November 10, 2025 • 35 mins
Tune in here to this Monday edition of Breaking With Brett Jensen!
Breaking Brett Jensen kicks off the show by discussing the first session of the Scott Brooks murder trial. Jensen shares a report from Queen City News that highlights a key detail from the session - the judge overseeing the case had to dismiss one of the jurors after he fell asleep during opening statements.
The dismissed juror had previously spoken with the judge during the selection process, saying he felt he could serve on the jury despite working a third-shift job. As for Monday’s session, it focused on surveillance video from December 2019 taken at Brooks’ Sandwich House, as well as footage from neighboring businesses surrounding the restaurant.
Later, Charlotte Bourbon Society founder Ken Bernardo joins Jensen to discuss the society’s Bourbon Hearts Charity Dinner and Auction, taking place Friday night. The event benefits the HeartBright Foundation, whose mission is to promote cardiovascular wellness through prevention, awareness, and partnerships across the Charlotte region. Veteran Brad Halling - who survived the real Black Hawk Down - and his wife, Jess, will participate in the event. The Hallings own BHAWK, a distillery based in Southern Pines. Their participation will support the society’s goal of honoring veterans during the event.
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
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talking to eleven ten.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Ninety ninety three WBT bred Jensen here with you on
this snowy Monday night edition of Breaking with bred Jensen. No, look,
I will always say this. One of my big pet
peeves is when people try to tell you what the
weather is doing outside. Because my theory is, if it's
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rainy or thunderstorms or lightning, either a you got e
or be you got eyes or see you have both.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You probably don't need people.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
To tell you that there's thundering and lightning outside. Now
what you do need people to tell you if.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
There's like a tornado watch or a tornado warning.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Okay, that I get. But the only reason I'm telling
you that it's snowing at a decent pace, not that
a single snowflake will stick because I think it was
thirty six degrees when I pulled in her to the
station eight minutes ago. Yeah, yeah, it was about eight
minutes ago. It still still like thirty six degrees. Nothing's
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gonna stick.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
But it just shows you how wild Charlotte can be.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Sometimes it was literally seventy six degrees yesterday twenty four
hours later, we got snow.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And it's forty degrees cooler. And by the way, for
the love of God.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Bring in your pets tonight because it's gonna get down
into the twenties tonight. No outdoor animals, no cats, you know,
if they're not into them, for the love of God,
at least.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Put them in the garage, you know. So anyways, but yes.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Driving here, pretty solid flutteries. Like I would say, it's
not snowing, but it's heavy flurries, if that makes any sense.
By the way, our telephone number is seven oh four five,
seven eleven ten, and that is also driven by this.
Also our WBT text line driven by Liberty Buick GMC
and guys, make sure you follow me on accept Brett
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Underscore Jensen for all the lettuce and breaking.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
News in and around this Charlotte area.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
All right, So on Friday, the first opening arguments of
the Brooks trial took place, after two weeks of jury
selection and people going when they initially said, oh, you know,
jury selection shell lies.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Let you know, three four or five days. I spoke to.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Someone in the judicial system last week last Friday, I
said it took two weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Why would it take two weeks instead of like three days?
I said, Brent, you've got three lawyers.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
You've got two defendants with two separate lawyers, and the prosecutor.
So instead of going through a jury, you now have
a third person who can dismiss jurors.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So it's going to take longer. It's like, oh okay,
they're like they're.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Like, dude, it was always going to take two weeks,
all right, So now you had opening state or not
opening statements for the last Friday. Should say, but you
had the first session, first full day session today and
I want to play a quick report from Queens City
News because.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
One of the jurors on day one got the boot.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
The second day testimony now wrapping up in the trial
of two menicus of killing Scott Brooks, co owner of
Brooks a Sandwich House. Well, right now, the session started
with the judge replacing a juror and then the rest
of the panel watching just Tough video from six years ago.
Quincity News anchor Will Lewis joins us live now from
the Meccleburg County Courthouse. So we'll explain to us why
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did the judge make the decision to replace the juror.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Well, good evening, Alicia. The judge decided to replace Juror
number four because he fell asleep during opening statements. Now
that concerned the prosecution and the defense, but that jur
during the selection process told the judge that he worked
third shift but still felt that he could serve on
the jury now, after a court clerk stressed the importance
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of staying awake during the trial. That juror then called
the court on Friday night and said that he was
still having trouble functioning. As for what took place in
the court, the prosecution started by showing several pieces of
surveillance video from neighboring neighboring property and Brookes Sandwich House
from back in December of twenty nineteen. There were five
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cameras in and around this sandwich house and in one
of those video you see Scott Brooks, the co owner
of the sandwich house, coming to work to start the day.
Then in another camera, a man runs past a window
with a weapon drawn. Then two men wearing hooded sweatshirts
holds Brooks at gunpoint. They go through his pockets, in
which the prosecution said during opening statements that the men
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took money and Scott Brooks wallet. Brooks is seen speaking
with the two men and then Scott Brooks pulls out
a weapon from his pocket and fires, with the accused
firing back. Terry Connor Junior and Steven Staples has been
accused of killing Brooks. Both men watched a video and
listen to a CMPD crime scene investigator talk about collecting evidence.
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One issue raised by the defense the number of latex
gloves scattered about the scene and if they felt the
crime scene was contaminated.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Consider the medical latex gloves contamination to your car scene. Hmm,
if it was directly on the scene. I guess I
don't know what you're asking.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I'm askingating. So do that's the incamination your car.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Scene in what regard? Is it right in the crime scene?
Or I guess elaborate. Is that a problem your original
Curren scene when people come in and stash their trash.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Yes, Now, during redirect, that investigator did say that they
felt the crime scene wasn't contaminated. Now, brookes sandwich house
was closed so that the family could be here, and
we spoke to David Brooks off camera and he said, today,
watching that surveillance video was tough, especially for Scott's son,
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who was also in the courtroom. We're live at the
Mecklenburg County Courthouse, well Lewis, Queen City News.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Okay, so here's the thing this is going. They're expecting
this to take up to five weeks.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
You've got one guy that they believe to be the
main suspect to be linked to five total murders, and
the other guy believed to be linked to three murders,
and they're roaming the streets.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Welcome to Charlotte. I say that every single damn week.
