October 7, 2025 • 31 mins
Tune in here to this Tuesday's edition of Breaking With Brett Jensen!
Breaking Brett Jensen kicks the show off by talking about David Tepper’s newly announced plans to build a 4,500-seat outdoor amphitheater near Bank of America Stadium and what it means for Uptown Charlotte. Brett explains why the idea makes sense economically, culturally, and logistically, pointing out Tepper’s long-standing vision for an “entertainment district” filled with hotels, bars, and restaurants. He also reflects on Tepper’s earlier criticisms of overbuilding apartments Uptown, arguing that the city needs more business infrastructure to match its growth.
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Let's go oh.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Abduced Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WBT Brett
Jenson here with you on this Tuesday night edition of
Breaking with Brett Jensen. And how glorious is it that
it's October seven, seven seven and driving up here the
temperature was eighty degrees?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
How glorious is that?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Uh? Seven four five seven, eleven ten is the telephone
number as always, and that is also the WBT text line.
And guys, make sure that you follow me on x
at Brett under Scort Jensen for all the latest and
breaking news in and around the Charlotte area. And before
we even get started, uh well, no, you know what,
I'll get into that later. We'll get into that later.
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I want to start off tonight with something that I
talked about earlier this morning with Bo and Beth, and
it was about Tepper announcing the plans for like, you
know what, a forty five hundred or there or so
outdoor amphitheater near the stadium.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
And it makes all the sense in the world. And
here's why.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
As I mentioned, you know, to them, it wasn't that
long ago, you know, five years ago, something to that
effect that Tepper had mentioned wanting to do that.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Do you remember when.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Everyone thought he was going to buy by the Charlotte
Pipe and Foundry build the stadium there, they were going
to tear down the stadium and all that, and he
kept saying from day one he was.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Never going to do that.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Like I remember asking him early the process and he
was like, that ain't happening, because I remember him point
blank saying, he goes, what's my ROI what's my return
of investment on that?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And I'm like, WHOA.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I mean, you are an NFL owner and your team
value has gone from two million to six point five
or two billion to six point five billion in the
last you know, since you bought it in twenty eighteen,
So I mean there's that you've tripled your money, so
more than tripled your money, to be exact.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
But and that was also the.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Same time day that he was criticizing all the apartments
in Uptown because don't forget remember like there was like
a six year span, five year span where it was
just non stop apartment or I should say four year
span was just non stop apartments being built everywhere uptown.
And he was critical of that and his reasoning made sense.
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He said, if we are a growing city, you know,
ally moved here, honeywell all you know true, like all
these people are moving here still to this day, all
these companies. And he said, if we keep building all
these apartments uptown inside uptown, inside the beltway, there's going
to be no place to build office buildings that make
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the skyline as we know it today. It's just gonna
be apartment buildings and there's gonna be no place for
the businesses to build their buildings. So and he's not wrong,
he's not wrong. I mean, I mean, you just drive
down South End, you.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Know, as I call it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It was used to be called what Millennial Row because
that's where all the millennials lived, and now it's like
obviously a lot of gen z as well. So but
so that same day that he was talking about all
the business planning and all that, and we were now
we're talking and he said, then he but then he
but that was privately because I had asked him a
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couple of questions, but but collectively to the media group,
he talked about how he wanted to have something called
the entertainment district. That's what he called it a district
right near the stadium, going down Moorhead, back behind back
towards like the practice fields and stuff like that, cutting
over towards the train tracks and stuff. And he wanted
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an outdoor amphitheater, not a big one, not like that
disaster of an amphitheater, a P and C where you
can't get in and get out. They sell more tickets
than they have parking spaces, and you're literally having to
try and park in front of someone's front yard in
a little housing committee. If I was in that community,
I would be so pissed off every time they.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Have a concert.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
You know what was if you need to go to
the grocery store, you have to plan your entire day
around a concert, nonetheless. So so anyways, so he wants
to have this thing called the Entertainment District. Hotels, restaurants, bars,
the amphitheater, all within walking distance right there, like a
little trail if you will, you know, and outside you know,
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as he's called an entertainment district, but like where you
can go there and you can maybe carry your beer
from one bar to the next and stuff like that,
right a socialization area. And so he announced it, and
I thought immediately of two things. One, it would be
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great for Charlotte and great for Uptown. It would be
absolutely fantastic, right, I mean, I like the Amphitheater that
they have over there by the Music Factory. Once saw
the Google dolls there earlier this year, had a great time.
But there's truly only one road in and one road out,
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and it took fifty five I started counting. I actually
timed it. It took fifty five minutes to get out
of the parking deck, fifty five minutes after the concert.
And there's only like eight thousand people there, nine thousand
people there max. Maybe I guess maybe ten thousand something
like that.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
That's it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Because there's only one road in and one road out.
That's all there is. And so that was a problem. Obviously,
getting to an amphitheater here in Uptown would be a
lot more accessible because of all the roads in the infrastructure,
whether it's Moorhead or try On or you know, whatever
the case may be. Meant a lot of roads are
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there that you can get in and get out and
you could walk there like whatever, just like a Panthers game.
So that was the first thing I thought of like
that would be really really good for Uptown's Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Here's the second thing.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That I immediately thought of when David Tipper put that
out there.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
There have been.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Rumors, not reported rumors, just rumors within the Charlotte community.
Some people high up the foods, some people weigh down
at the bottom of the food chain, but a lot
of people saying that Tepper just sort of putting out feelers.
