Marc and Shawn wait for ML to return from Fox 2, where he dropped in to opine on the Detroit mayor’s race – and proves that you CAN go home again!







STRAIGHT DOPE: Last month, ML told the story of why he left Fox 2 back in 2019. Today, he was back at the station, offering commentary on the Detroit mayor’s race. Marc asks him what it was like to “go home.” If you missed his hit on the news, you can read all about his take on the mayoral candidates in his latest column for the Free Press – and this week’s column is FREE.







ML makes a bold prediction for who he thinks will finish first and second in the mayoral primary. Listen and, if he got it right, remember you heard it here first. (If he got it wrong, forget this ever happened…)







ML recaps Soul Night at the Cadieux, where big-hearted Matt Riley crushed the feather bowling dreams of a 12-year-old, and a beautiful woman professes that she only came out to meet … SHAWN. (True story!!!)







While Shawn recounts some of the old TV shows he’s catching up with, ML asks Marc to debut a new drop that, if it were a cologne, would be called “Essence of Windsor.”







All you Nobel Prize winning physicists out there may appreciate ML’s cold fusion joke. (The rest of you can just laugh, in an ill-fated attempt to show how brilliant you are.)







The “Naked Gun” reboot has ML wondering whether it’s coincidence or some kind of cosmic plan that Leslie Nielsen and Liam Neeson have the same initials and are serious actors who turned to comedy when their career stalled.







Marc suggests that Neeson’s career is getting a bounce from his new girlfriend, Pamela Anderson, who Shawn says he would rather date now than in her heyday. ML and Marc are incredulous.







Did you notice the way the dude in the intro says “protein?” Is it just us, or was it weird. Or, as Shawn suggests, was he saying “protean?” And just what the hell is that, anyway?







The Free Press and News literally “STOPPED THE PRESSES” for the last time on Monday. ML pays tribute to the men and women who made the magic happen at the plant on Mound and Metro Parkway, while Marc asks ML and Shawn if they know the last time someone actually stopped the presses for a big story.







Shawn opines on the Tigers’ performance at the trade deadline in his latest column. Read it here.







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GEEK OF THE WEEK: Politicians who try to break our system for short-term gain are this week’s geek. ML explains.







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