July 22, 2025 • 32 mins
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Breaking Brett Jensen kicks the show off by talking about the passing of rock legend Ozzy Osbourne and the upcoming mayoral races in Mecklenburg County. Brett reflects on Ozzy’s influence on his own life, sharing personal stories about how deeply the music impacted him.
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
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let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
The BOMs in say that no man. Welcome to another
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edition of Breaking with Brett Jensen on this Wednesday Night,
excuse me Tuesday Night seven oh four five, seven oh
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text the show. Isaac is looking at all the texts
in that of course as seven oh four five seven
eleven ten as well, and that is obviously driven by
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Liberty Buick GMC. So we're gonna get into later in
the show about Ozzy Osbourne. I would assume Winnable talked
about it, you know, because he's a big eighties hair
metal guy and uh but you know, and there were
some things, but Ozzie was my guy, Like Ozzy was
the one that I really got into, you know that
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in ac DC early on. And I've got a lot
of stories about that because I wound up happening to
go to therapy was a kid because of Ozzi Osborn.
So not even joking, not even joking, people thought I
was walking around with deviled horns, like little horns from
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the devil.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So anyway, we'll talk about that later on the show.
But he was one of my all time favorites.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And he died today, I believe, at the age of
seventy six and after a long battle with Parkinson's and
everything else. And Isaac, what Isaac said is one thousand
percent correct. He by far outlived his life expectancy from
everything that he was doing from the age age sixteen to.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Where we are.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
By far outlived his life expectancy considering all the things
that he did to his body.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So anyways, well we'll get into that later on.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And so again, just Ozzy Osbourn passing away today and
kind of hits home a little bit as you start
getting older and people start that you grew up idolizing
or watching as they start passing away, you're like like,
you know, I'm rounding second base and I'm heading towards third,
and you start getting a little like.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
So anyways, but I want to start off tonight, and
I've been teasing this for a while, and we're going
to get into some of the mayoral stuff in and
around Charlotte in Mecklenburg County, and later on in the show,
we'll have Congressman Tim Moore joining us to talk about
the Big Beautiful Bill and Tom tillis not running for reelection,
and a couple of other things that I want to
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talk to him about.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
But we're going to start off tonight with some of
the mayoral races.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And the reason that I want to do this is
because they're actually like very interesting, a lot of these
mayoral races outside of Charlotte, and we'll get into Charlotte
in a little bit, and I don't know if I'm
gonna be able to get into all the mayor ole
races tonight, and so we're gonna hold some of those
until tomorrow night. What we don't get to tonight, we
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will do dives into tomorrow night. Okay, And I want
to start off with Cornelius. Okay, So of Huntersville's purple
and Davidson is a deep, dark ocean blue, the depths
of blue like no other. Cornelius is red. Cornellus is
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a bright red, a bright cardinal red. And in Cornelius,
you've got a man who is absolutely beloved by the
majority of the community, the overwhelming majority of the community.
Wood He wash him junior ben mayor there for quite
a bit. People just think he's a super nice guy
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and that as Cornelius grows and just all that jacked
up exits that they got up there and exit exit
twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It is so jacked up the way they do these things.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
There's no one in Cornelius who can say, oh, yeah,
I really like the way that they've got people driving
down the wrong side of the roads and they cross
over like there's nobody who thinks that's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I've yet to meet him, but woo do you wash them?
Is the mayor up there? He's a Republican and.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Kenny Campbell filed to run against him. Now, I have
asked probably a few people about Kenny Campbell, said, what
can you tell me about Kenny Campbell? What can you
tell me about Kenny Campbell? I don't know, don't know
much about him, don't know much about him. Okay, Well,
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what are your thoughts on Woody Washam. He's awesome, we
love him. Everybody loves Woody. Okay, So I don't know
specifically what it is that Kenny doesn't like. And I know,
you know the last election you know Woody had a
little bit of a battle and everything else as well
to be re elected. But I'm not sure exactly why
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Kenny's running. I've, like I said, I've reached out to
people up there in North Meg. I've asked people with
the mech goop. I've asked people that are knee deep
in Republican politics, going what do you know about this guy?
And to a person, they're like, eh, not a lot,
if anything. So I don't know why Kenny is running
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for mayor unless he just wants to run for mayor,
just like on occasion, you'll have people run for mayor
or city council or county commission or school board or
whatever when they know they have truly zero point zero
percent chance of winning, like there is zero percent chance
of winning, but they still want to put their name
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on the ballot. And you know what, when they write
your obituary, they can say so and so ran for
mayor in twenty twenty five, so they can always have that,
so that will always be in your obituary.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
But what do you wash them?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Is the guy out there that people just truly like
And yeah, I mean not every politician does everything right
that you love like no matter what, Like even the
big time MAGA supporters sometimes scratch their heads with Donald Trump.
So I mean, there's not a single politician that's ever
been perfect, not one. And so that Garners like everything
they do, You're like, that's my boy, that's my woman.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Like nobody does that on every single decision.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
But what doy Washam is is he's well liked up there,
well liked up there, and there's no reason to believe
that he won't be re elected mayor in Cornelius.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Now what happens after that, we'll see. We'll see what
happens going forward.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But with all that being said, we're gonna get into
some of the other municipal races in Mecclmburg County tonight,
like I said, And what we don't get to tonight,
we'll get into tomorrow night, because there's a lot of
really interesting mayor oal races and so we're gonna start
looking at some of those when we return.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Ozzia Osborne dying today at the age of seventy six
and was a big, big, big fan, And I've got
some stories coming up to you coming up for you
in about thirty minutes from now. Congressman Tim Moore will
be joining us at.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
The bottom of the hour as well.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Okay, so I'm going to continue my look at some
of the mayoral races in and around or specifically Meckhumberg County.