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They had been told that Tepper was putting out feelers
just to see if the franchise could be sold, and
if so, how much and who might the buyers be. Again,
I have no idea if this is true. I'm not
reporting it. I'm just telling you what has been said
out there for a few months. Some people that are
pretty high up the food chain in the business world
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in Charlotte, and some that are not high up in
the food chain, they're like high up adjacent.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
So so I went, okay, well, that's good.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
If he's considering putting up an amphitheater in uptown and
he wants to fund it solely, then which that was
the other thing, nothing with the city. He wants to
fund it solely, Yeah, obviously maybe get tax breaks, but
other than that if he wants to fund it solely,
that told me is like okay, then it would seem
only accurate, or it would only seem correct that he
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would not be putting out feelers looking to sell the
team or just seeing what the possibilities are if he's
going to sink a lot of money building an uptown amphitheater.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I mean, you.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Notice, David Tepper over the last couple of years has
been relatively quiet when it comes to the Panthers, right,
so he doesn't he you know, Dave Canalis last year,
Dave canallis this year, Dave can Als will be back
next year, and you know, and hopefully year four and
year five as well. Because I don't think what's going
on with the Panthers is a Dave Canalis issue.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I truly don't.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
So the itchy tringer finger, you know, sort of like
the George Steinbrenner situation of the Yankees back in the
seventies and the eighties, in the nineties, I don't think
that's the situation here with Tepper. I've never thought that
in terms of, you know, he wants to leave his
mark in Charlotte and might as well.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
And this is a good way to do it by
building an amphitheater.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So I think this is only a positive thing all
the way around, because let me tell you something else.
Let's say David Tepper were to sell the team. You
don't know if they're going to keep the team here
in Charlotte. You have no idea. You have Maybe they
want to move it to Orlando or Austin, Texas, or
San Antonio or Portland or Salt Lake City. Salt Lake
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City is the front runner right now to get a
major League Baseball team with Nashville. You know, maybe they
do that. So you know, again, you never know what
will happen if someone decides to buy a team. You
never know if it's going to move somewhere else. You
have no idea.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
So stability is key. Stability is key. You just got
to hire the right people.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Welcome back to branking, Brek Jensen on this Tuesday. Okay,
so we did not have the UNC coaches show yesterday, correct, Isaac?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
All right?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And the reason is I don't actually I don't know
why the reason they didn't have a coaches show last
week last night.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Honestly don't know that. Do what it was?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
It?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
No, they actually played. They played this past Saturday. Oh,
they got a bye week coming up.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
No, they just had a bye week, so they went
by game by.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
They're playing Thursday. Okay, so they didn't have a bye week.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Okay, Well, so here's the problem. After what they did.
Clemson scored? Was it twenty eight points in fourteen plays?
I think that's what it was all in the first quarter.
I wouldn't have had to coach a show last night either.
And have you guys heard of all the stuff starting
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to come out of Chapel Hill now since Saturday?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Have you heard about all this stuff?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I know this isn't a sports talk show, but we
do talk about Carolina, especially when it's something.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
As glorious as Bill Belichick wetting the bed.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
So wral up and Raleigh not exactly my favorite media
outlet in North Carolina, but they came out with a
report talking about how players and parents are blaming Belichick
and how it's complete chaos in the locker room and
nobody likes anybody and it's just a disaster. Parents are talking,
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players are talking like it's a whole thing, right, And
then the report came out.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
And if you guys heard this report in here, Lonnie
and Isaac. This is hysterical.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
We all know that Bill Belichick hates the New England Patriots,
correct like he hates them, hates them like truly hates
the New England Patriots because of.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
They fired him. We all heard about the reports and
he admitted that he has banned New England Patriots scouts
from Carolina. Right.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
He admitted it when I asked about it. Well, he
hates the New England Patriots so much. The reports are
that he banned any mention of Drake May, the former
Tar Hill, former mars Park High School athlete who lit
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it up against the Buffalo Bills. Banned social media for
mentioning anything about the New England Patriots and success they
were having, even though it was Drake May banned social media.
First of all, Bill, you don't get to ban social media.
Those your bosses get to do that, you don't. So
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he told them he banned them. Right, Mac Brown, here's
about this former coach trolls. What's he do? He puts
a big giant picture on Twitter of him and Drake
May standing side by side, former UNC great blah blah
blah blah blah, New England Patriots blah blah blah, blah blah.
So hours after this report came out, then u n
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C put out a montage, the highlight reel of Drake
May doing well against the Buffalo, but had not put
anything out, and again was told all these reports are
coming out of what a complete and utter disaster, Complete
and utter disaster.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
This is right now with Chapel Hill, and it is glorious.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And I will say this right now. Every single person
within the Athletic Department who has decision making or influence power,
and every single person on the Board of Trustees, including
the Chancellor, every single person who thought this was a
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good idea and pushed for him to be hired, to
give him thirty million dollars guaranteed ten million dollars a
year over three years, should either be fired or forced
to resign. That's how much of a disaster. I was
talking to someone today. I was talking to someone today.
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As a matter of fact, it was on wfan Z
with Colin when I was on air with him earlier
this morning at ten thirty and I said Colin Hoggard,
who has the show from ten to.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Noon every day, And.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I said Colin, outside of the opening press conference, the
day that he was hired, and he's wearing his shirt
and everything and in his coat and tie outside of
the opening day press conference. Named one good thing that
has happened with Carolina football since then?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Name one.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
It has been a complete disaster NFL films and HBO
backed out because of his girlfriend, all the chaos involving
his girlfriend and all that stuff off right, and then
the CBS Morning News interview and what a disaster that was,
and then just everything that's going on, and then somebody
and as Colin said, well, we'll always have the first
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drive of the season when they scored a touchdown against TCU,
because it's all been downhill ever since. Michael Lombardi hasn't
been in football in over a decade, and you think
he's going to like save the franchise.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Okay, Carolina.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I was talking to a very prominent, prominent Tar Hill
on Sunday, very prominent Tar Hill, and I said, look,
the best thing that Carolina can hope for right now
is that he's so embarrassed by this year that he
resigns at the end of the year, or he does
it one more year and then resigns at the end
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of next year. Because his legacy is in the toilet,
the Grottos football coach of all time. Really, all that
stuff didn't happen vinceil party last I checked. Last I checked,
it didn't happen to Evince So anyways, but yes, that's
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your only hope right now as a Carolina atari Hill
football fan. Hope that he resigns at the end of
this year, or resigns at the end of next year,
which will be another disaster year, or otherwise you're stuck
for him for three years.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
So yeah, get used to this. Get used to this.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen on this Tuesday night.
All right, so real quick, don't forget a couple of
I got some house click house keeping to do here.
I almost set house cleaning house keeping to do here.
