December 10, 2025 • 27 mins
Tune in here to this Wednesday edition of Breaking With Brett Jensen!
Breaking Brett Jensen opens the show by discussing what he calls a “major issue” surrounding the officials Charlotte residents elect to local office. Jensen says, in his opinion, that several people elected to city government over the past two years had no business being in office. He adds that these issues have persisted among individuals serving on roles ranging from the school board to the City Council.
Later, Jensen highlights an internal email sent by Brent Cagle, the interim head of the Charlotte Area Transit System. The email was intended to brief the Charlotte City Council on security aboard the CATS light rail. According to a report referencing the email, Cagle told city leaders that security teams do not ride every train for the full duration of their shifts. He also noted that a dedicated transit police force is expected to launch once CATS transitions to an independent authority.
The email also references a $3.4 million advertising campaign aimed at encouraging Charlotte residents to ride the light rail. In describing the campaign, Cagle says marketing and communications efforts continue to play a “vital” role in supporting CATS and the customers it serves. He also mentions security concerns related to Friday night’s stabbing incident, noting that no security personnel were on board at the time.
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
I Oh, let's go, oh, let's go, oh, let's go oh,
let's go just.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WBT Brett Jenson
here with you on this Wednesday night edition of Breaking
with Brett Jensen, as we go up until seven o'clock tonight,
seven oh four five, seven eleven ten.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
That is a telephone number, and that.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Is also the WBT text lign driven of course by
Liberty Buick GMC. And we've got a lot to get into.
You know, I told you last night that at some point,
it just gets to the point where I get sick
and tired of banging my head against the wall. No
matter how many reports I do, no matter what I expose,
no matter what news stories I break, it just doesn't
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seem to matter. The voters don't seem to care. Because
that's what when I say we are becoming more like Baltimore,
New Orleans, Memphis, Saint Louis, Detroit every single day. The
reason I say that is yes, as crime going up, Yeah,
of course it is. I mean, look at Uptown. I
mean the fact that they grab fourteen guns over the weekend.
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Are you serious right now? Just an Uptown? But I
mean that says it all right there, But also equally
as important are the people that the residents here are
electing into office. That is a major major issue. There
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were people that had absolutely no business being elected two
years ago and this year in local offices, no business.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
But guess what they were elected.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Charlotte literally just elected a socialist two years ago. Charlotte
literally elected a felon. Oh and by the way, that
felon has now been charged with more felonies and her
two daughters, Isaac, where are you, Tyrwanna Brown? But these
are the people that keep getting elected the school board,
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which we're going to get into quite extensively later on.
The people that were being backed by the confidante of
the superintendent, so the superintendent can get whatever she wants,
whatever she wants, and guess what, it literally just happened
in the first school board meeting, just happened. How about
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a raise twenty two thousand dollars year raise going through
twenty twenty nine, twenty twenty nine. Oh, we're going to
get into that later on, don't worry. And then you
look at the city council, just disaster after disaster after disaster,
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and the people that are wanting to run for mayor
in two years are all? They not all, but the
majority of them only care about one thing. Now, what's
best for the city. That's not it what's best for
the minority population. And unfortunately, what is best sometimes for
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the city is not always best for the minority population.
And what is best for the minority population is not
always best for the city. A lot of them are activists.
You don't think jd Arius is an activist? I'm sorry,
have you read his resume? He was an illegal alien.
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Who do you think he's going to side with border
patrol or the illegal immigrants like the guy that was
just arrested for stabbing someone a week ago?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Who do you think he's siding with?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
He was upset, that is, some border patrol came and
started arresting people. Where all of them criminals or had
all of them committed crimes once they got to America?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
No, but yes, they.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Were here illegally, so therefore it makes them technically a criminal. Nonetheless,
but I mean committing crimes while in America. No, not
all of them, but a good portion of them. So
now we get the genius of the city council and
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the city council as we talked about extensively last night,
three point four million dollars to an advertising firm to
pee on your leg, but to tell you that it's
actually raining instead.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Hey, lightrail is safe.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Well, when we come back, and an internal email with
some questions that were finally answered was given to the
City Council and the mayor, and we're going to discuss
that particular email from the Head of Cats when we
come back, because due to the freight of them of
Information Act, you request it, they have to give it
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to you. Anything to the mayor, anything, anything. If Lonnie
sends the mayor an email, guess what, if it's sent
to the mayor's account, city account.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I get to read it whenever I want.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Any public email, any email to the public account, to
the city account, to the I get. If Lottie sends
the mayor a text message to her city paid for
a phone, I can read every single text message if
I want, because the taxpayers are paying for that. And
so due to that, we now have the internal email
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that the Head of Cats sent to the City Council
and the Mayor about a lot of these issues concerning
what transpired last Friday, as well as the three point
four million dollars in advertising being spent to a company
in Texas to.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Tell you that the light rails.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Hey, all good, heir nothing to see here, ladies and gentlemen.
