November 21, 2025 • 33 mins
Tune in here to this Friday edition of Breaking With Brett Jensen!
Breaking Brett Jensen kicks off the show discussing the payout the Charlotte city government has set aside for immigrants and businesses that lost money during Border Patrol’s “Operation Charlotte’s Web.” He speaks with WBT News Director Mark Garrison, who explains the headline-making story in greater detail.
Garrison says the issue began at a Charlotte City Council meeting earlier in the week, when council members directed City Manager Marcus Jones to locate funding to assist migrants in the community affected by the raids. As of Friday afternoon, the city issued a press release stating it has identified $100,000 for those migrants - both those legally and illegally in the country - to apply for assistance funded by city taxpayers.
Later in the show, Jensen shares an interview with BHAWK Bourbon Distillery owner and former Army veteran Brad Halling, who was involved in the real “Black Hawk Down” incident. Jensen spoke with Halling following his appearance at the Charlotte Bourbon Society’s “Bourbon Hearts Charity Dinner” last week. In the interview, Jensen learns more about Halling as both a military veteran and a bourbon distiller.
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hi Oh, let's go hi Oh, let's go oh, Let's
go oh.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
The Public News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three
WBT Brett Jensen here with you on this Friday night
edition of Breaking with Brett Jensen. As we go up
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and around the Charlotte area.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
And by the way, the seven o four seven eleven ten,
that is also.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
The WBT text line, of course, driven by Liberty Buick
and GMC.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Boy, has it been a week? It's been a week.
I mean it's a it's been a week.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I mean, so we all know about border patrol, and
we know about all the students, tens of thousands of
students staying home from CMS.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Then, speaking of CMS, a couple of guns brought to
campus or one was one was on campus, one was
at a bus stop. The one at a bus stop
happened to be in AR fifteen and having dozens of
rounds in a duffel bag like it's been a week.
It's been a week the City of Charlotte doing things
that only the city of Sharlie can do.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
And I promise you this. I promise you this.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
If there was ever a doubt and I was one
of those, I will I will raise my hand up
in full disclosure. I was one of them that said, no,
Charlotte's not a sanctuary.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
City, Like get out of town with that, Like that's
just not no.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I know the federal government listed Charlotte as a sanctuary city,
but I just don't see it, like illegal immigrants can't
come here when they're fleeing other places knowingly, like like
the local authorities can't know this, Like if they knew
it and they're wanted elsewhere, then yes they would grab them.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
But it's just but.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Then what happened today and the city is Charlotte waiting
until very very late on a Friday afternoon. Let me
give you a little pr one, oh one. If you've
got bad news or things that you're trying to hide,
you know, when you release the information four o'clock on
a Friday, that's when you release the information. That's seriously,
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because no one's going to pay attention to it over
the weekend, and by Monday everyone will start talking about
new things.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
So you release it at four o'clock on a Friday.
That's it. That's it.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Well, you may actually not believe what happened earlier this afternoon.
And Mark Garrison's going to be joining us in about
ten minutes or so from now to talk about what
the city of Charlotte actually did when it comes to
illegal immigrants. You you just you actually may not believe it.
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And this is why I actually wanted to ask Lonnie
this question. So Lonnie, let me ask you a question
in albumar because you live out there and you drive
into work every day.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
What was like?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Like I said, and I asked, you know, somebody else
this question earlier in the week about what people think
of what's going on in Charlotte from the outside of
the city limits. So Albamar, you know it's about an
hour outside the city limits of Charlotte. What do people
think of what's going on in Charlotte in albumar?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Like when you talk to your friends, are they like
for it? Are they against it? Like? What what do
your friends say out in Albumar?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Well, I don't have a lot of friends out album
or but I can tell you a lot of what
my neighbors are telling me. They're basically they're scared. They're
practically scared to come into Charlotte. Uh if they try
to avoid coming into Charlotte. If anything, it's a lot
of things going on. So uh they they there's it's
not really a it's nothing that people are really talking
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good about.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I can say that, well, yeah, I mean there's not
a lot of good things that are being said about Charlotte,
and they haven't been they have a lot of good
things haven't been said about Charlotte in a very long time.
And all you have to do is look at the
people that became in charge politically and when the decline
of Charlotte actually started happening.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Look at uptown. Uptown's a ghost town.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yes, there are a lot of these banks are now
going to be making their people go back to work
five days a week. Doesn't mean they're gonna stick around,
especially if the crime's out of control, like you know,
murders up two hundred percent in uptown and every other
violent crime is up through the roof in uptown. So again,
this is the city of Charlotte, This is this is
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who we are now. We truly are a sanctuary city.
And I have been saying this for three and a
half years. With each passing day, each passing week, in
each passing month, we get closer and closer to the
likes of Saint Louis, Memphis, New Orleans, Baltimore, and Detroit.
Every single day we are closer and closer to those cities.
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You may not want to hear it. Hey, we're a
very clean city. We are very clean. We got that
going for us.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
We're very clean. But everything else, there's really no difference.
You know, what do they say? A pig with lipstick
is still a pig.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And unfortunately I hate to say it because I grew
up here, Sean is becoming that way.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It really is, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And So what we're going to do tonight, like I said,
coming up, oh I guess it about eight or nine
minutes now, we're gonna Mark Garrison joining us to talk
about what the city of Charlotte actually did today, what
they announced again three o'clock on a Friday, whatever it was,
making sure nobody can hear it. And then also coming
up later in the show, I got an interview coming
up with a guy that was part of Black Hawk Down,
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like the famous movie you know, Somalia, all that stuff
in the nineties and everything else. Well, he was actually
part of it, and like the real thing, not the movie,
and he lost a leg.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Well he lives in.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
North Carolina now and he and his wife make bourbon
and the name of the bourbon is b Hawk and
you can buy it at Mecklemberg County ABC stores.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And I've got an.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Interview coming up with him, just because I find it fascinating.
I was like, you know what, let's get into something
positive instead of all this craziness and just negati negativity
that has surrounded and engulfed this city since July.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
What happened in July, and Rina Zaruska happened in August.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, July was when we had the mass shooting in
Uptown outside of a bar and what five people were shot?
I think one killed so and the mayor didn't want
to talk about it and said that, hey, cut me
some slack, cut us some slack. I was in DC
with my grandbabies and again, apparently emails and cell phones
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don't work in DC so that they could put out
a statement from the mayor. They just want to make
it sure.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
That everyone ignores it and it goes away.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
By god, she didn't want to ignore border patrol, but
she didn't want to say anything about the originon z
Ruska murder.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Did she g?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I wonder why, I wonder why that was an immigrant?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
You weren't protecting that immigrant, were you? But you want
to protect these illegal immigrants regardless if they're criminals or not.
She doesn't care. If you're a criminal, will protect you.
If you're not a criminal, we'll protect you. Shouldn't care.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And so I'm just waiting out for another AI statement
from the mayor, like the one she put out yesterday,
which was another AI statement. All the telltale signs are
there anyways. So we've got a lot going on tonight.
