Confronting Violence and Decency On The Brett Winterble Show

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Speaker 1 (00:16):
It is the Brett Winter Bull Show. It is great
to be with you today Monday. Oh boy, what a
weekend we just went through. And I'm really I'm sitting
here and I'm saying to myself, Okay, all right, it's
it's the holidays. We should be happy. Everything should be fun,
everything should be joyous. But unfortunately we have to realize

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something and we have to expect, this, especially this time
of the year, that not everything is going to be
honky dory. And what happened over the weekend is so
beyond honky door. It's just to me, we have got
a a an absolute bushel basket of lunacy walking the

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streets of our country, period full stop. And it doesn't
mean just the United States I'm talking about. We have
got lunatics all over the place. We have demons all
over the place. We have people who who want to
hurt other people who want to murder other people who
do murder other people, all of this sort of stuff
wrapped up in one big pile of I don't know

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what this is, but I got to tell you something.
One of the most important things that we can do
is to is to kind of sit back and say, Okay, Okay,
we understand what's going on. Life is not supposed to
be easy. Life is not supposed to be fun. Twenty

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four to seven, three sixty five. Evil is going to
walk and lurk and go among us. So what do
you do? How do you process the sort of things
that we have to process, because when you think about
what it is that's that's happened across the entirety of
of the weekend. I mean, so we have a dirt

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bag go in and shoot up a Brown university facility
where you have people who were I think targeted. I
believe they were targeted. I believe that they were targeted
because of their politics. I'm sorry, but that's You're not
going to dissuade me from that. With that beautiful young

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woman nineteen years old of the you know, the president
of the of the Republican Club there and you see this,
and it's all about, well, we don't really know who
did it. We took somebody into custody, but we really
don't know who did it. These blue cities, these blue
states have lost the ability to discern evil. People in

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red states understand that evil is real. And I think
it's because and I'm dead serious when I say this.
I think it's because there's much more faith practiced in
practiced in Red states than Blue states. And if you
are somebody who has a belief in a faith Judeo
Christian values, any other group of people who believes that

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people should not be murdered, should not be destroyed, should
not be going through all those sorts of things, you
are in kind like us. We are understanding that very
bad things happen in very bad places, and unfortunately it
is almost always Blue states. Did you see the story?

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I mean, this was This was what I would have
thought would have been the biggest story until the shooting,
the attack at Brown University in Providence, in Providence, Rhode Island.
This this woman went in to change her baby's diaper.
She was a person who was shopping. She was shopping

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for Christmas presents, and she was from California, and she
went into the ladies room and went to change her
daughter's diaper. So this is a baby that is being
changed on one of those platforms that you see in
the in the bathrooms in different stores. And this woman

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came up to her and started stabbing her. And she
said that she had voices that told her to do that,
and it turns out she's a lunatic. It turns out
she bought a knife and she stabbed the mom. The
mom is recuperating, thank god, the baby was not injured.

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But we let these people walk and live among us.
We have got to rededicate the notion of incarceration when
it comes to lunatics. Not everybody is fit to walk
the streets. I can I just be that guy that
says that, or are you guys thinking the same thing.

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There are people who are not fit to walk the streets.
They're dangerous and many times they have a rap sheet
a million miles long. But people's AD's just how he is,
Like like Rob Reiner's son who is alleged to have
been the killer of his mother and father. People know

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you're around certain people and you get the feeling, you
get that, you get that sort of spidery test, you
get that feeling where you're like, there's something off with
this guy, and I really I'm kind of starting to
freak out. I don't know, I want to be around him,
I don't know. He seems like one of these people
with the cold, vacant eyes, the dark, vacant eyes with
no sort of a receptive sort of approach it, or

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any of that sort of stuff. And I'm telling you, folks,
this is not good. We should have learned our lesson
after the murder of Arena, and what did we get.
We got Salazo a couple of months later, stabbing a
guy on the light rail. If you tolerate violence, if

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you tolerate these sorts of things, you're going to get
a bumper crop of lunatics. And I'm not making fun
in any way, shape or form about the notion of
mental illness, but I'm talking about something different. I'm talking
about people that are constructed to a place where they

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are evil. Push somebody in front of a bus, stab
somebody on the light rail, go ahead and stab somebody
riding light rail, Stabbing somebody in front of people, and
murdering a beautiful young woman. All of this, all of
this is happening for a reason. And it's because if
you deny evil, and I mean deny, meaning you don't

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believe it really is there. If you deny that, you're
gonna get more of it. I believe in my heart
and in my soul that there are plenty of people
who have no business walking the streets. Oh, who are
you saying the people I just know, the people that

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I just talked about. This This is not good. This
isn't a pop up. Oh my gosh, who could have
seen that coming? You saw it over the run of
the weekend? Bad? Violent, bad, violent bad, violent bad violent.

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And the upside to all of this sort of stuff,
the only upside that there is is that they went
and they caught They went and they caught those maniacs
out on the West coast who are affiliated with Antiva.
What are you prepared to do? What are you prepared

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to do to protect your family? What are you prepared
to do to tell your kids to stay away from
dangerous situations? What is it that you will do? How
are you? Are you that important? Are they that important?
Are your loved ones that important? If they are, we
almost rise up together and demand from the authorities that

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people need to be put away until we know they've
been rendered safe, period, full stop. And I'm only talking
about the violent people. I'm not talking about people that
have no other problem or anything like that. I'm talking
about the people that have exhibited violent tendencies. They should

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not be walking the streets of our fair cities, and
unfortunately the blue cities seem to have it the worst.
And we've got to figure out how to fix this
because I don't want to see anybody else lose their lives.
Everybody deserves to kind of just pass away peacefully knowing

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that they've run the race that they best could have run.
Give me fuel, give me fog me that's out of that.
And it is the Brettwitterbulls Show. What seven point nine
w FMWBT Charlotte's FM News Talk Great to be with you.

(09:50):
Our message is simple, Democrats unite. Democrats unite as GOOP.
I always loving the this as GOP against struggles to
address healthcare. All right, Well, look we were handed pretty
much a bomb of nonsense when it came to getting

(10:15):
the healthcare system back up on its feet. So Jordan
Carney posted this over at Politico. With key Obamacare tax
credits set to expire within weeks, Democrats have unified behind
a simple message. Extend the subsidies and keep health insurance

(10:35):
premiums from spiking for more than twenty million Americans. How
many Americans are there in the country, They may know
how many? Is it more than twenty million? Is it
more than twenty million people in this country. Is it's
like two hundred million people in this country. Last I checked,
it's like two d two hundred and fifty million people
in the country. Okay, that we add in the people

(10:56):
who were there illegally, so it's probably like twenty to
twenty eight. Maybe that's what the number is. Okay. So
they're saying, well, you're going to have to get a
deal done because of the twenty million Americans that are
going to suffer. I don't want to see anybody suffer,
but let's be honest. Let's be honest. Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi,

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and Barack Hussein Obama are the three people that put
you in this jackpot period, full stop. They did this
to you. They did this to you. And if the
Republicans were smart, they'd be running ads right now talking
all about how it is that they never really kind

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of budgeted for what was going to happen. We're told
that we're supposed to go and spend how many billions
of dollars? Is it supposed to be supposed to be
billions and billions of dollars for the next three years,
and then what happens at the end of the next
three years. The system is just pumping money into the
insurance companies. And it's really funny because the Democrats used

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to always say that the insurance companies are greedy. It's
a greedy move, it's a greedy deal, it's a greedy thing.
They always say that. They always said it. So then
why do you want to pump more money into the
insurance companies. Nobody wants to explain it. Chuck I can't

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cook a hamburger. Schumer doesn't really care about it. Nancy
Pelosi's out there sipping wine. Barack Usain Obama is partying
out on Martha's vineyard or in Hawaii. But this is
like a really kind of strange thing because if you
look at the numbers, it's a lot of money. It's

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like three hundred billion dollars. Where are we supposed to
get three hundred billion dollars? Where are we supposed to
get it? Republicans, meanwhile, have engaged in wide ranging blame
game while scrambling to coalesce behind an easily digestible plan

(13:08):
to lower the healthcare costs. That struggle comes to a
head this week as House leaders move to put what
they hope will be a consensus GOP plan for a vote. No,
it's not going to work, because you're gonna have people
that do not want to see the system work. That's it.

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The upshot is that there is no clear, unified GOP
message on healthcare going into the year end deadline when
the tax credits expire. Well, remember why we were pushed
to the very bloody brink. Do you know why we
were the reason why we were pushed to the bloody
brink was because Chuck Schumer said, affordability is the thing,

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and we are not going to negotiate. And for forty
days and forty nights, Chuck Schumer laughed at you people
who you would hope, who you would rely on to
get the job done. And Chuck Schumer is the man
who is stealing your healthcare. Donald Trump's not stealing it.

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Donald Trump was negotiating all those deals. Chuck Schumer, Nancy Palosi,
Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, all of these people are the
people that took your healthcare away from you, and now
they're holding it hostage. And you tell me if you

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think you're gonna see a better outcome with a plan
coming through the Schumer system, Chuck Schumer is going to
say no to everything. But Chuck Schumer needs to pay
a penalty in that regard. So again, like I was saying,

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you have a lot of issues in these blue states,
blue state issues that shouldn't be the penalty against normal
people in red states. So I don't know, Maybe we
devolve it and we go back to the states, and
we go back to the red states, and the red

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states have functioning healthcare, and the Blue states just get
to go camp out on little Chucky Schumer's front lawn.
He doesn't have a lawn because he lives in an apartment,
a fency fency apartment where he likes to make burgers

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that are raw. And I'll get out. This is a
big problem, ladies and gentlemen. I expect that we're going
to have an opportunity to vote their conscience and then
go back to defend the votes back home like we
always have to set House budget. Chair Jody Arrington, Republican

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of Texas, told reporters about the GOP's healthcare strategy, Chuck
Schumer broke healthcare. Make Chuck Schumer fix it.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
No, not now, not Eva, please.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
On the middle home in a concrete seven four seven
nine piece of cake.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
That's a piece of cake right there, guys. So if
you want to call, if you want to be a
part of this, absolutely feel free to do that. Let
me see here, Okay, I'm gonna take take a couple
of comments. Let me see. Starting off with the Google machine,
This is Russ. The Google machine says three hundred and
forty two million. Add in what Biden led in in

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about three hundred and sixty million people. Can you imagine
that we have three hundred and sixty million people in
the United States of America. I thought it was going
to be filled up at some point. That's a shocker.
That's a shocker. But when you look at the number,
and I appreciate this very much, Russ adding to this,
that's only five point five percent of the population. If

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you did decide that you were going to say, eh,
let's figure out a better system for these folks to
be able to get the coverage that they need. I
don't think we need to give three hundred four hundred,
five hundred billion dollars just to the insurance companies. And
like I said, progressives used to hate the insurance companies,
but now suddenly they like the insurance companies. I don't

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understand how that all works. I really don't. I thought
you hated the healthcare system, so why don't we fix
the healthcare system? You know, I mean, just it's just
an observation. Let's see, Okay. Eighteen eleven is that is

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the last four digits of this caller? Eighteen eleven says,
where's the Republican healthcare plan? Bright Bart? Brett, Well, I
don't know. I don't know, but I'm glad you listened
to me when I do fill in on bright Bart.
That's very nice of you to say. It's fascinating. Yeah,

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I mean I don't know. I don't know where the
plan is because I haven't seen what the plan is.
Have you seen what Schumer's plan is? That's one of
the things that we have to kind of correlate. Do
you think that there's a correlation between the gutting of
the war chest of money that Doze did away with

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and the semi sudden push by Dems to get us
to shell out a trillion dollars for healthcare? Yes, at
one hundred percent, absolutely the case. You want to know
why because Chuck Schumer. If you go back to Chuck Schumer.
And by the way, Chuck Schumer's finished, he has finished.

