November 24, 2025 • 34 mins
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Breaking Brett Jensen opens the show by discussing the shooting that took place Friday during Concord’s Christmas tree lighting. Jensen notes a recent trend in the growing populations of suburban cities surrounding Charlotte. As Charlotte’s growth continues to “spill over,” counties such as Iredell, Gaston, and Union are also expanding. He says this trend may help explain why towns around Charlotte are beginning to see crime incidents similar to those that have occurred in the Uptown area.
Next, Jensen covers the breaking story of the night: a guilty verdict in the murder trial of Scott Brooks, the former co-owner of Brooks Sandwich House in Charlotte’s NoDa neighborhood. The two men convicted in Brooks’ killing - Steven Staples and Terry Connor Jr. - were each found guilty of first-degree murder and face life in prison without parole. Jensen notes that the North Carolina recently passed a measure allowing the death penalty, including firing squad and other methods, which could come into play should prosecutors seek capital punishment. He also reports that the two men have been implicated in other killings, totaling eight between them.
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News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WBT Brett
Jenson here with you on this Monday night edition of
Breaking with Brett Jensen on this Thanksgiving week seven oh
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Jensen for all the letters and breaking news in an
around the Charlotte area. All right, so like going on,
like going on, some crazy stuff happening Friday night up
in Old Concord at the Christmas tree lighting. You know,
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things that happened, Like That's what I expected, Charlotte, because
we've seen that at July fourth events uptown. We've seen
that at or not Christmas Eve, but New Year's Eve
events uptown, like tons of people getting arrested in gunplay. Well,
I guess what. Now it's spilled over into small town USA,
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good Old Concord is uh. You know, you don't want
to think or hope that it will spill over, but eventually,
as Charlotte continues to grow and they have nowhere to go.
People start pushing out towards Concord and Gaston and Union
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and you know RDL Lincoln Lancaster in York. And because
if you just look at here, here's a game I
like to play. Look at Huntersville. Okay, Huntersville. Now, the
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dumbest contract in the history of all contracts in the
state of North Carolina was the toll lane contract. I
didn't have a problem with the toll lanes themselves, this
was fine. But the contract may have been the worst
contract in the history of North Carolina. Do you know why?
Because the contract states for a company out of Spain, right,
company out of Spain. It's in the contract. You cannot
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expand I seventy seven for fifty years. Can't expand it
because if you expand it then they will lose money
because they're the ones that paid for the tollys. They
paid for all of the tollanes, right, and if you
expand I think you've got to pay the fee of
like six hundred and forty million bucks. So for fifty years,
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I believe it was the contract and it's the worst, single,
worst contract in the history of North Carolina. Okay, And
here's the game I like to play. And this all
ties back to what I was talking about earlier, spilling
over fifty years ago. How many people lived in Huntersville
fifty years ago? What three thousand, five thousand, eight thousand
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people max? Like I think it was somewhere around three
thousand people twenty five hundred like actual in the city
limits right now look at Concord or now look at
Huntersville today, Oh my god, Like I I do not
like going into North Mecklinburg County, Cornelius, Huntersville, Davidson because
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of the traffic. It could be two o'clock on a
Tuesday and you're at You're doing fifteen miles an hour
right for no reason, for no reason, I would not
be able to handle. Like I've said this, I have
said this on Charlotte Airways since twenty eleven twenty ten.
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You would have to pay my mortgage for me to
move to North Mecklembog County. You would have to pay
my mortgage for me to have to deal with that
traffic every day. And it's not just on seventy seven.
It's all the side roads and there's only like fifteen
restaurants up there, so no one can get into a
restaurant like, no, thank you, I'm good. Oh also love
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go or the people that live in Cornelias or whatever,
or in the downtown Huntersville go, Oh, where do you
live by the lake? Dude? You are four miles from
the lake, Like, get the hell out of here, live
by the lake. So my point is, you know, things
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keep growing and growing and growing. Like Charlotte was nothing
thirty years ago. Most of you listening to my voice
right now will be alive in thirty years or at
the very least twenty five years, right. And so with
that being said, there's only so much places to so
many places to go, and so what happens you have
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to spill into the neighboring counties, and Concord and Cabaris
County are way more now population wise. Waxaw, I want
to say Waxaw twenty years ago, in two thousand, I
think had twenty twenty four hundred people. Now it's nineteen
thousand people. That may not seem like a lot, but
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when you go up that many people, like from twenty
five hundred to nineteen thousand or twenty thousand, that's a
big jump. That's a big, big jump. And you're doing
it in Marvin, in Belmont and Cramerton and mccaddonville and
now Mount Holly in Denver up in Lincoln County. You know, Moresville.
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It can't grow anymore, right, I mean four Mills dam
near out of land until they start buying, you know,
big plots of land that are that has been owned
by a family for eighty five years and then they
finally decide to sell it for the money. So Charlotte
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over the last ten years, and it keeps getting worse,
has not become has now become Like I said, I
mean how many times I know everyone in this room
is tired of me saying it. But Baltimore, Memphis, Saint Louis,
New Orleans, Detroit, where cities that were once thriving that
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are now crime ridden. Right, Baltimore, Detroit, Detroit's the dead city.
Saint Louis is a completely dead city. We know what's
going on with Memphis. I don't know if that can
be saved. Twenty years ago, twenty five years ago, first
time I ever went to Memphis, I'm like, oh, this
is cool. It's great. Bill Street, all of Memphis all
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of downtown Memphis. Now you better walk with a bullproof vests.
Crime rate there's three hundred and fifty percent above the
national average three and fifty percent. Charlotte. Okay, here's the
status that they like to give Like politicians will give
you this, Chamber of commerce, people will give you this.
