october 2020, we reported here on this show on something that we first learned about from one of the great historic, gigantic radio stations in the united states, the michigan behemoth, wwj radio in detroit, michigan. wwj has been on the air for more than 100 years. they re just a huge deal in american broadcasting history. they are still on the air today. they are still a big deal today. and just about exactly two years ago, october 2020, we learned about a story that was broken by a reporter at wwj named sandra mcneill. she had gotten a tip from a listener to wwj in detroit. the listener told her that they received a really, really sketchy robocall about the november 2020 presidential election. now, as we all know, basically every robocall is sketchy, right? robocalls by definition are shady and annoying and almost always scammy, right? everybody knows that. but this one that this detroit resident got before the 2020 election. this one was so bad. it not only seemed worse t
we first learned about from one of the great historic, gigantic radio stations in the united states, the michigan behemoth, wwj radio in detroit, michigan. wwj has been on the air for more than 100 years. they re just a huge deal in american broadcasting history. they are still on the air today. they are still a big deal today. and just about exactly two years ago, october 2020, we learned about a story that was broken by a reporter at wwj named sandra mcneill. she had gotten a tip from a listener to wwj in detroit. the listener told her that they received a really, really sketchy robocall about the november 2020 presidential election. now, as we all know, basically every robocall is sketchy, right? robocalls by definition are shady and annoying and almost always scammy, right? everybody knows that. but this one that this detroit resident got before the 2020 election. this one was so bad. it not only seemed worse than your typical robocall. it seemed so bad, it seemed like it
october 2020, we reported here on this show on something that we first learned about from one of the great historic, gigantic radio stations in the united states, the michigan behemoth, wwj radio in detroit, michigan. wwj has been on the air for more than 100 years. they re just a huge deal in american broadcasting history. they are still on the air today. they are still a big deal today. and just about exactly two years ago, october 2020, we learned about a story that was broken by a reporter at wwj named sandra mcneill. she had gotten a tip from a listener to wwj in detroit. the listener told her that they received a really, really sketchy robocall about the november 2020 presidential election. now, as we all know, basically every robocall is sketchy,
right? robocalls by definition are shady and annoying and almost always scammy, right? everybody knows that. but this one that this detroit resident got before the 2020 election. this one was so bad. it not only seemed worse than your typical robocall. it seemed so bad, it seemed like it might be a crime. and spoiler alert for the end of the story, it turns out it was a crime. it turns out the listener to wwj was right to sound the alarm about it and the reporter at wwj was right to go big with the story. so i m going to play you the sound of the robocall now. i m going to tell you in advance that everything in this robocall is wrong. none of this is true. do not believe a second of it. but you should hear what it was. because this literally was a crime committed against the american people. specifically against black registered voters in the lead up to the 2020 election.
every robocall is sketchy, right? robocalls by definition are shady and annoying and almost always scammy, right? everybody knows that. but this one that this detroit resident got before the 2020 election. this one was so bad. it not only seemed worse than your typical robocall. it seemed so bad, it seemed like it might be a crime. and spoiler alert for the end of the story, it turns out it was a crime. it turns out the listener to wwj was right to sound the alarm about it and the reporter at wwj was right to go big with the story. so i m going to play you the sound of the robocall now. i m going to tell you in advance that everything in this robocall is wrong. none of this is true. do not believe a second of it. but you should hear what it was.