Elrick (Twitter/Facebook/Instagram)is on vacation, yet seems to be playing close attention to the show as his fellow Pulitzer Prizer winner […]

* Elrick (Twitter/Facebook/Instagram)is on vacation, yet seems to be playing close attention to the show as his fellow Pulitzer Prizer winner & Detroit Free Press Senior News Director Jim Schaefer (Twitter) fills his seat. Shawn Windsor (Twitter) is also on “vacation”, but managed to make it in to discuss the state of journalism. Marc Fellhauer (Twitter)never gets vacations.* THE STRAIGHT DOPE: Jim Schaefer joins us to try and explain what is happening with the state of journalism. A lack of money is a main issue.* The subscription paywall is a point of contention for some readers seemingly because no one knows how the selection process is made.* Jim feels that there is a blurring between journalist reporting news and columnists espousing their opinions.* Is the Dr. Robert Anderson/University of Michigan scandal protested by a “blue wall” in the media? Shouldn’t this big a bigger story nation wide?* The fill-ins call ML to find out what is so important that he couldn’t make the show today.* GEEK OF THE WEEK: Marc names the Randolph Township Board of Education in New Jersey the geek of the week for flip flopping all over the place for fear of upsetting anyone only to end up right where they started.* ROOM 7609: Shawn infuriates ML by selecting a great song by a popular band.* HARD OUT: Need a new ride? Roy O’Brien has been putting metro Detroiters on wheels for 74 years. Before you shop anywhere else, get on the right track to 9 Mile and Mack and check out their super groovy showroom. Find our more at www.royobrien.net.* Stop looking so terrible and go get a haircut from Lady Janes. Visit Lady Janes website, find the nearest location and book your appointment today.* Don’t lose your mind trying to make sense of the financial markets. Let Luke Nowacki of Pinnacle help you make the right decisions that will help keep you on firm financial footing. Contact Luke at www.pinnaclewealthstrategies.com and be sure to tell him you heard about him on the Soul of Detroit! * If you need a mortgage or want to refinance your new digs or save on high-interest debt, contact Hall Financial at https://davidhallmortgage.com/soul or 248-308-5000 and let them know ML told you to call! * You — YES, YOU — can sponsor the show by hitting the DONATE button at www.mlsoulofdetroit.com. NO AMOUNT IS TOO SMALL (or too large)!* Please subscribe to and share the podcast — your endorsement is very powerful! * We always appreciate your feedback at mlsoulofdetroit@gmail or 313-Butterfield8-9070 (aka 313-288-9070). If you leave a message, you could hear your voice on the air!

Our church correspondent provides an eye-witness account of Kwame Kilpatrick’s Sunday sermon before we debut a new release from The […]

* Our church correspondent provides an eye-witness account of Kwame Kilpatrick’s Sunday sermon before we debut a new release from The King’s English and delve into the career of Ministry. M.L. Elrick (Twitter @elrick/Facebook ML ELRICK/Instagram ml_elrick) and Marc Fellhauer (Twitter @MarcFell) carry on while Shawn Windsor (Twitter @ShawnWindsor) recuperates. Joey Zuver rocks out with his socks off. Or something like that…* THE STRAIGHT DOPE: ML tells a hairy tale of the epic fail of his 2007 beater on his way to a campaign fundraiser hockey game. Find out whether he made it to the rink on time — and who won a sweet medal.* Zak Pashak of Detroit Bikes isn’t just the coolest impresario on two wheels, he moonlights as a roving reporter. This week, he recounts what he saw and heard when he sat in on Kwame Kilpatrick’s trip behind the pulpit at Detroit’s Historic Little Rock Baptist Church.  * Renaissance man Max Prokop — attorney, singer, songwriter, bassist, lead guitarist, you name it — unveils the new video for The King’s English. Max also plays in The Smiths United and Shasta Fox. Catch Shasta Fox on 6/30 at The Traffic Jam, when they headline ML’s first public campaign fundraiser. To sign up, click here.* GEEK OF THE WEEK: A dirtbag — it takes more than DNA to make a dad — who paid his last child support bill with 80,000 pennies unintentionally inspired his kids to donate the dough to a domestic violence shelter. That, in turn, inspired ML, Marc and Shawn to pledge to contribute every donation to the show made in June to Crossroads in Detroit. ML also pledges to match those donations. Find out more about Crossroads at https://crossroadsofmichigan.org* ROOM 7609: Listener Todd wanted to hear some Ministry. So we give him — and the world — more than it bargained for.* HARD OUT: Need a new ride? Roy O’Brien has been putting metro Detroiters on wheels for 74 years. Before you shop anywhere else, get on the right track to 9 Mile and Mack and check out their super groovy showroom. Find our more at www.royobrien.net.* Stop looking so terrible and go get a haircut from Lady Janes. Visit Lady Janes website, find the nearest location and book your appointment today.* Don’t lose your mind trying to make sense of the financial markets. Let Luke Nowacki of Pinnacle help you make the right decisions that will help keep you on firm financial footing. Contact Luke at www.pinnaclewealthstrategies.com and be sure to tell him you heard about him on the Soul of Detroit! * If you need a mortgage or want to refinance your new digs or save on high-interest debt, contact Hall Financial at https://davidhallmortgage.com/soul or 248-308-5000 and let them know ML told you to call! * You — YES, YOU — can sponsor the show by hitting the DONATE button at www.mlsoulofdetroit.com. NO AMOUNT IS TOO SMALL (or too large)!