Davidson nothing to see here, folks. Russy Knox native been
there for his entire life. You know, comes from a
family of mayors, whether it's Moorsville or Charlotte. Eddie Knox
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a longtime mayor, and people up there absolutely love him,
and he cares more about Davidson than anyone you'll ever
meet in Davidson had him on the show a few
weeks ago, so he's not even being challenged, not even
being challenged. Now, let's get to Matthews. Okay, Matthews is
very interesting, very very interesting. John Higden is the incumbent.
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There are a lot of people like Matthews is one
of those towns that's pretty much one hundred percent purple.
Like it's pretty much fifty to fifty. It might be
fifty one forty nine, fifty two, forty eight, but it's
pretty much fifty to fifty in terms of Republicans versus Democrats.
So John Higden is the incumbent. If you talk to
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a single Republican, any Republican in Matthews, talk to a
single Republican with any clout or power or elected office
from Matthews or mint Hill or Charlotte or anyone who
knows anything about Matthews and John Haigden, they will tell
you he is clearly one hundred percent a Republican, even
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though he had an R by his name. Now, I
will tell you that Matthews, the way they do things,
you you know, you just it's basically, you know, a
nonpartisan for the most part.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Like you run, and it's here's what you do. You run,
and that's it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Like everyone's on the board, everyone's on it together, and
everyone is like, okay, we're we're all running.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
On the same ballot at the exact same time. And
that's just the way it is. Right. Well, I will
tell you that.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You know, they're going, oh, he's clearly not a Republican
because he's voted to raise taxes multiple times and this
and that, and the Republicans on the board dislike him,
and he talking about John Higden, and then also you
know he always votes with the Democrats. Higden is the
tiebreaker a lot of times in Higdon has a very
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high tendency to But with the Democrats, this isn't saying that,
oh my gosh, why are you trash in Higgden? Not
trash in Higda'm just giving you facts. I'm just telling
you things that is like reality. When you talk to
Republican commissioners town commissioners and Matthews and other people in
the Republican Party, they're going, I don't even know why
John Higden has his name. I had people telling me
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that John Higden has been wanting to get rid of
the R next to his name for a while.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
He finally did. He's now listed as an unaffiliated.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
If I had to be honest with you, and I
always try to be honest with you, I always, always,
always try to tell you everything that I can tell
you. You know, there's this old saying that reporters only tell
you about sixty percent of what we know because the
other forty percent we just can't tell you because we've
either been sworn to secrecy, or it might out a
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source or whatever. But I will tell you that most
people believe that John Higden is honestly a Democrat, and
between somebody. I don't even know if somebody a I
will just say this. Someone from Matthews told me this.
Someone that I respect in Matthews told me this, and
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I haven't been able to verify it. I don't know
if it's true. I'm just telling you. Somebody said, well, Brett,
you know his wife is a Democrat. He tends to
always vote Democrat, and his campaign manager works almost exclusively
with Democrats.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
And I went, well, but that doesn't mean anything. I
mean that.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I mean one of the most famous couples in America
is James Carville, who's like a ridiculous Democrat like Looney
Tune Democrat TDS, and his wife is a big time Republican,
a famous Republican. So I mean that doesn't mean anything.
Like I don't care if his wife is a Republican
or his children are Democrats or what are libertarians communists? Like,
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I don't care. They're not the ones running for offices.
So to me, that is one hundred percent of ROW.
But I will tell you Leon three, he's running against
John Hagden Leon Threeit is a Republican and he's a
town commissioner and he gave up his spot as town
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commissioner to run against a mayor.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Now, think about it.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
In theory back in the day, you might think, oh,
this is Republican on republican crime, like in the school
board that happened in District one in District six. Oh no, No,
Hagden has now changed his name his affiliation to unaffiliated,
which I mean, honestly, he's John is probably more Democrat
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than he is unaffiliated. That would be That's my own
personal assessment. But Leon is a staunch Republican and he's
on the town council, and now he's running against Hagden,
who in theory was a Republican all those years but
clearly was not. And so you now have a Republican going,
We're not playing your games anymore because you're you're clearly
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not a Republican.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
You're more Democrat than anything. So we're going to run.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
So Leon three left the town council and Leon three
it is now running for mayor of Matthews, and that
race is going to be something to watch because you
have one elected official going against another elected official, and
Matthews seems to be maybe just slightly more Democrat than
it is Republican, maybe fifty three percent fifty two percent
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compared to forty seven forty eight. Maybe, but we'll see,
we'll see how that one goes. But that's a race
that you definitely need to keep an eye on, definitely,
because I can tell you a lot about things that
may or may not happen in twenty twenty six with
the state races. All Right, when we come back, we're
gonna hear from Congressman ten More. He's going to be
joining us. We haven't spoken to him.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
In a while.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Times have changed. There's talk eleven ten and ninety nine
three to WVCh Bret Jenson here with you again on
this Wednesday night edition of Breaking with bro Excuse me,
I did it against see Tuesday night edition I should
say of Breaking with Bretjenson. Okay, we haven't spoken to
him in a while, and we'd like to have congressional Tuesdays,
and so i've been you know, waiting. You know, he's
been on vacation in the July fourth in the summer,
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and we've been busy down here doing a lot of things.
