Yeah, still letting Mel Gibson direct movies.
I thought we moved past him
as a society here at open mic.
We'd like to start the show by giving
you a fresh and funny look at a
couple things going on in the area.
I'm from Prince Georges County.
I live in the District of Columbia,
so like you, I care about our community.
I'm starting things off right here
in downtown DC because there's a big
change coming to the district and
investment fund called CGI Merchant
Group reached a deal to buy the Trump
International Hotel for $375 million.
And they were moving all traces
of the Trump name.
We want no end in our money over to
greedy corporations and Wall Street.
They're gonna need to scrub.
That plays harder than Lady
Macbeth and hazmat suits.
It's gonna take elbow grease
to remove full years worth of
political stank from that building.
There used to be a protest every day
outside the Trump International Hotel.
People walk past that block of Pennsylvania
Ave and speed up like they're in the hood.
Now it's bad when your hotel
had more dignity and his former
life when it was a post office.
The House Oversight Committee released
documents saying the hotel Los $70 million.
While Trump was in office,
a Nakano lodge would have
done better in that spot,
and by the way breakfast
is free at Econo Lodge.
Those same brown cantaloupe slices are
probably $20 at the Trump International.
Next up,
let's look at a story from Fairfax,
VA and shift gears in the most literal sense,
because when I see some high octane
nonsense I gotta call it out.
Fairfax County police are investigating
after hundreds of people gathered at
the Kingstowne Towne Center Saturday
night as cars did burnouts and Donuts.
In the parking lot.
Hundreds of cars and people
just smell like burnt rubber taking
over the kingstowne center parking lot.
It may look like something out of fast
and furious in the center section was
where they're doing the Donuts and there's
just a bunch of kids just standing
around that that might be a hazard.
You know? I mean, they're so close
to that car doing the Donuts.
Yeah, it might be a that looks
like the guy who called the police.
He went out there to relive
a small taste of his youth.
That is the only reason to
go investigate the situation.
He needed an excuse to get out
of the house on a Saturday night.
Good luck with that.
The only thing missing from
this clip was Vin Diesel's Bald
Head and Tyrese yelling.
Two fast, two furious before
he cries on social media.
Also, how come none of y'all
invited me to the party?
Now I wasn't gonna go 'cause y'all reckless,
but it would have been nice to be
invited to the suburban autobahn.
A spokesperson for FCPD tells me they
do have photo evidence of this and
they are looking to press charges.
Fairfax took that one from the DC
playbook 'cause we live in constant
fear of seeing a flash at a traffic
light tick tock and Snapchat
about to get all y'all hemmed up.
Now I'm wrapping things up with what appears
to be good news from Howard University,
demonstrators announcers now an agreement
between the university's administration
and its students bring in into a month
long protest over housing issues,
transparency and representation that
saw over 100 students occupy the
Blackburn University Center. I can't
even begin to explain.
How hurt? We are alive.
Congratulations to the students
on holding the line 'cause I
don't know if I'm strong enough
to sleep on floors for a month.
I'd have to tap out on night too.
Thanks to my back,
my eyes would have been on the prize,
but my lumbar region would be on fire now.
There was at two years that I lived
in San Francisco on a air mattress
back in my backsliding days,
but in that era Reese could feel no
pain and pay no rent details on the
settlement have been scarce so far.
Probably by design.
Somebody has to find a way to frame this.
Like they didn't blink first.
You can bet a PR firm is working
overtime to where things just right.
That might be harder than the
actual negotiations, so good luck.
Will keep you posted as this story develops.
'cause we've been following
it from the very beginning.