Escape with us now to the wind-swept peak of Furndale.

And the story of a man who sacrificed everything to climb it, as M.L. Eric tells it, in his gripping story, Conquest.

You asked it around your finger out of my face.

Get your finger out of my face.

Take the first shot, and if you want to count your finger out of my face. It's gone out of my face. Take the first shot. And if you want to count it, your finger out of my face.

It's gone.

What do you do? What are you doing? That is not painful by them. That is painful by the people of Detroit. Let me talk to you want to go right now? Okay? You want to go right now, Elric? The Joel Pell ML Elric of Fox 2 News, checking in.

Just a quick program note to start the show.

We last week talked about the art of surveillance and the art of the stakeout and getting

our man.

We did get our man, and that story is airing on Fox 2.

We will have the link to that on our website, ML Soul of Detroit.Tetroit.com, where you'll see it in the story notes.

Of course, you can find that story and all the stories we do at Fox2, Detroit.com.

I wanted to get into that this week, but you know what?

I am going to put that on hold because Jeffrey Epstein, his unexpected death, I guess unexpected by nobody because he tried to kill himself before, has ginned up a bunch of conspiracies.

And conspiracies are a pet peeve of mine.

I have spent more time in my career investigating the Manugian Mansion Party rumor than any other story

I've ever looked into. We're going to get into that. We're going to talk about some other

legendary Detroit conspiracies, some of which turned out to be true, some of which were all a

bunch of bunk. And just in general, I got to throw this out here.

When it comes to media conspiracies, let me just tell you about media conspiracies.

If you knew how every single thing produced by the media came so close to not being produced, including this show,

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