The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 754 - Marion Berry - Live

Episode Date: October 6, 2026

Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine Mayor Marion Berry. Recorded live in Washington, DCSOURCESTOUR DATESOFFICIAL MERCHSQUARESPACE - Use OFFER CODE: DOLLOP to save 10%HIMSNutrafol - Use code: DollopRocketmoney See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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this might be the biggest cheer we've ever heard Mary you're going crazy Mary and Barry Jr was born in it's a bed up Mississippi to poor share crop His earliest memory was being exploited by the white man who owned the cotton seeds, his family planted, and also the cotton buyers. Wow, I didn't realize that was a thing.

His mom could not afford a babysitter, so she took him to the fields to work. Is there not a middle ground to that? Couldn't he sit? Lay? Sit outside and draw? Yeah, but then you get on top of the dirt pile, and... Good point. Yep.

They lived in a tin roof shack with no indoor plumbing or lights. And no inside plumbing. So outside plumbing? That's right. Oh, a sauna. You know, there are certain times when you wouldn't mind an outhouse. When? After Ben's chili bowl. Why? Because it's so small.

I don't think you want to large. What is the small one like? It doesn't exist. Patch holes in his shoes with cardboard. One of his favorite sports was going to the highway and watching the Greyhound bus going to Chicago, wishing he could, quote, get the hell out of there. That's an outhouse with wheels. That is not.

I mean, that is poor. When you look at a Greyhound and you'd be great to be on that. I drove by a guy in my town last week. week and he had like a Ford truck and then he had a Greyhound sticker on the back. Super fucking strange. He just likes Greyhound buses, I love Greyhound buses. There's got to be someone out there. But again, this means that they make Greyhound Bus stickers.

There's not, nobody's right in this one. So his school was a single room segregated schoolhouse with one teacher overseeing 50 kids. Fuck me. It's like today. Yeah, that's California right there. Can we get more kids? One teacher oversaw 50 kids. Teachers like, mm-hmm.

Is that strange to you? Marion said, quote, I don't remember learning very much because she couldn't get around to us. Talk about the teacher. They had buses for white kids, but black kids walked miles to get to and from school. So at four, his father died.

And then his mom moved. the family to Memphis. So she married a butcher and they raised eight kids. Jesus Christ. Marion saw urban segregation firsthand, quote, we couldn't try on clothes. We couldn't try on a hat.

We couldn't try on... Bullshit! Liar! Bullshit! Liar! Couldn't try on a hat. That's a case for this kid. Wait.

Come shoot. Couldn't try on a jacket or a suit and then there were the bathrooms. He was kicked out of the local state fair by cops for being black. Are you liking it? No, it's not a great feeling, but also, you know, I mean, it's terrible, obviously, but you're not missing much if you leave a state fair. You walk 18 feet in a state fair, you've seen it.

I've ever told you my state ferry, my state fair. State ferry. Where would you like to go, David? The Ferris wheel. The games. Poof. State Ferry. I was with my wife when we were at the state fair

and we were going through this big crowd and there, the state fair in L.A. tracks some real gangbangers, like legit dudes. So there's a bunch of you know, very face-tatted Latino gangbangers cruising through and one of them bumps into my wife and she goes, don't say anything. And I was like,

oh no, I was never. I was, never, not even in my mind. Never actually going to happen. Great, Dave's going to fight the Latin Kings again. No, I am not. I have no. My husband's pretty pissed off with you. Shut your fucking mouth. Are you kidding me? I was going to say you can have her.

He is so sick of your shit. Take her. Honey, go ahead, show him. He'll take all five of you on at once. And by the way, he hates the Dodgers. How about that? Well, that I'll stand up for. Now I'll fight you guys.

You will die. Don't say anything. As a teen paperboy, his company offered a trip to New Orleans for signing up 15 new customers, so he and a few of his black buddies did it, but they were banned from the trip because of segregation. Jesus Christ. So Marion started a boycott of the paper until they conceded, and they sent them to St. Louis instead because it wasn't segregated.

Hold on. How old is he? Like 12? Like 12? Yeah, 12 to 13. So 12 years old, he signs up 15 new customers for his paper route to go to New Orleans. He wins the trip. They're like, you can't go because you're black. He gets a boycott of the paper going and they concede to send him to

St. Louis? Yeah. That is terrible. That is it. No trip is better than that. To St. Louis. The New Orleans of Missouri. Now you're really being punished. I like here, yeah. He learned, quote, if you want to change, if you want change, you have to make change happen for yourself.

So in college, Marion joins the campus NAACP and worked his way up to president. In 1959, he took Reverend James Lawson's workshops. He and other activists organized the start of a sit-in movement. They were thrown off stools, had ketchup thrown at the time, them and other food. They were beaten by cops. Many were arrested, including Marion. Can I just point in that ketchup getting thrown out of them on that list is the outlier? They were beaten by cops. They were arrested. Someone threw ketchup on them. It was terrible. One of

them got the chair. One of them had mustard on his hand. Relish as far as the eye could see. They were shot into the ocean and drowned. You're talking to the guy who's never had ketchup thrown on him. You kidding me? You ever been to the state fair? Brother, that's all it is. That's where I lost my wife. Yeah. State fairy, bring back my wife. Unfortunately, she's married to a Latin king.

So many of them arrested, including Marion, the night they were released, Martin Luther King Jr., came to see them and urged them to keep fighting. So Marion fights to desegregate buses in Tennessee next. He was instrumental in founding the student nonviolent coordinating committee or SNCC, known as SNCC.

He was the first chairman. Snick became an iconic pillar of the civil rights movement, and Marion was instrumental in leading its first project, which was registering black voters and organizing direct action in segregated Jamaica, Mississippi. So while they were down there, they lived with locals and hid from cops and lynching parties. Oh, what a cool term for an event.

Marion, quote, if you live with the people, the people will protect you. One night, while Marion was down at a local restaurant, eating and having a drink, his roommate rushed in and said, someone had shot at the house, and a bullet hit Marion's bed. He would have been dead if he hadn't decided to go have a beer.

