Well, I hold in my hand here the ultimate knick knack of television production, the Emmy.

And I guess I'm happy to report that we do more than news every week here at the No BS News

Hour. We make documentaries and we've been awarded the 2022 Michigan Emmy for documentary.

Thank you very much. That's me, Byron Gagan and our friend Ira Todd, retired Detroit

police interrogator, decided we wanted to take a look at gun violence, particularly as it pertains

to children. It was all the rage, all the stuff coming out of the pandemic. There were articles

everywhere. We started this project before the pandemic hit and it was really difficult

to get it done during the pandemic with the lockdowns. But we thought it was important. And to me,

it's kind of the culmination of the work I've been trying to do here since I moved back all those years

ago. And I mean, not much for awards, proud to get it as an acknowledgement. I didn't put myself

up for it, but these aren't the things people should be chasing. I mean, it's not like we went after

the scam artist that ripped grandma off on her sidewalk or you know, latest breaking news.

There was a house fire or you know, fill in weekend anchor of the year. It's none of that. It's

I guess it's nice, but this is what it's about. What this

documentary, well, I should say this, there's a lot of news. There's a lot of things going,

but we need to take a break. We need to show you this. And what it is, it's called Kiss the Babies.

And it's a multi year look at Detroit, particularly. I mean, gun violence against children is a

national epidemic. And Detroit is one of the ground zeroes. There's only one place where children are

more abused. And that would be St. Louis. It's worse here than Chicago, worse here than Philadelphia.

And I don't know what we're doing. We keep diverting taxes to rich men to make them richer. And if

you watch this, you'll see what life is like in the neighborhood. What happens when you defund

police and you defund schools, you're not really building for the future. So it's not, it is depressing.

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