,080
This guy was the head of the teachers union.
644
00:20:10,080 –> 00:20:11,880
No, nobody deserves that government.
645
00:20:11,960 –> 00:20:15,240
But they voted for him against a very credible,
646
00:20:15,880 –> 00:20:16,600
business guy,
647
00:20:16,600 –> 00:20:17,720
moderate Democrat,
648
00:20:17,720 –> 00:20:21,440
who was the police commissioner or chair of the police
649
00:20:21,560 –> 00:20:22,440
commission board.
650
00:20:23,560 –> 00:20:24,760
Very credible guy.
651
00:20:24,840 –> 00:20:27,720
And it became this progressive cause that Brandon Johnson,
652
00:20:27,880 –> 00:20:29,800
the teachers union boss,
653
00:20:29,960 –> 00:20:30,840
should be the mayor.
654
00:20:30,840 –> 00:20:31,440
And you see him.
655
00:20:31,440 –> 00:20:32,200
And at one point,
656
00:20:32,200 –> 00:20:33,480
this guy was at 16%
657
00:20:33,480 –> 00:20:34,320
approval rate.
658
00:20:34,320 –> 00:20:35,120
Is that where he came from,
659
00:20:35,120 –> 00:20:35,680
the teachers union?
660
00:20:35,880 –> 00:20:37,320
Yes, he was the CTA boss.
661
00:20:37,480 –> 00:20:41,000
Anybody gets the worst result after Detroit.
662
00:20:42,200 –> 00:20:42,320
Wow.
663
00:20:44,360 –> 00:20:44,840
Wow.
664
00:20:45,000 –> 00:20:46,960
Paul Vallas was a very credible,
665
00:20:46,960 –> 00:20:48,440
successful business guy.
666
00:20:48,680 –> 00:20:49,480
Great record,
667
00:20:49,560 –> 00:20:50,840
very little to criticize,
668
00:20:50,840 –> 00:20:52,080
but they turned him into,
669
00:20:52,760 –> 00:20:55,000
the MAGA character,
670
00:20:55,000 –> 00:20:56,600
even though he was a Democrat.
671
00:20:57,080 –> 00:20:58,440
Okay, so we stretch.
672
00:20:58,520 –> 00:20:59,200
Okay, Trump,
673
00:20:59,480 –> 00:21:02,040
Trump the deal maker,
674
00:21:02,040 –> 00:21:02,840
the peacemaker.
675
00:21:03,080 –> 00:21:03,400
Okay.
676
00:21:03,880 –> 00:21:06,600
Do we have that picture of from Time magazine?
677
00:21:07,560 –> 00:21:10,040
Okay, even Time magazine’s got to give it up.
678
00:21:10,200 –> 00:21:11,240
He looks like Bill O’Reilly.
679
00:21:11,280 –> 00:21:12,520
What’s the headline there?
680
00:21:12,680 –> 00:21:13,400
His triumph?
681
00:21:14,200 –> 00:21:16,920
And this is the deal between the Israelis and the Gazans,
682
00:21:17,240 –> 00:21:20,520
bringing in the Turks and the Egyptians and the Qataris
683
00:21:20,760 –> 00:21:23,640
to create a peace force there.
684
00:21:24,280 –> 00:21:27,880
Okay, so they just can’t help it,
685
00:21:28,000 –> 00:21:28,280
right?
686
00:21:28,680 –> 00:21:31,160
So they’re going to shoot up his nose,
687
00:21:31,800 –> 00:21:33,000
show his waddle,
688
00:21:33,080 –> 00:21:33,920
his waddle there,
689
00:21:33,920 –> 00:21:35,560
right, his turkey neck,
690
00:21:35,960 –> 00:21:38,120
and make it look like he’s got no hair.
691
00:21:38,600 –> 00:21:39,280
He looks like Mr.
692
00:21:39,280 –> 00:21:39,640
Magoo.
693
00:21:43,800 –> 00:21:47,320
That’s kind of like what they see.
694
00:21:47,400 –> 00:21:50,040
But see, this people see that normal people see that
695
00:21:50,040 –> 00:21:51,160
and they know what’s happening.
696
00:21:51,160 –> 00:21:52,360
They know they’re fucking with them.
697
00:21:52,600 –> 00:21:54,760
And this is what they can’t get out of their own way.
698
00:21:55,000 –> 00:21:56,600
They’re doing this to themselves.
699
00:21:56,600 –> 00:21:59,080
The mainstream media has undermined themselves with
700
00:21:59,080 –> 00:21:59,720
this kind of shit.
701
00:22:00,280 –> 00:22:00,840
I agree.
702
00:22:00,920 –> 00:22:01,560
Now, look,
703
00:22:02,120 –> 00:22:03,400
the Hamas in Israel,
704
00:22:03,560 –> 00:22:06,680
everybody’s there to take the knee,
705
00:22:06,680 –> 00:22:06,920
you know,
706
00:22:06,920 –> 00:22:08,640
bend the knee to Donald Trump,
707
00:22:08,680 –> 00:22:08,880
you know,
708
00:22:08,880 –> 00:22:10,040
over in the Middle East.
709
00:22:12,520 –> 00:22:15,240
Again, I’m too old to get carried away with this.
710
00:22:15,880 –> 00:22:16,840
There’s real stuff to do.
711
00:22:16,840 –> 00:22:19,640
I don’t know how you’re really going to disarm Hamas.
712
00:22:20,280 –> 00:22:23,520
And I don’t know how the governance board,
713
00:22:23,520 –> 00:22:24,120
because Hamas,
714
00:22:24,360 –> 00:22:26,520
part of the deal is you can’t be in politics and the
715
00:22:26,520 –> 00:22:28,440
Palestinian Authority can’t be in politics.
716
00:22:28,880 –> 00:22:31,720
I don’t know how and who puts a government together
717
00:22:31,720 –> 00:22:32,600
and how you do that.
718
00:22:32,760 –> 00:22:35,560
So I tempered a little bit,
719
00:22:35,560 –> 00:22:35,960
but
720
00:22:37,720 –> 00:22:38,680
New York Times,
721
00:22:38,840 –> 00:22:39,560
Time Magazine.
722
00:22:39,560 –> 00:22:40,200
Well, you know,
723
00:22:40,200 –> 00:22:43,240
Trump says he solved 8 wars.
724
00:22:43,800 –> 00:22:44,840
It remains to be seen.
725
00:22:44,840 –> 00:22:45,400
Fact check,
726
00:22:45,400 –> 00:22:45,960
fact check.
727
00:22:46,280 –> 00:22:47,560
Well, here’s what I do know.
728
00:22:48,920 –> 00:22:52,320
The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan are in the
729
00:22:52,360 –> 00:22:54,720
Oval Office shaking hands.
730
00:22:54,720 –> 00:22:56,280
And this has been going on for decades.
731
00:22:56,280 –> 00:22:56,680
Right?
732
00:22:56,680 –> 00:23:01,800
The leaders of Rwanda and the Congo are in the Oval
733
00:23:01,800 –> 00:23:03,640
Office shaking hands.
734
00:23:06,360 –> 00:23:07,320
India, Pakistan.
735
00:23:07,400 –> 00:23:12,280
The Cambodian monks nominated Donald Trump for a Nobel
736
00:23:12,280 –> 00:23:15,800
Prize, settling a border conflict with the ties.
737
00:23:16,920 –> 00:23:18,280
Israel, Iran,
738
00:23:19,240 –> 00:23:19,560
right?
739
00:23:20,520 –> 00:23:22,040
Took out their nuclear capabilities.
740
00:23:22,280 –> 00:23:23,560
India, Pakistan.
741
00:23:24,440 –> 00:23:25,640
Well, I don’t know what he did.
742
00:23:25,800 –> 00:23:26,520
You know, well,
743
00:23:26,520 –> 00:23:28,600
why is Pakistan nominating him twice?
744
00:23:28,600 –> 00:23:32,040
The president of Pakistan on in the 30 leaders that
745
00:23:32,040 –> 00:23:34,520
were in that press conference praised him for being
746
00:23:35,000 –> 00:23:38,720
the person that avoided that turning into armed conflict.
747
00:23:38,720 –> 00:23:40,360
Yeah, because they were jet fights,
748
00:23:40,600 –> 00:23:40,920
right?
749
00:23:41,000 –> 00:23:43,320
So that and they both have nuclear capability,
750
00:23:43,560 –> 00:23:43,920
right?
751
00:23:44,440 –> 00:23:45,480
Serbia, Kosovo,
752
00:23:45,480 –> 00:23:46,400
I don’t know what he did.
753
00:23:46,440 –> 00:23:49,240
There’s a deal because Serbia does not want to recognize
754
00:23:49,240 –> 00:23:54,520
Kosovo, but there is Trump negotiated economic trade
755
00:23:54,840 –> 00:23:55,480
between them.
756
00:23:55,880 –> 00:23:58,760
And the president of Kosovo seems to think that they
757
00:23:58,760 –> 00:23:59,800
were near a conflict.
758
00:24:00,200 –> 00:24:01,640
And Egypt
759
00:24:02,040 –> 00:24:04,120
The Sudan and Ethiopia,
760
00:24:04,360 –> 00:24:06,120
Ethiopia dammed the Nile River,
761
00:24:06,520 –> 00:24:09,000
and the Sudan and Egypt are not happy with it,
762
00:24:09,400 –> 00:24:09,720
right?
763
00:24:09,960 –> 00:24:13,800
So is there a deal there?
764
00:24:13,960 –> 00:24:14,320
No.
765
00:24:14,320 –> 00:24:15,880
But are we trying to,
766
00:24:16,240 –> 00:24:18,760
what’s really going on is they’re trying to manage
767
00:24:18,800 –> 00:24:19,800
a water treaty,
768
00:24:19,840 –> 00:24:21,160
which doesn’t exist.
769
00:24:21,400 –> 00:24:23,400
So to be out there saying,
770
00:24:23,960 –> 00:24:24,960
he’s just tweeting it,
771
00:24:24,960 –> 00:24:25,480
it’s not true,
772
00:24:25,480 –> 00:24:26,760
that’s not true.
773
00:24:27,800 –> 00:24:29,160
I get pissed off.
774
00:24:29,960 –> 00:24:31,480
I used to work in these places.
775
00:24:31,480 –> 00:24:31,960
You know what I mean?
776
00:24:32,120 –> 00:24:35,480
Like when I drive around and I’ll hear sports radio
777
00:24:35,480 –> 00:24:36,840
talk about the Gordie Howell Bridge.
778
00:24:37,400 –> 00:24:38,120
Oh, it’s lovely.
779
00:24:38,120 –> 00:24:43,960
I’m like, you guys at least at least go to enjoyer.com
780
00:24:43,960 –> 00:24:44,880
and subscribe,
781
00:24:45,120 –> 00:24:45,360
right?
782
00:24:45,560 –> 00:24:49,400
We will we will hip you to the fact that this thing’s
783
00:24:49,440 –> 00:24:52,000
300% over budget that you hear was announced,
784
00:24:52,000 –> 00:24:52,200
Ken.
785
00:24:52,200 –> 00:24:53,240
They delayed it again.
786
00:24:53,400 –> 00:24:55,000
They delayed like we said,
787
00:24:55,600 –> 00:24:56,200
it’s going to,
788
00:24:56,200 –> 00:24:56,520
you know,
789
00:24:57,000 –> 00:24:57,640
we go out there,
790
00:24:57,640 –> 00:24:58,680
we pop something.