First and foremost, october Fest continues this weekend Saturday and
Sunday at six o'clock, and I will be making my
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only appearance because BBT can't afford me. My only appearance
will be Sunday at six pm six pm. This Sunday,
me and Vince Cochley starting at six pm on Facebook
and all that. We will be live on Octoberfest, but
we do it every single Saturday and Sunday at six pm.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Like we had Winnabowl.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
And Zochie and bo so they were all doing things.
And so this Sunday will be me and the guy
that I call the most mysterious man in Charlotte. I'm sorry,
the second most mysterious manis Charlotte. The most mysterious manage
Charlotte is Marcus Jones, the city manager.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I actually told them to his face last week.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, so dude, I said, I call you the most
mysterious manis Charotte. Nobody knows anything about you, and you've
been here like eight years or whatever it is, six years,
seven years. Well, anyways, nice enough, guy, just nobody knows
anything about you. So anyways, you've got me and Vince
Cochley to Octoberfest on Sunday. They will also have a
show on Saturday starting at six pm every Saturday and
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Sunday at six pm Facebook. Also, you've got t October
or excuse me, you've got News and Bruise coming up
on the twenty ninth Wednesday, October twenty ninth. That's going
to be. We do that every single year, you guys
know that, or excuse me, every quarter. I should say,
we try to do it four times a year and
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look forward to that. All the tickets, all the details,
all the information, as always, is always on WBT dot com.
So guys, make sure you go there, get your tickets,
come join us for.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
The news and bruise. It's always a good time.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I don't know why I'm always the only person on
stage with a beer. I don't understand that. I honestly
don't understand that. But whatever, there's no point in me changing.
There's a high probability on Sunday I'm gonna have a
cigar and some bourbon with me while doing doing october Fest.
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So all right, So what I was going to get into,
I'm gonna have to wait till next segment because I
don't have enough time. But I am going to talk
about the Carolina Panthers here for a second, and not
getting into the wood the knee deep stuff and the
minutia and all that. You know, it's sort of like
the ten thousand foot view. So if someone brings it
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up to you at work or at church, or at
the grocery store, at the restaurant, whatever, and even if
you don't follow them that closely, you can just say
some stuff to make it sound.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Like you know what the hell you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
And here's the question that I have, and I don't
know what the answer is going to be, and we
won't know because it's too early. There's not enough, there's
not a big enough simple size. The Panthers are two
and oh at home.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Their defense has been really bad the last few years.
It's been horrendous on the road this year Game one
and then a week and a half ago at New
England was a disaster, like an embarrassment. But you know what,
they shut out Atlanta here and then they give up
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seventeen points to Miami Sunday and then shut them down,
and then shut them down and allowed the Carolina Panthers
to come back and get a nice, big win against
the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Now, let's be real. Let's be real.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
They only beat Miami and they've only beat Atlanta, and
Atlanta should always be a lot better than what they are.
They got so much talent on that team. But they
beat Atlanta and they beat Miami. So what that says
is at least you're not the worst of the worst.
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And if they can win some of these home games,
so that could be easy. I mean, you got what
Buffalo Bills, and you know the Dallas Cowboys. Dallas Cowboys
aren't great either, but they have one of the best
offenses in the NFL. So Carolina better be putting up
a lot of points. Dallas can't stop a cold, let
alone a run or a pass defense or offense. But
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but my point is, I want to see because Carolina
has been so horrifically awful on the road and so
good at home. I want to know if this is
going to continue throughout the whole year where every time
they go on the road they lose by thirty five,
and every time they come home they actually win and
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the defense plays well. We're only five games in, two
games at home, three games on the road. That's what
I want to see. I still don't know what to
think about Bryce Young. I can tell you this. I
swore at my TV on Sunday because of Bryce she
young and not in a good way. When he was like,
goes back there to pass and he just dropped the ball.
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And the first thought in my head was, of course
he can't hang onto the ball because he's the size
of a twelve year old.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It was literally the first thought that went in my head.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Of course you're dropping the ball and fumbling it because
your hands are so small like that.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I was yelling at the TV.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
So but then he redeemed himself and the Panthers played well,
especially the second half of the game, and you know,
a lot did a lot. So again, they still have hope.
They're not a good team by any stretch. They're below average.
It's just the question is how below average are they
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going to be? Three games on the road have not
performed well. Two games at home have played very well.
The two games at home I've been against crappy teams,
but those are the teams that you gotta beat if
you go to the Carolina Panthers, and that's what they're doing.
They're beating the crappy teams at home, because if they
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weren't beating the crappy teams, you look like the Carolina
tar Hills.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Oh how'd that look? All right?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
When we come back, we'll get into the topic that
I really wanted to get into. And I'm curious to
hear what Isaac's going to say about this being of
the younger generation, because I'm wondering if I'm going to
get the get off my lawn yell from the younger people. Okay, boomer,
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even though you know I'm not a baby boomer, because
people don't know what a boomer is. Apparently, because they're
so uneducated at the young age, they don't even know
what a boomer is. But that's okay. Boomers are my parents.
That's the boomers, your grandparents. Those are the baby boomers.
The people that were born from World War Two, those
are the baby boomers. Why because there was a baby
boom after all, the Gis came back from Europe and Asia.
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Hence the baby boom, baby Boomers. Welcome back to Breaking
(24:18):
with Brett Jensen on this Tuesday night.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Okay, so I'm just gonna play the audio that WBTV
did earlier.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I'm just gonna play the audio, let you hear the report,
and then when we come back, I'm gonna sound like
a grumpy old man Walter Matthew, Jack Lemon and that
and Burgess Meredith from those two movies.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
All right, So here we go, Isaac.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
But it's a pretty good bed that serenity has been
shattered from time to time. Your conversation interrupted by what
sounds like the green flag dropping a Charlotte Motor Speedway.
