I was born and raised in this city.

And Lord willing, I'm going to heaven from right here in this city.

I want to tell you, Detroit, that you don't set me up for a comeback.

Hell yeah.

You asked you to Iraq.

The church is gone.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

That is not painful by them. That is painful by the people of Detroit. You might be qualified, M.L. I'm not qualified for this job. Let me tell you something. You want to go right now? Okay? Do you want to go right now? Hey, kids, it's your old pal, M.L. Elric trapped in a time warp. Yes, I have returned to the free press.

Yes, I took a special project's job.

And then I started covering the mayor of Detroit.

And now Kwame Kilpatrick's Freest, and I'm covering the old mayor of Detroit too.

And couldn't be more pleased to be with you on a short break.

We're having updates posting throughout the day and throughout the weekend at Freep.com.

So if you're wondering where this story is going, you can follow it there.

And, of course, we'll have that on my Facebook page, which is ML, E-L-R-I-C-K,

where you may be seeing us right now and Twitter at Elric.

And we're joined by a guy who doesn't really care that much or

have any interest in Kwame Kilpatrick matters that would be Drew Lane and Mark Felhauer has

brought us all together to talk about the story that seems to never end gentlemen thanks for

thanks for joining me in my personal nightmare yeah you know i i i can't believe we're talking

about this yeah right off the bat and uh this was supposed to be a cooking segment

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