So we'll discuss that when we come back. And the
new rays given to this new superintendent shockingly on the
first meeting. Shockingly, who didn't see that one coming when
they everyone tried to get all the people that would
vote for her or give her exactly what she.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Wants when she wants.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Okay, and that's guess what city, Charlotte, that's who you
voted for, and the county Mechawork, that's who you voted for.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Nothing will change, It will only get worse in this county.
As we go.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Forward, Welcome back to Breaking my friend Jensen on this
(07:18):
Wednesday night again, as we go up until seven o'clock
and well, the last segment of the show, we're going
to get into some other things that about the station
and stuff like that. But what we're doing now is
talking about what transpired today. An email, right Brent Cagele,
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and he is the head, the interim head of the
Metropolitan Transit Commission. Okay, they sent an email to Mayor
vy Lyles.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And the city Council, and I'm just.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Going to read this to you, and I would give
you know credit, but no one gave me credit from
this particular place last week when I broke the story
on the payout, the secret payout to the new police
chief's husband. So why would I give credit? Right, Brett
be the bigger man. I'll just say reports. I'll just
say reports, local reports, and it was well done reporting.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
But you know, I'll just say reports.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
On the Blue Line security and I'm just going to
read this report verbatim, this particular report, just going I mean,
I'm just gonna read it. Keigo told leaders what he
has previously shared, that security teams do not ride on
every train throughout each shift. He says that staffing stationary
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personnel on every Blue Line train across all shifts, seven
days a week would require an additional ten thousand hours
per week, extra two hundred and fifty daily officers. He says,
as CATZ transitions to an independent authority, the one that
is meeting on December eighteenth, and the head of that
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is David Longo, who's been in or one of the
heads has been in the studio with me for an
hour and I think he's going to be with me
on the first day after that. So I think that Monday,
December twenty second, I yes, I will be here and
I will have a show.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
That Monday, December twenty second.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
I think David Longo will be in studio with me,
or at the very least be doing an interview with me. Okay,
by the way, he's the interim of CATS, I said
the Metropolitan Transit Commission. He's the interim of CATS. And
I don't know why I said that, but nonetheless.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
But he said that.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
As that the CATS transitions to an independent authority, a
major part of that will be a strategy that will
have a dedicated transit police force. I know that's what
they want. I know the MP they truly want an
independent police force.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Don't forget. CMS has its own independent police force.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
They work with CMPD on things, and you know they
have some authority, but not a lot of authority. But yes,
they do have they do have their own independent police force.
So CATS would have its or MPTA would have its
own independent police force. On the three point four million
dollar marketing contract. In the email, Kegel says that Katz
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has had a contract with Saturday brand creative since twenty
twenty and that.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It recently came to an end. The contract was supposed.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
To be voted on to be renewed on November twenty fourth,
but it was deferred the marketing. He also said that
the marketing and communications have played and continue to play
a vital role in supporting Cats and the customers they serve.
From educating writers on how to navigate the report or
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gate the system and pay fares to guiding them on
how to report safety and security concerns, these services are
essential to ensuring safe, informed and accessible transit experience. Okay,
let me ask you a question. This I can tell
you this email is going to take full of the
next segment, because next segment is when he starts getting
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into the stabbing that took place on Friday.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I want to know how many of you have ever
gone in the last six months to the Cat's website
if there's a security or safety concern. I think we
all learned it when.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
We were three years old.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Nine one one? Right, do I need to go to
a website? Or do I need to have an advertising
agency tell me hey when their crime happens, because there
will be a crime on the light rail because we're
not apting all of them with security officers. So when
a pervert comes up or someone tries to stab you
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again on the light rail, here's what you should do
for security reasons. Yeah, okay, I think we understand what
to do with security reasons. And the only other reason
that I could ever think of to go to a
cat's website is the timetable when do the trains arrive?