You expect it and wanted at the racetrack, but most
don't want to listen to unmuffled motors and backfiring tailpipes.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
While walking, eating, or sleeping.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
So it had us wondering the same question you probably have,
what is the law on.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
This sort of thing?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Lunchtime in October in the Carolinas.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Yes, it's weird to say.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
It has a lot of people looking for a table outside.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
We are just connecting, catching up, catching up with my.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Girlfriend, people like Tina Angels and Katie Wright.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Well in Malthews in particular, it's pretty idyllic, and it's
pretty wonderful unless somebody comes by reving their.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Engine and just completely interrupting.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
The moon in the moment, you know, the sound.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Of annoying.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah, very annoying top of the list, because it's, yeah,
it's so unnecessary.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
What goes through your head when you hear those kinds
of things. The driver probably didn't get enough attention of
the child.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
And it's not just happening in Matthews. You'll hear it
just about everywhere. And Savina Dunn says, at all times,
very annoying.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Very disruptive, especially late at night when you're trying to get.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Some sleep with Matthews police officer Tim a cock against
the frustration.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Do you get a lot of complaints about that from citizens?
Speaker 6 (26:10):
We do get a lot of plank complaints for motorcycles, vehicles,
trucks and that type of thing because it's it's an annoyance.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
How do you police this sort of effect. It's tough.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Obviously a lot of our stuff is complaint driven, so
we try to, you know, catch up to those individuals
as quickly as we can and safely as we can.
So a lot of times it just takes us and
knowing from the public and you know, receiving those tips.
But if it's a moving vehicle, it's different unless the
officer can really be right there on top of that situation.
So that's why we try to educate the people that
have these systems that you know, first of all, it's
not legal.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
The law in North Carolina is pretty simple, this statute
covering noisy vehicles.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
It's just a few lines long.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Your vehicle has to have a muffler or other exhaust
system of the type installed at the time of manufacture,
and it's unlawful to use eight muffler cutout. So if
I buy my car off the lot, it's obviously legal
at that point, right, right, So what are people doing
to them after that?
Speaker 4 (27:01):
That's making them non compliance?
Speaker 6 (27:02):
So they're taking it to modification shops where they will
remove those pipes or catelet converters or whatever maybe to
make those sounds. And you know a lot of people
want it to sound like a race car or some
type of sports vehicle, and it's understandable for movies and television,
but it's not legal or it's just not realistic.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
We also hear that backfiring sound. Is that something that
they can modify and make that sound.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Too, Yeah, something with the baffling within the catalytic converters
and those types of things they can change, and then
the muffler theirselves. So there's different things they can do
throughout the the EXAUST system to make those those modifications
that make certain sounds that.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
They're looking for.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
If you get caught, you might just get off with
a fix it ticket, but if you're not careful, you
can cross over into violations of local noise ordinances. Those
finds can start at one hundred bucks and work up
to a thousand how.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Disruptive can that be? And why do you think it's
important that this sort of thinks dealt with.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
It's very important to have that address and to educate
people so that hopefully don't do it to begin with,
But we have to hold them accountable what they do.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Savena done like many would just appreciate those repped up
drivers thinking of others.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Where are you going?
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Why do you need your car to be so loud?
Do you not care about your neighbors?
Speaker 3 (28:11):
All right?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
So now, first of all, they don't care about their neighbors,
Let's be honest. So that was a silly comment, like
find me a twenty one year old or an eighteen
year old or a seventeen year old that cares about
their neighbors. Did you care about your neighbors when you
were seventeen?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Of course not so.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Well that being said, let's uh, let's play the stereotype
game there. Let's play the stereotype game, all right, Isaac,
I'm ready, All right, there's a lot of stereotypes. We're
going to play the old versus young stereotype. Okay, first
stereotype is I live.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
In south Park. People know I live in South Park.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
They don't know where, but they know I live in
South Park, and I live on one of the main
arteries in South Park, and it is nothing for two
o'clock in the morning where my window face is one
of the main arteries, and it's nothing for two o'clock
in the morning on a Tuesday. And it sounds like
the Z Max drag strip up there, because you got
two cars racing against each other at two o'clock in.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
The morning, and it is so insanely loud.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
And I'm five floors up surrounded by trees, so I
even have the oak trees in the leaves trying to
lessen to sound a little bit. And it is every
single day it's like the Zmax drag strip.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
You know what I do.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I go up to your nice little rooftop area, crack
a beer and just watch the drag rate.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Two o'clock in the morning. Yeah on a Tuesday. Yeah
that's too bad, But.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I mean it's The cars are usually pieces of crap
that are worth fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
They sound good, they have.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
These mufflers on them or no mufflers on them. They're
painted all these weird colors, and they probably a lot
of them. The stereotype is, Oh, they spend all their
money on a car because they live in a shack
or have.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
No place to live. So those just gonna spend all
their money on the car.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
But more than anything, I want to find the girl
that they act that actually thinks, hey.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
That's kind of hot and sex.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I want to meet that girl they're out there. That's
a sad person that might have two brain cells.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Dude, it's cool. Did you ever watch Fast and Furious?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, and that ain't Fast and Furious.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Those cars were probably about one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars cars. These cars are about five thousand backs.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
But they sound expensive.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
They don't. They sound like they're gonna break down. Dude,
Like I hate that, Like why do they think it's
so cool? I don't get it. Like even when I
was young, I didn't think it was cool. I thought
it was stupid.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Have you ever had a loud car like that?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
No? One of my best friends did.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Like he had like a four to zero, like I
don't even know, like a four hundred or whatever, like
a big like a massive engine in a nineteen seventies
like Impala.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah, it's sick. And so you have the best part
whenever you go through like a tunnel or something, you
rev it up in the tunnel. Dude, Come on, man,
it's sick. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Oh my gosh, I'm so desperately want to meet the girl.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Go oh that is that your car? That's hot? That's hot?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Can I can I get a ride?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
That?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
That was my daughter at disowner?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Is that your knee?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
I cut her out of the wheel. If that was
my daughter?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Is that your neon Green Honda Civic I heard from
three miles.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Away from nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
God, that's hot with all the interior broken and ripped apart.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Oh those blue flames you painted as yourself?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Oh wow, Yeah, you took a spray can of the
spray paint that you buy and that's what you did.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
On the Sundy. That's really cool. Can I get a ride? Unvoloilable?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I told you, I told you, all right, when they
come back, Actually we're not coming back.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
TJ.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Richie's coming up now, So his show's coming up next
and I will be here Oliver again tomorrow. Actually, got
a lot of stuff going on in the day tomorrow,
so make sure you stick around for tomorrow night. My
name is Brett Jenson, and you've been listening to Breaking
with Bret Jenson,
Hi, oh, let's go oh, let's go oh.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Let's go oh.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Abduced Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WBT Brett
Jenson here with you on this Tuesday night edition of
Breaking with Brett Jensen. And how glorious is it that
it's October seven, seven seven and driving up here the
temperature was eighty degrees?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
How glorious is that?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Uh? Seven four five seven, eleven ten is the telephone
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And guys, make sure that you follow me on x
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breaking news in and around the Charlotte area. And before
we even get started, uh well, no, you know what,
I'll get into that later. We'll get into that later.