So there's a great lesson there. Thank you, sir, absolutely. That is a good lesson. Always drink, never sleep at home. He's going to take the wrong lesson from that. No, it's right. Yeah, always be out doing partying, partying and doing drugs. That's the move.

Right, my man? Hell yeah. Hell fucking yeah. In 1965, Marion was sent to D.C. to be the SNCCC. director. His job was to raise money and lobby the government. I wonder what he would think about your plight to boycott Ben's Chili Bowl because of the size of the large. he'd be for it because the working man can't afford chili that's a crazy take

crazy take the fact that you could say that with a straight face is scary 100% straight face yeah that's weird the working man is not getting enough chili what are you talking just like a segregation rally like as well as yes we gotta fight to do all those things that marian was talking about without question

And these chilies are tiny. Who's seen the lodge? That's right. All right. We shall make the chilies bigger. Those chilies are too tiny if you ask me. We shall fight for bulls. Cups are not.

We shall beat up tonight. So day. Listen, we had a meeting. We might have to cut you out of the group. What? Well, your message is just kind of misconstruing and sort of watering down some of the other stuff we're talking about. I mean, we're talking about civil rights.

Yeah. Do you have anything else to say other than yeah once? The black man can't afford. You're the whiteest guy here. What are you talking about? The black man can't afford the chili. Also, real quick, did you fight Latin kings at a state fair? I did not fight them.

I gave my wife away to them. Very different. It was a negotiation. Stop talking. So Marion, quote, the movement did all that. The movement propelled me into leadership. There we go. As this leader in D.C., he dawned a D.

Shiki to look more militant as he organized the free D.C. movement to agitate for home rule, which is the right for D.C. to have its own government as opposed to the fuck hits. Excuse me. The feds, sorry. Did I pronounce that wrong? Yeah. He demanded that local businesses contribute or face a boycott. He became more famous by going head to head with Representative John L. McMillan, chairman of the Congressional Committee that ran the district. Uh-oh. Marion, quote.

Oh, cricky. I'm dying from white. White has consumed me. Black don't crack, but white, like I've been irradiated. Help. So Marion, quote, the citizens of the district of Columbia are tired of living on the McMillan plantation.

Marion organized Pride Incorporated, which put inner city youth to work, cleaning up neighborhoods and throwing away trash. And D.C. wins home rule. Well, we're kind of taking that back a little bit. We got it. We were sitting there in the van and we're like, why are there Army guys? Oh, that's still going on. Those poor, they're literally just walking around sad.

It's just sad guys walking around in military outfits. It's real weird. Depressed cosplay. The guy's just like, I'm... It's like, 17-year-olds like, I didn't understand what they were talking about when I signed the paperwork. I'm supposed to be going to school in Kansas.

I thought it was all going to be fine. Benz doesn't even make a large. So we hit him with the van. We did. So gets elected to the brand-new school board. Okay. And serves as president. So then he ran for and won a seat on the city council

And he was now, quote, a politician With a talent for crossing racial and economic lines To build alliances and get things done. It's like the story of so many politicians. So you're like, finally, an agent of change. Finally, momentum. This is it. Here we go.

Fuck yeah. Has anyone seen him? Oh, fuck. Shit. So I voted Trump. Wow I'm kidding I voted pants

I like his policies never be in the same room as your wife you'd like that I don't have a wife that's my guy I mean I was doing that just help you out a little bit it was that crazy thing to do

It was like a weird power move It's not What are you doing? You know if you need in one soon too Why do I want two? You might get thursday We did. They don't live here.

This is post-coitus. That's my rap name. So, he immediately went back on his class-based promises that he made as an organizer. Here it is, here it is, always, always. He defeated a tax on white-owned businesses and made it his mission to get a pay raise for cops. He, quote, once likened to an occupying, Army. It's cool.

It's always the same. Always the same. Always the same. You go in the other room and you're like, uh, about that. So, uh, we can't do that. Here's the good news.

I'm going to be in a weird sex island cult. So that sounds pretty cool too, huh? He did keep his civil rights, bona fides on social issues like he was one of the first politicians to support gay rights. Okay.

So things are fairly routine for him, except the day armed terrorists took over the council building. What? And accidentally shot Marion in the heart with a shotgun. What? Holy shit. That happens. Well, he's going to have to go see the wizard. He got shot in the heart?

With a shotgun. With a shotgun? Yeah. Man, if you saw someone get up after that, you'd be like, we will never fuck with you again, sir. Holy shit. He was lucky the bullet had ricocheted before hitting him because if it had borrowed an inch deeper, he would have died instantly. Oh, my God. Wow.

Marion was told if he took the council chairmanship in 1977 and waited his turn that he'd be the next in line for mayor. Okay. He said, fuck that. for his campaign team, he was like, well, no. He just ran anyway? Yeah, he's like, fuck it. That's good.

And that is weird. That's a weird way to do it. But I think that's how they normally do it. Yeah, but that's so stupid. And then your turn. And then it'll be your turn. And then when you're 84, you'll be in charge of everything.

And then nothing will ever get done because your pants go up to your neck. And then you'll have a big hunch and you'll just make TikToks and you won't understand what it is. And then when everyone pressures you to retire, you'll be like, now I won't retire. And then you'll have a feckless opponent

and then we'll live in authoritarianism. And then we'll fucking not be able to get through the straight of Hormuz, which I found out about five weeks ago. And then every two days, you're going to text me how you need 50 fucking dollars. For me? The fuck isn't there a large and bends!

Sorry. Go ahead. Well, go on about that last point a little bit. Because I think... My therapist is selfish. Walk me through the chili again. I didn't say chili. It's a small, isn't it?

So he runs, he brings in his soon-to-be wife Effie Slaughter. Effie Slaughter? To work on the campaign. Here she is pining. And old snick comrade as campaign manager, Ivanhoe Donaldson. Okay. Ivanhoe was a socialist who opposed the march on D.C. for it not being militant enough. Oh, so it's all the same.