If you're one of those people that ride the buses,
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what are the bus schedules? What are the train schedules?
That's that's the only reason I could ever think of
to go to a cat's website. And even then, you
just show up and usually you'll see, oh, cats will
be showing up whenever, like you when you buy your ticket,
like you should be good. But if you want to
look at time schedule, there you go. Other than that,
I don't know what intricate role this app. I don't
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even know if I've ever seen a commercial about cats.
Like seriously, I moved back to Charlotte in two thousand.
I've been back here sixteen years. I don't know if
I've ever seen a commercial or heard a commercial about CATS.
I honestly don't know what they're spending this marketing on.
Where do we see the marketing?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Okay, So now when we come back, we're going to
get into, according to the head, the interim head of CATS,
Brent Cagle, what transpired and.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Answers to all your questions.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Maybe welcome back to eleven ten am for one more time,
one more day.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
This is the last day, eleven ten am.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
We'll get into that in a little bit, okay, but
more important stuff, or at least that impacts every single citizen.
Reading the internal email that was sent by the interim
head of CATS to the Charlotte City Council and the mayor,
and we went over some things about the three point
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four million dollars and advertising and all that stuff, right,
and how much money would cost if they actually tried
to staff every single platform there's twenty six and staff
every single train.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
There's only twenty So what would you know all that be? Right?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
So security last Friday when the stabbing happened, this is
what he had to say.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Cagel said that.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
The security personnel were not on board at the time
of the stabbing. He says there were no calls for
service to cats or CMPTY about a disturbance or suspicious
activity leading up to the incident. Now, when the incident happened, yes,
sempity and then were called all right, So again there
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was no security on the light rail. Shocker.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Why was he banned? Why had he been banned? Sozano?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Well, according to the email, Solezano had received a one
year exclusion on October eighth earlier this year for a
weapon violation on city property, and that also followed a
six month exclusion on October ninth for public intoxication. Apparently
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there was a quote data entry error on October ninth,
and Solazano should have instead received an indefinite ban. Okay,
but here's the thing. What have I told you the
last two days. I don't care if you banned me
for life. Gus, who's in the riding the light rail?
This guy ban me tonight? I will be on the
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light rail tonight, taking photos and doing live streams to
prove it. You cannot prevent banned individuals from getting on.
You think they're going to be like and go buy
the honor code. They're already not buying tickets. Remember the
tickets are all honor code. We trust that you will
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buy a ticket to get on the light rail.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Now you know why.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, Pineville, Matthews, and Minhill all voted against
the one sent sales tax, all of them because they're like,
we don't want those heathens in our town. The riding
the rails for free like hobos, you know, with the
little stick with the.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Bandana tied to the back.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
A hobo riding the rails like in the Great Depression
in the nineteen thirties. So these people are doing writing
it for free, getting from one end to Charlotte to
the other. Well, guess what now, in whatever these things
get up to date, in five years, ten years, whenever
it is now, you'll be able to ride for free
from Charlotte to Huntersville Cornelius and cause havoc there.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
So, how did seller Zono actually get on the train
if he was banned? He addresses this.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Kegel said that uh transit exclusion is a legal restriction,
not a physical barrier. It gives cats the authority to
remove or cite someone, but it doesn't by itself prevent
people from boarding. No kidding, Lena, who's been saying that
since Monday. Who's been saying that since Monday?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
I Whether you're banned at Bank of America Stadium, you're
getting in or you're banned from the CAT system all
day every day, ban me and I will be doing
videos live streaming tonight on the light rail. Gig also
said that there is no practical way to ident a
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a banned individual when they bored. That's literally what I've
been saying since Monday. These people don't know who've been banned.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
He says.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
CATS is exploring the quote the implementation of technology with
facial recognition capabilities to identify banned individuals. I got a
baseball hat on and I'm wearing a mask. Guess what
you need to outlaw masks? They actually used to be
outlawed before the pandemic. You couldn't walk into a bank
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with a mask on right for fear that you might
be rubbing the bank.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
You need to outlaw outlaw masks on the CAT system.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Dead sellars, I don't have a ticket. Cats believes not
and just assumes not.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Duh.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
When will the Cat's video be released of him stabbing
and stabbing someone and causing altercations and harassing people.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
When will that happen?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Kat says that quote at this at this video cannot
be released due to the ongoing investigation period.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
End quote.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Again, the video will eventually be released because they eventually
have to release the video.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I mean that you have to and it will.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Be so a lot of these things that we've been
saying Monday, and I say when I say, well, I
say me came to fruition. It came to be true.