Welcome to Charlotte. So anyways, but this could take five weeks.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You know, I don't know how many people they will
take the stand if the two defendants. The one thing
that you heard there, right, this is something to keep.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
An eye on. The one thing that you heard there
was that they said Brooks pulled.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Out a gun, had like like a little peace shooter
type thing, a very small pistol, tried to shoot, and
then the other guys or the other guy shot.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Him and killed.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Now the question is, will the people doing the armed
robbery say, hey, we were never gonna shoot and he
shot at us. So would they try maybe something as
flimsy as self defense, since they literally watched that video today,
I don't even know that if that's an option. I've
had one lawyer tell me it is an option. I've
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had another person in the judicial system tell me, well,
if it's felony whatever, whatever, that won't jive. So I
just think it's gonna be very interesting. I think it's
gonna be very very interesting. All right, when we do
come back, we're gonna get into a few more things,
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and then coming up at the bottom of the hour,
we've got a big charity event that's coming up on
Friday night that I will be a part of, and
I want to introduce you guys to it because it's
been it's raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local
arts services. And don't forget we had the brilliant game
last night yesterday afternoon, otherwise known as the Carolina Panthers,
and that just performance of excellence is what it was.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Performance of excellence.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen on this snow
flurry Monday night, as we go up until seven o'clock tonight,
seven oh four, five, seven oh eleven, ten, and also
coming up at the bottom.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Of the hour.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Ken Bernardo of the Charlotte Bourbon Society. It's the largest
bourbon club in North or South Carolina, and they have
a big special event that they do every single year,
and it's gotten so big that they're you know, it's
just it's just they sell, you know, hundreds of tickets
to this event, and they make all kinds of money,
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which means that they get to donate all the money
to particular foundationtions that deal with heart and health and
everything else. So we'll get into that coming up in
a little bit and I will be a part of
that next Friday.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
By the way, all right, Charlotte, look listen up.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
So you know.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
There is a time on a traditions when it comes
to the holidays, which, by the way, driving here on
Queen's Road West, which I call the uh, I know
Chicago has the Magnificent Mile.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
We have our own little magnificent mile. Here is Queen's
Road West where all the prettiest houses are.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
But I have to drive that way, not that I
live in one, but I have to drive that way
coming to work. And one of the big mansions, because
they're all mansions, one of the big mansions had all
its Christmas stuff out already out like in the front yard,
the lights and literally right beside it was one of
the I think it's the biggest mansion on the street
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with all its Thanksgiving stuff out with like I'm not
even joking, like a fifteen foot turkey in the front
yard right next to a house that has all the
Christmas stuff out.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
It was like all right, but.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Again, nothing says the Holidays like Christmas music starting on
November one on local radio stations as well as the
Hancock Bikes for Kids Toy Drive, and we've been doing
it every single year. This is going to be our
thirty second year and it's basically very very simple. Please
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consider bringing a new bike to WBT on Friday, December fifth.
We'll be out there broadcasting live from five to nine
pm and the WBT team, like I said, will all
be out there and we'll be grabbing, you know, helping
you unload your bike so you literally don't even have
to get out of the car. We'll have a bunch
of crews there right grabbing the bikes. And Ed Billock
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is like the king of all this stuff, like he's
the one who sort of helps gather everything. He does
it every single year. One year at South Point when
we are at a torrential downpour south Point High School in
South Mecamory, I said, south Point South Melcaburg High School
on South Boulevard one year it was a torrential downpour,
and then COVID years when we were doing it at
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a Bank of America Stadium with the Panthers, and then
the last couple of years here at the at the station.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
So Billock's always been in charge of that. He does
a great job.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
But it's the thirty second annual WBT Hancock's Bikes for Kids,
and it's benefiting kids first of the Carolinas. And all
of this, by the way, is being presented by Garage
Door Doctor. And again this is Friday, December fifth, five
to nine pm and you can visit to BBT dot
com for all the details. But I promise you you
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will only hear people at our station say this for
eighteen thousand times between now and December fifth, so.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
You'll you'll know by the end of the week.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Oh December fifth, Oh, okay, we get it.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
It's all about repetition.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Repetition, so yes, that's coming up on December fifth, and unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Unfortunately, this will be the first time I won't be
able to.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Do it with Maggie because she's always People always wanted
to come by and see Maggie or whatever. Like we
even had people last year and say we came by
just because we wanted to meet Maggie. You know, I
was like, okay, because you know, as Pat Coltham, the
former county commissioner, called her the most famous dog in
North Carolina because everyone knew about because I always talked
about her, like all the cool things, but all her
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health details. And I had people come up to me
at News and Bruce saying that they and where I
close shop just told me over the weekend they buy
pet insurance because of me. And I always told you
buy pet insurance pet insurance dot com. I'm not an endorser.
That's what I use a lot of You can get
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it through work at a discounted rate, but go check
it out pet insurance dot Com. And it is owned
and operated by Nationwide Insurance, so it's a national company,
so it's reputable.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
It's not a mom and pop operation.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
So just you can go there in good quotes like member,
you know, like if you're how you're shopping around for
car insurance. You can get quotes before. It's the same
thing with pen insurance dot com. You can get quotes
without having to buy it. You just see what's going on,
but peninsurance dot com. But anyway, so this will be
the first time without uh, Mags Carter, Mags mag Delicious, Magapotamus, Magaroni,
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and Cheese Magpie.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Of course that's the easy one.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And her official name was Margaret May Margaret May m
Ae and people, oh, you named it after like Maggie
May after the song Rod Stores like, no, no, it's
just happy coincidence.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
But but yes, so Mags won't be there this year,
only in spirit.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
But yeah, so we look forward to having you guys
swing by and come see us again December fifth, from
five to nine pm. All right, so when we come back,
Ken Bernardo the sharlw Bourbon Society's going to be joining
us because he's got a big charitable event coming up
on Friday.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I will be.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Helping him out on this and it's again, when you
help raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for health organizations.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
It's kind of a big deal, all right.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
So all that's coming up next when we return, including
a breakdown of just how wonderful the Carolina Panthers performed
this past weekend. Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen
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on this chilly Monday night, seven four five, seven oh
eleven ten, And it's getting down to about twenty six tonights.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
To make sure your animals are inside or at the
very least the garage.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
All right, So coming up Friday night, when it's supposed
to be again in the seventies again, back to normal
temperatures for the city of Charlotte, there is this big
charity fun going on and it's being put on by
the Charlotte Bourbon Society, and so I thought, you know what,
I'll be, you know, out there participating. So I thought,
you know, what better thing to do than have Ken
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bernarda who is the founder of the Charlotte Bourbon Society. So,
first of all, Ken, thanks for joining us tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
So just talk a.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Little bit about what the actual charity event is going
on from Monday Friday night, and then after that tell
what it's a benefiting and who's it for.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
Yeah, Hey, good evening, Brett, how are.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
You just fine?
Speaker 7 (16:32):
Yeah, We've got a great event planned. This is our
eighth annual Bourbon Hearts Dinner and auction and benefiting Heartbright Foundation.
