August 22, 2025 • 32 mins
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Breaking Brett Jensen kicks the show off by talking about local politics and the intensifying District 3 City Council race featuring candidate Joy Mayo, who’s challenging Tiawana Brown in the Democratic primary.
Jensen highlights his exclusive interview with candidate Joy Mayo, who is gaining traction as she challenges incumbent Tiawana Brown. Mayo discusses her experience as a CMS teacher and nonprofit leader, while calling for intentional investment in underserved areas like the Nations Ford corridor. She outlines a platform focused on public safety, small business support, and accountable leadership—emphasizing the need for transparency and rejecting the controversial city payout proposals.
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Hi Oh, let's go. Hi oh, let's go. Oh, Let's
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WVT. Brett
Jensen here with you again on this Friday night edition
of Breaking with Brett Jensen, as we go up until
seven o'clock tonight.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Just seven o'clock. No, no, I'm not doing eight o'clock. Seven
o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Seven four five, seven eleven ten is the telephone number
in guys, make sure you follow me on accept Brett
to underscore Jensen for all the lettuce and breaking news
in and around the Charlotte area. So I went uptown
today because Mayor Billas was going to have a press
conference when she voted and during early voted, and you
can only vote at how Marshall Center Uptown for the
(01:09):
first like week and a half or so, and then
early voting will hit everywhere, I believe on September second,
so you can go to the other different places.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So, but she was gonna have a press conference. We
drove up there, or I drove up there.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Press conference was canceled, but that's okay because I got
to meet and connect.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
With Joy Mayo.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Joy Mayo is the Democrat that Tijuana Brown's gonna have
to beat in the primary. Joy Mayo is getting the
endorsement of the Black Political Caucus, the mcdams, a couple
other people.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I mean, I don't know how you.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Can support someone that's been charged with multiple felonies and
and is already a convicted felon. So the Democrats seem
to be endorsing Joy Mayo. And she's a lovely woman,
and I had a chance to interview her, and this
is how it went. So, Joy, why did you get
into the race there against Tijuana Brown and everyone else
(01:59):
like that? That's the race that's getting a lot of
attention for obvious reasons.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
So I've previously done the work. I'm a former CMS teacher,
neighborhood leader, and the founder and board chair of Transforming
Nations forward community development nonprofit bringing opportunity, safety, and investment
to one of Charlotte's most overlooked areas, Nations Ford Corridor.
Really hoping to continue to do the work that I'm
doing there and Nations for District three wide. So making
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sure that we're having inter generational, multicultural lens as we
are really doing the work in government. I think that
is so imperative. District three is very diverse. It's a
huge land mass, and that's the type of fresh energy
that I'll bring, innovative energy, collaborative work that I think
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is needed so that people are actually getting involved with
local government. So I think people need to have politicians
and government officials that are around the same age as
a median age of residents here in Charlotte. I think
making sure that we have diverse representation is essential.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So what specifically does District three need, like, what is
it lacking?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I think real intentional investment. I'm hearing the same thing
pretty much all throughout District three. So West Boulevard nations
for Steel Creek are all saying the same thing, that
there's no real intentionality and equity lens. So I know
Arthur Griffin did an interview not long ago about that.
Just the fact that that real investment isn't there. So
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we're not seeing the investment in our young people, We're
not seeing that investment in our small businesses, despite the
fact that you know, we have the largest economic driver
the airport in our backyard. So I think we need
to be thoughtful of how are we empowering all the
residents in District three to really get a piece of
the pie in the wealth that is going on in Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
If I say Tia Wanna Brown, what comes to mind
West Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, she's from Southside Home, so definitely, you know, we
all know her story of being from Charlotte. I think
she's been a great advocate for second chances. I think
that's so imperative, particularly in the black community. But you know,
I'm excited to expand upon the work that she has
done and her predecessor Victoria Watlington and Lawana Mayfield to
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really have a larger impact on District three. So you know,
I have We've we've seen my proven leadership that I
can get the work done. I can make real action
based on the words that I'm saying in policy decisions
that can impact residents. So excited to really put policy
in action.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
So you were a CEMAS teacher. How long were you
a seemis? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I taught with CEMS about nine years. Yeah, I taught
middle school math and social studies.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Okay, So what what's your education aboutground? What'd you go
to school?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So I went to Elon University. So have a BA
from Elon In an emphasis in history and Italian studies,
and then I have a master's from the College of Charleston.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
So the first order of business, I know, like economic
development and investments and stuff like that. And I know
a lot of districts always talk about that, whether it's
nations for baby's for like whatever it is right the
university area that they're having, how do you how do
you make that actually come to life?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
How do you actually make that happen?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
With the investments, I think some of it is really
getting like a ground game. I think we need to
have a lot of conversations, particularly of our small businesses.
So I love that CMPD has been having some small
precinct kind of conversations with neighborhood leaders and business owners
about what are you seeing in your area and then
how can we provide assistance. So we've seen big box
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you know, stores like Target and Compier Foods come to
the table and explain to CMPD what some of you
know their concerns are and hoping that that helps because
a lot of our businesses are struggling right now, particularly
when it comes to petty crime. We know that violent
crime has gone down in the city of Charlotte based
on CMPD recent stats, but petty crime has gone up
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and that that hurts the business bottom line.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Well, I will say the bomb crime had nowhere to
go butt down after fifty nine murders in the first
six months last year.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, that was rough, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And and but.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Juvenile crime regardless, still remains a big, big thing.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And you know, members.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Of the FOP and members of cmpds sometimes feel like
they're not being supported enough by the city leaders.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Do you think that's an issue?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So I actually met with the Fraternal Order of Police
last week or maybe two weeks ago, after I completed
their survey for their endorsement. And I think it's really
important that city council reps and also the general public
actually hear from our first first responders about their concerns.
(06:50):
You know, we've all heard about the best issue with
Chief Jinnings and all, you know, all the stuff that
came out of that. But hearing from them firsthand their
reason was was really helpful to me about why they
wanted the vest versus the belt in the impact that
the belt has on their health, you know, current health
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and future health after the job. So I think that
one that's important. We want to take care of our people.
As a former teacher and a public servant, I think
we need to also listen to the people who are
in the front lines doing the work. I think they
oftentimes know what the issues are that we as bystanders,
may not, So I think that that's important that we
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listened to different people who are actually doing the work.
But I thought it was a very valuable conversation to
hear from them because I didn't know all the details,
and I wonder how many other people didn't know some
of those details about why they were asking for the vests.