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Charlotte is a safe city when they look at like
average wise, when you look at the top fifty cities,
Charlott's fourteenth biggest city in America, it's not fair to
compare it to the thirty fifth biggest city in America. Well,
are you gonna compare it to Ashville and Wilmington? Really,
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that's what you're doing, like Charleston, Like, that's what you're like. No,
you need to compare it to other cities that are
right near the one million mark, like Charlott's I think
at like nine hundred and fifty thousand people, nine and
thirty five thousand people and just within the city limits
one point two million within Mecklembok County. So do comparison
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contrast to other cities your size. Okay, that's what you
need to do. That's what you've got to do. How
do you compare it to Minneapolis. How do you compare
to Cincinnati, right, Columbus, Dallas, Houston, All these places are
actually bigger than you. That's what I like to know. So, yeah,
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that's right back in the day. I just had someone
text me back in the day, twenty years ago, no
one was getting shot at ree Ros or have an
I stay in Uptown. No one was getting shot at
Bar Charlotte, the Hut, any of those places. Yeah, I
used to live there. Those places. I think they had
a cot there waiting for me. I lived there so
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much I was paying rent. But that's my point. So
now you have spillover what happened in Concord Friday night.
Speaking of crime. I hate to do this like it's
gonna be a crime written show. The verdict in the
Brooks case came down. We'll talk about that and some
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of the punishment, the punishments that were handed out to
the two individuals, and we'll talk a little bit about that,
and also I'll give you some actual evidence that Border
patrol odds are they're coming right back. Like I told you,
I told you last Thursday, they they're planning on coming back.
So we'll go over that again. And the Panthers have
a game coming up in about almost exactly two hours
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from now, almost to the minute, two hours from now,
Monday Night football guests of San Francisco forty nine ers
welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen on this Monday Night. So,
the Brooks murder trial is in. Terry Connor Terry Conner
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Junior and Steven Staples are both found guilty of first
degree murder of Scott Brooks. Both Steven Staples and Terry
Connor have been sentenced to life in prison without the
possibility of parole. Now, people, I asked this question once
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because you know, now you can actually execute someone in
the state of North Carolina. It's always been legal, but
it's been what I can't remember. It's either two thousand
and four or two thousand and nine is the last
time North Carolina executed someone. And it's because of all
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the lawsuits that were happening with the company that makes
the chemicals for euthanasia, right the cocktails as they call it,
the cocktail, And they said the companies say, well, we
didn't produce and make all these companies in ship them
to for you to kill people. So they went and
filed immediate stops in every state in the country that
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was using their cocktails, right, and so they've been on hold.
So that's why in South Carolina said that's fine. You
ever heard of a thing called the firing squad? And
they did that. They executed a guy earlier this year
via firing squad. North Carolina, the state legislator and the
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state Senate just passed new laws that okay firing squad
and other options. There are other options, not just the
firing squad. There are other options. And they gave the
inmate the choice which one do you want? You want
firing squad, you know, maybe gas chamber, whatever the other
ones were. I don't even remember what they were. So
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but the reason I asked Spencer Merriweather, he is the
district attorney in Charlotte, michaelmok County. They should say. I
asked him, I don't know about a year ago. I said,
have you ever sought the death penalty? And he said, well,
he goes. Here's the problem he goes every time. If
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he's sentenced to death, at every single trial where there's
an appeal, the family will have to relive everything once
again and maybe get on the stand again. And you know,
doing that three four or five times can be extremely
emotional and taxing physically and everything else. They said, a
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lot of times the family members just want the one
guilty be done with it and not have to worry
about it. And so I said, but you know, some
families feel like they would gain closure by this or
and he said, well, he goes, yes, he goes, but
it's a long argers and it can take twenty years
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that you're having to deal with this as a family
member for twenty years. So okay, But I can tell
you that Terry Cottag Junior and Steven Staples, the two
men just now found guilty for killing Scott Brooks, they're
also implicated in other murders. And I don't know which
is which, but one has been implicated in four others
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and another one's implicated in three others or now two others. Yeah,
one wasn't. One was implicated in five murders, the other
one was implicated in three murders. So there's a chance
that they will be there's a chance that they will
actually have to uh face the death penalty in some
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of the other charges. So we'll see. But again, both
were found guilty of first degree murder and both have
been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
It's like, okay, I mean, that's about as good as
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you can get if you're the Brooks family. And I'm
sure the District Attorney's office met with the Brooks family said, look,
are you okay not going after the death penalty? Do
you insist on going after the death penalty? Is life
without parole? Is that good for you? Like whatever? And
I'm sure the Brooks family gave input on what they
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think and how they felt, and so life without the
possibility of parole, they're gonna be in there for a
long time obviously, So that saga has come to an end.
And like I said, the reason it took so long,
like there's a million reasons why it took. It took
a long time before they were even able to find
their murderers, like that took a while, like a while while,
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and then you know, when you have people sitting there.
I believe they were. I believe they were sitting in
jail without parole, I mean, without bail, so it's not
like they were going anywhere, you know, And now they
were able to go through and now both felt guilty
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without the possibility of parole. They will spend every waking
moment of their life behind bars. When we come back
Border Patrol evidence that they're returning, I'll tell you about
it when we returned. Welcome back to Breaking with Brad
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Jensen on this Tuesday night edition of Breaking with Bret Jenson,
or excuse me, Monday night. See, I like I will go,
there'll be a Wednesday, and I will have no idea
what day it is or Thursday, Like I have to
like actually think it's like what day is today? So
Monday Night edition of Breaking with Brett Jensen. Okay, so
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we all kind of know that the big story last
week was border patrol, right, thirty thousand students staying home
from CMS on Monday. Another, you know, twenty plus thousand,
nearly thirty thousand staying home from CMS on Tuesday and
so forth and so forth. Right, and also some numbers
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that came out concord or I should say Combarts County
schools Camberis County Schools had they were averaging close to
three thousand, like twenty eight hundred, twenty seven hundred a
day out last week, like eight percent of the student population. Okay,
So like you hear three thousand people who that's not
a lot twenty nine, No, it's not, but eight percent,
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eight percent like basically all week. Okay, but you know,
remember now last Thursday, I told you, hey, be ready
because they're about to like come back, like all indications
are they're coming back, and then they put out an
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email saying, yeah, we're not leaving. Right, So I can
tell you that here's how you know that things are
probably almost exactly one hundred percent accurate what I said
last week. Because all I can do is tell you
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what people in Washington, DC are telling me. That's all
I can do. It's people in Washington, DC that told
me this. Okay, That's all I can do is tell
you what they are telling me. That they were so
upset at the way they were treated in Charlotte, so
ticked off that they're like, okay, fafo. Right. So local
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television stations today are now saying, after saying they're gone,
they're gone, they're gone, are now saying, I think the
headline that I saw today was up in the air
or unknown. So now that the fact that they've moved
off of they're gone to yeah, we don't know if
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they're coming back. That should tell you a lot. The
fact that they were like, no, they're gone, They're in Raleigh.