791
00:24:59,160 –> 00:25:00,120
make them shit,
792
00:25:00,520 –> 00:25:02,480
and then they just react and go,
793
00:25:02,480 –> 00:25:04,120
oh, we’re going to be open on December 20th.
794
00:25:04,280 –> 00:25:06,280
Well, we’re not going to be open because they knew
795
00:25:06,280 –> 00:25:06,920
we were looking.
796
00:25:07,560 –> 00:25:09,640
It won’t open till June.
797
00:25:09,640 –> 00:25:10,160
How about that?
798
00:25:10,160 –> 00:25:10,320
Maybe.
799
00:25:12,920 –> 00:25:13,720
Yeah, maybe.
800
00:25:14,920 –> 00:25:17,000
Okay, what about the border?
801
00:25:19,080 –> 00:25:20,320
Immigration’s solved.
802
00:25:21,080 –> 00:25:22,280
Yeah, solved.
803
00:25:23,480 –> 00:25:25,120
And it’s remarkable.
804
00:25:25,120 –> 00:25:27,440
I saw it was either in the Economist or the Wall Street
805
00:25:27,440 –> 00:25:28,160
Journal last week,
806
00:25:28,160 –> 00:25:28,760
a graph.
807
00:25:29,520 –> 00:25:31,400
of illegal entries by year.
808
00:25:31,720 –> 00:25:34,360
And it’s remarkable to look at when you look at the
809
00:25:34,360 –> 00:25:37,880
Biden years and how high that graph was.
810
00:25:37,880 –> 00:25:38,680
And even, I mean,
811
00:25:38,680 –> 00:25:41,320
got to give credit where credit is due in the Obama
812
00:25:41,320 –> 00:25:43,720
years, it was historically low,
813
00:25:44,040 –> 00:25:45,800
lower than the Bush years.
814
00:25:45,800 –> 00:25:46,600
Well, it wasn’t.
815
00:25:47,560 –> 00:25:48,200
It wasn’t.
816
00:25:48,360 –> 00:25:49,560
Everything rocketed,
817
00:25:49,720 –> 00:25:51,800
okay, during the,
818
00:25:52,280 –> 00:25:54,360
during the Clinton and Bush years,
819
00:25:54,360 –> 00:25:55,040
it was really Bush,
820
00:25:55,040 –> 00:25:56,360
but it was because of NAFTA.
821
00:25:56,360 –> 00:25:58,840
NAFTA destroyed the Mexican peso.
822
00:25:59,160 –> 00:26:01,080
and ownership of land.
823
00:26:01,320 –> 00:26:02,280
also in the Bush years,
824
00:26:02,280 –> 00:26:02,680
remember,
825
00:26:02,680 –> 00:26:05,280
he was trying to solve the immigration issue,
826
00:26:05,280 –> 00:26:07,480
and part of that was some form of amnesty.
827
00:26:07,640 –> 00:26:10,680
So they were not exactly aggressive in their border
828
00:26:10,680 –> 00:26:12,440
security or deportations.
829
00:26:13,080 –> 00:26:14,080
To Obama’s credit,
830
00:26:14,080 –> 00:26:15,800
he did do deportations,
831
00:26:15,800 –> 00:26:17,880
and it is relatively lower.
832
00:26:17,880 –> 00:26:20,920
But then to see it go from the 10 million people,
833
00:26:20,920 –> 00:26:23,400
I think, in 22 to 0,
834
00:26:23,400 –> 00:26:24,120
basically,
835
00:26:24,920 –> 00:26:26,360
in this year is remarkable.
836
00:26:26,360 –> 00:26:26,840
See, again,
837
00:26:26,840 –> 00:26:28,360
going back to what we’re talking about,
838
00:26:28,960 –> 00:26:29,600
second time around,
839
00:26:29,600 –> 00:26:33,960
they studied the law because back in like 16,
840
00:26:33,960 –> 00:26:34,640
I go to the border,
841
00:26:34,640 –> 00:26:37,840
I go, the wall ain’t going to work for,
842
00:26:37,920 –> 00:26:39,240
and it has its purpose.
843
00:26:39,240 –> 00:26:40,600
It’s not even necessary now.
844
00:26:41,640 –> 00:26:45,400
Well, it’s necessary because if you if you you’re in
845
00:26:45,400 –> 00:26:46,120
urban centers,
846
00:26:46,120 –> 00:26:46,360
right?
847
00:26:46,360 –> 00:26:47,080
People jump,
848
00:26:47,240 –> 00:26:48,280
you just mix right in.
849
00:26:48,600 –> 00:26:52,760
So like Calexico and Mexicani,
850
00:26:52,760 –> 00:26:53,000
right?
851
00:26:53,000 –> 00:26:55,240
Like right in there in those urban areas.
852
00:26:55,880 –> 00:26:58,040
you have to push them out so they can be seen.
853
00:26:58,680 –> 00:27:00,120
Okay, so it’s effective that way.
854
00:27:00,360 –> 00:27:01,560
But it wasn’t effective.
855
00:27:01,800 –> 00:27:02,920
But there’s not the magnet.
856
00:27:02,920 –> 00:27:06,200
I mean, it wasn’t effective because what existed was
857
00:27:07,160 –> 00:27:07,640
once you,
858
00:27:07,720 –> 00:27:12,280
the wall is not in the water and the wall is not on
859
00:27:12,280 –> 00:27:12,840
the shore,
860
00:27:12,920 –> 00:27:13,720
it’ll wash away.
861
00:27:14,040 –> 00:27:16,520
So it’s like 1/4 mile back,
862
00:27:16,600 –> 00:27:17,000
you know,
863
00:27:17,160 –> 00:27:18,440
some many cases,
864
00:27:19,240 –> 00:27:20,040
half a mile.
865
00:27:20,200 –> 00:27:21,960
So we’re actually walling off a part of America.
866
00:27:22,200 –> 00:27:24,520
But once somebody touches
867
00:27:24,920 –> 00:27:27,240
United States soil and says,
868
00:27:28,200 –> 00:27:29,800
amnesty, okay,
869
00:27:30,040 –> 00:27:31,640
we have to process that.
870
00:27:31,880 –> 00:27:33,000
We’re supposed to hold them.
871
00:27:33,640 –> 00:27:34,680
But when you have 10 million,
872
00:27:34,680 –> 00:27:35,400
you can’t hold them.
873
00:27:35,560 –> 00:27:36,600
So that’s what you got.
874
00:27:39,560 –> 00:27:41,560
But Trump’s people read the law law.
875
00:27:41,880 –> 00:27:43,680
Okay, if there’s a national emergency,
876
00:27:43,680 –> 00:27:44,600
which he declared,
877
00:27:45,320 –> 00:27:51,160
then no amnesty claims will be filed.
878
00:27:51,560 –> 00:27:52,440
or adjudicated,
879
00:27:52,440 –> 00:27:52,680
right?
880
00:27:52,680 –> 00:27:55,880
So like you’re just going back under emergency order
881
00:27:55,880 –> 00:27:58,040
212-F or something to that effect.
882
00:27:58,200 –> 00:28:00,440
So they went back and figured,
883
00:28:01,000 –> 00:28:02,200
found something I didn’t know.
884
00:28:02,200 –> 00:28:02,760
Well, again,
885
00:28:02,760 –> 00:28:04,520
this goes back to what I said previously.
886
00:28:04,520 –> 00:28:06,920
He figured out a way to use the law and the courts
887
00:28:07,400 –> 00:28:09,280
to implement his agenda.
888
00:28:09,280 –> 00:28:10,840
And rather than just accepting,
889
00:28:10,840 –> 00:28:11,120
oh, well,
890
00:28:11,120 –> 00:28:11,720
we can’t,
891
00:28:11,720 –> 00:28:14,040
so we’re going to let this problem continue to go,
892
00:28:14,680 –> 00:28:15,880
he directed his
893
00:28:16,600 –> 00:28:19,160
his legal counsel and his Department of Justice and
894
00:28:19,160 –> 00:28:21,440
his DHS to go figure out a way to get this done,
895
00:28:21,440 –> 00:28:22,200
and they’re doing it.
896
00:28:22,520 –> 00:28:25,160
But I think why I say the wall doesn’t matter anymore
897
00:28:25,160 –> 00:28:28,760
is the self-deportation thing that Mitt Romney was
898
00:28:28,760 –> 00:28:30,200
mocked for is legitimate.
899
00:28:30,200 –> 00:28:32,840
If you go to a country where you are not welcomed and
900
00:28:32,840 –> 00:28:34,200
you know if you are caught,
901
00:28:34,360 –> 00:28:35,640
you’re going to be deported,
902
00:28:35,880 –> 00:28:37,880
that is not a quality of life.
903
00:28:37,880 –> 00:28:39,280
Nobody wants to live that way.
904
00:28:39,280 –> 00:28:41,240
I don’t give a shit what your situation is,
905
00:28:41,400 –> 00:28:43,320
unless you’re in a war-torn place and at least you’re
906
00:28:43,320 –> 00:28:45,160
not getting shot just for being who you are.
907
00:28:47,000 –> 00:28:48,320
If you’ve got to live in the shadows,
908
00:28:48,320 –> 00:28:49,080
you don’t want to be here.
909
00:28:49,080 –> 00:28:50,160
You can’t do what you want.
910
00:28:50,160 –> 00:28:51,640
We were giving them health care.
911
00:28:51,640 –> 00:28:54,680
We were giving them debit cards with cash on them.
912
00:28:54,840 –> 00:28:57,560
We were giving them reasons to come here.
913
00:28:57,560 –> 00:28:58,080
If I could,
914
00:28:59,640 –> 00:29:00,360
the shutdown,
915
00:29:00,840 –> 00:29:01,320
well, you know,
916
00:29:02,280 –> 00:29:04,520
now the progressive left saying,
917
00:29:05,560 –> 00:29:05,880
you know,
918
00:29:06,280 –> 00:29:08,440
illegals can’t get bullshit.
919
00:29:09,960 –> 00:29:12,120
You’re illegal if you entered,
920
00:29:12,120 –> 00:29:13,400
you’re claiming asylum,
921
00:29:13,400 –> 00:29:15,080
but you didn’t do it through the port of entry.
922
00:29:15,160 –> 00:29:17,000
You didn’t go to the Tijuana Bridge and do it.
923
00:29:17,160 –> 00:29:18,280
You walked over.
924
00:29:18,280 –> 00:29:19,080
You’re illegal.
925
00:29:20,440 –> 00:29:25,000
But because we let them in and let them file their
926
00:29:25,240 –> 00:29:26,120
asylum papers,
927
00:29:26,120 –> 00:29:27,640
once you file the asylum papers,
928
00:29:28,055 –> 00:29:29,855
Okay, you’re eligible for it.
929
00:29:30,175 –> 00:29:30,575
Google it.
930
00:29:30,815 –> 00:29:31,375
Somebody Google it.
931
00:29:31,375 –> 00:29:32,095
It’s semantics.
932
00:29:32,095 –> 00:29:32,575
Yes.
933
00:29:32,575 –> 00:29:33,615
It is semantics.
934
00:29:33,935 –> 00:29:38,335
And I’m for less government spending because the value
935
00:29:38,335 –> 00:29:39,615
of the dollar is shit.
936
00:29:40,095 –> 00:29:43,295
Well, the fact that we’re diverting health care dollars.