And once they said that to me, I said that
that makes complete sense. I love to read the report
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to get, you know, a bit more acclimated and understand
it better. But I think it's important to hear all
perspective so that you can make an informed decision.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
All right, last two questions here with joy May's running
for Cheltt's City council in District three. It has a primary,
so I'm curious. You know, we talked about the the
Chief Jennings things and the city council things. We know,
the big controversy that happened. So I can't get let
you get away without asking you about the you know,
the whole secret of payouts that they were trying to
do with the city manager and the city attorney and
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vy and everything else.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
What were your thoughts on that.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I don't know all the details because I wasn't in
that closed session meeting, but based on what I know
what the media reported, I personally probably would not have
voted for that payout. But that's just me. As a
former teacher, you know, we know when you need to
be firm and set boundaries with people. So based on
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what I know, I would not have.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Voted for that.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
All right, So Joy, last thing here, I and every
interview this way, whether I'm talking to congressman or people
running to whatever, is there anything that you want to
say to all the listeners and all the voters and
everyone one right now that might be in District three
or whatever. So is there anything that you want to say?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, I hope that they will choose Joy. That is
my slogan, Choose Joy. I think, you know, with all
the things that are going on in our country right now,
it's really important that we choose leadership that listens and
empowers people. And I think that is the type of
leadership that I will bring as a representative for District three.
So I hope people will check out my website, Joy
Joi for Charlotte dot com to learn more about me,
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my background, and my platform and how I will work
to create real change in District three. And part of
that is listening and then helping people by empowering them.
I think that that is so essential, helping people have
the skills and the wherewithal to be able to create
the change that they want to see.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Joy, I really do appreciate your time today.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, I think so much.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
So that is Joy Brown. And again, excuse me, excuse me,
Joy Brown. I was talking about Tijuana Brown earlier. Of course,
that is Joy Mayo, Joy Mayo, j O, I m
a yo. And again she's running for just three and
she's going to be going against Tiwanna Brown and James
Bowers in the general election should she win the primary.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
And she is going to be getting some endorsements.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Again, I don't know how you endorse a felon and
endorse someone that's got more felony charges going against them,
much to Isaac's chagrin.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So again this is this is going to be an
interesting race, is going.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
To get a lot of attention in the media between
now and on election day. So I'm sure that I'll
be speaking to her at least one more time, maybe
two more times between now and the last day or
the i should say, the actual election day.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
All right, when we come back, Charlotte, people are moving
here at an alarming rate.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And you know, I've talked about in the past about oh,
you know, it was one hundred and fourteen people, then
one hundred and fifteen people, then one hundred and seventeen
people a.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Day moving to Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
That number over the last year has skyrocketed, and we'll
talk about that when we return. It is also Panthers Friday.
My name is Brett Jensen, and your listening to Breaking
with Brett Jensen. Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen
(11:15):
on this Friday night. As we go up until seven o'clock,
seven oh four or five, seven oh eleven ten, it's
twenty three minutes past the hour, all right, So again,
let's look. You know, I've talked about how for the
longest time, you know, Charlotte for long, for a while
was the most moved to city in America, and it's
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coming gone and it's usually in the top five, top three,
and every once in a while it'll hit number one,
and it was one hundred and seventeen people were moving
to Charlotte every day. Now, that doesn't mean that no
one's leaving Charlotte. Of course, people are leaving Charlotte and
people are dying and everything else. But at the same point,
that's a lot of people. And well, the new data
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just came out from the Charlot Regional Business Alliance is
basically the Chamber of Commerce, and one hundred and fifty
seven people are moving to Charlotte now every single day.
Between July first, twenty twenty three and July first, twenty
twenty four, on average, one hundred and fifty seven people
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moved to Charlotte every single day. But yet the police
force is staying the same, the fire department is staying
the same. I mean, you have to start increasing all
these public services to try and keep up with this.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I mean, think about that for a second.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
That's a thirty four percent increase from one hundred and
seventeen people a day to one hundred and fifty seven
people a day. Now, that doesn't mean Charlotte, it means
the Charlotte area. Okay, I guess I should clarify that.
And we're talking about like Cabars County, Kataba County or
Cabars County in case you don't know. Cobars County that's
concord A, Kanapolis, Kataba County that's Hickory, and Cleveland County
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that's Shelby and Kings Mountain, Gastonia or Gaston County which
is Gastonia, Belmont mount Holly, Irodelle County which is Statesville
and Morrisville, Lincoln County which is Denver and Lincolnton, and
then obviously Mecklenborough County's Rowan County which is Salisbury, Stanley
County up there towards Albemarrow and then Union County which
is Monroe.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
And then also that also includes.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
By the way, Chester County, Chesterfield County, Lancaster and York Counties.
All right, so it's like a thirteen county area, and
I guess also Alexander County, but that's way up there.
I'm not sure why they count that. Nonetheless, one hundred
and fifty seven people every day are moving here. Now again,
that's fifty seven thousand, three hundred people that have moved
here in this area in one year, and that's quite
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a bit. Now, from twenty twenty to last year, Huntersville,
Indian Trail, Kannapolis, Monroe, and Fort Mill all had the
highest percentages of population growth in our area. That's not
surprising at all in Row, Fort Mill, Kannapolis, and Indian Trail, Huntersville,
that's where people are moving.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Charlotte is still obviously where everyone is coming here.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And as of July first, twenty twenty four, nine hundred
and forty three thousand, four hundred and seventy six people
live in the city limits of Charlotte, So we'll probably
get to a million people living in the city the
limits of Charlotte in the next couple of years.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So again, like this is a big.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Deal and it's all about infrastructure, and that's why they're going, Hey,
we need this one billion dollars sales tax or excuse me,
one billion dollar increase for infrastructure on the one cent
sales tax. This is what people are going to say, Look,
we've got one hundred and fifty seven people here moving
here every day. We have to be able to keep
up with the infrastructure wise. But it's not just Sean.
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I mean again, I there's only there are twelve other
counties that people are moving to. It's not just a
Charlotte thing, but many of them will live in other
counties and actually work in Charlotte. And right now, the
average apartment in Charlotte, because there is a housing shortage
I should say, not a horsing shortage, but a housing shortage.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
One thousand, four hundred and.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Eighty six dollars is the average for an apartment in Charlotte.
And I believe that's a one bedroom apartment at that
it is, it's a one bedroom apartment for fourteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
So again, this is kind of a big deal.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I mean, one hundred and fifty seven people moved to
our area now again not Melhimber County, not Charlotte, but
like I said, Huntersville, Fort Mill, Monroe Indian Trail. You
start seeing the biggest increases right there. And that's not surprising.