There's no way he had a ticket. I'd been I'd
heard that over the weekend. He had a previous record.
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All that came out finally is extensive record from New
Jersey and that there's no way to prevent someone who
is banned from getting on the light rail.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I understand.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Diplige was like, well, if he was bad, how was
he on? Come on, It's called common sense. You literally
don't have security on every train and on every platform.
So that's step one right there, So anyone could walk
in there. Charles Manson could get on the light rail.
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I mean, I know he's dead, but in theory, anyone
can get on, whether or without a ticket, band or
not banned. And then it just takes a little common
sense to know. Oh well, if they don't have officers
on every single platform and every single train, well then
how are they checking every single person that gets on there.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
They're not.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
And they're not going to. And so until you do that,
as I said last night, the new model should be
ride the light rails. Take a stab at it, or
take a stab at riding the light rail.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
That's better. Take a stab.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Oh and then someone sent me the text today the
mean that's going around today the new PR mascot Stabby mcstaberson.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I'm not even joking.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
It's a it's a bee, you know, because the hornets,
or it's a bee wearing a crown.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Like you know, the Queen City. Not even joking, I'm
not even joking.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Stabby mcstaberson was the thing that I heard today with
the cartoon drawing of a bee wearing a crown, a
queen bee wearing a crown.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yep, got that one. Got that one said to me today.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
So that tells you in and of itself what people think.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna just go to real quick
before we get to pay him, Lonnie Travers.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Just take a look at this. Does this look like
the new mascot that.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
You what do you think about this new mascot three
point four million dollars. Now, obviously that's not what they're saying,
but this maybe should be. Oh man, wow, it looks
like something off a light rock in Winkle.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
That's literally what it looks like. Somebody elf a Rocky
and Bullwinkle, a queen Bee straight out in the fifties sixties. Yeap,
queen Bee.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Stabby mcstabberson holding a knife.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Come ride the light rails.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
And I'm not trying to make light of the situation
with the arenas of risk of situation and the person
that was trying to defend everyone Friday night. But if
you can't protect the light rail, this is what you're
gonna get these memes all over the place, right We're
not I'm not making fun of and these people aren't
making fun of the people that were injured. They're making
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fun of the system. That's what they're making fun of.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen one last time
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I'm kidding, TJ. Don't come after me with the knives.
I'm kidding. I'm kidding, But I will be here tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Everyone. My name is Fred Jensen.
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Oh I'm gonna pay I know, I know. He's gonna
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I Oh, let's go, oh, let's go, oh, let's go oh,
let's go just.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WBT Brett Jenson
here with you on this Wednesday night edition of Breaking
with Brett Jensen, as we go up until seven o'clock tonight,
seven oh four five, seven eleven ten.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
That is a telephone number, and that.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Is also the WBT text lign driven of course by
Liberty Buick GMC. And we've got a lot to get into.
You know, I told you last night that at some point,
it just gets to the point where I get sick
and tired of banging my head against the wall. No
matter how many reports I do, no matter what I expose,
no matter what news stories I break, it just doesn't
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seem to matter. The voters don't seem to care. Because
that's what when I say we are becoming more like Baltimore,
New Orleans, Memphis, Saint Louis, Detroit every single day. The
reason I say that is yes, as crime going up, Yeah,
of course it is. I mean, look at Uptown. I
mean the fact that they grab fourteen guns over the weekend.