937
00:29:43,295 –> 00:29:43,615
Yes.
938
00:29:43,895 –> 00:29:46,095
When in a country where people can’t afford health
939
00:29:46,095 –> 00:29:48,575
care, where that we were promised with the Affordable
940
00:29:48,575 –> 00:29:50,215
Care Act that’s unaffordable.
941
00:29:50,215 –> 00:29:50,775
My people.
942
00:29:50,815 –> 00:29:51,775
I live in Detroit,
943
00:29:51,775 –> 00:29:53,055
the poorest big city in America.
944
00:29:53,135 –> 00:29:54,335
These are my people.
945
00:29:55,135 –> 00:29:56,175
My people deserve it.
946
00:29:56,415 –> 00:29:57,335
They deserve it first.
947
00:29:57,335 –> 00:29:58,815
If we got anything extra,
948
00:29:59,295 –> 00:30:00,255
we’ll help the world.
949
00:30:00,815 –> 00:30:03,615
Anyone that doesn’t believe the Democrats are holding
950
00:30:03,695 –> 00:30:07,295
up the current budget situation and forcing the shutdown,
951
00:30:07,295 –> 00:30:09,615
over giving health care to illegal aliens,
952
00:30:09,855 –> 00:30:11,615
isn’t reading what’s out there.
953
00:30:11,615 –> 00:30:12,095
It’s there.
954
00:30:12,215 –> 00:30:13,375
They can’t even hide it.
955
00:30:13,535 –> 00:30:14,295
Maybe it’s more,
956
00:30:14,295 –> 00:30:14,735
right?
957
00:30:14,735 –> 00:30:15,335
Maybe it’s more.
958
00:30:15,335 –> 00:30:16,415
There’s other elements too.
959
00:30:16,655 –> 00:30:17,135
PBS.
960
00:30:17,375 –> 00:30:18,895
But you can’t you can’t jump that one.
961
00:30:18,895 –> 00:30:20,255
They can’t get rid of that.
962
00:30:20,575 –> 00:30:23,735
Well, and what they’re conflating is what the Republicans
963
00:30:23,735 –> 00:30:25,015
are trying to get through is a continuum
964
00:30:25,095 –> 00:30:27,215
continuing resolution that merely keeps the government
965
00:30:27,215 –> 00:30:29,895
funded while they negotiate on the budget,
966
00:30:29,895 –> 00:30:33,375
which is a separate vote and a separate policy conversation.
967
00:30:33,695 –> 00:30:35,215
That’s where you do these things.
968
00:30:35,455 –> 00:30:36,855
And they are the ones,
969
00:30:36,855 –> 00:30:38,775
I mean, when Republicans have majorities in the House
970
00:30:38,775 –> 00:30:39,375
and the Senate,
971
00:30:39,375 –> 00:30:40,815
if they could pass the budget,
972
00:30:40,815 –> 00:30:41,615
they’d be doing it.
973
00:30:41,775 –> 00:30:43,655
It’s the Democrats in the Senate that are holding this
974
00:30:43,655 –> 00:30:43,855
thing up.
975
00:30:43,935 –> 00:30:44,975
Okay, so help me with this,
976
00:30:44,975 –> 00:30:47,775
because I don’t quite understand it,
977
00:30:47,775 –> 00:30:49,295
and I suspect you do.
978
00:30:49,855 –> 00:30:51,695
So continuing resolution,
979
00:30:51,695 –> 00:30:51,895
right?
980
00:30:51,895 –> 00:30:53,335
That’s the CR they talk about.
981
00:30:53,615 –> 00:30:54,415
That means
982
00:30:55,135 –> 00:30:56,095
basically,
983
00:30:56,095 –> 00:30:56,815
tell me if I’m wrong,
984
00:30:57,375 –> 00:31:00,855
that what we’re spending right now at this level,
985
00:31:00,895 –> 00:31:02,735
FY 2024, it won’t go up,
986
00:31:02,735 –> 00:31:03,495
it won’t go down,
987
00:31:03,495 –> 00:31:04,695
nothing’s being slashed.
988
00:31:04,815 –> 00:31:11,015
We’re going to have a CR while we negotiate these things.
989
00:31:11,015 –> 00:31:11,615
Is that correct?
990
00:31:11,615 –> 00:31:11,935
Correct.
991
00:31:12,175 –> 00:31:15,535
So why would the Democrats shut everything down if
992
00:31:16,015 –> 00:31:18,095
we’re going to keep it at its current level while
993
00:31:18,095 –> 00:31:19,295
we negotiate something?
994
00:31:19,295 –> 00:31:21,375
I don’t understand poker.
995
00:31:21,455 –> 00:31:22,255
Very simple.
996
00:31:22,895 –> 00:31:25,695
Their base wants to see Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer
997
00:31:25,695 –> 00:31:27,615
fight and they think they keep rolling over.
998
00:31:27,615 –> 00:31:29,495
So they decided to plant this flag.
999
00:31:29,615 –> 00:31:30,335
So it’s to look tough.
1000
00:31:30,335 –> 00:31:31,455
To show the base.
1001
00:31:31,455 –> 00:31:33,295
Well, look at what Schumer said on the Senate floor
1002
00:31:33,295 –> 00:31:33,935
last week,
1003
00:31:34,255 –> 00:31:36,015
that every day this goes on,
1004
00:31:36,015 –> 00:31:38,335
it’s better for Democrats politically.
1005
00:31:38,495 –> 00:31:40,175
That’s their calculation.
1006
00:31:40,175 –> 00:31:42,095
And now, they have this big no kids.
1007
00:31:42,135 –> 00:31:42,495
Wait a minute,
1008
00:31:42,575 –> 00:31:42,975
wait a minute.
1009
00:31:43,055 –> 00:31:45,055
So the Marines don’t get paid.
1010
00:31:45,775 –> 00:31:47,615
So these two numb nuts can look tough?
1011
00:31:48,015 –> 00:31:48,055
100%.
1012
00:31:49,055 –> 00:31:51,335
No, I know you’re a Republican.
1013
00:31:51,335 –> 00:31:52,455
I know you’re not a far right guy.
1014
00:31:52,455 –> 00:31:54,055
I know you’re a moderate guy.
1015
00:31:54,055 –> 00:31:55,135
I am a far right guy,
1016
00:31:55,135 –> 00:31:56,575
but I call balls and strikes.
1017
00:31:56,575 –> 00:31:58,095
I see things as they are,
1018
00:31:58,135 –> 00:31:59,695
not how they want them to be.
1019
00:32:01,255 –> 00:32:02,095
And in this case,
1020
00:32:02,095 –> 00:32:04,695
these guys are making a political calculation.
1021
00:32:04,695 –> 00:32:05,575
And now on Saturday,
1022
00:32:05,575 –> 00:32:07,215
they’ve got their big no kings rally,
1023
00:32:07,415 –> 00:32:10,015
which they basically have tied themselves to.
1024
00:32:10,015 –> 00:32:12,735
They can’t open the government before that because
1025
00:32:12,735 –> 00:32:13,295
that rally,
1026
00:32:13,295 –> 00:32:16,655
they will be burning them in effigy if they cave.
1027
00:32:16,975 –> 00:32:19,455
And so it’s going to be through this fucking rally
1028
00:32:19,455 –> 00:32:22,255
on Saturday and they’re going to have to continue
1029
00:32:22,255 –> 00:32:24,495
the fight to look like they’re doing something.
1030
00:32:25,055 –> 00:32:26,215
for at least another week,
1031
00:32:26,215 –> 00:32:28,015
except they don’t hold any cards.
1032
00:32:28,015 –> 00:32:30,615
It’s their constituencies that are going to be permanently
1033
00:32:30,615 –> 00:32:32,095
laid off from the federal government.
1034
00:32:32,415 –> 00:32:33,775
That’s who’s going to get fucked.
1035
00:32:33,935 –> 00:32:36,495
Do you think Trump gives a shit about Department of
1036
00:32:36,495 –> 00:32:37,655
Education employees,
1037
00:32:37,655 –> 00:32:40,175
Department of Interior employees who are,
1038
00:32:40,415 –> 00:32:40,575
you know,
1039
00:32:40,575 –> 00:32:42,415
dues-paying members of Ask Me?
1040
00:32:42,415 –> 00:32:42,695
No.
1041
00:32:43,215 –> 00:32:44,295
Those guys unemployed,
1042
00:32:44,295 –> 00:32:46,415
and then he can put his people in these agencies.
1043
00:32:46,735 –> 00:32:47,895
The Democrats hold no cards.
1044
00:32:47,895 –> 00:32:50,175
You could be sure if there’s a big rally.
1045
00:32:50,815 –> 00:32:51,775
The Capitol again.
1046
00:32:51,775 –> 00:32:53,935
They’re going to be National Guard there this time.
1047
00:32:53,935 –> 00:32:54,775
Yeah, I imagine so.
1048
00:32:54,775 –> 00:32:55,255
Yeah, right.
1049
00:32:55,255 –> 00:32:56,015
They’re already there.
1050
00:32:56,095 –> 00:32:58,495
Are they already not there?
1051
00:32:58,495 –> 00:32:58,895
They are.
1052
00:32:59,135 –> 00:33:00,015
Has the crime rate in?
1053
00:33:00,255 –> 00:33:01,775
I was in DC last week.
1054
00:33:01,775 –> 00:33:05,135
I saw guardsmen and the Metro stations,
1055
00:33:05,135 –> 00:33:05,535
everything.
1056
00:33:05,535 –> 00:33:06,415
I got to say things.
1057
00:33:06,415 –> 00:33:08,255
I mean, I talked about it last time.
1058
00:33:08,615 –> 00:33:09,095
I was on about it.
1059
00:33:09,095 –> 00:33:10,335
Did you go by Union Station?
1060
00:33:10,335 –> 00:33:10,655
I did.
1061
00:33:10,655 –> 00:33:11,335
Is all that homeless?
1062
00:33:11,535 –> 00:33:12,015
It is.
1063
00:33:12,015 –> 00:33:13,535
Yeah, it’s quiet.
1064
00:33:13,535 –> 00:33:14,655
It’s deathly quiet.
1065
00:33:14,655 –> 00:33:15,375
Is it nice there?
1066
00:33:15,535 –> 00:33:16,215
Yeah, it’s clean.
1067
00:33:16,215 –> 00:33:17,415
I mean, they’re doing some construction.
1068
00:33:17,415 –> 00:33:17,735
No, I mean,
1069
00:33:17,735 –> 00:33:18,815
is it nice in DC again?
1070
00:33:19,215 –> 00:33:19,375
Yeah.
1071
00:33:19,935 –> 00:33:20,815
Did you go out to dinner?
1072
00:33:20,815 –> 00:33:21,615
I did, yes.
1073
00:33:22,895 –> 00:33:25,255
I did a lot of walking in the worst parts of Northwest
1074
00:33:25,255 –> 00:33:25,775
DC.
1075
00:33:25,935 –> 00:33:26,815
Or the tough parts,
1076
00:33:26,975 –> 00:33:27,175
you know,
1077
00:33:27,175 –> 00:33:27,935
let’s say tough.
1078
00:33:28,255 –> 00:33:28,975
They’re bad.
1079
00:33:28,975 –> 00:33:30,335
Because I don’t know what worst means,
1080
00:33:30,335 –> 00:33:30,735
but you know,
1081
00:33:30,735 –> 00:33:31,855
just the worst part,
1082
00:33:31,855 –> 00:33:32,895
they’re tough.
