August 7, 2025 • 34 mins
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Breaking, Brett Jensen kicks the show off by talking about the Mecklenburg County Commission’s vote on the proposed one-cent sales tax and the political fallout that followed. He unpacks the backstory of the tax—meant to fund transportation projects like roads and light rail—and explains how it gained local and state support to make it onto the November ballot.
Jensen spotlights Commissioner Susan Rodriguez-McDowell, who previously pledged to support putting the measure on the ballot despite opposing it personally, only to reverse course with a “no” vote. Calling out what he sees as a political flip-flop,
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hi Oh, let's go hi Oh, let's go oh, Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh. There's talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WBT.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Brett Jenson here with you on this Thursday night edition
of Breaking with Brett Jensen. As we go all the
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can do the WBT text line, which is driven by
a Liberty Buick GMC, which is the exact same telephone
number to call the station. All right, so we're gonna
get into a few different things today. You just maybe
heard it mentioned just a second ago by Sharon Thorsland
about the nineteen eighty three NC State Wolfback team wanting
to get paid.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Just stop.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
But we'll get into that later. And is it because
you're broke? Is that why you're seeing But we'll get
into that later. But I want to start tonight with
the Melclimburg County Commissioner meeting last night about the one
cent sales tax increase. Now for those of you who
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are not aware or maybe don't understand, let me just
break break down things for you real quick. Meclebrook County,
six of the seven mayors minus Higden out in Matthews said,
we want this one cent sales tax for light rail,
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pay to build, you know, to a expand.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Roads, fix roads that need fixing, fixed bridges that need fixing.
The light rail from uptown all the way up to
like at least Davidson, maybe into.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Mooresville right or right there at the county line. So
they wanted this, They got it together and then it
went to Raleigh. But here's how this works. There's local support,
then it has to go to Raleigh in order for
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sales tax increases.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
The state has to pass this.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
They have to make it allowable, so it goes up
into Raleigh. And Senator Vicky Sawyer, I believe what irodeal County,
parts of the northern part of Mecklamore County and others.
She was the first one to put a proposal out there.
And every Senator from Macolmer County, Vicky being the only
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one that's Republican, also jumped on board in this and said, yes,
we agree with this. This proposal for the one said
sales tax minus witson Bradley. For whatever reason, she decided
not to. And I think it's because of Matthews, because
she represents Matthews and she didn't know what to do.
Mint Hill said yes, we want it. South Charlotte said yes,
we want it. Matthew said no, we don't want it.
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So the two of her three areas said yes, one
area said no, and she got scared and she just
didn't support it at the time. At the time, so
and then Tricia Coffin came along later on the House
side and put together her bill in her recommendation for things,
along with some others. So they debated, it went back
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and forth, and it passed. But that doesn't mean there's
a one sent sales tax. Means that it's now going
to be on the November ballot for you to vote
for the one sent sales tax. All Riley did by
passing it was allow it to be put as a
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referendum on the November ballot. We the citizens of Mecklenburg County,
have the ultimate and final say so whether it passes
or fails, and we will determine that in November.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
One little tiny.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Little step had to happen before it passed, and the
county commissioners had to agree to put it on the ballot. Right,
the state does their job. Now the county's got to
do their job. Yes, we agree, we will put this
on the ballot as a referendum. Now, the entire time,
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there's been one commissioner who said, I am against it.
I'm against it, I'm against it. I don't like this
one since sales tax, because I don't like the way
it's going to be distributed the money. By the way,
it's a billion dollars, like it's a billion, not just
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so you know. It's a nice round number of billion dollars.
But she had continuously said I will vote no in November,
but I will vote yes in August to give the
citizens of Mecklomber County a chance to vote on this.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I personally do not agree.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
With it, but you should be able to make up
your own mind. Well that's not exactly what happened, now,
is it. Susan Rodriguez McDowell, from the very beginning, who
said she was against it but would vote for it
to be put on the ballot, was the only commissioner
to vote no last night. So in a vote of
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eight to one and you only need five majority, it
passed and will now be put on the ballot one
of the things that you vote on in November. So
the person who has said from day one, I will
vote no in November, but I will vote yes in
August did what politicians do and voted no completely, just
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flip flopped. And there's no way or the way to
say it. Literally lie through her teeth previously, right, lie
is a strong word. I'm sorry, I don't know what
else you call it, Like you knew what was. It's
not like anything changed. You've said all along you were
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against the bill, but you were going to let the
voters vote for it. Are you grand standing because Matthews
is in your district, but don't forget so is Matthews,
so is South Charlotte, so all these other places that
are for it. So you don't think that voters should
have a right to vote for this by your voting, No,
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you're saying Lonnie has no right whatsoever to vote for this, Okay,
or me.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Or your husband? No, you know best of all, you
know best for.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
The one point one million people in Mecklenberg County. Okay, okay.
So I spoke to someone earlier this morning. An elected
official said, what did you think about last night and
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the Susan Rodriguez McDowell, Susan McDowell, what did you think.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
About her situation?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
What she did last night and the little grand standing?