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I think we're going to find things out about Chuck
Schumer the way he's been doing dirty deeds, done dirt
cheap to not have the healthcare thing get resolved, because
he wants that to be the advantage in this regard.
But here's the thing that you have to think about
the reason why they want a trillion dollars is because

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they want hook or by crook, the ability to destroy
the permanency of the of the of the tax cuts.
So Chuck Schumer hates that you have money in your
pocket and you have agency with your money. He hates that.

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He doesn't want that at all. He wants you to
be dependent, because what does what does the letter D represent?
Democrats and dependent? They don't trust the American people. They don't,

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I mean, it's elementary. They do not believe. And it
goes all the way back to FDR and LBJ, and
it goes all the way back to the slave days
because they didn't believe. The Democratic Party never believed that
people should have agency of their own. That's why they
were a slave a slave party originally. And then you

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got to the time in which it was time to
reform and to enfranchise people who had been disenfranchised by
the Democrat Party and dead. The Republicans said, no, no, no, no, no,
we believe and we are instituting all of the laws

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and the and the things that are important. And I
got to tell you this, this is what this is
all about. There is a divide in this country. It's
not Republicans or Democrats. And it's not rich people and
poor people. It's it's independence or dependence. So I will

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open up the phone right now and I will take
your calls. Would you rather be independent or dependent on government?
Dead serious, dead serious? Or as Joe Biden would say,
not a joke, not a joke, not a joke. Seven
four five seven zero one seven nine. Would you rather

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have your own agency where you say I am going
to do the things that I need to do so
that my family is going to move forward. Or do
you want to go and take a bag and go
to the Democratic Party and say, may I please have
some food? May I please have some healthcare? May I

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please have this that or the other thing? You know
what is so fascinating to me when you think about
all of the stuff that's going on here. Now, just
think about this. When's the last time you heard from
the Democratic Party about climate change? Where's the climate change conversation,

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Where's the we have to get rid of the fossil
fuels argument? Why is nobody clamoring for that. Why is
nobody yelling and screaming and freaking out that the climate
change is a problem. This is something that I think
is very interesting. So call me up, tell me. Would
you like to have the ability to choose your outcome?

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Or do you want to just go over to Chuck Schumer,
Nancy Pelosi, Amy Klobatshar all of those people and say, please, please,
can I just have some more? Can I just have
a little bit of more? Can I have some more
of that? Because I'm telling you right now, in the
current iteration of the political reality of this world today,

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these folks, these folks, you see what's happening on the
left side of the aisle, they care more. They care
more about the cocaine boats than they care about regular
American folks. True little stone roses for you, love grows,

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We love everybody. One O seven White nine f m
w BT Charlotte's FM News Talk. It's great to be
with you. We got people on the on the transom.
Let's let's reach out and hear from Keith. Keith, welcome
to the program. Hello, Hello, how you doing good?

Speaker 4 (24:19):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (24:19):
I'm good? Thanks for calling.

Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yeah, I would listening to your show. And I wanted
to say I wish that it was a simple within
the parameters that you say it is, because most people
are always going to choose or to want to choose,
to have a choice, because that's what liberty is all about,
is having that that choice of of of making choices

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and having control of your choices. That's right, uh, and
not and not to make someone. But unfortunately, unless my
perception of reality is distorted, it is not that simple.
And uh, you know, as much as we UH may
want to make it out to be a Democrat and

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Republican thing, let's just let's just make it like this.
My healthcare is what it is with regard to the
choices that I make, but with with the UH, with
the restraints on Big Farmer and also the political insurance

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company that runs everything. Okay, the laws prevent them from
overcharging me or to making it so the way I
can't even afford it. But when you don't, But when
you don't have a plan, and it goes back to
well it's a wherewithal and free for all, or the
rich that can afford to discharge whatever they want to

(25:48):
charge because they control health care, they can charge whether
you're going to get you know, access to medicine or not,
what the cost is. So it's not it's a economic thing.
It's not a Democrat or Republican thing. But then you
have two parties that are trying to fight over who's

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gonna who's gonna make what And all we're trying to
do is Americans or myself, I should say, is to
have a plan that's that's in place to where uh
my hard earned dollars can afford it. But if if
you don't have a plan to where I can't afford it,
then I'll be in the emergency room without a health

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health plan and my family will be subjected to everything.
There goes my there goes my fall one k, there
goes my home, that goes everything. So yeah, uh, I
don't care if they call it, uh independent or socialization.

Speaker 5 (26:46):
We need a.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
Plan that can can save Americans uh money, and you know,
yeah it's gonna cost, but it doesn't have to be
the part to where it sends us, sends us all
to the poorhouse.

Speaker 6 (26:58):
So yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
Wish it was as simple as you said it was
for me to have a choice and choose like that,
because I think every American embraces that liberty of having choice.
And I'm a twenty one year Air Force veteran, and yes,
that's what I that's what I fought for, That's.

Speaker 7 (27:16):
What my colleagues died for sure.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
It's for the liberty.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
So are you are you in the are you in
the are you in the veterans system?

Speaker 8 (27:24):
Like?

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Do you get access to that because of you being
a twenty one year old your position?

Speaker 5 (27:32):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (27:32):
And I was forced. The biggest live with they don't
tell you about veterance is that.

Speaker 5 (27:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
When I went in, they said, yes, we will take
care of you and your family. But then when the
politicians get a hold of rewriting the healthcare, then they
don't want to take care of your teeth. And then
they tell you they say, well that's cosmetic. Well it's
not cosmetic when you get ginger vitis from drinking out
of what they call a water buffalo. Yeah, because it's

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a tin kid. And then they say, well, We're sorry,
you're not You're not one hundred percent disabled, So we
can't take care of your dental problem. That's hard, that's political,
and that's a that's a lie. And so there's other veterans.
Then when it comes time for you to have a surgery. Uh,
then they say, well, you know what, we can experiment
on these veterans and get these doctors that don't have

(28:24):
their license that are getting their interim certification down at
do I'm in North Carolina, so we'll descend them up there,
and they put practice on a veteran and they mess
them up.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
So what's harm.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
They can't foul anything, they can't do anything. So you know, yeah,
you think you got free health care. Yeah, it's by
someone that's learning on the job. And so you know,
whether you come out there dead or alive, they don't care.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, I understand that. But here's the thing that's government right,
I mean, the government is doing this, So we should
have a marketplace approach, which is it's going to be
impossible because at this stage of the game, the insurance
companies are not going to play ball. They they want

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to continue to get three hundred billion dollars punched into
their system and they can still say no to you
and still say no to me and all that sort
of stuff. So and socialized medicine is not what it's
worth because they'll just look at you and say, you're
X number of years old. We're not going to let
you have a kidney, or we're not going to let
you have a gallbladder or you know, whatever it's got
to be. And that's that's the problem. So we we

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we have got to figure this out. But the reality
is every one of us in the country is being
held hostage by people in Washington, d C. In the
House and in the Senate period full stop.

Speaker 9 (29:44):
And I agree, I agree.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
And that's a it's a sin. It's a sin. I mean,
it's you know, you you you went in, you served,
you did all the things the right way, and and
what did you get. You got you get kicked in
the butt and and and told that you know, you
can't have it, and that that is disgusting. And unfortunately,
because of the way that the original setup of Obamacare was,

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they blew out a whole bunch of companies that didn't
you know that that weren't going to play ball. And
unfortunately we have we have fewer choices, and that's that's
a really bad thing, you know. I mean, it's terrible.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
I just I hate to rupt you, but I really
want the message to be sent that number one, I
don't care about Democratic Republic. What I care about is Americans.
And the thing is is that if we can't, if
we can't have the integrity to say, Okay, look, you're
not going to you're not going to have this done

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to people that have served, yes, and seniors that have served.

Speaker 9 (30:44):
Yes, people that have paid their paid.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
Their their way in society. And then now because they're
getting sick and yeah, they had health care, they were
paying into this insurance blend Yes, and now it's time
for them to use it. You're saying, well, you can't
use it because it's gonna cost us too much money.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
That's what they say, for you to use it. That's right.
You're one hundred percent Keith. I've enjoyed this conversation. Please
call again as this moves along down the line. And
I appreciate your service, my friend. Thank you very much
for being here.

Speaker 4 (31:15):
Okay, thank you. Let's let's look for solutions. We can
do it together, Americans. We can do it together.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Amen. Absolutely, and Merry Christmas to you, my friend. We'll
talk again soon.

Speaker 5 (31:24):
Okay, okay, all right, thank you, you got.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
It, Keith, great call. What else can you say? Another
great hour? Straight ahead? Well it is the Brett Winerble Show.

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What O seven point nine FMWBT Charlotte's FM News Talk.
Great to be with you. All right, There's nothing I
like better? Well okay, well, there's a couple of things
that I like better, but by and large, there's nothing
that I like better than watching the Fan Belt Inspectors
aka the FBI going out there and rounding them up

(32:16):
and shutting them down. Who are you talking about? Well,
the FBI aka the Fan Belt Inspectors arrested for alleged
members of a radical pro Palestinian group accused of plotting,
of all things, what do you think a group like

(32:38):
this would be plotting? They would be plotting New Year's
Eve bombings. This is out from California, of course, of course.
Individuals self identified as members of the Turtle Island Liberation

(33:00):
in Front the TILF. The TILF is it called the TILF? Yes,
it is the Turtle Island Liberation Front. Okay, I'm guessing weed,
I'm guessing weed. Was being smoked when they came up

(33:20):
with the TILF. So here's the story as it's running.
Federal authorities say they disrupted a credible terrorist threat over
the weekend, arresting four alleged members of a radical pro

(33:40):
Palestinian extremist group accused of planning coordinated New Year's Eve
bombings in Los Angeles. The FBI told Fox News Digital
that the members self identified as part of a radical
offshoot of the TILF. I mean, it's really called the TILF.