1083
00:33:33,295 –> 00:33:36,495
Rarely have I felt a concern for my security at 1030
1084
00:33:36,495 –> 00:33:38,255
in the morning at a McDonald’s.
1085
00:33:40,175 –> 00:33:40,735
What about,
1086
00:33:41,535 –> 00:33:43,295
I just want to do this with tariffs,
1087
00:33:43,695 –> 00:33:43,935
right?
1088
00:33:43,935 –> 00:33:45,935
It’s because it’s because it is a tax,
1089
00:33:45,935 –> 00:33:46,335
Mark.
1090
00:33:46,735 –> 00:33:48,415
It is a tax on the American people.
1091
00:33:49,695 –> 00:33:50,495
They can’t say it,
1092
00:33:50,495 –> 00:33:51,135
but I’ll say it.
1093
00:33:53,215 –> 00:33:55,295
You can’t raise taxes and get away with it in this
1094
00:33:55,295 –> 00:33:55,935
country, right?
1095
00:33:55,935 –> 00:34:01,135
So your taxes got cut and then the price of stuff went
1096
00:34:01,135 –> 00:34:02,095
up because of the tariffs.
1097
00:34:03,775 –> 00:34:05,215
But there’s a purpose to it,
1098
00:34:05,255 –> 00:34:08,335
which is to reshore good paying jobs.
1099
00:34:08,415 –> 00:34:09,855
So if you’re
1100
00:34:11,935 –> 00:34:12,575
balance sheet,
1101
00:34:12,575 –> 00:34:14,815
your household checkbook balances out.
1102
00:34:14,975 –> 00:34:16,095
You got a tax cut,
1103
00:34:16,335 –> 00:34:17,695
but you’re paying more for goods.
1104
00:34:17,935 –> 00:34:20,575
And the reason we’re doing that is to make American
1105
00:34:20,575 –> 00:34:23,775
labor competitive with those locking us out and keeping
1106
00:34:23,775 –> 00:34:24,495
the Chinese out.
1107
00:34:24,495 –> 00:34:25,855
That’s what’s going on.
1108
00:34:26,575 –> 00:34:33,815
But I want to just read you something about how the
1109
00:34:33,815 –> 00:34:36,735
world economy has outpaced economic thought.
1110
00:34:36,735 –> 00:34:37,615
This, I’m going to…
1111
00:34:38,975 –> 00:34:40,455
I studied economics and finance,
1112
00:34:40,455 –> 00:34:42,655
and this is the core of what they teach you,
1113
00:34:42,815 –> 00:34:44,335
which is comparative advantage.
1114
00:34:44,495 –> 00:34:49,215
And what that simply means is each country should make
1115
00:34:49,495 –> 00:34:50,895
what it makes best,
1116
00:34:51,535 –> 00:34:54,735
even if one country makes both things more efficiently,
1117
00:34:54,895 –> 00:34:55,215
right?
1118
00:34:55,935 –> 00:34:57,855
So the English should make cloth.
1119
00:34:57,855 –> 00:34:59,775
If they make cloth and wine better,
1120
00:34:59,775 –> 00:35:02,055
they should make cloth and let the Portuguese make
1121
00:35:02,055 –> 00:35:02,495
the wine.
1122
00:35:02,735 –> 00:35:06,335
That way, that’s why you sit there through a semester.
1123
00:35:06,335 –> 00:35:07,855
There are mathematical formulas for this.
1124
00:35:08,015 –> 00:35:09,535
So each country should do what it does best,
1125
00:35:09,695 –> 00:35:10,815
and we shouldn’t have tariffs.
1126
00:35:12,335 –> 00:35:13,695
Put up that slide.
1127
00:35:15,215 –> 00:35:17,455
It says Sir David Ricardo,
1128
00:35:17,935 –> 00:35:20,335
1817, 1817.
1129
00:35:20,575 –> 00:35:21,455
Modern trade,
1130
00:35:21,455 –> 00:35:22,735
world global trade,
1131
00:35:22,975 –> 00:35:26,415
is based on an economic theory from 200 years ago.
1132
00:35:27,335 –> 00:35:29,335
It’s called the Principles of Political Economy and
1133
00:35:29,335 –> 00:35:29,935
Taxation.
1134
00:35:29,935 –> 00:35:31,215
You got to study in college.
1135
00:35:33,775 –> 00:35:37,135
This rightly was what Ricardo came up with.
1136
00:35:37,135 –> 00:35:42,255
But here’s what Ricardo wrote about both money,
1137
00:35:42,535 –> 00:35:43,375
which is capital,
1138
00:35:44,175 –> 00:35:44,735
and people,
1139
00:35:44,735 –> 00:35:45,535
which is labor.
1140
00:35:46,815 –> 00:35:47,615
Ricardo wrote,
1141
00:35:48,175 –> 00:35:49,295
experience,
1142
00:35:49,295 –> 00:35:50,015
experience,
1143
00:35:50,015 –> 00:35:52,655
that’s his scientific foundation,
1144
00:35:52,655 –> 00:35:54,095
is what I’ve seen in life.
1145
00:35:54,735 –> 00:35:55,455
Experience,
1146
00:35:55,455 –> 00:35:59,215
however, shows that the fancied or real insecurity
1147
00:35:59,255 –> 00:36:00,095
of money
1148
00:36:00,375 –> 00:36:02,815
when not under the immediate control of its owner,
1149
00:36:03,215 –> 00:36:06,255
together with the natural disinclination which every
1150
00:36:06,255 –> 00:36:09,535
man has to quit the country of his birth and connections
1151
00:36:09,775 –> 00:36:10,895
and entrust himself,
1152
00:36:10,975 –> 00:36:12,415
with all of his habits fixed,
1153
00:36:12,655 –> 00:36:14,815
to estrange government and new laws,
1154
00:36:15,055 –> 00:36:18,575
check the migration of capital,
1155
00:36:18,575 –> 00:36:19,375
factories,
1156
00:36:19,375 –> 00:36:21,455
money, and people to other lands.
1157
00:36:21,775 –> 00:36:22,575
It won’t happen.
1158
00:36:23,055 –> 00:36:25,135
This is a postulate.
1159
00:36:25,935 –> 00:36:28,895
Money and people will not leave because they love their
1160
00:36:28,895 –> 00:36:29,375
country.
1161
00:36:29,615 –> 00:36:30,495
These feelings,
1162
00:36:30,575 –> 00:36:32,575
which I should be sorry to see weakened,
1163
00:36:33,135 –> 00:36:36,095
induce most men of country,
1164
00:36:37,615 –> 00:36:41,495
induce most men of property to be satisfied with a
1165
00:36:41,495 –> 00:36:45,055
low rate of profit in their own country rather than
1166
00:36:45,055 –> 00:36:48,175
seek a more advantageous employment for their wealth
1167
00:36:48,415 –> 00:36:49,455
in foreign nations.
1168
00:36:50,175 –> 00:36:54,495
He said, my theory is fucked if capital and labor
1169
00:36:55,695 –> 00:36:56,815
can move out of country.
1170
00:36:56,895 –> 00:36:57,895
That was, that was the,
1171
00:36:58,495 –> 00:37:00,495
well, what’s happened in the last 30 years?
1172
00:37:00,895 –> 00:37:02,415
WTO, NAFTA.
1173
00:37:02,975 –> 00:37:06,735
So, PNTR, when they go on TV and they go,
1174
00:37:06,775 –> 00:37:07,855
these tariffs are bad,
1175
00:37:07,855 –> 00:37:10,735
like, you don’t understand the economic model changed.
1176
00:37:11,295 –> 00:37:12,335
Well, and I mean,
1177
00:37:12,495 –> 00:37:14,655
what the Trump administration is now saying,
1178
00:37:14,655 –> 00:37:16,495
we’ve seen these revised jobs numbers,
1179
00:37:16,495 –> 00:37:17,535
even with his new,
1180
00:37:17,535 –> 00:37:17,775
you know,
1181
00:37:17,775 –> 00:37:19,855
head of the Bureau of Labor and Statistics,
1182
00:37:20,255 –> 00:37:21,815
revising job numbers down,
1183
00:37:21,815 –> 00:37:23,215
they were negative last month.
1184
00:37:24,255 –> 00:37:28,895
But what they’re saying is watch Q1 of 2025 or 26,
1185
00:37:29,215 –> 00:37:30,815
because that’s where you’re going to see.
1186
00:37:30,815 –> 00:37:31,575
To your point,
1187
00:37:31,575 –> 00:37:35,775
what they’re trying to do is bring American jobs back
1188
00:37:35,935 –> 00:37:36,815
to the US.
1189
00:37:37,375 –> 00:37:39,295
And because of the tariffs,
1190
00:37:39,295 –> 00:37:41,855
we’re seeing the inflation rate and we’re seeing jobs
1191
00:37:41,855 –> 00:37:44,095
because people are trying to navigate a more expensive
1192
00:37:44,095 –> 00:37:44,815
labor market.
1193
00:37:45,455 –> 00:37:46,815
But at some point,
1194
00:37:46,815 –> 00:37:48,775
the administration’s calculating on us,
1195
00:37:48,775 –> 00:37:50,735
seeing the benefits that you’re talking about.
1196
00:37:50,975 –> 00:37:52,335
Job growth growing here,
1197
00:37:52,495 –> 00:37:56,495
wages keeping up with those jobs and creating a better
1198
00:37:56,735 –> 00:37:58,095
domestic job market.
1199
00:37:59,695 –> 00:38:00,975
So, but that’s the gamble.
1200
00:38:01,055 –> 00:38:04,335
And I would say there’s people questioning that you
1201
00:38:04,335 –> 00:38:05,295
can see it that soon.
1202
00:38:05,775 –> 00:38:08,455
Well, maybe this crew of economists has figured out
1203
00:38:08,455 –> 00:38:09,815
that the model is gone.
1204
00:38:09,815 –> 00:38:13,295
Now, if you raise tariffs above
1205
00:38:13,815 –> 00:38:16,015
what it costs you to make it with American labor,
1206
00:38:16,015 –> 00:38:18,415
then you’re going to move your factory,
1207
00:38:18,415 –> 00:38:19,935
basically our factories,
1208
00:38:20,495 –> 00:38:20,975
back it.
1209
00:38:21,135 –> 00:38:23,455
Why don’t we make our iPhones?
1210
00:38:23,935 –> 00:38:25,215
Apple’s an American company,
1211
00:38:25,775 –> 00:38:27,855
building the shit in China and bringing it back because
1212
00:38:27,855 –> 00:38:28,335
it’s cheaper.
1213
00:38:28,415 –> 00:38:31,695
So make it cheaper to be here and then we’ll all win.
1214
00:38:32,495 –> 00:38:33,295
I’m for that.
1215
00:38:33,655 –> 00:38:34,815
I’m A Detroiter.
1216
00:38:35,655 –> 00:38:37,215
I’m for us making the cars.
1217
00:38:37,775 –> 00:38:38,415
You know what I mean?
1218
00:38:38,615 –> 00:38:39,375
They fucked us.
1219
00:38:39,375 –> 00:38:40,095
I lived through it.
1220
00:38:40,575 –> 00:38:41,295
I lived through it.