People don't want to live in Charlotte. A because of
the schools, and B because of the taxes, and c
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because of the crime.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So what do they do.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
They live in these surrounding areas. Maybe work in Charlotte,
but they live somewhere else. All right, When we come back,
I want to take a look into some things that
are going in Gaston County, but how it is trying
to catch up to areas and other surrounding areas like
say rock Hill and Concord and Kannapolis and Statesville and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
So we'll get into that in a little bit.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
And then of course it's Panthers Friday.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Welcome Back to the News Talk eleven ten and ninety
nine three WBT Bret Jedson here with you on this
Friday night. Okay, So, Gastonia, it's it's where I grew up,
just south of the city limits. I grew up by
the airport in Gastonia, so I never lived technically lived
in the city limits, but obviously I spent a lot
of time in Gastonia because I went to high school
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in Gastona.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I grew up in there. All my friends lived.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
In Gastonia, and you know, it truly is one of
those towns, especially when I was growing up, that was
basically divided.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
By roadroad tracks.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
There was the good side of the tracks and the
bad side of the tracks, and there.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Wasn't really railroad tracks.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
It was Union Road west of Union Road and east
of Union Road, and you know, in the east of
the Union Road that was the good side. The west
side that was you know, had it was a rougher area.
So but downtown even then, even even back in the eighties,
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was a very difficult place to go. Like in the seventies,
a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Of people were there.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You know, you had a lot of things going on.
The Ivy's department store was there, and I think you
even had Belk's department store that was there, and a
lot of things. And then everyone started leaving downtown Gastonia
and it started to become like just a.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Really bad place to be. And all of a sudden,
all these.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Shops have left, and everyone's trying to revitalize. And they've
been trying to revitalize downtown Gastonia Main Street and everything
for a very very long time, several decades, and it
just hasn't caught on yet. But you know, it doesn't
mean that people are stopping or not trying to do it.
And here's a really interesting story from Queen City News
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about two guys that were actually trying that aren't actually
trying to revitalize parts of downtown Gastonia and then they
found something while doing.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
It, well, secrets one hidden and Pinesight have now been
rediscovered in downtown Gastonia and Queen City.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
News reporter Jen Cardon looks at a.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Piece of twentieth century art that two local developers plan
to preserve hidden inside this corner building on East Main
app in Gastonia is a secret treasure.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
We knew they had opportunity, and we knew that the
building had potential.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
This is fly tide uncovering.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
This is most certainly a game changer.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
And Preston Wilson, Oh, I made it worth it. Yeah,
two strangers made business partners when they renovated the building
across the street.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Gastonia was once a pop and city and we're just
trying to get it back to that greatness, to what.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
It once was.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
They decided to buy this one too and give it
another life.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
When we made the purchase. Came in here one day
after for that and it was I mean it was musty,
full of water. The roof had collapsed in several places,
and it had been like that for years and years.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
It turns out the purchase came with a bigger purpose.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
I saw a crack in the wall that had a
little bit I saw a little bit of blue in it.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Wilson says that speck of blue was unusual.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
So I grabbed a piece of wood and just kind
of tapped on the wall and a big chunk fell
off the wall and I saw like an as and
an a, and I was like, oh, there's something under here.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
A hidden mural featuring a twentieth century advertisement for Piedmont cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And we saw that mural, they changed the.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Game, changing their decision for the vision. Oh yeah, how
he needs a sign or a ghost sign hidden in
plain sight.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
There were a lot of different tobacco companies that were
trying to sell cigarettes, and they were painting yearls all
over the place.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Alice Weedric is a curator with the Gaston County Museum.
She says, despite how common this type of advertising was,
it's rare to see an outdoor mural like this so
well preserved.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Over time, people build over and put things over history,
and so as you're renovating things, you can uncover all
these little mysteries and all these little secrets from our past.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Secrets uncovered to be rediscovered again.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Behind every mural, there's a story.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
And the story of the mural in this rubble is
still being explored. Jen Cardoon and Queen City News.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
And so here's the thing, you know, it's I'm glad
that they found the mural, and I'm glad that they're
preserving it and they're doing all that other stuff. But
Gastonia has really really really struggled, like really struggled and
trying to rebuild an upfit up to or downtown Gastonia.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
You know, fifteen years ago rock Kill started doing it.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Fifteen you know, seventeen years ago rock Kill started doing it,
and they they did a really nice job of trying
to get people going back into downtown. Rock Hill and
Fort Mill has done a fantastic job of it.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Belmont was really the first one.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Belmont and Gaston County was really the first one to
get rid of a lot of the mill houses and
really really bring in a lot of heavy traffic and
revitalize downtown Belmont.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Cramerton's done a decent job. Mccaddviall's done a decent job.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I know, Moresville's done that as well, tried to revitalize downtown.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
They've done a really good job.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
You know, the massive construction that's been headaches to so
many people over there in Concord, they've done a really
good job, and they've just reopened it.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
And now you've got all.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
These places that now have social districts where you can
go to bars and drink while you're on the sidewalks
and walking from restaurant to restaurant, bar to bar. But
you know, it's Gastonia for whatever reason, just has struggled
extremely extremely major. And you know, Monroe, no one really
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talks about, you know, the revitalization of you know, downtown
Monroe maybe didn't have that far to go. I mean
maybe didn't like completely deteriorate like so many of the
other downtown areas did in our area. You know, like
I said, rock Hill did great, four Mills done great.
Belmont is the gold standard, like they are the gold
standard of revitalizing downtowns. Lincoln's done very well as well,
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you know, but like I said, Statesviell's got a long
ways to go. Kannapolis has done a lot to try
and revitalize downtown with the campus and everything down there.
Like towns are trying and as as I just said,
one hundred and fifty seven people every single day are
moving to this area. Those towns, downtowns that have been
dead for forty fifty years, sixty years, they can get
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revitalized because people have.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
To move somewhere, and there's nowhere hardly to move in Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
So maybe maybe Gastoni's still ten years away, fifteen years away,
I don't know. Like fifteen years ago, I don't think
they still thought that they would be this far away
from revitalizing downtown Gastonia.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
But they are. They are.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I mean, you know, they built the brand new place
department at the courthouse and everything else, and it really
hasn't mattered. It has not mattered, and a lot of
it goes with and I'm not saying this is Gastonia,
but a lot of the small town areas, that's where
a lot of the crime is, that's where a lot
of the homelessness is, that's where a lot of the
drug activity is.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
So just a lot going in onto those areas.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
But it's nice to see that people are still trying
to revitalize Gastonia and all the surrounding small towns in
the shod air because they are they do have a
character and they are unique.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
All right.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
When we return, it's Panther Friday. Dave Canalis met with
the media today. We'll hear about that when we return.
But right now, let's swing on over to the WBT
Traffic Center with our man metro mic.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Don't thank you, sir.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
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Speaker 2 (24:11):
Is welcome back to breaking with Brett Jensen for a
(24:33):
few more minutes here on this Friday night. Carolina Panthers
played their last preseason game of the twenty twenty five
season last night at Bank America Stadium against the Pittsburgh
Steelers and now begins the task of having to cut
down the.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Roster to fifty three players.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
They'll start waiting until some of the other teams start
making cuts and so they can also see, hey, maybe
we want to pick up this player, maybe we want
to pick up that player. So they've got a few
more days of practicing with the team that's currently in place,
and then the cuts will start happening and then in
about two weeks from now, this is when you'll start
having the NFL game, starting like two weeks from the Sunday.