They're they're gone. Oh I think the term was uncertain
or unknown or what. Okay, that now they've opened the
door gone, hey, they actually might return. So now they're
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letting you know, border patrol may actually return. And I
told you last week that was the thing told you
on Thursday as a matter of fact, that they were
so upset with what happened and transpired in Charlotte. And
then of course Friday, at four o'clock or three o'clock,
the city of Charlotte announces they're going to give all
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illegal immigrants and regular immigrants divvy up one hundred k
to help offset lost wages. I can tell you what
a lot of the illegal immigrants they don't want the
cash because it's documented where the cash is going and
would they have to pay taxes on it or are
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they going to is the city going to funnel it
through like charity organizations, and the charity organizations aren't going
to keep accurate records or they're going to fudge the
records on who they're giving them money to. Right, Okay,
Because here's the thing, Let's say you go to Vegas
or Atlantic City or Biloxi, Mississippi, wherever, Tunica, Mississippi, anywhere
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there are casinos. Maybe you go to Cherokee. All right,
how about that Cherokee. You go to Cherokee, you're playing
slots and you hit a little mini jackpot for like, say,
fifteen hundred bucks, right, which we're all happy, Oh my gosh,
fifteen hundred bucks. Yeah. You have to start filling out forms.
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You have to start filling out tax id forms. I
think the number is twelve hundred dollars. I think that's
the anything is twelve hundred dollars or more. That's when
you have to start filling out IRS and taxid forms.
I think it's twelve hundred bucks. And do you want
the taxes taken out then or do you want to
fill out your own taxes? That's that's the choice. They
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actually give you the choice. You can we have to
we have to turn you into the IRS at the
end of the year. We can withhold your taxes now
state and federal, or you can do it and be
part of your own taxes and we'll send you a
W two or ten ninety nine or whatever the case.
May be. So if any of these immigrants get I
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want to say it's six hundred dollars more technically you're
you're supposed to claim that. You're supposed to claim it.
I think the numbers six hundred dollars because when I
used to write for when I would do freelance work,
whether it's for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Washington Post
a thousand years ago, any of these sports magazines like
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Athlon Sports, or any of those preseason football magazines for college,
because I would write for them. If you got a
check for four hundred dollars because you wrote the preview
on the University of Georgia football team, you didn't have
to claim it six hundred you gotta claim. That's why
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PayPal and Venmo and Zell and all starts saying, oh,
we're going to start keeping track of how much money
you're receiving and sending via zoom or via zel and
Venmo and all that. So anyways, I'm just wondering, for
tax purposes, how's that going to work? Unless they say, well,
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no one gets more than five hundred dollars, then I
guess if you're the recipient, nobody needs to know, right,
None the wiser. Yeah, unless you're the entity paying out
the cash, and I would think that you would have
to have very accurate records of who received it. I
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could be wrong. You know, Maybe you can just put
some guy wearing a hat. Maybe that's that's your because
all three, all three guys in this room right now
are wearing hats. It's a guy and a hat. That's
who got it. A guy and a hat, that's who
got our five hundred dollars. Okay. So the fact that
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some media outlets, local media outlets are going, yeah, there's
the possibility. It's uncertain whether or not they're coming up
in the air. Mm hm, there you go, there you go.
All right, when we come back, let's completely change topics
for a second. Let's not spend doom and gloom the
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first three segments, the Concord shooting on Christmas tree lighting,
the Scott Brooks guilty verdict in the double murder trial,
Double murderer trial, and then border Patrol. How about the
Carolina Panthers. They could be in first place by the
end of the night. It's amazing. But we'll talk about
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that when we return. Welcome back to Breaking with Brett
Jensen on this Monday night. We got ten minutes to
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go a little extra for you tonight going up till
like right at eight o'clock, So we got about ten
minutes ago. Okay, So let's talk a little bit about
the Carolina Panthers. And I'm not going to turn this
into a sports talk show or anything like that. Don't worry,
because you know, usually we do Panther Fridays right where
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it's usually one of two people that I will play
from the press conference, either the head coach Dave Canalis
or quarterback Bryce Youlling, because those are the two most
important team people on the team. Like we know this.
And so the Carolina Panthers are on the road tonight
against an average San Francisco team. They're not great. They're
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pretty decent, but they're not great. They're no better than
green and Carolina went to Green Bay and won that game.
San Francisco is maybe just a little bit better than Dallas.
Carolina be Dallas, right, you saw what Dallas did last
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night against Philadelphia. So Carolina Panthers are at the San
Francisco forty nine ers tonight and it's ESPN, but the
what the local w SEC usually does, and I don't
know if they're doing this tonight, but they usually do
this because it's the hometown team. They will also put
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it on regular television, So in case you don't have
ESPN or cable, you should. I believe you'll be able
to watch. I believe you'll be able to watch it
on w SEC tonight. No WSC. It's ABC, ABC and ESPN. Yeah, ABC,
ESPN and ABC because of the same network, the same company,
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and so I believe it'll be on to be SEC tonight.