1221
00:38:41,455 –> 00:38:41,855
So
1222
00:38:42,655 –> 00:38:43,615
No, I, again,
1223
00:38:43,615 –> 00:38:44,735
I don’t have to like the cat,
1224
00:38:45,695 –> 00:38:47,055
but I like what’s going on.
1225
00:38:47,375 –> 00:38:49,055
And I think a lot of people do.
1226
00:38:49,575 –> 00:38:50,055
And they better,
1227
00:38:50,335 –> 00:38:51,775
because you got fucking Don Land.
1228
00:38:51,775 –> 00:38:53,615
But what we’re going to find out is are they going
1229
00:38:53,615 –> 00:38:56,335
to be willing to stomach the economic pain that it
1230
00:38:56,335 –> 00:38:59,295
takes to get to that promised land that we’re being
1231
00:38:59,295 –> 00:39:00,375
told is there?
1232
00:39:00,375 –> 00:39:01,935
And I believe it can be there.
1233
00:39:01,935 –> 00:39:02,695
Watch the math again.
1234
00:39:02,695 –> 00:39:04,415
It’s going to be interesting to see if here’s your
1235
00:39:04,415 –> 00:39:06,495
tax cut while I raise your taxes.
1236
00:39:07,295 –> 00:39:11,535
And I’m raising your taxes on goods to get you better
1237
00:39:11,535 –> 00:39:12,255
wages.
1238
00:39:12,575 –> 00:39:16,175
So I’m going to balance it and then try to get our
1239
00:39:16,175 –> 00:39:16,895
factories back.
1240
00:39:16,895 –> 00:39:18,015
That’s the play.
1241
00:39:18,255 –> 00:39:23,055
And to keep China from dumping their shit in here through
1242
00:39:23,055 –> 00:39:24,175
our neighbors,
1243
00:39:24,175 –> 00:39:25,695
Mexico and Canada.
1244
00:39:26,415 –> 00:39:27,375
Canada caved.
1245
00:39:27,695 –> 00:39:30,335
Dude, you’re not going to import shit from China,
1246
00:39:30,335 –> 00:39:32,815
put made in Canada and dump it in Detroit.
1247
00:39:33,055 –> 00:39:33,775
No, sir.
1248
00:39:34,015 –> 00:39:35,855
You’re not making electric cars in China,
1249
00:39:36,255 –> 00:39:38,415
shipping them through Mexico.
1250
00:39:39,255 –> 00:39:40,415
And don’t put them in here.
1251
00:39:40,655 –> 00:39:41,735
No, Well, I’ll tell you,
1252
00:39:41,775 –> 00:39:44,735
no matter what the business media says,
1253
00:39:45,615 –> 00:39:49,175
us pulling back the requirements on electric vehicles
1254
00:39:49,175 –> 00:39:50,735
is going to be good for us long term.
1255
00:39:50,735 –> 00:39:53,615
We have put ourselves in a race to the bottom with
1256
00:39:53,615 –> 00:39:55,615
China when it comes to electric vehicles.
1257
00:39:55,695 –> 00:39:59,295
Like this is so stupid that we have making ourselves
1258
00:39:59,295 –> 00:40:02,735
dependent on them economically on such an important
1259
00:40:02,735 –> 00:40:03,055
place.
1260
00:40:03,295 –> 00:40:07,455
We’re the number one producer of oil in the world.
1261
00:40:08,095 –> 00:40:12,495
Why would we surrender our advantage over China in
1262
00:40:12,495 –> 00:40:17,855
the combustible engine market on something that they
1263
00:40:17,855 –> 00:40:22,975
will subsidize and use low labor and kill us internationally?
1264
00:40:22,975 –> 00:40:24,655
Look, how do you generate electricity?
1265
00:40:24,655 –> 00:40:27,855
Yes, we can keep up with what things that are.
1266
00:40:28,815 –> 00:40:29,615
How are you going to?
1267
00:40:29,855 –> 00:40:30,815
You don’t have the grid.
1268
00:40:31,535 –> 00:40:32,815
There’s all these added costs.
1269
00:40:33,415 –> 00:40:36,415
I’m and they’re very environmentally.
1270
00:40:37,695 –> 00:40:40,815
disastrous just to get the components to make a battery.
1271
00:40:40,975 –> 00:40:41,535
You know what I mean?
1272
00:40:41,535 –> 00:40:42,255
So come on,
1273
00:40:42,735 –> 00:40:43,535
how about a hybrid?
1274
00:40:43,775 –> 00:40:44,975
Hybrid would have been smarter.
1275
00:40:45,455 –> 00:40:46,415
That’s what Toyota did.
1276
00:40:46,495 –> 00:40:47,055
They did.
1277
00:40:47,215 –> 00:40:48,255
They took a lot of shit.
1278
00:40:48,895 –> 00:40:51,455
Activist shareholders tried to overthrow their CEO
1279
00:40:51,455 –> 00:40:56,895
because he wouldn’t go along with the EV movement,
1280
00:40:56,895 –> 00:40:57,095
you know,
1281
00:40:57,095 –> 00:41:00,175
whatever was being forced on them and encouraged amongst
1282
00:41:00,175 –> 00:41:01,375
these activist shareholders.
1283
00:41:01,375 –> 00:41:02,815
They doubled down on hybrids.
1284
00:41:02,815 –> 00:41:03,455
And guess what?
1285
00:41:03,455 –> 00:41:05,135
They dominate in the hybrid market.
1286
00:41:05,535 –> 00:41:07,535
And they’re doing better than a lot of the American
1287
00:41:07,535 –> 00:41:08,055
auto makers.
1288
00:41:08,055 –> 00:41:09,255
Yeah, dude,
1289
00:41:09,295 –> 00:41:10,175
it’s hot in here.
1290
00:41:10,175 –> 00:41:11,215
I’m getting all bothered.
1291
00:41:11,295 –> 00:41:16,655
Just put on my Mando deodorant plus sweat control.
1292
00:41:16,655 –> 00:41:18,975
And I love you doing it with a real working guy with
1293
00:41:18,975 –> 00:41:20,295
a stay classy t-shirt.
1294
00:41:20,295 –> 00:41:21,535
Stay classy Detroit.
1295
00:41:21,535 –> 00:41:22,855
That’s made in Detroit.
1296
00:41:22,855 –> 00:41:25,855
I mean, they got a lot of good stuff,
1297
00:41:25,855 –> 00:41:26,255
man.
1298
00:41:26,255 –> 00:41:26,815
Look it up.
1299
00:41:27,295 –> 00:41:28,255
Holidays are coming.
1300
00:41:29,655 –> 00:41:30,815
Okay, smell this.
1301
00:41:31,935 –> 00:41:32,415
Smell that.
1302
00:41:33,375 –> 00:41:35,015
Do I have to do it after you put that on?
1303
00:41:35,015 –> 00:41:36,335
I think it smells armpits instead.
1304
00:41:36,415 –> 00:41:37,215
Well, you’re a working guy.
1305
00:41:37,215 –> 00:41:37,535
Come on.
1306
00:41:38,575 –> 00:41:39,655
Isn’t it like light?
1307
00:41:39,655 –> 00:41:40,735
Yeah, it’s very.
1308
00:41:40,735 –> 00:41:41,095
Isn’t it?
1309
00:41:41,095 –> 00:41:41,655
I like it.
1310
00:41:41,855 –> 00:41:43,695
Slightly citrus,
1311
00:41:43,695 –> 00:41:44,255
but it’s…
1312
00:41:44,575 –> 00:41:44,975
Hey, try it.
1313
00:41:45,535 –> 00:41:47,055
Well, I’ve got deodorant on.
1314
00:41:47,055 –> 00:41:47,375
Thanks.
1315
00:41:47,375 –> 00:41:47,855
Oh, okay.
1316
00:41:48,415 –> 00:41:49,615
Well, you don’t have Mando on.
1317
00:41:49,695 –> 00:41:50,975
Yeah, you don’t have Mando.
1318
00:41:50,975 –> 00:41:52,655
Do you have the whole body deodorant,
1319
00:41:53,135 –> 00:41:54,215
pits, packages,
1320
00:41:54,215 –> 00:41:54,615
and feet?
1321
00:41:54,655 –> 00:41:55,975
I don’t, but I’m going to look into it.
1322
00:42:02,895 –> 00:42:03,695
That’s why it’s whole body.
1323
00:42:03,695 –> 00:42:03,935
It’s cool.
1324
00:42:05,935 –> 00:42:06,815
There, smell it.
1325
00:42:08,775 –> 00:42:09,775
Come on, man.
1326
00:42:09,815 –> 00:42:12,095
We’re good with ourselves.
1327
00:42:12,575 –> 00:42:13,375
Not that good.
1328
00:42:13,535 –> 00:42:14,175
Give me your wrist.
1329
00:42:14,735 –> 00:42:15,375
My wrist.
1330
00:42:15,455 –> 00:42:15,775
Smell it.
1331
00:42:18,295 –> 00:42:19,015
It’s refreshing,
1332
00:42:19,015 –> 00:42:19,255
man.
1333
00:42:19,255 –> 00:42:20,015
No whole body.
1334
00:42:20,015 –> 00:42:21,215
I don’t have a great sense of smell.
1335
00:42:21,215 –> 00:42:22,455
This one’s not popping for me.
1336
00:42:22,455 –> 00:42:23,695
That’s bourbon leather.
1337
00:42:24,415 –> 00:42:25,215
Well, that’s the thing.
1338
00:42:25,215 –> 00:42:26,415
It’s a little subtle for me.
1339
00:42:27,295 –> 00:42:27,935
too subtle.
1340
00:42:28,255 –> 00:42:30,255
I had a couple of concussions and I don’t smell very
1341
00:42:30,255 –> 00:42:30,415
good.
1342
00:42:30,415 –> 00:42:32,455
No, but like when you’re walking around,
1343
00:42:32,455 –> 00:42:35,295
do you want your deodorants to be overwhelming?
1344
00:42:35,295 –> 00:42:36,975
You want them to be subtle?
1345
00:42:37,215 –> 00:42:37,775
Well, yes,
1346
00:42:37,775 –> 00:42:37,895
yeah.
1347
00:42:38,415 –> 00:42:39,375
You know, let’s see.
1348
00:42:39,535 –> 00:42:43,135
So stop buying shitty deodorant from the drugstore.
1349
00:42:43,695 –> 00:42:46,175
Go to shopmando.com.
1350
00:42:46,495 –> 00:42:49,615
S-H-O-P-M-A-N-D-O.
1351
00:42:50,015 –> 00:42:50,335
By the way,
1352
00:42:50,335 –> 00:42:51,375
they sell this in the drugstore.
1353
00:42:51,375 –> 00:42:51,775
I’ve seen it.
1354
00:42:52,255 –> 00:42:54,255
Yeah, and you’ll get all these.
1355
00:42:54,255 –> 00:42:55,615
You’ll get the body deodorant,
1356
00:42:56,015 –> 00:42:57,375
the stick,
1357
00:42:57,855 –> 00:42:59,535
the body wash,
1358
00:42:59,735 –> 00:43:01,135
which is actually really nice.
1359
00:43:02,415 –> 00:43:06,095
I use this cream because my hands get puckered in the
1360
00:43:06,095 –> 00:43:08,415
cold and it’s really nice and subtle.
1361
00:43:08,495 –> 00:43:09,615
And the wipes.
1362
00:43:10,895 –> 00:43:11,615
What kind of wipes?