So when we come back and Mark Garrison's going to
be joining us. He's the WBT note news director and
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you hear him every single morning from six to ten
AM as the anchor of the morning news.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And he's going to talk about something.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
That he covered last week but actually went into or
earlier in the week, I should say, but now is
going to like the city of Charlotte is now going
into fruition.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
It's happening in Fruition now right is actually coming true
and the city is Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It's this tells you all you ever needed to know
about the future of government in the City of Charlotte
and where you.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Actually live if you live here.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
First of all, Mark, thanks for joining us here on
this Friday night. And Bond of all, can you tell
the listeners what happened with the Charlotte City Council today
or the City of Charlotte as well as you know
the city manager. It's something that I think are going
to leave a lot of people scratching their heads and
something that I also think could be making some national news.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Yeah, I think so. I think you're exactly right. Well,
you remember last earlier in the week, a city council
committee met and directed the city manager to find some
money to help the people who were impacted by the raids.
So now, on a late Friday afternoon, the city manager
puts out a press release that says he's found one
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hundred thousand dollars and Hispanics, both legal and illegal here
in the city who lost money by having the border
patrol in town can apply for some money. We don't
know how much you can apply for Apparently, if you
own a business and you closed it out of fear,
you can apply for more. Or if you're a construc
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duction worker and you skipped work a couple of days
out of fear, you can apply, you know, for those
two days of lost wages. And I mean, I haven't
heard of anything like this across the country. We're actually
paying people who were scared and skipped out of work
because the border patrol was in town.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Speak with Mark Garrison from the wt newsroom.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
You know, Mark, you know, there's been a lot of
talk nationally that Charlotte is a sanctuary city, it's a
woke city, whatever, and then a lot of the Democrats
tried to deny it. But then you see a lot
of the actions that are going on, and I think
this really does prove that Charlotte is a sanctuary city.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
When you start paying out immigrants for missing work. Oh absolutely. Now.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
The mayor put out a statement saying, we know many
law abiding people across Charlotte were financially hurt and this
support will help provide reassurance and comfort during a festive
time of year. But I'm sorry law abiding people didn't
have anything to worry about Now, I know the Democrats
argue that some law abiding people were arrested unnecessarily. We
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still don't have any real proof of that or any
results of that yet. But for some of these owners
of Hispanic restaurants that are here legally, you know, it's
on them that they decided to close. Why should the
city pay them back for their days off?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
You know, Mark, you know I had all these questions
and I wanted to ask you about all of this stuff,
and I truly am at a loss for words. I mean,
it is unbelievable to me. I cannot fathom the fact
that taxpayer money is going or going to people, or
is going to people that are not in this country legally.
I can't fathom that. Because they had to skip work,
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whether it's at a construction site, mowing grass, dish washing, cooking,
whatever it is, they had to skip work, and now
they're going some of them will be getting reimbursed by
the city. I just I'm at a loss for words.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Well, I'll be honest with you. When I read the
press release, I was at a loss for words too,
even though I covered that committee meeting where they made
it clear to the manager he needed to find some
money to do something for the immigrant community, but it
was ill defined. Now, the other part of this that's
very interesting is how much the city is in cahoots
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with a number of left wing groups. So the way
this is going to work is that there are three
or four groups, such as the Carolina Migrant Network, the
Latin American Coalition. Immigrants will have to apply with those groups,
and if those groups give a thumbs up to the application,
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then the Crisis Assistance Ministry, which is a well known
work here in town helping to feed the poor, they
will actually hand out the cash. So it's a little
bit of a bureaucratic process, but it shows that the
city is also in a handholding relationship with a number
of immigrant groups that certainly lean very left.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Speaking with Mark Garrison, hear him every single morning on
as the news anchor during Bow and Best Show from
six am to ten to ten am. So, Mark, I
haven't really spoken to you about this, and I wanted
to pick your brain.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
What is your takeaway?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
What is your big, big takeaway from everything that's transpired
in the City of Charlotte and Mecklemore County since Saturday.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Well, it's an interesting question because you know, I think
there are a few little bits of video that you've
seen where did the ICE agents get a little overly aggressive? Yeah? Maybe,
But then when they when you learn for a fact
that they picked up a guy who was wanting from
molesting a thirteen year old girl, a guy that Gary
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McFadden had let out of jail and refused to hand
over to immigration enforcement, when you learn to say you
have picked up guys like that, you have to say, well,
it was a good operation.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Speaking with WBT News director Mark Garrison, so Mark, you know,
Department of Homeland Security put out a statement yesterday saying
that you know, Charlotte's web will not be ending anytime soon.
And considering they say that they've never been treated so
poorly than they were in Charlotte over the past week,
they said they weren't even treated that poorly in California
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and other places. And because of that, this will not
be ending anytime soon. And I tell you what, the
mayor said that she wants the city of Charlotte to
come together where it looks like the city of Charlotte
came together, but all against the border patrol.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Well, honestly, that's one of the things that horrified me
more than anything else, was how many people feel like
it's perfectly fine to harass and intimidate law enforcement officers.
And a church even held a seminar on how you
can harass these officers. Blow whistles at them, get in
their face, call them filthy names. You know. Think about it, Brett.
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If somebody was driving down the road and they saw
a Charlotte Mecklenburg police officer pulling some guy out of
a car and suddenly they didn't like that and they
started blowing a whistle and screaming at the cop, they
would write be arrested for interfering with police. But somehow
we think it's okay for hundreds of people to interfere
with these officers doing their job. You may not like
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what they're doing, but for you to interfere, I'd like
to see more of those people arrested.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Frankly, I'm sure things will be pretty busy next week
and in the weeks to come. So Mark Garrison, the
WBT news director, and you hear them every single morning
from six am to ten am as the news anchor,
I really do appreciate you joining us tonight. Absolutely Once again,
thanks to Mark Garrison for joining us here on this
Friday night. I'm telling you, it has been a week
and it will probably be even busier or crazier next week.
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That just seems to be the way things are going
in Charlotte ever since the beginning of August.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
All right, So.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
When we come back, I've got an interview with a really,
really cool individual. He was actually part of the Black
Hawk down in Somaya, lost his leg.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Now he lives in North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
He and his wife make bourbon and the name of
the bourbon is b Hawk, and I got to interview
him last week. So I have an interview with him
coming up, because it is a really a great story
and a really cool story. News Talk eleven ten in
ninety nine three WBT Bret Jenson here with you on
this Friday night edition of Breaking with Brett Jenson. Okay,
so we've had a very long week and me going
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after a lot of people and exposing a lot of
very bad things that's going on in and around the
city of Charlotte. So let's spend the last couple of
segments doing things on a positive note.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
So first of.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
All, here is Brad Holling and I had a chance
to interview him a week ago tonight, and he is
the owner of bee Hawk Bourbon and b Hawk Distillery
and he was a member in the famed black Hawk
Down in he was one of those people in the
black Hawk Down that the movie depicted and he lost
his leg. Well, he lives in Pinehurst and he has
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a distillery and sells bourbon and you can buy it
here at Mecklambore County at local ABC stores. But I
wanted to catch up with him to talk about black
Hawk Down and his bourbon and again just a very
very interesting man. I wanted to learn more about Brad Haling,
the military guy and now the bourbon guy. When we
talk about black Hawk Down, obviously people want to when
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they hear your story, that's probably the first thing that
comes to mind.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Do you get nervous? Not nervous, but do you get
anxious or.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Emotions start coming back up every time you start talking
about it, even though it's thirty years later.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
What I'd say is that even though it's thirty years later,
I don't it's not an anxiety. There's still an emotion.