So I want to go ahead and bring on Congressman
Tim Moore. First of all, Congressman, thank you for joining
me tonight. And second of all, it's been a while
since we spoke, you know, the holidays and July fourth.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
What have you been up to for the last three
or four weeks?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Oh? Wow, Well, we've not had much of a vacation
at all in Washington. In fact, it's been a very
very busy but productive schedule here it is. I'll tell you,
it's been unbelievable. The things that have been accomplished in
the last few weeks. The passage of what been called
the One Big Beautiful Bill, which is is going to
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do so much to lower taxes, to rein in wasteful spending, fraud,
and abuse of the system, to finally you take a
step toward doing something on the national debt, as the
first time in decades any Congress has done anything of
significance to deal with a national debt. We passed that
(16:25):
a couple of weeks ago. Uh. And then the last
week we passed the Precision Package to rain in a
lot of wasteful spending as well, about you know, right
at nine billion dollars, which again is a uh, which
again is in the in the big scheme of trillions
of dollars. Some would say minor, but it's the first
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and of many recision packages that will be going through
to really try to make sure that we're that we're
spending the taxpayer dollars as wise as we possibly can.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Speaking with Congressman two more so, you and I have
been talking about this big, beautiful bill and the Medicaid
and that you know what's going to be cut and
what's not going to be cut for a very long time,
and then Senates came in and started making changes and
amendments and everything else, and some people got upset, especially
Tom Tillis. So what did you think about the changes
that the Senate made to the budget and specifically Medicaid.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You know, I like our version better. I think our
version was was more simple, and there weren't you know there.
I think ultimately at the end of the day, with
some other language that was added in to protect rural
health care, it will all work out just as well.
But you know, the biggest thing that I wanted to
deal with with, you know, specifically as it relates to
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Medicaid was number one, make sure that you're actually taking
care of folks who really cannot take care of themselves folks.
Of course, you know, because a lot of people don't
understand the two things. There's Medicaid and there's Medicare. Medicare
is what covers folks sixty five and over. Okay, that's Medicare.
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Medicaids designed to take care of people who are disabled,
folks who cannot, who cannot take care of themselves, or
for example, if you're like a single parent and you
have minor children and you can't work to make sure
that you're taking care of them. As far as health
coverage on that, it was never intended to be something
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that folks who are you know, in their twenties or
thirties and are able body able to work to just
have free health care. It was never meant that way.
And that is and I'm not exaggerating this bread that
is the way. That's what Obama did with the expansion,
and that's what Democrats have wanted to do. They basically
want to try to use this as just universal health care,
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which means then the whole thing just is bloated an expense,
It becomes more inefficient, it becomes full of waste, fraud, abuse,
and at the end that they those who even get
the care don't get us good a care. I want
to see us for stortback to taking care of people
who genuinely need the help, you know, children, people who
are disabled, people who are caring for children, people who
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are truly unable to work and take care of themselves.
And then as a safety nepp and for those folks
who are able body, you know what, folks who can work,
ought to work, ought to have a job. And that
that's position that we took when it came to medicaid.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
So you talk about being busy a lot. You're very
familiar with the way things work in Raleid. They're actually
on a break right now. But how do things work
in DC? Do you get like a summer vacation? Do
you get a break? How does that work for you
guys up there in Congress sending the Senate?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Well, there's about a month usually every week every month,
there's about one week or about five days of that
month where we don't have to be in Washington, and
some members use that as time for official travel, which
I did. Of course, you're in one of my trips
to the border a couple of months ago, and you're
in a visit to South kore uh and so we
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have those periods. But more importantly, and more often you're
back home in your district where you could be there
for an entire week instead of just over a weekend.
And so that's what I tend to do during those
off weeks when they come up, I tend to be
back back home, you know, in the fourteenth district with
meetings and just working on things there at home.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
For the month of August that it's called the August recess,
it's not it's not like a recess I've ever seen before.
It's not a vacation. I'll say that there's a lot
of official travel during that time. I'll have some official travel,
but I'll also be spending most of that time back
home and we'll be around the district and meetings with
you know, folks in government, I mean with number of
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health care executives, meeting with a number of business owners
and manufacturers. I'll be business from folks at schools, et cetera.
I mean, you name it, any kind of meetings that
you can imagine possibly one would have. I'm going to
probably have those during those periods of time. And that's
very important to be home and be face to face
with with the folks that you represent. So I'll be
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spending a lot of that time in August doing that,
So that month of August is really meant for that.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I knew you went to Puerto Rico when we talked
about that, I had no idea you went to South Korea.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yeah, yeah, I did that. That was that's been a
couple of months ago. We posted some pictures on it
was a it was a it's again. It's it's not
a it's not a vacation. It's one meeting after another.
But it's an amazing opportunity to get a sense of
some of the issues from a global perspective, and you
really get an appreciation for how important the United States
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is on the world stage. And so we had meetings
with our military. Actually went to the to the DMZ,
not the one that's you know, like on TV that's
kind of commercialized, but the actual little DMZ where you're standing, uh,
you know, peractual where you actually walked partially into North Korea.
It's pretty amazing experience there with our military and seeing
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what our men and women and our enforces are dealing
with there.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
But you know there, the big thing there was getting
a sense of some of the geopolitical tensions in that
region and and everything always comes back to China. It
really does in terms of what China is doing, and uh,
there's so many things where we know they are, Uh
they really have become a threat to the United States
and it's unfortunate, but you know, we have to make
sure that we're strong and we're prepared, which is why,
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by the way, in the Big Beautiful Bill, we increased
military spending while we dealt with the budget, or dealt
with the debt, deal with so many things we did
in that and we increased spending in two areas, border
security and national defense. And when you go and you
see a lot of things firsthand, you realize why it's
so important.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
That we do that. Speaking with Congressman Tim Moore, who
represents parts of Meclburg County and Gas and all of
Gason County, Cleveland County, Rudvert County, Polk County, and other
counties as well. The last thing I want to ask
you about is Tom Tillis.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Hey, actually I believe lives in your district.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
You've known him for a very very very long time,
and he's obviously been in the news a lot lately,
and he's not running for reelection, so when I say
the name Tom tillis what comes to mind.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I'll tell you Tom is a friend and has been
a friend ever since we served together in the state legislature.