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I want to start off tonight with something that I
talked about earlier this morning with Bo and Beth, and
it was about Tepper announcing the plans for like, you
know what, a forty five hundred or there or so
outdoor amphitheater near the stadium.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
And it makes all the sense in the world. And
here's why.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
As I mentioned, you know, to them, it wasn't that
long ago, you know, five years ago, something to that
effect that Tepper had mentioned wanting to do that.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Do you remember when.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Everyone thought he was going to buy by the Charlotte
Pipe and Foundry build the stadium there, they were going
to tear down the stadium and all that, and he
kept saying from day one he was.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Never going to do that.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Like I remember asking him early the process and he
was like, that ain't happening, because I remember him point
blank saying, he goes, what's my ROI what's my return
of investment on that?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And I'm like, WHOA.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I mean, you are an NFL owner and your team
value has gone from two million to six point five
or two billion to six point five billion in the
last you know, since you bought it in twenty eighteen,
So I mean there's that you've tripled your money, so
more than tripled your money, to be exact.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
But and that was also the.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Same time day that he was criticizing all the apartments
in Uptown because don't forget remember like there was like
a six year span, five year span where it was
just non stop apartment or I should say four year
span was just non stop apartments being built everywhere uptown.
And he was critical of that and his reasoning made sense.
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He said, if we are a growing city, you know,
ally moved here, honeywell all you know true, like all
these people are moving here still to this day, all
these companies. And he said, if we keep building all
these apartments uptown inside uptown, inside the beltway, there's going
to be no place to build office buildings that make
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the skyline as we know it today. It's just gonna
be apartment buildings and there's gonna be no place for
the businesses to build their buildings. So and he's not wrong,
he's not wrong. I mean, I mean, you just drive
down South End, you.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Know, as I call it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It was used to be called what Millennial Row because
that's where all the millennials lived, and now it's like
obviously a lot of gen z as well. So but
so that same day that he was talking about all
the business planning and all that, and we were now
we're talking and he said, then he but then he
but that was privately because I had asked him a
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couple of questions, but but collectively to the media group,
he talked about how he wanted to have something called
the entertainment district. That's what he called it a district
right near the stadium, going down Moorhead, back behind back
towards like the practice fields and stuff like that, cutting
over towards the train tracks and stuff. And he wanted
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an outdoor amphitheater, not a big one, not like that
disaster of an amphitheater, a P and C where you
can't get in and get out. They sell more tickets
than they have parking spaces, and you're literally having to
try and park in front of someone's front yard in
a little housing committee. If I was in that community,
I would be so pissed off every time they.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Have a concert.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
You know what was if you need to go to
the grocery store, you have to plan your entire day
around a concert, nonetheless. So so anyways, so he wants
to have this thing called the Entertainment District. Hotels, restaurants, bars,
the amphitheater, all within walking distance right there, like a
little trail if you will, you know, and outside you know,
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as he's called an entertainment district, but like where you
can go there and you can maybe carry your beer
from one bar to the next and stuff like that,
right a socialization area. And so he announced it, and
I thought immediately of two things. One, it would be
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great for Charlotte and great for Uptown. It would be
absolutely fantastic, right, I mean, I like the Amphitheater that
they have over there by the Music Factory. Once saw
the Google dolls there earlier this year, had a great time.
But there's truly only one road in and one road out,
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and it took fifty five I started counting. I actually
timed it. It took fifty five minutes to get out
of the parking deck, fifty five minutes after the concert.
And there's only like eight thousand people there, nine thousand
people there max. Maybe I guess maybe ten thousand something
like that.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
That's it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Because there's only one road in and one road out.
That's all there is. And so that was a problem. Obviously,
getting to an amphitheater here in Uptown would be a
lot more accessible because of all the roads in the infrastructure,
whether it's Moorhead or try On or you know, whatever
the case may be. Meant a lot of roads are
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there that you can get in and get out and
you could walk there like whatever, just like a Panthers game.
So that was the first thing I thought of like
that would be really really good for Uptown's Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Here's the second thing.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That I immediately thought of when David Tipper put that
out there.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
There have been.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Rumors, not reported rumors, just rumors within the Charlotte community.
Some people high up the foods, some people weigh down
at the bottom of the food chain, but a lot
of people saying that Tepper just sort of putting out feelers.
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They had been told that Tepper was putting out feelers
just to see if the franchise could be sold, and
if so, how much and who might the buyers be. Again,
I have no idea if this is true. I'm not
reporting it. I'm just telling you what has been said
out there for a few months. Some people that are
pretty high up the food chain in the business world
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in Charlotte, and some that are not high up in
the food chain, they're like high up adjacent.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
So so I went, okay, well, that's good.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
If he's considering putting up an amphitheater in uptown and
he wants to fund it solely, then which that was
the other thing, nothing with the city. He wants to
fund it solely, Yeah, obviously maybe get tax breaks, but
other than that if he wants to fund it solely,
that told me is like okay, then it would seem
only accurate, or it would only seem correct that he
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would not be putting out feelers looking to sell the
team or just seeing what the possibilities are if he's
going to sink a lot of money building an uptown amphitheater.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I mean, you.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Notice, David Tepper over the last couple of years has
been relatively quiet when it comes to the Panthers, right,
so he doesn't he you know, Dave Canalis last year,
Dave canallis this year, Dave can Als will be back
next year, and you know, and hopefully year four and
year five as well. Because I don't think what's going
on with the Panthers is a Dave Canalis issue.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I truly don't.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
So the itchy tringer finger, you know, sort of like
the George Steinbrenner situation of the Yankees back in the
seventies and the eighties, in the nineties, I don't think
that's the situation here with Tepper. I've never thought that
in terms of, you know, he wants to leave his
mark in Charlotte and might as well.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
And this is a good way to do it by
building an amphitheater.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So I think this is only a positive thing all
the way around, because let me tell you something else.