It's weird that I saw him and I was like, I do like him. I felt drawn. Yeah. Yeah, he is saying he, quote, didn't think it would do much. Stop. We're doing our own protest called Two Kings. Once he faced off with a cop who stuck a gun inside his mouth. Mary Berry got shot in the heart.

You didn't say a goddamn word. This guy got a gun in his mouth. Well, what? No. What? So these three decided that they were going to register 20,000 new voters to create a base for Marion. Okay. Now, D.C.'s over.

Like a free base. Yes. Let's, can we just wait till we get there? People listening home, they're like, what? He just ruined the story. Spoilers. It was too good to not do. I thought it would hit way harder.

Let's take it back. No. Say it, base. The three decided to register 20,000 new voters to create a base. Like what? First? Safe. Hey.

Hey, we got it. We got it. We got it. We'll cut out that other part. A lot of people are looking for refunds right now. I'm among them. So at this point, DC is over 70% black, but few were involved in the government.

So he has to get thousands to vote, and he put a lot of focus on rich white people in Ward 3 also because, quote, I wanted to lead all of Washington and not only the blacks. He wanted their campaign contributions. Yeah, right. I was going to say, because you would ideally be like, go fuck yourself. So for that, he used Effie to make headway, quote, Effie and I made a sexy young couple that kept people talking. What?

Yeah. Fuck. But I love how he's got to have that look of like, we did just fuck. Look, we're looking for a coalition of everybody. We're looking for a coalition of anyone in the city. We support everyone. I did just bang the shit out of her. Wow.

Yeah. So go ahead. Should I write that down? Sure, whatever you want to do. Okay. Yeah. Doggy. Oh. For a second.

Oh. And then we flipped. Flipped? I didn't pop out. Not the easiest move now, is it? No, I just didn't expect this. This is very frank. Very honest.

So yeah, go ahead, write that down. Yeah, okay. I don't want to. It didn't pop out. That's right. Almost, though. Almost. Saved it at the end.

Saved it at the end. Yep. Okay. So back to policy. Popped out before reverse, Calgirl. Yeah, popped out before. for reversed. And I did ask you about job creation.

Well, that leads us to the end. There was a job that had a lot of creation attached to it. Okay, I'll write it down. It's just very, my editor will not allow any of this to go through because it's essentially porn. I'm writing porn. Thanks for stopping by. He rented a double-decker bus and drove around neighborhoods, blasting music, and giving young kids rides. That seems very strange.

I don't know. I love that. So he was just like a school bus? Yeah. Where are we going? School! Okay. We're signing up the election for 30 years from now.

So Marion wanted to be seen as the insurgent, reform, outsider. So he goes on the offense, calling. the two front runners, establishment shills, and naming them, quote, Tweedle D and Tweedle Dumb. Mm. Ouchy. Anytime he brought them up, he always used those names. See, that maybe was, like, creative, but now it's like that to me just is so old because of orange dip shit. It's just like, I don't even give a fuck anymore.

Yeah, no, he's this whole, like, nickname off that takes place in government now. Yeah, he fucked nicknames forever. Yeah. Maybe the worst thing he's done. Yeah. Well. Name something else. He built a coalition, including organized labor, black churches, police, firefighters, teachers,

business leaders, and gay rights groups. Even the Washington Post-Ga-Borboard. What? I mean, have they been terrible the whole time? They never had, but they weren't they the ones that they were the Nixon? They were the Watergate ones, weren't they? What's Watergate? What's Watergate? Yeah.

So they had a minute. It's just now, I mean, now it's, I mean, they're all terrible. Now it's great. And now it's fine catching it stride. Now we've got our bold billionaire space man. Oh. His universalist approach to social issues, not focusing on one over the others, won him the overwhelmingly liberal, white, affluent voters of D.C.

Hmm. I don't think that's... That is not, again, no, wrong. No. Wrong? That didn't happen? No, this is not what you want. Oh. Yeah, I go what you're saying.

But he wants the money. Yeah, of course. But you got to, yeah, you want. You have to have money. Yeah. That's it. A staffer said the lessons he learned. on that campaign or quote, the way you win an election is you declare yourself a candidate,

identify your people, and you let them get to the polls, and you don't worry about the other people. Pardon. Is that not the obvious strategy everyone's employed for every campaign ever? Read that again. The way you win an election. I finally figured it out, Marion. You declare yourself a candidate. That's how you start. That people know that they might be voting for you. You identify your people. So then the people that you're trying to get, we figure out who they are. And you get them to the polls. Then they got to go vote for you.

You understand? You got to convert those people into voters. And you don't worry about the other people. You're non-voters. Don't worry about it. And a dream. I had a vision. I hit my head and I had a dream.

Now do you want to hear how to drive a car? No, but you're saying like, that's how you do it. But I think someone should tell the Democrats this now. now? They have identified their voters. They're Republicans. Polling said he would lose. It was a tight race.

3,000 votes separated first and third, and he won. Wow. Absolute shock in that person right now. What? He was D.C.'s second ever elected mayor. Wait, what? Yeah, it just got self-ruled. Yeah, okay.

The Washington Post poll. asked Marion how they had their numbers wrong. Well, what we did was I said I was a candidate. Then we identified who I wanted my voters to be. Then I got them to the polls, and then I had them vote for me. Then I took my wife in the back. Go on. We got quite sweaty together, the old-fashioned way.

What's that, sauna? No, nope, no. Have you never read any of my other stuff? on it. No. We kept our shirts on. I don't know why I'm linking my pen. You have ink all over your mouth and face. Yeah, it's weird.

What are you doing? It's weird. Yeah, okay. Marion said, quote, you were polling habitual voters, and we got new people to register, and that's what made the difference. It's fucking crazy how it just endlessly is. People figuring that out every 10 years,

like, you know what I did. I found people who didn't vote. and I got them to vote. Wow. Yeah. And then I abandoned them so they'll never come back out again. And then we'll get an authoritarian. That's a bummer.

