Christians Being Slaughtered, Government Shutdown, and Halloween

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
News Talk eleven, ten ninety nine and three WBT. I
am Brett water Bowl. It is great to be with
you here today on this beautiful Friday, Friday, Friday, all
of it. It's gonna be a wonderful program that I've
got to planned out. It would not be successful without
the contribution of my hostage and that is uh, that
is Pete Calender, who is staying over here on the

(00:22):
on the hangover. Hello, Pete, Hello, how are you.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm I'm still well, okay, very good. I'm still doing.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
All right, I'm doing something. I'm doing something special in
the third hour of the program. Oh and I want
to I want to. I want to have very specific parameters.
So I'm just gonna read this first and then we
can we can bounce things around. Okay, okay, today is Halloween.
I'm doing an experiment today for the first time. I'm

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going to do a custom monologue on a topic. What
topic should it be? I'm going to I'm going to
have the audience tell me what they want me to
talk about. As Here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Though, is I'm not a I know no no, no,
no no, But like you, They're gonna give you a
bunch of topics, like, because you've got to shut the voting.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Off early enough to be I am going it will
it will, Yeah, it will terminate at the at the
appropriate moment. But but here's the thing, as Rush used
to say, I'm not gonna talk about the phone bill
or stuff like that. It needs to be relevant and
interesting to the audience. Okay, it has to be interesting.
I will pick the topic. Uh once I once I

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put this all together out there, and it's gonna close.
It's gonna because because I need the time to write
the monolog I'm sure. Yeah, it's gonna it's gonna close it.
I'm gonna say four I said five o'clock. I'm gonna
say four thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah. You got to give yourself some space there, as
in a little bit of space. Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
And so, so if you go over to my Facebook page,
you guys can submit topics. You can submit what you
want me to talk about.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Is it going to be like a vote where if no,
I choose, like, okay, so you choose. So even if
like everybody is like, we want you to talk about
why mayonnaise is the superior condiment to all other condiments.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
I love maynise by the way, dude, I love mayonnaise.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
I love mayonnaise.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Mayonnaise is amazing, I agree, only beaten out by horse radish.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
And it's not beaten out by any condent.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Horse ratish. No, it is magical. No you what are
Are you some kind of a of a of an
anti fi guy?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
No, no, no, I don't have any problem with horse radish.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Horse radish is.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's just not the superior condiment.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
You mix it with the with the mayo, it's a
same changer.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Again, not my argument. I'm just saying, if you have
to rank all of the condiments. Yeah, and we're talking
not just like, oh I don't like the flavor of
ketchup or I don't like mustard. Now I'm not talking
about what you like. I'm just saying from a Hondaman perspective,
like what is it able to do? Its versatility? Right,

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it's usefulness. Mayo wins.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
But hold on a second. See you you are? You
are now being a part of this say experiment that
we're doing where I'm going to do a monologue. See
you're kind of now you're.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
On your Facebook.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Now you didn't well you will probably like you are
you a Duke's guy, are you see?

Speaker 3 (03:26):
This is where all of the anti Mayos they try
to they try to get me. They try to trip
me up with this question because they're like, oh, well,
which one do you like? And my view on this
is I love all Mayo.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
You don't.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, I do. I it does not matter to me.
And before you come at me with the miracle whip,
that's not Mayo.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Okay, I don't even know what that is. Like, I
know one does.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
I don't think I've ever even had it. I think
once you would know.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, if you ate it, you would be like, oh
what is this?

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Once upon a time I had split ends and I
may is really good for your split ants?

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Really?

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Oh yeah, makes it makes your your your hair luscious.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Interesting.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Look at look at Jensen.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
He uses Mayo.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
I don't know, but he's got luscious hair.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
I've not examined his hair closely enough to know that,
but that's I mean, that's that's a fair point.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
I guess, good to know.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Okay, so you're like a Helman's man.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
I will see.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Here's the thing, Dukes, it depends on where you grew up.
That's the Mayo that you know. Lord, that's true.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
So I grew up in the Northeast, and Helman's is
the big one.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Now there's another one that's the it's like blue bonnet
or blue ribbon or something like that. That's somebody actually
sent me a jar of it.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Quite good. Dukes love dukes as well.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Wait, wait, did you eat did you eat mayonnaise that
somebody sent you?

Speaker 5 (04:47):
Yeah? It was.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
It was still sealed.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Oh my god, that's daring.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
It had the no it had the seal on it.
And I knew the person, so they heard me talking
about it and they were like, you got it.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
What's it? Blue plate or something like that. I forget
the name of.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
It, but it's a very popular brand elsewhere in the country,
probably like Midwest or something like that.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
So depending on where you grew up, that.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Influences the mayo that you know, and all of the
mayo's taste a little slightly different, you know, in the
oil to egg to vinegar quotions or whatever.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
But I'll tell you Helmans and Dukes I like them
both equally.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Let me tell you, I'll bet you money. I bet
you I can't prove it because I don't know him,
but i'll guarantee you Tucker Carlson just sits around eating
Mayo sandwiches like it's just that's there's no shame in
that white bread and mayo sandwiches. No good. Don't you

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laugh at me? You you maniac. There's not you, not you.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
No, no, no, I got you.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
There's no I see where he's in the corner of
the room here, I got him. No.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Mayo sandwiches are fine, like I was, uh, I mean
because mayo. You got the oil, you got the egg,
you got the vinegar. It's a healthy dietary fat amazing.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
And if you put enough mao on the sandwich, it's
it's almost like it's like a pimento cheese sandwich.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
The best condiment that you can have is mao chimmy cherry. No,
jimmy cherry is the best.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Try to make egg salad with chimmy Cherry's disgusting.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
What's the disgusting part, the egg or the chimmy cherry.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
The combination of the two why it's delicious.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
It's like pesto. You don't like that, are you not?
Are you anti pesto?

Speaker 2 (06:32):
I'm not anti any of this stuff. I'm just saying.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Because there has to be there has to be a
condiment that you hate that you can't like.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
I know, no, no, no, for purposes of the argument,
for what is the superior condiment? My my preference on
taste is irrelevant. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
It's amazing, right, it's amazing. I thought you were a patriot.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
I am. I know, I know you are.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
You're actually pretty patriot.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
I think so.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
I mean, you are is as American as apple pie.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
As apple pie. You know, people put you know, people
will eat apple pie with cheese on it. You ever
seen that that that does happen.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
I've seen apple wedges and cheese, So yeah, I guess
that kind of makes sense then.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
But cheese is cheese is like a It's not a condiment.
It's no, it's not a condiment at all. I mean,
the only thing that you could get close to it
would be if you have it on your you know,
if you have it on your onion soup, right, and
you have the you got the bread in there, and
then you've got the melted cheese.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, like melted cheese on a taco or something. But
you know what, here's the thing too, cheese. You know,
it goes great with cheese, maya what mayo?

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Oh it does.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
I'm not anti Mayo, right I am. I'm just saying
there's nothing. There's no food. Yeah, no food that you
can name that does not that you could not add
mayo too, that you can add another connoment to.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
No, dude, come okay, So like like shrimp scampy.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, may absolutely, Oh god, what what connoment you gotta
put mustard with that?

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Catch up with that?

Speaker 1 (08:12):
No, that's true. I think. Look, I think you pinned me.
I mean I look, I'm.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Telling you that the logic is undeniable on this. I
have had this argument for years with people. And this
is why it's probably not a good topic for your monologue,
because that's, yeah, the science is set, the science is.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
I agree with you, and and and it's been it's
been churned and stuff like that.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
You know.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
At some point, at some point Rehnquist gets in there
and says, listen, we've had this case in front of
us like fourteen times, right, like, we can't.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Here's here's a topic for you. We need to rename. Yeah,
driveways to parkways.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
That's that's okay, driveways to parkways, right, like, like in
the northeast right, but you're driving around you're like, hey,
we got to go on the on the parkway, right, that.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Should be called the driveway.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
No, are you cribing this from?

Speaker 6 (09:05):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Are you cribbing this from a famous comedian?

Speaker 3 (09:09):
I don't know who said it first, but it's brilliant
and it really does annoy me now that when I
stopped and I thought.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
About it, it doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
It's like the toothbrush, Like, why do you park on
the driveway and drive on the parkway exactly?