And this elected official said, she made a complete fool
of herself verbatim direct quote. Oh okay, So how do
you really feel? So that's where we are with this.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
It passed.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It will be on the ballot when you show up
if you show up in November to vote for the
city and local elections, because that's the only thing on
the ballot are local elections and now the one sales
tax for Mecklemburg County, so.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
That will now be there in November.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
But it's just funny how the one person who voted
no was also the exact same person that was truly
pissed off that mint Hill a couple of years ago
got twenty million dollars in the state budget because.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Of Trisha Coatham. Her district got.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Like funding for the police department and the rec center
and everything else, right, baseball fields whatever, because Minhill's growing,
as we know stated in a County Commission meeting could
not understand why mint Hill would get twenty million dollars
in how it basically wasn't fair for the rest of
the county even though the rest of the county is
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not in her district.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Minhill Is was upset that something in her own.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
District benefited the police department, the arts like, you can't
make it up.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
You can't make it up.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen again on this
Thursday night as we go up until seven o'clock tonight. Okay,
real quick, I want to make a clarification on something
I misspoke. So I just want to make sure that
I get this out there. I said a billion dollars.
I'm sorry, it's not a billion dollars. They'd be nineteen
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billion dollars. And you know, I call it the light rail,
but it's it's gonna be a diesel train up and
down the tracks that are already there all the way
up to Davidson. But I mean people will still may
call it the light rail even though maybe it's not
a light rail. But yeah, and they were talking about
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like initially having it going all the way and you
know from like the airport all the way to Matthews
and Davidson into uptown. But Davidson can actually you could
take it from Davidson in theory all the way down
to the south end of the county in theory. But uh,
but yes, so it's the red line. But it's gonna
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be basically maybe, and I'm not even trying to be facetious,
maybe in my lifetime it will be completed.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
They're estimating maybe thirty years. Now.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I plan on being here in thirty years, you know.
But my point is a lot could happen in thirty years.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
So with that said, I want you to hear this
report last night from WBTV about this exact issue that
I just discussed. Also, it creates more opportunities for the
volume to be able to go to work.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Within the last thirty minutes, the Mecklinburg County Board of
Commissioners decided to allow voters to decide on a sales
tax increase in November. Dozens of speakers took the podium
to address county officials for more than two hours on
a multi billion dollar transit plan.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
The proposal includes a one cent sales tax increase for
Mecklenburg County residents. That question will now officially be on
the ballot in November.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Something not everyone is in favor of.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Wbtv's Matt Fernandez just got out of tonight's meeting. Matt,
the discussion took several hours.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, I did. It was a long one.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
There were both people four and against the referendum. One
important thing, how this will impact everyone, whether you write
transportation or not. As the light rail rose into the
new Burn station just over a mile away inside the
Charlotte Mecklenburg meeting chambers, people are letting their voices be heard,
either for or against a proposed sales tax increase to
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fund a transit plan.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
This tax does not promise to provide the solutions that
we actually need to effectively move people in into, and
through Mecklenburg County.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
This transit investment will connect the sixth busiest airport in
the world with our communities, our businesses, and our institutions
of higher learning. This transit investment will greatly enhance our
best ridership.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
After hearing from the people, county commissioners did not vote
on the sales tax increase, rather voted yes on a
referendum which allows voters to decide if the one cent
sales tax increase should help pay for a transit project
on the November ballot.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
If it was approved by voter.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
On the ballot, it would cost you the jackpair amount
twenty dollars per month dout two hundred and forty dollars
per year. It will go towards improvements on the rail.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Boss and transit.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Official say it would expand the light rail from the
airport to Bojangles Coliseum. It would also help with bus infrastructure,
extending access to four hundred and fifty thousand residents. It
would come with the price tag of nearly twenty billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
This plan, I guarantee you is going to waste the
test players of money.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's it's not going to be able to come to fruisity.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Carol Hardison thinks it would be worth the money.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Strongly support any opportunity to increase access to public transit.
We can't ignore growth and I agree with others who
have spoken it's not perfect, but we cannot not do this.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Official say it could take up to thirty years to
build out and pay for the project. Voters go to
the polls on November fourth.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Me frind is.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Okay So here's the thing, A couple of things there.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
So the first person you heard, the first male that
you heard, is Braxton Winston, former Chlott's City council member,
Braxton Winston. He's speaking because clearly he wants to still
keep himself in the public eye for a potential run
at mayor in two years. When vy Lyles hangs it up, okay,
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but what he said was completely inaccurate in this sense.
If you haven't eaten, okay, you're and people are going
to laugh in this room as soon as I say this.
But let's just say Lonnie's a vegan. But let's just
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say Lonnie's a vegan. But Lannie's been kidnapped, Okay, he's
being held by terraces like humas, and Loni hasn't eaten
in about nine ten days. And then they come up
with him. They're like, all right, dude, here's here's some
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lamb or goat. Loni's a vegetarian or vegan, not even vegetarian,
he's a vegan, like hardcore, are you gonna eat it
if you're a vegan or you're gonna continue to start
because it's meat. It may not be perfect, but it's
better than nothing. It may not be vegan Lonni, but
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you're putting something in your body that's sort of like this,
like would you rather have zero or would you rather
have the goat?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Take the goat all day?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I haven't eaten in ten days, I'm taking some goat.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Right, That's what this is. It's food.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Or if you're on a diet and it's like they
decide to feed you cupcakes. Okay, I'm on a diet,
but it's better than not having any food after ten days,
because I know, after ten days of night eating, you
wouldn't need to be on a diet anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I get that, But you understand what I'm saying now.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
The guy at the very very end says, oh, I
guarantee you our taxes are going to go up.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Okay, okay, how many like?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
And I know bo's the big eighties movies. Guy like,
he references them all the time, and some of them
I remember, like certain very specific lines. Does anyone remember this?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Hello McFly, Hello, Yes, your taxes are going up. That's
what you're voting on.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
If you vote yes, that means your taxes are going up,
of course. And as Charlotte, and here's what people forget, Well,
it's not gonna pay for everything.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Here's what you people forget in all this.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Let's say this takes thirty years.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Okay, where was Charlotte population wise in nineteen ninety five?