(01:30):
Are you serious right now? Just an Uptown? But I
mean that says it all right there, But also equally
as important are the people that the residents here are
electing into office. That is a major major issue. There
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were people that had absolutely no business being elected two
years ago and this year in local offices, no business.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
But guess what they were elected.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Charlotte literally just elected a socialist two years ago. Charlotte
literally elected a felon. Oh and by the way, that
felon has now been charged with more felonies and her
two daughters, Isaac, where are you, Tyrwanna Brown? But these
are the people that keep getting elected the school board,
(02:31):
which we're going to get into quite extensively later on.
The people that were being backed by the confidante of
the superintendent, so the superintendent can get whatever she wants,
whatever she wants, and guess what, it literally just happened
in the first school board meeting, just happened. How about
(02:52):
a raise twenty two thousand dollars year raise going through
twenty twenty nine, twenty twenty nine. Oh, we're going to
get into that later on, don't worry. And then you
look at the city council, just disaster after disaster after disaster,
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and the people that are wanting to run for mayor
in two years are all? They not all, but the
majority of them only care about one thing. Now, what's
best for the city. That's not it what's best for
the minority population. And unfortunately, what is best sometimes for
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the city is not always best for the minority population.
And what is best for the minority population is not
always best for the city. A lot of them are activists.
You don't think jd Arius is an activist? I'm sorry,
have you read his resume? He was an illegal alien.
(04:03):
Who do you think he's going to side with border
patrol or the illegal immigrants like the guy that was
just arrested for stabbing someone a week ago?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Who do you think he's siding with?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
He was upset, that is, some border patrol came and
started arresting people. Where all of them criminals or had
all of them committed crimes once they got to America?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
No, but yes, they.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Were here illegally, so therefore it makes them technically a criminal. Nonetheless,
but I mean committing crimes while in America. No, not
all of them, but a good portion of them. So
now we get the genius of the city council and
(04:51):
the city council as we talked about extensively last night,
three point four million dollars to an advertising firm to
pee on your leg, but to tell you that it's
actually raining instead.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Hey, lightrail is safe.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Well, when we come back, and an internal email with
some questions that were finally answered was given to the
City Council and the mayor, and we're going to discuss
that particular email from the Head of Cats when we
come back, because due to the freight of them of
Information Act, you request it, they have to give it
(05:30):
to you. Anything to the mayor, anything, anything. If Lonnie
sends the mayor an email, guess what, if it's sent
to the mayor's account, city account.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I get to read it whenever I want.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Any public email, any email to the public account, to
the city account, to the I get. If Lottie sends
the mayor a text message to her city paid for
a phone, I can read every single text message if
I want, because the taxpayers are paying for that. And
so due to that, we now have the internal email
(06:07):
that the Head of Cats sent to the City Council
and the Mayor about a lot of these issues concerning
what transpired last Friday, as well as the three point
four million dollars in advertising being spent to a company
in Texas to.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Tell you that the light rails.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Hey, all good, heir nothing to see here, ladies and gentlemen.
So we'll discuss that when we come back. And the
new rays given to this new superintendent shockingly on the
first meeting. Shockingly, who didn't see that one coming when
they everyone tried to get all the people that would
vote for her or give her exactly what she.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Wants when she wants.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Okay, and that's guess what city, Charlotte, that's who you
voted for, and the county Mechawork, that's who you voted for.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Nothing will change, It will only get worse in this county.