1363
00:43:13,135 –> 00:43:14,615
Acidified deodorant wipes.
1364
00:43:14,655 –> 00:43:15,295
Oh, again,
1365
00:43:15,295 –> 00:43:16,015
for your package,
1366
00:43:16,015 –> 00:43:16,655
your feet.
1367
00:43:17,535 –> 00:43:20,895
So shot mando.com at use,
1368
00:43:21,055 –> 00:43:23,215
actually for the guy that showers after work,
1369
00:43:23,215 –> 00:43:24,575
that’s a good way to start the day.
1370
00:43:24,975 –> 00:43:27,895
A little deodorant wipe before you go do your blue
1371
00:43:27,935 –> 00:43:28,415
collar job.
1372
00:43:28,695 –> 00:43:29,415
Don’t flush them though.
1373
00:43:29,415 –> 00:43:31,895
Don’t come to American Coney Island and be flushing
1374
00:43:31,895 –> 00:43:32,415
wipes.
1375
00:43:32,815 –> 00:43:33,295
You know why?
1376
00:43:33,575 –> 00:43:35,535
Because I’m the fucker that’s got a snake that drains.
1377
00:43:36,655 –> 00:43:37,455
The wipes.
1378
00:43:38,295 –> 00:43:39,655
It’s devastating.
1379
00:43:39,655 –> 00:43:41,815
There’s nothing worse than having to work on a public
1380
00:43:41,815 –> 00:43:42,255
toilet.
1381
00:43:42,975 –> 00:43:43,455
You know what I mean?
1382
00:43:43,455 –> 00:43:45,815
But I’m a working guy and I don’t want to stink like
1383
00:43:45,815 –> 00:43:46,575
a public toilet.
1384
00:43:46,735 –> 00:43:49,295
So I go to shopmando.com.
1385
00:43:49,295 –> 00:43:50,975
I use no BS NewsHour,
1386
00:43:51,135 –> 00:43:53,055
get 20% off.
1387
00:43:53,695 –> 00:43:54,655
Shop Mando,
1388
00:43:54,735 –> 00:43:55,535
what up though?
1389
00:43:55,775 –> 00:43:56,415
Know what I’m saying?
1390
00:43:56,575 –> 00:43:57,375
Just no BS.
1391
00:43:57,815 –> 00:43:58,495
Isn’t that the code?
1392
00:43:58,495 –> 00:43:59,055
No BS.
1393
00:43:59,775 –> 00:44:00,095
Yes.
1394
00:44:00,655 –> 00:44:01,135
What was it?
1395
00:44:01,135 –> 00:44:01,935
Ken, you got some?
1396
00:44:02,415 –> 00:44:02,855
No BS.
1397
00:44:03,175 –> 00:44:03,935
They arrive yet?
1398
00:44:04,375 –> 00:44:04,655
Tomorrow.
1399
00:44:04,975 –> 00:44:07,215
Did you get regular shipping?
1400
00:44:09,055 –> 00:44:09,375
I did.
1401
00:44:09,375 –> 00:44:09,935
I’m telling you,
1402
00:44:09,935 –> 00:44:11,935
bro, you should have got that thing expedited.
1403
00:44:14,695 –> 00:44:15,655
Because he was late today,
1404
00:44:15,655 –> 00:44:15,895
right?
1405
00:44:15,895 –> 00:44:16,935
And he’s a little sweaty.
1406
00:44:17,415 –> 00:44:18,615
But he can’t wait.
1407
00:44:19,175 –> 00:44:20,855
Ken, I want you to make a video.
1408
00:44:21,415 –> 00:44:22,335
Get ready and just,
1409
00:44:22,455 –> 00:44:22,855
you know.
1410
00:44:23,855 –> 00:44:25,375
While I do the read,
1411
00:44:25,375 –> 00:44:28,415
you can show everybody how a real man gets ready with
1412
00:44:28,415 –> 00:44:29,455
a real product.
1413
00:44:29,735 –> 00:44:31,055
ShopMando.com.
1414
00:44:32,375 –> 00:44:32,695
Beautiful.
1415
00:44:33,655 –> 00:44:34,935
And no BS.
1416
00:44:35,095 –> 00:44:37,335
Okay, so let’s…
1417
00:44:38,215 –> 00:44:38,855
Where you going?
1418
00:44:39,375 –> 00:44:40,135
Got stuff to do?
1419
00:44:40,135 –> 00:44:40,815
All right.
1420
00:44:41,815 –> 00:44:42,015
All right.
1421
00:44:42,015 –> 00:44:42,615
Where are we going here?
1422
00:44:42,615 –> 00:44:43,655
Where are we going,
1423
00:44:43,655 –> 00:44:43,975
Mark?
1424
00:44:44,615 –> 00:44:45,055
Dirt.
1425
00:44:45,175 –> 00:44:45,735
Dirt time.
1426
00:44:45,895 –> 00:44:46,535
Oh, okay.
1427
00:44:46,535 –> 00:44:47,175
Disaster.
1428
00:44:47,175 –> 00:44:47,295
Yeah.
1429
00:44:47,295 –> 00:44:48,455
Give me some breaking news.
1430
00:44:50,455 –> 00:44:51,095
This, this,
1431
00:44:51,095 –> 00:44:52,895
this fucking town’s on fire.
1432
00:44:55,535 –> 00:44:57,575
Remember talking about dirt forever?
1433
00:44:57,975 –> 00:44:58,455
Dirt, dirt,
1434
00:44:58,455 –> 00:44:58,775
dirt.
1435
00:44:59,415 –> 00:45:01,815
And now we’ve come to find out that the Northland Mall
1436
00:45:01,815 –> 00:45:03,975
contaminated shit’s been thrown in Detroit.
1437
00:45:04,535 –> 00:45:06,055
It’s sprawling.
1438
00:45:06,535 –> 00:45:07,815
There’s there is now.
1439
00:45:09,975 –> 00:45:12,935
the Detroit Police Department’s organized crime unit,
1440
00:45:13,655 –> 00:45:14,935
pulling through all of it.
1441
00:45:15,335 –> 00:45:17,495
It’s going to burn up to Duggan.
1442
00:45:17,655 –> 00:45:21,335
It’s going to follow him unless they can make things
1443
00:45:21,335 –> 00:45:21,815
go away.
1444
00:45:21,815 –> 00:45:23,015
But I got the plan.
1445
00:45:23,015 –> 00:45:26,535
And if you’re going to make things go away and it might
1446
00:45:26,775 –> 00:45:30,535
consume the new if Mary Sheffield wins,
1447
00:45:30,535 –> 00:45:33,215
this might be an issue that she got to deal with right
1448
00:45:33,215 –> 00:45:36,695
off the rip because one contractor,
1449
00:45:36,775 –> 00:45:39,175
Guyanga, they tested
1450
00:45:39,735 –> 00:45:45,335
randomly 40 holes 34 of them came back red hot right
1451
00:45:45,335 –> 00:45:51,535
you it’s their poison he got thousands of demolitions
1452
00:45:51,535 –> 00:45:55,095
that he did so I’d you know how much it cost to like
1453
00:45:55,255 –> 00:46:00,375
test a hole it’s thousands right maybe 10,000 and
1454
00:46:00,375 –> 00:46:04,775
to replace all that dirt and shit 60 70 80,000 times
1455
00:46:04,775 –> 00:46:06,215
that by 2,000
1456
00:46:06,895 –> 00:46:08,615
What if the other contractors did it?
1457
00:46:08,735 –> 00:46:09,335
What if others are?
1458
00:46:09,495 –> 00:46:11,255
So all that’s going on.
1459
00:46:12,215 –> 00:46:13,895
It’s a really big deal.
1460
00:46:13,895 –> 00:46:14,855
We’re on it.
1461
00:46:16,495 –> 00:46:16,935
Breaking news,
1462
00:46:16,935 –> 00:46:17,175
Mark.
1463
00:46:19,735 –> 00:46:20,975
Want to comment on that?
1464
00:46:20,975 –> 00:46:22,055
Give me the politics of that.
1465
00:46:24,295 –> 00:46:26,175
Mike Duggan wants to run for governor as in the end.
1466
00:46:26,215 –> 00:46:27,335
Yeah, I tell you what,
1467
00:46:27,335 –> 00:46:30,455
I think Mary Sheffield will be the next mayor,
1468
00:46:30,855 –> 00:46:32,055
and I would not want that job.
1469
00:46:33,415 –> 00:46:35,295
It’s going to be less important who the next mayor
1470
00:46:35,295 –> 00:46:35,375
is.
1471
00:46:35,375 –> 00:46:37,495
It’s going to be more important who’s the mayor after
1472
00:46:37,495 –> 00:46:39,855
that, because the next mayor is going to be cleaning
1473
00:46:39,855 –> 00:46:40,775
up a lot of messes.
1474
00:46:42,455 –> 00:46:42,855
Go ahead.
1475
00:46:43,015 –> 00:46:43,735
You got some insights.
1476
00:46:44,135 –> 00:46:44,895
Talk to the people.
1477
00:46:44,895 –> 00:46:46,215
Look, you know,
1478
00:46:46,455 –> 00:46:47,575
this issue aside,
1479
00:46:47,655 –> 00:46:48,935
you got in 10 years,
1480
00:46:48,935 –> 00:46:52,175
general revenues have been flat at $1.5 billion.
1481
00:46:52,695 –> 00:46:55,775
Police and fire unions that had to take a haircut because
1482
00:46:55,775 –> 00:46:56,615
of the bankruptcy,
1483
00:46:56,855 –> 00:46:57,975
their contracts are up.
1484
00:46:57,975 –> 00:47:00,175
You’re going to they’re going to want at least 3%.
1485
00:47:00,455 –> 00:47:01,815
The Biden bucks are gone.
1486
00:47:02,615 –> 00:47:03,855
Where do you get money?
1487
00:47:03,855 –> 00:47:05,255
Where do you get new revenues?
1488
00:47:05,255 –> 00:47:07,895
And there’s not enough growth happening in the city.
1489
00:47:07,895 –> 00:47:10,895
There’s too many sweetheart deals for developers who
1490
00:47:11,015 –> 00:47:12,135
basically are taking…
1491
00:47:12,855 –> 00:47:15,415
the tax revenue going into the new developments into
1492
00:47:15,415 –> 00:47:15,895
the city.
1493
00:47:16,135 –> 00:47:16,935
It’s going to them,
1494
00:47:16,935 –> 00:47:17,975
not to the residents,
1495
00:47:17,975 –> 00:47:18,855
not to the city,
1496
00:47:19,095 –> 00:47:20,455
not to the general fund.
1497
00:47:20,535 –> 00:47:23,655
And there’s going to be some big gaps in the budget.
1498
00:47:23,655 –> 00:47:25,335
And I don’t know where they’re going to get the revenue.
1499
00:47:25,495 –> 00:47:27,415
And they’re probably going to then go raise taxes.
1500
00:47:27,575 –> 00:47:30,455
And that’s going to achieve in the short term some
1501
00:47:30,455 –> 00:47:31,175
new revenues.
1502
00:47:31,175 –> 00:47:32,055
But in the long term,
1503
00:47:32,215 –> 00:47:33,855
you’re going to lose businesses and you’re going to
1504
00:47:33,855 –> 00:47:36,295
lose revenue and it’s going to actually be worse for
1505
00:47:36,295 –> 00:47:36,695
the city.