Speaker 2 (09:20):
So you should we should just rename it. Just rename it.
The toothbrush needs to be renamed toothbrush.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
No toothbrush, because because they the only reason why they
had it as a toothbrush was there were a whole
lot of there were a whole lot of yokels.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Who who were they had one too.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
With a no, they just disk they had kind of
like you know, sectioning and stuff in their mouths a
little bit. And that's the problem. So you got to
make sure you gotta be you gotta be.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Ecumatic about this.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
How about this clarity in our language? Better clarity in
our language, because like I just I just gave the
word of the year was six seven six seven.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
But there's amazing that Isaac knows.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
What's there's no no, there's no meaning to it.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Everybody knows what of course everybody knows.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
What does it mean?

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Six seven? It's like you're looking over there and you're like, yo,
six seven, and you get it.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
It doesn't mean anything.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
It does it's six seven?

Speaker 5 (10:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Mm hmm, this is you got this. Isaac is shaking
his head. There's no meaning.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Isaac's all about it. Isaac's all about that. Go ahead.
I truly hate to do this on air, but as
a young person, I'm pretty certain there's absolutely no meaning
to this term.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Correct. It doesn't mean anything. That's the quote joke.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
It does.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
If you're thirsty, say you should do it. This should
be your monologue. Explain to us what six seven is?

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Six Let me tell you what six seven is? Okay,
top of that, that's a foot. That's a foot and
an inch more than me. Boom, game over. Hey, Pete,
I appreciate this man. That was a lot of fun,
all right, that was really good. I so happy. I'm
so happy you came around and you endorsed the best

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condiment of all time, which of course is horse. Radish
horse Radish. Absolutely all right, enjoy the weekend, my friend,
you got it. News Talk eleven ten three WBT Welcoming
to the program a man who has a tremendous hairdo.

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It is breaking Bret Jensen, who is joining us here
today and we're talking to him about it. Turns out
we have a new person who's coming in to take
over from Chief Jennings. What is going on, breaking Brett Jensen,
what's happening?

Speaker 5 (11:47):
Well, first of all, thank you for having me and
my hairdo. Second of all, Stella Patterson, she's no stranger
to Charlotte. Stella Patterson is the new police chief at CMPD.
There will be a press conference on Monday morning to
announce it. Stella Patterson spent twenty five years with CMPD
and she went to you and see Charlotte, and she

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grew up in the military. Was actually born in Panama,
and you know, moved around because you know, her father
was in the military. And she spent twenty five years
at CMPD and in twenty nineteen and it started at
the very very bottom, just a regular patrol and just
worked her way all the way up. In twenty nineteen,
she was named deputy chief at CMPD. She was the

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one slated to take over for Kirk Putney, the previous
CMPD chief, but because of timing and everything else, she
wound up taking and becoming the police chief in Raleigh.
And so she left Charlotte went to Raleigh. She was
in August, I believe August of twenty twenty one is

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when she took over the job in Raleigh as police chief.
But her husband is a very very high rate official
with the Charlotte Fire Department, and so her family was
still back here in Charlotte. She was in Raleigh, a
lot of commuting back and forth and stuff like that.
I was told at one point she just rented, like,
you know, a small apartment in Raleigh, and you know,

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would try and see her family as often as she could,
whether it's on weekends, she'd come down here, they'd go there, whatever.
But she was named and she was always the favorite,
always going to be the you know, the one most
likely to get the job, and because she wanted to
come back to Charlotte. And I will tell you I
just I just got off the phone with the FOP president,

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Daniel Redford, and you'll here be able to hear the
full interview tonight. By the way, we're the only media
outlet to get an interview with Daniel Redford as the
head of the FOP about her, and I can tell
you glowing reviews. The FOP is extremely happy that it
was Stella. You know, even though she worked at CMPD

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for twenty five years, some people might go, oh, another
CMPD insider. They don't need new blood. You know, they're
not bringing in new blood. It's all going to be
the good old boy network. But you know, Stella didn't
serve under Johnny Jennings. She served under the previous leadership
Rodney Monroe and Kirk Putney and others. And she's got
the military background, and so I can tell you that,

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you know, I spoke to other officers today. They are
all extremely happy that Stella Peterson will be coming back
home to Charlotte and become the new CMPD police chief
and the first female police chief in Charlotte history.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Who which mayoralty did she serve under when she left?

Speaker 5 (14:43):
Well, I mean, you know, she was, like I said,
she left here in twenty twenty one, but she served
under I mean a lot of her career was under
Pat McCrory. But she wasn't a high official then, I mean,
like I said, oh right, regarded as a patrol officer,
and just slowly worked her way up the ranks to
where she was in twenty nineteen was named police chief,

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and then, like I said, in the twenty twenty one
she was gone because I mean, she started her career
with CPD in the nineties.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
So do you think she would be somebody who's amenable
to It'd be difficult to have her make this decision.
But if say, the Feds wanted to come in and
clean up parts of parts of the communities here, do
you do you think she would she'd be good with
that or would she want to be doing it just herself?

Speaker 5 (15:33):
Well, I mean, you know, that's that's a great question.
You know, I don't know when she got to Raleigh,
morale and the numbers were in the toilet, right, yeah,
Because the previous police chief in Raleigh was a laughing
stock nationwide. And so she went up there and you know,

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started as trying to get this recruitment and retention program
and apparently did extremely well and also boost morale extremely
big time, which is going to be the biggest thing
here because recruitment retention and morale because morale is CMPD
is really really bad. And had Johnny Jennings not given
his a retirement announcement, that the FOP would have given

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a vote of no confidence for Johnny Jennings, that was
all but done and then he announced his retirement. So,
you know, I don't know about the FEDS. Like I said,
the FOP only brought that up with the FEDS because
they don't have the bodies sure that they need. And
the only one of the National Guard and the FEDS
in Uptown, not all of Charlotte, only in Uptown where

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a lot of the crime is in fourteen percent of
the murders happened, and so just because of manpower. But
I don't know. I mean, I think things will probably,
you know, Charlotte. I don't think Charlotte has ever been
really high on the list for the FEDS, But we'll
see because there are a lot of other cities that
needed way more than Charlotte.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Great stuff breaking, Brett Jensen, breaking at big time, and
we really appreciate having you on the show today, my friend.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
Thanks, I appreciate it. Brent, Thanks, sir.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Hey. Coming up at four twenty, we will be joined
by Congressman Mark Harris on the shutdown and all the
nonsense that's going on in DC. We'll certainly appreciate that conversation.
Let me go to something that I think is a
very very serious, a very very serious situation. Okay, we

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have millions of Christians who are not protected by the
countries in which they live. Christians face extremely high levels
of persecution in numerous African countries in the Sahel, in

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North Africa, Nigeria, Somalia, Libya, Eritrea, and Sudan Libya. They
have open markets where they sell Christians into slavery. In
this modern era, Hillary Clinton wanted to get rid of

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Kadafi boy. She certainly did a number on much of
those people who wanted to remain safe. But it is
the silence that screams they are dying, not metaphorphorically, not spiritually.

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Christians in Africa are being executed in their homes, in
their churches, in their fields where they sow hope and
harvest faith. Nigeria is one of the big violators. A
land of vibrant faith, a fractured peace, has become the

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deadliest place on earth to be a Christian. Over seven
thousand Christians have been murdered in twenty twenty five alone.
That's more than thirty deaths a day for simply professing
belief in Jesus Christ. And what do we do. We

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scroll past, we change the channel, We whisper prayers if
we remember them at all. But silence is not neutrality.
Silence is actually complicity. These are not random acts of violence.
They are coordinated attacks. Villages are being burned, pastors are

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being hunted, congregations slaughtered. Boko haram Is swap and radicalized
Filani militias are executing a campaign of terror that is genocide.

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And yet the world debates semantics while the blood dries.
Why do we ignore this?

Speaker 2 (20:12):
You know?

Speaker 1 (20:12):
One of the things that I think about when we
ignore what goes on in the African continent is because,
by and large, excluding the slave trade, which was devastatingly awful, okay,
America never really had like a huge grip in Africa.