As we go.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Forward, Welcome back to Breaking my friend Jensen on this
(07:18):
Wednesday night again, as we go up until seven o'clock
and well, the last segment of the show, we're going
to get into some other things that about the station
and stuff like that. But what we're doing now is
talking about what transpired today. An email, right Brent Cagele,
(07:43):
and he is the head, the interim head of the
Metropolitan Transit Commission. Okay, they sent an email to Mayor
vy Lyles.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And the city Council, and I'm just.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Going to read this to you, and I would give
you know credit, but no one gave me credit from
this particular place last week when I broke the story
on the payout, the secret payout to the new police
chief's husband. So why would I give credit? Right, Brett
be the bigger man. I'll just say reports. I'll just
say reports, local reports, and it was well done reporting.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
But you know, I'll just say reports.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
On the Blue Line security and I'm just going to
read this report verbatim, this particular report, just going I mean,
I'm just gonna read it. Keigo told leaders what he
has previously shared, that security teams do not ride on
every train throughout each shift. He says that staffing stationary
(08:50):
personnel on every Blue Line train across all shifts, seven
days a week would require an additional ten thousand hours
per week, extra two hundred and fifty daily officers. He says,
as CATZ transitions to an independent authority, the one that
is meeting on December eighteenth, and the head of that
(09:10):
is David Longo, who's been in or one of the
heads has been in the studio with me for an
hour and I think he's going to be with me
on the first day after that. So I think that Monday,
December twenty second, I yes, I will be here and
I will have a show.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
That Monday, December twenty second.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
I think David Longo will be in studio with me,
or at the very least be doing an interview with me. Okay,
by the way, he's the interim of CATS, I said
the Metropolitan Transit Commission. He's the interim of CATS. And
I don't know why I said that, but nonetheless.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
But he said that.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
As that the CATS transitions to an independent authority, a
major part of that will be a strategy that will
have a dedicated transit police force. I know that's what
they want. I know the MP they truly want an
independent police force.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Don't forget. CMS has its own independent police force.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
They work with CMPD on things, and you know they
have some authority, but not a lot of authority. But yes,
they do have they do have their own independent police force.
So CATS would have its or MPTA would have its
own independent police force. On the three point four million
dollar marketing contract. In the email, Kegel says that Katz
(10:30):
has had a contract with Saturday brand creative since twenty
twenty and that.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It recently came to an end. The contract was supposed.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
To be voted on to be renewed on November twenty fourth,
but it was deferred the marketing. He also said that
the marketing and communications have played and continue to play
a vital role in supporting Cats and the customers they serve.
From educating writers on how to navigate the report or
(11:00):
gate the system and pay fares to guiding them on
how to report safety and security concerns, these services are
essential to ensuring safe, informed and accessible transit experience. Okay,
let me ask you a question. This I can tell
you this email is going to take full of the
next segment, because next segment is when he starts getting
(11:20):
into the stabbing that took place on Friday.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I want to know how many of you have ever
gone in the last six months to the Cat's website
if there's a security or safety concern. I think we
all learned it when.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
We were three years old.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Nine one one? Right, do I need to go to
a website? Or do I need to have an advertising
agency tell me hey when their crime happens, because there
will be a crime on the light rail because we're
not apting all of them with security officers. So when
a pervert comes up or someone tries to stab you
(12:06):
again on the light rail, here's what you should do
for security reasons. Yeah, okay, I think we understand what
to do with security reasons. And the only other reason
that I could ever think of to go to a
cat's website is the timetable when do the trains arrive?
If you're one of those people that ride the buses,
(12:28):
what are the bus schedules? What are the train schedules?
That's that's the only reason I could ever think of
to go to a cat's website. And even then, you
just show up and usually you'll see, oh, cats will
be showing up whenever, like you when you buy your ticket,
like you should be good. But if you want to
look at time schedule, there you go. Other than that,
I don't know what intricate role this app. I don't
(12:52):
even know if I've ever seen a commercial about cats.
Like seriously, I moved back to Charlotte in two thousand.
I've been back here sixteen years. I don't know if
I've ever seen a commercial or heard a commercial about CATS.
I honestly don't know what they're spending this marketing on.
Where do we see the marketing?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Okay, So now when we come back, we're going to
get into, according to the head, the interim head of CATS,
Brent Cagle, what transpired and.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Answers to all your questions.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Maybe welcome back to eleven ten am for one more time,
one more day.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
This is the last day, eleven ten am.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
We'll get into that in a little bit, okay, but
more important stuff, or at least that impacts every single citizen.
Reading the internal email that was sent by the interim
head of CATS to the Charlotte City Council and the mayor,
and we went over some things about the three point
(14:09):
four million dollars and advertising and all that stuff, right,
and how much money would cost if they actually tried
to staff every single platform there's twenty six and staff
every single train.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
There's only twenty So what would you know all that be? Right?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
So security last Friday when the stabbing happened, this is
what he had to say.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Cagel said that.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
The security personnel were not on board at the time
of the stabbing. He says there were no calls for
service to cats or CMPTY about a disturbance or suspicious
activity leading up to the incident. Now, when the incident happened, yes,
sempity and then were called all right, So again there
(14:54):
was no security on the light rail. Shocker.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Why was he banned? Why had he been banned? Sozano?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Well, according to the email, Solezano had received a one
year exclusion on October eighth earlier this year for a
weapon violation on city property, and that also followed a
six month exclusion on October ninth for public intoxication. Apparently
(15:27):
there was a quote data entry error on October ninth,
and Solazano should have instead received an indefinite ban. Okay,
but here's the thing. What have I told you the
last two days. I don't care if you banned me
for life. Gus, who's in the riding the light rail?