That's the way they used to do it. Now. I
don't know if they'll do it tonight, but that's the
way it usually is because it's the local team, so
they'll put it on local television. But the fact that
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Carolina has an actual chance to be in first place
tonight in the NFC South is nothing short of a miracle.
We all knew the New Orleans stands were going to
be bad, so they're fine. They're dead last in the division. Now,
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remember it doesn't matter what your record is. As long
as you win the division, you automatically go to the playoffs.
A few years ago, Carolina was what seven to nine
or seven eight and one with a losing record and
got into the playoffs, right, I think maybe even won
a first round game if I'm not mistaken. So with
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that being said, we knew New Orleans was going to
be bad. Atlanta has been a great, great disappointment. Their
head coach may be fired. The starting quarterback just got injured.
I mean he's always injured, but he just got injured,
and the Panthers swept him, right, Panthers swept and then
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Tampa Bay. They were supposed to be the cream of
the crop. They have had injuries like nobody's business. And
then last night the starting quarterback, Baker Mayfield, you know
who was here for a little bit and the Panthers
coming because you know, he sucked. And now he's only
got he's only making like forty million dollars a year
or whatever it is, thirty million, is getting ready to
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out a big fat new contract. But same thing with
Sam Dartold. But they are extremely injured and all their
best players aren't playing, and they're losing all these games.
They lost last week, they lost again yesterday. They got
smoked last night like it wasn't even close. And then
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Baker Mayfield, the quarterback, got hurt. So all you need
to know even if you don't know much about football
and you just want to be able to have a
regular conversation. New Orleans is New Orleans. They're bad. Everyone
know they're gonna be bad. They are bad. They're on
their second quarter they benched their starting quarterback, they're on
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their second quarterback. The Atlanta Falcons, they're now on their
second quarterback. And the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, if Baker Mayfield
can't play, they'll be on their second quarterback. Meanwhile, the
guy that's built like a twelve year old kid, he's
still healthy. Bryce young, and the Panthers are winning, and
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we'll see what happens tonight. I don't know if they're
gonna win tonight, don't know if they can. I gotta
be honce with you. Can they Yes, they absolutely can,
because San Francisco is not a giant beater. They're not
like this great, great, great team. Yes, and they will
be playing against Christian McCaffrey tonight. They're old the old
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guy here, so we'll see. But the fact that the
Panthers have a chance to be in first place, I
don't even know what to say about that. But it's
it's amazing. I mean it truly is amazing, and we'll
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see tonight. I mean, I hope they they don't. They
generally don't play well on the road, and yet somehow
they still have three road wins this year. Now, I
will say last week there were obviously lights out, sitting
franchise records and passing and everything else, right, price shilling,
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lighting it up, telling you. So I'm anxious to see
what's gonna happen tonight. I'm gonna buy some chicken wings.
I used to be a tariokey guy. Now I go
hot wings almost all the time. Now I was never
never used to be a Buffalo sauce guy, but now
I like Buffalo sauce.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I don't know why. I don't know why, just have
always been that way. All right, So that'll be that
starts the game if you're interested. The game starts at
usually around eight twenty is usually I think the kickoff.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Eight twenty I think is the kickoff. Real quick, I
want to say this now. Next week Friday, that is
our annual handcocks bikes for kids, and that's when we
have It's gonna be from five to nine pm and
we're all gonna be there giving giving out or you know,
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broadcasting live encouraging you to come by saying hi to you.
If you bring buy a bike, a new bike for
a kid, or if you bring by twenty bikes for
a kid, you don't even have to get out of
your car your truck. We will do all the unloading
for you. A couple of years ago it was brutal cold,
like stupid cold, and last year it was chilly. I
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mean it was cold, but not like oh my god,
oh my god, frostbite. I brought Maggie last year, so
and a lot of you guys got to meet Maggie
for the first time, brought her to a few of
these things. So but obviously you know that won't be
taking place this year, but again five to nine pm
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next Friday, the Hancock Bike for Kids and we'll all
be there. And we also want to give a special
thanks to Watson Insurance for making their Belmont office available
as a bike drop off location as well, so you
can do that there and that's three to zero two
East Catava Street in Belmont, or you just go to
Watson Insurance dot com. But it's in the Watson Insurance
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in Belmont and all by bikes donated at once an
insurance will be transported to WBT courtesy of Garage Door Doctor.
It's the thirty second annual WBT Hancock Bikes for Kids
Benentine benefiting Kids First of the Carolinas, presented by Garage
Door Doctor again next week Friday, five to nine pm.
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And all you got to do is visit WBT dot
com for all the details. It's a good event. And
I will tell you here's what always happens in the
year's past. It won't this year for obvious reasons. In
years past, it was always this way. Where's Maggie, Where's Maggie,
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Where's Boomer? That's all they cared about. Boomer and Maggie.
That's all they cared about. They wanted to meet Boomer,
and they wanted to beat Maggie the Golden Retriever, the
most famous dog in North Carolina. That's uh, that's what
County Commissioner Pat Coltham called her. The most famous dog
in North Carolina. And she probably was. To be honest
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with you, more people knew about Mags, you know, the
Charlotte area, Twitter, Facebook, whatever. But yeah, so when you
pull up with your bikes and you ask where Boomer is,
don't worry you will be one of a thousand people
that ask where Boomer is? Hey, where's Boomer? Oh he's
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right over there, right there, Hey, Boomer, you got the
eighty seventh car that wants to say hi to you?
Like Boomer knows it. Boomer knows, Bember knows he's the man.