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So anyways, Dave Can also head coach, met with the
media this morning to talk about, Hey, how do things
go so far this preseason?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
After the games?
Speaker 9 (25:19):
Uh, yeah, I just want to say, after you know,
getting here this morning and watching the film, I'm just
proud of the guys, proud of the the style of
football that's coming together. And I thought they represented us
so well, the guys that were out there battling, you know,
to be able to host the Steelers Mike Tomlin a
coach that I really respect, the culture that they've built,
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and to be able to see just the physical nature,
you know, feeling like this is this is the standard
of playing hard in all phases, running finishing plays the
right way. I just love the way the guys competed yesterday.
And yeah, there's a lot we can learn from, a
lot that we can clean up. We're gonna have some
meetings here coming up pretty soon. But I just fired
up just about the mentality and the attitude that continues
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to show up for us.
Speaker 10 (26:05):
Chapter reported that the Vikings have called about Adam. Can
you confirm that? And is that a trade you would
that you guys would consider making?
Speaker 9 (26:15):
You know, honestly, I'm letting Dan kind of handle all
that right now. I'm focused on our team, our football,
and Adams are part of that, you know, So the plans,
the plays, all those things. It's just stuff that we're
you know, focused on right now. And again, we have
a lot, you know, to talk about in the next
couple couple of days in terms of the roster and
all that. But you know, that's that's something that you know,
I'm going to let let them handle and for me
(26:37):
right now, it's just focusing on this, this entire roster
and be able to make decisions there.
Speaker 10 (26:41):
You've talked a lot about the improved depth at that position.
Is it deep enough that that you and Dan would
consider moving on from Adam?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Could be?
Speaker 9 (26:52):
I don't know, it's just you know, the until the
conversations really get real, there's really nothing to talk about
other than for us to just continue to think about
where we're going to be at going into the week's coming.
Speaker 11 (27:01):
When you're when you're considering like the next few weeks
and you get to practice Monday and Tuesday, is there
a sense that you want to be kind of not
necessarily forthcoming, but you want to kind of be proactive
with how you handle these roster moves over the weekend
before you guys get on the practice field again.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
Uh. Yeah, that's just the nature of it, right. I
think the good and the bad we play on a Thursday,
there's a bunch of games still that have to be played,
and you know, our goal really is to challenge our
roster first internally and then challenge it against the rest
of the NFL and the film that's put out there.
So there's a lot of film to still be watched,
and you know it starts with our guys first and foremost,
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the ones we have the most information on, you know,
from from the practices, the joint practices, the mock games
that we had here, you know, the preseason game. So
we have a lot of information, but there's still some
more information that's going to come in, you know, down
the pipeline this weekend. And so yeah, I mean just
you know, with with all the deadlines that come up,
you know, we kind of naturally start to make those
(28:04):
decisions and hopefully, you know, sometime Wednesday will have you know,
the full set roster to be able to start, you know,
planning the pieces going into our game week.
Speaker 11 (28:13):
And then Taylor Moten sided his contract extension. How how
agreed to his contract extension? How important was he to
the program that you were building.
Speaker 9 (28:22):
It's such a great moment for us. Timo has been
you know, a stud here for a really long time
and has continued to show us, you know, the progress,
the reliability that we're looking for, the attitude, you know,
the character of the guy really, you know, first and foremost,
you know, speaks to who he is and just wanting
(28:43):
wanting him to be here, to be a part of
what we're building, and knowing that he's an important part
of our offense.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
As a health standpoint, it seems like your team through
training camp came away relatively unscathed compared to what a
lot of teams go through from training camp.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
Yeah, you give me a chance to just talk about
Josh Tinks and Danny Kellington. You know that that team
down there that's working together to put a really strong
fit team out there. A performance mindset is the first
thing I could say for these guys is we're looking
for guys to be at their best, and they have
an aggressive mentality for how they approach things. How they're
(29:17):
proactive checking in with our players individually to see what
type of extra mobility, you know, extra care, extra strength training,
different things, some great sessions, uh to to rejend the guys,
you know, throughout different days and and all of us
you know, myself, Dan, Josh and Denny just getting together
(29:38):
and just kind of planning, you know, how we dose
the team, how we prepare them for game like situations.
But they've done such a great job, and to the
player's credit, they're buying in. They're buying into the resources
that are available. They're buying into the the the high speed, intensity,
the the physical nature of the way we play. Knowing
(30:02):
we have to take care of our bodies. We have
to be proactive with this if we want to practice
and play the way that we'd like to.
Speaker 12 (30:08):
How do you kind of help a rookie balance wanting
to go hard and like one hundred and ten percent
all the time, but also understanding this is a much
longer season than a college game, and you've got to
be able to protect your body too.
Speaker 9 (30:20):
Yeah, we don't pick and choose. When you're on the field.
You go, and we ask the guys to trust us.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Go for it.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
Go for it, and if your gas, we'll get you
out of there, We'll get someone else in and the
miniature back out there. Everything you got. You don't have
to pick and choose when to go. I think what
we're talking about, Cassidy, you know, is the recovery. You
know that when you do practice like that, when you
do play like that in the game, the recovery starts
immediately when the game's over and you start going through
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your process and you start getting your checks and balances
and refueling, you know, the times that are important, you know,
and utilizing the resources that we have downe there. You know,
we have an owner that supports us completely with the
resources that we have at our disposal and the technology
we're able to apply. But that also takes a lot
of training. And that's where you know, Denny has really
(31:09):
you know, challenged his group to get training in the
different resources that we have to apply it really specifically,
and so it's all those things, and it's the trust
to the players to know when you go in there,
you're getting the best care and that's what's happening here.
So I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 12 (31:24):
And then these next few days it can be a
stressful time for some of these bubble guys. I know
you talked about like what it's going to look like
for coaches. What do you suggest to the players. Do
you check in with them over these next couple of days,
or do you say, like we'll talk on Tuesday, Like
what do you kind of offer them advice on how
to get through this?
Speaker 9 (31:42):
Well, I think first and foremost, we have this day
where we get to evaluate the film, so we're all
back in the building, you know, and we'll have to
make those decisions, you know, at the beginning of next week.
But today is a chance to get better, to look
at the film, to take coaching, to improve you know,
all these things are so critical for all the players
who were able to play last night, So we'll start there,
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and then beyond that, you know, it's just the challenge
to chase your dream, the challenge to never give up,
never say never, and to continue to work. And while
we know we can't have everybody do that here with us.
You know, our goal as a staff is to help
these guys to have a football life in one way,
shape or form. And I hope that the players feel
that they got the care, they got the coaching, They
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were challenged, they were encouraged, they were held accountable for
different things, you know, to be able to help them
in the future.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
All Right, everyone that's going to do it for us
tonight and this week. I appreciate everyone who joined me
this week and look forward to doing it all over
again on Monday.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
The TJ. Richie Show is coming up next.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
My name is Bret Jensen, and you have been listening
to Breaking with Brett Jenson.