This guy ban me tonight? I will be on the
(15:51):
light rail tonight, taking photos and doing live streams to
prove it. You cannot prevent banned individuals from getting on.
You think they're going to be like and go buy
the honor code. They're already not buying tickets. Remember the
tickets are all honor code. We trust that you will
(16:12):
buy a ticket to get on the light rail.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Now you know why.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, Pineville, Matthews, and Minhill all voted against
the one sent sales tax, all of them because they're like,
we don't want those heathens in our town. The riding
the rails for free like hobos, you know, with the
little stick with the.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Bandana tied to the back.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
A hobo riding the rails like in the Great Depression
in the nineteen thirties. So these people are doing writing
it for free, getting from one end to Charlotte to
the other. Well, guess what now, in whatever these things
get up to date, in five years, ten years, whenever
it is now, you'll be able to ride for free
from Charlotte to Huntersville Cornelius and cause havoc there.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
So, how did seller Zono actually get on the train
if he was banned? He addresses this.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Kegel said that uh transit exclusion is a legal restriction,
not a physical barrier. It gives cats the authority to
remove or cite someone, but it doesn't by itself prevent
people from boarding. No kidding, Lena, who's been saying that
since Monday. Who's been saying that since Monday?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
I Whether you're banned at Bank of America Stadium, you're
getting in or you're banned from the CAT system all
day every day, ban me and I will be doing
videos live streaming tonight on the light rail. Gig also
said that there is no practical way to ident a
(18:00):
a banned individual when they bored. That's literally what I've
been saying since Monday. These people don't know who've been banned.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
He says.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
CATS is exploring the quote the implementation of technology with
facial recognition capabilities to identify banned individuals. I got a
baseball hat on and I'm wearing a mask. Guess what
you need to outlaw masks? They actually used to be
outlawed before the pandemic. You couldn't walk into a bank
(18:31):
with a mask on right for fear that you might
be rubbing the bank.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
You need to outlaw outlaw masks on the CAT system.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Dead sellars, I don't have a ticket. Cats believes not
and just assumes not.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Duh.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
When will the Cat's video be released of him stabbing
and stabbing someone and causing altercations and harassing people.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
When will that happen?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Kat says that quote at this at this video cannot
be released due to the ongoing investigation period.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
End quote.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Again, the video will eventually be released because they eventually
have to release the video.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I mean that you have to and it will.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Be so a lot of these things that we've been
saying Monday, and I say when I say, well, I
say me came to fruition. It came to be true.
There's no way he had a ticket. I'd been I'd
heard that over the weekend. He had a previous record.
(19:47):
All that came out finally is extensive record from New
Jersey and that there's no way to prevent someone who
is banned from getting on the light rail.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I understand.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Diplige was like, well, if he was bad, how was
he on? Come on, It's called common sense. You literally
don't have security on every train and on every platform.
So that's step one right there, So anyone could walk
in there. Charles Manson could get on the light rail.