Thanks for, uh, Marion was late to his own inauguration party because he, quote, couldn't find his dashed. God damn, been there. Yes. Right? He spent his first term setting policies and programs that Democrats used to do, ones that build a lasting base. First, he created jobs by convincing businesses it was

in their best interest to invest in the city. And he went further, creating tens of thousands of jobs through a citywide initiative, which, quote, guaranteed a summer job to every young person living in the district, regardless of economic status. I mean, we do that now. It's just called Uber. What's your problem? Nothing. You don't like solutions? No. One ex-council member, It's amazing the number of people in this city who say, I got my first job from Marion Barry. Turns out people like jobs. Who knew?

Mild sense of something to do, purpose, dignity, and you also have money in your pocket at time to do other stuff. Oh, interesting. What's your deal? Nothing. What are you being combative? I'm a Republican, that's right. So am I.

Oh, shit. For us to come out as Republican casually doing yourself. Great. I mean, obviously. We're MAGA. You know who I really like that I've really taken a life? Erica Kirk. Have you heard some of the... You know, I hadn't heard about her. I just saw her the other day for the first time. She's got that big kind of wide face. Yes.

Yes. She's great. Yeah, she is good. She's really great. She's good. The only human who can't produce tears are driest, driest eye socketed. sent on the hardest task. That's what I would do. I'd be like, if you can cry, for real, I'll give you a million dollars.

No tissues. One night only. Let's see if she can actually cry. Just hold a picture of it in front of her. Still nothing. Oh. Not your tissue. Look, I'm sorry.

There's a flag on that play. I apologize. There is laundry on the field. So he was also the first real champion of the co-op movement. Black people relied on co-ops for decades because whites wouldn't let them into the economy. Okay. We get it. I mean, it's like, enough.

We get it. White people had a bad phase. And then we recovered very quickly. And we started to be decent and fair again. There was that tough era. We got through it. Now we're cool. Ben Shapiro.

Sam Harris. Matt Wall. At Mar-a-Lago. Yeah. And Mar-a-Lago. We have empathy somewhere. If we drill for oil hard enough, we might find compassion. It has to be.

There's still... He was also... I did that. By pulling resources, they could create organizations that allowed them to participate, which is what happened with CAP. The Capitol Cab Cooperative was organized because white cabs refused to serve black riders. White cabs? White cab drivers.

Oh, okay. So I really thought we liked were that overt. The hooded cab company. Okay, white cab drivers, right. Barry established the Commission for Cooperative Economic Development and put his friend Cornelius Cornbread Givens in charge. Cornbread. Fuck me. That just takes me back to corn pop.

Oh, right, me too. Completely. If I hear anything, corn in D.C., I just picture Biden. Corn Pop is the one of the greatest moments in campaign history. They called him cornpop.

He had chains, man. Stop. I won't not stop. I'm going to tell you about this guy as a lifeguard. He used to pull on my leg hairs. You said corn pop because of your stutter, right? Yeah, corn pop's because of my stutter.

And he's one of the best guys. Black fella. I was black back then, too. I miss him. Rest in peace. It's going to be so funny if he doesn't make it before this comes out.

Your definition of funny is a little different. It's not going to do us any favors. I'll say that. He'll be like, these guys are sick fuckers. Oh, wait,

I'll I do the podcast on him. He created... It's written. It's waiting. It's on a shelf. Next to my jerk off lube. What?

Get it. She left. We don't even know about your fucking jackscripts. He created collective ownership of grocery stores, shopping centers, housing developments, credit unions, medical services, and even energy by organizing

black and Latino people to own their neighborhood heating oil in the winter. Oh, my God. How valuable. That's material. Goods. Do you guys remember that? Honestly, no.

It's so far separated from anything like that. We're like, right. Yeah. We could have a co-op. Here's what we can do. We can knock down your student loan percentage, half a percent. And then later, you'll have to pay that back. Because it was a con.

So he was like, if capital is going to flee, then Marion was going to hit them with public owner. ownership, turn a small profit, which went into a charity to fund new projects. He made a law... It's a great start. Yeah, this is all good. He made a law that minimum 35% of the city's contracts went to people of color. Latino, black, and Asian small businesses now got the government money that once all went to whites.

By the way, it is great, but also you said it was like 70% non-white. Yeah, well, yeah. It's just interesting when we're like, finally. We're getting them. Take that, whitey. Oh, that's really going to ding me. Ouchy, walti. Sometimes when walking into a room to meet with representatives from local companies,

he'd see they were all white and would, quote, make a U-turn and walk out. And then the cops would pull them over. Boy, that is so fucking great. It really is. That's so awesome. Excuse me, Mr. Mayor. Where did he go? We have money.

They're just eating money. Oh, where did he go? I love a white guy doing a white guy voice. Hey, dumbass. I'm Ginger. Did you watch TikTok in the last year? I'm not white. Ginger is the most white of the whites.

Says the old guy. who doesn't go on TikTok. I'm different. Whitey. You're basically an orangutan. Better than being a single guy who jacks off to Biden scripts. That's actually awesome what you just described.

That's living the life. Bro, I'm, look, I'm not going to get into it, but you're lucky you have me on this show because it's not just two white guys anymore. It changed last summer on TikTok. stupid. It's because they're getting ready to exterminate the gingers.

Because you're fucking afraid of how awesome we are. Name one thing a ginger can't do. Don't say sun. Go out in the sun. Don't say sun. Not sun. Anything but sun. I want to get laid. It's literally what I was going to say. You can't take away the two things.

Fucking one more. To placate the whites, he worked with them to re-develop Georgetown in other areas. So he's doing great politics and policy, but unfortunately he inherited a very underwater city budget. By 1981, there was a 284 million deficit. By the way, what a dream that would be now. Compared to 39 trillion.

Marion could only fund programs by cutting thousands of union jobs. Is that right? I mean, there were probably other ways. Yeah, I mean... There's other ways. He also raised fees for water and sewer rates by 35%. While brutal and probably not necessary, he thought he had to because Congress refused to fund most,

if not all, of his requests, because it's a black city, basically. That's why. Yeah. So he also took a turn away from his roots and banned some student street protests, and he accepted limitations on federally funded abortions and cuts. and cuts to schools. This is it. This is where it starts to happen, where you just go.