And if you don't know anything about Heartbright Foundation, their
mission is to promote carliovasc wellness through prevention, awareness and
partnerships across the Charlotte Meck region. Like I said, this
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is our eighth year, eighth year we've selt. We've sold
out consecutively and to date, you know, we've raised nearly
seven hundred thousand dollars gross, you know, for helping helping
combat cardiovaster disease and stroke and helping those in markets
that are are not as fortunate to receive care. And
that's what Heartbright is all about.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
So several hundred thousand dollars have been raised. And and
I know that you don't speak for heart right, but
what what are some of their biggest things that they
do in the community concerning concerning cardiovascular and stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Well, the biggest piece, and this is something that's near
and dear to my heart, no pun intended, bro, but
you know this whole started because my dad passed from
his battle with cardiovaster disease and and you know he
would fit in that realm of patients that that that
that heart right treats. These these are folks that are
are financially don't have the means for heart health care.
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So that could be everything from you know, the treatments
that they may need, or looking at nutrition, certain medications, screening,
pretty much everything you can think of what you would
go to a cardiologist to go you know, for treatment
or to have a to be diagnosed properly. Those are
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the types of services that they provide in the community.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
And speak with Ken bernarda who's the founder of the
Charlotte Bourbon Society, the largest bourbon club in North or
South Carolina, and they've got their big annual event taking
place on Friday night, which I will be a part of.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
This thing is just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I mean, as it gets more and more successful in
your club, keeps getting bigger and bigger, this event keeps
getting bigger and bigger.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
Yeah, you know, we're excited. I just I can't thank
the spirits industry enough for the support that they've given us.
They really just seem to show up and show out
every single year. This year we're going to have nearly
thirty brands, some of the biggest brands, you know, local
brands and national brands. If you look at the if
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you were to go to our our website, were the
event that shows all the details that you know, company
of bourbon brands like Bartstown Bourbon, Barrelcraft, Spirits, Forbidden Hard Truths,
Maker's Mark, Old Forrester, you know local brands, you know
Old Raleigh out of out of the Raleig Durham Market,
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Oaklore in Matthews right here and locally to us. There's
so many great brands and every time we host this event,
we've got some big, big brands coming in, master distillers,
master blenders, some of the biggest names you know in
the industry. When I think of you know, Maker's Mark,
doctor Blake Layfield, who's their their master distiller. You know
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Stephen Beam, the master distiller and founder of Limestone Branch.
You've got John Hargrove, the co founder of Whiskey House
of Kentucky, Melissa Riff who's the master taster, Old Forrester,
Nick Smith, the head distiller of Bartstown Bourbon Company, and others.
It's just amazing how much support we've got over the years,
and they truly believe in our cause. In helping us,
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and so I just I can't be more grateful to
be to have their support each year.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Well, one of the things that I saw on the
list and I wish you could, I hope you can
talk about it, I should say, is that I found
it like it's a brand that I've never heard anything about.
But their story is obviously very fascinating. And our listeners,
which is very pro military and stuff like that, is
b Hawk Bourbon or Distillery because of a survivor from
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Blackhawk Down?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Is that correct?
Speaker 7 (20:34):
That that's correct, and it's such a great story and
I'm glad you brought that up. Brad Houling. Yes, he
was one of the survivors of Mogadishu conflict the movie
Black Hawk Down. Brad was Brad and his wife jefs Hauling,
both retired, incredible people, incredible incredible distillery that they've built
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actually in my hometown of Southern Pines, Pinehurst. They came
last year. They were first time attendees last year, and
we presented Brad with an amazing custom made knife from
one of our members in Charlotte Bourbon Study, Todd Cruse,
to hobby of his and we presented Brad with that
knife and that knifecause it's right around. We always had
the dinner around Veteran Veteran's Day, which is tomorrow, and
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so we'll be doing the same thing this year and
recognizing the veterans in the room. But Brad and jess
of just continuing to tell a great story and bringing
gratitude and respect and all the things that they're doing
with their distillery. And also in North Carolina, we're going
to do a live auction with I'm excited for We're
to have a live auction item that they're going to
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be a part of this year with a barrel pick
experience for the winners down there at Beehawk And but
I'm thrilled they're going to be a part of our
dinner again this year. They're doing great things.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
And I don't want to say it's something that's inaccurate
one way or the other. So is this event is
this year's event already sold out?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
It is sold out. We sold out almost two weeks ago,
and I have a waiting lists right now probably of
about fifteen plus people. But yeah, we're excited, and you know,
it's just it's amazing again how much support we've garnered
over the years and this year especially.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Well, if you could give all the contact information through
for the Charlotte Bourbon Society so they can a learn
more about this event if they're interested in going next year,
but also just your club in general and what it offers.
Because like I said, when I met you, I guess
it was last year of February.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Well, I guess it was this year.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
February when I met you, you know, for the fort
I believe it was February that it was. You know,
I was able to learn of a lot of things
about Bourbon that I did not know. So there may
be others out there just like myself. So can you
tell people how to learn more information about the charlott
Bourbon Society.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Yeah, you can go to our website. It's real simple
Cltbourbonsociety dot com. You can click on the about tab.
You'll see everything about the dinner from years past and
the pictures all the fun we've been having over the years.
And you know, there's going to be a special announcement.
I can't let the count of the bag on this
call with you, Brett, but there'll be a special announcement.
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Some things that we're planning already for next year. I
retired this end of last this past August, and so
I'm looking to go full time and really looking for
corporate sponsors. I didn't mention that earlier, but we've done
this with zero corporate dollars behind our cause and our
efforts here. So I'm really looking forward to what we're
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going to do for you next year and the years
and beyond. So looking forward to to this Friday.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
All right, Well, Ken Bernardo, founder of the Shattburban Society, North,
North and South Carolina's largest bourbon club. I really do
appreciate your time tonight, and I look forward to seeing
you on Friday.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Great. Thanks, Thanks Brett, have a good night.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Thank you you too. All right, That is Ken Bernardo.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
All right, when we come back, what we're going to
do is we're going to talk a little bit of
Carolina Panthers. Also have some stuff here about the flight cancelations.
How many flight cancelations did Charlotte have today in America?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I can tell you there were.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Two thousand, six hundred and no, I'm sorry delays in
North Caroline in America delays seven and thirty nine cancelations
in America today at airports two thousand, six hundred and
fifty four.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
How many did Charlotte have. We'll find out when we return.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
On the middle of Concrete.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Welcome back to breaking with bred Jensen once and again.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I want to say thanks to Ken Bernardo of the
Charlotte Bourbon Society. He is the founder, or at the
very least a co founder, but I believe the founder,
and they have their big gala going on this Friday
night with I will be participating in and looking forward
to doing so. Okay, So in America, everyone's freaking out
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about the airlines. My brother flew back to Philadelphia this morning.