You never forget those that you serve with, and especially
when you are in a battle like that that was
an eighteen hour firefight. Although I didn't last eighteen hours.
I shot down probably after three hours into the battle,
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but I had eighty four friends that with the you know,
between the wounded and the eighteen dead. So even even
though it's it's numb now, it's still it's still emotional.
But it's not anxiety. It's it's it's just something that
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doesn't leave. It's it's always there.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
And I've interviewed a lot of people that have had
their lives portrayed movies and stuff. When you saw the movie,
did you think, oh, this is realistic and you maybe
started having flashbacks, or did you know, this is nothing
like what happened.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I think when when I saw the movie, what I
thought they depicted very well was the chaos.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Of the day. It was total, total chaos.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
The communications had gone away, everybody was on the on
the radio, everybody's world was super small, and.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
They depicted that well.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
But they had to they had to take an eighteen
hour firefight, and they had to do it in two
and a half hours in a movie, and so so.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
It was very compressed.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
The actions that happened across the force that kind of
brought them all together to give them.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
The six characters. So those the characters.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
In the movie didn't do all those actions, but those actions.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Did in fact occur during that day.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
But overall, I mean, there were just a few Hollywood
liberties taken, and my understanding it was mostly at the
direction of the actors who wanted to be portrayed a
certain way. But overall, I thought it was a really
good depiction of events and chaos.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
So you come back to North Carolina, you know you
have to go through rehab and everything else and get
well again physically. Did you know immediately what you wanted
to do after that point or did it take a
while for you to find out and find that your
true passion was Bourbon.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Well, actually I knew exactly what I wanted to do
after that. It wasn't Bourbon though. It was actually to
rehability and continue my career. The Army at that time
did not take above knee amputees. If you lost a limb,
you were medically chaptered out. And I knew as soon
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as Walter Reed had told me that they wanted to
chapter me out that I wanted to fight it, and
I made up my goal to stay in the service,
and thankfully, because of good command and good leadership, I
was able to do that. I was the first above
knee amputee to stay in service. I finished service and
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then went into prosthetics, and then at nine to eleven happened.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
I went back to.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Fort Bragg and became a special operations instructor and instructed
for another twenty two years. The bourbon actually happened because
both my wife and I had a passion for wines.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
We loved the.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Crossroads between agriculture, food, and beverage, hospitality, and kind of
that whole production aspect. And when she was retiring, we
decided that we wanted to stay in North Carolina. North
Carolina was not the best place for perhaps a winery,
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but it was ideal for distillery. And there's a long
history with military and and bourbon, whether it be at
memorial walls or promotions or changing commands, it's always been
a part of the military protocols, and we just thought
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it would be a good fit. So both my wife
and I decided that we wanted to do it, and
we decided to pursue it and got with some consultants,
talked to him, and spent a couple of years raising
capital and decided to go for it.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
So our audience is very pro military. So I want
to ask you, once you started doing this and everything
else and things started getting you know, the first bottle
and then the first barrel and everything else, when did
you realize, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
What this is? This is it, this is what we
want to do.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I think that it was so much work and we
did so much due diligence and planning and building that
building that.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
As soon as it was complete.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Uh, one we knew we'd put in the work, and
two we were committed to see the project through. And Uh,
I think the only surprise to us is as really
once it was all done and we started going, we
were surprised.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
At what we actually did. Uh.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
It was it was bigger in life than it was
when we were planning it. And uh, but we never
looked back. And uh, and we're very proud of what
we're doing. And yeah, we just pushed forward.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Speak with Brad Holling, who's part of who owns the
Distiller bee Hawks. So tell me about bee Hawk. People
are automatically going to assume that it's sort of black Hawk. Now,
was that on purpose that you came up with that
name like to you know, to go along with black
Hawk and all that, Like how did that name come about?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
So the truth is it was originally it was a
Bradhawng American whiskey company with a seed and and as
we started doing the planning and talking about it, I
started thinking about the the you know, so much of
what we do at that distillery, to include the the
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Gratitude series and our Gratitude Room was a result of
my experience in Somalia that I thought, you know, we
should change the sea to a K as a nod
to all my friends that we lost in Smaya, most
noted by you know, the book and movie Black Hawk Down.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
So what can you tell me about your bourbons and
the products that you put out?
Speaker 4 (23:59):
So our bourbons, Uh, we've got bourbon and rye there,
Sergeants Valor. Uh, they're one brand. We got another brand
that's our Madam Kernel series that is our jin Vadka
Madame Colonel Pistachio Uh. And uh with the Madame Colonel products,
we get to play play around a little bit. We
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can uh see what's trending and play with that. With
the Sargeants Valor, where we're doing old old time UH
burreling and aging of both the bourbon and a rye
Uh both of them meant to be again UH A
nod to uh selfless service and those that serve.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Just a couple more questions here with Brad Hollings. So,
all right, so you guys are located down in the
Pinehurst area, correct? Can they get your products here in
the Charlotte area or do they need to go down
to Pinehurst and just make the quick two hour drive
and check out the distillery?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
How does that work? How can people get your product?
Speaker 8 (24:55):
So?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Right now we are we are pretty strong in the
Mecklenburg ABC's system. We're slowly growing across the state. We're
in about seventy five percent of the state's ABC's and
so we are attainable through the ABC system. You can
also special order if we're not there, for something like
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our Gratitude series. But I think that anybody has an
interest in our product, it's well worth the two hour
drive to come to our distillery because the experience you
receive there is really special and it's truthfully that experience
is a lot more than just the bourbon.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Brad Hauling, owner of the Hawk Distillery, I really do
appreciate your time tonight.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Again, had a great.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Time talking to Brad Holing and his wife over there
at the Charlotte Bourbon Society charity auction that was at
Providence Country Club last week. And again, just a very
very nice individual. All that noise you heard in the
background was the cleaning crew. We were like three of
the last people there and they were trying to clean
up while I'm trying to do an interview with Brad
Holling and his wife.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
And again, just.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Great people and really good bourbon. And they have a
great place down there in Pinehurst. As a matter of fact,
voted the number one chicken sandwich in the Pinehurst area.