How much has Charlotte grown in thirty years? How much
more tax revenue is there now compared to nineteen ninety five?
How much more tax revenue do you think it's going
to be there in twenty fifty five and twenty fifty
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I mean, seriously, Pineville will probably become one with Charlotte,
SOA Matthews, SOA mint Hill, Huntersville almost already is.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I mean, what are we talking about.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
There's going to be way more revenue generated as we
continue to grab. One hundred and eighteen people every day
moved to our area one hundred and eighteen every day. Yes,
some leave, yes, but the fact that that many people
move to our area every single day. And even if
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you don't live in Gaston County, or maybe you live
in Gaston County or Fort Mill, well we all know
there's nowhere really to eat in Gaston County. So where
you're going to eat dinner at night? Or you want
to go to a Panthers game or Hornet's game. Guess what,
that's all that revenue coming into Mecklamore County for taxes
for people who don't even live here.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
So it's not rocket science, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I mean, I know some of you have a hard
time with two plus two, but it's not rocket science.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen on this rainy week.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
As we continue on this rainy Thursday night, so we
go up until seven o'clock. It's about old twenty two
and a half minutes from now, all right, so let's
get into something else here.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Some of you will be old enough to remember this.
Some of you may not be old.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Enough to remember have watched it live, but you've probably
all at least heard of this. Even if you're not
from North Carolina. You have heard of this, even though
this is a North Carolina thing. This is how Jim
Valvano got famous. The nineteen eighty three NC State Wolfpack
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team that won the national championship, that beat keem Olajuan
Clyde Drexler, Phi slam a Gema maybe the greatest college
nickname for a team of all time, because everything was
like slam dunks, and so they called it Phi Slamma jama.
It was just awesome, like a fraternity. So they beat
him on a last second shot. Derek Wittenberg throws up
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a shot. It's an air ball, falls about a foot
and a half. Lorenzo Charles grabs it in mid air
and dunks it all at the same time, just as
the buzzer gets ready to go. And then there's the
famous scene of Jim Valvano running around the court trying
to find somebody a hug because he doesn't know what
to do. He's literally running around the court trying to
find someone to hug, and he looks lost, right. So
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during that that run, they became known even before they
won the national championship, during that run in the NCATE Tournament,
they became known as the Cardiac Pack because they won
I think one game in like maybe double overtime in
multiple games at the very very last second, because they
would be down six points with forty seconds to go
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and they didn't have three pointers back then, right, and
so they would have to keep fouling and fouling and
go down and make a shot, and they would always
pull it out at the very last second. I think
they were like behind in almost every game in the
last couple of minutes, and they kept winning and pulling
a rabbit out of their rear end to keep winning.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
So that's when the name the Cardiac Pack.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Like I said, even before they won the national championship,
they were already calling them the Cardiac Pack. So they
get and they won the national championship, of course on
a last second Hail Mary that you know is played
on highlights to this day.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Well, because of all.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
The nil stuff, eleven or twelve members of that basketball
team tried to suit, the NCAA said, sued him last year,
said you owe us money from something that happened forty
one years ago because you keep showing highlights and you
and you profited it off of it. You had highlights
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on your website forty one years ago.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Okay, you owe us.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Judge Mark Davis so.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Threw it out of court.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
In a forty four page release today the forty four
page reason why, and the NCAA said, look, they had
a four year statue of limitations on anti trust claims.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
They didn't meet that.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
They also didn't meet the three year statue of limitations
on the planet's claims of invasion of privacy and unjust enrichment,
and the judge said, you.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Are right, you are right, you are right.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
But I think what bothered me, and I'm glad they're
not getting a dime because they're all minimum. So that
was eighty three, so you add forty two. The youngest
one would have been eighteen, so they're all minimum sixty
years old now.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Granted, maybe some of them need some cash. Terry Gannon is.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
A very wealthy man NBC Sports Olympic Golf. Terry Gannon
is a very wealthy man. Before that, he was with
ABC Sports forever as a broadcaster. Terry, Canlana have some money?
Derek Whitenberg coached college for a long time. Sid you
love the same thing. Hand out some cash to your
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fellow teammates if they're that hard up.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Maybe you are, maybe you already do.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I don't know, but there are only.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
A few people in my brain as a long, long,
long time sports reporter that have claim to any kind
of you want to say, restitution or monetary claims from
things that happened a long time ago. And one of
them involves the University of North Carolina. And I've said
this on my show before. The most sold college basketball
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jersey of all time is number twenty three from the
University of North Carolina, and it's not even close. It's
not even close now. The way the NCAA got away
with it back in the day was they wouldn't put
the name Jordan on the back of the jersey. It
was a University of North Carolina real basketball jersey with
twenty three, but they just won't put the name Jordan
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on it because their argument was, well, many people can
wear twenty three now when you were tired of the number.
When you were tired of the number, that means nobody
else can wear it. And it's still to this day
a sole jersey that Jordan hasn't gotten a pinny of.
Maybe somebody like an Auburn where you have a Bo
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Jackson like he is so mythical and Paul Bunyan esque.
His jersey cells in Auburn are through the roof. And
again he played in the early eighties, won the Heisman
and then became this myth Bono's bono's, baseball bonos, football
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bonos everything. So there are a few college players here
or there that deserve maybe to be compensated, maybe out
of the kindness of the university's hearts. God forbid that
ever happened. All they want is more money from those players, meaning, hey,
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can you you know where it is that Jordan's going
to be donating millions of dollars in the nil to
help offset whatever shortcomings they have with the football program. Okay,
so can you hook me up a little bit with
all You're still selling my jersey. Forty years later, You're
still selling my jersey. Jordan left Carolina in nineteen eighty four.