He flew into town on Friday with his wife to
spend time with my mom, who celebrated her eightieth and
her eightieth anniversary, her eightieth birthday yesterday, right, so he
had to fly out this morning. And as of right now,
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there have been seven thousand, seven hundred and thirty nine
delays in America at airports. There's been two thousand, six
hundred and fifty four cancelations globally and twenty two hundred
and thirty three nationally, So two hundred thirty three Charlotte
has had.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Let make sure I get my number right.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I don't want to give false info here. Charlotte has
had twenty eight cancelations today and one hundred and twenty
eight delays. I gotta be honest with you. That's not bad.
Twenty cancelations with the what a thousand flights.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
That go in and out of Charlotte every day, twenty eight.
It's not bad when.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
It's when you're getting three hundred at Chicago O'Hare Airport,
there's three hundred cancelations and you're getting twenty eight in Charlotte.
You can handle that. You can handle you can handle that.
That's not that bad. Now that's planes scheduled to leave Charlotte.
Planes scheduled to fly to Charlotte. Thirty five of.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Them were canceled.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
So a lot of times, obviously a plane may be
coming from Des Moines, Iowa, to Charlotte if that flight's
been canceled, well, that flight was supposed to come to Charlotte,
and then that plane may be flying to New York
City with Charlotte passengers.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Well, so again, not great, but not bad, not bad.
It's it's doable. It's fine.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I mean, it can be a pain in the rear end,
but it's it's not the end of the world, world
with only twenty eight flights. Okay, what was the end
of the world was yesterday's game with the Carolina Panthers
and the New Orleans Saints. That set football back probably
seventy five years. That looked like the days when they
were playing football without face masks. That's how bad it was.
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It was so bad that the Panthers lost to arguably
the worst team in the NFL. There's three really well,
four really really bad teams in the NFL. There's four
that are far worse than anybody else. Tennessee, New York Jets,
Cleveland Browns, and the New Orleans Saints. Those are by
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far the four worst teams in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
And it's not even close. And what happened.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Carolina lost, And it just goes to show by the way,
the NFL, unlike any of the sport Look, if you
play one hundred and sixty two games in baseball, the
worst teams, on occasion will beat the best teams. Pitcher
gets hot, or a batter gets hits a couple of
home runs, like whatever, like it happens.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
It's it's not that big of a deal. It happens.
Not a lot but it.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Happens same thing in the NBA. You know, the Hornets
might lose. They might play somebody three times or four times,
like the Milwaukee Bucks or whomever, and lose three of
the four, but they might win one game. Well, in
the NFL, you there are only seventeen games and three
teams you played twice and everyone else. The other eleven
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games are eleven single games, seventeen games total. Wasn't it
just like a week ago that Carolina went up to
green Bay and beat green Bay at Green Bay and
people were talking about green Bay challenging for the Super
Bowl this year? And then they come and don't forget,
was it the Carolina Panthers that lit up the Dallas
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Cowboys and be Atlanta thirty to nothing? Atlanta b Buffalo.
Miami's a bad team. They smoke Buffalo. Yes, say so.
My point is, anomalies happen in the NFL all the time,
so much so that maybe they shouldn't even be considered anomalies. So,
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but the difference is when you're at home against one
of the four worst teams in the NFL and it's
so bad that Bryce Young has to go into the
locker room and give a little speech saying, yeah, today.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Was my fault. Today was my bad, my bad. It
was all on me. That's a bad sign.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Because while Bryce has not played well this year at
all at all, he hasn't played stupid either.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
That's the thing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Like he's not having eighty seven turns interceptions and fumbles
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
He's had some bad passes. Don't get me wrong. He
said some bad passes. I hear it.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
He was missing wide open receivers yesterday. But I will
tell you not this year, but in two years is
expected to be a hell of a college quarterback class
coming out like a lot like eight nine deep. And
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so don't be surprised if in two years, two aprils
from now, the Carolina Panthers don't draft another quarterback.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Now.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I saw something about this, guys, like I'm sure I'll
be talking about this on wfn Z tomorrow when I
joined them on fen Z every Tuesday at ten thirty.
But I saw rumors over the weekend that the Panthers
might be interested in Kyler Murray because they think his
days in Arizona are done. Kyler Murray's an infinitely better quarterback.
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He's the exact same height as as Bryce Young. That's
a problem.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Kyler Murray likes to run around, running around, run around,
run around.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
He doesn't like to stay in the pocket. He gets
happy feet, as they call it, like he gets skittish
like a cat, and he just like runs around and
he can make great plays, and then he'll do some
really really stupid things because.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
He's constantly running around.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
So I saw that this weekend and I went, for
the love of God, no, just stick with Bryce for
one more year this year, next year. See if things
get better next year, Maybe get a little bit more
better wide receivers and you know, upgrade the offensive line
a little bit, and then take your chances next year.
And then if things don't work out, then go drive
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to another quarterback.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
But do not under any circumstances.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
I need someone to write this down on November tenth,
twenty twenty five. I'm saying it right now. Do not
give him contract extension where he's getting like a twenty
five to thirty million dollar a year raise, because that's
what starting quarterbacks get.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Your bad ones are getting twenty five to thirty million,
your really good ones are getting fifty to sixty million.
Do not give him a thirty million dollar contract. Let
his contract play out one more year, be done with it,
and then if you want to keep him, you can
sign him to a new contract.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Or let's say balls out next year.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yeah yeah, right, yeah, yeah, like that's gonna happen. Come on,
we can he's gonna ball out and gon win power Ball.
Come on, So you're saying there's a chance, go on.
So anyways, but.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Look, he's doing.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
He was doing what the coaches were asking him to do.
We're gonna win on defense, and we're gonna win with
our running backs, and that's what they were doing. And
then you have a game like yesterday where the running
game is not doing well, so they have to have
one who can.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Throw the ball. And he couldn't throw it. He couldn't
throw it. No. I mean, he's he's done exactly what
the coaches wanted him to do.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
It's the we don't need you to go win it,
just don't lose it.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
It's that mindset, we.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Don't need you to win it, but just for the
love of God, you know, don't wet the bed and lose.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
The game for us. Well, yesterday, yeah, he had bladder problems.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
You know he needed the rubber sheets yesterday and then
he had to stand up in front of the.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Team go yeah, it was my fault, my fault. It
was all on me. I take responsibility, I hope. So
no one else is up there trying to throw the ball.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
So anyways, but that's my little uh Carolina Panthers die tribe.
That kind of upset me because you know, they were,
what five and four? They had a chance to be
six and four really kind of looking good even though
they haven't played great. But look, six and wins, six wins,
four losses, you've gotta be right there near the playoffs
of the wild cards and all that, like right on
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the edge. And now yeah, no, now they're what five
and five? Which I will say, let's be honest. I
got two dudes in the studio with me right now.
If I'd said through ten games the Carolina Panthers were
five and five, would you take that right now? If
I had told you that back in August, Lonnie, would
you have taken that right now?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Five and five?