Chick fil A came in second. So you can go
there and it's not just that dis silly. They got
a lot of things going on and smoke cigars whatever
you want, all right, so make sure you go check
out their website. And again thanks to Brad and his
lovely wife for doing that with me last week.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
All right, when we come.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Back, it's Carolina Panthers Friday, coming off a win. They've
won what five of the last seven games, so we're
gonna talk about that when we return.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
All right, welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jenson for
a few more minutes. All right.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Carolina Panthers played well again last week and got the
big win on the road in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
This week, they got a.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Monday night game against the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Bryce Young met with the media to talk about that game.
Speaker 9 (26:54):
How's your ankle breast?
Speaker 10 (26:55):
Good?
Speaker 11 (26:56):
Good?
Speaker 10 (26:57):
I'm blessed, practice able to do things, so you know,
I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Depends on two weekly honors.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Did you take any time to kind of baskt that
or you just appreciate it now on the San Francisco.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
Yeah, definitely, definitely grateful, Definitely a blessing. Uh, don't take
it for granted, but yeah, on to San Francisco. You
know it's gonna take everything this week that all that
is gonna be nothing when we go out there. We're
O and O right now, just working to be one
and no other this week.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
Monday schedule when you play at night, Like, how do
you stay sort of keyed up but not too.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Much of either.
Speaker 10 (27:31):
Yeah, just uh yeah, just making sure that you know,
we we have a routine. I know we'll we'll have stuff.
I'm sure we'll have a just being a little different schedule. Obviously,
I know the coaching staff and training staff will have
stuff for us to do, but also just balancing things.
Obviously we're gonna stay off our feet that that day,
waiting for the night and then being smart. You know,
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you want to make sure that mostly you're not doing
anything too too high, too low before you're in the
right mindset and then you know, we know it's you know,
it's a business trip of course, so it'll just be
be focused.
Speaker 9 (28:03):
Last year when you guys didn't have one in that game,
and how much you're looking forward to to this one.
Just for the opportunity, I would imagine it's it's gotta
be fun.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
Yeah, that stuff's out of out of my control, out
of our control. You know, we grateful for any games
we have. We just play the schedule where they really
tell us to be. But yeah, you know, great for
the opportunity. Again for us, it's the you know, it's football.
At the end of the day. We're we're focused on
executing throughout this week, focus on doing everything that you
know it takes so we can set ourselves up. We
have a ton of respect for our opponent and going
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out there in the hostile environment. It's a great opportunity,
but we're we're focused on the football.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
What are your.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Initial perception of this defense?
Speaker 12 (28:42):
What are you seeing?
Speaker 10 (28:43):
Yeah, a really good group group that plays together really well. Uh,
you could tell how how much they've embraced the scheme,
how well they play it. They communicate really well, They're
dynamic at all three levels. Up front, it's a really
cohesive group. They work really well in the running pass
game to disrupt things. The second level played really well together,
very physical, fast, and then a really good, really good
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third level as well. In the secondary do a great
job of uh, matching patterns and being sticky and man
covers you a good job of getting after the ball
and disruption and then in zones being where they're supposed
to be in their spots. You know, they're they're very
smart players as well. You know, you could tell with
the pattern recognition how comfortable they are. So again it's
a it's a great opportunity for us. I have a
really good scheme, good coaching staff, so it's great for us.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
We know we have to be.
Speaker 10 (29:29):
At our best and we're excited for that challenge. Throughout
the week and ourselves opportunity to be there and then
uh working to perform on Monday.
Speaker 11 (29:37):
To you since the game, and they released a video
of you doing the dab in the locker room with
a lot of homage of Cam. And then also he
also posted a video giving you props on on breaking
his record. Did you see that video? I know, I
know you aren't on socials, but maybe somebody sent it.
Speaker 10 (29:54):
I didn't see the video, but I very much so
appreciate that they were playing like Amigo. They were playing
the dab song on uh, the Migo song, So that's
where that came from. But obviously I have a ton
of respect for for for Cam, you know, for everything
he meant to the team, to the city, all the
success he's had, everything he's doing now. You know, I've
I've I was a big fan of him growing up,
continue to be a big fan the as long as
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he had been playing and all the stuff he's doing.
So yeah, that definitely means a lot. And I'm again
I have a ton of respect for him.
Speaker 11 (30:24):
To speak with him recently, I feel like you've talked
to him a little.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Bit your rookie season.
Speaker 10 (30:29):
Yeah, I've talked to him in the in the off season.
I haven't haven't talked to him during the season. Obviously
he's super busy doing stuff. Uh you know, obviously the
same here locked in. But again I have a ton
of respect for him. Every time I have talked to him,
he's been very gracious, you know, taking the time to
to speak with me, give me advice, give me his
uh you know, his his opinions and feedback and everything,
which again means a lot to me. So I have
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a ton of respect for him.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Right on your.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Ankle, I know when you got up with a podium
on Sunday you were moving slowly. Was there a point
earlier in the week where we didn't see it that
you were still thinking of the results of that injury?
Speaker 10 (31:02):
And is it all gone now or Again it's everyone's
fighting through something at this point in the year. So uh,
during practice, I'm in the training room all the time,
you know, doing everything I can. I have a great
training staff, so do all stuff they want me to do.
And it's always getting better, always feeling better from a
day to day basis. You know, again, where everyone's dealing
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with something. That's just the nature of football of this league,
especially at this time of the year. So again I'm
i'm I'm excited, I'm I'm focused on on football.
Speaker 12 (31:31):
A game that you throw for four hundred yards three touchdowns,
what is what do you feel like that does for
you guys moving forward when when other defenses or you know,
try and prepare for you guys, and they're going to
have to really honor a lot of that passage.
Speaker 10 (31:46):
Yeah, it's again I I guess you'd have to have
to ask the defenses again. For us, I'm super grateful
for all that. It's it's great we know what we're
capable of, but again that doesn't entitle us to anything.
We're gonna start whatever the first play is, it's going
to be zero to zero, and we're gonna have to
try to earn the right to go out there and win.
We don't you know, there's no carryover, it doesn't matter.
So we always trust each other, always believe each other
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or cable of but we have to earn the right
throughout the week. We have to earn the right on
Monday to go out there and execute. So not big
into thinking, you know what, the cause of effect, anything
that happened in the past in the past now We're
just excited for the opportunity.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
Brees. I know that I know that you said that
changing any sort of change in routine is not good
or is not ideal. But considering the fact that you're
dealing with an injury, considering with there's it's really late
in the year, the team hasn't had a bye week yet.
Is a Monday night game kind of coming at the
right time, just for that extra day of getting your
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bodies right.
Speaker 10 (32:42):
You know, it's for us, Yeah, of course, it's an
opportunity to have another day of recovery. Again, I'm certainly
not the only person. Everyone's putting their bodies on the line.
You know, people are banged up, people are fighting through
stuff here, so everyone's taking advantage of that. But again,
I think for us, it's just a great opportunity to
have something different and for us and challenge aref to
be just as focused just as locked in, have a
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little shift, have a you know, have a have a
bonus bonus day. How can we take advantage of it?