I mean, it is difficult, obviously, because you do have to convert a bunch of other pieces of shit to come along. I mean, you're seeing that in New York City, where you're just like, yeah, you've got to, like, Hockew's got to help Mom Dani to some extent. Yeah, you got to play. But that's why, you know, that's really why we just need to go around the streets on horseback with Spike Bats.

Wow. That's... Right? I mean, that's what you're saying. That's not my term. I would never say anything like that. I think you can do it through petitions and walking. I love walking with spike bats.

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Marian has settled into the establishment. How long has he been mayor? It's been six years now. Okay. So his former activist friends started doing what establishment politicians do. Sure. Embezzlement. Hell yeah, dude.

We're back. An FBI operation caught Ivan Ho Donaldson, now deputy mayor, stealing over 500,000. in today's money. Good cash, good cheddar. Then they got an aide, Roach for stealing 20,000. The name is Roach?

Yeah, the aide's nickname was Roach. Okay. Which obviously, that's a sign. He stole it at night. It came out from under the fridge. Lights on. What are you doing? I didn't even know what I was here.

Sorry about that. So they got him for stealing 20,000 from a Jamaican drug dealer. That one I need the story on. That one. I have the story. Weed. The feds probed Marion's slush funds, expense accounts, and campaign money. He may or may not have sent hush payments to an FBI informant and convicted Coke dealer in return for her refusal to testify before Grand Jerry.

This is it. Now you're in the web. Now you're fucked. Now you're in the web. What do you mean? It's sticky. Your feet are sticky. You can't get out.

It's fine. You're fighting a little bit. You're like, I'll give you money. Shut the fuck up. It's over. Can't do it. I mean, yeah. Did you?

I think she caught herself yelling at her radio. She really thought that I was serious. No, what? You should know this. You wrote it. Shut up, Whitey. Uh, they even subpoenaed two pairs of his, uh, that can't be right. Oh, they even subpoenaed two pairs of his shoes. What? But I hadn't written something wrong there. Listen, you know why we call a gin today.

You two know more than anything. An FBI snitch claimed that Marion bought cocaine from her 20 to 30 times and paid her almost 60,000 in today's money to stay quiet. Wait, for 30 times he bought cocaine. 20 to 30. But he spent 60 grand? No, he paid her off, not to say anything. I was going to say, I've been, I've done good and bad Coke. You're not approaching that figure at all. Unless you're really bad at buying it. By the way, there is some irony in being involved in like some sort of Coke world and having to give someone hush money. Shut the fuck up. I will not. Okay, so here's what we're we're going to change the whole paradigm of this city, motherfucker.

Can you play bass? Let's make a record. I bet I can. Oh, hell yeah. So clearly after six years, plus everyone's doing cocaine at this time. I think it's fine. I think it's fine. These scandals rocked his administration and eroded public trust.

What do you want? I think a politician, look at our politicians now, A bump of cocaine in the system to our over 70-year-old geriatric people could go a long fucking way. You know what I mean? Let's put two lines up Schumer, give him a gummer, and see if anything changes. If not, we kick him in the Hudson. You know what? I'd rather just someone kill me than watch Schumer on cocaine.

Then, my friend, you don't understand the point of living. Chuck Schumer doing a problem. Listen to him. Would you want to listen to that? I honestly would. As he's just pulling his pants up around his mouth, I finally come up with a solution. Hold on, now hear me out, hear me out.

His glasses are hanging out of his lips. I've got it, I've got it, I've got it. His glasses are all fogged up. He's got a little on his nose. Hold on, here's what we do. Oh, my God, instead, no more ball. Wait, everyone has the carpool. No, not carpool.

Every pool has a car. That's better. Write that down. Write that down right now. That's good stuff. he all of a sudden is like, I can stand up straight! Wings pop out of his back.

My final form! Just blowing on the White House. He did two lines. We shall overcome. He drops so fast. He's dead. Wow. That's better now, honestly.

In 1980s, 47 prosecutors finally admitted that they didn't have enough evidence to indict. So, I mean, if they couldn't get anything on anybody, that's not. Yeah, right. Yeah. Some believe the investigations into contractors, which followed his diversity mandate, were more about the skin color of the contractors than the contracts. In all, 14 of his officials, quote, were convicted or pleaded guilty to crime stemming

from their official duties. That's nothing. It's really not compared to what? Nothing. Throughout the 80s, Marion dodged these scandals because he was a really great politician. His ex-speech writer, quote,

he made people feel as if they were the center of the universe. He would engage them, laugh and hugged them, chat, and take pictures. Seniors loved it. He would go to parks, and the mayor would be mobbed by children, hugged and loved up. Sounds horrible.

That's, yeah. That's actually, let's cut that last. Yeah, that's real. There was really loving the mayor, loving him up and down. Excuse me? Just loving the shit out of him. Climbing him. Loving.

Looked like a mighty morphine power ranger. Sometimes entire generations, grandparents to grandchildren, had gone through his jobs program, almost like supporting him was inherited. Racist, whether politicians or the press. A lot of the times he was right and... That's the beauty of this era. Yeah. People were like, oh, shit, he knows.

Yeah. Well, I didn't. All right, one time. Which, but this also irked his white liberal voters. Everyone agreed he was a, quote, boisterous populist who would galvanize people around social justice issues if he wanted to. He also knew how to party. Giddy up. It was an open secret that his biggest weakness was the ladies.

But what about, uh... And that he did a lot of cocaine. Well, I think he was married four times, I think. I'm not bringing up the, all the wise, but he was cycling through him. Effie was with him for the longest time, though, for sure. He'd probably like doing cocaine out of those collarbones. It's a great little porch. You never done a collar bump?

Perfect place to stash a bag. So he's married four times and a lot of cocaine. A lot of cocaine. He starts to get cocky. He deflected. You'll find that cocaine has a side effect. Of an unerged confidence on a level. Yeah.