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It's mostly European settlers and people who who went into Africa.
There are a number of places that we've been involved,
obviously Liberia. We have allies in Africa, we do business
with a lot of people there. But I think we
don't necessarily think we need to be able to think

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about Africa the way we think about Asia, Europe, South America.
That is how we should be thinking. Because we have
people who are being sold into slavery. It is twenty
twenty five and this is happening. So why do we

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ignore it because it's far away, because the victims don't trend.
Because defending Christians isn't fashionable in the halls of power. Yes,
that's it. People, people who are Christians are not taken
as important because there are so many Christians. That's what

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it is. Look at you have people in the House
of Representatives, you have people in the Senate, you have
people in state houses and communicat in communities, and people
don't speak up. When's the last time you heard Ilhano
Omar or Chuck Schumer or anybody in the House of

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the Senate. When's the last time you heard from Swallwell
calling for protections of Christians. They don't, They're not interested
in that because everybody knows that Christians are just you know,
if they get killed, they should just probably move, they

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should probably do. It's like that kind of an attitude
because defending Christians isn't fashionable in the halls of power.
Even the Nigerian government has dismissed warnings from pastors about
imminent attacks, only for those who happened days later, with
no apology, no justice. We must defend our fellow Christians,

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not with hashtags, not with platitudes, but with pressure, policy,
prayer presence. We must demand that Nigeria be redesignated as
a country of particular concern, which is a diplomatic move,
but it gives teeth to the outrage because if we

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don't speak, who's going to speak. Let let me be clear,
this is not about politics. It's about humans. It's about
the mother who buried her children after Palm Sunday. It's
about the priest kidnapped on ash Wednesday. It's about the

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nineteen thousand churches reduced to ash in two thousand and nine.
That's just Nigeria. It's about us. Will we be the
generation that's going to look away? Or are we going
to be the ones who stand up? Are we going
to look into the mirror and ignore it? Are we

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going to let it reflect our site once? Are we
going to let it shatter? Because when you think about
these people who are in such terrible, terrible fear. The
silence is screaming, and it's time that we answer. News

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Talk eleven, ten ninety nine three WBT Brett Winterble Show,
Good to be with you. Let's go out and check
in with CJ on the program. CJ, Welcome to the show.
What's on your mind?

Speaker 4 (24:36):
Yes, thank you. I appreciate you telling us all this.
The thing of it is, I want to tell my
priests and everybody, but they're going to ask me who's
killing these people?

Speaker 1 (24:45):
It's about, by and large, it's the Islamists, it's.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
The ten Anything. What can we do besides prayer?

Speaker 1 (24:54):
I think you know we can That's pretty much about
all we can do. I mean, obviously we want to
see the government uh intervene, not not sending troops over
there obviously, but certainly making making it known that this
has got to stop. And I think that's once once
the government gets back open, you know, it's going to

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be important for us to reach out and to send
letters and emails and things like that. And I think,
I think you know this, this is something that that
we all have a have a need to do, I think,
and I will continuously talk about this, not every single day,
but I'll continue to raise the alarm.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
Well, if you if you find out where we can
write these letters and give us the addresses, I'd be
happy to write a letter or whatever I can do,
because this is this is slavery all over again. I mean,
it's terrible to kill these people and all of this.
This is civilization. What is wrong with these people?

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah, you're you're a wonderful caller, CJ. And you call
back anytime. I really appreciate you being there. Thank you,
You're very welcome. I mean, look, this is we have
to All we have to do is you know, lift
our voices, right. We have to be able to say
this is not right, this is unjust. We have to
take care of this sort of stuff. And unfortunately, you know, people,

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there's there's a lot of parts of the world that
you'd be surprised about. Do you want to know this
is an actual fact. I'm not I'm not spitballing or
making anything up like this. Okay, there are more people
held in slavery today than there ever was in human history.

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I mean we always think, right, what do we always think?
We always think, oh you know what, Yeah, we've we've
wiped out the modern notion of slavery. We we are
a great country and we are a great country, but
there are more uh more people in slavery right now
than there have ever been, which is unbelievable. And people,

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you know, there are a lot of these organizations and
you have to understand the way they're defining slavery. Okay,
slavery is yes, you're being held as a slave, right
an actual slave. They also you will you will find
people who are forced into sex work, forced into I
mean whether it's a male or female or a child.

(27:24):
That that that is absolutely something that's that's atrocious. But
it's also people who are forced to labor, to do work.
Right where you put people in sweatshops and if and
then you don't pay them a wage, you know, this

(27:44):
is this this what we saw come up twenty million
people during the Biden Harris administration. Those were all people
who were who were coming to the United States for
a particular purpose, whatever it might be, it was a
particular purpose. And in many cases these people were not
we're not vetted. And these people were also being brought

(28:05):
up here to go in sweatshops and things like that.
So it's the scourge of it's the scourge of scourge.
You know, the cartel has made a lot of money
with those with those individuals, and it's very very sad
to think about how how that would would be, you know,
continuous all the time. So let's go to this. Let's

(28:27):
go to this. Isaac and I have developed a wonderful
friendship over the years as it relates to as it
relates to what it is that's happening out in space.
And I know I'm not supposed to talk about space.
Isaac doesn't like when I talk about space. It freaks

(28:49):
him out. He's very nervous about this. But what if
I told you that in the last eighteen hours, while this,
while this three I am is behind the what they
call the perihelion, Okay, it's behind the sun. It's hanging
out behind the sun. There is evidence for a non

(29:11):
gravitational acceleration of three I atlas at the perihelion, meaning
meaning that this thing is The non gravitational acceleration was
measured at the perihelion distance of one point three six

(29:35):
times Earth and the Sun separation, which means that this right,
if three I atlas is propelled by the rocket effect
of ejected gas, then momentum conversion implies that the object
would lose half its mass over a characteristic timescale. But

(29:57):
it looks like it's now got non gravitational acceleration, So
definitely a spacecraft, is what we're thinking.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
Now.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
No, it's I don't I don't know this thing that
they're saying it sounds does it sounds like yes, it
sounds like there's something in there, because remember you kept
seeing all that all that spray in the back of
it going out of it when they were taking when
they were looking at the the thing is it was transitting,

(30:30):
but it might not. It might it might just be something.
It might that might just be occurring. It might just
be there may be pressure inside there. This thing is
like seven billion years old, supposedly between seven and twelve billion,
but it's a type. But it's because it's interstellar. I mean,

(30:52):
it's an interstellar thing. It's we don't know where it's
coming from, we don't know where it's going. I'm just
happy that we don't have tinkerers because you know, I
I I'm not a tinkerer guy. I want to I
want to see with the tinkering. Let's don't mess with
this thing like let it just go. Maybe it's supposed
to do something. It might be on a mission. No,

(31:14):
I hope that that mission has ended with us. Let
me tell you something. We're gonna have to a bout
of the space lord. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're

(31:38):
about to close. We're about to close. If you did,
if you if you heard the beginning of the program, Uh,
We're we're about to close. Where I am going to
do a monologue in this next hour. Not it'll be
so it'll be at the five o'clock hour, the beginning
of the five o'clock hour. I am going to I
have solicited over on the Facebook page, on the Brett

(32:01):
Winterbow Facebook page, and I said, tell me what you
want me to do in the monologue of the five
o'clock hour. And we've got submissions coming in and I'm
going to craft it and I'm going to deliver it.
It's as fresh as can be. I mean, it's as
fresh as a summer day. And it's going to be

(32:24):
a really great riff that I'm going to do. But
I'm waiting to see if there's anybody else wanting to
try to slide into it and say, hey, do this
as the topic. So if you have a topic, it
has to be sort of relevant. We certainly want to know.
I want to hear it, and you can. You can

(32:44):
go over to the Facebook page. You guess who showed
up on my Facebook page. By the way, may Moan
the Mike may Moon May Moan of as in Clay
and Buck. But obviously before that with Rush he was
getting he was cracking wise with me over there, you
can go and check it out. But I am going

(33:06):
to I am going to create and craft in real
time a monologue. And it's just it's just because I
want to do this on a Halloween. It just feels
like it feels right. I've got other great stuff we're
going to talk about as well. Everything is fair game.
I love when we have on this day Halloween. I
love when it's a Friday night. I don't like Saturday

(33:29):
night Halloween. I like Friday night Halloween. And I love
that we've got Halloween and then we move the clocks.
Do we move forward, we move back? I think we
moved back, right. I think people should have the right
to choose whether they want to move forward to move back,

(33:50):
but they still got to go to work at the
same time. That's that's it's just one of my ideas.
Isaac is horrified by that idea. But this is going
to be great, and I'm very excited all the way
doing all these sort of stories and breaking all these stories.
I want to go to what I was talking about