Let's say David Tepper were to sell the team. You
don't know if they're going to keep the team here
in Charlotte. You have no idea. You have Maybe they
want to move it to Orlando or Austin, Texas, or
San Antonio or Portland or Salt Lake City. Salt Lake
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City is the front runner right now to get a
major League Baseball team with Nashville. You know, maybe they
do that. So you know, again, you never know what
will happen if someone decides to buy a team. You
never know if it's going to move somewhere else. You
have no idea.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
So stability is key. Stability is key. You just got
to hire the right people.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Welcome back to branking, Brek Jensen on this Tuesday. Okay,
so we did not have the UNC coaches show yesterday, correct, Isaac?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
All right?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And the reason is I don't actually I don't know
why the reason they didn't have a coaches show last
week last night.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Honestly don't know that. Do what it was?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
It?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
No, they actually played. They played this past Saturday. Oh,
they got a bye week coming up.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
No, they just had a bye week, so they went
by game by.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
They're playing Thursday. Okay, so they didn't have a bye week.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Okay, Well, so here's the problem. After what they did.
Clemson scored? Was it twenty eight points in fourteen plays?
I think that's what it was all in the first quarter.
I wouldn't have had to coach a show last night either.
And have you guys heard of all the stuff starting
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to come out of Chapel Hill now since Saturday?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Have you heard about all this stuff?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I know this isn't a sports talk show, but we
do talk about Carolina, especially when it's something.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
As glorious as Bill Belichick wetting the bed.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
So wral up and Raleigh not exactly my favorite media
outlet in North Carolina, but they came out with a
report talking about how players and parents are blaming Belichick
and how it's complete chaos in the locker room and
nobody likes anybody and it's just a disaster. Parents are talking,
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players are talking like it's a whole thing, right, And
then the report came out.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
And if you guys heard this report in here, Lonnie
and Isaac. This is hysterical.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
We all know that Bill Belichick hates the New England Patriots,
correct like he hates them, hates them like truly hates
the New England Patriots because of.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
They fired him. We all heard about the reports and
he admitted that he has banned New England Patriots scouts
from Carolina. Right.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
He admitted it when I asked about it. Well, he
hates the New England Patriots so much. The reports are
that he banned any mention of Drake May, the former
Tar Hill, former mars Park High School athlete who lit
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it up against the Buffalo Bills. Banned social media for
mentioning anything about the New England Patriots and success they
were having, even though it was Drake May banned social media.
First of all, Bill, you don't get to ban social media.
Those your bosses get to do that, you don't. So
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he told them he banned them. Right, Mac Brown, here's
about this former coach trolls. What's he do? He puts
a big giant picture on Twitter of him and Drake
May standing side by side, former UNC great blah blah
blah blah blah, New England Patriots blah blah blah, blah blah.
So hours after this report came out, then u n
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C put out a montage, the highlight reel of Drake
May doing well against the Buffalo, but had not put
anything out, and again was told all these reports are
coming out of what a complete and utter disaster, Complete
and utter disaster.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
This is right now with Chapel Hill, and it is glorious.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And I will say this right now. Every single person
within the Athletic Department who has decision making or influence power,
and every single person on the Board of Trustees, including
the Chancellor, every single person who thought this was a
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good idea and pushed for him to be hired, to
give him thirty million dollars guaranteed ten million dollars a
year over three years, should either be fired or forced
to resign. That's how much of a disaster. I was
talking to someone today. I was talking to someone today.
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As a matter of fact, it was on wfan Z
with Colin when I was on air with him earlier
this morning at ten thirty and I said Colin Hoggard,
who has the show from ten to.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Noon every day, And.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I said Colin, outside of the opening press conference, the
day that he was hired, and he's wearing his shirt
and everything and in his coat and tie outside of
the opening day press conference. Named one good thing that
has happened with Carolina football since then?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Name one.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
It has been a complete disaster NFL films and HBO
backed out because of his girlfriend, all the chaos involving
his girlfriend and all that stuff off right, and then
the CBS Morning News interview and what a disaster that was,
and then just everything that's going on, and then somebody
and as Colin said, well, we'll always have the first
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drive of the season when they scored a touchdown against TCU,
because it's all been downhill ever since. Michael Lombardi hasn't
been in football in over a decade, and you think
he's going to like save the franchise.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Okay, Carolina.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I was talking to a very prominent, prominent Tar Hill
on Sunday, very prominent Tar Hill, and I said, look,
the best thing that Carolina can hope for right now
is that he's so embarrassed by this year that he
resigns at the end of the year, or he does
it one more year and then resigns at the end
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of next year. Because his legacy is in the toilet,
the Grottos football coach of all time. Really, all that
stuff didn't happen vinceil party last I checked. Last I checked,
it didn't happen to Evince So anyways, but yes, that's
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your only hope right now as a Carolina atari Hill
football fan. Hope that he resigns at the end of
this year, or resigns at the end of next year,
which will be another disaster year, or otherwise you're stuck
for him for three years.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
So yeah, get used to this. Get used to this.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen on this Tuesday night.
All right, so real quick, don't forget a couple of
I got some house click house keeping to do here.
I almost set house cleaning house keeping to do here.
First and foremost, october Fest continues this weekend Saturday and
Sunday at six o'clock, and I will be making my
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only appearance because BBT can't afford me. My only appearance
will be Sunday at six pm six pm. This Sunday,
me and Vince Cochley starting at six pm on Facebook
and all that. We will be live on Octoberfest, but
we do it every single Saturday and Sunday at six pm.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Like we had Winnabowl.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
And Zochie and bo so they were all doing things.