Kwame Kilpatrick is getting married and becoming a preacher, according to an exclusive report at DeadlineDetroit.com. M.L. Elrick (Twitter @elrick/Facebook ML […]

* 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!* REPRESENT! Show your Soul of Detroit pride with great merchandise, ranging from our limited-edition, hand-made in Detroit commemorate bike — available for pre-sale through May 31. We also have hip trucker hats, retro keychains, masks and gaiters, super groovy hockey jerseys, comfy logo t-shirts, stickers, neon clocks and signed copies of “The Kwame Sutra: Musings on Lust, Life and Leadership from Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.” Each copy includes a smart aleck inscription penned personally by ML! Open your heart, open your wallet at www.drewandmikestore.com* HARD OUT: Need a new ride? Roy O’Brien has been putting metro Detroiters on wheels for 74 years. Before you shop anywhere else, get on the right track to 9 Mile and Mack and check out their super groovy showroom. Find our more at www.royobrien.net.* Stop looking so terrible and go get a haircut from Lady Janes. Visit Lady Janes website, find the nearest location and book your appointment today.* Don’t lose your mind trying to make sense of the financial markets. Let Luke Nowacki of Pinnacle help you make the right decisions that will help keep you on firm financial footing. Contact Luke at www.pinnaclewealthstrategies.com and be sure to tell him you heard about him on the Soul of Detroit!

Detroit Lions beat writer Dave Birkett (Twitter @DaveBirkett) has covered hope, heartbreak, hard times — everything but a playoff victory. […]

* Detroit Lions beat writer Dave Birkett (Twitter @DaveBirkett) has covered hope, heartbreak, hard times — everything but a playoff victory. M.L. Elrick (Twitter @elrick/Facebook ML ELRICK/Instagram ml_elrick), Marc Fellhauer (Twitter @MarcFell) and Shawn Windsor (Twitter @ShawnWindsor) ask what it’s like to stare into the oblivion for a living. Joey Zuver thinks they’re talking about HIS job!* THE STRAIGHT DOPE: Seriously! This is your ABSOLUTELY LAST CHANCE to order your Soul of Detroit bike at www.drewandmikestore.com. SERIOUSLY!!!* You won’t need a bike to get around downtown if you can catch a FREE ride with GEST Carts. CEO Damon Dickens talks about his alternative to Uber and Lyft … and did we mention it’s FREE? Visit www.gestcarts.com or call 313-770-2273* This isn’t a sports podcast, so we try to connect with Detroit Lions beat writer Dave Birkett on a HUMAN LEVEL. Dave talks about how he approaches what almost always turns out to be a disappointing season.* Shawn asks a long question. ML takes note.* ML mounts a furious, but futile, defense of John L Smith.* GEEK OF THE WEEK: Yet another passenger who thought she was free to move about the cabin and throw haymakers at a flight attendant wins this week’s (dis)honor. * ROOM 7609: A FOS — Fan of Shawn — invites Adam and the Ants to perform “Here Comes the Grump” in the New Wave suite. Somehow Paul McCartney is involved.* FIRST AMENDMENT TIME: Chloe asked last week how the City of Detroit plans to spend nearly $900 million in federal aid. ML did some digging and has some answers about how Mayor Mike Duggan wants to spend more than half of that dough.* Michelle asked Shawn to do some digging. Listen and learn whether he came through.* REPRESENT! Show your Soul of Detroit pride with great merchandise, ranging from our limited-edition, hand-made in Detroit commemorate bike — available for pre-sale through May 31. We also have hip trucker hats, retro keychains, masks and gaiters, super groovy hockey jerseys, comfy logo t-shirts, stickers, neon clocks and signed copies of “The Kwame Sutra: Musings on Lust, Life and Leadership from Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.” Each copy includes a smart aleck inscription penned personally by ML! Open your heart, open your wallet at www.drewandmikestore.com* HARD OUT: Need a new ride? Roy O’Brien has been putting metro Detroiters on wheels for 74 years. Before you shop anywhere else, get on the right track to 9 Mile and Mack and check out their super groovy showroom. Find our more at www.royobrien.net.* Stop looking so terrible and go get a haircut from Lady Janes. Visit Lady Janes website, find the nearest location and book your appointment today.* Don’t lose your mind trying to make sense of the financial markets. Let Luke Nowacki of Pinnacle help you make the right decisions that will help keep you on firm financial...