(20:20):
I mean, I know he's dead, but in theory, anyone
can get on, whether or without a ticket, band or
not banned. And then it just takes a little common
sense to know. Oh well, if they don't have officers
on every single platform and every single train, well then
how are they checking every single person that gets on there.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
They're not.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
And they're not going to. And so until you do that,
as I said last night, the new model should be
ride the light rails. Take a stab at it, or
take a stab at riding the light rail.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
That's better. Take a stab.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Oh and then someone sent me the text today the
mean that's going around today the new PR mascot Stabby mcstaberson.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I'm not even joking.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
It's a it's a bee, you know, because the hornets,
or it's a bee wearing a crown.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Like you know, the Queen City. Not even joking, I'm
not even joking.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Stabby mcstaberson was the thing that I heard today with
the cartoon drawing of a bee wearing a crown, a
queen bee wearing a crown.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yep, got that one. Got that one said to me today.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
So that tells you in and of itself what people think.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna just go to real quick
before we get to pay him, Lonnie Travers.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Just take a look at this. Does this look like
the new mascot that.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
You what do you think about this new mascot three
point four million dollars. Now, obviously that's not what they're saying,
but this maybe should be. Oh man, wow, it looks
like something off a light rock in Winkle.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
That's literally what it looks like. Somebody elf a Rocky
and Bullwinkle, a queen Bee straight out in the fifties sixties. Yeap,
queen Bee.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Stabby mcstabberson holding a knife.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Come ride the light rails.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
And I'm not trying to make light of the situation
with the arenas of risk of situation and the person
that was trying to defend everyone Friday night. But if
you can't protect the light rail, this is what you're
gonna get these memes all over the place, right We're
not I'm not making fun of and these people aren't
making fun of the people that were injured. They're making
(22:38):
fun of the system. That's what they're making fun of.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen one last time
on News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine to three
FM WBT.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
One last time.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
No, I'm not leaving, No, no, I know you guys
were maybe hoping that I was leaving, but no at
midnight tonight, give or take, we switch on over to
one oh seven point nine on the FM dial. One
oh seven point nine. It's the very very far right
(23:28):
of your dial. You can't go any further one a
seven night.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Just take it.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
And if you got an old school radio, just go
to the very far right. And if you've got a
digital radio, go all the way to the very top
where you're pressing the buttons.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
One O seven point nine.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Okay, FM, we are going to be crystal clear twenty
four hours a day. You're not going to have issues
at night. You're not going to have static interference. And
more importantly, you're gonna get to be like Lonnie and
(24:05):
Travers here with me. You're gonna get to hear me
in stereo. You can hear me now in surround sound.
I know that's maybe your worst nightmare, but you now
get to hear me in stereo, in surround sound.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Not the crackling AM station. It doesn't always crackle, not often,
but at night it does. And my show's at night.
So starting tomorrow you will be able to listen to
us live in and living color on one of seven
(24:45):
point nine on your f M dial. Nothing is changing,
Nothing is changing. I will still be here from six
to seven Warnaboul will still be here. Nothing is changing
except for one major thing, at least early on, starting tomorrow.
(25:10):
You know how, our telephone numbers are seven oh four, five,
seven oh eleven ten, seven oh four five seven oh
one oh seven nine, And they will be pounding that home.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Now.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I will tell you, just because not everyone listens to
the radio all day every day, and they pick it
up intermittently because maybe they are traveling out of town
for work or whatever. We will still be on eleven
ten AM for thirty days. We will be on both
stations one oh seven nine and eleven ten AM for
(25:49):
thirty days. And then about first week of January one
oh seven nine only one oh seven point nine.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I said, you get a thirty day grace period.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
So tomorrow, when you go away a minute, you're still
on eleven ten am. Yes, for thirty days or twenty
one days, something like that, three to four weeks. And
then guess what, it's only one of seven point nine
with one thousand watts smacking you in the face one
(26:24):
thousand watts. Our signal again will be much much clearer.
And much much bigger. So these are all good things,
all good things. Nothing's changing except the quality of my
voice in your ear, because now again you get me
(26:47):
in surround sound and in stereo. All right, everyone, So
again that starts at midnight. So tomorrow, do yourself a favorite.
Do yourself a favorite tomorrow. Even those of you that
are like trying to fight against it or upset about it,
go listen to one of seven point nine FM tomorrow
morning and just listen to the quality. And then and
(27:07):
then in the middle of the same segment, switch it
to AM and listen to the difference.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
You'll hear a big difference.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
And it'll be much more aesthetically pleasing to the ear.
All right, everyone that's gonna do something, that's gonna do
it for us tonight someone that's never been accused of
being asthetically pleasing. TJ Rich will be coming up next.
I'm kidding, TJ. Don't come after me with the knives.
I'm kidding. I'm kidding, But I will be here tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Everyone. My name is Fred Jensen.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Oh I'm gonna pay I know, I know. He's gonna
spend fifteen minutes just taking me down. My name is
bred Jensen, and you've been listening to Breaking with bred Jensen.
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