(34:10):
the last hour, which was the issues dealing with the
Christians in Nigeria, et cetera. So Trump says that Christians
in Nigeria are facing an existential threat and adds that
the country is going on a watch list, a very
serious issue in that regard. President Trump of the United

(34:33):
States of America on Friday issued a statement condemning what
he called a rising wave of violence against Christians in Nigeria,
urging that the United States cannot stand by while these
atrocities continue abroad and Christianity is facing an existential threat

(34:56):
in Nigeria. He put that on truth. So see, this
is what is so interesting to me, because people underestimate
the President of the United States in so many ways.
This president, Okay, this guy comes out of the real world.
This is not a guy who is coming out of

(35:19):
like he's not Gavin Newsom, he's not Pritzker, he's not
any of these like sort of pre made type of people.
He's a serious he's a serious guy, and he understands
that the world is incredibly dangerous. You want to know
something here. Earlier today and I haven't talked about this yet,

(35:43):
but I am going to talk about it. Earlier today,
there was a bust in dear boris in dear bornis
Dan and it looks like Isis was trying to do
a terror attack this weekend, and thank god to have
been stopped. But we're not getting any of the details

(36:03):
on this. But what does this all have in common.
You have Christians being persecuted in Africa, you have Christians
being persecuted in the Middle East, you have Christians being
persecuted in Asia, and you have people who come to
our country who mean us harm. And we're not We're
not dealing with this in the right way except we

(36:25):
thwarted this plot. We've thwarted this plot. And so the
President of the United States, the reason why the President
United States is who he is and what he does
very very clear. He sees the dangers that are out there.
You can't for a moment think and this is why
he's calling out the Islamists because they want to kill.

(36:47):
I mean, they want to kill Christians, they want to
kill Buddhists, they want to kill Jews, they want there's
a whole lot of hating going on. But this president
because he he came up in the rough and tumble
business of New York City buildings, Atlantic City buildings, Vegas

(37:08):
building I mean, think about all the buildings he's got.
This is a guy who understands that it's it's a
rough business that he's in, and he's not gonna he's
not shy, he's not gonna hide, he doesn't he doesn't
really care if you're feeling like your feelings are getting hurt.

(37:31):
And he he does create an aura that hearkens back
to somebody else. Now I'm gonna tell you when we
come back exactly who it is that. I think he's
sort of patterned after Or And he may not even

(37:53):
know this person, he may not even be familiar with
this person, but there are interesting dynamics that exist between
these two characters. We've got. We've got so much good
content here today. I mean it's and I hate to
just call it content, but we have got so much

(38:13):
good stuff that we're going to talk about, and it
won't be it won't be complete without you at seven
oh four five seven zero eleven ten, seven oh four
five seven zero eleven ten. Uh so we can break
down all of these big stories. If you want to
pick up the pieces, you're more than welcome to do it.
Don't forget we are also we are also uh spending

(38:35):
time taking people's conversation over at the over at the
text groof over at WBT, a m n FM. You
can call us on the phone seven oh four five
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five seven zero eleven ten, News Talk eleven ten, ninety

(39:02):
ninety three WBT. It's the Brett Witterbull Show. It is
great to be with you, and I am so excited
to welcome back to the program. I always, I always
love talking to a Congressman, Mark Harris representing North Carolina's
eighth district. And here's why. If I had to defect

(39:23):
from my district where I live, I would defect to
Mark Harris's district because he's a great He's a great representative.
You're a great representative. And I'm not I'm not trying
to gussie you up or anything like that. Thanks so
much for coming on the show.

Speaker 6 (39:38):
Well Bred. Is always a joy to be with you,
and thank you for the kind words.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
Man.

Speaker 6 (39:43):
I'll tell you it's just a joy to hear you
every day that I have the opportunity to hear you
on WBT.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Oh, thank you, thank you very much. All Right, So,
how's it going there in DC? I know the House
is not in session? But what are you hearing? What
do you what are you experiencing as you go out
to talk to the people and also talk to your
colleagues on both sides of the aisle in Washington, d C?

(40:11):
What can you share with us?

Speaker 6 (40:13):
Well? Right now in Washington, it's it's been somewhat of
a ghost town in some ways. I've been up there
several times over the last few weeks just for some
meetings that had gotten backed up. I felt like I
needed to feel like I needed to do And of
course I've been in the district and which has been
really some great district work that has gotten done. I've

(40:36):
had the privilege of meeting with some farmers yesterday over
in Stanley County. Having the opportunity to be in district
worked out well because the new Amazon server farm that's
going in Richmond County with a ten billion dollar investment.
That's going to be uh just an incredible uh spark

(40:58):
for for our district, for an area that has been
really just overlooked so so many years since NAFTA. Frankly,
so being there with those folks and what I'm hearing
in the district at least is that, man, we've got
to continue to stand firm. So many people have said
it's one of the first times they can recall the

(41:20):
Conservatives were united, that we were standing strong in the
midst of the pressure. And I'll be honest with you, Brett,
I think the reason that's the case is because this
thing is so simple and we're standing on the side
of right, and it's it's so obvious. I think to
so many people that this is Chuck Schumer shut down.

(41:42):
And how long he decides to keep this going, That's
that's the question that still remains. I've kind of got
my personal thoughts that I think they're going to wait.
They've gotten themselves in a corner. They don't have a
good exit strategy, and the only thing I can imagine
that they're going to look for as an exit strategy

(42:03):
is that they managed to try to claim a victory.
If Manami is elected mayor of New York on Tuesday,
or if they managed to pull off a win in
one of those governor's races, that maybe they'll say, hey,
we beat our chest, we're standing up against President Trump,
and somehow they're going to claim that they've got momentum

(42:25):
going into the midterms, and maybe they'll just move forward.
I don't know, but they're holding the American people hostage,
and people are getting fed up, and now we're just
moving into a dangerous territory. I was at a food
bank earlier, not really a food bank, but food for Families,
a ministry I went to this afternoon in Union County

(42:47):
does incredible work feeding children, and they just did recently
this week. I think it was in Monroe, where boxes
of food were given out and folks they ran out
of the boxes they had prepared by nearly one hundred
cars that were still in line that they were helping.

(43:08):
So this is getting serious when you start having snap
benefits that that can't go out.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
It absolutely is. And I mean, as much as partisanship
comes into play, there has to be a standard by
which we we we don't we don't say we're not
going to give you food. We're not gonna we're not
gonna let you eat. We're not going to let you
that That that that's how mosque type tactics. That's not
what we that's not what the American people do.

Speaker 6 (43:36):
Right, that's right, that's exactly right. And that's to go
to this extreme and this extent, and uh, it's it's just, uh,
it's difficult to understand. And again when it is really
so simple, I mean, we we All they've got to
do is past the clean c R. And they had
their own I guess the federal government employee union that

(44:01):
came out Monday of this week and said past the
clean CR. Their president went on and did an interview,
the president of that union, I think, and said past
the clean CR. Today you're hearing from the private sector
in four I guess it is major airlines that are
saying it's getting ridiculous, it's getting dangerous, past the clean CR.

(44:24):
I don't know what it's going to take for them
to recognize the damage they're doing.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
And you know, one of the things that's also, you know,
very very ugly is the fact that we're seeing people
in the United States Military. They're not getting a paycheck.
They're not getting paid, uh, you know, and that and
that that's a that's a very very tenuous situation there
because they they may they're they're going to obviously be
honorable and they're gonna do what they're gonna do, but

(44:51):
they may not want to stay in that in that
service down the road because of the Schumer shut down.