How can we stay locked in for a longer week? So, yeah,
I think it's a great opportunity just for us to
learn something else, to prove something else. And to to
kind of have that that other new goal to chase.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
All Right, Hey, you know I been critical at times
of him this year, and he had a really really
big game, all time franchise record passing yards and got
NFC Player of the Week. All right, so let's see
what happens on Monday. All right, that's gonna do it
for us tonight. It has been quite the week, So
thank you for joining me every single night this week.
I truly appreciate it. And next week plans to be
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and probably will be just as busy. So until then,
my name is Brett Jensen, and you have been listening
to Breaking with Brett Jensen
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Speaker 3 (00:56):
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Speaker 3 (01:04):
Boy, has it been a week? It's been a week.
I mean it's a it's been a week.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I mean, so we all know about border patrol, and
we know about all the students, tens of thousands of
students staying home from CMS.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Then, speaking of CMS, a couple of guns brought to
campus or one was one was on campus, one was
at a bus stop. The one at a bus stop
happened to be in AR fifteen and having dozens of
rounds in a duffel bag like it's been a week.
It's been a week the City of Charlotte doing things
that only the city of Sharlie can do.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
And I promise you this. I promise you this.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
If there was ever a doubt and I was one
of those, I will I will raise my hand up
in full disclosure. I was one of them that said, no,
Charlotte's not a sanctuary.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
City, Like get out of town with that, Like that's
just not no.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I know the federal government listed Charlotte as a sanctuary city,
but I just don't see it, like illegal immigrants can't
come here when they're fleeing other places knowingly, like like
the local authorities can't know this, Like if they knew
it and they're wanted elsewhere, then yes they would grab them.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
But it's just but.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Then what happened today and the city is Charlotte waiting
until very very late on a Friday afternoon. Let me
give you a little pr one, oh one. If you've
got bad news or things that you're trying to hide,
you know, when you release the information four o'clock on
a Friday, that's when you release the information. That's seriously,
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because no one's going to pay attention to it over
the weekend, and by Monday everyone will start talking about
new things.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
So you release it at four o'clock on a Friday.
That's it. That's it.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Well, you may actually not believe what happened earlier this afternoon.
And Mark Garrison's going to be joining us in about
ten minutes or so from now to talk about what
the city of Charlotte actually did when it comes to
illegal immigrants. You you just you actually may not believe it.
(03:22):
And this is why I actually wanted to ask Lonnie
this question. So Lonnie, let me ask you a question
in albumar because you live out there and you drive
into work every day.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
What was like?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Like I said, and I asked, you know, somebody else
this question earlier in the week about what people think
of what's going on in Charlotte from the outside of
the city limits. So Albamar, you know it's about an
hour outside the city limits of Charlotte. What do people
think of what's going on in Charlotte in albumar?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Like when you talk to your friends, are they like
for it? Are they against it? Like? What what do
your friends say out in Albumar?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Well, I don't have a lot of friends out album
or but I can tell you a lot of what
my neighbors are telling me. They're basically they're scared. They're
practically scared to come into Charlotte. Uh if they try
to avoid coming into Charlotte. If anything, it's a lot
of things going on. So uh they they there's it's
not really a it's nothing that people are really talking
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good about.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I can say that, well, yeah, I mean there's not
a lot of good things that are being said about Charlotte,
and they haven't been they have a lot of good
things haven't been said about Charlotte in a very long time.
And all you have to do is look at the
people that became in charge politically and when the decline
of Charlotte actually started happening.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Look at uptown. Uptown's a ghost town.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yes, there are a lot of these banks are now
going to be making their people go back to work
five days a week. Doesn't mean they're gonna stick around,
especially if the crime's out of control, like you know,
murders up two hundred percent in uptown and every other
violent crime is up through the roof in uptown. So again,
this is the city of Charlotte, This is this is
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who we are now. We truly are a sanctuary city.
And I have been saying this for three and a
half years. With each passing day, each passing week, in
each passing month, we get closer and closer to the
likes of Saint Louis, Memphis, New Orleans, Baltimore, and Detroit.
Every single day we are closer and closer to those cities.
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You may not want to hear it. Hey, we're a
very clean city. We are very clean. We got that
going for us.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
We're very clean. But everything else, there's really no difference.
You know, what do they say? A pig with lipstick
is still a pig.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And unfortunately I hate to say it because I grew
up here, Sean is becoming that way.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It really is, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And So what we're going to do tonight, like I said,
coming up, oh I guess it about eight or nine
minutes now, we're gonna Mark Garrison joining us to talk
about what the city of Charlotte actually did today, what
they announced again three o'clock on a Friday, whatever it was,
making sure nobody can hear it. And then also coming
up later in the show, I got an interview coming
up with a guy that was part of Black Hawk Down,
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like the famous movie you know, Somalia, all that stuff
in the nineties and everything else. Well, he was actually
part of it, and like the real thing, not the movie,
and he lost a leg.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Well he lives in.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
North Carolina now and he and his wife make bourbon
and the name of the bourbon is b Hawk and
you can buy it at Mecklemberg County ABC stores.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And I've got an.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Interview coming up with him, just because I find it fascinating.
I was like, you know what, let's get into something
positive instead of all this craziness and just negati negativity
that has surrounded and engulfed this city since July.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
What happened in July, and Rina Zaruska happened in August.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, July was when we had the mass shooting in
Uptown outside of a bar and what five people were shot?
I think one killed so and the mayor didn't want
to talk about it and said that, hey, cut me
some slack, cut us some slack. I was in DC
with my grandbabies and again, apparently emails and cell phones
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don't work in DC so that they could put out
a statement from the mayor. They just want to make
it sure.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
That everyone ignores it and it goes away.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
By god, she didn't want to ignore border patrol, but
she didn't want to say anything about the originon z
Ruska murder.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Did she g?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I wonder why, I wonder why that was an immigrant?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
You weren't protecting that immigrant, were you? But you want
to protect these illegal immigrants regardless if they're criminals or not.
She doesn't care. If you're a criminal, will protect you.
If you're not a criminal, we'll protect you. Shouldn't care.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And so I'm just waiting out for another AI statement
from the mayor, like the one she put out yesterday,
which was another AI statement. All the telltale signs are
there anyways. So we've got a lot going on tonight.
So when we come back and Mark Garrison's going to
be joining us. He's the WBT note news director and
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you hear him every single morning from six to ten
AM as the anchor of the morning news.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And he's going to talk about something.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
That he covered last week but actually went into or
earlier in the week, I should say, but now is
going to like the city of Charlotte is now going
into fruition.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
It's happening in Fruition now right is actually coming true
and the city is Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It's this tells you all you ever needed to know
about the future of government in the City of Charlotte
and where you.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Actually live if you live here.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
First of all, Mark, thanks for joining us here on
this Friday night. And Bond of all, can you tell
the listeners what happened with the Charlotte City Council today
or the City of Charlotte as well as you know
the city manager. It's something that I think are going
to leave a lot of people scratching their heads and
something that I also think could be making some national news.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Yeah, I think so. I think you're exactly right. Well,
you remember last earlier in the week, a city council
committee met and directed the city manager to find some
money to help the people who were impacted by the raids.
