M.L. Elrick (@elrick), Marc Fellhauer (@MarcFell) and Shawn Windsor (@ShawnWindsor) enjoy an extraordinary and unprecedented event, when Michael Bullotta, one of the federal prosecutors who helped send Kwame Kilpatrick to prison for 28 years, drops in at Red Shovel HQ. 

THE STRAIGHT DOPE: The University of Michigan Wolverines men’s baseball team is SO impressive, they’ve turned ML soft.

Why does Kwame Kilpatrick — a HUGE “Godfather” fan — make ML feel like Michael Corleone? Listen and learn.

Bullotta weighs in on Deadline Detroit’s big scoop – the disclosure that Kilpatrick wrote a butt-kissing letter to President Trump seeking a pardon. 

Deadline Detroit’s scoop is SO good, Bullotta acknowledges that he didn’t know about the letter until DD reported it. He says the feds were alerted, however, when Kilpatrick asked Obama to cut him a break a few years ago.

While ML reads Kilpatrick’s letter, Bullotta sets the record straight on the many lies in it — starting with Kilpatrick’s claim that President Obama was out to get him.

ML exhausts multiple highlighters marking parts of Kilpatrick’s letters where Hizzoner sucks up to Trump or lies, while Marc risks repetitive motion injury by pressing a button activating a buzzer which sounds every time Kilpatrick lies in his letter, and Shawn defends Hizzoner’s grammar and syntax.

Somehow ML veers off into a lecture about the surprising disposition of U.S. Supreme Court justices over the last 75 years, prompting Shawn to opine on the decisive role played by the current Chief Justice — proving, once again, that the Soul of Detroit podcast makes learning fun!

Bullotta identifies oodles of Kilpatrick lies, noting that his claims he dinnit do nuttin rong is not consistent with six months of testimony, approximately 100 witnesses and thousands of exhibits presented at the trial that determined that Hizzoner DID do PLENTY wrong.

Bullotta and ML explode the myth that Kilpatrick’s 28-year sentence is egregious, citing other public officials who have received comparable sentence...