That would be like these side effects. Cocaine may cause extreme confidence. You may think that you're way better than you are and that you're completely invincible. I think I'm going to the Olympics. You'll think that stories that you've told before are more exciting than ever before. But the people who are listening to them

while you're also on cocaine are just thinking about their own stories. You're not going to the Olympics. You're a regular guy. As a matter of fact, you were shot in the heart by a ricocheted shotgun bullet. There's no way you can sprint. You are coked out of your fucking tits right now.

You have no hopes of doing anything like that. Ask your doctor if cocaine is wrong for you. I'm going to the Olympics. You're not going to the Olympics for the last goddamn time. You've just done a bunch of cocaine. It's literally 5.45 in the morning. You hear those birds? The day is starting.

Go home, put Neosporin in your nostrils and take some tums, you animal. This is crazy. I don't think I even need a train. Beg everyone you know for a Valium and take it now. You can ride a bike if you bring water. your saliva is going to turn into substance that looks exactly like cocaine. That is not cocaine. Do not snort that.

No, do not. If you snorted your cocaine saliva, now you're on another level. Ask you doctor of cocaine. You. Yeah. So he deflected the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administration's attempts to bring him down. quote, I'm going to be like that lion the Romans had.

They can just keep throwing stuff at me. I'll be kicking their asses every time. In the end, I'll be sitting here licking my paws. Just a few weeks after that quote came the night of January 18th, 1990. His ex-girlfriend, Rashida Moore. Whoa, whoa. Yeah, that's all right. Sweet God.

That is okay. Rashid Amor alert him to a fancy hotel for a night of fun. Oh, no. She lured him. Yeah. She's a lured. She's a lorer.

That's a lor outfit. Marion drank and rolled around on the bed. Was she there in it? Was she in the bed with him? I don't know. A huge difference. If she's in there, that's a roll around. I understand.

If you're alone, like, hey, cocaine is phenomenal. Ha-ha. We're hotels. Hello? No. Someone answered. We should get water balloons. An hour in.

And said, quote, I'm the luckiest man in the world. The Lord is on my side. And then FBI agents burst in and handcuffed in. Fucking Lord. Lord was wearing a wire. And muttered, quote, God damn, I shouldn't have come here.

I shouldn't have come tonight. That goddamn bitch set me up. I was motherfucking tricked. Ain't that a bitch? I mean, it's always a. bummer to be that high and get arrested. And then the feds come in? Yeah. Oh, that's so. So that video

dominates the news, talk shows. By the way, you really could be like, I would honestly, I bet that wasn't me. Yeah, it's not a good, it's not a good. Wasn't me. Yeah, but the thing is they have a bunch of, I'd pull the shaggy. FBI guys who will testify that it is him. Wasn't them?

I'll keep fucking going. It's not even a hotel. Marion was charged with 11 misdemeanor cocaine charges and three felony counts of lying to a federal grand jury in 1989. Okay, but can we just for a second think how he must have been having such a great night. He's the fucking mayor. He's hanging out with her.

He's smoking fucking crack in a hotel. Yeah. I mean, this is, this is hero shit. And then the cops go, oh, fuck. Yeah. You probably thought it was room service. Leave it outside. You guys have weird outfits on.

He was facing 26 years in prison. His lawyer said he was entrapped and trapped by Republicans who had been trying to get rid of him for years. The prosecution said his long history of smoking crack was the reason he smoked crack. Kind of a chicken or the egg, sort of. So your argument again is that I, the reason I smoke crack was...

You smoke a lot of crack. I see it. Quote, the defendant asked for the crack. He eagerly accepted the crack, and he appeared to be quite adept at smoking the crack. How hard is it to figure out how to smoke crack? I mean, am I crazy? Yeah.

It's a you got to hold a pipe right, you know. It's very easy. Yeah. Where the crack is, he lighted. Yeah, show. Well, show us, white lady. See the racism in here? I did a lot of cocaine.

I only smoked it once. Miss, your part of the show ended. just now. Based on what our politicians now, based on what our politicians now do, I'd rather they were smoking crack. Look, let's

be honest, there's no point in having government anymore. Honestly, we should just all be allowed to smoke crack and that should be the end of it. We should all get $2,000 a month for crack. That should be it. A universal basic

come. I got it. Did you get it? They slipped that in. This guy was a clever little guy over here. Now, prosecution brings in witnesses and they all hit him with accusations. Some calling him a pig who sexually assaulted

a model saying he did coke at least 100 times with another woman, including at the home of the leader of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Come on. Really? You got to go after a thing. What about every black guy that's up?

That's what I was just going to say. Like, you've got your lane, hang in there. Yeah. You've got him on fucking crack. Yeah. But then you're like, he was with other black people when he did it. All the top blacks. We should, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, come on. Come on. They said the woman watched Mary and cook his own crack. Cook it. Or no, the Episcopal church guy watched Mary and cook his own crack in his own kitchen. Quote, once after she and Barry got high in our mother's basement, the mayor went upstairs and gave advice to Rashida's mother on how to help her son with his drug addiction. Now listen, I understand why

that feels like hypocrisy. But you have to also understand there's no better drugs to be doing when you're going to be giving out advice. These are problem-solving powders. True. These are apothecary potions. Yeah. So you can easily do coke, go have a conversation with someone about how they need to get sober. That's the beauty of this stuff. And I feel the audience leaving. You think I don't feel that energy? I get it.

I'm just telling you, there's some, it's, it can be quite helpful. You have to stop it, man. We care about you too much. You're not the same, dude. You're still fucking different. It's like when I was at high school and I used to fucking flip cabarrows. You've got to be flipped. it's not a new engine but it's just the outside the outside's so fucking different

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From what? Hiding. Was there any substances involved? He said he was hiding coke under rugs in strange apartments. That is crazy. Sending people to check on suspicious-looking vans. And freaking out that a red blinking light on the horizon was a surveillance device once. Whoa.