(34:04):
They call it the TILF. Do they know how silly
that is? Okay, the Turtle Island Liberation Front, an extremist
group motivated by pro Palestinian antay law enforcement and anti
government ideology. According to the FBI, they were allegedly planning

(34:29):
coordinating bombing attacks on New Year's Eve, using improvised explosive devices,
targeting five separate locations across Los Angeles. Okay, what happened?
Does anybody remember what happened on New Year's Eve of

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twenty four into twenty five? Do you guys remember what
happened in New Orleans? Bombing, bombing, terrorism, all this kind
of stuff. So these people, the TILF, the TILF, obviously
wanted to try to pull that same sort of stunt
over there in Los Angeles. According to the FBI, they

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were allegedly planning coordinating bombing attacks on New Year's Eve
using IEDs.

Speaker 10 (35:22):
Wait.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
I thought, if you're I thought, if you were using okay,
I thought if you were the TILF, you would be
using IUDs. Anyways, but the fact of the matter is,
don't don't ask anybody about that. You would expect that
they would try to do this. So they were going
to target five separate locations across Los Angeles. So how
does this all go? The agency said. The four were

(35:43):
arrested in Lucerne Valley, which is like way out in
the middle of nowhere, like way out in the middle
of nowhere, where they were believed to be preparing to
test explosive devices ahead of the planned attacks. They have
each been charged with conspiracy and possession of a destructive device.

(36:09):
And I look at the picture of these people and
they look exactly straight out of out of Central casting nudnicks.
I mean, just nudnicks, just people who don't they're just like,
we're gonna go and do this. The FBI said Monday
that a fifth individual is believed to be connected to
the same Tilf extremist group that was arrested in New Orleans.

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Now it's starting to get down in dirty at eleven
thirty for allegedly planning a separate attack a Tilf Instagram group.
Who is doing that? A tilfh Instagram group. The account

(37:02):
said its founding chapter is in Los Angeles and its
goal is to free Turtle Island, an indigenous name that
used to refer to any guess, any guess at all. No,
not Israel, North America. Tilf Island was once North America.

(37:29):
North America is once upon a time, Tilf Island. And
what the heck does New Orleans have to do and
Los Angeles have to do with this? They want to
refer to the North America from the illegal American Empire,
and they want to kick it with the free Palestine,

(37:52):
Free Hawaii, Free Porto Rico. That's what's on the account
of the Tilf instagram. Freeing the world from American imperialism
is the only way to a safe and peaceful future. Okay,

(38:12):
let me tell you something here. This is what I'm
you know, how they say, what's the rock cooking? Okay,
I think they're cooking rock by the way, but not
you know, not necessarily true. But here's the thing, why
are you putting this on Instagram? I mean, come on.

(38:35):
Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on x that the Department
of Justice worked with the FBI to prevent the alleged
terror plot in the Central District of California. She said
the TILF was also planning to target the United States

(38:57):
Immigration and Customs enforcement agents and vehicles. This was an
incredible effort by our US attorneys offices the FBI to
ensure Americans can live in peace, Bondi wrote. We will
continue to pursue these terror groups and bring them to justice.
A federal criminal complaint filed on Saturday. Now, think about this.

(39:21):
This is what's so crazy. You have at the exact
same time that they're filing against the TILF group is
roughly the same time that the shoot up in Brown
at Brown University. This is like two parts of the
country involved in terrorism at the same basic time. You've

(39:47):
got it on the West coast, you've got it on
the East coast, and you've got it in of course,
the terrible massacre in Bandai on the Bandai Beach. And
this is something that is very, very frightening because I'm
telling you right now the word is metastasize, metastasize, and

(40:11):
I think we have seen these people metastasizing, and at
some point it's gonna have to get handled. It's gonna
have to get handled. This is one step, but there's
a whole lot of other folks that want to do
damage and dangerous things to the American people. Your reaction

(40:32):
to this and the TILF? What O seven point nine FMWBT,

(40:54):
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So please feel free to be a part of this.
So when I when I look at this, this conspiracy
that's trying to be put together, you have these people
from the TILF. Okay, I'm continuing with the TILF because
this is very important because domestic terrorism is almost in
some ways I think, more dangerous than international terrorism because

(41:44):
they're living and working among us, and at some point
they decide that they're going to go and try to
kill people. Uh, and that's that's a terrible thing. While
the desert. While in the desert, the TILF group had
co conspirators taking steps to gain construction of the devices

(42:04):
the bombs that they were making, including unloading the bomb
making materials which were the precursors the PVC pipes and
the fuses from their cars and beginning to assemble the
materials on a table, constructing a tent to keep the

(42:27):
bomb materials shaded from the sun, wiping down the interior
of one of the PVC pipes, the complaint stated, adding
that the FBI agents intervened before they could complete the
assembly of the functional explosive device.

Speaker 11 (42:47):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
So who are these geniuses? According to First Assistant US
Attorney Bill Asselli, who you see on TV a lot
if you're looking at the West coast, he identified the
individuals at this press conference earlier this morning. So here
they are in their glory. Audrey Carrol Zachary, Aaron Paige.

(43:13):
You know what they always say, three letters, three words.
You get three words in the name, and it's like
suspicious so Zachary Aaron Page thirty two years of age,
Dante Gaffield twenty four, and Tina Lay forty one, forty one?

(43:36):
What are you doing with terrorism at forty one? Like
you don't you have better things? I like, I understand
you had a thirty year old, a thirty two year old,
a twenty four year old, but you're forty one years
old and you're out, well you're out trying to do terrorism.
Like you're done, You're cooked, it's over. I mean, I'm

(43:57):
just the Tilf is not for Tina Lay. It doesn't
make any sense. Tina Lay does not need the Telf.
You need to go get a job. You need to
go and retire or do some My goodness, I don't
even I think these names are kind of halfway made

(44:17):
up anyways. Like I think it's like aliases. This is
this is no good? All right, Jeff, Jeff, welcome to
the program. Let's talk about the Tilf. What's going on
out there?

Speaker 7 (44:31):
I want to see a wing at Gontanamo Bay named
after the teal, the TILF wing.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
Yep, Wow, it's okay.

Speaker 7 (44:41):
They need to be gone today.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
What is see? What is with these people? What okay?
You seem like you're a smart guy. I feel like
I'm sort of a smart guy. What is the allure
of this like terrorism nonsense stuff that these people want
to do? What do you think is the is the
core of this?

Speaker 7 (45:00):
I still think that the bottom line is they're just
trying to undermine everything that we have because they don't
like anything that we have.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Ain't that the truth? And you know what's crazy.

Speaker 9 (45:08):
That we do them happy?

Speaker 1 (45:11):
And you know what, you know what's craziest about all
of this. It reminds me of I wasn't really old
enough to remember this, but uh, the s l A,
you know, with the with with Patty Hurst and all
that sort of stuff. It's always these like rich, bored
people who decide that they want to go out and
and become martyrs and stuff, but they don't ever. I
mean that to me, is is disturbing. I'm with you.
I want the Tilf Wing at the UH at the

(45:33):
Guantanamo Bay. I think that's a that's a smart place
to go.

Speaker 11 (45:37):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
You got it, buddy, I appreciate it. I mean, come on, now,
somebody probably misheard me when I said Tina Lay. But
her name is Tina Tina Lay. I don't want anybody
to think that I'm saying Tina Fay, because she's a
perfectly law abiding person and there's no reason for her
to be involved in any of this sort of stuff.

(46:00):
But my god, I just these people are in the desert.
You you're frolicking in the desert, you got pipe bombs,
you're trying to put together. I mean, really, you've hit
You've hit rock bottom. I think what we need is reprogramming.
I think we have to just teach these people like,
you can't be terrorists. And terrorism is never going to

(46:22):
be accepted. It's awful, It's it's just I mean, it's
the worst thing that's possible. I remember when nine to
eleven looked like a lot of people remember nine to eleven.
A lot of people remember the Pentagon, A lot of
people remembered Shanksville, A lot of people remember all of
these horrific events coming our way. And this is not

(46:43):
the way to do it. Coming up, I'm gonna talk
about Rob Reiner one O seven point nine FMWVT, Charlotte's
FM News Talk. Great to be with you. We get,

(47:05):
we get commentary. Let's take a look at some of
the commentary here. Okay, we've got this from miss d
He this is a I can't even I can't read it.
It's like, oh, this is all just like scribble scrabble.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Uh seven six four to one.
I can't make out what you're what you're sending my way. Okay,

(47:28):
so what do we got? Okay, Brett, I came in
the middle of the conversation. Is TILF what I think
it is? Signed Jenny? No, it's the what is it?
It's the Turtle?

Speaker 11 (47:41):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (47:42):
The the Turtle Investigators? What was it? It's Turtle Island
Liberation Front. So yeah, no, it's not dirty, it's it's
not dirty at all. It's they're terrorists. They're filthy terrorists.
But yeah, that's not what it's not. The TILF is
not that the TILF is is is really a protecting
the Turtle. The Turtles and I don't mean the band

(48:05):
so happy together, but I mean, I just I'm just
telling you this is this is this is what we're
this is what we're looking at. I went to bed
last night fairly late, and I was watching the storyline
that was the murders at Rob Reiner's house, with his wife.

(48:25):
And I got to tell you something for people of
a particular generation or a couple of few generations. These
these the the culture of the world I think was
sort of put together by Rob Reiner and his father.

