Ferndale

Oxford over Rochester has 15-14.

Ferndale over Pontiac, 62-0.

Pontiac stinks.

Stony Creek over Rochester, 41-14.

It is indeed our pleasure.

Okay, so in the wake of everything that's happening and there's all kinds of negative stuff going on and my, not my, the Jewish Ferndale Library has a shelf now.

It started out as one book and we stuck it into history on anti-Semitism.

That was 10 years ago.

Very good.

Okay.

So, uh, big, big thing coming up that, uh, Jewish frontline is doing is a concert in Ferndale.

Um, tell us about this concert.

It was the early, early, like whispers of doing it.

So I thought, "Well, maybe I'll find their phone number, Renaissance Pictures in Ferndale, Michigan.

I'll call 'em up and maybe they'll hire me as a production assistant." That's literally all-

That was your plan.

in the area, not just in Pontiac, but in the area.

And to the point that you just made, you know, players from all around the county, whether it was Ferndale, whether it was Birmingham, whether it was Rochester, whether it was out there in Clarkson or whatever, they came to Pontiac to play basketball, whether it was at the rec center or whether it was at the high schools.

So I think it gave everybody a good feel of, in my view, where they are in their playing.

And truly, as you were just saying about playing at Pontiac Central, it was a tough place to play because of the way it was built.

You had the last word where I eventually worked, um, and Raven's club.

And then you also had the Oakland in Ferndale.

And that was like the only bars that I knew of.

Um, John Foley out of, at the laundry and Fenton was also doing cocktails too, but like they were known for their food, but he happened to have a really good bar program too.

So either, you know, contact us on our website or call the national hotline, but national hotline is, is really good because they collect the data.

If you know, the beauty of the national hotline is like, say you're in Ferndale, Michigan, and you see something going on at Woodward on Woodward and something doesn't look right.

You might just call the hotline and say, you know, there's a car, you know, girls were getting in or whatever get the license plate number get as much descriptions you call it's anonymous they'll keep that information but if the next day somebody else calls and somebody else calls that's the beauty of the hotline is they'll connect the dots and they will contact local law enforcement or the fbi or who and that is often how these rings are broken up is that somebody sees something calls the national hotline and their data collectors they And they're only as good, that data is only as good as the people that call and the quality of the call.

Right.

You get that in the Midwest as well, right? I mean, in Detroit and the Detroit area, Detroit, when I say from Detroit, yeah, yeah.

Like you grew up outside of Detroit, Royal Oak, Ferndale, Birmingham, you know, all of these places.

And there's, I mean, just brilliant, brilliant Lebanese food in Dearborn.

Right.

But every person makes some impact on the planet every single day, and we get to choose what sort of difference we make.

As I record this episode from my bedroom in Ferndale, Michigan, I'm thinking about those words, about purpose, honesty, and the starting line we each begin from.

We may not agree on everything, especially on big issues like affirmative action.

But the evidence is clear.