1506
00:47:36,695 –> 00:47:38,775
So the next four years are going to be shit.
1507
00:47:39,575 –> 00:47:41,015
Is it again,
1508
00:47:41,015 –> 00:47:41,495
because you
1509
00:47:43,095 –> 00:47:47,655
circulating DC and Lansing and Detroit and the burbs.
1510
00:47:47,975 –> 00:47:49,415
Is that what you’re hearing from?
1511
00:47:50,695 –> 00:47:51,135
Oh, no.
1512
00:47:51,175 –> 00:47:52,455
I think outside of,
1513
00:47:52,495 –> 00:47:53,575
I mean, within Michigan,
1514
00:47:53,575 –> 00:47:55,375
I think people that understand understand.
1515
00:47:55,375 –> 00:47:57,895
No, I’m talking about the political set.
1516
00:47:57,895 –> 00:47:58,255
I would say.
1517
00:47:58,855 –> 00:48:01,375
I think some people that pay attention and care about
1518
00:48:01,375 –> 00:48:03,975
Detroit, but that’s usually limited to Metro Detroit
1519
00:48:03,975 –> 00:48:04,295
people.
1520
00:48:04,695 –> 00:48:08,535
Most out-state politicians of either party basically
1521
00:48:08,535 –> 00:48:09,935
have a fuck Detroit attitude.
1522
00:48:10,055 –> 00:48:12,495
I think that’s improved over the last decade.
1523
00:48:13,415 –> 00:48:15,815
because things appear to be better.
1524
00:48:16,375 –> 00:48:19,015
We feel better about Detroit than we have felt in the
1525
00:48:19,015 –> 00:48:19,495
past.
1526
00:48:19,975 –> 00:48:23,335
And one thing that I think Detroit has stood out is
1527
00:48:23,335 –> 00:48:25,815
when you’ve had so many problems in other big cities
1528
00:48:25,815 –> 00:48:28,775
around the country in a lot of different ways from
1529
00:48:29,815 –> 00:48:31,575
crime, to budgets,
1530
00:48:31,575 –> 00:48:33,655
to protest,
1531
00:48:33,655 –> 00:48:34,455
a lot of things.
1532
00:48:34,775 –> 00:48:36,455
Detroit seems,
1533
00:48:36,535 –> 00:48:37,895
seems, in quotes,
1534
00:48:38,535 –> 00:48:40,135
to have avoided a lot of that.
1535
00:48:40,135 –> 00:48:42,215
But I think what they’ve done is put off a lot of those
1536
00:48:42,215 –> 00:48:42,615
problems.
1537
00:48:42,615 –> 00:48:44,855
And I think they’re going to come screaming in the
1538
00:48:44,855 –> 00:48:45,655
next four years.
1539
00:48:46,535 –> 00:48:47,135
In Lansing,
1540
00:48:47,135 –> 00:48:47,815
they understand this,
1541
00:48:47,815 –> 00:48:48,175
don’t they?
1542
00:48:48,175 –> 00:48:48,455
Yes.
1543
00:48:48,455 –> 00:48:49,495
In the Capitol building.
1544
00:48:49,815 –> 00:48:50,175
They know,
1545
00:48:50,375 –> 00:48:50,775
because
1546
00:48:51,655 –> 00:48:54,815
You got to go to the state when you don’t have the
1547
00:48:54,815 –> 00:48:58,055
money and you’re the Michigan’s largest city.
1548
00:48:58,375 –> 00:48:59,855
You can’t let it collapse.
1549
00:49:00,055 –> 00:49:00,695
Listen, I mean,
1550
00:49:00,695 –> 00:49:02,135
they got rid of the SOAR program,
1551
00:49:02,135 –> 00:49:05,575
which gave billions to the autos with the promises
1552
00:49:05,615 –> 00:49:06,295
of jobs.
1553
00:49:06,335 –> 00:49:07,895
All we got were parking lots.
1554
00:49:07,895 –> 00:49:08,375
Told you.
1555
00:49:08,375 –> 00:49:10,855
And you and I were talking about that.
1556
00:49:11,095 –> 00:49:12,455
There were people like Tom Barrett,
1557
00:49:12,855 –> 00:49:13,775
who’s now in Congress,
1558
00:49:13,775 –> 00:49:16,455
who led the fight against this in the state legislature.
1559
00:49:16,535 –> 00:49:17,615
Brave Tom Barrett,
1560
00:49:17,615 –> 00:49:18,375
who, by the way,
1561
00:49:18,375 –> 00:49:20,855
he’s got GM in his district and he’s going,
1562
00:49:20,855 –> 00:49:21,375
No!
1563
00:49:21,455 –> 00:49:22,215
No welfare.
1564
00:49:22,455 –> 00:49:24,615
It’s really hard to do because people like,
1565
00:49:24,615 –> 00:49:25,575
I depend on Gia.
1566
00:49:25,815 –> 00:49:26,775
Anyway, I digress.
1567
00:49:26,775 –> 00:49:27,175
Go ahead.
1568
00:49:27,655 –> 00:49:28,455
So, you know,
1569
00:49:28,455 –> 00:49:29,175
Speaker Hall,
1570
00:49:29,175 –> 00:49:29,895
to his credit,
1571
00:49:29,895 –> 00:49:30,615
has basically said,
1572
00:49:30,615 –> 00:49:31,575
we’re done with this shit.
1573
00:49:31,575 –> 00:49:33,335
We’re done with the corporate welfare,
1574
00:49:33,335 –> 00:49:35,015
giving it to the autos,
1575
00:49:35,335 –> 00:49:36,815
to preferred businesses.
1576
00:49:36,815 –> 00:49:38,695
And I just don’t think there’s any appetite.
1577
00:49:38,695 –> 00:49:40,935
So when you talk about that Rensen development,
1578
00:49:40,935 –> 00:49:41,735
getting state money,
1579
00:49:42,055 –> 00:49:43,815
I don’t see how the hell Matt Hall,
1580
00:49:43,815 –> 00:49:44,855
the Speaker of the House,
1581
00:49:45,895 –> 00:49:51,895
gives Detroit $350 million towards of taxpayer money
1582
00:49:51,895 –> 00:49:54,375
towards something that’s going to benefit.
1583
00:49:54,415 –> 00:49:55,815
It’s called lobbyists.
1584
00:49:55,815 –> 00:49:57,695
You go up there and you throw money around.
1585
00:49:57,695 –> 00:49:59,455
And look, the politics is not there.
1586
00:49:59,455 –> 00:50:00,935
There’s some very smart people up there,
1587
00:50:00,935 –> 00:50:01,655
but in general,
1588
00:50:01,655 –> 00:50:03,975
I’ve learned that politicians are pretty dumb.
1589
00:50:03,975 –> 00:50:05,495
That’s why they’re not in business.
1590
00:50:05,895 –> 00:50:06,535
You know what I mean?
1591
00:50:06,895 –> 00:50:07,695
So you just go up to,
1592
00:50:07,695 –> 00:50:09,695
you put something in their ear and they parrot it
1593
00:50:09,695 –> 00:50:11,015
and then they vote for it.
1594
00:50:11,615 –> 00:50:12,575
And hopefully when they leave,
1595
00:50:12,575 –> 00:50:13,815
there’s a job for them somewhere.
1596
00:50:13,815 –> 00:50:17,895
But the only reward in the election is if you represent
1597
00:50:17,895 –> 00:50:19,815
Detroit, maybe in the suburbs.
1598
00:50:19,975 –> 00:50:21,895
But when you get outside of Metro Detroit,
1599
00:50:22,135 –> 00:50:24,935
these state legislators don’t give a shit about giving
1600
00:50:24,935 –> 00:50:26,695
$350 million to Detroit.
1601
00:50:26,695 –> 00:50:27,215
They just don’t.
1602
00:50:27,215 –> 00:50:27,575
They should have.
1603
00:50:27,895 –> 00:50:28,615
You know, like I said,
1604
00:50:28,615 –> 00:50:29,575
I love Detroit,
1605
00:50:30,055 –> 00:50:32,295
but Detroit’s been done wrong.
1606
00:50:32,975 –> 00:50:33,495
For decades.
1607
00:50:33,495 –> 00:50:35,655
It wasn’t even Detroiters that were getting this money.
1608
00:50:35,815 –> 00:50:38,375
They maybe get a contract or a job with the city,
1609
00:50:38,535 –> 00:50:39,495
but the big money,
1610
00:50:39,575 –> 00:50:40,615
oh, they live out there,
1611
00:50:41,095 –> 00:50:41,415
right?
1612
00:50:41,495 –> 00:50:42,455
They live out there.
1613
00:50:42,455 –> 00:50:46,855
No, crony capitalism has to go next.
1614
00:50:47,455 –> 00:50:49,015
And that goes for stadium deals too.
1615
00:50:49,015 –> 00:50:50,295
Oh, for sure.
1616
00:50:50,295 –> 00:50:53,655
These stadium deals are cancer on cities and on taxpayers.
1617
00:50:54,655 –> 00:50:55,255
A pox.
1618
00:50:55,255 –> 00:50:55,415
Yeah.
1619
00:50:56,775 –> 00:50:57,895
But I use Mando.
1620
00:51:00,055 –> 00:51:00,535
So you don’t,
1621
00:51:00,535 –> 00:51:01,615
so you don’t sweat the small.
1622
00:51:01,615 –> 00:51:04,695
I don’t sweat the small stuff and neither does my big
1623
00:51:04,695 –> 00:51:05,255
package.
1624
00:51:10,375 –> 00:51:11,175
Well, Dana,
1625
00:51:11,335 –> 00:51:13,495
it’s been 90 business days.
1626
00:51:14,455 –> 00:51:18,975
Time to cough up my paperwork.
1627
00:51:21,175 –> 00:51:21,215
$3,147.80.
1628
00:51:22,055 –> 00:51:23,175
Nope.
1629
00:51:23,255 –> 00:51:23,295
$0.90.
1630
00:51:24,455 –> 00:51:25,095
Keep the dime.
1631
00:51:26,175 –> 00:51:27,095
Call someone who cares.
1632
00:51:29,255 –> 00:51:30,295
Charlie Leduff here,
1633
00:51:30,455 –> 00:51:31,415
world’s greatest St.
1634
00:51:31,415 –> 00:51:31,975
reporter.
1635
00:51:32,135 –> 00:51:34,295
Under the Freedom of Information Act,
1636
00:51:34,775 –> 00:51:38,695
I asked for all documents given to the federal government
1637
00:51:38,695 –> 00:51:42,455
in 2020 when the Department of Justice was looking
1638
00:51:42,455 –> 00:51:45,335
into the civil rights of those old people in the nursing
1639
00:51:45,335 –> 00:51:45,575
homes.
1640
00:51:46,055 –> 00:51:48,215
I want to know what Whitmer told them.
1641
00:51:48,375 –> 00:51:50,375
So the Attorney General,
1642
00:51:50,375 –> 00:51:51,015
Daniel Nessel,
1643
00:51:51,015 –> 00:51:53,015
pulled the oldest trick in the journalism book.
1644
00:51:53,695 –> 00:51:57,575
You can have that information for $3,147.80.
1645
00:51:58,135 –> 00:52:00,855
That’s supposed to make me go away,
1646
00:52:01,335 –> 00:52:02,375
but I ain’t going away.
1647
00:52:02,895 –> 00:52:04,295
I’m here to call the bluff.