Every reporter has a story they thought would make a splash that instead made a thud. M.L. Elrick (Twitter @elrick/Facebook […]

* Every reporter has a story they thought would make a splash that instead made a thud. M.L. Elrick (Twitter @elrick/Facebook ML ELRICK/Instagram ml_elrick), Marc Fellhauer (Twitter @MarcFell) and Shawn Windsor (Twitter @ShawnWindsor) reflect on the potential blockbusters that failed to excite the public. Joey Zuver is too polite to say whether this show topic falls into that category. Plus, ML’s hubristic Yin & Shawn’s humble Yang.* THE STRAIGHT DOPE: Get your order in before May 31 for your Soul of Detroit bike at www.drewandmikestore.com before time expires!* Before the show gets to the subject at hand, there is a lengthy discussion of some nasty stuff, from long johns Marc found in the Big House johns to, well, we can’t blame you if you speed through the first few minutes.* Listener Kendell asked a few weeks ago which stories seemed destined to shiver the Detroit River and shake the lake but, somehow, didn’t even make a splash. So ML goes through a litany of his exposes on mayoral expenses to public officials mistreating women to shady or slacker elected officials that did not result in a public outcry.* The triumvirate debates why some stories provoke outrage in some places and at some times, while the same subjects have fallen flat here. * Shawn bemoans the new emphasis on stories that will generate subscriptions and public engagement over just plain interesting stuff. * ML says a story’s failure to elicit public interest is really a failure of the reporter/writer to demonstrate how it impacts them … then he realizes that means the failure of his fizzled stories might be because he didn’t do a good enough job!* GEEK OF THE WEEK: Fredo Cuomo and CNN take the clown crown for their role in helping Sonny Cuomo deal with a crisis of his own making. * ROOM 7609: Marc and Shawn have a good laugh at ML’s expense as he nobly tries to respond to the wishes of a loyal listener. After that foolishness is exhausted, the boys enjoy “Legal Tender” by the B-52s.* FIRST AMENDMENT TIME: Shawn love … Keith Appling … and nearly a billion dollars in federal assistance dominate this week’s correspondence.* REPRESENT! Show your Soul of Detroit pride with great merchandise, ranging from our limited-edition, hand-made in Detroit commemorate bike — available for pre-sale through May 31. We also have hip trucker hats, retro keychains, masks and gaiters, super groovy hockey jerseys, comfy logo t-shirts, stickers, neon clocks and signed copies of “The Kwame Sutra: Musings on Lust, Life and Leadership from Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.” Each copy includes a smart aleck inscription penned personally by ML! Open your heart, open your wallet at www.drewandmikestore.com* HARD OUT: Need a new ride? Roy O’Brien has been putting metro Detroiters on wheels for 74 years. Before you shop anywhere else, get on the right track to 9 Mile and Mack and check out their super groovy showroom. Find our more at www.royobrien.net.* Stop looking so terrible and go get a haircut from Lady Janes. Visit Lady Janes website, find the nearest location and book your appointment today.*