So now, on a late Friday afternoon, the city manager
puts out a press release that says he's found one
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hundred thousand dollars and Hispanics, both legal and illegal here
in the city who lost money by having the border
patrol in town can apply for some money. We don't
know how much you can apply for Apparently, if you
own a business and you closed it out of fear,
you can apply for more. Or if you're a construc
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duction worker and you skipped work a couple of days
out of fear, you can apply, you know, for those
two days of lost wages. And I mean, I haven't
heard of anything like this across the country. We're actually
paying people who were scared and skipped out of work
because the border patrol was in town.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Speak with Mark Garrison from the wt newsroom.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
You know, Mark, you know, there's been a lot of
talk nationally that Charlotte is a sanctuary city, it's a
woke city, whatever, and then a lot of the Democrats
tried to deny it. But then you see a lot
of the actions that are going on, and I think
this really does prove that Charlotte is a sanctuary city.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
When you start paying out immigrants for missing work. Oh absolutely. Now.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
The mayor put out a statement saying, we know many
law abiding people across Charlotte were financially hurt and this
support will help provide reassurance and comfort during a festive
time of year. But I'm sorry law abiding people didn't
have anything to worry about Now, I know the Democrats
argue that some law abiding people were arrested unnecessarily. We
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still don't have any real proof of that or any
results of that yet. But for some of these owners
of Hispanic restaurants that are here legally, you know, it's
on them that they decided to close. Why should the
city pay them back for their days off?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
You know, Mark, you know I had all these questions
and I wanted to ask you about all of this stuff,
and I truly am at a loss for words. I mean,
it is unbelievable to me. I cannot fathom the fact
that taxpayer money is going or going to people, or
is going to people that are not in this country legally.
I can't fathom that. Because they had to skip work,
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whether it's at a construction site, mowing grass, dish washing, cooking,
whatever it is, they had to skip work, and now
they're going some of them will be getting reimbursed by
the city. I just I'm at a loss for words.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Well, I'll be honest with you. When I read the
press release, I was at a loss for words too,
even though I covered that committee meeting where they made
it clear to the manager he needed to find some
money to do something for the immigrant community, but it
was ill defined. Now, the other part of this that's
very interesting is how much the city is in cahoots
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with a number of left wing groups. So the way
this is going to work is that there are three
or four groups, such as the Carolina Migrant Network, the
Latin American Coalition. Immigrants will have to apply with those groups,
and if those groups give a thumbs up to the application,
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then the Crisis Assistance Ministry, which is a well known
work here in town helping to feed the poor, they
will actually hand out the cash. So it's a little
bit of a bureaucratic process, but it shows that the
city is also in a handholding relationship with a number
of immigrant groups that certainly lean very left.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Speaking with Mark Garrison, hear him every single morning on
as the news anchor during Bow and Best Show from
six am to ten to ten am. So, Mark, I
haven't really spoken to you about this, and I wanted
to pick your brain.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
What is your takeaway?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
What is your big, big takeaway from everything that's transpired
in the City of Charlotte and Mecklemore County since Saturday.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Well, it's an interesting question because you know, I think
there are a few little bits of video that you've
seen where did the ICE agents get a little overly aggressive? Yeah? Maybe,
But then when they when you learn for a fact
that they picked up a guy who was wanting from
molesting a thirteen year old girl, a guy that Gary
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McFadden had let out of jail and refused to hand
over to immigration enforcement, when you learn to say you
have picked up guys like that, you have to say, well,
it was a good operation.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Speaking with WBT News director Mark Garrison, so Mark, you know,
Department of Homeland Security put out a statement yesterday saying
that you know, Charlotte's web will not be ending anytime soon.
And considering they say that they've never been treated so
poorly than they were in Charlotte over the past week,
they said they weren't even treated that poorly in California
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and other places. And because of that, this will not
be ending anytime soon. And I tell you what, the
mayor said that she wants the city of Charlotte to
come together where it looks like the city of Charlotte
came together, but all against the border patrol.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Well, honestly, that's one of the things that horrified me
more than anything else, was how many people feel like
it's perfectly fine to harass and intimidate law enforcement officers.
And a church even held a seminar on how you
can harass these officers. Blow whistles at them, get in
their face, call them filthy names. You know. Think about it, Brett.
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If somebody was driving down the road and they saw
a Charlotte Mecklenburg police officer pulling some guy out of
a car and suddenly they didn't like that and they
started blowing a whistle and screaming at the cop, they
would write be arrested for interfering with police. But somehow
we think it's okay for hundreds of people to interfere
with these officers doing their job. You may not like
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what they're doing, but for you to interfere, I'd like
to see more of those people arrested.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Frankly, I'm sure things will be pretty busy next week
and in the weeks to come. So Mark Garrison, the
WBT news director, and you hear them every single morning
from six am to ten am as the news anchor,
I really do appreciate you joining us tonight. Absolutely Once again,
thanks to Mark Garrison for joining us here on this
Friday night. I'm telling you, it has been a week
and it will probably be even busier or crazier next week.
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That just seems to be the way things are going
in Charlotte ever since the beginning of August.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
All right, So.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
When we come back, I've got an interview with a really,
really cool individual. He was actually part of the Black
Hawk down in Somaya, lost his leg.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Now he lives in North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
He and his wife make bourbon and the name of
the bourbon is b Hawk, and I got to interview
him last week. So I have an interview with him
coming up, because it is a really a great story
and a really cool story. News Talk eleven ten in
ninety nine three WBT Bret Jenson here with you on
this Friday night edition of Breaking with Brett Jenson. Okay,
so we've had a very long week and me going
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after a lot of people and exposing a lot of
very bad things that's going on in and around the
city of Charlotte. So let's spend the last couple of
segments doing things on a positive note.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
So first of.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
All, here is Brad Holling and I had a chance
to interview him a week ago tonight, and he is
the owner of bee Hawk Bourbon and b Hawk Distillery
and he was a member in the famed black Hawk
Down in he was one of those people in the
black Hawk Down that the movie depicted and he lost
his leg. Well, he lives in Pinehurst and he has
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a distillery and sells bourbon and you can buy it
here at Mecklambore County at local ABC stores. But I
wanted to catch up with him to talk about black
Hawk Down and his bourbon and again just a very
very interesting man. I wanted to learn more about Brad Haling,
the military guy and now the bourbon guy. When we
talk about black Hawk Down, obviously people want to when
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they hear your story, that's probably the first thing that
comes to mind.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Do you get nervous? Not nervous, but do you get
anxious or.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Emotions start coming back up every time you start talking
about it, even though it's thirty years later.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
What I'd say is that even though it's thirty years later,
I don't it's not an anxiety. There's still an emotion.
You never forget those that you serve with, and especially
when you are in a battle like that that was
an eighteen hour firefight. Although I didn't last eighteen hours.