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Forty one years later, they're still selling the jersey. Nobody's
selling in c State wolf pipe jerseys from nineteen eighty three,
like you'd have to get that specialty made. Nobody's buying
those jerseys because they're not selling them. Everyone knows who
Michael Jordan is. Nobody knows who Cozell McQueen is. So
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it's just everyone now is trying to get a piece
of the pie, and the judge threw it out. I'm
glad the judge threw it out, dude. This was forty
two years ago. I remember exactly where I was watching
it at the time. I was in a hotel in
Myrtle Beach watching it in a hotel in Myrtle Beach.
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I was like in junior high, middle school watching it.
So yeah, but my point is I'm glad they're not
getting paid.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I mean again forty years after the fact, really, dude.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Okay, welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen. Minutes to
go here on this Thursday night, as we take you
up until seven o'clock again, the text line driven by
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Liberty Buick GMC is seven oh four five, seven oh
eleven ten.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
So you guys know that one of the things that
I talk about extensively is media, local media, statewide.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Media, and national media.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Okay, so we all know about the situation involving public broadcasting,
whether it's NPR or it's PBS. So when you see
just just ask yourself these simple questions. And I talked
briefly about this last week concerning Stephen Colbert. Who are
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the only people crying about Stephen Colbert? That'd be Democrats?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Right, Okay? Why is that? Because they know.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
That's their show on basically public TV. And what I
mean by that is, as long as you got in
ten of years, it's free to watch, right, You don't
have to pay for cable. You can get those special
things you put hook up to your TV and you
can watch all the local channels for free, just like
when you were all children more before the invention of cable.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
So there's a reason why.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
By the way, I saw this thing that came out
from a website, or not a website, but a group,
a group that tracks media. I want to say it's
Stephen Colbert. One hundred and seventy five guests were Democrat,
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one was Republican, but the one Republican was Liz Cheney,
which isn't really a Republican. I mean she came on
to bash Trump and everything else, right, so that doesn't
even count. And something like the View has had zero
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conservative guests, and like a ton it wound up when
you added up Jimmy Kimmel. He I think he's had
two conservatives, and one of them was like the pillow guy,
you know that you always see on the commercials that
does for on Fox News, like the pillow guy, the
sleep pillow guy, and he was one of them. Right,
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But when you add up Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and
the View wasn't even counted, Like but all the late
night talk shows, it was something like ninety eight percent
of all guests were Democrats. Think about that ninety eight percent?
And you want to know why Republicans are upset at
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regular television and they call it.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
The liberal media.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Oh, there's no such thing as a liberal I'm sorry.
Who's in your news department at CBS? Okay, how's that
Gail King thing working out for you? And Margaret Brennan,
who's a disaster?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
NBC?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Chuck Todd just a horrible, horrible newsperson an NBC which
owns MSNBC, and there's sometimes crossover. How about how about ABC?
George Stephanopolis, does that ring a bell to you? Who
only donated was it millions of dollars or fifty thousand
dollars to Hillary Clintons campaign, who used to work for
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the Clintons. And then that recent reporter Terry Moran, moron
whatever you want to call him, who got fired for
going on a late night unhinged rant on Twitter about
Trump and Steven Miller. He still claims he wasn't drunk,
by the way, I doubt it at that time of night.
You're just you're telling me your stone sober at twelve
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o'clock at night. Okay, all right, so now it comes NPR.
The only people complaining are the Democrats. Okay, but don't
think that PBS is going away anytime soon. One percent
of PBS's funding comes from the federal government one percent,
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because it's all local stations that have.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Local donors and people that contribute it.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You know, they would constantly have telethons. They still do
that song on PBS.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
NPR.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Six percent comes from federal funding. So we're not talking
like it's one hundred percent federally funded. Now you lose
six percent immediately off the top, like here in Charlotte,
the NPR station, who's hired like a thousand people over there, Now,
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maybe you lose six percent of your jobs, which means
instead of one hundred people, you know, now they've got
ninety four or whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
They have got a ton of people over there. That's
what happens.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You get on the Fed's dime, that's what happens. So anyways,
don't hold your breath anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
On Oh, Big Burg's going away.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
No he's not. No, he's not. Big Burd ain't going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster, Burton, Ernie, They're not going anywhere,
all right. Dora the Explorer not going anywhere? Was it
Barney on PBS? Was he on PBS of nickelodeon PBS? Okay, yeah,
see that was that was like past my time.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
As a kid.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
So yeah, that was exactly my time.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Okay, all right, he loves you? Is that what it is?
I love you?
Speaker 2 (32:53):
You love me?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Okay, hey, keep that to yourself. Money you love it?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
You stay on us side of the board over there, buddy.
But but yeah, so I'm just letting you know about
the media. Just it looks like all the reports are
that looks like SNL may be the next to get
the chopping block. They're losing one hundred million a year.
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Stephen Colbert was losing forty million a year. The view
looks like they may be gone. One can only pray
and hope Jimmy Kimmel next.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Thank god. Howard Stern's gone. Thank God.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Like he became a freak show at COVID, he went
home and immediately thought the entire world was going to
die and has refused to leave his house. So every
show he does is from his house. The guests go
to the studio, but he stays at home. And he
became an apologist and started going after people who wouldn't
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get vaccinated, basically saying good let him die, like it
was a whole thing with Howard Stern. So anyways, he
just got canceled out of serious XM.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Good. I mean, he was.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Old and way past his time. She probably should have
happened about ten years ago. So anyways, that's the latest
update with the media. I just want to let you
guys know what's going on. All right, everyone, we'll look
forward to doing this all over again tomorrow. My name
is Brett Jensen, and you have been listening to Breaking
with Brett Jensen.