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WVT. Brett
Jensen here with you again on this Friday night edition
of Breaking with Brett Jensen, as we go up until
seven o'clock tonight.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Just seven o'clock. No, no, I'm not doing eight o'clock. Seven
o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Seven four five, seven eleven ten is the telephone number
in guys, make sure you follow me on accept Brett
to underscore Jensen for all the lettuce and breaking news
in and around the Charlotte area. So I went uptown
today because Mayor Billas was going to have a press
conference when she voted and during early voted, and you
can only vote at how Marshall Center Uptown for the
(01:09):
first like week and a half or so, and then
early voting will hit everywhere, I believe on September second,
so you can go to the other different places.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So, but she was gonna have a press conference. We
drove up there, or I drove up there.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Press conference was canceled, but that's okay because I got
to meet and connect.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
With Joy Mayo.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Joy Mayo is the Democrat that Tijuana Brown's gonna have
to beat in the primary. Joy Mayo is getting the
endorsement of the Black Political Caucus, the mcdams, a couple
other people.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I mean, I don't know how you.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Can support someone that's been charged with multiple felonies and
and is already a convicted felon. So the Democrats seem
to be endorsing Joy Mayo. And she's a lovely woman,
and I had a chance to interview her, and this
is how it went. So, Joy, why did you get
into the race there against Tijuana Brown and everyone else
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like that? That's the race that's getting a lot of
attention for obvious reasons.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
So I've previously done the work. I'm a former CMS teacher,
neighborhood leader, and the founder and board chair of Transforming
Nations forward community development nonprofit bringing opportunity, safety, and investment
to one of Charlotte's most overlooked areas, Nations Ford Corridor.
Really hoping to continue to do the work that I'm
doing there and Nations for District three wide. So making
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sure that we're having inter generational, multicultural lens as we
are really doing the work in government. I think that
is so imperative. District three is very diverse. It's a
huge land mass, and that's the type of fresh energy
that I'll bring, innovative energy, collaborative work that I think
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is needed so that people are actually getting involved with
local government. So I think people need to have politicians
and government officials that are around the same age as
a median age of residents here in Charlotte. I think
making sure that we have diverse representation is essential.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So what specifically does District three need, like, what is
it lacking?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I think real intentional investment. I'm hearing the same thing
pretty much all throughout District three. So West Boulevard nations
for Steel Creek are all saying the same thing, that
there's no real intentionality and equity lens. So I know
Arthur Griffin did an interview not long ago about that.
Just the fact that that real investment isn't there. So
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we're not seeing the investment in our young people, We're
not seeing that investment in our small businesses, despite the
fact that you know, we have the largest economic driver
the airport in our backyard. So I think we need
to be thoughtful of how are we empowering all the
residents in District three to really get a piece of
the pie in the wealth that is going on in Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
If I say Tia Wanna Brown, what comes to mind
West Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, she's from Southside Home, so definitely, you know, we
all know her story of being from Charlotte. I think
she's been a great advocate for second chances. I think
that's so imperative, particularly in the black community. But you know,
I'm excited to expand upon the work that she has
done and her predecessor Victoria Watlington and Lawana Mayfield to
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really have a larger impact on District three. So you know,
I have We've we've seen my proven leadership that I
can get the work done. I can make real action
based on the words that I'm saying in policy decisions
that can impact residents. So excited to really put policy
in action.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
So you were a CEMAS teacher. How long were you
a seemis? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I taught with CEMS about nine years. Yeah, I taught
middle school math and social studies.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Okay, So what what's your education aboutground? What'd you go
to school?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So I went to Elon University. So have a BA
from Elon In an emphasis in history and Italian studies,
and then I have a master's from the College of Charleston.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
So the first order of business, I know, like economic
development and investments and stuff like that. And I know
a lot of districts always talk about that, whether it's
nations for baby's for like whatever it is right the
university area that they're having, how do you how do
you make that actually come to life?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
How do you actually make that happen?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
With the investments, I think some of it is really
getting like a ground game. I think we need to
have a lot of conversations, particularly of our small businesses.
So I love that CMPD has been having some small
precinct kind of conversations with neighborhood leaders and business owners
about what are you seeing in your area and then
how can we provide assistance. So we've seen big box
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you know, stores like Target and Compier Foods come to
the table and explain to CMPD what some of you
know their concerns are and hoping that that helps because
a lot of our businesses are struggling right now, particularly
when it comes to petty crime. We know that violent
crime has gone down in the city of Charlotte based
on CMPD recent stats, but petty crime has gone up
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and that that hurts the business bottom line.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Well, I will say the bomb crime had nowhere to
go butt down after fifty nine murders in the first
six months last year.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, that was rough, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And and but.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Juvenile crime regardless, still remains a big, big thing.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And you know, members.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Of the FOP and members of cmpds sometimes feel like
they're not being supported enough by the city leaders.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Do you think that's an issue?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So I actually met with the Fraternal Order of Police
last week or maybe two weeks ago, after I completed
their survey for their endorsement. And I think it's really
important that city council reps and also the general public
actually hear from our first first responders about their concerns.
(06:50):
You know, we've all heard about the best issue with
Chief Jinnings and all, you know, all the stuff that
came out of that. But hearing from them firsthand their
reason was was really helpful to me about why they
wanted the vest versus the belt in the impact that
the belt has on their health, you know, current health
(07:12):
and future health after the job. So I think that
one that's important. We want to take care of our people.
As a former teacher and a public servant, I think
we need to also listen to the people who are
in the front lines doing the work. I think they
oftentimes know what the issues are that we as bystanders,
may not, So I think that that's important that we
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listened to different people who are actually doing the work.
But I thought it was a very valuable conversation to
hear from them because I didn't know all the details,
and I wonder how many other people didn't know some
of those details about why they were asking for the vests.
And once they said that to me, I said that
that makes complete sense. I love to read the report
(07:54):
to get, you know, a bit more acclimated and understand
it better. But I think it's important to hear all
perspective so that you can make an informed decision.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
All right, last two questions here with joy May's running
for Cheltt's City council in District three. It has a primary,
so I'm curious. You know, we talked about the the
Chief Jennings things and the city council things. We know,
the big controversy that happened. So I can't get let
you get away without asking you about the you know,
the whole secret of payouts that they were trying to
do with the city manager and the city attorney and
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vy and everything else.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
What were your thoughts on that.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I don't know all the details because I wasn't in
that closed session meeting, but based on what I know
what the media reported, I personally probably would not have
voted for that payout. But that's just me. As a
former teacher, you know, we know when you need to
be firm and set boundaries with people. So based on
(08:47):
what I know, I would not have.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Voted for that.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
All right, So Joy, last thing here, I and every
interview this way, whether I'm talking to congressman or people
running to whatever, is there anything that you want to
say to all the listeners and all the voters and
everyone one right now that might be in District three
or whatever. So is there anything that you want to say?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, I hope that they will choose Joy. That is
my slogan, Choose Joy. I think, you know, with all
the things that are going on in our country right now,
it's really important that we choose leadership that listens and
empowers people. And I think that is the type of
leadership that I will bring as a representative for District three.