Speaker 6 (44:57):
Exactly, you're putting families at risk. And I mean, the
last thing that one of our soldiers that's deployed defending
our freedom and standing in the gap needs to be
worrying about is that there's going to be a paycheck
that's going to be missed. And it's ridiculous. And thank
God for President Trump's priorities and understanding the importance of

(45:19):
making sure that these families, the military, the young men
and women. He's moving moneys around that's been in other
places and accounts for research at the Pentagon to be
able to keep them paid back to the middle of October.
And again, these are people that are sacrificing every day

(45:41):
for our freedom. And listen, you know, everybody makes a
thing about Congresses is still getting paid. Well, not all
of us are still getting paid because many of us
the middle letter that stand together United. None of my
staff is getting paid, and I certainly didn't think it
was right for me to get paid, so I sent

(46:01):
a letter in stating that until this shutdown is complete,
I'm not to receive any salary. And there's a number
of my colleagues that have done the same thing, because
this is this is something that really we've got to
be willing to stand united on the side of right
in this and this is something that Schumer is going

(46:24):
to have to own.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Can I can I hold you over for one more
segment because I got I got other stuff that I
wanted to kind of bounce off of you. You got
you got a couple of minutes for us, sure, sure, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome.
Mark Harris, he's he's spending time with US District eight
over in North Carolina, and stick around. We've got great stuff.
Straight Ahead News Talk eleven, ten ninety nine three WBT

(46:49):
Brett Waterbow Show, continuing our conversation with Congressman Mark Harris,
who is joining us from from the district that that
he's representing North Carolina eight. And it's great to have
you sticking around with us. We certainly appreciate it. Congressman,
let me ask you a question because this this came

(47:09):
through the transom with people who send messages and they
said they want to know, like, what's the status of
getting back into business? You know, the Schumer shutdown eventually
goes away, hopefully, what about doing a you know, the
real budget sort of stuff that people are clamoring for.

(47:31):
How does that come to pass moving forward?

Speaker 6 (47:35):
Well, that's the real goal, Brett, And you know this.
I mean you followed the government and really the dysfunction
of Congress probably long enough. And the problem is that
we've got to get back to regular order. That's what
all of us have run on. That's the thing that
we emphasize that we want to do. As I've explained

(47:56):
a little bit earlier today to some folks that that
we spent the first six months of this year really
wrapped up in what was a major opportunity and a
major need for the country, and that was the Reconciliation Package.
It's just not every time that you get an opportunity
in the Congress to have the trifecta of the Senate,

(48:20):
the House, and the presidency, and especially when you have
a leader like Donald J. Trump in the White House,
and you've got a decent majority in the Senate, and
you've got a majority, i'll say in the House, you've
got to take advantage of that, because reconciliation allows you
to do some things to maybe begin to get our

(48:40):
financial house in order, if possible. There were some things
that were critical about the Trump tax cut that we
just nobody could imagine what would happen to the economy
if suddenly all of the rates were to be jacked
backed up to where they were into twenty seventeen, and
so in order to make those tax cuts permanent, that

(49:02):
was going to be part of reconciliation. And really, for
the first time in history, we were able to reduce
mandatory spending by one point six trillion dollars. So we
spent a good bit of time, and everybody can just
think back to June when we were having those all nighters.
We got it through the House, we sent it over
to the Senate. Everybody was watching as they were having

(49:25):
all nighters, and then we came to that crucial vote
where it actually took Senator or Vice President Vans I
should say, formerly senator but now vice President to actually
break that tie to get the fifty first vote so
that we were able to pass reconciliation. So what that
did is it pushed back all of these appropriation bills,

(49:49):
twelve of them that we need to pass in the
House and the Senate, and if there are any that
have to go to conference, they go to conference. So
at this point we had passed three and out of
the House, we had more. That was the reason for
the extension, and we passed that on September nineteenth because
we wanted to pass more appropriation bills, and that was

(50:12):
that was there in the hopper. We've passed all twelve
out of committee, and we've got more that we want
to get done when we get back to business as usual.
But unfortunately Chuck Schumer took the moment to just put everything,
turn everything on its head, and here we are. So
my hope is that we get through this and that

(50:33):
when we can get back that we begin to work
on a normal process of passing appropriation bills in regular
order and get a budget. I mean that Mike Johnson
has been an extraordinary leader, and I know that's his desire,
and I think that that Senator Thune is showing incredible leadership.

(50:56):
You know, this is everybody's kind of first experience with
Senator Throne. He had Mitch McConnell for so many years,
and now you've got Senator Thune in his position. He
is showing incredible discipline, incredible backbone, standing strong in the Senate.
So I'm hopeful that we're going to get there. But
that did the question, that's what it's.

Speaker 4 (51:17):
Going to take.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
The President has been, you know, on a whirlwind uh
jaunt around then around the world, around the country. He's
he's he's certainly put a lot of work in on
this stuff, whether it's the Hamas deal, whether it's ending Wars,
whether it's the big deal that was just cut with

(51:39):
Shi Jinping. I mean, all of this stuff. The guy,
the guy is like the the energizer bunny on on
on steroids as we look at that. And one thing
that is so interesting to me and I think interesting,
I know it'll be interesting for you, is the way
he is being the person that is steering so much

(52:00):
of what we've got in the government, but around the
world as well. And he came out with a very
strong take protection of the Christians in Africa, North Africa
and around the world, and I know you have a
heart for this. This is right in your wheelhouse. I'm
just curious to get your thoughts on what this man

(52:23):
is doing, because my Lord, nobody wants to do the
hard work of protecting Christians. That is such a horrible
thing to think about. Your thoughts on that.

Speaker 6 (52:35):
Well, listen, I'm so grateful that he has done that.
Even today, I appreciate so much of what you have
shared earlier today about what is going on over in Nigeria,
and it is it's just it's sad. It's really a travesty,
and there's some things that have got to happen. I mean,

(52:55):
when you stop and think that over the past fourteen
years that I have is at least fifty two thousand,
two hundred and fifty Nigerian Christians have been brutally murdered
at the hands of Islamist militants. And when you stop
and think about that, that seven thousand Christians have been

(53:16):
martyred this year alone. One of the things that needs
to happen, and today, as a matter of fact, we've
been talking about this for the last several weeks, but
one of the things that need to happen was that
Sivi Ka Rubio needed to direct the Department of State
to redesignate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern a

(53:37):
country a CPC is what they call it, and that
was due to the ongoing persecution. And what President Trump
set out today kind of gives the indication that's that's
where we're headed. And they arguing that the Biden administration
had taken that classification away from from Nigeria. I'm not

(54:01):
sure why, but one of the things that needs to
happen is that needs to be redesignated as a country
of Particular Concern, another thing that could be helpful in
this situation, and the Senate needs to get it done.
Mark Walker, our former congressman from North Carolina, has been
nominated for Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom. You

(54:25):
might remember in the first Trump administration, former Senator Sam
Brownback was the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom.
They helped highlight Tony Perkins, who the Family Research Council
was chairman of the board when Sam brown Back was
holding that position of Ambassador, and I got an opportunity

(54:47):
to see the works of that group up close and personal,
and quite frankly, the work they do is to put
the shine the light on and call for things to
happen to protect these places where Christians are being persecuted.
So that's something the Senate needs to do soon, sooner

(55:08):
rather than later. Go ahead and confirm this ambassador who
happens to be our own Mark Walker from North Carolina,
so that we can get home, uh with with the
things that we need to do, because this is a
serious problem.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
Absolutely, and and it's I'm so glad that you gave
us that update on that because it's it's hugely important.
We will be asked. Every one of us is going
to have to testify when we stand before our Lord
and Savior and say what did you do for for
for for the least of us? I mean, and that's
absolutely we're gonna we're gonna have to have an answer.

(55:42):
Folks want to maybe reach out to you, how do
how do they reach out to you their congressman, It's
it's it's such a pleasure to talk to you.

Speaker 6 (55:49):
They can go to Mark Harris uh N c O. Eight.
It's always a pleasure to hear from folks. They can
check out our House US House website and they can
sign up to receive a newsletter. That's the greatest way
is every week we send out a newsletter that lets
folks know what's happening in the eighth district of a

(56:12):
United States House of Representatives. We keep them up to
date on legislation as well as folks that we're being
able to work with here in the district. So I
always love to hear folks from folks, and so grateful
for what you do in that fifty thousand watts getting
the word out day in and day out of what's
happening in our community, in our state and our nation.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
Well, listen, it's our pleasure to have you here. I
always love listening to you with Bo and Beth, and
it's wonderful to have you on the afternoon and look enjoy,
enjoy the Halloween. Don't eat too much candy, and let's
get you back right back to Washington, DC. So you
guys get back to work. Man's that's what we need.

Speaker 6 (56:50):
Okay, they've already warned us, Man, there's gonna be some
long nights. There's gonna be some some of those overnighters
where we're going to have markups and everything else, because
we have got our work to do to get things
done here before the end of the year.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
Mark Harris, Caro, North Carolina.