Hi Oh, let's go hi Oh, let's go oh, Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
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Speaker 1 (00:35):
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a Liberty Buick GMC, which is the exact same telephone
number to call the station. All right, so we're gonna
get into a few different things today. You just maybe
heard it mentioned just a second ago by Sharon Thorsland
about the nineteen eighty three NC State Wolfback team wanting
to get paid.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Just stop.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
But we'll get into that later. And is it because
you're broke? Is that why you're seeing But we'll get
into that later. But I want to start tonight with
the Melclimburg County Commissioner meeting last night about the one
cent sales tax increase. Now for those of you who
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are not aware or maybe don't understand, let me just
break break down things for you real quick. Meclebrook County,
six of the seven mayors minus Higden out in Matthews said,
we want this one cent sales tax for light rail,
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pay to build, you know, to a expand.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Roads, fix roads that need fixing, fixed bridges that need fixing.
The light rail from uptown all the way up to
like at least Davidson, maybe into.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Mooresville right or right there at the county line. So
they wanted this, They got it together and then it
went to Raleigh. But here's how this works. There's local support,
then it has to go to Raleigh in order for
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sales tax increases.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
The state has to pass this.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
They have to make it allowable, so it goes up
into Raleigh. And Senator Vicky Sawyer, I believe what irodeal County,
parts of the northern part of Mecklamore County and others.
She was the first one to put a proposal out there.
And every Senator from Macolmer County, Vicky being the only
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one that's Republican, also jumped on board in this and said, yes,
we agree with this. This proposal for the one said
sales tax minus witson Bradley. For whatever reason, she decided
not to. And I think it's because of Matthews, because
she represents Matthews and she didn't know what to do.
Mint Hill said yes, we want it. South Charlotte said yes,
we want it. Matthew said no, we don't want it.
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So the two of her three areas said yes, one
area said no, and she got scared and she just
didn't support it at the time. At the time, so
and then Tricia Coffin came along later on the House
side and put together her bill in her recommendation for things,
along with some others. So they debated, it went back
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and forth, and it passed. But that doesn't mean there's
a one sent sales tax. Means that it's now going
to be on the November ballot for you to vote
for the one sent sales tax. All Riley did by
passing it was allow it to be put as a
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referendum on the November ballot. We the citizens of Mecklenburg County,
have the ultimate and final say so whether it passes
or fails, and we will determine that in November.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
One little tiny.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Little step had to happen before it passed, and the
county commissioners had to agree to put it on the ballot. Right,
the state does their job. Now the county's got to
do their job. Yes, we agree, we will put this
on the ballot as a referendum. Now, the entire time,
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there's been one commissioner who said, I am against it.
I'm against it, I'm against it. I don't like this
one since sales tax, because I don't like the way
it's going to be distributed the money. By the way,
it's a billion dollars, like it's a billion, not just
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so you know. It's a nice round number of billion dollars.
But she had continuously said I will vote no in November,
but I will vote yes in August to give the
citizens of Mecklomber County a chance to vote on this.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I personally do not agree.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
With it, but you should be able to make up
your own mind. Well that's not exactly what happened, now,
is it. Susan Rodriguez McDowell, from the very beginning, who
said she was against it but would vote for it
to be put on the ballot, was the only commissioner
to vote no last night. So in a vote of
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eight to one and you only need five majority, it
passed and will now be put on the ballot one
of the things that you vote on in November. So
the person who has said from day one, I will
vote no in November, but I will vote yes in
August did what politicians do and voted no completely, just
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flip flopped. And there's no way or the way to
say it. Literally lie through her teeth previously, right, lie
is a strong word. I'm sorry, I don't know what
else you call it, Like you knew what was. It's
not like anything changed. You've said all along you were
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against the bill, but you were going to let the
voters vote for it. Are you grand standing because Matthews
is in your district, but don't forget so is Matthews,
so is South Charlotte, so all these other places that
are for it. So you don't think that voters should
have a right to vote for this by your voting, No,
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you're saying Lonnie has no right whatsoever to vote for this, Okay,
or me.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Or your husband? No, you know best of all, you
know best for.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
The one point one million people in Mecklenberg County. Okay, okay.
So I spoke to someone earlier this morning. An elected
official said, what did you think about last night and
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the Susan Rodriguez McDowell, Susan McDowell, what did you think.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
About her situation?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
What she did last night and the little grand standing?
And this elected official said, she made a complete fool
of herself verbatim direct quote. Oh okay, So how do
you really feel? So that's where we are with this.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
It passed.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It will be on the ballot when you show up
if you show up in November to vote for the
city and local elections, because that's the only thing on
the ballot are local elections and now the one sales
tax for Mecklemburg County, so.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
That will now be there in November.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
But it's just funny how the one person who voted
no was also the exact same person that was truly
pissed off that mint Hill a couple of years ago
got twenty million dollars in the state budget because.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Of Trisha Coatham. Her district got.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Like funding for the police department and the rec center
and everything else, right, baseball fields whatever, because Minhill's growing,
as we know stated in a County Commission meeting could
not understand why mint Hill would get twenty million dollars
in how it basically wasn't fair for the rest of
the county even though the rest of the county is
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not in her district.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Minhill Is was upset that something in her own.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
District benefited the police department, the arts like, you can't
make it up.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
You can't make it up.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen again on this
Thursday night as we go up until seven o'clock tonight. Okay,
real quick, I want to make a clarification on something
I misspoke. So I just want to make sure that
I get this out there. I said a billion dollars.