A lot of folks don't realize that he and I
served in the legislature for years, and then of course
he was elected as our as our Speaker of the
House and was a key part in really transforming North
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Carolina UH from from where we had been overttax, high unemployment,
reckless spending, waste, you name it, to where we're a
lean knee machine now one of the most competitive states
in the country. Of course, I was a what's called
the Rules committee chair when when Tom was the Speaker,
and then when he went to serve in the US Senate,
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that's when I became the Speaker of the House, and
then I served he was speaking for four years, speaker
for ten years. And I'll tell you that entire time
we've we've always been very close than we are today
and and and we we talk quite regularly, and we
have a very very good relationship. And you know, it's
like we we've often said, you know, there are times
that where our friendship can transcend. Times and we disagree
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on a matter of policy, and there there have been
not many, but a few times we've had some disagreements
and in different things, but we've always done so respectfully,
and we've always maintained that friendship and always will. But
I'll tell you he has been a key part of
getting North Carolina where it is today to his leadership
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a speaker, and any built on that as a member
of the Senate. And so I'm gonna I'm going to
miss him, you know, being here when he uh when
he when he leaves. But he's got another year and
a half and we're going to be working closely together
to pass policy and good deals that will benefit not
only North Carolina but the entire country.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Congressman Tim Moore, I really appreciate you joining us tonight,
and I look forward to speaking to you very soon
down the road.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Absolutely good to be with you.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
All right, look forward to speaking to the Congressman and
a couple of weeks down the road. All right, a
lot of interesting things there to say about Tom Tillis
and the budget and everything else.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
So that's why we like having the Congressman on. All right,
when we come.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Back, I'll talk to you about the Ozzy Osbourne situation.
In my personal situation concerning Ozzy Osbourne, You're actually probably
gonna laugh at this.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I I I.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Right here, But that's how it goes freebooting. Maybe it's
not today and forget ire and like something.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I'm going up.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
I'm not a crazy trad. I'm going up the friend,
not a crazy tres.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Ozzy Osbourne dying today, passing away today at the age
of seventy six, Parkinson's and some other things.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I mean, like Isaac.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Said earlier, he actually lived way longer than he was
supposed to because of everything that he had done to
himself internally with massive amounts of drugs and alcohol and
everything else. And biting the head off of bats literally happened.
Biting the head off a dove in a CBS executive's
office literally happened.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
There's actually like photos of all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
So, like, you know, but Ozzy Osbourne, that song crazy
Train came out in nineteen eighty on one of the
one of his best albums called The Blizzard of Oz.
Get It, Wizard of Oz, Blizzard of Oz, Get It.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Thanks, Isaac, Well, I know you're a little sleds oftimes.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
But.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So in the early eighties, and you guys.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Knew I know I grew up here, right, or most
of you know that I grew up here.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
And I remember it.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Was like god eighty three or so, he came to
concert here in Charlotte, and it was the lead story
on the six o'clock news when everyone watched the six
o'clock news, Like that's when everyone knew every single reporter,
every single anchor. They were extremely famous, and it was
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the lead story at the six o'clock news and then
the eleven o'clock news.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Every TV station had reporters.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Live because they all thought he was going to do
something crazy like bite the head off a bat again,
or there were all these rumors.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Oh us man.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
One time in concert he passed a bowl around and
asked everyone to spit in it, and then he would
drink the bowl. Like it was like that was like
a massive rumor not even joking, like that was a massive,
massive rummor literally never happened, but that was like the
big you know, you hear all these urban legends, right,
because we didn't have internet and cable was still in
its infancy, so you know, you just you it was
(28:56):
all word of mouth, word of mouth, and maybe like
magazines or something like that, So I want to go
see it. My mom was like, there was no way
in holy hell you're gonna go see Ozzy Osbourne and
you're like thirteen years old.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
The odds of that happening are zero point zero.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I was like, all right, so I buy a dual cassette.
It was basically his greatest hits from the time that
he was with Black Sabbath and then went solo and
Crazy Train and Over the Mountain and everything that we
were playing tonight, and I wanted to do I wanted
to do that right. I wanted to both The double
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album is a dual cassette and I just wore that
bad boy out And on the cover is the name
of the album was called Speak of the Devil, and
he's sitting there with like looking like the devil, with
looking like blood and guts is coming out of his mouth.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
It's clearly like Jello or whatever.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
But it's like, oh my god, month or two later,
yours truly is that gonna go to thing therapy thinking
that it might be double worshiper.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
They should have kept you in there longer.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
So Brett, what is it about Ozzy Osbourne and what
attracts you to this type of music? And the funny
thing is it was about two years ago. I met
my hairs Teeter in South Park and I'm going down
the aisle at like ten o'clock at night and all
of a sudden, crazy chain comes over the speakers and
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hairs Teeter and I immediately started texting my friends, going,
I went to therapy because of this, and now they're
playing it in hairs Teeter, they're playing this in Aris Teeter,
and I had to go to therapy. I told someone
that story today and they're like, you really need to
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tell that on air.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I was like, yeah, I'm not even joking. And there
may have been a couple other reasons. Well, they wanted
me to go to therapy.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
But but that was like a major topic of discussion
with the old therapist and Brett Jensen, a major topic
of discussion going, eh, so this uh, this Ozzy Osbourne guy,
you know he's he eats bats and stuff?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
You okay with that? I was like, well, dude, I
was like, I don't care. I like the music, Like
what do I like? I don't know what he does
at home? Go on, doc, you ever heard those guitars
all those come on, come on, come on, man, what
are you talking about? You know what it is?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
And then everyone headed Ozzy and I know TJ's waiting
for us, but everyone like.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
And then all of a sudden, what rehabilitated Ozzy Osbourne was.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
When he did reality show on MTV right, and that
got everyone going, oh my god, Ozzie's awesome. He's funny,
it's hysterical, and that that right there refurbished his reputation.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Where he was no longer the devil worshiper.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
All right, everyone, tomorrow night we're going to continue our
look at the mayor old races in and around Mecklenburg County.