And so this Sunday will be me and the guy
that I call the most mysterious man in Charlotte. I'm sorry,
the second most mysterious manis Charlotte. The most mysterious manage
Charlotte is Marcus Jones, the city manager.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I actually told them to his face last week.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, so dude, I said, I call you the most
mysterious manis Charotte. Nobody knows anything about you, and you've
been here like eight years or whatever it is, six years,
seven years. Well, anyways, nice enough, guy, just nobody knows
anything about you. So anyways, you've got me and Vince
Cochley to Octoberfest on Sunday. They will also have a
show on Saturday starting at six pm every Saturday and
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Sunday at six pm Facebook. Also, you've got t October
or excuse me, you've got News and Bruise coming up
on the twenty ninth Wednesday, October twenty ninth. That's going
to be. We do that every single year, you guys
know that, or excuse me, every quarter. I should say,
we try to do it four times a year and
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look forward to that. All the tickets, all the details,
all the information, as always, is always on WBT dot com.
So guys, make sure you go there, get your tickets,
come join us for.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
The news and bruise. It's always a good time.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I don't know why I'm always the only person on
stage with a beer. I don't understand that. I honestly
don't understand that. But whatever, there's no point in me changing.
There's a high probability on Sunday I'm gonna have a
cigar and some bourbon with me while doing doing october Fest.
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So all right, So what I was going to get into,
I'm gonna have to wait till next segment because I
don't have enough time. But I am going to talk
about the Carolina Panthers here for a second, and not
getting into the wood the knee deep stuff and the
minutia and all that. You know, it's sort of like
the ten thousand foot view. So if someone brings it
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up to you at work or at church, or at
the grocery store, at the restaurant, whatever, and even if
you don't follow them that closely, you can just say
some stuff to make it sound.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Like you know what the hell you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
And here's the question that I have, and I don't
know what the answer is going to be, and we
won't know because it's too early. There's not enough, there's
not a big enough simple size. The Panthers are two
and oh at home.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Their defense has been really bad the last few years.
It's been horrendous on the road this year Game one
and then a week and a half ago at New
England was a disaster, like an embarrassment. But you know what,
they shut out Atlanta here and then they give up
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seventeen points to Miami Sunday and then shut them down,
and then shut them down and allowed the Carolina Panthers
to come back and get a nice, big win against
the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Now, let's be real. Let's be real.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
They only beat Miami and they've only beat Atlanta, and
Atlanta should always be a lot better than what they are.
They got so much talent on that team. But they
beat Atlanta and they beat Miami. So what that says
is at least you're not the worst of the worst.
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And if they can win some of these home games,
so that could be easy. I mean, you got what
Buffalo Bills, and you know the Dallas Cowboys. Dallas Cowboys
aren't great either, but they have one of the best
offenses in the NFL. So Carolina better be putting up
a lot of points. Dallas can't stop a cold, let
alone a run or a pass defense or offense. But
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but my point is, I want to see because Carolina
has been so horrifically awful on the road and so
good at home. I want to know if this is
going to continue throughout the whole year where every time
they go on the road they lose by thirty five,
and every time they come home they actually win and
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the defense plays well. We're only five games in, two
games at home, three games on the road. That's what
I want to see. I still don't know what to
think about Bryce Young. I can tell you this. I
swore at my TV on Sunday because of Bryce she
young and not in a good way. When he was like,
goes back there to pass and he just dropped the ball.
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And the first thought in my head was, of course
he can't hang onto the ball because he's the size
of a twelve year old.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It was literally the first thought that went in my head.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Of course you're dropping the ball and fumbling it because
your hands are so small like that.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I was yelling at the TV.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
So but then he redeemed himself and the Panthers played well,
especially the second half of the game, and you know,
a lot did a lot. So again, they still have hope.
They're not a good team by any stretch. They're below average.
It's just the question is how below average are they
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going to be? Three games on the road have not
performed well. Two games at home have played very well.
The two games at home I've been against crappy teams,
but those are the teams that you gotta beat if
you go to the Carolina Panthers, and that's what they're doing.
They're beating the crappy teams at home, because if they
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weren't beating the crappy teams, you look like the Carolina
tar Hills.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Oh how'd that look? All right?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
When we come back, we'll get into the topic that
I really wanted to get into. And I'm curious to
hear what Isaac's going to say about this being of
the younger generation, because I'm wondering if I'm going to
get the get off my lawn yell from the younger people. Okay, boomer,
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even though you know I'm not a baby boomer, because
people don't know what a boomer is. Apparently, because they're
so uneducated at the young age, they don't even know
what a boomer is. But that's okay. Boomers are my parents.
That's the boomers, your grandparents. Those are the baby boomers.
The people that were born from World War Two, those
are the baby boomers. Why because there was a baby
boom after all, the Gis came back from Europe and Asia.
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Hence the baby boom, baby Boomers. Welcome back to Breaking
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with Brett Jensen on this Tuesday night.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Okay, so I'm just gonna play the audio that WBTV
did earlier.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I'm just gonna play the audio, let you hear the report,
and then when we come back, I'm gonna sound like
a grumpy old man Walter Matthew, Jack Lemon and that
and Burgess Meredith from those two movies.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
All right, So here we go, Isaac.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
But it's a pretty good bed that serenity has been
shattered from time to time. Your conversation interrupted by what
sounds like the green flag dropping a Charlotte Motor Speedway.
You expect it and wanted at the racetrack, but most
don't want to listen to unmuffled motors and backfiring tailpipes.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
While walking, eating, or sleeping.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
So it had us wondering the same question you probably have,
what is the law on.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
This sort of thing?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Lunchtime in October in the Carolinas.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Yes, it's weird to say.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
It has a lot of people looking for a table outside.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
We are just connecting, catching up, catching up with my.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Girlfriend, people like Tina Angels and Katie Wright.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Well in Malthews in particular, it's pretty idyllic, and it's
pretty wonderful unless somebody comes by reving their.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Engine and just completely interrupting.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
The moon in the moment, you know, the sound.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Of annoying.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah, very annoying top of the list, because it's, yeah,
it's so unnecessary.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
What goes through your head when you hear those kinds
of things. The driver probably didn't get enough attention of
the child.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
And it's not just happening in Matthews. You'll hear it
just about everywhere. And Savina Dunn says, at all times,
very annoying.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Very disruptive, especially late at night when you're trying to get.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Some sleep with Matthews police officer Tim a cock against
the frustration.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Do you get a lot of complaints about that from citizens?