I've done that. I've done that, too. There's that part of the drive when you're going through, like, Colorado. What you know what I'm talking about where it's like a thousand blinking red lights? And you're like, well, whatever it is, I'm ready to confront it. this is just part of my vision if you're driving through places like that all the windmills

so there's just like always and they're all synced up so the lights go on and so you're driving through you're like what the fuck thankfully we got rid of those speaking of cocaine he's got to have like three months left

right let's wrap that up hey idiots you've thought that for eight years I keep going. Talk about a cockroach. Rashida claimed she delivered Coke to his office and, quote, another time he received drug money hidden in a magazine

from him during a city budget hearing. That's a bad one. That's bad when you're just like appropriating more when you're working on the budget. Just getting envelopes. I've got some cuts. The prosecution played over an hour of footage from the hotel bus showing there's an hour of it Yeah well then then they sit down and talk to him like they didn't just take him away

It showed mariam told the cops quote I guess y'all figured out that I couldn't resist that lady He was found guilty on only one count Minor possession of cocaine beating the other 13 charges Wow. He got only six months jail time. Oh, shit. He didn't go to jail. As he left the courthouse, a young black woman named Maggie Miller, quote, collapsed into the arms of her friend shouting, oh, Lord, and weeping.

Her friend Florence shouted at the U.S. attorneys that they'd never stop Marion, quote, he'll serve on the city council from a prison cell. That's not possible. Maggie, quote, he can do six months on his head if we stand by him. His protesters then began to chant, we'll all do six months together. Well, not all of us weren't aware of the chance. Take the chance in a different direction. So some of them would maybe do that, but maybe others of us should form a side group. A group over here of people who support the idea of outside.

Living up. What's supporting your opportunity to do? two panera. Nice. Now you sound like an idol song. We'll go have the panera. So we'll find out if we can get the order quick. Are you on cocaine? If I'm eating panera, I think you know the air.

Florence got into a shoving match with a TV crewman. Marion's haters called these people the Kool-Aids. It sounds racist. But it actually is referenced to Jim Jones followers who drank the Kool-Late. Yeah, so different. So it's calling them really stupid. Yes, it's like, I guess so, yeah.

Although they were forced to. They were like at gunpoint first. They were forced to, but still, you could have fucking sn- There was a lot of them. You definitely could have been like, oh, that tastes it kind of funny. But then you're leaving out how good Kool-Aid tastes. I wouldn't, I think you could have pulled it off

on the Jim Jones one. Is there any fruit punch? So Marion does his six months in a medium security prison in Pennsylvania. And the D.C. City Council suspended him for those months. So what happens in those months? I don't know if they brought it in an interim

or if they just had an empty chair maybe. A prisoner told the press that Marion had a woman brought to the prison who gave him a blowjob in front of everyone. That's how you do prison if you're a fucking cool guy. Like if you're a cool guy, that's how you do prison. That's very strange. I would definitely be one of the prisoners.

I kind of don't want to watch this. Can we go watch TV? Is mash on? The press ran with that story. Marion, of course, denied it. He was then transferred. So the whole scandal tarnished Washington, D.C.'s image. Delegates and Congress intervened in local affairs even more, citing corruption.

It wasn't uncommon for a black man to be targeted by the law in D.C. 42% of black men ages 18 to 35 were in jail on probation, on parole, awaiting trial, or had a warrant. Quote, so the fact that Mary and Barry has been in jail is not necessarily disqualifying for this community. Yes, fuck America. We're a little racist, just a tad. But also, stop talking. It's not a dialogue. On April 24, 1992, he walked out of prison with a huge crime.

out outside. Wow. He immediately runs for city council and wins. It's so funny because I don't know, I know like the broad strokes of this story. Before I did this, absolutely. Yeah, so it's like I knew, I mean, he just,

you know, he really was just like late night fodder and stuff like that. That didn't mean anything, but I was like, yeah, he definitely like smoked crack. You know, I knew that, but I was also had no. clue about this back and forth. I mean, he's really he's persisting. He's fighting. He's persistent, but remember

he did give all those people jobs and all that fucking shit. He helped a ton of people. It's like, that is what happens in France when they're just like, you know, like, of course, whatever. Is the president the fuck who he wants? It's like, look, if you fucking help everything, who gives a shit what you do? If you're good on crack, let's go.

I'm happy with it. And that was his next campaign. I'm good on crack. I'm good on crack. Then he announced he was running for mayor once again. Hell yes. The city at this point is in a fiscal hellscape, and the incumbent mayor was deeply unpopular. I mean, but that incumbent mayor has to be like,

we can't, listen, if we lose to marry and Barry, I mean, we've got slogan after slogan. Well, she had spent $30,000 in taxpayer money for her own makeup artist. That's nothing, dude. We're spending $230 million on, campaign videos about homeland security. Those are important. Those are important.

I agree. That's with the goat dog killer on horseback. If you want to come to the country, come legally. His campaign slogan was, quote, he may not be perfect, but he's perfect for D.C. What is so great about it is that you know, it's clearly

the rich, white, right, Republicans and everyone else are out for him. They don't like a black man having power. That's for sure. And they got him, right? They got him smoking crack. But he's just like, yeah, who gives a shit?

Yeah. And their mind's supposed to just be like, that is kryptonite. They are genuinely like, what do you mean who gives a shit? No, we got you smoking crack. I mean, if he could just publicly, like, take a rip. And now they're... We are fucked.

And now they're doing it with... Trump. So, yeah. His supporters would bring up the scandal before opponents could shouting things like, quote, we know what he did and we still love him. That's how you do it. It's so good.

So he goes back to his roots. He's bringing the poor and ignored people at D.C. in his civic life. He's registering tons of new voters. They do very hyper-localized campaigning. They turn rallies into events to feel like block parties, he's crushing the competition.

Voters care more about economics over scandal. That is the truth. Yes. That's weird that it's like we think that's new. No, it's always been that way. Just fucking help us. Everybody just wants a fucking job. Yeah, literally.

And not to be indebt and be able to send their kids to school. That's all people want. If we're going to live with money, then give us money for fuck's sake. If that's how it has to be. Yeah. So he, a reporter said it was like, quote, watching political gravity suddenly stop working.