(48:49):
I mean his father was a very important writer. He
was a very important writer. They came out of the
skills that you you would want to have in the
way that they were connected to the zeitgeist, to the
culture of the world. So like, if you think about

(49:10):
Rob Reder, most people who are of a certain age
know him as meathead, right, but you also know he
was a phenomenal director with so many different sorts of
movies I mean, Spinal Tap and a Few Good Men,
and all the great stuff that came out from Rob

(49:31):
Reiner was it was really remarkable, and you can go
through the list and just look at all of the
stuff that he did. But here's what's really interesting. You
have these people who when you go back in terms
of comedy and sketch writing and things like that, you

(49:52):
have to understand that this actually took talent. Like in
the modern era, when you watch the sitcom it's very formulaic.
You can kind of see the jokes that are going
to be made or whatever that's going to be. Even
late night TV shows kind of you know what you're

(50:12):
going to get before you even watch it. It's not
necessarily surprising. But here's the thing that's interesting. So you
have Rob Reiner, who is connected to who who is
the biggest connection that changed our culture in the nineteen

(50:33):
seventies and into the nineteen eighties, and that would be
Norman Lear. Norman Lear, if anybody has any knowledge about
Norman Lear, was the guy who decided you were going
to get all in the family. And Rob Reiner, right
is cast as Meathead and all those characters, and you've

(50:56):
seen all of that sort of stuff. And what Norman
Lear was able to do was to take something so
controversial make it so funny and poignant that you you
were going to watch this program even if it was
sort of offending you. Now in this day and age,

(51:18):
the way we live in this day and age, you
can't make a joke, You can't do this or that
unless you want to, you know, say something horrible about
the President of the United States or or people in
his cabinet, or conservatives or whatever that is. But Rob,
Rob Reiner is a touchstone moment, and again you have

(51:39):
to go back to the way they used to write
for comedy. You know, people think that when Jimmy Kimmel
stands on a stage or any of those those folks
stand on a stage and they do these riffs about oh,
and Donald Trump's hitler, and Donald Trump is a fascist,
and Donald Trump is evil and everybody's there's no surprise

(52:00):
eyes that comes out through any of those reveals. It's
it's it's it's rote, It's okay. We got to attack
the Christians, we gotta attack the president, we gotta attack
the data to although everything around in that way, Once
upon a time, you had these rooms, and if you
had these rooms on these programs, who would sit in

(52:23):
there and they would write stuff that would make America laugh.
And they did it in a very difficult way because
they're sitting in that room and you've got a television
show that's got to go up, and you can't offend.
You can't offend the people who are paying for the

(52:44):
for the program, right, you can't. You can't say certain things,
So you have to allude to certain things. You have
to write these things in a way that that are
that are just very different and so when you think
about the talent it takes. This is a second generational talent,
and in a positive way, because you had his father

(53:07):
who was one of the biggest writers for so many programs,
and then you had Rob Reiner, and then he gets
into film and he gets into all this other really
cool stuff that he's doing. He's a person like I.
I just I understand having lived out on the West
Coast and in New York, I understand that you know,
people that are in this business are pinko kami leftists.

(53:30):
But it doesn't mean that you don't want to consume
the stuff that they do. Some of the stuff is
like really poignant, it's incredible, it's awesome, it's all that
sort of stuff. I would say that Rob Reiners is
up there with Clint Eastwood. I would say he's with
these people that are giants in terms of telling stories.
And so the sin of this, the sin of his death,

(53:56):
is that his son is the person who took his
life and took his wife's life as well. And so
when you think about Rob Reiner, the legendary director, and
his wife Michelle Singer Reiner, the way they were killed

(54:18):
with a knife in their home on a Sunday afternoon.
You think about you think about what that is a violation?
You think about what must have been going through their
mind as that that man was taking their life, That

(54:45):
man who you raised, that man who you took care of,
that man who who you you did everything for, including
trying to get him clean. Including this is all alleged, obviously,
but can you imagin imagine in that last moment as
he pounces on them, to attack them, to kill them,

(55:08):
to erase them from the earth. What must that be?
What must that have been? You know, Carl Reiner passed
away in twenty twenty, And you know he started a

(55:28):
career in show business as a comedy writer in the
nineteen sixties. He worked as Steve Martin's writing partner at
the Smothers Brother's Comedy Hour in nineteen sixty eight nineteen
sixty nine. Throughout the nineteen seventies, Rob starred as Michael Stivick,
also known as Meathead, on the hit sitcom All in

(55:50):
the Family, for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards
for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. And think
about this. That show ran for two hundred and five episodes.
That's epic. That's like mash numbers. And he was not

(56:11):
necessarily the most popular guy for the American culture. It
was Archie who was the big laugher. And he had
to stand there and take all the barbs and all
the shots and all the stuff. It's very sad to
see this sort of thing happen. He was politically minded. Sure,

(56:32):
that's his right, that's just like any of ours, our rights.
And he didn't like Donald Trump, and Donald Trump I
thought put out an ill timed message earlier today. But
the sadness of this means that we will not get
to see the genius of the comedy, of the fun stuff,

(56:54):
of the good stuff. And so I'm a conservative, but
what I would say in this regard is just say
a prayer, because nobody should have to lose their lives
in the way it happened, especially when you've put in
a lot of great comedy and made a lot of

(57:15):
people laugh. And it is the Brett Winterble Show. What
I was seven nine FMWBT, Charlotte's FM News Talk. Let's

(57:36):
talk to Robert. Robert. Welcome to the program.

Speaker 11 (57:39):
Hey Brett, we bring it every night.

Speaker 9 (57:41):
Dog.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
Oh thank you, sir.

Speaker 11 (57:43):
I appreciate that, Yes, sir, I just have a couple
of quick points. First of all, regarding TILT since since
you've moved to one seven point nine, I think I
presume that there's some new listeners out there, and what
they need to know, Brett, is that when they listen
to you, and when they listen to Pete and Beth

(58:06):
and Bow, they are going to learn something. Almost every day,
I follow things pretty closely politically, I'd say very closely. Actually,
I didn't know anything about TILF.

Speaker 4 (58:15):
I didn't know.

Speaker 11 (58:16):
I didn't know very much about the Zizians a little
while back that Pete brought up. So it's a learning
experience here.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
It is, and you're welcome.

Speaker 11 (58:32):
I don't mind admitting that I didn't know something and
I got I got enlightened today, so we appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (58:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (58:41):
Secondly, Brett, you just made a very nice tribute to
Rob Ryner and his wife and his dad, and I
just I think some people might think that that you
are people like you on the radio, who are who
are on a right leaning station are our shills. And

(59:02):
you made you made You didn't make a big deal
out of it, but you said that you thought President
Trump UH probably had an ill timed post about that
that tragedy and I and I agree with you. I
think it was quite frankly, I think his post was inappropriate.
And so you are not a shill. And and I

(59:24):
give you credit. I know you're going to be talking
with with Michael Wattley and others uh this upcoming year,
and you're going to be uh. I mean, I'm I'm
on the side of Michael Wattley and people like him winning.
But but for you to do that means that you're
not just blindly towing the party line.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
Well, okay, so here's so here's the thing here, here's
the thing that's that I want to make abundantly clear.
I believe when somebody dies, and I've always I've I've
grown up with this idea, when somebody dies, it's over

(01:00:04):
and and there's no reason to necessarily, not like Osama
bin Laden or somebody like that, but like a person
that may be controversial, that that to me. That to me,
once they're in the ground, once they've passed on, there's
no what's you're you're punching. You're punching somebody who can't

(01:00:24):
defend themselves. And that's that's the that's the heartbreak of it.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 11 (01:00:30):
Yes, And I think it's really the only for lack
of a better term, the only human way to look
at it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Yeah, like what would your what would your grandmother say
that you should say about him? Like, you know what
I'm saying, It's like, Okay, they died, and uh, you know,
say a prayer. I mean, that's that's really all we got.

Speaker 11 (01:00:48):
Yes, I think that's all we can do. His his
his uh, Rob Ronner's record speaks for herself, with with
those movies that you mentioned that that he directed, and
with his time in team and uh. So I wish
him well, and I wish his family well, and and
but I just appreciate you, uh making that that little

(01:01:09):
tribute and making that uh that that point that sometimes
sometimes opposed is is maybe uh even no matter who
does it, it's uh. I think it's fair to say
that it's inappropriate.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
Yeah, I appreciate the call. Thanks so much, Robert. It's
always nice to talk to you. Always nice to talk
to you. Buddy. Uh has A has some comments All
that Turtle Island think makes me think about the Monty
Python skit Life of Brian with the Judean People's Front.
They hated the People's Front of Judea that they hate

(01:01:45):
more than the Romans and the Judean Popular People Popular
People's Front. I could see, Okay, I get that one.
Uh what else did I get? I got? I got this.
I wouldn't say that Trump's post was ill timed. I
think it would just be ill. Some things you should
say in close quarters or just in your family, or

(01:02:05):
just with your wife, or just keep it in your
own head. Do as to others as you would have
done to you. I voted for the man three times.
I still believe in the policies he's making that he's
putting forward. But that was a mistake. Yeah, I mean,
people are going to have different approaches on this. And
then finally, for the President of the United States or
anyone for that matter, to make comments that he made

(01:02:28):
associated with the tragic death of individuals regardless of whether
you like him or not, they for them to be
murdered in cold blood. He's so outrageous. Nobody, I mean
nobody should try to defend it as being that's just
who he is. Maybe the need he needs to be

(01:02:48):
a little bigger than regardless of what we approved his policies, etc.
It's a fair point too. All right, We've got another
hour straight ahead, two hours straight ahead. I'm Brett Wittable
more after this, Welcome to the third hour. I'm gonna

(01:03:14):
be here all the way till seven. I'm covering for
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And so if you'd like to have an opinion, if
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certainly would love to have you on the program. Our

(01:03:35):
telephone number seven four five seven zero one zero seven nine. Look,
we were talking about the murders of Rob Reiner and
his wife. People want to talk about this, people want
to opine, and I want to jump out right away
and see what's on folks mind. Let's go to Luri next. Laurie.

(01:03:58):
Welcome to the program.

Speaker 12 (01:04:01):
Hi, Yes, I appreciate you talking about this. And I've
seen Trump's posts on truth social and I've seen all
of the people saying it's fine or no, it's not fine,
and I just heard you talking about that it's not
good to say bad things about dead people because they

(01:04:23):
can't respond back. And with h with Trump's statement, I
don't have a problem with that what he said, because
it's true.

Speaker 13 (01:04:37):
And Rob Reiner had said that Trump was a threat
to democracy and that type of rhetoric almost got Trump chilled.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
Well, this is this is a this is an interesting
sort of dichotomy because somebody tried to kill Trump and
the man who said what he said ended up losing
his life. I think I think there's a there's a

(01:05:11):
lesson in in that context. I think that that we
could take a lesson from ourselves, right, I mean I
I I would I would say one thing though about
about Rob Reiner that I thought was interesting. He did
an interview right after the killing of Charlie Kirk. Did

(01:05:35):
you did you ever hear or see what what he
what he said in that regard? Now, okay, I think
this is I think this is a very interesting clip
if if if you're okay, I'd like to play it
because it's it's something that I think is interesting, especially
from Rob Reiner's position of of you know, being a
real activist leftist. Cut number eight please go for when

(01:06:00):
you first heard about the murder of Charlie Kirk, what
was your immediate gut reaction to it?

Speaker 10 (01:06:09):
Well, horror, absolute horror, and I unfortunately saw the video
of it, and it's beyond belief what happened to him,
and that should never happened to anybody. I don't care
what your political beliefs are. That's not acceptable. That's not

(01:06:31):
a solution to solving problems. And I felt like what
his wife said at the service, that the memorial they
had was exactly right and totally I believe. You know,
I'm Jewish, but I believe in the teachings of Jesus,
and I believe in doing to others, and I believe

(01:06:53):
in forgiveness. And what she said to me was beautiful
and absolutely you know when she she forgave his his assassin,
And I think that that is admirable.

Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
I think that's kind of an interesting thing to have
said within the few months, that that he would still
be alive. And I think maybe people are growing up
a little bit better. I mean, I don't I don't know,
how do how do we unpack that?