I shot down probably after three hours into the battle,
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but I had eighty four friends that with the you know,
between the wounded and the eighteen dead. So even even
though it's it's numb now, it's still it's still emotional.
But it's not anxiety. It's it's it's just something that
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doesn't leave. It's it's always there.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
And I've interviewed a lot of people that have had
their lives portrayed movies and stuff. When you saw the movie,
did you think, oh, this is realistic and you maybe
started having flashbacks, or did you know, this is nothing
like what happened.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I think when when I saw the movie, what I
thought they depicted very well was the chaos.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Of the day. It was total, total chaos.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
The communications had gone away, everybody was on the on
the radio, everybody's world was super small, and.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
They depicted that well.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
But they had to they had to take an eighteen
hour firefight, and they had to do it in two
and a half hours in a movie, and so so.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
It was very compressed.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
The actions that happened across the force that kind of
brought them all together to give them.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
The six characters. So those the characters.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
In the movie didn't do all those actions, but those actions.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Did in fact occur during that day.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
But overall, I mean, there were just a few Hollywood
liberties taken, and my understanding it was mostly at the
direction of the actors who wanted to be portrayed a
certain way. But overall, I thought it was a really
good depiction of events and chaos.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
So you come back to North Carolina, you know you
have to go through rehab and everything else and get
well again physically. Did you know immediately what you wanted
to do after that point or did it take a
while for you to find out and find that your
true passion was Bourbon.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Well, actually I knew exactly what I wanted to do
after that. It wasn't Bourbon though. It was actually to
rehability and continue my career. The Army at that time
did not take above knee amputees. If you lost a limb,
you were medically chaptered out. And I knew as soon
(20:13):
as Walter Reed had told me that they wanted to
chapter me out that I wanted to fight it, and
I made up my goal to stay in the service,
and thankfully, because of good command and good leadership, I
was able to do that. I was the first above
knee amputee to stay in service. I finished service and
(20:36):
then went into prosthetics, and then at nine to eleven happened.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
I went back to.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Fort Bragg and became a special operations instructor and instructed
for another twenty two years. The bourbon actually happened because
both my wife and I had a passion for wines.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
We loved the.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Crossroads between agriculture, food, and beverage, hospitality, and kind of
that whole production aspect. And when she was retiring, we
decided that we wanted to stay in North Carolina. North
Carolina was not the best place for perhaps a winery,
(21:20):
but it was ideal for distillery. And there's a long
history with military and and bourbon, whether it be at
memorial walls or promotions or changing commands, it's always been
a part of the military protocols, and we just thought
(21:41):
it would be a good fit. So both my wife
and I decided that we wanted to do it, and
we decided to pursue it and got with some consultants,
talked to him, and spent a couple of years raising
capital and decided to go for it.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
So our audience is very pro military. So I want
to ask you, once you started doing this and everything
else and things started getting you know, the first bottle
and then the first barrel and everything else, when did
you realize, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
What this is? This is it, this is what we
want to do.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I think that it was so much work and we
did so much due diligence and planning and building that
building that.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
As soon as it was complete.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Uh, one we knew we'd put in the work, and
two we were committed to see the project through. And Uh,
I think the only surprise to us is as really
once it was all done and we started going, we
were surprised.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
At what we actually did. Uh.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
It was it was bigger in life than it was
when we were planning it. And uh, but we never
looked back. And uh, and we're very proud of what
we're doing. And yeah, we just pushed forward.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Speak with Brad Holling, who's part of who owns the
Distiller bee Hawks. So tell me about bee Hawk. People
are automatically going to assume that it's sort of black Hawk. Now,
was that on purpose that you came up with that
name like to you know, to go along with black
Hawk and all that, Like how did that name come about?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
So the truth is it was originally it was a
Bradhawng American whiskey company with a seed and and as
we started doing the planning and talking about it, I
started thinking about the the you know, so much of
what we do at that distillery, to include the the
(23:35):
Gratitude series and our Gratitude Room was a result of
my experience in Somalia that I thought, you know, we
should change the sea to a K as a nod
to all my friends that we lost in Smaya, most
noted by you know, the book and movie Black Hawk Down.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
So what can you tell me about your bourbons and
the products that you put out?
Speaker 4 (23:59):
So our bourbons, Uh, we've got bourbon and rye there,
Sergeants Valor. Uh, they're one brand. We got another brand
that's our Madam Kernel series that is our jin Vadka
Madame Colonel Pistachio Uh. And uh with the Madame Colonel products,
we get to play play around a little bit. We
(24:20):
can uh see what's trending and play with that. With
the Sargeants Valor, where we're doing old old time UH
burreling and aging of both the bourbon and a rye
Uh both of them meant to be again UH A
nod to uh selfless service and those that serve.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Just a couple more questions here with Brad Hollings. So,
all right, so you guys are located down in the
Pinehurst area, correct? Can they get your products here in
the Charlotte area or do they need to go down
to Pinehurst and just make the quick two hour drive
and check out the distillery?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
How does that work? How can people get your product?
Speaker 8 (24:55):
So?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Right now we are we are pretty strong in the
Mecklenburg ABC's system. We're slowly growing across the state. We're
in about seventy five percent of the state's ABC's and
so we are attainable through the ABC system. You can
also special order if we're not there, for something like
(25:19):
our Gratitude series. But I think that anybody has an
interest in our product, it's well worth the two hour
drive to come to our distillery because the experience you
receive there is really special and it's truthfully that experience
is a lot more than just the bourbon.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Brad Hauling, owner of the Hawk Distillery, I really do
appreciate your time tonight.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Again, had a great.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Time talking to Brad Holing and his wife over there
at the Charlotte Bourbon Society charity auction that was at
Providence Country Club last week. And again, just a very
very nice individual. All that noise you heard in the
background was the cleaning crew. We were like three of
the last people there and they were trying to clean
up while I'm trying to do an interview with Brad
Holling and his wife.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
And again, just.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Great people and really good bourbon. And they have a
great place down there in Pinehurst. As a matter of fact,
voted the number one chicken sandwich in the Pinehurst area.
Chick fil A came in second. So you can go
there and it's not just that dis silly. They got
a lot of things going on and smoke cigars whatever
you want, all right, so make sure you go check
out their website. And again thanks to Brad and his
lovely wife for doing that with me last week.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
All right, when we come.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Back, it's Carolina Panthers Friday, coming off a win. They've
won what five of the last seven games, so we're
gonna talk about that when we return.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
All right, welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jenson for
a few more minutes. All right.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Carolina Panthers played well again last week and got the
big win on the road in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
This week, they got a.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Monday night game against the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Bryce Young met with the media to talk about that game.
Speaker 9 (26:54):
How's your ankle breast?
Speaker 10 (26:55):
Good?
Speaker 11 (26:56):
Good?