So I hope people will check out my website, Joy
Joi for Charlotte dot com to learn more about me,
(09:28):
my background, and my platform and how I will work
to create real change in District three. And part of
that is listening and then helping people by empowering them.
I think that that is so essential, helping people have
the skills and the wherewithal to be able to create
the change that they want to see.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Joy, I really do appreciate your time today.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, I think so much.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
So that is Joy Brown. And again, excuse me, excuse me,
Joy Brown. I was talking about Tijuana Brown earlier. Of course,
that is Joy Mayo, Joy Mayo, j O, I m
a yo. And again she's running for just three and
she's going to be going against Tiwanna Brown and James
Bowers in the general election should she win the primary.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
And she is going to be getting some endorsements.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Again, I don't know how you endorse a felon and
endorse someone that's got more felony charges going against them,
much to Isaac's chagrin.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So again this is this is going to be an
interesting race, is going.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
To get a lot of attention in the media between
now and on election day. So I'm sure that I'll
be speaking to her at least one more time, maybe
two more times between now and the last day or
the i should say, the actual election day.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
All right, when we come back, Charlotte, people are moving
here at an alarming rate.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And you know, I've talked about in the past about oh,
you know, it was one hundred and fourteen people, then
one hundred and fifteen people, then one hundred and seventeen
people a.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Day moving to Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
That number over the last year has skyrocketed, and we'll
talk about that when we return. It is also Panthers Friday.
My name is Brett Jensen, and your listening to Breaking
with Brett Jensen. Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen
(11:15):
on this Friday night. As we go up until seven o'clock,
seven oh four or five, seven oh eleven ten, it's
twenty three minutes past the hour, all right, So again,
let's look. You know, I've talked about how for the
longest time, you know, Charlotte for long, for a while
was the most moved to city in America, and it's
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coming gone and it's usually in the top five, top three,
and every once in a while it'll hit number one,
and it was one hundred and seventeen people were moving
to Charlotte every day. Now, that doesn't mean that no
one's leaving Charlotte. Of course, people are leaving Charlotte and
people are dying and everything else. But at the same point,
that's a lot of people. And well, the new data
(11:58):
just came out from the Charlot Regional Business Alliance is
basically the Chamber of Commerce, and one hundred and fifty
seven people are moving to Charlotte now every single day.
Between July first, twenty twenty three and July first, twenty
twenty four, on average, one hundred and fifty seven people
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moved to Charlotte every single day. But yet the police
force is staying the same, the fire department is staying
the same. I mean, you have to start increasing all
these public services to try and keep up with this.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I mean, think about that for a second.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
That's a thirty four percent increase from one hundred and
seventeen people a day to one hundred and fifty seven
people a day. Now, that doesn't mean Charlotte, it means
the Charlotte area. Okay, I guess I should clarify that.
And we're talking about like Cabars County, Kataba County or
Cabars County in case you don't know. Cobars County that's
concord A, Kanapolis, Kataba County that's Hickory, and Cleveland County
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that's Shelby and Kings Mountain, Gastonia or Gaston County which
is Gastonia, Belmont mount Holly, Irodelle County which is Statesville
and Morrisville, Lincoln County which is Denver and Lincolnton, and
then obviously Mecklenborough County's Rowan County which is Salisbury, Stanley
County up there towards Albemarrow and then Union County which
is Monroe.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
And then also that also includes.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
By the way, Chester County, Chesterfield County, Lancaster and York Counties.
All right, so it's like a thirteen county area, and
I guess also Alexander County, but that's way up there.
I'm not sure why they count that. Nonetheless, one hundred
and fifty seven people every day are moving here. Now again,
that's fifty seven thousand, three hundred people that have moved
here in this area in one year, and that's quite
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a bit. Now, from twenty twenty to last year, Huntersville,
Indian Trail, Kannapolis, Monroe, and Fort Mill all had the
highest percentages of population growth in our area. That's not
surprising at all in Row, Fort Mill, Kannapolis, and Indian Trail, Huntersville,
that's where people are moving.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Charlotte is still obviously where everyone is coming here.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And as of July first, twenty twenty four, nine hundred
and forty three thousand, four hundred and seventy six people
live in the city limits of Charlotte, So we'll probably
get to a million people living in the city the
limits of Charlotte in the next couple of years.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So again, like this is a big.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Deal and it's all about infrastructure, and that's why they're going, Hey,
we need this one billion dollars sales tax or excuse me,
one billion dollar increase for infrastructure on the one cent
sales tax. This is what people are going to say, Look,
we've got one hundred and fifty seven people here moving
here every day. We have to be able to keep
up with the infrastructure wise. But it's not just Sean.
(14:50):
I mean again, I there's only there are twelve other
counties that people are moving to. It's not just a
Charlotte thing, but many of them will live in other
counties and actually work in Charlotte. And right now, the
average apartment in Charlotte, because there is a housing shortage
I should say, not a horsing shortage, but a housing shortage.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
One thousand, four hundred and.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Eighty six dollars is the average for an apartment in Charlotte.
And I believe that's a one bedroom apartment at that
it is, it's a one bedroom apartment for fourteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
So again, this is kind of a big deal.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I mean, one hundred and fifty seven people moved to
our area now again not Melhimber County, not Charlotte, but
like I said, Huntersville, Fort Mill, Monroe Indian Trail. You
start seeing the biggest increases right there. And that's not surprising.
People don't want to live in Charlotte. A because of
the schools, and B because of the taxes, and c
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because of the crime.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So what do they do.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
They live in these surrounding areas. Maybe work in Charlotte,
but they live somewhere else. All right, When we come back,
I want to take a look into some things that
are going in Gaston County, but how it is trying
to catch up to areas and other surrounding areas like
say rock Hill and Concord and Kannapolis and Statesville and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
So we'll get into that in a little bit.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
And then of course it's Panthers Friday.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Welcome Back to the News Talk eleven ten and ninety
nine three WBT Bret Jedson here with you on this
Friday night. Okay, So, Gastonia, it's it's where I grew up,
just south of the city limits. I grew up by
the airport in Gastonia, so I never lived technically lived
in the city limits, but obviously I spent a lot
of time in Gastonia because I went to high school
(16:43):
in Gastona.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I grew up in there. All my friends lived.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
In Gastonia, and you know, it truly is one of
those towns, especially when I was growing up, that was
basically divided.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
By roadroad tracks.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
There was the good side of the tracks and the
bad side of the tracks, and there.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Wasn't really railroad tracks.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
It was Union Road west of Union Road and east
of Union Road, and you know, in the east of
the Union Road that was the good side. The west
side that was you know, had it was a rougher area.
