• Kwame Kilpatrick is getting married and becoming a preacher, according to an exclusive report at DeadlineDetroit.com. M.L. Elrick (Twitter @elrick/Facebook ML ELRICK/Instagram ml_elrick) and Marc Fellhauer (Twitter @MarcFell) discuss the news with DeadlineDetroit.com Editor Allan Lengel, who spoke with Hizzoner. Shawn Windsor (Twitter @ShawnWindsor) is under the weather and Joey Zuver is underwhelmed.
• THE STRAIGHT DOPE: This was shaping up to be a ho-hum episode when Allan sent ML a text alerting him to Allan’s exclusive interview with Kwame Kilpatrick for DeadlineDetroit.com.
• Allan dishes on how he got the former mayor to open up about his life after prison, the sermons he plans to speak in Detroit and his future plans.
• Marc tells Allan he’s still skeptical about Kilpatrick.
• ML wants to know more about the marriage.
• Shawn shares a yawn.
• Allan and ML opine on whether Kilpatrick was REALLY shocked when the jury in his federal trial on racketeering and public corruption charges delivered its verdict.
• GEEK OF THE WEEK: Feds snooping on reporters, and bigoted boaters can’t compete with the guy who claimed he killed an iguana in self-defense in the competition to be this week’s geek.
• ROOM 7609: “Sinead O’Connor is a New Wave artist?” a shocked Shawn says. ML explains, with a little lesson on MC Lyte thrown in for good measure.
• FIRST AMENDMENT TIME: You ask some good questions. Do our answers measure up? Listen and see, er, hear!
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