I'm sorry, it's not a billion dollars. They'd be nineteen
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billion dollars. And you know, I call it the light rail,
but it's it's gonna be a diesel train up and
down the tracks that are already there all the way
up to Davidson. But I mean people will still may
call it the light rail even though maybe it's not
a light rail. But yeah, and they were talking about
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like initially having it going all the way and you
know from like the airport all the way to Matthews
and Davidson into uptown. But Davidson can actually you could
take it from Davidson in theory all the way down
to the south end of the county in theory. But uh,
but yes, so it's the red line. But it's gonna
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be basically maybe, and I'm not even trying to be facetious,
maybe in my lifetime it will be completed.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
They're estimating maybe thirty years. Now.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I plan on being here in thirty years, you know.
But my point is a lot could happen in thirty years.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
So with that said, I want you to hear this
report last night from WBTV about this exact issue that
I just discussed. Also, it creates more opportunities for the
volume to be able to go to work.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Within the last thirty minutes, the Mecklinburg County Board of
Commissioners decided to allow voters to decide on a sales
tax increase in November. Dozens of speakers took the podium
to address county officials for more than two hours on
a multi billion dollar transit plan.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
The proposal includes a one cent sales tax increase for
Mecklenburg County residents. That question will now officially be on
the ballot in November.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Something not everyone is in favor of.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Wbtv's Matt Fernandez just got out of tonight's meeting. Matt,
the discussion took several hours.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, I did. It was a long one.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
There were both people four and against the referendum. One
important thing, how this will impact everyone, whether you write
transportation or not. As the light rail rose into the
new Burn station just over a mile away inside the
Charlotte Mecklenburg meeting chambers, people are letting their voices be heard,
either for or against a proposed sales tax increase to
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fund a transit plan.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
This tax does not promise to provide the solutions that
we actually need to effectively move people in into, and
through Mecklenburg County.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
This transit investment will connect the sixth busiest airport in
the world with our communities, our businesses, and our institutions
of higher learning. This transit investment will greatly enhance our
best ridership.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
After hearing from the people, county commissioners did not vote
on the sales tax increase, rather voted yes on a
referendum which allows voters to decide if the one cent
sales tax increase should help pay for a transit project
on the November ballot.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
If it was approved by voter.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
On the ballot, it would cost you the jackpair amount
twenty dollars per month dout two hundred and forty dollars
per year. It will go towards improvements on the rail.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Boss and transit.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Official say it would expand the light rail from the
airport to Bojangles Coliseum. It would also help with bus infrastructure,
extending access to four hundred and fifty thousand residents. It
would come with the price tag of nearly twenty billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
This plan, I guarantee you is going to waste the
test players of money.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's it's not going to be able to come to fruisity.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Carol Hardison thinks it would be worth the money.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Strongly support any opportunity to increase access to public transit.
We can't ignore growth and I agree with others who
have spoken it's not perfect, but we cannot not do this.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Official say it could take up to thirty years to
build out and pay for the project. Voters go to
the polls on November fourth.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Me frind is.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Okay So here's the thing, A couple of things there.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
So the first person you heard, the first male that
you heard, is Braxton Winston, former Chlott's City council member,
Braxton Winston. He's speaking because clearly he wants to still
keep himself in the public eye for a potential run
at mayor in two years. When vy Lyles hangs it up, okay,
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but what he said was completely inaccurate in this sense.
If you haven't eaten, okay, you're and people are going
to laugh in this room as soon as I say this.
But let's just say Lonnie's a vegan. But let's just
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say Lonnie's a vegan. But Lannie's been kidnapped, Okay, he's
being held by terraces like humas, and Loni hasn't eaten
in about nine ten days. And then they come up
with him. They're like, all right, dude, here's here's some
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lamb or goat. Loni's a vegetarian or vegan, not even vegetarian,
he's a vegan, like hardcore, are you gonna eat it
if you're a vegan or you're gonna continue to start
because it's meat. It may not be perfect, but it's
better than nothing. It may not be vegan Lonni, but
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you're putting something in your body that's sort of like this,
like would you rather have zero or would you rather
have the goat?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Take the goat all day?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I haven't eaten in ten days, I'm taking some goat.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Right, That's what this is. It's food.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Or if you're on a diet and it's like they
decide to feed you cupcakes. Okay, I'm on a diet,
but it's better than not having any food after ten days,
because I know, after ten days of night eating, you
wouldn't need to be on a diet anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I get that, But you understand what I'm saying now.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
The guy at the very very end says, oh, I
guarantee you our taxes are going to go up.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Okay, okay, how many like?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
And I know bo's the big eighties movies. Guy like,
he references them all the time, and some of them
I remember, like certain very specific lines. Does anyone remember this?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Hello McFly, Hello, Yes, your taxes are going up. That's
what you're voting on.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
If you vote yes, that means your taxes are going up,
of course. And as Charlotte, and here's what people forget, Well,
it's not gonna pay for everything.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Here's what you people forget in all this.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Let's say this takes thirty years.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Okay, where was Charlotte population wise in nineteen ninety five?
How much has Charlotte grown in thirty years? How much
more tax revenue is there now compared to nineteen ninety five?