He acts like he doesn't know he's the man, but
he knows he's the man. Like he's got like he's
got that awe shucks, golly gee what what? People want
to see me, but we're shut You know, everyone wants
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to see you, but don't even start that. Oh man,
I all these all these great people want to meet me,
but we're shut up. Just you know this, Boomer, you
know you're the main attraction. No matter where we go,
You're always the main attraction. Just stop, just stop. We
do that Facebook Live show. Everyone wants to ask a
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question about Boomer. He's not even on the Facebook Live show.
People want to ask a question about it. All right,
I do not have a show tomorrow night, but I
will be here Wednesday night, so I look forward to
seeing you.
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Jensen for all the letters and breaking news in an
around the Charlotte area. All right, so like going on,
like going on, some crazy stuff happening Friday night up
in Old Concord at the Christmas tree lighting. You know,
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things that happened, Like That's what I expected, Charlotte, because
we've seen that at July fourth events uptown. We've seen
that at or not Christmas Eve, but New Year's Eve
events uptown, like tons of people getting arrested in gunplay. Well,
I guess what. Now it's spilled over into small town USA,
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good Old Concord is uh. You know, you don't want
to think or hope that it will spill over, but eventually,
as Charlotte continues to grow and they have nowhere to go.
People start pushing out towards Concord and Gaston and Union
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and you know RDL Lincoln Lancaster in York. And because
if you just look at here, here's a game I
like to play. Look at Huntersville. Okay, Huntersville. Now, the
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dumbest contract in the history of all contracts in the
state of North Carolina was the toll lane contract. I
didn't have a problem with the toll lanes themselves, this
was fine. But the contract may have been the worst
contract in the history of North Carolina. Do you know why?
Because the contract states for a company out of Spain, right,
company out of Spain. It's in the contract. You cannot
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expand I seventy seven for fifty years. Can't expand it
because if you expand it then they will lose money
because they're the ones that paid for the tollys. They
paid for all of the tollanes, right, and if you
expand I think you've got to pay the fee of
like six hundred and forty million bucks. So for fifty years,
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I believe it was the contract and it's the worst, single,
worst contract in the history of North Carolina. Okay, And
here's the game I like to play. And this all
ties back to what I was talking about earlier, spilling
over fifty years ago. How many people lived in Huntersville
fifty years ago? What three thousand, five thousand, eight thousand
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people max? Like I think it was somewhere around three
thousand people twenty five hundred like actual in the city
limits right now look at Concord or now look at
Huntersville today, Oh my god, Like I I do not
like going into North Mecklinburg County, Cornelius, Huntersville, Davidson because
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of the traffic. It could be two o'clock on a
Tuesday and you're at You're doing fifteen miles an hour
right for no reason, for no reason, I would not
be able to handle. Like I've said this, I have
said this on Charlotte Airways since twenty eleven twenty ten.
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You would have to pay my mortgage for me to
move to North Mecklembog County. You would have to pay
my mortgage for me to have to deal with that
traffic every day. And it's not just on seventy seven.
It's all the side roads and there's only like fifteen
restaurants up there, so no one can get into a
restaurant like, no, thank you, I'm good. Oh also love
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go or the people that live in Cornelias or whatever,
or in the downtown Huntersville go, Oh, where do you
live by the lake? Dude? You are four miles from
the lake, Like, get the hell out of here, live
by the lake. So my point is, you know, things
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keep growing and growing and growing. Like Charlotte was nothing
thirty years ago. Most of you listening to my voice
right now will be alive in thirty years or at
the very least twenty five years, right. And so with
that being said, there's only so much places to so
many places to go, and so what happens you have
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to spill into the neighboring counties, and Concord and Cabaris
County are way more now population wise. Waxaw, I want
to say Waxaw twenty years ago, in two thousand, I
think had twenty twenty four hundred people. Now it's nineteen
thousand people. That may not seem like a lot, but
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when you go up that many people, like from twenty
five hundred to nineteen thousand or twenty thousand, that's a
big jump. That's a big, big jump. And you're doing
it in Marvin, in Belmont and Cramerton and mccaddonville and
now Mount Holly in Denver up in Lincoln County. You know, Moresville.
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It can't grow anymore, right, I mean four Mills dam
near out of land until they start buying, you know,
big plots of land that are that has been owned
by a family for eighty five years and then they
finally decide to sell it for the money. So Charlotte
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over the last ten years, and it keeps getting worse,
has not become has now become Like I said, I
mean how many times I know everyone in this room
is tired of me saying it. But Baltimore, Memphis, Saint Louis,
New Orleans, Detroit, where cities that were once thriving that
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are now crime ridden. Right, Baltimore, Detroit, Detroit's the dead city.
Saint Louis is a completely dead city. We know what's
going on with Memphis. I don't know if that can
be saved. Twenty years ago, twenty five years ago, first
time I ever went to Memphis, I'm like, oh, this
is cool. It's great. Bill Street, all of Memphis all
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of downtown Memphis. Now you better walk with a bullproof vests.
Crime rate there's three hundred and fifty percent above the
national average three and fifty percent. Charlotte. Okay, here's the
status that they like to give Like politicians will give
you this, Chamber of commerce, people will give you this.
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Charlotte is a safe city when they look at like
average wise, when you look at the top fifty cities,
Charlott's fourteenth biggest city in America, it's not fair to
compare it to the thirty fifth biggest city in America. Well,
are you gonna compare it to Ashville and Wilmington? Really,
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that's what you're doing, like Charleston, Like, that's what you're like. No,
you need to compare it to other cities that are
right near the one million mark, like Charlott's I think
at like nine hundred and fifty thousand people, nine and
thirty five thousand people and just within the city limits
one point two million within Mecklembok County. So do comparison
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contrast to other cities your size. Okay, that's what you
need to do. That's what you've got to do. How
do you compare it to Minneapolis. How do you compare
to Cincinnati, right, Columbus, Dallas, Houston, All these places are
actually bigger than you. That's what I like to know. So, yeah,
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that's right back in the day. I just had someone
text me back in the day, twenty years ago, no
one was getting shot at ree Ros or have an
I stay in Uptown. No one was getting shot at
Bar Charlotte, the Hut, any of those places. Yeah, I
used to live there. Those places. I think they had
a cot there waiting for me. I lived there so
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much I was paying rent. But that's my point. So
now you have spillover what happened in Concord Friday night.