So until then, my name is Brett Jensen, and you've
been listening to Breaking with Bright Jensen
I Oh, let's go. I oh, let's go. Oh, let's go. Oh,
let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
The BOMs in say that no man. Welcome to another
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edition of Breaking with Brett Jensen on this Wednesday Night,
excuse me Tuesday Night seven oh four five, seven oh
eleven ten, and guys make sure you follow me on exit.
Bret underscore Jensen for all the lettuce in Breaking News
in and around the shad area, and you can always
text the show. Isaac is looking at all the texts
in that of course as seven oh four five seven
eleven ten as well, and that is obviously driven by
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Liberty Buick GMC. So we're gonna get into later in
the show about Ozzy Osbourne. I would assume Winnable talked
about it, you know, because he's a big eighties hair
metal guy and uh but you know, and there were
some things, but Ozzie was my guy, Like Ozzy was
the one that I really got into, you know that
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in ac DC early on. And I've got a lot
of stories about that because I wound up happening to
go to therapy was a kid because of Ozzi Osborn.
So not even joking, not even joking, people thought I
was walking around with deviled horns, like little horns from
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the devil.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So anyway, we'll talk about that later on the show.
But he was one of my all time favorites.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And he died today, I believe, at the age of
seventy six and after a long battle with Parkinson's and
everything else. And Isaac, what Isaac said is one thousand
percent correct. He by far outlived his life expectancy from
everything that he was doing from the age age sixteen to.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Where we are.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
By far outlived his life expectancy considering all the things
that he did to his body.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So anyways, well we'll get into that later on.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And so again, just Ozzy Osbourn passing away today and
kind of hits home a little bit as you start
getting older and people start that you grew up idolizing
or watching as they start passing away, you're like like,
you know, I'm rounding second base and I'm heading towards third,
and you start getting a little like.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
So anyways, but I want to start off tonight, and
I've been teasing this for a while, and we're going
to get into some of the mayoral stuff in and
around Charlotte in Mecklenburg County, and later on in the show,
we'll have Congressman Tim Moore joining us to talk about
the Big Beautiful Bill and Tom tillis not running for reelection,
and a couple of other things that I want to
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talk to him about.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
But we're going to start off tonight with some of
the mayoral races.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And the reason that I want to do this is
because they're actually like very interesting, a lot of these
mayoral races outside of Charlotte, and we'll get into Charlotte
in a little bit, and I don't know if I'm
gonna be able to get into all the mayor ole
races tonight, and so we're gonna hold some of those
until tomorrow night. What we don't get to tonight, we
(03:52):
will do dives into tomorrow night. Okay, And I want
to start off with Cornelius. Okay, So of Huntersville's purple
and Davidson is a deep, dark ocean blue, the depths
of blue like no other. Cornelius is red. Cornellus is
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a bright red, a bright cardinal red. And in Cornelius,
you've got a man who is absolutely beloved by the
majority of the community, the overwhelming majority of the community.
Wood He wash him junior ben mayor there for quite
a bit. People just think he's a super nice guy
(04:38):
and that as Cornelius grows and just all that jacked
up exits that they got up there and exit exit
twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It is so jacked up the way they do these things.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
There's no one in Cornelius who can say, oh, yeah,
I really like the way that they've got people driving
down the wrong side of the roads and they cross
over like there's nobody who thinks that's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I've yet to meet him, but woo do you wash them?
Is the mayor up there? He's a Republican and.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Kenny Campbell filed to run against him. Now, I have
asked probably a few people about Kenny Campbell, said, what
can you tell me about Kenny Campbell? What can you
tell me about Kenny Campbell? I don't know, don't know
much about him, don't know much about him. Okay, Well,
(05:26):
what are your thoughts on Woody Washam. He's awesome, we
love him. Everybody loves Woody. Okay, So I don't know
specifically what it is that Kenny doesn't like. And I know,
you know the last election you know Woody had a
little bit of a battle and everything else as well
to be re elected. But I'm not sure exactly why
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Kenny's running. I've, like I said, I've reached out to
people up there in North Meg. I've asked people with
the mech goop. I've asked people that are knee deep
in Republican politics, going what do you know about this guy?
And to a person, they're like, eh, not a lot,
if anything. So I don't know why Kenny is running
(06:11):
for mayor unless he just wants to run for mayor,
just like on occasion, you'll have people run for mayor
or city council or county commission or school board or
whatever when they know they have truly zero point zero
percent chance of winning, like there is zero percent chance
of winning, but they still want to put their name
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on the ballot. And you know what, when they write
your obituary, they can say so and so ran for
mayor in twenty twenty five, so they can always have that,
so that will always be in your obituary.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
But what do you wash them?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Is the guy out there that people just truly like
And yeah, I mean not every politician does everything right
that you love like no matter what, Like even the
big time MAGA supporters sometimes scratch their heads with Donald Trump.
So I mean, there's not a single politician that's ever
been perfect, not one. And so that Garners like everything
they do, You're like, that's my boy, that's my woman.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Like nobody does that on every single decision.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
But what doy Washam is is he's well liked up there,
well liked up there, and there's no reason to believe
that he won't be re elected mayor in Cornelius.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Now what happens after that, we'll see. We'll see what
happens going forward.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But with all that being said, we're gonna get into
some of the other municipal races in Mecclmburg County tonight,
like I said, And what we don't get to tonight,
we'll get into tomorrow night, because there's a lot of
really interesting mayor oal races and so we're gonna start
looking at some of those when we return.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Ozzia Osborne dying today at the age of seventy six
and was a big, big, big fan, And I've got
some stories coming up to you coming up for you
in about thirty minutes from now. Congressman Tim Moore will
be joining us at.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
The bottom of the hour as well.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Okay, so I'm going to continue my look at some
of the mayoral races in and around or specifically Meckhumberg County.