Speaker 5 (57:07):
Eight.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
Thanks so much, God blessed. We'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 5 (57:09):
Thanks so much you, Bret.

Speaker 1 (57:11):
Absolutely wonderful, wonderful visit. Who's Talk eleven ten, nine nine
three WBT. All right, the uh the topic is closed.
The topic is closed. I am going to uh, I'm
going to go in and uh render a a great
riff for you people coming up. I've already started it

(57:33):
during the commercial break. It was great to have Congressman uh,
Congressman Harris on with us. And we've got we got
good stuff. I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna make a
determination and we're going to see how it is. We're
going to do this thing. Okay, it's gonna be really good,
and it's going to be starting right in the beginning
of the next hour.

Speaker 6 (57:53):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
And because because somebody said to me, could you ever
like just could you ever just like think of something
and write it? And I said, yes, yes, and I
will do it. So this is what we're gonna do
coming up at the top of the hour. And so
we got we've got lots of good things in there
in that regard let me let me take you over

(58:15):
to another totally different place though. Okay, when we look
at what we're trying to accomplish in this country, we
have to think back on where we've where we have been.
And I know it sounds like it's like it's like,
what do you mean, Brett, what do you mean? Like
where we have been? If you went back to nineteen seventeen, okay, today,

(58:45):
this date nineteen seventeen, you would not believe what happened.
There is so much weird stuff that has happened on
October thirty first, just generally, when you go back to
nineteen seventeen, that's World War One. While children in London

(59:11):
were dressed as ghosts and witches. Halfway across the world,
in the dusty plains of Palestine, real phantoms thundered across
the desert on horseback. The Battle of Beersheba wasn't just
a military engagement. It was a historical paradox, a moment

(59:38):
where the old world galloped headlong into the new sabers,
drawn hoods, pounding hearts defiant. World War One was the
age of trenches, machine guns, barbed wire, and gas man

(01:00:01):
It was the war that buried chivalry beneath artillery, and
yet on that eerie Halloween day, the Australian Light Horse
Brigade launched what would be the last great cavalry charge

(01:00:21):
in history. Think about going all the way back to
the mounted cavalry and well beyond that picture it eight
hundred mounted soldiers charging across open ground toward entrenched Ottoman forces,

(01:00:44):
armed with rifles and artillery. No cover, no hesitation, just speed, surprise,
and sheer audacity. It should have been suicide. It became legend.

(01:01:04):
The Ottomans expected the horses to stop and dismount standard
cavalry protocol, but the Australians didn't stop. They rode right
straight into the teeth of modern warfare, leaping trenches, slashing
through defenses, and capturing Bersheba before sunset. Why was it

(01:01:24):
so strange? Because it worked, because it shouldn't have. Because
it was Halloween, and instead of costumes, they wore dust
and they wore courage the asses. It was a battle
that defied its era, ghost of the nineteenth century haunting

(01:01:45):
the mechanized brutality of the twentieth, and it changed everything.
The fall of Bersheba cracked the Ottoman line, opening the
path to Jerusalem and reshaped the Middle East. So this Halloween,
as we dress up and play pretend, remember the real

(01:02:08):
phantoms who rode through history that day, ghosts on horseback,
charging not for candy but victory, and leaving behind a
story so strange that it could only belong to Halloween.
News Talk eleven ten nine nine three. W You guys

(01:02:40):
are getting hot under the collar. You're get excited. I
mean it just look, today is Halloween. It is Halloween.
It is when everybody gets to act like a kid,
no matter what, and it's good to be with you. Okay,
So I want to reset this whole thing, all right.
I was challenged by a couple of folks earlier today.

(01:03:03):
Somebody said to me, could you just do a monologue
based on like stuff that people can just throw at you?
And I said, yes, I can do that. It's not
really it's not really my game that I do typically,
but I was asked, you know, could I do it?

(01:03:23):
And I said, yes, I could do it. And so
you know, here's how it all comes to pass. Okay,
And this is going to be a lot of fun.
It's Halloween. I'm doing an experiment today for the first time.
I'm doing a custom monologue on a topic. What topic
should it be? You tell me? And I said, as

(01:03:43):
Rush used to say, I am not going to talk
about the phone bill or stuff like that. Needs to
be relevant however you want to decide, and I closed
the opportunity. I actually went even longer listening to what
the folks were trying to put in here. It has
to be interesting. I will pick it. I will present

(01:04:05):
it in my five PM, which is right now, monologue
and it's going to run about seven or eight minutes. Okay.
I had so many great submissions, and I'm not trying
to I'm not trying to be a weirdo. But I
had so many great submissions from these people who had
great ideas, and so do you know what I'm gonna do.

(01:04:30):
I I am going to create a milange. No, no,
I didn't say. I didn't say a mirage a milange.
I'm I am going to incorporate all these great ideas
into one monologue. So if you if you're ready, here goes,
here goes, You're ready, Okay. Conquering Fear in the Age

(01:04:56):
of Frenetic Change a Halloween weekend address by yours truly Brettwitterble.
This weekend, we face a convergence of cosmic forces, the
Halloween holiday, the ritual of time change, and the ever

(01:05:19):
looming specter of cultural interpretation. And somewhere in the middle
of all this, like a mischievous spirit whispering through the leaves,
is Mike Mamon. That's right from Rush. Now, I know
what you're thinking. Who or what is Maemon? Is it

(01:05:39):
a surname, a myth, a misunderstood Italian pastry. No, Maimon
is the embodiment of the ambiguity, ambiguity, ambiguity of itself,
a name that sounds like it should be carved into
a jack o' lantern or whispered during a seance. Ooooooo.

(01:06:02):
It's the kind of word that makes you question whether
you're in costume or just becoming one. And speaking of costumes, Halloween,
that glorious night when we dress up to confront our fears,
mock our monsters, and demand candy from total strangers. But
beneath the plastic fangs, the polyester capes, lies a deeper truth.

(01:06:29):
Halloween is a ritual, and rituals, my friend, are controversial.
Some say Halloween glorifies the occult, Others say it's just
a sugar fueled romp through suburban mythology. But here's the rub.
Symbols get shredded. A witch's hat to one is a

(01:06:56):
feminist icon. To another, a skeleton costume might be a
nod to mortality or a TikTok dance. Prop Interpretation is everything,
and in this age of frenetic change, we're all just

(01:07:17):
trying to decode the symbols before they dissolve. Now, let
me tell you about the scariest thing I ever did
to kids who came to my house for Halloween. I
built a fake wall in my entryway. Behind it, I
stood motionless in a tattered tuxedo and a porcelain mask.

(01:07:39):
As the kids approached the candy bowl rigged with a
motion sensor, I burst through the wall like a deranged
butler from a haunted downtown Abbey. I know it's Downton Abbey,
but I like Downtown Abbey. It's a little more edgy.
They screamed, they ran, and one dropped their entire bag

(01:08:02):
of candy and yelled, I'm calling my mom. I never
even got to offer the treats. But fear, my friends,
is not the enemy. Fear is the compass. It tells
us where the edge is. And in a world where
time itself shifts, where we fall back into darkness and ritual,

(01:08:27):
we must learn to laugh at the shadows. So let
me end with a story. Last year, after the time change,
I found myself walking through the neighborhood just after dusk.
The decorations were still up, the ghosts were swaying in
the trees, pumpkins glowing like ancient ruins. I saw a

(01:08:48):
group of kids huddled around an elderly neighbor's porch. She
was dressed like a fairy godmother, handing out books instead
of candy. The kids looked confused. One said why no chocolate?
She smiled and said, because stories last longer than sugar.

(01:09:08):
And just like that, the kids sat down, They listen,
they laughed, they asked questions, and for a moment, the
ritual became a revelation. So this weekend, as we change
our clocks and confront our costumes, let's remember fear can

(01:09:29):
be funny, symbols can be slippery, and stories, well, stories
are kind of what bind us. So do you and
all of yours. Happy Halloween. Don't forget to check your clocks,

(01:09:50):
not tonight, but tomorrow unless you want Maimon to show
up late. There you have it. News Talk eleven ten,
ninet nine three wbtwo. Great to be with you. Lots
of good stuff, many many things are happening.

Speaker 4 (01:10:11):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (01:10:12):
You don't know what kind of stuff is going on tonight?
You have any idea what goes on tonight? You know
what goes on tonight?