1648
00:52:04,695 –> 00:52:06,295
The great state of Michigan,
1649
00:52:06,935 –> 00:52:06,975
$3,147.80.
1650
00:52:08,535 –> 00:52:11,175
No, let’s make that $0.90,
1651
00:52:11,175 –> 00:52:14,455
’cause here’s a dime.
1652
00:52:15,095 –> 00:52:17,935
Call someone who cares.
1653
00:52:17,935 –> 00:52:18,775
Here’s a dime.
1654
00:52:30,215 –> 00:52:34,695
Friday, Attorney General’s office closed.
1655
00:52:42,455 –> 00:52:47,055
It’s kind of sleepy in the state capitol for a middle
1656
00:52:47,055 –> 00:52:48,455
of the afternoon business day,
1657
00:52:48,455 –> 00:52:48,855
isn’t it?
1658
00:52:49,335 –> 00:52:51,215
Everybody’s probably working their second job.
1659
00:52:51,935 –> 00:52:55,335
which is being investigated by the legislature.
1660
00:52:55,495 –> 00:52:56,295
You’re in trouble.
1661
00:52:56,615 –> 00:52:58,455
If I was you and y’all was working a second job,
1662
00:52:59,175 –> 00:53:01,015
I’d be leaving that second job right about now.
1663
00:53:03,695 –> 00:53:04,135
Keep going,
1664
00:53:04,135 –> 00:53:05,175
next door.
1665
00:53:09,575 –> 00:53:11,495
Look, it’s the only two guys working in Lansing.
1666
00:53:13,015 –> 00:53:14,535
The Menon Williams,
1667
00:53:14,535 –> 00:53:17,095
the meningitis,
1668
00:53:18,215 –> 00:53:19,535
men, I don’t know.
1669
00:53:23,335 –> 00:53:25,015
Here to see the FOIA coordinator.
1670
00:53:25,015 –> 00:53:27,175
I’ve got a check for my Freedom of Information.
1671
00:53:30,135 –> 00:53:30,695
Citizen.
1672
00:53:31,895 –> 00:53:32,855
Citizen Informer.
1673
00:53:34,575 –> 00:53:35,295
I’m also a citizen.
1674
00:53:38,055 –> 00:53:39,975
Maybe she could come down and just get it from me.
1675
00:53:40,295 –> 00:53:40,935
Is she in today?
1676
00:53:50,895 –> 00:53:52,055
Government moves slowly.
1677
00:53:52,335 –> 00:53:52,695
Yes, ma’am.
1678
00:53:53,735 –> 00:53:55,575
Why is there a pride flag in the lobby,
1679
00:53:55,575 –> 00:53:57,255
but not a First Nations flag?
1680
00:53:57,655 –> 00:53:58,535
Freedom costs.
1681
00:53:58,615 –> 00:54:00,455
It costs $3,147.90 because keep the dime,
1682
00:54:00,455 –> 00:54:01,335
call someone who cares.
1683
00:54:02,535 –> 00:54:03,535
Hit it.
1684
00:54:03,535 –> 00:54:05,135
Here’s a dime,
1685
00:54:05,135 –> 00:54:06,615
don’t call someone who cares.
1686
00:54:07,335 –> 00:54:16,935
But I’ve never experienced it in this building before,
1687
00:54:16,935 –> 00:54:17,735
so I’m not sure who.
1688
00:54:18,335 –> 00:54:19,335
to call who to contact,
1689
00:54:19,335 –> 00:54:19,655
so.
1690
00:54:20,615 –> 00:54:21,255
Not here.
1691
00:54:21,255 –> 00:54:23,095
I’m sure she’s here.
1692
00:54:24,375 –> 00:54:25,895
She wouldn’t have a second job or anything.
1693
00:54:25,895 –> 00:54:28,055
Do you want to give her a call?
1694
00:54:28,055 –> 00:54:29,455
I want to see if I can find an office.
1695
00:54:29,495 –> 00:54:30,735
Sure, I can give her a call.
1696
00:54:30,735 –> 00:54:31,495
Let’s see here.
1697
00:54:31,815 –> 00:54:34,455
Yes, it’s Charlie LeDuff from the Michigan Enjoyer.
1698
00:54:34,455 –> 00:54:37,415
I just have a quite sizable check for a…
1699
00:54:39,615 –> 00:54:41,615
I have a check for a FOIA that I wanted to give to
1700
00:54:41,615 –> 00:54:41,815
her.
1701
00:54:44,295 –> 00:54:46,775
That’s where I’m at.
1702
00:54:46,775 –> 00:54:47,375
We need future
1703
00:54:47,455 –> 00:54:49,255
We’re proud Michigan educators.
1704
00:54:49,575 –> 00:54:51,975
We need you to help shape our future.
1705
00:54:52,215 –> 00:54:54,535
Ignite a passion for lifelong learning.
1706
00:54:54,895 –> 00:54:57,015
Do you want to leave her a voicemail?
1707
00:54:57,415 –> 00:54:58,775
No, I want to leave my check,
1708
00:54:58,775 –> 00:55:01,335
as I was told by letter from her.
1709
00:55:01,335 –> 00:55:03,735
So can somebody come get this check,
1710
00:55:03,735 –> 00:55:04,135
please?
1711
00:55:05,375 –> 00:55:07,295
Where is the check at?
1712
00:55:07,575 –> 00:55:09,175
It’s in my hands here in the lobby.
1713
00:55:11,015 –> 00:55:13,255
Oh, you’re in the building downstairs.
1714
00:55:13,255 –> 00:55:13,895
Yes, ma’am.
1715
00:55:14,815 –> 00:55:15,495
Oh my God.
1716
00:55:16,095 –> 00:55:18,455
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.
1717
00:55:19,815 –> 00:55:20,775
That’s interesting.
1718
00:55:21,015 –> 00:55:21,775
I have a check for $3,147.90.
1719
00:55:21,775 –> 00:55:22,215
Keep the dime.
1720
00:55:22,215 –> 00:55:25,175
Call someone who cares.
1721
00:55:25,775 –> 00:55:26,455
Here’s a dime.
1722
00:55:26,455 –> 00:55:27,415
Go call someone who cares.
1723
00:55:31,895 –> 00:55:32,375
How you doing?
1724
00:55:32,375 –> 00:55:36,975
At least somebody came to work.
1725
00:55:39,415 –> 00:55:40,575
Somebody come down and get the check.
1726
00:55:40,855 –> 00:55:41,255
Perfect.
1727
00:55:41,455 –> 00:55:43,575
Yeah, we solved it.
1728
00:55:43,655 –> 00:55:45,335
See when Americans put their minds together,
1729
00:55:45,335 –> 00:55:47,495
man, you know American ends in I can.
1730
00:55:50,855 –> 00:55:51,335
Does.
1731
00:55:52,135 –> 00:55:53,055
You coming to get this?
1732
00:55:53,055 –> 00:55:54,135
I am.
1733
00:55:54,135 –> 00:55:57,135
And thanks so much for coming to work and taking care
1734
00:55:57,135 –> 00:55:58,135
of the public’s business.
1735
00:55:58,135 –> 00:55:58,895
Really kind of you.
1736
00:55:58,895 –> 00:55:59,015
Sure.
1737
00:55:59,255 –> 00:55:59,815
No problem.
1738
00:55:59,815 –> 00:56:00,855
I’ll make sure that she gets it.
1739
00:56:00,855 –> 00:56:02,135
And I will see you in 90 days.
1740
00:56:02,535 –> 00:56:02,735
Okay.
1741
00:56:03,175 –> 00:56:03,575
Pleasure.
1742
00:56:03,695 –> 00:56:03,975
Thank you.
1743
00:56:04,055 –> 00:56:05,175
Have a good one.
1744
00:56:05,175 –> 00:56:05,655
Okay.
1745
00:56:06,495 –> 00:56:07,575
Let’s get the hell out of here.
1746
00:56:07,895 –> 00:56:10,935
Well, those documents should be ready in 90 days,
1747
00:56:11,095 –> 00:56:12,455
probably on a Tuesday.
1748
00:56:16,775 –> 00:56:17,975
Probably on a Tuesday.
1749
00:56:18,375 –> 00:56:19,255
Turns out,
1750
00:56:19,895 –> 00:56:20,935
it’s a Thursday.
1751
00:56:21,895 –> 00:56:22,775
Get ’em ready.
1752
00:56:23,615 –> 00:56:24,175
I’m looking.
1753
00:56:24,615 –> 00:56:25,415
I don’t think it’s gonna…
1754
00:56:25,575 –> 00:56:29,535
Oh, far be it for me to tell you how to do your job,
1755
00:56:29,535 –> 00:56:29,775
Ms.
1756
00:56:29,775 –> 00:56:33,335
Nestle, but you should have all the documents.
1757
00:56:34,975 –> 00:56:35,975
in that file,
1758
00:56:35,975 –> 00:56:37,335
because I have some of them,
1759
00:56:37,335 –> 00:56:40,855
and if those aren’t in the file that you’re giving
1760
00:56:40,855 –> 00:56:42,815
to me, you have violated the law.
1761
00:56:42,895 –> 00:56:43,655
Is that obstruction?
1762
00:56:44,615 –> 00:56:45,175
Could be.
1763
00:56:46,575 –> 00:56:46,735
Yeah.
1764
00:56:47,175 –> 00:56:47,895
Here’s a dime cut.
1765
00:56:48,655 –> 00:56:50,135
But the problem is,
1766
00:56:50,135 –> 00:56:52,215
who would enforce that?
1767
00:56:52,295 –> 00:56:53,135
Well, Damon Nestle,
1768
00:56:53,135 –> 00:56:53,575
of course.
1769
00:56:53,815 –> 00:56:54,615
Exactly, but we all know.
1770
00:56:56,935 –> 00:56:58,215
I’m waiting for this.
1771
00:57:06,535 –> 00:57:07,815
Speaking of next Tuesday,
1772
00:57:07,815 –> 00:57:09,255
you all remember what happened to me?
1773
00:57:10,055 –> 00:57:10,455
I do.
1774
00:57:11,975 –> 00:57:13,255
Remember the old lady?
1775
00:57:14,535 –> 00:57:16,535
Nestle’s buddy was taking care of her.
1776
00:57:16,535 –> 00:57:21,535
It was alleged that she’s trying to commit some fraud
1777
00:57:21,535 –> 00:57:23,015
in the old lady’s name,
1778
00:57:23,015 –> 00:57:24,695
and Nestle interfered with it,
1779
00:57:24,695 –> 00:57:26,935
even gave her the active case file.
1780
00:57:28,695 –> 00:57:31,015
Well, the old lady died.
1781
00:57:32,175 –> 00:57:38,215
whatever happened I can’t tell you until next week
1782
00:57:38,935 –> 00:57:58,855
but hit it I ain’t forgotten lady so tune in next
1783
00:57:58,855 –> 00:58:01,495
week for exclusive major
1784
00:58:02,135 –> 00:58:03,175
Breaking news.
1785
00:58:04,135 –> 00:58:05,495
And if I was the Attorney General,
1786
00:58:05,495 –> 00:58:06,535
and I’m glad I’m not,
1787
00:58:07,495 –> 00:58:10,615
I’d be collecting my things because Judgment Day is
1788
00:58:10,615 –> 00:58:10,975
coming.
1789
00:58:11,975 –> 00:58:13,255
See you next Wednesday.