Speaking of crime. I hate to do this like it's
gonna be a crime written show. The verdict in the
Brooks case came down. We'll talk about that and some
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of the punishment, the punishments that were handed out to
the two individuals, and we'll talk a little bit about that,
and also I'll give you some actual evidence that Border
patrol odds are they're coming right back. Like I told you,
I told you last Thursday, they they're planning on coming back.
So we'll go over that again. And the Panthers have
a game coming up in about almost exactly two hours
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from now, almost to the minute, two hours from now,
Monday Night football guests of San Francisco forty nine ers
welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen on this Monday Night. So,
the Brooks murder trial is in. Terry Connor Terry Conner
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Junior and Steven Staples are both found guilty of first
degree murder of Scott Brooks. Both Steven Staples and Terry
Connor have been sentenced to life in prison without the
possibility of parole. Now, people, I asked this question once
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because you know, now you can actually execute someone in
the state of North Carolina. It's always been legal, but
it's been what I can't remember. It's either two thousand
and four or two thousand and nine is the last
time North Carolina executed someone. And it's because of all
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the lawsuits that were happening with the company that makes
the chemicals for euthanasia, right the cocktails as they call it,
the cocktail, And they said the companies say, well, we
didn't produce and make all these companies in ship them
to for you to kill people. So they went and
filed immediate stops in every state in the country that
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was using their cocktails, right, and so they've been on hold.
So that's why in South Carolina said that's fine. You
ever heard of a thing called the firing squad? And
they did that. They executed a guy earlier this year
via firing squad. North Carolina, the state legislator and the
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state Senate just passed new laws that okay firing squad
and other options. There are other options, not just the
firing squad. There are other options. And they gave the
inmate the choice which one do you want? You want
firing squad, you know, maybe gas chamber, whatever the other
ones were. I don't even remember what they were. So
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but the reason I asked Spencer Merriweather, he is the
district attorney in Charlotte, michaelmok County. They should say. I
asked him, I don't know about a year ago. I said,
have you ever sought the death penalty? And he said, well,
he goes. Here's the problem he goes every time. If
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he's sentenced to death, at every single trial where there's
an appeal, the family will have to relive everything once
again and maybe get on the stand again. And you know,
doing that three four or five times can be extremely
emotional and taxing physically and everything else. They said, a
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lot of times the family members just want the one
guilty be done with it and not have to worry
about it. And so I said, but you know, some
families feel like they would gain closure by this or
and he said, well, he goes, yes, he goes, but
it's a long argers and it can take twenty years
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that you're having to deal with this as a family
member for twenty years. So okay, But I can tell
you that Terry Cottag Junior and Steven Staples, the two
men just now found guilty for killing Scott Brooks, they're
also implicated in other murders. And I don't know which
is which, but one has been implicated in four others
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and another one's implicated in three others or now two others. Yeah,
one wasn't. One was implicated in five murders, the other
one was implicated in three murders. So there's a chance
that they will be there's a chance that they will
actually have to uh face the death penalty in some
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of the other charges. So we'll see. But again, both
were found guilty of first degree murder and both have
been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
It's like, okay, I mean, that's about as good as
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you can get if you're the Brooks family. And I'm
sure the District Attorney's office met with the Brooks family said, look,
are you okay not going after the death penalty? Do
you insist on going after the death penalty? Is life
without parole? Is that good for you? Like whatever? And
I'm sure the Brooks family gave input on what they
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think and how they felt, and so life without the
possibility of parole, they're gonna be in there for a
long time obviously, So that saga has come to an end.
And like I said, the reason it took so long,
like there's a million reasons why it took. It took
a long time before they were even able to find
their murderers, like that took a while, like a while while,
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and then you know, when you have people sitting there.
I believe they were. I believe they were sitting in
jail without parole, I mean, without bail, so it's not
like they were going anywhere, you know, And now they
were able to go through and now both felt guilty
(15:30):
without the possibility of parole. They will spend every waking
moment of their life behind bars. When we come back
Border Patrol evidence that they're returning, I'll tell you about
it when we returned. Welcome back to Breaking with Brad
(15:55):
Jensen on this Tuesday night edition of Breaking with Bret Jenson,
or excuse me, Monday night. See, I like I will go,
there'll be a Wednesday, and I will have no idea
what day it is or Thursday, Like I have to
like actually think it's like what day is today? So
Monday Night edition of Breaking with Brett Jensen. Okay, so
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we all kind of know that the big story last
week was border patrol, right, thirty thousand students staying home
from CMS on Monday. Another, you know, twenty plus thousand,
nearly thirty thousand staying home from CMS on Tuesday and
so forth and so forth. Right, and also some numbers
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that came out concord or I should say Combarts County
schools Camberis County Schools had they were averaging close to
three thousand, like twenty eight hundred, twenty seven hundred a
day out last week, like eight percent of the student population. Okay,
So like you hear three thousand people who that's not
a lot twenty nine, No, it's not, but eight percent,
(17:03):
eight percent like basically all week. Okay, but you know,
remember now last Thursday, I told you, hey, be ready
because they're about to like come back, like all indications
are they're coming back, and then they put out an
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email saying, yeah, we're not leaving. Right, So I can
tell you that here's how you know that things are
probably almost exactly one hundred percent accurate what I said
last week. Because all I can do is tell you
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what people in Washington, DC are telling me. That's all
I can do. It's people in Washington, DC that told
me this. Okay, That's all I can do is tell
you what they are telling me. That they were so
upset at the way they were treated in Charlotte, so
ticked off that they're like, okay, fafo. Right. So local
(18:16):
television stations today are now saying, after saying they're gone,
they're gone, they're gone, are now saying, I think the
headline that I saw today was up in the air
or unknown. So now that the fact that they've moved
off of they're gone to yeah, we don't know if
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they're coming back. That should tell you a lot. The
fact that they were like, no, they're gone, They're in Raleigh.
