Hangover, Reflection, And More On The Brett Winterble Show

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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Welcome to the show. It's great to be with you.
This is the hangover portion of the program, one of
seven point nine FMWBT Charlotte's FM FM News Talk. And
I'm holding I'm holding Pete Callener hostage here today in
this in this moment. Hello, It's good.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
To be with you.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
It's good to still be with you.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Okay, I got something that I wanna I wanna kind
of throw your way and break this down for me.
It is a little bit of a lengthy clip, admittedly,
all right, but this is cut number thirty four, Cut
number thirty four. There's there's something interesting going on in Michigan.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Okay, in Michig? Is this what about the coach?

Speaker 4 (00:59):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh, okay, no, no.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Letter Rip's quote.

Speaker 5 (01:05):
The owning and keeping or harboring of pigs, horses, cows, sheep, goats,
Lama's domestic foul outdoor rabbits is prohibited. And this section
does not apply for temporary religious sacrificial purposes as permitted
by law.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Well, our city is dirty enough. We don't want to
make more dirty.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
Debates raged on for at least three hours at Hamtramck
City Hall or the Ordinance of Sacrificing animals.

Speaker 6 (01:31):
Really ridiculous, carostrophic resolution.

Speaker 7 (01:35):
If it's not fast, then we are ready to take
it to the Court for the Religious rights because it
is its constitution.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
This was the second debate of the new ordinance, and
there was a crowd outside of the City Hall chambers
filling out cards to speak and they were watching it
on close circuit TV.

Speaker 8 (01:51):
No, it's not safe or sane or humane because basements
or kitchens or backyards are not suitable places for law
animal slaughter.

Speaker 5 (02:01):
Many people, including Muslim residents, were against it, citing sanitary
concerns if the animals are sacrificing a home and not
in a sterile environment, especially in the tight knit neighborhoods
of ham Tramack. The ordinance that was passed on Tuesday
night says religious sacrificing of animals can be done as
long as it is done legally and humanly.

Speaker 9 (02:19):
I think it's the best compromise.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
We don't want to restrict religious freedoms and we don't
want to keep it random without regulations. Many Muslims pay
a butcher to perform the religious sacrifice, but for some
families it's just not practical. Says Now we're alli with
care Michigan.

Speaker 10 (02:36):
Now, a lot of families will typically do it in
the confines of their property, like in their backyard, their garage,
and again dispose of the animal accordingly.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
And we do have that full ordinance up on our
website wxyz dot com in case you want to take
a look at it. Reporting in ham Tramack this morning
and Peter Maxwell seven action.

Speaker 11 (02:55):
You all right?

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Something tells me, Peter that we have not heard the
last of this fight.

Speaker 9 (02:59):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Well, you're going national, It's going national.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, now everybody has heard of your fight.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Look at this.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cat.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Wait. I thought that they made that way to hold on?
Are you jd vance In the President of the United States?
Wait a minute?

Speaker 3 (03:16):
And what how comes like it listed all of those
animals at the front end that were I guess those
were allowed to be sacrificed. Yes, so pigs was on there. Yeah,
who's sacrificing pigs?

Speaker 1 (03:29):
I don't know. I usually go to the market and
purchase the bacon.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Already, right, So I'm guessing this is this is the
the Satanist community.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
It's not the Satanist community, Big Satan. No, it's not
big Satan.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
No, well, who else is doing?

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Is it animal sacrifice?

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Is it the voodoo? Is it the is it big voodoos?

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Not big voodoo. It's not big voodoo. It's not that
at all. No way, no, nope.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
So watch it's a brainbuster.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
It's kind of interesting when you think about, like how
fast we have we have progressed to this moment for
animal sacrifice.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
You see, here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's kind of like, well, I mean, it's it's ham traffic, right.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
I'm kind of torn here because on the one hand,
it's like, yes, obviously this is outrageous, this is not
in keeping with the cultural norms.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
But on the other hand, I do love to see
progressives hoisted on their own batard.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Very good point.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
I do like that this is what you guys wanted.
You guys wanted to import entire Third world communities and clans,
and they have certain cultural norms that they demand, and
now they have voting power, yes, electoral power, to enact
what they want. It's kind of like what was the

(04:50):
school district it was up in Michigan also maybe Dearborn,
where they where they took control of the of the
school board. I want to say they did. And then
they were like banning all the gay pride parades, all
of the books, all of LGBT stuff.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
And they had uniform you know, they're just to wear
certain things to the burkas and all that kind of stuff.
And so here's the thing that sticks sticks in my
crawl a little bit.