How much more tax revenue do you think it's going
to be there in twenty fifty five and twenty fifty
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I mean, seriously, Pineville will probably become one with Charlotte,
SOA Matthews, SOA mint Hill, Huntersville almost already is.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I mean, what are we talking about.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
There's going to be way more revenue generated as we
continue to grab. One hundred and eighteen people every day
moved to our area one hundred and eighteen every day. Yes,
some leave, yes, but the fact that that many people
move to our area every single day. And even if
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you don't live in Gaston County, or maybe you live
in Gaston County or Fort Mill, well we all know
there's nowhere really to eat in Gaston County. So where
you're going to eat dinner at night? Or you want
to go to a Panthers game or Hornet's game. Guess what,
that's all that revenue coming into Mecklamore County for taxes
for people who don't even live here.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
So it's not rocket science, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I mean, I know some of you have a hard
time with two plus two, but it's not rocket science.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen on this rainy week.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
As we continue on this rainy Thursday night, so we
go up until seven o'clock. It's about old twenty two
and a half minutes from now, all right, so let's
get into something else here.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Some of you will be old enough to remember this.
Some of you may not be old.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Enough to remember have watched it live, but you've probably
all at least heard of this. Even if you're not
from North Carolina. You have heard of this, even though
this is a North Carolina thing. This is how Jim
Valvano got famous. The nineteen eighty three NC State Wolfpack
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team that won the national championship, that beat keem Olajuan
Clyde Drexler, Phi slam a Gema maybe the greatest college
nickname for a team of all time, because everything was
like slam dunks, and so they called it Phi Slamma jama.
It was just awesome, like a fraternity. So they beat
him on a last second shot. Derek Wittenberg throws up
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a shot. It's an air ball, falls about a foot
and a half. Lorenzo Charles grabs it in mid air
and dunks it all at the same time, just as
the buzzer gets ready to go. And then there's the
famous scene of Jim Valvano running around the court trying
to find somebody a hug because he doesn't know what
to do. He's literally running around the court trying to
find someone to hug, and he looks lost, right. So
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during that that run, they became known even before they
won the national championship, during that run in the NCATE Tournament,
they became known as the Cardiac Pack because they won
I think one game in like maybe double overtime in
multiple games at the very very last second, because they
would be down six points with forty seconds to go
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and they didn't have three pointers back then, right, and
so they would have to keep fouling and fouling and
go down and make a shot, and they would always
pull it out at the very last second. I think
they were like behind in almost every game in the
last couple of minutes, and they kept winning and pulling
a rabbit out of their rear end to keep winning.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
So that's when the name the Cardiac Pack.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Like I said, even before they won the national championship,
they were already calling them the Cardiac Pack. So they
get and they won the national championship, of course on
a last second Hail Mary that you know is played
on highlights to this day.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Well, because of all.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
The nil stuff, eleven or twelve members of that basketball
team tried to suit, the NCAA said, sued him last year,
said you owe us money from something that happened forty
one years ago because you keep showing highlights and you
and you profited it off of it. You had highlights
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on your website forty one years ago.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Okay, you owe us.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Judge Mark Davis so.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Threw it out of court.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
In a forty four page release today the forty four
page reason why, and the NCAA said, look, they had
a four year statue of limitations on anti trust claims.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
They didn't meet that.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
They also didn't meet the three year statue of limitations
on the planet's claims of invasion of privacy and unjust enrichment,
and the judge said, you.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Are right, you are right, you are right.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
But I think what bothered me, and I'm glad they're
not getting a dime because they're all minimum. So that
was eighty three, so you add forty two. The youngest
one would have been eighteen, so they're all minimum sixty
years old now.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Granted, maybe some of them need some cash. Terry Gannon is.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
A very wealthy man NBC Sports Olympic Golf. Terry Gannon
is a very wealthy man. Before that, he was with
ABC Sports forever as a broadcaster. Terry, Canlana have some money?
Derek Whitenberg coached college for a long time. Sid you
love the same thing. Hand out some cash to your
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fellow teammates if they're that hard up.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Maybe you are, maybe you already do.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I don't know, but there are only.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
A few people in my brain as a long, long,
long time sports reporter that have claim to any kind
of you want to say, restitution or monetary claims from
things that happened a long time ago. And one of
them involves the University of North Carolina. And I've said
this on my show before. The most sold college basketball
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jersey of all time is number twenty three from the
University of North Carolina, and it's not even close. It's
not even close now. The way the NCAA got away
with it back in the day was they wouldn't put
the name Jordan on the back of the jersey. It
was a University of North Carolina real basketball jersey with
twenty three, but they just won't put the name Jordan
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on it because their argument was, well, many people can
wear twenty three now when you were tired of the number.
When you were tired of the number, that means nobody
else can wear it. And it's still to this day
a sole jersey that Jordan hasn't gotten a pinny of.
Maybe somebody like an Auburn where you have a Bo
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Jackson like he is so mythical and Paul Bunyan esque.
His jersey cells in Auburn are through the roof. And
again he played in the early eighties, won the Heisman
and then became this myth Bono's bono's, baseball bonos, football
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bonos everything. So there are a few college players here
or there that deserve maybe to be compensated, maybe out
of the kindness of the university's hearts. God forbid that
ever happened. All they want is more money from those players, meaning, hey,
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can you you know where it is that Jordan's going
to be donating millions of dollars in the nil to
help offset whatever shortcomings they have with the football program. Okay,
so can you hook me up a little bit with
all You're still selling my jersey. Forty years later, You're
still selling my jersey. Jordan left Carolina in nineteen eighty four.