So but downtown even then, even even back in the eighties,
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was a very difficult place to go. Like in the seventies,
a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Of people were there.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You know, you had a lot of things going on.
The Ivy's department store was there, and I think you
even had Belk's department store that was there, and a
lot of things. And then everyone started leaving downtown Gastonia
and it started to become like just a.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Really bad place to be. And all of a sudden,
all these.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Shops have left, and everyone's trying to revitalize. And they've
been trying to revitalize downtown Gastonia Main Street and everything
for a very very long time, several decades, and it
just hasn't caught on yet. But you know, it doesn't
mean that people are stopping or not trying to do it.
And here's a really interesting story from Queen City News
(17:59):
about two guys that were actually trying that aren't actually
trying to revitalize parts of downtown Gastonia and then they
found something while doing.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
It, well, secrets one hidden and Pinesight have now been
rediscovered in downtown Gastonia and Queen City.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
News reporter Jen Cardon looks at a.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Piece of twentieth century art that two local developers plan
to preserve hidden inside this corner building on East Main
app in Gastonia is a secret treasure.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
We knew they had opportunity, and we knew that the
building had potential.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
This is fly tide uncovering.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
This is most certainly a game changer.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
And Preston Wilson, Oh, I made it worth it. Yeah,
two strangers made business partners when they renovated the building
across the street.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Gastonia was once a pop and city and we're just
trying to get it back to that greatness, to what.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
It once was.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
They decided to buy this one too and give it
another life.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
When we made the purchase. Came in here one day
after for that and it was I mean it was musty,
full of water. The roof had collapsed in several places,
and it had been like that for years and years.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
It turns out the purchase came with a bigger purpose.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
I saw a crack in the wall that had a
little bit I saw a little bit of blue in it.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Wilson says that speck of blue was unusual.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
So I grabbed a piece of wood and just kind
of tapped on the wall and a big chunk fell
off the wall and I saw like an as and
an a, and I was like, oh, there's something under here.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
A hidden mural featuring a twentieth century advertisement for Piedmont cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And we saw that mural, they changed the.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Game, changing their decision for the vision. Oh yeah, how
he needs a sign or a ghost sign hidden in
plain sight.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
There were a lot of different tobacco companies that were
trying to sell cigarettes, and they were painting yearls all
over the place.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Alice Weedric is a curator with the Gaston County Museum.
She says, despite how common this type of advertising was,
it's rare to see an outdoor mural like this so
well preserved.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Over time, people build over and put things over history,
and so as you're renovating things, you can uncover all
these little mysteries and all these little secrets from our past.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Secrets uncovered to be rediscovered again.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Behind every mural, there's a story.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
And the story of the mural in this rubble is
still being explored. Jen Cardoon and Queen City News.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
And so here's the thing, you know, it's I'm glad
that they found the mural, and I'm glad that they're
preserving it and they're doing all that other stuff. But
Gastonia has really really really struggled, like really struggled and
trying to rebuild an upfit up to or downtown Gastonia.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
You know, fifteen years ago rock Kill started doing it.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Fifteen you know, seventeen years ago rock Kill started doing it,
and they they did a really nice job of trying
to get people going back into downtown. Rock Hill and
Fort Mill has done a fantastic job of it.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Belmont was really the first one.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Belmont and Gaston County was really the first one to
get rid of a lot of the mill houses and
really really bring in a lot of heavy traffic and
revitalize downtown Belmont.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Cramerton's done a decent job. Mccaddviall's done a decent job.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I know, Moresville's done that as well, tried to revitalize downtown.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
They've done a really good job.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
You know, the massive construction that's been headaches to so
many people over there in Concord, they've done a really
good job, and they've just reopened it.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
And now you've got all.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
These places that now have social districts where you can
go to bars and drink while you're on the sidewalks
and walking from restaurant to restaurant, bar to bar. But
you know, it's Gastonia for whatever reason, just has struggled
extremely extremely major. And you know, Monroe, no one really
(21:54):
talks about, you know, the revitalization of you know, downtown
Monroe maybe didn't have that far to go. I mean
maybe didn't like completely deteriorate like so many of the
other downtown areas did in our area. You know, like
I said, rock Hill did great, four Mills done great.
Belmont is the gold standard, like they are the gold
standard of revitalizing downtowns. Lincoln's done very well as well,
(22:17):
you know, but like I said, Statesviell's got a long
ways to go. Kannapolis has done a lot to try
and revitalize downtown with the campus and everything down there.
Like towns are trying and as as I just said,
one hundred and fifty seven people every single day are
moving to this area. Those towns, downtowns that have been
dead for forty fifty years, sixty years, they can get
(22:39):
revitalized because people have.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
To move somewhere, and there's nowhere hardly to move in Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
So maybe maybe Gastoni's still ten years away, fifteen years away,
I don't know. Like fifteen years ago, I don't think
they still thought that they would be this far away
from revitalizing downtown Gastonia.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
But they are. They are.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I mean, you know, they built the brand new place
department at the courthouse and everything else, and it really
hasn't mattered. It has not mattered, and a lot of
it goes with and I'm not saying this is Gastonia,
but a lot of the small town areas, that's where
a lot of the crime is, that's where a lot
of the homelessness is, that's where a lot of the
drug activity is.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
So just a lot going in onto those areas.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
But it's nice to see that people are still trying
to revitalize Gastonia and all the surrounding small towns in
the shod air because they are they do have a
character and they are unique.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
All right.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
When we return, it's Panther Friday. Dave Canalis met with
the media today. We'll hear about that when we return.
But right now, let's swing on over to the WBT
Traffic Center with our man metro mic.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Don't thank you, sir.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
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Speaker 2 (24:11):
Is welcome back to breaking with Brett Jensen for a
(24:33):
few more minutes here on this Friday night. Carolina Panthers
played their last preseason game of the twenty twenty five
season last night at Bank America Stadium against the Pittsburgh
Steelers and now begins the task of having to cut
down the.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Roster to fifty three players.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
They'll start waiting until some of the other teams start
making cuts and so they can also see, hey, maybe
we want to pick up this player, maybe we want
to pick up that player. So they've got a few
more days of practicing with the team that's currently in place,
and then the cuts will start happening and then in
about two weeks from now, this is when you'll start
having the NFL game, starting like two weeks from the Sunday.
(25:10):
So anyways, Dave Can also head coach, met with the
media this morning to talk about, Hey, how do things
go so far this preseason?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
After the games?