Davidson nothing to see here, folks. Russy Knox native been
there for his entire life. You know, comes from a
family of mayors, whether it's Moorsville or Charlotte. Eddie Knox
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a longtime mayor, and people up there absolutely love him,
and he cares more about Davidson than anyone you'll ever
meet in Davidson had him on the show a few
weeks ago, so he's not even being challenged, not even
being challenged. Now, let's get to Matthews. Okay, Matthews is
very interesting, very very interesting. John Higden is the incumbent.
(09:16):
There are a lot of people like Matthews is one
of those towns that's pretty much one hundred percent purple.
Like it's pretty much fifty to fifty. It might be
fifty one forty nine, fifty two, forty eight, but it's
pretty much fifty to fifty in terms of Republicans versus Democrats.
So John Higden is the incumbent. If you talk to
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a single Republican, any Republican in Matthews, talk to a
single Republican with any clout or power or elected office
from Matthews or mint Hill or Charlotte or anyone who
knows anything about Matthews and John Haigden, they will tell
you he is clearly one hundred percent a Republican, even
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though he had an R by his name. Now, I
will tell you that Matthews, the way they do things,
you you know, you just it's basically, you know, a
nonpartisan for the most part.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Like you run, and it's here's what you do. You run,
and that's it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Like everyone's on the board, everyone's on it together, and
everyone is like, okay, we're we're all running.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
On the same ballot at the exact same time. And
that's just the way it is. Right. Well, I will
tell you that.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You know, they're going, oh, he's clearly not a Republican
because he's voted to raise taxes multiple times and this
and that, and the Republicans on the board dislike him,
and he talking about John Higden, and then also you
know he always votes with the Democrats. Higden is the
tiebreaker a lot of times in Higdon has a very
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high tendency to But with the Democrats, this isn't saying that,
oh my gosh, why are you trash in Higgden? Not
trash in Higda'm just giving you facts. I'm just telling
you things that is like reality. When you talk to
Republican commissioners town commissioners and Matthews and other people in
the Republican Party, they're going, I don't even know why
John Higden has his name. I had people telling me
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that John Higden has been wanting to get rid of
the R next to his name for a while.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
He finally did. He's now listed as an unaffiliated.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
If I had to be honest with you, and I
always try to be honest with you, I always, always,
always try to tell you everything that I can tell
you. You know, there's this old saying that reporters only tell
you about sixty percent of what we know because the
other forty percent we just can't tell you because we've
either been sworn to secrecy, or it might out a
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source or whatever. But I will tell you that most
people believe that John Higden is honestly a Democrat, and
between somebody. I don't even know if somebody a I
will just say this. Someone from Matthews told me this.
Someone that I respect in Matthews told me this, and
(12:14):
I haven't been able to verify it. I don't know
if it's true. I'm just telling you. Somebody said, well, Brett,
you know his wife is a Democrat. He tends to
always vote Democrat, and his campaign manager works almost exclusively
with Democrats.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
And I went, well, but that doesn't mean anything. I
mean that.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I mean one of the most famous couples in America
is James Carville, who's like a ridiculous Democrat like Looney
Tune Democrat TDS, and his wife is a big time Republican,
a famous Republican. So I mean that doesn't mean anything.
Like I don't care if his wife is a Republican
or his children are Democrats or what are libertarians communists? Like,
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I don't care. They're not the ones running for offices.
So to me, that is one hundred percent of ROW.
But I will tell you Leon three, he's running against
John Hagden Leon Threeit is a Republican and he's a
town commissioner and he gave up his spot as town
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commissioner to run against a mayor.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Now, think about it.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
In theory back in the day, you might think, oh,
this is Republican on republican crime, like in the school
board that happened in District one in District six. Oh no, No,
Hagden has now changed his name his affiliation to unaffiliated,
which I mean, honestly, he's John is probably more Democrat
(13:40):
than he is unaffiliated. That would be That's my own
personal assessment. But Leon is a staunch Republican and he's
on the town council, and now he's running against Hagden,
who in theory was a Republican all those years but
clearly was not. And so you now have a Republican going,
We're not playing your games anymore because you're you're clearly
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not a Republican.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
You're more Democrat than anything. So we're going to run.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
So Leon three left the town council and Leon three
it is now running for mayor of Matthews, and that
race is going to be something to watch because you
have one elected official going against another elected official, and
Matthews seems to be maybe just slightly more Democrat than
it is Republican, maybe fifty three percent fifty two percent
(14:28):
compared to forty seven forty eight. Maybe, but we'll see,
we'll see how that one goes. But that's a race
that you definitely need to keep an eye on, definitely,
because I can tell you a lot about things that
may or may not happen in twenty twenty six with
the state races. All Right, when we come back, we're
gonna hear from Congressman ten More. He's going to be
joining us. We haven't spoken to him.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
In a while.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Times have changed. There's talk eleven ten and ninety nine
three to WVCh Bret Jenson here with you again on
this Wednesday night edition of Breaking with bro Excuse me,
I did it against see Tuesday night edition I should
say of Breaking with Bretjenson. Okay, we haven't spoken to
him in a while, and we'd like to have congressional Tuesdays,
and so i've been you know, waiting. You know, he's
been on vacation in the July fourth in the summer,
(15:26):
and we've been busy down here doing a lot of things.
So I want to go ahead and bring on Congressman
Tim Moore. First of all, Congressman, thank you for joining
me tonight. And second of all, it's been a while
since we spoke, you know, the holidays and July fourth.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
What have you been up to for the last three
or four weeks?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Oh? Wow, Well, we've not had much of a vacation
at all in Washington. In fact, it's been a very
very busy but productive schedule here it is. I'll tell you,
it's been unbelievable. The things that have been accomplished in
the last few weeks. The passage of what been called
the One Big Beautiful Bill, which is is going to
(16:04):
do so much to lower taxes, to rein in wasteful spending, fraud,
and abuse of the system, to finally you take a
step toward doing something on the national debt, as the
first time in decades any Congress has done anything of
significance to deal with a national debt. We passed that
(16:25):
a couple of weeks ago. Uh. And then the last
week we passed the Precision Package to rain in a
lot of wasteful spending as well, about you know, right
at nine billion dollars, which again is a uh, which
again is in the in the big scheme of trillions
of dollars. Some would say minor, but it's the first
(16:46):
and of many recision packages that will be going through
to really try to make sure that we're that we're
spending the taxpayer dollars as wise as we possibly can.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Speaking with Congressman two more so, you and I have
been talking about this big, beautiful bill and the Medicaid
and that you know what's going to be cut and
what's not going to be cut for a very long time,
and then Senates came in and started making changes and
amendments and everything else, and some people got upset, especially
Tom Tillis. So what did you think about the changes
that the Senate made to the budget and specifically Medicaid.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You know, I like our version better. I think our
version was was more simple, and there weren't you know there.