They're they're gone. Oh I think the term was uncertain
or unknown or what. Okay, that now they've opened the
door gone, hey, they actually might return. So now they're
(19:00):
letting you know, border patrol may actually return. And I
told you last week that was the thing told you
on Thursday as a matter of fact, that they were
so upset with what happened and transpired in Charlotte. And
then of course Friday, at four o'clock or three o'clock,
the city of Charlotte announces they're going to give all
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illegal immigrants and regular immigrants divvy up one hundred k
to help offset lost wages. I can tell you what
a lot of the illegal immigrants they don't want the
cash because it's documented where the cash is going and
would they have to pay taxes on it or are
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they going to is the city going to funnel it
through like charity organizations, and the charity organizations aren't going
to keep accurate records or they're going to fudge the
records on who they're giving them money to. Right, Okay,
Because here's the thing, Let's say you go to Vegas
or Atlantic City or Biloxi, Mississippi, wherever, Tunica, Mississippi, anywhere
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there are casinos. Maybe you go to Cherokee. All right,
how about that Cherokee. You go to Cherokee, you're playing
slots and you hit a little mini jackpot for like, say,
fifteen hundred bucks, right, which we're all happy, Oh my gosh,
fifteen hundred bucks. Yeah. You have to start filling out forms.
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You have to start filling out tax id forms. I
think the number is twelve hundred dollars. I think that's
the anything is twelve hundred dollars or more. That's when
you have to start filling out IRS and taxid forms.
I think it's twelve hundred bucks. And do you want
the taxes taken out then or do you want to
fill out your own taxes? That's that's the choice. They
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actually give you the choice. You can we have to
we have to turn you into the IRS at the
end of the year. We can withhold your taxes now
state and federal, or you can do it and be
part of your own taxes and we'll send you a
W two or ten ninety nine or whatever the case.
May be. So if any of these immigrants get I
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want to say it's six hundred dollars more technically you're
you're supposed to claim that. You're supposed to claim it.
I think the numbers six hundred dollars because when I
used to write for when I would do freelance work,
whether it's for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Washington Post
a thousand years ago, any of these sports magazines like
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Athlon Sports, or any of those preseason football magazines for college,
because I would write for them. If you got a
check for four hundred dollars because you wrote the preview
on the University of Georgia football team, you didn't have
to claim it six hundred you gotta claim. That's why
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PayPal and Venmo and Zell and all starts saying, oh,
we're going to start keeping track of how much money
you're receiving and sending via zoom or via zel and
Venmo and all that. So anyways, I'm just wondering, for
tax purposes, how's that going to work? Unless they say, well,
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no one gets more than five hundred dollars, then I
guess if you're the recipient, nobody needs to know, right,
None the wiser. Yeah, unless you're the entity paying out
the cash, and I would think that you would have
to have very accurate records of who received it. I
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could be wrong. You know, Maybe you can just put
some guy wearing a hat. Maybe that's that's your because
all three, all three guys in this room right now
are wearing hats. It's a guy and a hat. That's
who got it. A guy and a hat, that's who
got our five hundred dollars. Okay. So the fact that
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some media outlets, local media outlets are going, yeah, there's
the possibility. It's uncertain whether or not they're coming up
in the air. Mm hm, there you go, there you go.
All right, when we come back, let's completely change topics
for a second. Let's not spend doom and gloom the
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first three segments, the Concord shooting on Christmas tree lighting,
the Scott Brooks guilty verdict in the double murder trial,
Double murderer trial, and then border Patrol. How about the
Carolina Panthers. They could be in first place by the
end of the night. It's amazing. But we'll talk about
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that when we return. Welcome back to Breaking with Brett
Jensen on this Monday night. We got ten minutes to
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go a little extra for you tonight going up till
like right at eight o'clock, So we got about ten
minutes ago. Okay, So let's talk a little bit about
the Carolina Panthers. And I'm not going to turn this
into a sports talk show or anything like that. Don't worry,
because you know, usually we do Panther Fridays right where
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it's usually one of two people that I will play
from the press conference, either the head coach Dave Canalis
or quarterback Bryce Youlling, because those are the two most
important team people on the team. Like we know this.
And so the Carolina Panthers are on the road tonight
against an average San Francisco team. They're not great. They're
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pretty decent, but they're not great. They're no better than
green and Carolina went to Green Bay and won that game.
San Francisco is maybe just a little bit better than Dallas.
Carolina be Dallas, right, you saw what Dallas did last
(25:16):
night against Philadelphia. So Carolina Panthers are at the San
Francisco forty nine ers tonight and it's ESPN, but the
what the local w SEC usually does, and I don't
know if they're doing this tonight, but they usually do
this because it's the hometown team. They will also put
(25:38):
it on regular television, So in case you don't have
ESPN or cable, you should. I believe you'll be able
to watch. I believe you'll be able to watch it
on w SEC tonight. No WSC. It's ABC, ABC and ESPN. Yeah, ABC,
ESPN and ABC because of the same network, the same company,
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and so I believe it'll be on to be SEC tonight.
That's the way they used to do it. Now. I
don't know if they'll do it tonight, but that's the
way it usually is because it's the local team, so
they'll put it on local television. But the fact that
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Carolina has an actual chance to be in first place
tonight in the NFC South is nothing short of a miracle.
We all knew the New Orleans stands were going to
be bad, so they're fine. They're dead last in the division. Now,
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remember it doesn't matter what your record is. As long
as you win the division, you automatically go to the playoffs.
