Leland Follies – July 22, 2020
ML Soul of Detroit
ML Soul of Detroit
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🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Detroit. |
| 0:04.0 | My city, where the wheels of the global economy never stopped turning. |
| 0:09.0 | A concrete metropolis of unparalleled strength and purpose that drives the business world. |
| 0:16.0 | It is a tough place. |
| 0:20.0 | If you're not careful, it can chew you up and spit you out. But if you work hard, you can really hit it big. And I mean really big. |
| 0:32.6 | My name is M. L. Elric. and I'm the third largest podcast here in Detroit. |
| 0:40.9 | But it wasn't always so easy. About 13 years ago, I was seriously in trouble. |
| 0:49.5 | You asked you to Iraq, Detroit, right on my shirt. It's gone. |
| 0:52.9 | 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 in Mel. I'm not qualified for this job. Let me tell you some. You want to go right now? Okay? You want to go right now? Th years ago, I was in big trouble. |
| 1:11.4 | I'm in big trouble right now. |
| 1:13.0 | Things don't really change that much in my life. |
| 1:15.8 | I want to apologize, my good friends, for our late start today. |
| 1:19.7 | I've been following the Detroit City Council meeting this morning to see whether any council members or whether Gabe Leland himself would say something about the criminal |
| 1:27.9 | charges filed against him last Friday for misconduct in office. |
| 1:32.0 | That was a free press exclusive. |
| 1:34.5 | And it follows up on our reporting that this case, the bribery case against Gabe Leland, |
| 1:39.3 | may be resolved in state court. |
| 1:41.6 | We're still following that story and expect to have something for you later |
| 1:44.5 | today at Freep.com, including a look at the filthy four, the other four Detroit City Council |
| 1:50.0 | members who have been charged with corruption in the last 15 years, all of whom it did not end |
| 1:56.3 | well. Three of them went to prison. One of them went to the grave. So more on that coming up at the free press. |
| 2:03.5 | We appreciate you waiting for our Facebook Live broadcast to start. For those of you who are not watching Facebook Live, you're getting the whole show. We appreciate you listening because that's the only way to get every single second of this show. That may be a bad bad thing we tend to think it's not so bad |
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