Speaker 10 (26:57):
I'm blessed, practice able to do things, so you know,
I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Depends on two weekly honors.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Did you take any time to kind of baskt that
or you just appreciate it now on the San Francisco.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
Yeah, definitely, definitely grateful, Definitely a blessing. Uh, don't take
it for granted, but yeah, on to San Francisco. You
know it's gonna take everything this week that all that
is gonna be nothing when we go out there. We're
O and O right now, just working to be one
and no other this week.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
Monday schedule when you play at night, Like, how do
you stay sort of keyed up but not too.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Much of either.
Speaker 10 (27:31):
Yeah, just uh yeah, just making sure that you know,
we we have a routine. I know we'll we'll have stuff.
I'm sure we'll have a just being a little different schedule. Obviously,
I know the coaching staff and training staff will have
stuff for us to do, but also just balancing things.
Obviously we're gonna stay off our feet that that day,
waiting for the night and then being smart. You know,
(27:52):
you want to make sure that mostly you're not doing
anything too too high, too low before you're in the
right mindset and then you know, we know it's you know,
it's a business trip of course, so it'll just be
be focused.
Speaker 9 (28:03):
Last year when you guys didn't have one in that game,
and how much you're looking forward to to this one.
Just for the opportunity, I would imagine it's it's gotta
be fun.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
Yeah, that stuff's out of out of my control, out
of our control. You know, we grateful for any games
we have. We just play the schedule where they really
tell us to be. But yeah, you know, great for
the opportunity. Again for us, it's the you know, it's football.
At the end of the day. We're we're focused on
executing throughout this week, focus on doing everything that you
know it takes so we can set ourselves up. We
have a ton of respect for our opponent and going
(28:34):
out there in the hostile environment. It's a great opportunity,
but we're we're focused on the football.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
What are your.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Initial perception of this defense?
Speaker 12 (28:42):
What are you seeing?
Speaker 10 (28:43):
Yeah, a really good group group that plays together really well. Uh,
you could tell how how much they've embraced the scheme,
how well they play it. They communicate really well, They're
dynamic at all three levels. Up front, it's a really
cohesive group. They work really well in the running pass
game to disrupt things. The second level played really well together,
very physical, fast, and then a really good, really good
(29:07):
third level as well. In the secondary do a great
job of uh, matching patterns and being sticky and man
covers you a good job of getting after the ball
and disruption and then in zones being where they're supposed
to be in their spots. You know, they're they're very
smart players as well. You know, you could tell with
the pattern recognition how comfortable they are. So again it's
a it's a great opportunity for us. I have a
really good scheme, good coaching staff, so it's great for us.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
We know we have to be.
Speaker 10 (29:29):
At our best and we're excited for that challenge. Throughout
the week and ourselves opportunity to be there and then
uh working to perform on Monday.
Speaker 11 (29:37):
To you since the game, and they released a video
of you doing the dab in the locker room with
a lot of homage of Cam. And then also he
also posted a video giving you props on on breaking
his record. Did you see that video? I know, I
know you aren't on socials, but maybe somebody sent it.
Speaker 10 (29:54):
I didn't see the video, but I very much so
appreciate that they were playing like Amigo. They were playing
the dab song on uh, the Migo song, So that's
where that came from. But obviously I have a ton
of respect for for for Cam, you know, for everything
he meant to the team, to the city, all the
success he's had, everything he's doing now. You know, I've
I've I was a big fan of him growing up,
continue to be a big fan the as long as
(30:17):
he had been playing and all the stuff he's doing.
So yeah, that definitely means a lot. And I'm again
I have a ton of respect for him.
Speaker 11 (30:24):
To speak with him recently, I feel like you've talked
to him a little.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Bit your rookie season.
Speaker 10 (30:29):
Yeah, I've talked to him in the in the off season.
I haven't haven't talked to him during the season. Obviously
he's super busy doing stuff. Uh you know, obviously the
same here locked in. But again I have a ton
of respect for him. Every time I have talked to him,
he's been very gracious, you know, taking the time to
to speak with me, give me advice, give me his
uh you know, his his opinions and feedback and everything,
which again means a lot to me. So I have
(30:50):
a ton of respect for him.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Right on your.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Ankle, I know when you got up with a podium
on Sunday you were moving slowly. Was there a point
earlier in the week where we didn't see it that
you were still thinking of the results of that injury?
Speaker 10 (31:02):
And is it all gone now or Again it's everyone's
fighting through something at this point in the year. So uh,
during practice, I'm in the training room all the time,
you know, doing everything I can. I have a great
training staff, so do all stuff they want me to do.
And it's always getting better, always feeling better from a
day to day basis. You know, again, where everyone's dealing
(31:22):
with something. That's just the nature of football of this league,
especially at this time of the year. So again I'm
i'm I'm excited, I'm I'm focused on on football.
Speaker 12 (31:31):
A game that you throw for four hundred yards three touchdowns,
what is what do you feel like that does for
you guys moving forward when when other defenses or you know,
try and prepare for you guys, and they're going to
have to really honor a lot of that passage.
Speaker 10 (31:46):
Yeah, it's again I I guess you'd have to have
to ask the defenses again. For us, I'm super grateful
for all that. It's it's great we know what we're
capable of, but again that doesn't entitle us to anything.
We're gonna start whatever the first play is, it's going
to be zero to zero, and we're gonna have to
try to earn the right to go out there and win.
We don't you know, there's no carryover, it doesn't matter.
So we always trust each other, always believe each other
(32:08):
or cable of but we have to earn the right
throughout the week. We have to earn the right on
Monday to go out there and execute. So not big
into thinking, you know what, the cause of effect, anything
that happened in the past in the past now We're
just excited for the opportunity.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
Brees. I know that I know that you said that
changing any sort of change in routine is not good
or is not ideal. But considering the fact that you're
dealing with an injury, considering with there's it's really late
in the year, the team hasn't had a bye week yet.
Is a Monday night game kind of coming at the
right time, just for that extra day of getting your
(32:41):
bodies right.
Speaker 10 (32:42):
You know, it's for us, Yeah, of course, it's an
opportunity to have another day of recovery. Again, I'm certainly
not the only person. Everyone's putting their bodies on the line.
You know, people are banged up, people are fighting through
stuff here, so everyone's taking advantage of that. But again,
I think for us, it's just a great opportunity to
have something different and for us and challenge aref to
be just as focused just as locked in, have a
(33:02):
little shift, have a you know, have a have a
bonus bonus day. How can we take advantage of it?
How can we stay locked in for a longer week? So, yeah,
I think it's a great opportunity just for us to
learn something else, to prove something else. And to to
kind of have that that other new goal to chase.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
All Right, Hey, you know I been critical at times
of him this year, and he had a really really
big game, all time franchise record passing yards and got
NFC Player of the Week. All right, so let's see
what happens on Monday. All right, that's gonna do it
for us tonight. It has been quite the week, So
thank you for joining me every single night this week.
I truly appreciate it. And next week plans to be
(33:38):
and probably will be just as busy. So until then,
my name is Brett Jensen, and you have been listening
to Breaking with Brett Jensen
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