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
No, But it's a way better season than it was
last year.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
No, But but that's my point. I mean, like you've
been like, oh wow, we're actually five hundred. Yeah, like
no one expected that. I didn't, right, so yeah take it.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yeah you know.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
So anyways, but that's that's what's going on with the Panthers.
We'll see what happens next week and the week after
and the week after, but don't hold your breath. All right,
Well that's gonna do it for us tonight. I do
not have a show tomorrow night because of the tar heels,
so I will see you on Wednesday. My name is
Brett Jenson, and you've been listening to Breaking with Brett
Jenson
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Ninety ninety three WBT bred Jensen here with you on
this snowy Monday night edition of Breaking with bred Jensen. No, look,
I will always say this. One of my big pet
peeves is when people try to tell you what the
weather is doing outside. Because my theory is, if it's
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rainy or thunderstorms or lightning, either a you got e
or be you got eyes or see you have both.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You probably don't need people.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
To tell you that there's thundering and lightning outside. Now
what you do need people to tell you if.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
There's like a tornado watch or a tornado warning.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Okay, that I get. But the only reason I'm telling
you that it's snowing at a decent pace, not that
a single snowflake will stick because I think it was
thirty six degrees when I pulled in her to the
station eight minutes ago. Yeah, yeah, it was about eight
minutes ago. It still still like thirty six degrees. Nothing's
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gonna stick.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
But it just shows you how wild Charlotte can be.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Sometimes it was literally seventy six degrees yesterday twenty four
hours later, we got snow.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And it's forty degrees cooler. And by the way, for
the love of God.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Bring in your pets tonight because it's gonna get down
into the twenties tonight. No outdoor animals, no cats, you know,
if they're not into them, for the love of God,
at least.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Put them in the garage, you know. So anyways, but yes.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Driving here, pretty solid flutteries. Like I would say, it's
not snowing, but it's heavy flurries, if that makes any sense.
By the way, our telephone number is seven oh four five,
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Underscore Jensen for all the lettuce and breaking.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
News in and around this Charlotte area.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
All right, So on Friday, the first opening arguments of
the Brooks trial took place, after two weeks of jury
selection and people going when they initially said, oh, you know,
jury selection shell lies.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Let you know, three four or five days. I spoke to.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Someone in the judicial system last week last Friday, I
said it took two weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Why would it take two weeks instead of like three days?
I said, Brent, you've got three lawyers.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
You've got two defendants with two separate lawyers, and the prosecutor.
So instead of going through a jury, you now have
a third person who can dismiss jurors.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So it's going to take longer. It's like, oh okay,
they're like they're.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Like, dude, it was always going to take two weeks,
all right, So now you had opening state or not
opening statements for the last Friday. Should say, but you
had the first session, first full day session today and
I want to play a quick report from Queens City
News because.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
One of the jurors on day one got the boot.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
The second day testimony now wrapping up in the trial
of two menicus of killing Scott Brooks, co owner of
Brooks a Sandwich House. Well, right now, the session started
with the judge replacing a juror and then the rest
of the panel watching just Tough video from six years ago.
Quincity News anchor Will Lewis joins us live now from
the Meccleburg County Courthouse. So we'll explain to us why
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did the judge make the decision to replace the juror.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Well, good evening, Alicia. The judge decided to replace Juror
number four because he fell asleep during opening statements. Now
that concerned the prosecution and the defense, but that jur
during the selection process told the judge that he worked
third shift but still felt that he could serve on
the jury now, after a court clerk stressed the importance
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of staying awake during the trial. That juror then called
the court on Friday night and said that he was
still having trouble functioning. As for what took place in
the court, the prosecution started by showing several pieces of
surveillance video from neighboring neighboring property and Brookes Sandwich House
from back in December of twenty nineteen. There were five
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cameras in and around this sandwich house and in one
of those video you see Scott Brooks, the co owner
of the sandwich house, coming to work to start the day.
Then in another camera, a man runs past a window
with a weapon drawn. Then two men wearing hooded sweatshirts
holds Brooks at gunpoint. They go through his pockets, in
which the prosecution said during opening statements that the men
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took money and Scott Brooks wallet. Brooks is seen speaking
with the two men and then Scott Brooks pulls out
a weapon from his pocket and fires, with the accused
firing back. Terry Connor Junior and Steven Staples has been
accused of killing Brooks. Both men watched a video and
listen to a CMPD crime scene investigator talk about collecting evidence.
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One issue raised by the defense the number of latex
gloves scattered about the scene and if they felt the
crime scene was contaminated.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Consider the medical latex gloves contamination to your car scene. Hmm,
if it was directly on the scene. I guess I
don't know what you're asking.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I'm askingating. So do that's the incamination your car.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Scene in what regard? Is it right in the crime scene?
Or I guess elaborate. Is that a problem your original
Curren scene when people come in and stash their trash.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Yes, Now, during redirect, that investigator did say that they
felt the crime scene wasn't contaminated. Now, brookes sandwich house
was closed so that the family could be here, and
we spoke to David Brooks off camera and he said, today,
watching that surveillance video was tough, especially for Scott's son,
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who was also in the courtroom. We're live at the
Mecklenburg County Courthouse, well Lewis, Queen City News.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Okay, so here's the thing this is going. They're expecting
this to take up to five weeks.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
You've got one guy that they believe to be the
main suspect to be linked to five total murders, and
the other guy believed to be linked to three murders,
and they're roaming the streets.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Welcome to Charlotte. I say that every single damn week.