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Forty one years later, they're still selling the jersey. Nobody's
selling in c State wolf pipe jerseys from nineteen eighty three,
like you'd have to get that specialty made. Nobody's buying
those jerseys because they're not selling them. Everyone knows who
Michael Jordan is. Nobody knows who Cozell McQueen is. So
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it's just everyone now is trying to get a piece
of the pie, and the judge threw it out. I'm
glad the judge threw it out, dude. This was forty
two years ago. I remember exactly where I was watching
it at the time. I was in a hotel in
Myrtle Beach watching it in a hotel in Myrtle Beach.
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I was like in junior high, middle school watching it.
So yeah, but my point is I'm glad they're not
getting paid.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I mean again forty years after the fact, really, dude.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Okay, welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen. Minutes to
go here on this Thursday night, as we take you
up until seven o'clock again, the text line driven by
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Liberty Buick GMC is seven oh four five, seven oh
eleven ten.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
So you guys know that one of the things that
I talk about extensively is media, local media, statewide.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Media, and national media.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Okay, so we all know about the situation involving public broadcasting,
whether it's NPR or it's PBS. So when you see
just just ask yourself these simple questions. And I talked
briefly about this last week concerning Stephen Colbert. Who are
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the only people crying about Stephen Colbert? That'd be Democrats?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Right, Okay? Why is that? Because they know.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
That's their show on basically public TV. And what I
mean by that is, as long as you got in
ten of years, it's free to watch, right, You don't
have to pay for cable. You can get those special
things you put hook up to your TV and you
can watch all the local channels for free, just like
when you were all children more before the invention of cable.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
So there's a reason why.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
By the way, I saw this thing that came out
from a website, or not a website, but a group,
a group that tracks media. I want to say it's
Stephen Colbert. One hundred and seventy five guests were Democrat,
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one was Republican, but the one Republican was Liz Cheney,
which isn't really a Republican. I mean she came on
to bash Trump and everything else, right, so that doesn't
even count. And something like the View has had zero
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conservative guests, and like a ton it wound up when
you added up Jimmy Kimmel. He I think he's had
two conservatives, and one of them was like the pillow guy,
you know that you always see on the commercials that
does for on Fox News, like the pillow guy, the
sleep pillow guy, and he was one of them. Right,
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But when you add up Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and
the View wasn't even counted, Like but all the late
night talk shows, it was something like ninety eight percent
of all guests were Democrats. Think about that ninety eight percent?
And you want to know why Republicans are upset at
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regular television and they call it.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
The liberal media.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Oh, there's no such thing as a liberal I'm sorry.
Who's in your news department at CBS? Okay, how's that
Gail King thing working out for you? And Margaret Brennan,
who's a disaster?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
NBC?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Chuck Todd just a horrible, horrible newsperson an NBC which
owns MSNBC, and there's sometimes crossover. How about how about ABC?
George Stephanopolis, does that ring a bell to you? Who
only donated was it millions of dollars or fifty thousand
dollars to Hillary Clintons campaign, who used to work for
(30:28):
the Clintons. And then that recent reporter Terry Moran, moron
whatever you want to call him, who got fired for
going on a late night unhinged rant on Twitter about
Trump and Steven Miller. He still claims he wasn't drunk,
by the way, I doubt it at that time of night.
You're just you're telling me your stone sober at twelve
(30:49):
o'clock at night. Okay, all right, so now it comes NPR.
The only people complaining are the Democrats. Okay, but don't
think that PBS is going away anytime soon. One percent
of PBS's funding comes from the federal government one percent,
(31:15):
because it's all local stations that have.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Local donors and people that contribute it.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You know, they would constantly have telethons. They still do
that song on PBS.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
NPR.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Six percent comes from federal funding. So we're not talking
like it's one hundred percent federally funded. Now you lose
six percent immediately off the top, like here in Charlotte,
the NPR station, who's hired like a thousand people over there, Now,
(31:54):
maybe you lose six percent of your jobs, which means
instead of one hundred people, you know, now they've got
ninety four or whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
They have got a ton of people over there. That's
what happens.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You get on the Fed's dime, that's what happens. So anyways,
don't hold your breath anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
On Oh, Big Burg's going away.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
No he's not. No, he's not. Big Burd ain't going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster, Burton, Ernie, They're not going anywhere,
all right. Dora the Explorer not going anywhere? Was it
Barney on PBS? Was he on PBS of nickelodeon PBS? Okay, yeah,
see that was that was like past my time.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
As a kid.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
So yeah, that was exactly my time.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Okay, all right, he loves you? Is that what it is?
I love you?
Speaker 2 (32:53):
You love me?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Okay, hey, keep that to yourself. Money you love it?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
You stay on us side of the board over there, buddy.
But but yeah, so I'm just letting you know about
the media. Just it looks like all the reports are
that looks like SNL may be the next to get
the chopping block. They're losing one hundred million a year.
(33:19):
Stephen Colbert was losing forty million a year. The view
looks like they may be gone. One can only pray
and hope Jimmy Kimmel next.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Thank god. Howard Stern's gone. Thank God.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Like he became a freak show at COVID, he went
home and immediately thought the entire world was going to
die and has refused to leave his house. So every
show he does is from his house. The guests go
to the studio, but he stays at home. And he
became an apologist and started going after people who wouldn't
(33:53):
get vaccinated, basically saying good let him die, like it
was a whole thing with Howard Stern. So anyways, he
just got canceled out of serious XM.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Good. I mean, he was.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Old and way past his time. She probably should have
happened about ten years ago. So anyways, that's the latest
update with the media. I just want to let you
guys know what's going on. All right, everyone, we'll look
forward to doing this all over again tomorrow. My name
is Brett Jensen, and you have been listening to Breaking
with Brett Jensen.
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