I think ultimately at the end of the day, with
some other language that was added in to protect rural
health care, it will all work out just as well.
But you know, the biggest thing that I wanted to
deal with with, you know, specifically as it relates to
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Medicaid was number one, make sure that you're actually taking
care of folks who really cannot take care of themselves folks.
Of course, you know, because a lot of people don't
understand the two things. There's Medicaid and there's Medicare. Medicare
is what covers folks sixty five and over. Okay, that's Medicare.
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Medicaids designed to take care of people who are disabled,
folks who cannot, who cannot take care of themselves, or
for example, if you're like a single parent and you
have minor children and you can't work to make sure
that you're taking care of them. As far as health
coverage on that, it was never intended to be something
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that folks who are you know, in their twenties or
thirties and are able body able to work to just
have free health care. It was never meant that way.
And that is and I'm not exaggerating this bread that
is the way. That's what Obama did with the expansion,
and that's what Democrats have wanted to do. They basically
want to try to use this as just universal health care,
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which means then the whole thing just is bloated an expense,
It becomes more inefficient, it becomes full of waste, fraud, abuse,
and at the end that they those who even get
the care don't get us good a care. I want
to see us for stortback to taking care of people
who genuinely need the help, you know, children, people who
are disabled, people who are caring for children, people who
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are truly unable to work and take care of themselves.
And then as a safety nepp and for those folks
who are able body, you know what, folks who can work,
ought to work, ought to have a job. And that
that's position that we took when it came to medicaid.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
So you talk about being busy a lot. You're very
familiar with the way things work in Raleid. They're actually
on a break right now. But how do things work
in DC? Do you get like a summer vacation? Do
you get a break? How does that work for you
guys up there in Congress sending the Senate?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Well, there's about a month usually every week every month,
there's about one week or about five days of that
month where we don't have to be in Washington, and
some members use that as time for official travel, which
I did. Of course, you're in one of my trips
to the border a couple of months ago, and you're
in a visit to South kore uh and so we
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have those periods. But more importantly, and more often you're
back home in your district where you could be there
for an entire week instead of just over a weekend.
And so that's what I tend to do during those
off weeks when they come up, I tend to be
back back home, you know, in the fourteenth district with
meetings and just working on things there at home.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
For the month of August that it's called the August recess,
it's not it's not like a recess I've ever seen before.
It's not a vacation. I'll say that there's a lot
of official travel during that time. I'll have some official travel,
but I'll also be spending most of that time back
home and we'll be around the district and meetings with
you know, folks in government, I mean with number of
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health care executives, meeting with a number of business owners
and manufacturers. I'll be business from folks at schools, et cetera.
I mean, you name it, any kind of meetings that
you can imagine possibly one would have. I'm going to
probably have those during those periods of time. And that's
very important to be home and be face to face
with with the folks that you represent. So I'll be
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spending a lot of that time in August doing that,
So that month of August is really meant for that.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I knew you went to Puerto Rico when we talked
about that, I had no idea you went to South Korea.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yeah, yeah, I did that. That was that's been a
couple of months ago. We posted some pictures on it
was a it was a it's again. It's it's not
a it's not a vacation. It's one meeting after another.
But it's an amazing opportunity to get a sense of
some of the issues from a global perspective, and you
really get an appreciation for how important the United States
(21:40):
is on the world stage. And so we had meetings
with our military. Actually went to the to the DMZ,
not the one that's you know, like on TV that's
kind of commercialized, but the actual little DMZ where you're standing, uh,
you know, peractual where you actually walked partially into North Korea.
It's pretty amazing experience there with our military and seeing
(22:02):
what our men and women and our enforces are dealing
with there.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
But you know there, the big thing there was getting
a sense of some of the geopolitical tensions in that
region and and everything always comes back to China. It
really does in terms of what China is doing, and uh,
there's so many things where we know they are, Uh
they really have become a threat to the United States
and it's unfortunate, but you know, we have to make
sure that we're strong and we're prepared, which is why,
(22:28):
by the way, in the Big Beautiful Bill, we increased
military spending while we dealt with the budget, or dealt
with the debt, deal with so many things we did
in that and we increased spending in two areas, border
security and national defense. And when you go and you
see a lot of things firsthand, you realize why it's
so important.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
That we do that. Speaking with Congressman Tim Moore, who
represents parts of Meclburg County and Gas and all of
Gason County, Cleveland County, Rudvert County, Polk County, and other
counties as well. The last thing I want to ask
you about is Tom Tillis.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Hey, actually I believe lives in your district.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
You've known him for a very very very long time,
and he's obviously been in the news a lot lately,
and he's not running for reelection, so when I say
the name Tom tillis what comes to mind.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I'll tell you Tom is a friend and has been
a friend ever since we served together in the state legislature.