Hmm. I'll resign if I take drugs. I'll resign if I take... So this is like a week before the election. And he's like, look, let me answer this. If I do drugs, get them out. That's a pretty good deal. But also, fuck, that's tough.

But it also says he won't take drug tests. I mean, let's not get, weird about it. He's basically like, I'm not going to get lured to any more hotels. He's getting like where the NFL players, when they get injured, they go in that little blue tent. He's like, that'll be where I'll smoke crack. I'll go in there. I will no longer go in hotels with hot women. I mean, the iPads just leave me a little bit where I can read now. I'm racing the clock. Wait, what is happening there? I really got it wet before I left. That is what you're having to deal with? Yeah, it's coming and going. But I'm

I'm able to read. It's back. Oh, that's fine. Boy, that is tough. Thank God this is the last show. Because this thing's dying. I really, I had it in my bag, and I put my water bottle in there, and, you know, I didn't put the top on.

Why would you? Okay. So he is elected once again. This is when, if you're in the rest of the country, you're just like, what in the fuck? If you're what? The rest of the country is like, what in the fuck is happening in that? But now that you read about how he fucking helped everybody, right,

then it makes sense. It makes total sense. Well, he was ahead of the curve. On crack? Oh, no, just stop being like, look, who gives me, look, if you fucking, if I give you shit, fuck it. Yeah. But now we don't even get shit.

Yeah, now we get nothing. They're drug addicts. That's funny. Twitter's popping today. And now things would change. The day after the election, he held the press conference directed at people who didn't support him. Quote, whatever personal hang-ups you got, I'm the best person for

Washington. To those white people, get over it. I mean, so, this is a guy I love this man right now. I love him. That would be so fucking great to hear that. Fuck you, Whitey.

Wait. Oh, shit. Oh, you're back. That's back. So, what's funny is, oh, okay, now it's fun. It lets me actually scroll, even though it's a big black screen. So it's all good. We're fine.

Don't everybody freak out. Everybody's fine. It's okay. Everybody just fucking calm down right now. Yeah, we're all good, dude. Chill out. I should not have done all that coke. What?

Nothing. I'm just trying to get through this. You see that's black, right? It's not just me. Jesus Christ, enough with the black white stuff. Oh, fuck. He championed expanding his job program, plus home buying and housing assistance for working-class families, funding senior nutrition and health services, and aggressively promoting black people

into management positions in city government. But Congress once again foils him. They didn't just deny his bailout request. They let the D.C. budget tank so much it allowed Republicans to impose a financial control board to oversee D.C. spending. Fuck. So that's it. So now Congress holds the purse strings. Right. So he can't do shit. And they sideline him. Yeah, he can't do anything. In 1997, they further removed his authority, which he called, quote, rape of democracy by the racist GOP. Oh, Jesus. Well, I mean, yeah, that's what they do. Despite all this, he was still... We're currently going to an island, so why don't we all relax on that term? Despite all this, he was as popular as ever, which is why it was such a shock that

he announced he wouldn't be running again for re-election in 1998. After being mayor, he stayed active behind the scenes. He was sued by an airport worker who said he shoved her and exposed himself to her in an airport bathroom. Well, the first... That's what you do in an airport. That's why we have ice there now. Thank you. To be careful.

Now they'll expose themselves. He got the itch for politics again in 2000. and ran for city council in poor Ward 8, and he absolutely dominated winning by 20 points. By the way, same hat as when he was a kid. Same gumshoe. Fuck me. This guy, he won't stop.

More scandals followed. He flip-flopped on legalizing gay marriage, voting against his longtime LGBT supporters. He offended basically everyone when he said, quote, we got to do something about these Asians coming in and open up businesses. Jesus Christ.

Those dirty shops, they have to go. Christ. Oh, fuck me. We're off the rails. Well, he had a good run. Indiana Jones has lost the plot. He tested positive for cocaine. in 2005.

And he got probation for failing to file his taxes. How old is he in 2005? I don't know. He's old. Yeah, he's an old guy. You got to, cocaine has a cutoff point in your life. You got to respect that. Old guys on cocaine. Not good. Weird. Yeah.

Think of what happened to Chuck Schumer. That's how he died. Rest in peace, Chuck Schumer. Yeah, when he became the dragon and passed away in the mountains of D.C. but some folks say if you listen closely you can still hear the fire come out of that guy before he passed away we will win we will win in two thousand twenty three he was censured and stripped of his committee chairmanship for giving fifteen thousand uh... fifteen thousand dollars

fifteen thousand services contract to his longtime girlfriend he did not resign and declared quote the reason I survive is because I have an abiding faith in God. Having faith doesn't mean you don't have to use good sense. God doesn't expect you to act like a fool, but there is a constant fight between the devil, which is the flesh and the spirit, which is God. It's an all-out war. Excuse me? So what the fuck are you like? So I'm fine. I agree. But inside me that God is fighting with the flesh. and that's been pretty tough. I think we could all forgive me for that.

So he's still a councilman, and then he died a year later due to a hypertensive cardiovascular disease in 2014. Cocaine. Cochane. I mean, that didn't help his heart. That was. That probably is what healed his heart.

That's what I meant. Thousands came to his funeral. His legacy can be described by a quote he told the press after his biggest scandal. I don't have to defend my excellent record. The people already spoke. They elected me four times. They're not dumb people.

I mean, I just think we're at the point now where politicians just don't really do anything for people anymore. So you're a guy doing stuff for people. Yeah, that happens. If you look 30 years back with anyone, you're like, oh, that's crazy. Yeah. They did a thing. Like, I was thinking about when the government sued the tobacco companies.

Oh, yeah. Like, that was fucking crazy. Yeah. Can you imagine them right now being like, hey, how dare you yeah I mean we have that version with all the chemicals they're allowing yeah or social media

like with the idea that the government would actually be like go fuck yourselves you owe the people this much money yeah it's just crazy yeah they'd be smoking crack to do that this is written by Josh Androwski sources tellingstories.org

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