Welcome to Charlotte. So anyways, but this could take five weeks.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You know, I don't know how many people they will
take the stand if the two defendants. The one thing
that you heard there, right, this is something to keep.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
An eye on. The one thing that you heard there
was that they said Brooks pulled.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Out a gun, had like like a little peace shooter
type thing, a very small pistol, tried to shoot, and
then the other guys or the other guy shot.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Him and killed.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Now the question is, will the people doing the armed
robbery say, hey, we were never gonna shoot and he
shot at us. So would they try maybe something as
flimsy as self defense, since they literally watched that video today,
I don't even know that if that's an option. I've
had one lawyer tell me it is an option. I've
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had another person in the judicial system tell me, well,
if it's felony whatever, whatever, that won't jive. So I
just think it's gonna be very interesting. I think it's
gonna be very very interesting. All right, when we do
come back, we're gonna get into a few more things,
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and then coming up at the bottom of the hour,
we've got a big charity event that's coming up on
Friday night that I will be a part of, and
I want to introduce you guys to it because it's
been it's raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local
arts services. And don't forget we had the brilliant game
last night yesterday afternoon, otherwise known as the Carolina Panthers,
and that just performance of excellence is what it was.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Performance of excellence.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen on this snow
flurry Monday night, as we go up until seven o'clock tonight,
seven oh four, five, seven oh eleven, ten, and also
coming up at the bottom.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Of the hour.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Ken Bernardo of the Charlotte Bourbon Society. It's the largest
bourbon club in North or South Carolina, and they have
a big special event that they do every single year,
and it's gotten so big that they're you know, it's
just it's just they sell, you know, hundreds of tickets
to this event, and they make all kinds of money,
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which means that they get to donate all the money
to particular foundationtions that deal with heart and health and
everything else. So we'll get into that coming up in
a little bit and I will be a part of
that next Friday.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
By the way, all right, Charlotte, look listen up.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
So you know.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
There is a time on a traditions when it comes
to the holidays, which, by the way, driving here on
Queen's Road West, which I call the uh, I know
Chicago has the Magnificent Mile.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
We have our own little magnificent mile. Here is Queen's
Road West where all the prettiest houses are.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
But I have to drive that way, not that I
live in one, but I have to drive that way
coming to work. And one of the big mansions, because
they're all mansions, one of the big mansions had all
its Christmas stuff out already out like in the front yard,
the lights and literally right beside it was one of
the I think it's the biggest mansion on the street
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with all its Thanksgiving stuff out with like I'm not
even joking, like a fifteen foot turkey in the front
yard right next to a house that has all the
Christmas stuff out.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
It was like all right, but.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Again, nothing says the Holidays like Christmas music starting on
November one on local radio stations as well as the
Hancock Bikes for Kids Toy Drive, and we've been doing
it every single year. This is going to be our
thirty second year and it's basically very very simple. Please
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consider bringing a new bike to WBT on Friday, December fifth.
We'll be out there broadcasting live from five to nine
pm and the WBT team, like I said, will all
be out there and we'll be grabbing, you know, helping
you unload your bike so you literally don't even have
to get out of the car. We'll have a bunch
of crews there right grabbing the bikes. And Ed Billock
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is like the king of all this stuff, like he's
the one who sort of helps gather everything. He does
it every single year. One year at South Point when
we are at a torrential downpour south Point High School in
South Mecamory, I said, south Point South Melcaburg High School
on South Boulevard one year it was a torrential downpour,
and then COVID years when we were doing it at
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a Bank of America Stadium with the Panthers, and then
the last couple of years here at the at the station.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
So Billock's always been in charge of that. He does
a great job.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
But it's the thirty second annual WBT Hancock's Bikes for Kids,
and it's benefiting kids first of the Carolinas. And all
of this, by the way, is being presented by Garage
Door Doctor. And again this is Friday, December fifth, five
to nine pm and you can visit to BBT dot
com for all the details. But I promise you you
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will only hear people at our station say this for
eighteen thousand times between now and December fifth, so.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
You'll you'll know by the end of the week.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Oh December fifth, Oh, okay, we get it.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
It's all about repetition.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Repetition, so yes, that's coming up on December fifth, and unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Unfortunately, this will be the first time I won't be
able to.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Do it with Maggie because she's always People always wanted
to come by and see Maggie or whatever. Like we
even had people last year and say we came by
just because we wanted to meet Maggie. You know, I
was like, okay, because you know, as Pat Coltham, the
former county commissioner, called her the most famous dog in
North Carolina because everyone knew about because I always talked
about her, like all the cool things, but all her
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health details. And I had people come up to me
at News and Bruce saying that they and where I
close shop just told me over the weekend they buy
pet insurance because of me. And I always told you
buy pet insurance pet insurance dot com. I'm not an endorser.
That's what I use a lot of You can get
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it through work at a discounted rate, but go check
it out pet insurance dot Com. And it is owned
and operated by Nationwide Insurance, so it's a national company,
so it's reputable.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
It's not a mom and pop operation.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
So just you can go there in good quotes like member,
you know, like if you're how you're shopping around for
car insurance. You can get quotes before. It's the same
thing with pen insurance dot com. You can get quotes
without having to buy it. You just see what's going on,
but peninsurance dot com. But anyway, so this will be
the first time without uh, Mags Carter, Mags mag Delicious, Magapotamus, Magaroni,
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and Cheese Magpie.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Of course that's the easy one.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And her official name was Margaret May Margaret May m
Ae and people, oh, you named it after like Maggie
May after the song Rod Stores like, no, no, it's
just happy coincidence.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
But but yes, so Mags won't be there this year,
only in spirit.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
But yeah, so we look forward to having you guys
swing by and come see us again December fifth, from
five to nine pm. All right, so when we come back,
Ken Bernardo the sharlw Bourbon Society's going to be joining
us because he's got a big charitable event coming up
on Friday.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I will be.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Helping him out on this and it's again, when you
help raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for health organizations.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
It's kind of a big deal, all right.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
So all that's coming up next when we return, including
a breakdown of just how wonderful the Carolina Panthers performed
this past weekend. Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen
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on this chilly Monday night, seven four five, seven oh
eleven ten, And it's getting down to about twenty six tonights.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
To make sure your animals are inside or at the
very least the garage.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
All right, So coming up Friday night, when it's supposed
to be again in the seventies again, back to normal
temperatures for the city of Charlotte, there is this big
charity fun going on and it's being put on by
the Charlotte Bourbon Society, and so I thought, you know what,
I'll be, you know, out there participating. So I thought,
you know, what better thing to do than have Ken
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bernarda who is the founder of the Charlotte Bourbon Society. So,
first of all, Ken, thanks for joining us tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
So just talk a.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Little bit about what the actual charity event is going
on from Monday Friday night, and then after that tell
what it's a benefiting and who's it for.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
Yeah, Hey, good evening, Brett, how are.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
You just fine?
Speaker 7 (16:32):
Yeah, We've got a great event planned. This is our
eighth annual Bourbon Hearts Dinner and auction and benefiting Heartbright Foundation.
And if you don't know anything about Heartbright Foundation, their
mission is to promote carliovasc wellness through prevention, awareness and
partnerships across the Charlotte Meck region. Like I said, this
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is our eighth year, eighth year we've selt. We've sold
out consecutively and to date, you know, we've raised nearly
seven hundred thousand dollars gross, you know, for helping helping
combat cardiovaster disease and stroke and helping those in markets
that are are not as fortunate to receive care. And
that's what Heartbright is all about.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
So several hundred thousand dollars have been raised. And and
I know that you don't speak for heart right, but
what what are some of their biggest things that they
do in the community concerning concerning cardiovascular and stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Well, the biggest piece, and this is something that's near
and dear to my heart, no pun intended, bro, but
you know this whole started because my dad passed from
his battle with cardiovaster disease and and you know he
would fit in that realm of patients that that that
that heart right treats. These these are folks that are
are financially don't have the means for heart health care.