Speaker 13 (01:07:28):
Well, I'm not really sure how that you know, of course,
that's that's a completely different statement than what Trump said.
But what I'm wondering is exactly what did Trump say
that was wrong?

Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
I think it was the timing more than the commentary
necessarily itself. Uh, well, I'm wondering.

Speaker 5 (01:07:57):
I'm wondering.

Speaker 13 (01:07:58):
You know, people were gonna want to know what Trump
had to say about it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:04):
No matter what.

Speaker 14 (01:08:05):
Sure, So what does it matter if he says it
now or two weeks from now?

Speaker 9 (01:08:09):
Really?

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
Yeah, it's a fair point. I mean, look, he's got
he's got all the cards, right, I mean, he can
he can say whatever he wants, you know, and he
doesn't necessarily have to have to take anybody's advice in
that regard. So yeah, yeah, I mean, I I'll grant
you that, you know, with with without any any reservation,
he can he can certainly say what he wants to say.

(01:08:31):
And people, and I'm sure there's plenty of people that
are talking about about Rob Reiner's the killing there, and
there are probably people who are saying terrible things, and
there are probably people saying nice things. And right, you know,
and you.

Speaker 14 (01:08:45):
Know, what you played, what what you played was great,
and you know, I totally understand I get where he's
coming from there, and that was a great statement. But
it still doesn't take away what he said about Trump.

Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
Right, yeah, yeah, okay, I'll accept that. Laurie, thank you
for calling. I appreciate the conversation, all right, thank you. Yeah, absolutely,
it's very interesting. It's it's a very interesting conversation.

Speaker 11 (01:09:17):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
That's here because you have to wonder, had Rob Reiner
not been killed and his wife been killed by somebody
in his own family by all you know, by all
accordance there, that you would you would think about this

(01:09:39):
when you have this in the way it is, we
we will not know if he would have maybe changed
his stance, like, for example, had the consequence had had
the circumstances been okay, somebody got killed in that house,
I don't know who. Does that change your feeling? Does

(01:10:05):
that change the impact? Does that change those things? Because
a lot of people, a lot of people really hated
Rob Reiner because of his politics. I look, I've and
i've I've definitely disagreed with his politics. One O seven

(01:10:28):
point nine FMWBT, Charlotte's FM News Talk. Let's jump out
and grab a call from Malcolm. Malcolm, welcome to the program.

Speaker 5 (01:10:38):
Trump's post was so funny my seven year old.

Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
Yeah, that's great, I got your name. I got your number.
That's not a real caller. By the way, I want
to explain this to you. This is a guy who
calls with fake names, and all he wants to try
to do is get famous with his little teeny tiny,

(01:11:02):
small little website where he puts out boring content. And
the reason why, the reason why I will not stand
for it is because is because, first of all, Malcolm Malcolm.
I mean, I know the I know the lyric. Get

(01:11:26):
a little Talcolm, right, you know that one? Right here
comes Malcolm, Get him a little talcon, you know. But
the thing is this guy, he's not even man. It's
one of those things. It's just one of those things.
Me and Pete have got the line on him, and
so it's we we just know. I know when it's coming.

(01:11:48):
So all right, let's continue with other things, very important
stuff that that is now out there, okay, and let
me and let me go here. I'm gonna go here
real quick.

Speaker 9 (01:11:59):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:12:02):
We are living in a time when chaos seems to rain.
Is that is that fair to Is that fair to say?
And you have to wonder, at least I wonder about this.
People ask is it the devil at work? And I say,

(01:12:25):
my opinion, if you push Christ out of the forefront,
you open the door wide open for confusion and division
and despair because in my opinion, just my opinion, God
will not be mocked. And we have people who I

(01:12:46):
think do not want to be willing to have conversations,
to have have the things that are important and all
this sort of stuff. We're living in very serious times.
At any moment we could end up dealing with an
overseas catastrophe, which we just saw. If you see that

(01:13:10):
attack that took place at Bondai Beach in Australia, This
to me is what happens when you tolerate radicalism from
every possible corner of the world. And by the way,

(01:13:31):
don't come at me and say, oh, yeah, but you
don't understand. No, I understand perfectly. I remember in the
aftermath of nine to eleven. I remember going to sleep
at night and being worried about going to work the
next day. Are we going to be safe? Are we

(01:13:52):
going to be hit again? Are we going to get
attacked again? Are we going to do all of that
sort of stuff? And that was in Gotham, that was
twenty million people in the tough city. That was attacked
in that regard. Now here is the problem. We have
to either respect and protect the people who are out

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there suffering at the hands of radicals, suffering at the
hands of the tilf, suffering at the hands of these
people who have been radicalized in so many ways, universities, organizations,
the Internet, you name it. We are in a fight

(01:14:37):
for our life and I'm not willing to surrender. And
this audience is not willing to surrender our freedoms and
our liberties. If you don't like the United States of America,
there are plenty of other countries that you can go
and spend time in. You get yourself a passport, you
go travel around the world, and you show me where

(01:14:58):
the better places are, Where the better places are. I'll
give you an exhibit and an example. All right, are
you guys familiar with the person a person called Greta Tuneberg.
You want to hear something that is a disgrace, That

(01:15:22):
is a disgrace in the aftermath of the murders of
Jews on the beach at Bondi Beach in Australia, she
comes out and defends hamas this is cut number seven
letter rip.

Speaker 15 (01:15:43):
Today, I and people all over the world are sending
solidarity to the eight individuals who are on hunger strike
in British prisons, demanding that the government meets their demands
of immediate bail, a right to fair trial, the deprescription
of Palestine action, and an end to censorship. These individuals
have been held in prison, some for over a year

(01:16:04):
without trial, and are currently unconvicted of any crime to date.
They are on forty two days of hunger striking, a
critical point that could lead to irreversible damage to their
health and bodies. It is up to the state to
intervene and put an end to this by meeting these
reasonable demands that pave the way for freedom of all
those who choose to use their rights trying to stop

(01:16:26):
a genocide, something the British state has failed to do themselves.
Mobilize and escalate to ensure the government cannot ignore their
demands and most importantly continue to answer their calls to
shut ELBIT systems down, Free Palestine.

Speaker 1 (01:16:43):
Not a word, not a word of comfort to the
Jewish people celebrating Hanukkah the first night, not even any
of that. Look at this Prime Minister, that that's running
the government in Australia. You look at this guy, Prime

(01:17:05):
Minister Anthony Albanese and his government. This guy, this guy
is atrocious. This guy is right in the hands of
those who would see people not being safe. Critics describe
Albanese and his government using terms like idiot, moron, stupid,

(01:17:26):
and foolish in relation to a range of political decisions
and actions. He didn't take this seriously with this attack.
Opponents have labeled him an economic moron. That's not my saying,
that's the Australians, and criticize the government's handling of the

(01:17:47):
economy for cost of living pressures on foreign policy. Specific
foreign policy decisions, such as a six day trip to
China and handling the relationship with the United States under
a Trump presidency have been called unfathomably stupid. This is
not anybody you want to be dealing with. The government

(01:18:10):
has been accused of treating voters like idiots over issues
like a Gaza refugee intake and a proposed social media
ban for kids under sixteen. I'm okay with the with
the sixteen thing, but his leadership style. Critics slam him
as a joke, lacking vision and appearing to view events

(01:18:30):
through a personal or political lens rather than what's important
for the Australian national interest period, full stop.

Speaker 8 (01:19:03):
This is this is perfect, this kind of weather music,
It just makes you. It makes you want to have the.

Speaker 1 (01:19:13):
Ace of spades here you go. Good to be with you,
Yankee Joe jumping in the show. What's going on? Yankee Joe?
How are you?

Speaker 11 (01:19:24):
Brett?

Speaker 5 (01:19:24):
Sorry about Friday, but you know, the show makes me
so excited. I had to do a five k on
my own a little bit and on the light though,
it's just that, you know, I'm glad for Phelip's return
to the grid. Iirons, so that was a really good
thing to see.

Speaker 9 (01:19:41):
Brett.

Speaker 5 (01:19:41):
Two things lies, and one of is gonna be politically
incorrect on Rob Ryan. And it's not bad about him.
I mean, it's about the it's terrible what happened.

Speaker 11 (01:19:50):
And I don't wish that on any of course.

Speaker 5 (01:19:51):
You're very clear on that.

Speaker 9 (01:19:53):
Don't they like that?

Speaker 5 (01:19:55):
And I really don't. And those great times the movies
made except a few good because I didn't like the
way to portray.

Speaker 9 (01:20:01):
The Marine Corps.

Speaker 5 (01:20:01):
But it's different story. But that's a story. But anyway,
the Prisoner Ran was great. The thing is this I
wish you would have. I mean, and I'm not blaming,
but the thing is the energy that he went against
the cigar smokers was just incredible and we still suffered
from it here in California. So just to let it
know where taxes are just ridiculous. But that's a whole
different thing. But the point is this is that I just,

(01:20:23):
you know, big condolence of this man. And the main
thing I want to talk to you about this thing
in Australia. Yes you know, and this is we have
a damn probably over a decade and I'm more about
a decade knowing each other. But anyway, the point is
this is.

Speaker 1 (01:20:36):
That and you know more than that now. I think
it's like fifteen years that you and.

Speaker 5 (01:20:40):
I actually back in the days when you were and
all a commuting back and forth, well I was getting
I was still I'm still in the navy. So it
must be Colley just a couple of years ago, right,
because But anyway, Brett, you know with Australia, you know,
we do all these massive and it's you as a taxpayer,

(01:21:02):
we do these massive deployments. Incredibly got carriers, we have
battle we have this and that submarines. Men go on
the ground and we fight and fight them, spend tons
of money. But that's a bad ROI on Australia, and
I just questioning their allegiance to us. If you're not
willing to defend your own and you talk, there's all
the Western nations defend your own people. We do all

(01:21:24):
these deployments, but just we're good over there. When we
come over here, we get our buttslift. You know, it's
just just like this, not just that, not this thing
in Hamilstow, but the smiling thing. And the thing is
we just allow it all to happen, you know, we
just didn't we spend You know, if if you pick
you'd be mad if you said, hey, I need an
all change and these costs. You just say forty dollars

(01:21:47):
against all change. Sure, and you come back two hours
later as a day bread and you know it's like, hey,
you know, I'm here to pick up my car, and
was like, oh man, we still haven't you know, I
really don't know what the hell was like not to
ask for it all change. Man. You pissed off with that.
But we spent billions of dollars in doing these deployments
and then when it comes down to our land and
I question you're, it's you're, you're, you're, you're, you're allegiance

(01:22:10):
to us if you can't defend your own people, And
this happens in England, in Australia, the United States.

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
So why why why why why can't we defend Why
can't we defend what's important to the United States of
America or our allies? Like why what? What is the what?
What is the reason that we can't that we can't
do these things?