Speaker 6 (26:10):
We do get a lot of plank complaints for motorcycles, vehicles,
trucks and that type of thing because it's it's an annoyance.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
How do you police this sort of effect. It's tough.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Obviously a lot of our stuff is complaint driven, so
we try to, you know, catch up to those individuals
as quickly as we can and safely as we can.
So a lot of times it just takes us and
knowing from the public and you know, receiving those tips.
But if it's a moving vehicle, it's different unless the
officer can really be right there on top of that situation.
So that's why we try to educate the people that
have these systems that you know, first of all, it's
not legal.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
The law in North Carolina is pretty simple, this statute
covering noisy vehicles.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
It's just a few lines long.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Your vehicle has to have a muffler or other exhaust
system of the type installed at the time of manufacture,
and it's unlawful to use eight muffler cutout. So if
I buy my car off the lot, it's obviously legal
at that point, right, right, So what are people doing
to them after that?
Speaker 4 (27:01):
That's making them non compliance?
Speaker 6 (27:02):
So they're taking it to modification shops where they will
remove those pipes or catelet converters or whatever maybe to
make those sounds. And you know a lot of people
want it to sound like a race car or some
type of sports vehicle, and it's understandable for movies and television,
but it's not legal or it's just not realistic.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
We also hear that backfiring sound. Is that something that
they can modify and make that sound.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Too, Yeah, something with the baffling within the catalytic converters
and those types of things they can change, and then
the muffler theirselves. So there's different things they can do
throughout the the EXAUST system to make those those modifications
that make certain sounds that.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
They're looking for.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
If you get caught, you might just get off with
a fix it ticket, but if you're not careful, you
can cross over into violations of local noise ordinances. Those
finds can start at one hundred bucks and work up
to a thousand how.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Disruptive can that be? And why do you think it's
important that this sort of thinks dealt with.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
It's very important to have that address and to educate
people so that hopefully don't do it to begin with,
But we have to hold them accountable what they do.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Savena done like many would just appreciate those repped up
drivers thinking of others.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Where are you going?
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Why do you need your car to be so loud?
Do you not care about your neighbors?
Speaker 3 (28:11):
All right?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
So now, first of all, they don't care about their neighbors,
Let's be honest. So that was a silly comment, like
find me a twenty one year old or an eighteen
year old or a seventeen year old that cares about
their neighbors. Did you care about your neighbors when you
were seventeen?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Of course not so.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Well that being said, let's uh, let's play the stereotype
game there. Let's play the stereotype game, all right, Isaac,
I'm ready, All right, there's a lot of stereotypes. We're
going to play the old versus young stereotype. Okay, first
stereotype is I live.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
In south Park. People know I live in South Park.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
They don't know where, but they know I live in
South Park, and I live on one of the main
arteries in South Park, and it is nothing for two
o'clock in the morning where my window face is one
of the main arteries, and it's nothing for two o'clock
in the morning on a Tuesday. And it sounds like
the Z Max drag strip up there, because you got
two cars racing against each other at two o'clock in.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
The morning, and it is so insanely loud.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
And I'm five floors up surrounded by trees, so I
even have the oak trees in the leaves trying to
lessen to sound a little bit. And it is every
single day it's like the Zmax drag strip.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
You know what I do.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I go up to your nice little rooftop area, crack
a beer and just watch the drag rate.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Two o'clock in the morning. Yeah on a Tuesday. Yeah
that's too bad, But.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I mean it's The cars are usually pieces of crap
that are worth fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
They sound good, they have.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
These mufflers on them or no mufflers on them. They're
painted all these weird colors, and they probably a lot
of them. The stereotype is, Oh, they spend all their
money on a car because they live in a shack
or have.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
No place to live. So those just gonna spend all
their money on the car.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
But more than anything, I want to find the girl
that they act that actually thinks, hey.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
That's kind of hot and sex.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I want to meet that girl they're out there. That's
a sad person that might have two brain cells.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Dude, it's cool. Did you ever watch Fast and Furious?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, and that ain't Fast and Furious.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Those cars were probably about one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars cars. These cars are about five thousand backs.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
But they sound expensive.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
They don't. They sound like they're gonna break down. Dude,
Like I hate that, Like why do they think it's
so cool? I don't get it. Like even when I
was young, I didn't think it was cool. I thought
it was stupid.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Have you ever had a loud car like that?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
No? One of my best friends did.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Like he had like a four to zero, like I
don't even know, like a four hundred or whatever, like
a big like a massive engine in a nineteen seventies
like Impala.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah, it's sick. And so you have the best part
whenever you go through like a tunnel or something, you
rev it up in the tunnel. Dude, Come on, man,
it's sick. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Oh my gosh, I'm so desperately want to meet the girl.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Go oh that is that your car? That's hot? That's hot?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Can I can I get a ride?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
That?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
That was my daughter at disowner?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Is that your knee?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
I cut her out of the wheel. If that was
my daughter?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Is that your neon Green Honda Civic I heard from
three miles.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Away from nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
God, that's hot with all the interior broken and ripped apart.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Oh those blue flames you painted as yourself?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Oh wow, Yeah, you took a spray can of the
spray paint that you buy and that's what you did.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
On the Sundy. That's really cool. Can I get a ride? Unvoloilable?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I told you, I told you, all right, when they
come back, Actually we're not coming back.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
TJ.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Richie's coming up now, So his show's coming up next
and I will be here Oliver again tomorrow. Actually, got
a lot of stuff going on in the day tomorrow,
so make sure you stick around for tomorrow night. My
name is Brett Jenson, and you've been listening to Breaking
with Bret Jenson,
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