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So that could be everything from you know, the treatments
that they may need, or looking at nutrition, certain medications, screening,
pretty much everything you can think of what you would
go to a cardiologist to go you know, for treatment
or to have a to be diagnosed properly. Those are
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the types of services that they provide in the community.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
And speak with Ken bernarda who's the founder of the
Charlotte Bourbon Society, the largest bourbon club in North or
South Carolina, and they've got their big annual event taking
place on Friday night, which I will be a part of.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
This thing is just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I mean, as it gets more and more successful in
your club, keeps getting bigger and bigger, this event keeps
getting bigger and bigger.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
Yeah, you know, we're excited. I just I can't thank
the spirits industry enough for the support that they've given us.
They really just seem to show up and show out
every single year. This year we're going to have nearly
thirty brands, some of the biggest brands, you know, local
brands and national brands. If you look at the if
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you were to go to our our website, were the
event that shows all the details that you know, company
of bourbon brands like Bartstown Bourbon, Barrelcraft, Spirits, Forbidden Hard Truths,
Maker's Mark, Old Forrester, you know local brands, you know
Old Raleigh out of out of the Raleig Durham Market,
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Oaklore in Matthews right here and locally to us. There's
so many great brands and every time we host this event,
we've got some big, big brands coming in, master distillers,
master blenders, some of the biggest names you know in
the industry. When I think of you know, Maker's Mark,
doctor Blake Layfield, who's their their master distiller. You know
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Stephen Beam, the master distiller and founder of Limestone Branch.
You've got John Hargrove, the co founder of Whiskey House
of Kentucky, Melissa Riff who's the master taster, Old Forrester,
Nick Smith, the head distiller of Bartstown Bourbon Company, and others.
It's just amazing how much support we've got over the years,
and they truly believe in our cause. In helping us,
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and so I just I can't be more grateful to
be to have their support each year.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Well, one of the things that I saw on the
list and I wish you could, I hope you can
talk about it, I should say, is that I found
it like it's a brand that I've never heard anything about.
But their story is obviously very fascinating. And our listeners,
which is very pro military and stuff like that, is
b Hawk Bourbon or Distillery because of a survivor from
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Blackhawk Down?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Is that correct?
Speaker 7 (20:34):
That that's correct, and it's such a great story and
I'm glad you brought that up. Brad Houling. Yes, he
was one of the survivors of Mogadishu conflict the movie
Black Hawk Down. Brad was Brad and his wife jefs Hauling,
both retired, incredible people, incredible incredible distillery that they've built
(20:55):
actually in my hometown of Southern Pines, Pinehurst. They came
last year. They were first time attendees last year, and
we presented Brad with an amazing custom made knife from
one of our members in Charlotte Bourbon Study, Todd Cruse,
to hobby of his and we presented Brad with that
knife and that knifecause it's right around. We always had
the dinner around Veteran Veteran's Day, which is tomorrow, and
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so we'll be doing the same thing this year and
recognizing the veterans in the room. But Brad and jess
of just continuing to tell a great story and bringing
gratitude and respect and all the things that they're doing
with their distillery. And also in North Carolina, we're going
to do a live auction with I'm excited for We're
to have a live auction item that they're going to
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be a part of this year with a barrel pick
experience for the winners down there at Beehawk And but
I'm thrilled they're going to be a part of our
dinner again this year. They're doing great things.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
And I don't want to say it's something that's inaccurate
one way or the other. So is this event is
this year's event already sold out?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
It is sold out. We sold out almost two weeks ago,
and I have a waiting lists right now probably of
about fifteen plus people. But yeah, we're excited, and you know,
it's just it's amazing again how much support we've garnered
over the years and this year especially.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Well, if you could give all the contact information through
for the Charlotte Bourbon Society so they can a learn
more about this event if they're interested in going next year,
but also just your club in general and what it offers.
Because like I said, when I met you, I guess
it was last year of February.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Well, I guess it was this year.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
February when I met you, you know, for the fort
I believe it was February that it was. You know,
I was able to learn of a lot of things
about Bourbon that I did not know. So there may
be others out there just like myself. So can you
tell people how to learn more information about the charlott
Bourbon Society.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Yeah, you can go to our website. It's real simple
Cltbourbonsociety dot com. You can click on the about tab.
You'll see everything about the dinner from years past and
the pictures all the fun we've been having over the years.
And you know, there's going to be a special announcement.
I can't let the count of the bag on this
call with you, Brett, but there'll be a special announcement.
(23:04):
Some things that we're planning already for next year. I
retired this end of last this past August, and so
I'm looking to go full time and really looking for
corporate sponsors. I didn't mention that earlier, but we've done
this with zero corporate dollars behind our cause and our
efforts here. So I'm really looking forward to what we're
(23:25):
going to do for you next year and the years
and beyond. So looking forward to to this Friday.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
All right, Well, Ken Bernardo, founder of the Shattburban Society, North,
North and South Carolina's largest bourbon club. I really do
appreciate your time tonight, and I look forward to seeing
you on Friday.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Great. Thanks, Thanks Brett, have a good night.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Thank you you too. All right, That is Ken Bernardo.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
All right, when we come back, what we're going to
do is we're going to talk a little bit of
Carolina Panthers. Also have some stuff here about the flight cancelations.
How many flight cancelations did Charlotte have today in America?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I can tell you there were.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Two thousand, six hundred and no, I'm sorry delays in
North Caroline in America delays seven and thirty nine cancelations
in America today at airports two thousand, six hundred and
fifty four.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
How many did Charlotte have. We'll find out when we return.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
On the middle of Concrete.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Welcome back to breaking with bred Jensen once and again.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I want to say thanks to Ken Bernardo of the
Charlotte Bourbon Society. He is the founder, or at the
very least a co founder, but I believe the founder,
and they have their big gala going on this Friday
night with I will be participating in and looking forward
to doing so. Okay, So in America, everyone's freaking out
(25:08):
about the airlines. My brother flew back to Philadelphia this morning.
He flew into town on Friday with his wife to
spend time with my mom, who celebrated her eightieth and
her eightieth anniversary, her eightieth birthday yesterday, right, so he
had to fly out this morning. And as of right now,
(25:32):
there have been seven thousand, seven hundred and thirty nine
delays in America at airports. There's been two thousand, six
hundred and fifty four cancelations globally and twenty two hundred
and thirty three nationally, So two hundred thirty three Charlotte
has had.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Let make sure I get my number right.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I don't want to give false info here. Charlotte has
had twenty eight cancelations today and one hundred and twenty
eight delays. I gotta be honest with you. That's not bad.
Twenty cancelations with the what a thousand flights.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
That go in and out of Charlotte every day, twenty eight.
It's not bad when.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
It's when you're getting three hundred at Chicago O'Hare Airport,
there's three hundred cancelations and you're getting twenty eight in Charlotte.