Speaker 5 (01:22:31):
To be honest with you, it's here and here in Californian,
especially here in California to a certain extent, I think
we've only been brainwashed and been shot even be America.
I mean, you have people a shot of flying an
American flag.

Speaker 1 (01:22:41):
It's crazy that that that that to me is the
craziest thing of all because you can fly almost any
flag you want. But but but if you like, when
I see people targeting people because they have a red
hat or they have a flag or a flag stick
or something like that, that to me, we I don't

(01:23:05):
care what people's politics are, but you should be proud
of the country that you live in. I mean, I
don't I don't understand why people slag the country and
they say stuff like, oh, it's just a terrible place. Well,
then give me a place that is better. Finland, Estonia, uh, Syria, Like, well,

(01:23:26):
give me give me a place it's better, right, I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:23:30):
It's just not. You don't have that opportunity and anyone actually,
and I'm gonna tell you, I don't know if you've
heard what I said on Friday. I did hear it,
but when I was station in Japan, Yes, I'll tell
you about that.

Speaker 1 (01:23:40):
It meant they had this end of your show, yes,
And it meant if you and your underwear, yes.

Speaker 5 (01:23:45):
Playing video games, and if they knock on your door
click a click, you have to go just what you're
going on the airplane with.

Speaker 1 (01:23:52):
Yeah, that's right, you're.

Speaker 5 (01:23:53):
Going in your underwear. I look, I haven he shows you.

Speaker 1 (01:23:57):
I have I have a son. I have a son
who I picked up at the airport on on on
Friday night. And you want to know why, because earlier
that day he finished his last final studying abroad. And
they they said, okay, switch is flipped, go to the
airport and we'll see you later. That's how they That's

(01:24:19):
how those that's how countries do these things. That's not
that's not the United States. Geez. You get these people
that are running around they've been they've been they've been
absconding with American citizenship air quotes, uh you know, for
for for the twenty five years, and they were never legal.
I mean, like, why are we supposed to do why
are we supposed to do that?

Speaker 5 (01:24:38):
Well, one of the biggest I mean the thing is
the biggest slap in the face that me as an American,
not just the one who's his serv But it has nothing
to do with that but to be an American. But
you know, one of the biggest days of the year
was his Super Bowl. We're gonna have a guy in
his anti American singing and putting a spin on us.

Speaker 1 (01:24:55):
Well, here we are. Well, but that bad bunny thing, Yeah,
the bad bunny thing.

Speaker 5 (01:24:59):
I don't We've embraced it. We've embraced that. And the
thing is those am I saying you and I I'm
just talking about the good people. But the point is
this is that we've been braking. We're just well, but
you go the other route. I mean, look at this
Brown University thing and let's and we all know it's
going to getting pretty dark. It's not it's not getting
dry because it's not. It's this one side that's doing
all the offense.

Speaker 1 (01:25:21):
That's it. And that's that's it. I mean, I just,
you know, I just sit back here and I think
about all this, and it's it's like we're the We're
supposed to be the suckers, right, We're supposed to be.
We'll give you all up, We'll give you all the money,
We'll give you everything you need, exactly, give you everything
like that, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:25:38):
I don't know, it's it's just it's just it's just
he's and he's ausies with the look. I'm not gonna
make that.

Speaker 1 (01:25:46):
The point has been made. We understand what's going on,
and I'm gonna I'm gonna I want to I want
to do something here. I never do this, but I'm
gonna do it only for you, okay. And here's why
it is. This is a this is a special Yankee
Joe Christmas a gift. Here, fire up here we go. See.
Now you can get on the get up there on

(01:26:07):
the treadmill, get out there and run around the roads
of the desert. I mean, he's just I've never done
this in my entire career. And I know right now,
Yankee Joe, I'm gonna let it go for a little bit.
The people in their cars are digging this, especially on
one O seven point nine FMWBT Charlotte FM's News Talk.

(01:26:32):
All right, Yankee Joe, love you man, talk to you soon.
Here you go, come on, let it go, let it
go for a second.

Speaker 16 (01:26:40):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (01:26:44):
Yeah, you guys in Gastonia, you're driving around cranking this
power cord. It is the Brettwitterer Bull Show. Good to

(01:27:20):
be with you. A lot of a lot of stories
that we have not yet covered, by the way, but
we can. We we can do this, and I and
I think I think I think we should. When you
think about the elite colleges that are out there right,
everybody can kind of imagine what the elite colleges are.

(01:27:42):
I am. I am shocked by this Brown University story
because a professor said the attacker yelled something before he
opened fire. And we don't know who was the who
the attacker was, We don't know anything about them in

(01:28:03):
this stage of the game, but we do know that
son of a gun. The college at Brown University doesn't
have what do you think what do you think doesn't
have cameras. There's no cameras. And by the way, the

(01:28:26):
doors are not all locked when people are in the
building that was reviewed. That was revealed over the weekend.
Economics professor Rachel Friedberg was not in class at the time. Rather,
the course was being handled by a teacher's assistant. The

(01:28:47):
teaching assistant survived the attack and told Friedberg what occurred.
Friedberg explained the room has stadium seating with doors that
enter at the top. He said, the shooter came in
the doors, yelled something he couldn't remember what he yelled,

(01:29:11):
and started shooting from up to down. She added, students
started to scramble to try to get away from the shooter,
trying to get lowered down in the stadium seating, and
people got shot. I don't know if they're the only

(01:29:33):
ones who got shot or not. CNN spoke to the
teaching assistant, who said he came in, pointed the gun
and then screamed something. I don't know what he said,
and none of the other students know what he said.
Then he just started shooting right after that. Now, okay,

(01:29:54):
so there's here's two possibilities. Can I give you two possibilities.
Two possibilities. I don't want to say what he said
or what if? What if they couldn't understand what he said?
In other words, was it a foreign language that somebody

(01:30:21):
yelled out that sounded like gibberish or something else like
aloha snack bar? I mean, I don't know. It could
because you could say something anything you want. It could be.
But what if it was like that? There was just

(01:30:43):
that nobody understood what was being said at that time.
And it's interesting because you think about this room. This
room was a do you know what? Do you know
what the test was that was going on in that room? Business?
Who's gonna go? Who's going to go into the business
school and blast?

Speaker 9 (01:30:59):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:31:00):
I would like you would think it would might be
a science, uh, some other thing, but it was Why
why would you go shoot up a a business class?
I don't know. Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez confirmed Sunday

(01:31:21):
morning that a person of interest was in custody. Yeah,
but we know that's not the case and they're looking
for the actual person. They let the guy go, and
now we don't know where the guy went. Huh. I
imagine we'll figure this out. I imagine we'll get this straight.

(01:31:41):
Oh wait, hold on, we don't have any cameras. We
don't have any cameras, and now we're playing catch up
forty eight hours later. The guy can be anywhere. Maybe
he's still around, Maybe he's gonna make another dibu. I mean,
I don't know, but this is terrible. This is terrible.

(01:32:04):
Remember when you go to a college, when you're taking
your kids to go to visit colleges. Find out do
you have cameras, find out do you have locks? Find
out do you have to have a card to get
into the classroom? All that sort of stuff. My gosh,
I mean, you think about all this. Most companies, most

(01:32:25):
companies have cards that you hit with the thing and
he goes deep and then it opens the door. Now,
if you don't have that card, you can't track who's
coming and going from here there or everywhere. So like,
maybe what we do is we get everybody a card
that's got an assignment where you can find out where

(01:32:47):
these people are living or what they are doing. But
unfortunately we don't have that opportunity. Isn't it amazing? Isn't
it amazing? Seventy thousand dollars a year just for the tuition,
not even the housing, seventy thousand dollars a year. So

(01:33:09):
times four two hundred is what have we got to?
Four times seven? Who that's a boatloaded dough. That's a
boatload of dough. And so what do you have? You
don't have cameras, you don't have anything. Why what are

(01:33:31):
we trying to conceal? I have a theory. Is it
because certain people may not be allowed on the campus,
but they still take classes? Just a thought.

Speaker 3 (01:33:52):
Monday is my favorite time of year when I get nervous.

Speaker 1 (01:33:57):
I'll tell it true right time and get your money
then col at six o'clock, I'm Jim Barry.

Speaker 11 (01:34:05):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (01:34:09):
Cool, that's right. I am doing the fourth hour all week.
It's a pleasure to be with you. My name is
Brett witter Bowl and it is great to be with you.
I'm in for breaking Brett Jensen, who is away this week,
and uh, you know we're gonna have a really great time.
Everything is fair game. If you want to raise an issue,

(01:34:30):
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Line driven by Liberty View at GMC. All Right, so
let's take a look at a couple of things, uh,
that are that are happening that we should be paying
close attention to. Number number one, Let's be honest here,
this was not a great weekend that we all lived through. Okay,

(01:35:15):
there was a whole lot of crisis and and things
like that that are happening. But I want to ask
you a question, separating the crises that that are are happening, uh,
separating the political divide in this regard, is this affecting
you in terms of your Advent season, your Christmas season,

(01:35:39):
your Honoka season, your all of these things that people celebrate, Kwansa,
you name it is. Are you still feeling the joy
of the season and how does it manifest for you?
I got to tell you, I I love this time
of year. It is It's just something that I think

(01:36:05):
is magical. It's the sort of thing where you get
to spend time with folks, especially if they're coming back
from school, if they're traveling to come visit you, all
of that sort of stuff. We need to sort of
disengage to a certain degree, but not totally when it

(01:36:25):
comes to this time of the year. Why do I
say this. I say this because we know that this
is a moment in time that we are never going
to get back. I spent a little bit of my
time yesterday over at the church that I attend at St.
Philip Manry in Fort Mill, and I had the opportunity

(01:36:49):
to be part of the Advent readings and it was
absolutely incredible. And I got to tell you, Linda Liberty
does a tremendous job. The choirs were uplifting, the music
was magnificent. It was a magical moment, and it gave

(01:37:10):
you an opportunity to sit and quietly take in what
we should be thankful for. See. One of the things
that's always bothered me about television versus radio is this
radio is an incredibly intimate vehicle. I'm with you in

(01:37:33):
your car right now. You might be driving with a
loved one, you might be driving by yourself. You might
be with a car full of kids, or you might
be on your way to go and do something, maybe
some shopping, maybe something like that, get out of the cold,
whatever it is. We have a connectivity between the two

(01:37:54):
of us, even though we don't know each other personally.
And that is the thing that I love most about
Radio Truth Be Told. What I like about this communication
medium is the fact that it's intimate. Not intimate in

(01:38:16):
a weirdo kind of way, but it's intimate. You're sitting
on the other side of your speaker and I am
talking to you, and you have the ability to talk
back to us. Now, compare that to what we just
saw that took place over this last weekend. Mayhem, death, destruction,

(01:38:40):
all of that happening, and you and I are in
the same boat. We have no ability to influence these
these terrible instances that are happening for each and every
single one of these days. Right so as we as
we sit here, as we sit here, we have the

(01:39:01):
ability to talk things through. For example, we were talking
earlier in the program, and we spent time doing a
number of things, and we were talking about the terrible
tragedy of the killing of Rob Reiner and his wife.