A few years ago, Carolina was what seven to nine
or seven eight and one with a losing record and
got into the playoffs, right, I think maybe even won
a first round game if I'm not mistaken. So with
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that being said, we knew New Orleans was going to
be bad. Atlanta has been a great, great disappointment. Their
head coach may be fired. The starting quarterback just got injured.
I mean he's always injured, but he just got injured,
and the Panthers swept him, right, Panthers swept and then
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Tampa Bay. They were supposed to be the cream of
the crop. They have had injuries like nobody's business. And
then last night the starting quarterback, Baker Mayfield, you know
who was here for a little bit and the Panthers
coming because you know, he sucked. And now he's only
got he's only making like forty million dollars a year
or whatever it is, thirty million, is getting ready to
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out a big fat new contract. But same thing with
Sam Dartold. But they are extremely injured and all their
best players aren't playing, and they're losing all these games.
They lost last week, they lost again yesterday. They got
smoked last night like it wasn't even close. And then
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Baker Mayfield, the quarterback, got hurt. So all you need
to know even if you don't know much about football
and you just want to be able to have a
regular conversation. New Orleans is New Orleans. They're bad. Everyone
know they're gonna be bad. They are bad. They're on
their second quarter they benched their starting quarterback, they're on
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their second quarterback. The Atlanta Falcons, they're now on their
second quarterback. And the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, if Baker Mayfield
can't play, they'll be on their second quarterback. Meanwhile, the
guy that's built like a twelve year old kid, he's
still healthy. Bryce young, and the Panthers are winning, and
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we'll see what happens tonight. I don't know if they're
gonna win tonight, don't know if they can. I gotta
be honce with you. Can they Yes, they absolutely can,
because San Francisco is not a giant beater. They're not
like this great, great, great team. Yes, and they will
be playing against Christian McCaffrey tonight. They're old the old
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guy here, so we'll see. But the fact that the
Panthers have a chance to be in first place, I
don't even know what to say about that. But it's
it's amazing. I mean it truly is amazing, and we'll
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see tonight. I mean, I hope they they don't. They
generally don't play well on the road, and yet somehow
they still have three road wins this year. Now, I
will say last week there were obviously lights out, sitting
franchise records and passing and everything else, right, price shilling,
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lighting it up, telling you. So I'm anxious to see
what's gonna happen tonight. I'm gonna buy some chicken wings.
I used to be a tariokey guy. Now I go
hot wings almost all the time. Now I was never
never used to be a Buffalo sauce guy, but now
I like Buffalo sauce.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I don't know why. I don't know why, just have
always been that way. All right, So that'll be that
starts the game if you're interested. The game starts at
usually around eight twenty is usually I think the kickoff.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Eight twenty I think is the kickoff. Real quick, I
want to say this now. Next week Friday, that is
our annual handcocks bikes for kids, and that's when we
have It's gonna be from five to nine pm and
we're all gonna be there giving giving out or you know,
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broadcasting live encouraging you to come by saying hi to you.
If you bring buy a bike, a new bike for
a kid, or if you bring by twenty bikes for
a kid, you don't even have to get out of
your car your truck. We will do all the unloading
for you. A couple of years ago it was brutal cold,
like stupid cold, and last year it was chilly. I
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mean it was cold, but not like oh my god,
oh my god, frostbite. I brought Maggie last year, so
and a lot of you guys got to meet Maggie
for the first time, brought her to a few of
these things. So but obviously you know that won't be
taking place this year, but again five to nine pm
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next Friday, the Hancock Bike for Kids and we'll all
be there. And we also want to give a special
thanks to Watson Insurance for making their Belmont office available
as a bike drop off location as well, so you
can do that there and that's three to zero two
East Catava Street in Belmont, or you just go to
Watson Insurance dot com. But it's in the Watson Insurance
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in Belmont and all by bikes donated at once an
insurance will be transported to WBT courtesy of Garage Door Doctor.
It's the thirty second annual WBT Hancock Bikes for Kids
Benentine benefiting Kids First of the Carolinas, presented by Garage
Door Doctor again next week Friday, five to nine pm.
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And all you got to do is visit WBT dot
com for all the details. It's a good event. And
I will tell you here's what always happens in the
year's past. It won't this year for obvious reasons. In
years past, it was always this way. Where's Maggie, Where's Maggie,
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Where's Boomer? That's all they cared about. Boomer and Maggie.
That's all they cared about. They wanted to meet Boomer,
and they wanted to beat Maggie the Golden Retriever, the
most famous dog in North Carolina. That's uh, that's what
County Commissioner Pat Coltham called her. The most famous dog
in North Carolina. And she probably was. To be honest
(33:25):
with you, more people knew about Mags, you know, the
Charlotte area, Twitter, Facebook, whatever. But yeah, so when you
pull up with your bikes and you ask where Boomer is,
don't worry you will be one of a thousand people
that ask where Boomer is? Hey, where's Boomer? Oh he's
(33:47):
right over there, right there, Hey, Boomer, you got the
eighty seventh car that wants to say hi to you?
Like Boomer knows it. Boomer knows, Bember knows he's the man.
He acts like he doesn't know he's the man, but
he knows he's the man. Like he's got like he's
got that awe shucks, golly gee what what? People want
to see me, but we're shut You know, everyone wants
(34:09):
to see you, but don't even start that. Oh man,
I all these all these great people want to meet me,
but we're shut up. Just you know this, Boomer, you
know you're the main attraction. No matter where we go,
You're always the main attraction. Just stop, just stop. We
do that Facebook Live show. Everyone wants to ask a
(34:31):
question about Boomer. He's not even on the Facebook Live show.
People want to ask a question about it. All right,
I do not have a show tomorrow night, but I
will be here Wednesday night, so I look forward to
seeing you.
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Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.