You can handle that. You can handle you can handle that.
That's not that bad. Now that's planes scheduled to leave Charlotte.
Planes scheduled to fly to Charlotte. Thirty five of.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Them were canceled.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
So a lot of times, obviously a plane may be
coming from Des Moines, Iowa, to Charlotte if that flight's
been canceled, well, that flight was supposed to come to Charlotte,
and then that plane may be flying to New York
City with Charlotte passengers.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Well, so again, not great, but not bad, not bad.
It's it's doable. It's fine.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I mean, it can be a pain in the rear end,
but it's it's not the end of the world, world
with only twenty eight flights. Okay, what was the end
of the world was yesterday's game with the Carolina Panthers
and the New Orleans Saints. That set football back probably
seventy five years. That looked like the days when they
were playing football without face masks. That's how bad it was.
(27:18):
It was so bad that the Panthers lost to arguably
the worst team in the NFL. There's three really well,
four really really bad teams in the NFL. There's four
that are far worse than anybody else. Tennessee, New York Jets,
Cleveland Browns, and the New Orleans Saints. Those are by
(27:40):
far the four worst teams in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
And it's not even close. And what happened.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Carolina lost, And it just goes to show by the way,
the NFL, unlike any of the sport Look, if you
play one hundred and sixty two games in baseball, the
worst teams, on occasion will beat the best teams. Pitcher
gets hot, or a batter gets hits a couple of
home runs, like whatever, like it happens.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
It's it's not that big of a deal. It happens.
Not a lot but it.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Happens same thing in the NBA. You know, the Hornets
might lose. They might play somebody three times or four times,
like the Milwaukee Bucks or whomever, and lose three of
the four, but they might win one game. Well, in
the NFL, you there are only seventeen games and three
teams you played twice and everyone else. The other eleven
(28:37):
games are eleven single games, seventeen games total. Wasn't it
just like a week ago that Carolina went up to
green Bay and beat green Bay at Green Bay and
people were talking about green Bay challenging for the Super
Bowl this year? And then they come and don't forget,
was it the Carolina Panthers that lit up the Dallas
(28:58):
Cowboys and be Atlanta thirty to nothing? Atlanta b Buffalo.
Miami's a bad team. They smoke Buffalo. Yes, say so.
My point is, anomalies happen in the NFL all the time,
so much so that maybe they shouldn't even be considered anomalies. So,
(29:20):
but the difference is when you're at home against one
of the four worst teams in the NFL and it's
so bad that Bryce Young has to go into the
locker room and give a little speech saying, yeah, today.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Was my fault. Today was my bad, my bad. It
was all on me. That's a bad sign.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Because while Bryce has not played well this year at
all at all, he hasn't played stupid either.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
That's the thing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Like he's not having eighty seven turns interceptions and fumbles
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
He's had some bad passes. Don't get me wrong. He
said some bad passes. I hear it.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
He was missing wide open receivers yesterday. But I will
tell you not this year, but in two years is
expected to be a hell of a college quarterback class
coming out like a lot like eight nine deep. And
(30:32):
so don't be surprised if in two years, two aprils
from now, the Carolina Panthers don't draft another quarterback.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Now.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I saw something about this, guys, like I'm sure I'll
be talking about this on wfn Z tomorrow when I
joined them on fen Z every Tuesday at ten thirty.
But I saw rumors over the weekend that the Panthers
might be interested in Kyler Murray because they think his
days in Arizona are done. Kyler Murray's an infinitely better quarterback.
(31:04):
He's the exact same height as as Bryce Young. That's
a problem.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Kyler Murray likes to run around, running around, run around,
run around.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
He doesn't like to stay in the pocket. He gets
happy feet, as they call it, like he gets skittish
like a cat, and he just like runs around and
he can make great plays, and then he'll do some
really really stupid things because.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
He's constantly running around.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
So I saw that this weekend and I went, for
the love of God, no, just stick with Bryce for
one more year this year, next year. See if things
get better next year, Maybe get a little bit more
better wide receivers and you know, upgrade the offensive line
a little bit, and then take your chances next year.
And then if things don't work out, then go drive
(31:46):
to another quarterback.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
But do not under any circumstances.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
I need someone to write this down on November tenth,
twenty twenty five. I'm saying it right now. Do not
give him contract extension where he's getting like a twenty
five to thirty million dollar a year raise, because that's
what starting quarterbacks get.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Your bad ones are getting twenty five to thirty million,
your really good ones are getting fifty to sixty million.
Do not give him a thirty million dollar contract. Let
his contract play out one more year, be done with it,
and then if you want to keep him, you can
sign him to a new contract.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Or let's say balls out next year.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yeah yeah, right, yeah, yeah, like that's gonna happen. Come on,
we can he's gonna ball out and gon win power Ball.
Come on, So you're saying there's a chance, go on.
So anyways, but.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Look, he's doing.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
He was doing what the coaches were asking him to do.
We're gonna win on defense, and we're gonna win with
our running backs, and that's what they were doing. And
then you have a game like yesterday where the running
game is not doing well, so they have to have
one who can.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Throw the ball. And he couldn't throw it. He couldn't
throw it. No. I mean, he's he's done exactly what
the coaches wanted him to do.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
It's the we don't need you to go win it,
just don't lose it.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
It's that mindset, we.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Don't need you to win it, but just for the
love of God, you know, don't wet the bed and lose.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
The game for us. Well, yesterday, yeah, he had bladder problems.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
You know he needed the rubber sheets yesterday and then
he had to stand up in front of the.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Team go yeah, it was my fault, my fault. It
was all on me. I take responsibility, I hope. So
no one else is up there trying to throw the ball.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
So anyways, but that's my little uh Carolina Panthers die tribe.
That kind of upset me because you know, they were,
what five and four? They had a chance to be
six and four really kind of looking good even though
they haven't played great. But look, six and wins, six wins,
four losses, you've gotta be right there near the playoffs
of the wild cards and all that, like right on
(34:07):
the edge. And now yeah, no, now they're what five
and five? Which I will say, let's be honest. I
got two dudes in the studio with me right now.
If I'd said through ten games the Carolina Panthers were
five and five, would you take that right now? If
I had told you that back in August, Lonnie, would
you have taken that right now?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Five and five?
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
No, But it's a way better season than it was
last year.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
No, But but that's my point. I mean, like you've
been like, oh wow, we're actually five hundred. Yeah, like
no one expected that. I didn't, right, so yeah take it.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yeah you know.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
So anyways, but that's that's what's going on with the Panthers.
We'll see what happens next week and the week after
and the week after, but don't hold your breath. All right,
Well that's gonna do it for us tonight. I do
not have a show tomorrow night because of the tar heels,
so I will see you on Wednesday. My name is
Brett Jenson, and you've been listening to Breaking with Brett
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