(01:39:24):
All of that this is sort of the stuff that
can bring us together or it can tear us apart.
And one of the things that I think that's important
is that we understand very clearly that we're in this together.

(01:39:45):
Nobody has all the answers, and nobody has none of
the answers. But what we have is unity. Even amongst
the people who are never going to be together at
the same time, we are all doing this at the
same time on this incredible station where people can feel

(01:40:09):
like they're part of a larger club. And that is
that is something that's really important, the intimacy of radio,
and especially with it being as cold as it is outside,
and things are happening very quickly as we're moving towards
towards the towards the Christmas holiday, and I certainly wish

(01:40:35):
so much peace and joy for you and your family
and and and for our brothers and sisters in Judaism
who unfortunately had to suffer the terrible attack over the weekend,
the Mayhem and the destruction and all of this, whether

(01:40:55):
whether in Syria, whether in Australia, whether in any of
these places, I think it's incredibly important for us to
understand that we can support each other we can disagree,
but we don't have to be disagreeable. And the best
possible thing that we can do when we feel like
we have no power is to pray, is to extend

(01:41:17):
a hand to a friend, is to have fun, to
feel the joy. We don't know when this ride ends,
but the reality is it will, and we should be
happy in the moment, and we should also be grateful

(01:41:40):
in the moment for these moments. Okay, on a positive front,
let me just say something. I'm still alive. And why
am I getting I'm still alive. I'm still alive. I

(01:42:02):
got two of my guys are out already. I got
I got, yeah, I got traverses out. Have you have
you been hit by the wammageddon?

Speaker 4 (01:42:08):
There?

Speaker 1 (01:42:09):
Uh, Lonnie? Have you have you survived it? I hope,
I hope?

Speaker 3 (01:42:13):
So?

Speaker 1 (01:42:13):
Okay, all right, good, good, you're good. Well, I'm still good.
He's good. Nick. Nick got taken down by his own daughter.
Got taken He got took down by his own daughter.
Shay she I guess she went in the room and said, hey,
listen to this. Let me tell you something. Okay, I
gotta figure out the rules for next year, because if
it's if it is a purposeful attack. I got I

(01:42:37):
got it. I got mixed feelings about that, Like you
can't just run up on someone and be like, listen
to this and then you're like, oh, I'm dead wamageddon,
I'm whammed. You know that's it. I'm still I'm still.
Now listen to me. Don't you call and play it
over the phone, because let me tell you something. It's
not me. It's not me, it's the the masses will lose.

(01:43:03):
Why did I even say that? Now I got to
decide whether or not I'm gonna take calls or not.
By the way, it doesn't count if you text me.
It doesn't. The text line does not. You cannot get
me on the text line. But uh, but I got
one guy or gal. I don't wanna, I don't want to,
I don't want to judge. Let's see, No Sam still in?

(01:43:25):
Whoever this is seven six four one is no wam
still in? Way to go? Wait, Okay, you carefully screen
that call that we may have to we may have to,
we may have to go on the transom. Okay, John,
welcome to the program. Nice to talk to you.

Speaker 9 (01:43:41):
Hey, Hey, how you doing. I'm well, sorry to change
the subject.

Speaker 1 (01:43:47):
So everything's open, go for stalls few times.

Speaker 9 (01:43:50):
Uh and and trying to uh the BT chill three
and uh if this is about Dick Energy and the
coash okay way changing the subject big time. And I
do that to you. But you said any calls. So
here I am, and I've got a doctor's appointing in
eight minutes. But I ain't want to talk. You don't
only get this.

Speaker 1 (01:44:09):
Out, Okay.

Speaker 11 (01:44:10):
Duke energy Is has condemned our little league baseball field
down at Plant Allen that they have torn down and
they're going there. We've had this baseball field for now
the lit league, so for seventy like five years.

Speaker 1 (01:44:24):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (01:44:25):
And the bulldozers are sitting there getting ready to bulboze
the little doug outs we've had. We used this field
literally for the little league program for seventy five years.
I'm one years old. You know. It's been going for
a while when I was just a baby. And guess
what they're doing. You know, they they're tearing this. We

(01:44:46):
have a pop on the football field down there as well.
We've actually expanded this thing of the office club is.
You know, it was thriving down there with the lease
with a lease on the same and they revoked our
lease and UH took the fields back. And their playing
is guess what their plane is. What they're gonna do
with the place.

Speaker 1 (01:45:06):
What's that?

Speaker 9 (01:45:06):
They're digging it out and they're bringing in coal ash.
This is what I'm hearing from Plant Marshall up at
Lake Norman, and they're bringing it down in Belmont and
they're on the planet. They're going to put it there
in a line container, but they're bringing it to Belmont
and probably moving thash from point A to point B
that's down there where they run to Aqueford and got
away with it, the whole deal. But they're talking to

(01:45:30):
about low blow. They're bulldozing the little league field. They're
tearing down our We've just put new lights up, a
new golf is new, uh a scoreboard?

Speaker 1 (01:45:40):
Where where is this?

Speaker 5 (01:45:41):
Where is it?

Speaker 1 (01:45:41):
Where is this located in Belmont? No? Yeah, but like
where so people would know? Yeah, where is it?

Speaker 11 (01:45:48):
On both Club Road where the Little League fills and
everybody knows about the Little league field?

Speaker 9 (01:45:52):
Well, guess what it's about to not be there because
Duke Energy is bulldozing. It's gonna take all that dirt
out and they're gonna put coal ass right there now.

Speaker 5 (01:46:01):
Now, now this is to their defense.

Speaker 9 (01:46:03):
Listen to what they did. They've offered and gave donated
some scrub land that is about three or four miles away,
and they offered a little, not even enough money to
clear that land. And this is their words to Dotina
Slub that they would this is enough money that they gave.
It would make you guys back a hole again the

(01:46:24):
words make it back, I guess the way it to
put it at least where it was at one pop
Worner football Field. And wouldn't Little League four well okay,
two little dugouts for the children for the children. Well,
the amount of money that they've donated in the amount
of land they it won't even clear the land. So
this book it's just bullshit.

Speaker 1 (01:46:41):
Oh wow, all right, thanks man. I can't, I can't,
I can't, man, you gotta you get it, Okay, Yeah,
I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:46:51):
See.

Speaker 1 (01:46:51):
I'm trying to have a conversation with you. You're obviously
very emotional. I feel badly for you. I was going
to try to engage you. You kept talking. And look,
if they've got that property and they're bulldozing the stuff already,
they're gonna obviously put the stuff there. I would I

(01:47:12):
would encourage you to figure out a way to locate
another place so that the kids can play ball. And
I know it's terrible, it's terrible that that's the case,
but you know, the the reality is you can we
can shake our fists and you know at the moon,

(01:47:33):
or we can get working and you know, at some
point maybe you can find people to to do the
hard work to build that. But the one thing you
can't do on the station is curse.

Speaker 9 (01:47:45):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:47:46):
I mean, it's especially you know, it shows and I
know you're emotional, but it shows great disrespect to me,
to Bret Jensen and to the station. And you know,
we are able to have converse stations of consequences that
are important, but we cannot. We cannot. You can't curse

(01:48:06):
on the on the air, and you know that that's
just that's just it's unacceptable. And so I understand you're emotional,
but we cannot have that. That is not anything that
that any of this audience wants to hear. There's kids
in the cars, they're going to see Santa, They're going
to see things, you know, g rated kind of stuff,

(01:48:31):
and that that's what we have to do.

Speaker 5 (01:48:34):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:48:34):
I mean, I just I just That's that's all I
can say. A lot we get a lot of nice messages.
Linda Liberty sent me a nice note. She said, thanks
for shouting us out. Glad we were part of the
favorite time of the year. Advent is always overlooked. So
that's why I do the Advent lessons and carols. I've

(01:48:54):
always thought that like Advent is is not is not
what it should be. It should be a preparation for
Christ to come. And that's an important thing. By the way,
we also got a warning. We got a warning. We
got a warning. I don't know who this is. Seven
six four one look out for Pat McCrory. He likes

(01:49:18):
George Michael. You know what, I used to really like
George Michael. The George Michael sports machine. You remember that.
Once upon a time, I did, you know, the George Michael,
the other George. But I really did like George Michael.
I'm not gonna lie to yet. I was a big
fan of George Michael. I would say my favorite George
Michael's song, My Wife's Gonna Laugh at Me, is a

(01:49:41):
Freedom ninety. Freedom ninety is a good song, but it's
too adjacent to the song George Michael's Okay George Michael, Yeah, man,
I like the cover that he did with Elton john
Son down on me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there you guys song. Yeah, absolutely,
all right, that's good. All right. One O seven point

(01:50:30):
nine FMWBT Charlotte's FM News Talk. Great to be with you.
As we turn the hour and we turn to Stan. Stan,
Welcome to the program. How are you.

Speaker 16 (01:50:42):
How are you doing today?

Speaker 1 (01:50:43):
Britt, I'm doing great. How about yourself?

Speaker 16 (01:50:45):
I'm doing good. Well. I have I have a question
for you. The holidays are coming up, and I was
just curious for you. Do you have any like traditions
one or two that uh you do try to do
every year that makes the holidays kind of a special
time a year for you?

Speaker 1 (01:51:02):
Uh usually okay, So we we we gather together with
our family, uh and and one of the things that
we do, because I'm i am half I'm half Italian,
and what we do is we do the the feast
of the of the Fishes on on Christmas Eve, uh

(01:51:22):
and then we have a regular sort of presentation on
on Christmas Day itself. But I'm a bit I love seafood,
and so I've I've I've loved it my whole life,
and so that is one of the traditions. We also
will stay up a little bit later. Uh and and
and spend time with with our with our families as well.
So which it's really it's a it's a low key

(01:51:43):
sort of a thing. It's it's exciting, it's a lot
of fun, and I always love doing it. How about you?
What do you have?

Speaker 16 (01:51:49):
Well, you know, I'm in a situice of where my
mom's dating on and she's got health issues.

Speaker 9 (01:51:55):
And I got you.

Speaker 16 (01:51:57):
Oh God, bless I can do anything with her Christmas
because of the time will be coming sooner than what
I would want that I won't be able to do
that anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:52:05):
What what's what's one of your favorite traditions from from
across your life that that that stuck with you still
to this day.

Speaker 16 (01:52:12):
Yeah, well, you know, we used to be my mom
has this disc as she fixes that everybody loves us,
so we invite the family over Christmas even we've been
doing that for out on that awesome forty years.

Speaker 9 (01:52:24):
Probably.