Speaker 9 (25:19):
Uh, yeah, I just want to say, after you know,
getting here this morning and watching the film, I'm just
proud of the guys, proud of the the style of
football that's coming together. And I thought they represented us
so well, the guys that were out there battling, you know,
to be able to host the Steelers Mike Tomlin a
coach that I really respect, the culture that they've built,
(25:41):
and to be able to see just the physical nature,
you know, feeling like this is this is the standard
of playing hard in all phases, running finishing plays the
right way. I just love the way the guys competed yesterday.
And yeah, there's a lot we can learn from, a
lot that we can clean up. We're gonna have some
meetings here coming up pretty soon. But I just fired
up just about the mentality and the attitude that continues
(26:03):
to show up for us.
Speaker 10 (26:05):
Chapter reported that the Vikings have called about Adam. Can
you confirm that? And is that a trade you would
that you guys would consider making?
Speaker 9 (26:15):
You know, honestly, I'm letting Dan kind of handle all
that right now. I'm focused on our team, our football,
and Adams are part of that, you know, So the plans,
the plays, all those things. It's just stuff that we're
you know, focused on right now. And again, we have
a lot, you know, to talk about in the next
couple couple of days in terms of the roster and
all that. But you know, that's that's something that you know,
I'm going to let let them handle and for me
(26:37):
right now, it's just focusing on this, this entire roster
and be able to make decisions there.
Speaker 10 (26:41):
You've talked a lot about the improved depth at that position.
Is it deep enough that that you and Dan would
consider moving on from Adam?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Could be?
Speaker 9 (26:52):
I don't know, it's just you know, the until the
conversations really get real, there's really nothing to talk about
other than for us to just continue to think about
where we're going to be at going into the week's coming.
Speaker 11 (27:01):
When you're when you're considering like the next few weeks
and you get to practice Monday and Tuesday, is there
a sense that you want to be kind of not
necessarily forthcoming, but you want to kind of be proactive
with how you handle these roster moves over the weekend
before you guys get on the practice field again.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
Uh. Yeah, that's just the nature of it, right. I
think the good and the bad we play on a Thursday,
there's a bunch of games still that have to be played,
and you know, our goal really is to challenge our
roster first internally and then challenge it against the rest
of the NFL and the film that's put out there.
So there's a lot of film to still be watched,
and you know it starts with our guys first and foremost,
(27:44):
the ones we have the most information on, you know,
from from the practices, the joint practices, the mock games
that we had here, you know, the preseason game. So
we have a lot of information, but there's still some
more information that's going to come in, you know, down
the pipeline this weekend. And so yeah, I mean just
you know, with with all the deadlines that come up,
you know, we kind of naturally start to make those
(28:04):
decisions and hopefully, you know, sometime Wednesday will have you know,
the full set roster to be able to start, you know,
planning the pieces going into our game week.
Speaker 11 (28:13):
And then Taylor Moten sided his contract extension. How how
agreed to his contract extension? How important was he to
the program that you were building.
Speaker 9 (28:22):
It's such a great moment for us. Timo has been
you know, a stud here for a really long time
and has continued to show us, you know, the progress,
the reliability that we're looking for, the attitude, you know,
the character of the guy really, you know, first and foremost,
you know, speaks to who he is and just wanting
(28:43):
wanting him to be here, to be a part of
what we're building, and knowing that he's an important part
of our offense.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
As a health standpoint, it seems like your team through
training camp came away relatively unscathed compared to what a
lot of teams go through from training camp.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
Yeah, you give me a chance to just talk about
Josh Tinks and Danny Kellington. You know that that team
down there that's working together to put a really strong
fit team out there. A performance mindset is the first
thing I could say for these guys is we're looking
for guys to be at their best, and they have
an aggressive mentality for how they approach things. How they're
(29:17):
proactive checking in with our players individually to see what
type of extra mobility, you know, extra care, extra strength training,
different things, some great sessions, uh to to rejend the guys,
you know, throughout different days and and all of us
you know, myself, Dan, Josh and Denny just getting together
(29:38):
and just kind of planning, you know, how we dose
the team, how we prepare them for game like situations.
But they've done such a great job, and to the
player's credit, they're buying in. They're buying into the resources
that are available. They're buying into the the the high speed, intensity,
the the physical nature of the way we play. Knowing
(30:02):
we have to take care of our bodies. We have
to be proactive with this if we want to practice
and play the way that we'd like to.
Speaker 12 (30:08):
How do you kind of help a rookie balance wanting
to go hard and like one hundred and ten percent
all the time, but also understanding this is a much
longer season than a college game, and you've got to
be able to protect your body too.
Speaker 9 (30:20):
Yeah, we don't pick and choose. When you're on the field.
You go, and we ask the guys to trust us.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Go for it.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
Go for it, and if your gas, we'll get you
out of there, We'll get someone else in and the
miniature back out there. Everything you got. You don't have
to pick and choose when to go. I think what
we're talking about, Cassidy, you know, is the recovery. You
know that when you do practice like that, when you
do play like that in the game, the recovery starts
immediately when the game's over and you start going through
(30:49):
your process and you start getting your checks and balances
and refueling, you know, the times that are important, you know,
and utilizing the resources that we have downe there. You know,
we have an owner that supports us completely with the
resources that we have at our disposal and the technology
we're able to apply. But that also takes a lot
of training. And that's where you know, Denny has really
(31:09):
you know, challenged his group to get training in the
different resources that we have to apply it really specifically,
and so it's all those things, and it's the trust
to the players to know when you go in there,
you're getting the best care and that's what's happening here.
So I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 12 (31:24):
And then these next few days it can be a
stressful time for some of these bubble guys. I know
you talked about like what it's going to look like
for coaches. What do you suggest to the players. Do
you check in with them over these next couple of days,
or do you say, like we'll talk on Tuesday, Like
what do you kind of offer them advice on how
to get through this?
Speaker 9 (31:42):
Well, I think first and foremost, we have this day
where we get to evaluate the film, so we're all
back in the building, you know, and we'll have to
make those decisions, you know, at the beginning of next week.
But today is a chance to get better, to look
at the film, to take coaching, to improve you know,
all these things are so critical for all the players
who were able to play last night, So we'll start there,
(32:05):
and then beyond that, you know, it's just the challenge
to chase your dream, the challenge to never give up,
never say never, and to continue to work. And while
we know we can't have everybody do that here with us.
You know, our goal as a staff is to help
these guys to have a football life in one way,
shape or form. And I hope that the players feel
that they got the care, they got the coaching, They
(32:26):
were challenged, they were encouraged, they were held accountable for
different things, you know, to be able to help them
in the future.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
All Right, everyone that's going to do it for us
tonight and this week. I appreciate everyone who joined me
this week and look forward to doing it all over
again on Monday.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
The TJ. Richie Show is coming up next.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
My name is Bret Jensen, and you have been listening
to Breaking with Brett Jenson.
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