A lot of folks don't realize that he and I
served in the legislature for years, and then of course
he was elected as our as our Speaker of the
House and was a key part in really transforming North
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Carolina UH from from where we had been overttax, high unemployment,
reckless spending, waste, you name it, to where we're a
lean knee machine now one of the most competitive states
in the country. Of course, I was a what's called
the Rules committee chair when when Tom was the Speaker,
and then when he went to serve in the US Senate,
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that's when I became the Speaker of the House, and
then I served he was speaking for four years, speaker
for ten years. And I'll tell you that entire time
we've we've always been very close than we are today
and and and we we talk quite regularly, and we
have a very very good relationship. And you know, it's
like we we've often said, you know, there are times
that where our friendship can transcend. Times and we disagree
(24:16):
on a matter of policy, and there there have been
not many, but a few times we've had some disagreements
and in different things, but we've always done so respectfully,
and we've always maintained that friendship and always will. But
I'll tell you he has been a key part of
getting North Carolina where it is today to his leadership
(24:37):
a speaker, and any built on that as a member
of the Senate. And so I'm gonna I'm going to
miss him, you know, being here when he uh when
he when he leaves. But he's got another year and
a half and we're going to be working closely together
to pass policy and good deals that will benefit not
only North Carolina but the entire country.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Congressman Tim Moore, I really appreciate you joining us tonight,
and I look forward to speaking to you very soon
down the road.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Absolutely good to be with you.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
All right, look forward to speaking to the Congressman and
a couple of weeks down the road. All right, a
lot of interesting things there to say about Tom Tillis
and the budget and everything else.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
So that's why we like having the Congressman on. All right,
when we come.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Back, I'll talk to you about the Ozzy Osbourne situation.
In my personal situation concerning Ozzy Osbourne, You're actually probably
gonna laugh at this.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I I I.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Right here, But that's how it goes freebooting. Maybe it's
not today and forget ire and like something.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I'm going up.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
I'm not a crazy trad. I'm going up the friend,
not a crazy tres.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Ozzy Osbourne dying today, passing away today at the age
of seventy six, Parkinson's and some other things.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I mean, like Isaac.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Said earlier, he actually lived way longer than he was
supposed to because of everything that he had done to
himself internally with massive amounts of drugs and alcohol and
everything else. And biting the head off of bats literally happened.
Biting the head off a dove in a CBS executive's
office literally happened.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
There's actually like photos of all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
So, like, you know, but Ozzy Osbourne, that song crazy
Train came out in nineteen eighty on one of the
one of his best albums called The Blizzard of Oz.
Get It, Wizard of Oz, Blizzard of Oz, Get It.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Thanks, Isaac, Well, I know you're a little sleds oftimes.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
But.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So in the early eighties, and you guys.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Knew I know I grew up here, right, or most
of you know that I grew up here.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
And I remember it.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Was like god eighty three or so, he came to
concert here in Charlotte, and it was the lead story
on the six o'clock news when everyone watched the six
o'clock news, Like that's when everyone knew every single reporter,
every single anchor. They were extremely famous, and it was
(28:21):
the lead story at the six o'clock news and then
the eleven o'clock news.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Every TV station had reporters.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Live because they all thought he was going to do
something crazy like bite the head off a bat again,
or there were all these rumors.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Oh us man.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
One time in concert he passed a bowl around and
asked everyone to spit in it, and then he would
drink the bowl. Like it was like that was like
a massive rumor not even joking, like that was a massive,
massive rummor literally never happened, but that was like the
big you know, you hear all these urban legends, right,
because we didn't have internet and cable was still in
its infancy, so you know, you just you it was
(28:56):
all word of mouth, word of mouth, and maybe like
magazines or something like that, So I want to go
see it. My mom was like, there was no way
in holy hell you're gonna go see Ozzy Osbourne and
you're like thirteen years old.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
The odds of that happening are zero point zero.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I was like, all right, so I buy a dual cassette.
It was basically his greatest hits from the time that
he was with Black Sabbath and then went solo and
Crazy Train and Over the Mountain and everything that we
were playing tonight, and I wanted to do I wanted
to do that right. I wanted to both The double
(29:32):
album is a dual cassette and I just wore that
bad boy out And on the cover is the name
of the album was called Speak of the Devil, and
he's sitting there with like looking like the devil, with
looking like blood and guts is coming out of his mouth.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
It's clearly like Jello or whatever.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
But it's like, oh my god, month or two later,
yours truly is that gonna go to thing therapy thinking
that it might be double worshiper.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
They should have kept you in there longer.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
So Brett, what is it about Ozzy Osbourne and what
attracts you to this type of music? And the funny
thing is it was about two years ago. I met
my hairs Teeter in South Park and I'm going down
the aisle at like ten o'clock at night and all
of a sudden, crazy chain comes over the speakers and
(30:32):
hairs Teeter and I immediately started texting my friends, going,
I went to therapy because of this, and now they're
playing it in hairs Teeter, they're playing this in Aris Teeter,
and I had to go to therapy. I told someone
that story today and they're like, you really need to
(30:54):
tell that on air.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I was like, yeah, I'm not even joking. And there
may have been a couple other reasons. Well, they wanted
me to go to therapy.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
But but that was like a major topic of discussion
with the old therapist and Brett Jensen, a major topic
of discussion going, eh, so this uh, this Ozzy Osbourne guy,
you know he's he eats bats and stuff?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
You okay with that? I was like, well, dude, I
was like, I don't care. I like the music, Like
what do I like? I don't know what he does
at home? Go on, doc, you ever heard those guitars
all those come on, come on, come on, man, what
are you talking about? You know what it is?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
And then everyone headed Ozzy and I know TJ's waiting
for us, but everyone like.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
And then all of a sudden, what rehabilitated Ozzy Osbourne was.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
When he did reality show on MTV right, and that
got everyone going, oh my god, Ozzie's awesome. He's funny,
it's hysterical, and that that right there refurbished his reputation.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Where he was no longer the devil worshiper.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
All right, everyone, tomorrow night we're going to continue our
look at the mayor old races in and around Mecklenburg County.
So until then, my name is Brett Jensen, and you've
been listening to Breaking with Bright Jensen
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