Speaker 1 (01:52:24):
Oh, that's great, that's ahead, it's great.

Speaker 16 (01:52:28):
You know, that's I really like that. And no one
more question for you along these lines.

Speaker 1 (01:52:32):
Yeah what uh uh for?

Speaker 16 (01:52:35):
Like, I know you're a Christian. I'm a Christian too.

Speaker 1 (01:52:36):
Yes, sir, what what what?

Speaker 16 (01:52:38):
What kind of face things do you do?

Speaker 3 (01:52:40):
Like?

Speaker 16 (01:52:41):
Is there anything special along the faithlines that you do? Christmas?

Speaker 1 (01:52:44):
Oh yeah it is, yeah, yes, yes, I love going
to midnight Mass, although it's not typically always celebrated at
exactly midnight Mass time, right, there are different parishes, but
I love I love the I love midnight Mass. I'm
Catholic and so I like to go to the midnight Mass.
I also like to go to the Easter vigil when

(01:53:07):
Easter's coming around. I just I think it's such a
blessing in our lives to be able to have faith
and to access that faith at the same time. So yeah,
those are those are two very important uh ones for me.

Speaker 16 (01:53:24):
Well, the reason I asked the question is because the
world is going crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:53:27):
It is, and I think this time of year all.

Speaker 16 (01:53:29):
Those things can help maybe bring us together and and
just talk about those kinds of things and try to
remove ourselves from all this stuff, because otherwise you can
get kind of like grown into all that and you
really miss the whole meaning.

Speaker 1 (01:53:41):
You're you're very you're very much right there, because this
what we have, what we have it at at Christmas time, okay, uh,
And and and and I want to expand it all
to to everybody else, including uh, those those folks who
are are Jewish or any other faith tradition here, okay.

(01:54:03):
And what I want to say about that is we
have the ability to amend ourselves each and every day.
Right if we didn't do a good job today, we
have the chance, we hope to be able to do
it tomorrow and to be a better person, to learn
to do all those sorts of things. And when we

(01:54:25):
think about it, especially with Christmas, and when we think
about Christ, we have no way to pay him back
in any way, shape or form except for being somebody
of faith and paying it forward and talking to other
people and bringing them along with us. And so we

(01:54:47):
are people who are blessed to have the opportunity to
even access that way. When you think about prior to
Christ being born, the difficulty that people had to deal with,
and now you have a savior, Uh, if you believe,
if you believe in in in Christianity, and that's the thing,

(01:55:09):
there is nothing we can do that He can't do
for us. And we should just be willing to accept
the gift that that He is and eternal life. That's
just I know I'm kind of prostlytizing, but but I
am because of the belief in faith that I have.

(01:55:30):
And uh, it's it's it's it's one of the central
things for my life.

Speaker 16 (01:55:34):
Well, you know, when I was younger, I would let
somebody come up in traffic God and get all upset.

Speaker 1 (01:55:38):
Yes, But as I've gotten older, yes, and.

Speaker 16 (01:55:42):
My faith, what I've learned is is that you know,
except by the grace of God, there go lie.

Speaker 1 (01:55:46):
And that's what I feel like.

Speaker 16 (01:55:47):
But I want to no matter how mamos that might
make me, I feel like that, I just to show
them the grace and and and and do what I
can in order to make their life better because if
I've been where they've been on my be the same way.

Speaker 1 (01:56:00):
Sure. And and look, somebody just asked me. They said, Okay,
half Italian, which half the top or the bottom? And
I and the answer I want to say to him
is this, I'm I'm half Italian and I'm half Irish. Okay,
So so I am a cauldron. I'm a cauldron in
terms of temperament in terms of temperament, and so I

(01:56:22):
you know, I really I try to. I try to.
I try not to be angry about certain things, but
sometimes you want to get a little irate. But I
will try to do it in private so nobody hears
what I'm saying. And so that's that's it. That's what
you gotta do, all right, Yes, thank you, Stan, Absolutely,

(01:56:42):
that was that was a great, a great conversation. Bill.
Tell me about your Christmas celebrations. What's going on?

Speaker 5 (01:56:49):
Bill?

Speaker 6 (01:56:50):
Hey, Brett, my wife is half Irish and half check
so nice. I don't know if your cousins are not.
But anyway, some time ago I made it my motto too,
instead of the motto, if only to make my motto

(01:57:12):
in spite of so when you opened up today with
you know, the bad stuff's going on, but we can
we can look at the best things in spite of
all the bad things.

Speaker 9 (01:57:26):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (01:57:26):
And there is a verse. I didn't look it up,
but it's in the New Testament that says Jesus Christ
the same yesterday, today and forever, and that that goes
along with my motto.

Speaker 1 (01:57:41):
That's brilliant. That that's brilliant, Bill. I appreciate you being
out there. Thank you so much for calling in and
and and for saying that it's a it's a beautiful sentiment.

Speaker 9 (01:57:52):
Radio has changed our lives and change our lives.

Speaker 2 (01:57:58):
Has changed our lives.

Speaker 1 (01:58:04):
Radio, you know it, Dead City Radio. Good to be
with you. So many good stories still to talk about.
Everything else that is that is absolutely fantastic. Uh, when
we when we look at these these different sort of
lines that are happening out there. So let's let's take

(01:58:27):
a look at something that I think is is hugely important.
We talked about this in the very beginning of the program.
If you've been with us for the entire almost four hours,
when we when we agreed and I'm not saying we
all agreed, but just follow me with this, when we
all agreed that Obamacare was going to be the thing,

(01:58:52):
did you think for a minute that we would have
to continue to fund this at a level of three
hundred billion dollars every year, Because that's the number that's
being talked about when it comes to the Obamacare subsidies

(01:59:13):
that need to go out to the twenty million people
who are looking for the subsidies. This creates, in my mind,
a very difficult deal because if we spend three hundred
billion dollars for healthcare, how do we eventually transition off

(01:59:41):
of the three hundred billion dollars? Because you know that
the three hundred billion dollars is going to become the
five hundred billion dollars and the seven hundred billion dollars
and the one trillion dollars that are going to be
running along the line. And the reason why I want
to point this out and I want everybody to think
about this. We could talk about it more tomorrow, but

(02:00:03):
one of the things that I want you guys to
kind of wrap your head around is how how much
more do we have to extend? Like you if you
have a house and you have a roof, and the
roof is costing you money, and you keep just trying

(02:00:25):
to put more wood on the top or more tar
on the top, and all that sort of stuff, But
you know at some point it's the stuff is going
to come through the ceiling and go into the attic
and then down into your house. At what point do
you say, Okay, this is not gonna work. We cannot
possibly have the wiring we have in our house that's

(02:00:49):
one hundred years old. We can't we can still spend money.
But my gosh, shouldn't we upgrade? Shouldn't we upgrade? You know,
you think about all the storylines that the government tells you. Right,
we have to have more IRS agents to go and
collect that money, and we have to modernize the IRS,
and we have to modernize the the transportation bridges and

(02:01:12):
things like that. That's true, yes it is. But when
you go and modernize the IRS, it's really an expenditure
that happens one time. If you have the transportation system,
it's a it's an expenditure one time, and then you
have to maintain the roads and you have to do

(02:01:32):
all that sort of stuff. That makes the sense that
we need. But if we're just taking three hundred billion
dollars or one hundred billion dollars or five hundred million
billion dollars, and we just keep throwing it into that pile,
into the into the insurance companies who are still going

(02:01:55):
to tell you that they're going to deny you because
you need an appendectomy or anything else, how does that
service the taxpayers? Right, we have twenty million people who
are on the subsidized stuff, but we don't really know

(02:02:15):
how many people are using it. We're not even allowed
to try to audit and figure out. Okay, maybe we
can cut fifteen percent because they don't exist. Maybe we
can cut twenty five percent because they don't exist. They
just all got signed up and never used the product,
no matter what it is. Wouldn't you want people to

(02:02:36):
be stewards of your money in a really great way?
I would. If you give your son or your daughter
one hundred dollars and you say, yeah, I need you
guys to go out and get groceries, and they go
out and get the groceries and they come back and
you've got ten packets of Ramen noodles, and you've got

(02:02:59):
laffy tap and you've got some lobster, and it all
came to a price of Well, that turned out. You
know how much it cost us? It cost us exactly
ninety nine dollars. Wait, you bought Ramen noodles, you bought
laffy taffy, and you bought a lobster. How is that
one hundred dollars? Oh no, that's just how it is.

(02:03:20):
They told us that that was the price. Then we
just gave them the money. You wouldn't put up with that.
I wouldn't put up with that. None of us would
put up with that. I think what we have to
have happen is we have to audit all the people
and see how many people are actually using the the
the care and if it's if it's able to withstand

(02:03:45):
the scrutiny, great, but if it's not and we're just
getting ripped off, we need to know. I'm going back
to the earliest days of the Trump administration. You remember
how nuts they went because of Doge. They thought that
dough was like it was like a nuclear weapon coming
against us. Remember remember when they were telling you you, okay,

(02:04:08):
get to anything not terrible. You know, you're not supposed
to know about who's getting the money and you're not
supposed to do any of that sort of No, we
need transparency. You know what good we could do in
the whole world if we have the money and we
have the ability to deploy the money. I'm old enough
to remember, and I'm not being it's not a cliche,

(02:04:31):
but I'm old enough to remember when we had the
debate about Obamacare and we were told that we were
going to save money, it was going to be a
more efficient system, and we would not be held hostage
by the different companies that are the insurance companies, and
what happened. What happened, It just got more expensive. And

(02:04:54):
you have never once, not ever, once heard Chuck Schumer
condemn the insurance companies. You have never heard Nancy Pelosi
condemn the insurance companies.

Speaker 2 (02:05:07):
Why do you think that is?

Speaker 1 (02:05:09):
Does somebody get a little bit of skin in the
game here? Is this what they're doing. They're trying to
stop us. They're trying to stop us from demanding better
health coverage for people who actually need it. Or is
it this the Democratic Party and parts of the Republican

(02:05:31):
Party just want to see people grovel for more. That
is something that we shouldn't do. That is something that
we should turn our back on. That is something that
we should demand answers for. Because I'm old enough to

(02:05:54):
remember when the insurance companies were the problem. They really weren't.
They were a vehicle to distribute money, and a lot
of these people took that vehicle, drove it all over town,
never put gas in it, never never got a tune up,
never got the oil changed. And now suddenly we're supposed

(02:06:17):
to deal with the ricketiness of this system. Because Chuck
Schumer says, so all right, coming up the Coaches Show.
Enjoy it, ladies and gentlemen, it is a pleasure. My
name is Brett Whitterbow. I'll be back again tomorrow and
for the fourth hour. Enjoy your evening. The Coaches Show

(02:06:39):
is coming up next. You're listening to what O seven
point nine FMWBT Charlotte's news Talk. Enjoy the evening.

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