Speaker 6 (01:10:18):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
I always wonder, I always wonder what strange occurrences that intersect,
you know, in our world.

Speaker 6 (01:10:30):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
So you you heard me talk about the Battle of Bersheba, Right,
I was telling you guys that that story about the
eight hundred Australian horsemen who who were unbelievable in their
in their pursuit. But you know what else happens on Halloween?

(01:10:54):
Benito Mussolini's rise to power in nineteen twenty two, on
how Italy's fascist future was sealed as Mussolini marched into
Rome and became the prime minister, a political horror story
that began on all Hollow's eve. Harry Houdini died in

(01:11:18):
nineteen twenty six. The world's most famous escape artists, died
on Halloween under mysterious circumstances after being punched in the
stomach by a fan that was testing his strength. Isaac.
You you have requests like that sometimes from people, right,

(01:11:39):
a few times a week. Yeah. So some say he
tried to return from the dead. He never did return
from the dead. In eighteen thirty seven, on this date,
the Monmouth Steamship Disaster occurred. Hundreds perished when the Monmouth
collided with another vessel on the Mississippi River. A real

(01:12:01):
life ghost ship tragedy on Halloween night. Gets a little
weirder from here. The Texas Candy Murder nineteen seventy four.
Ronald O'Brien poisoned his own son with cyanide laced pixie

(01:12:23):
sticks on Halloween, earning the nickname What do you think
his nickname was? Isaac? After that, The Candy Man a
chilling reminder that sometimes the monster wears a mask of father.
That is chilling, That is like massively chilling. Then you
have the New Jersey Hayride horror nineteen ninety A teenage

(01:12:45):
actor playing a hanging victim accidentally died during a hay
ride stunt. The illusion became real and the audience thought
it was part of the show. And eighteen twenty eight,
so this would be Now, think about this, eighteen twenty eight.

(01:13:06):
It was almost two hundred years ago. You know, the
next presidential election is coming up in twenty twenty eight.
But this was eighteen twenty eight. It was the US
presidential election. Polls opened on Halloween for one of the
nastiest elections in American history. I mean, this was this

(01:13:31):
election was bonkers. You know who it created. It was.
It was a matchup of Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams.
The nineteen I mean the eighteen twenty eight no good

(01:13:51):
at all.

Speaker 4 (01:13:53):
That was.

Speaker 1 (01:13:56):
It might be the dirtiest election in history. I mean
that that's that's right there. They went. They went at it.
Vicious personal attacks like you think you think we have
like horrible personal attacks when people are running for office.
No way this We are pikers compared to this. You

(01:14:20):
you had a situation where there were attacks on Andy
Jackson's wife. Jackson's opponents accused his wife, Rachel of being
a big amist and an American Jezebel because she had
married Jackson before her divorce from her first husband was

(01:14:44):
legally finalized. This deeply distressed her, and in the end,
Jackson contributed said that it led to her death. Early
accusations against John Quincy Adams. Jackson's supporters went after John
Quincy Adams. They branded Adams as an aristocrat and a

(01:15:09):
profligate spender. One exaggerated claim was that Adams had given
a young American woman to Russian Czar Alexander the First
as a gift while serving as Minister to Russia. They

(01:15:30):
also repeatedly brought up the corrupt Bargain of the eighteen
twenty four in which Henry Clay helped Adams win the
presidency in the House of Representatives and was subsequently appointed
Secretary of State. You know what else it was happening
at that point. This was the beginning, the very beginning

(01:15:52):
of the mass politics kind of picture, right. The election
marked a shift towards modern political campaigning, with professional party organizations,
with politically motivated newspapers playing the major role in dissembling
and disseminating the propaganda that was out there, and the

(01:16:15):
lack of direct response. In keeping with the political customs
of the day, neither candidate directly engaged in the mudslinging
their respective party machines, and part of the newspapers managed
the character attacks on their behalf so like so like,

(01:16:37):
let's say Isaac is trying to knock me out of
the box. Isaac is not going to be doing that.
Isaac's going to use a guy like George. Isaac's gonna
use you know, other means that way, I'm I'm going
to use breaking Brett Jensen as my surrogate against Isaac.
And that's like see, that's like I go, Hey, Brett Jensen,

(01:17:00):
break the break this story. Hey Brett Jensen, I want
you to break this story. You're gonna break a big
story about what Isaac's doing, but not what George is
doing because I'm secretly paying George to work with me,
even though I'm not. I'm not making it happen. I mean,
this is all the crazy stuff, right you think about this?
So you had personal attacks on the wives, you had

(01:17:22):
by the way, you had coffin handbills, coffin handbills anti
Jackson forces circulated coffin handbills, which were campaign literature pieces
in the form of tombstone inscription inscriptions that accused Jackson

(01:17:43):
of the wrongful and unlawful execution of several soldier soldiers
during uh Oh the Creek War. Is that is that
the the Creek War, the Creek War, I gotta I
gotta look that up. But yeah, that this was all
that stuff, especially the attacks that were made by the

(01:18:11):
by the folks that are in the business of smearing.
I wonder what that looks like. I wonder if like
you're out there and you're like, Hey, I'm gonna smear
this guy. Who am I a mister smear News Talk
eleven ninety nine three WBT. Who are the oligarchs? Who
are the oligarchs the people that are that have the

(01:18:33):
ability to command certain policies in the Congress and in
the Senate. What if I told you? What if I
told you this? Looking at the wealth among congressional districts

(01:18:55):
and which parties hold seats in the richest parts of America.
In fact, US census data found that Democrats currently hold
more than three quarters more than seventy six percent of

(01:19:18):
the top thirty wealthiest congressional districts in America. Oh wait,
I thought the Democratic Party was all about working people.
I'm just a working guy. I just sit back here
and I'm working. I'm a proud Democrat who understands the underclass. No, no, no,

(01:19:43):
that's not true. It's none of this. I want you
to listen very closely to this, Isaac. I want you
to post what I'm saying here. According to US Census data,
America's wealthiest districts are overwhelmingly represented by Democrats. Of the

(01:20:09):
thirty richest congressional districts, only seven are representative are represented
by Republicans, while twenty three are represented by Democrats. By contrast,
representation among the thirty poorest districts is even more evenly split.

(01:20:37):
Democrats have eighteen and Republicans represent twelve. Many of the
most powerful Democrats and I'm going to give you the names.
Please try not to wretch, especially if you're driving people.
People you know, like Nancy Pelosi Representative, Jamie Raskin, Democrat

(01:21:07):
of Maryland, Eric Swollwell, Democrat of California, Ted lu Democrat
of California, Promila Jayapaul Democrat Washington, Rocanna Democrat California, and
Jerry Nadler Democrat New York represent some of the wealthiest

(01:21:35):
districts in the nation, and these names are also some
of the most familiar on cable news. The political and
moral burden of representing poor and forgotten Americas now lies
with the Republicans. Moreover, the stark divide between the everyday

(01:22:00):
experience of one living in a poor congressional district as
compared to one in a wealthy one explains in good
measure why the two parties speak different languages. Mandami, all

(01:22:20):
the aocs, all these people right, Okay. Looking at the
income data of the thirty wealthiest districts again, now mostly
Democrats versus the thirty poorest districts, which are more evenly split,
the difference is profound. The median income and the richest

(01:22:41):
districts is one hundred and thirty three thousand dollars, more
than double the poorest district median income, which is just
fifty two thousand dollars. Unemployment is significantly worse in the
poorer districts, at five point eight nine percent as opposed
to the elites three point nine three percent. Beyond the

(01:23:07):
economic numbers, several social statistics also demonstrate a much higher
quality of life for the very rich Democrats. Opioid deaths
are far more common in the poorest areas. There are

(01:23:29):
nineteen point six opioid deaths per one hundred thousand In
the wealthiest districts, this number is even higher in poorest districts.
Firearm homicides are also far more common in poorest districts.
They're laying out in this report the differences. The Democrats

(01:23:55):
try to sell their image, but they're not able to
deliver the goods for their constituents. It's Republicans who are
doing a better job. The poorest districts are trailing in
high school completion. The average for the top thirty wealthiest
districts is ninety two point ninety three percent, with the

(01:24:18):
lower number dropping to eighty four percent for the poorest districts.
The poorest districts have a lower life expectancy by about
five years. The average life expectancy for the thirty wealthiest
districts is eighty one years. For the poorest districts it's
merely seventy five. The Republicans are representing these people. They

(01:24:43):
are representing these people, and it makes perfect sense when
you realize when you watch the cable channels, it's the
same grouping of people, very wealthy, overwhelmingly white elites who

(01:25:07):
show up on the shows that that is, that's what
you're seeing. Swowell's on all the time, Raskin's on all
the time, Shifty Shift is on all the time. I mean,
these people are representing the elites of the elites, of
the elites. Democratic Party. Why so white? Why so lily white?

(01:25:32):
I mean, it's really kind of weird when you think
about it, because these people, how do they afford to
represent these super elite districts. What is Swowell like? What
does he know? But he's representing a very elite district.
Nancy Pelosi, what does she know? She knows how to

(01:25:52):
make money, that's the truth. But when you think about
all this stuff, this is a very revealing thing. I
am going to here's what I'm going to do. I'm
gonna go to my uh X page. I'm doing this
in real time. I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna go
to X page and I'm gonna just post this and
you guys can read it and and and and look
at it and see what you think. Uh, and you

(01:26:15):
you cold, you'll know it's it's the thing I posted
because Nancy Pelosi is waving at you, Isaac, and Nancy
Pelosi ever waved at you twice. Wow, that's big. That's uh,
that is big. This is by the way, this this
was uh, this is uh research that was done and

(01:26:38):
released over at Breitbart. They didn't do the they didn't
do this. They just they just crunched the numbers.

Speaker 5 (01:26:45):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:26:45):
But that that's what this that's what this is News
Talk eleven WVT. It's great to be with you, all right,
all right, let's uh, let's let's get back to the
business of business. And you know, there's all kinds of

(01:27:05):
different things that are happening. A lot of different things
that are moving. President Trump just kneecapped the GOP's shutdown strategy.
This is from five hours ago over on the CNN.
After the government had been shut down for nearly a month,
the conspicuously quiet President Donald Trump finally weighed in with
the prescription for how to end it. Republican congressional leaders

(01:27:28):
are probably wishing he hadn't. Trump late Thursday night called
and urged the Republicans to end the shutdown by invoking
what they call the nuclear option, that is, getting rid
of the filibuster and the sixty vote threshold in the Senate.
This would also allow Republicans to pass things on party

(01:27:49):
line votes in the GOP controlled Senate. So here's the
question I have, because people are freaking out saying because
of the fact or this is Donald Trump because of
the fact that the Democrats have gone stone cold crazy.
The choice is clear. Initiate the nuclear option, get rid

(01:28:11):
of the filibuster, and make America great again. He put
on truth Social that Trump would call for this is
not terribly surprising. He has spent years urging Republican leaders
to scrap the filibuster, nor is it particularly likely to
provide an actual off ramp of the shutdown. Those same

(01:28:31):
GOP leaders have steadfastly declined Trump entreaties before this. That's
the problem, okay, because you have got people in the
House are very different than people in the Senate. As
you guys know. Okay, you have people in the House
who are willing to lay it on the line, to defend,

(01:28:53):
to push, to do those sorts of things. I said
this earlier today. I stand by it saying it earlier today.
When you get into the people that are going to
be part of this, Murkowski, the senators out of the Northeast,
such as they are, these are the people that are

(01:29:15):
gonna sell you out. They're gonna dump you. You want
to know who I thought would be a much more
solid guy, Lankfort. Langford's like a bump on a log.
I know he's he does, he does try to do
stuff when it comes to religious freedoms and things like that,

(01:29:37):
but he's not. He's just that guy that's happy to
be there. Like you know, when there's those people where
I've used this analogy a lot, but it's pretty much
right on all the time. It's it's the person that
comes over to help you move out of your apartment
and they pretend to lift. They just put their fingers

(01:29:57):
underneath it and they act like they're helping to carry
it down the ste These people are that's this is
not This is not how how you get stuff done.
I would say this, Okay, the president, right, the president
has a lot of upside because he's not gonna run

(01:30:20):
for reelection. Are they going to try to impeach him? Sure,
but that's just called Tuesday. But here's the thing when
when you when you look at this, okay, we you
should be seeing commercial after commercial after commercial after commercial
and just go through it. Just go through the commercials

(01:30:44):
just like bang bang bang bang bang. I don't mean
that like shooting, but I'm saying, just one after another
after another after another. They should be running ads demanding
that you call some of these weaker senators right that
you're gonna actually be able to perhaps maybe have an
impact on this. But unfortunately, unfortunately, when people get to Washington,

(01:31:10):
d C. And they spend time in Washington, d C.
They they get they get you know, absorbed. You have
all these people. I mean, I gotta tell you, it's
it's a it's a very much a seductive place to go.
Like if you go and you get to get to

(01:31:32):
go to the White House or you get to go
to the Executive Building or any of those sorts of things,
you know, you sit there and you go, wow, this
is pretty interesting. We're talking to these people who are uh,
you know, a cut above. They're really smart, they've they've
got these great jobs and all this sort of stuff.
But at the end of the day, if if you
have the ability to communicate in a functional way, you're

(01:31:58):
gonna you're gonna advance, you're gonna move up. But then
what happens is every two, four or six years you're
gonna get turned out and then you've got to go
and do what you want to stay in Washington, D C.
Same thing with with you know, a capital city, right,
you want to be in the community. You want to
still be there. You want to be important, you want
to be talking to people, you want to be meeting

(01:32:20):
with people. Well, you're gonna have to take a knee
a lot, You're gonna have to do a lot of
things that maybe you don't necessarily want to do. But
but if that's the price, then that's the price. And
that's the reason why you see people that get elected
and then they stay in Washington, d C. For you know,
fifteen terms in the House. I've been here thirty years.

(01:32:44):
Is that something you want to brag about. I mean,
it's like, eh, and a senator, I mean the Senate,
it's it's almost impossible to dislodge a senator. I mean,
when you think about it, it's it's almost impossible. Think
about the senators that that that have gone and that

(01:33:05):
the last cycle, and most of them were pretty much
kind of it was obvious that they were not They weren't.
They didn't have their fastball anymore. But when you look
at these other folks, I mean, I think that that's
one of the that's one of the things that's tough.
That's why all the staffers are young, because you can
just make them just do all kinds of stuff because

(01:33:27):
they want to climb up that ladder. And that's you know,
in a lot of ways, it's very much like the
Hollywood system. It's like the entertainment system. It's like all
that sort of stuff. But when the when it gets
down and dirty at eleven thirty, that you got you
got a challenge, right, you have to make a decision.

(01:33:50):
And I look at some people and I say to myself, Okay,
you if you watch like c SPAN, or you watch
the coverage of the debating and the discussions and things
like that, you know exactly that like thirty eight percent
are just bumps on a log. And then you've got
the remainders divided by the two groups right Republican Democrat.

(01:34:15):
And you know who the fighters are? I mean you,
I can guarantee you that you can give me the
fighters that are the Democrat people. Do you know who
the fighters are? Isaac, give me one fighter out of
the Democratic Party that you could come off the top
of your head. You what do you got? Oh? A

(01:34:35):
Democrat that's a fighter? Come on, come on, a Democrat
that's a fighter. Yeah, AOC AOC's there. Rashida talib Ilhan
Omar Swalwell's annoying, but I mean he's on TV twenty
four to seven, three sixty five. Who are the fighters
in the Republican side. There's there's tons of them. You

(01:35:00):
have tons of fighters on the Republican side. These are
guys who are like, yeah, okay, let's go man, this
is what we want to have happen. But then, but
then you've got the people that are on the side,
the people who are on the side right who just
they're just like, hey, yeah, okay, I guess I'll vote

(01:35:21):
for this. I guess I guess I'll push for that.
And you have them on both sides. That's the problem.
You should have passion for the Constitution, That's all I'm saying.
Should have passion for the Constitution. Should be in love
with the Constitution. You should be dating the Declaration of Independence,

(01:35:43):
and in your spare time, you should be occasionally thinking
about the Magna Carta. Everybody be safe tonight. If you drink,
do not drive. If you get candy, make sure it's
the good kind of candy. Don't settle. Thanks to Isaac, George,

(01:36:06):
Anna and Pam. My name is Brett Woitterble. I do
talk radio I'll talk to you again next week.

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