Speaker 11 (05:17):
Here.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Where are the where are the people that have the
septum the nose rings and nose rings? Yeah, why aren't
they showing up to defend the animals? Because those people.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
There's peta, peta, I mean, can they be naked in
a cage by now? Protest?

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Absolutely? They should. Why aren't they doing that? Is it
because it's diverse?

Speaker 3 (05:38):
That would be the best protest ever? Because remember, yes,
this was probably about twenty years ago. I don't know
if they still do it. But these pita chicks, yes,
would get naked, paint themselves up and.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Like a like a tiger outfit or right, but there
was all grease.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Paint, right, and then they would go and they would
get into a cage and they would put the cage
in front of like a city council meeting or something, right,
and they would and then would get all this attention right, why,
Like that would be an epic protest in front of
a Muslim controlled city council.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Okay, but here's where it gets difficult the beheadings.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
No, oh, okay.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Here's where it gets difficult. Stoning's not yet.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Where it gets difficult is who's going to pick them
up and carry them because they would be nude and
paint it up right, so like you can't touch, right,
can't You can't touch them?

Speaker 3 (06:37):
So here here's what you do also in order to
prevent them from coming near you to remove you from
the site. Right, you get some now that you'd have
to get Obviously, Peter would have to get someone else
to do this part of it because they would be
against using this material. But what I'm thinking, No, I

(06:57):
was thinking pig's blood.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Oh and you just do a.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Circle, you know, like they do in like the Satanic rituals,
And you just paint a circle around you and you
can't cross. They wouldn't be able to come get you.
That's interesting, that's see the answer, Like, and I don't
want like I say this, Yes, I'm joking, but I'm
also kind of not joking. Like the answer like part
of the solution I think to some of this stuff

(07:20):
that we're seeing all around the world, yes, is to
use just like they are using our own standards against us.
Then we should go a Lenski and we should use
some of their standards against them until we get to
a datonte. So like, for example, like you've heard the
old story from like World War one or two where yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

(07:43):
And I don't think that the pigs bullet dip the
bullets in the pigs, which I think was made up
as well. But I'm listening, like I'm interested in this
idea because if this is something that is sort of
a non starter for the enemy, Yes, why wouldn't we

(08:06):
use that? Because we are above that?

Speaker 1 (08:09):
True? Are we? Though? No, we're not?

Speaker 9 (08:13):
Right?

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Like this is this is this seat. I love the hypotest,
Like the hypotest is always great.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
What is the hypotest?

Speaker 1 (08:21):
It's a hypothetical test, rights say, where you say, okay,
let's let's run to its logical end.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Right, you get the naked woman and you get pigs blood.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
But then here he guess what you can't have?

Speaker 11 (08:36):
Though?

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Fun the true, but guess what you can have? Dogs?
You cannot have dogs are unclean?

Speaker 3 (08:45):
That well, I have heard that, but then now some
there are some people that say that's not true. But
I don't I don't know if they're going to sort
that out inside of their.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
You know, they're going to the I R s with that.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Who's going to the I R. O Oh, they're going
to Oh, well they could we talked about that before that.
There's a woman who has filed a lawsuit. She wants
her dog to be classified as a dependent.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
There we go for the tax credit purposes, and so
she could probably go in the cage with the dog.
Nobody would bother her at all.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
Right.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Also, so here's the thing. If you do give the
tax benefits, yes, then you're incentivizing people not to slaughter
the animals.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Very good point.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
So we should we should we should be on board
with dependency status or pets in order to save the
animals and then from the slaughtering.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
And then the dog can get the nose ring. Sure,
why not? Well, if they consent.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
If they consent, right, you got to be over the
age of eighteen. That's well unless well unless it's going
to be like you're transing it somehow, then then it
can make its own decision at like puppy stage.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
I think we did as much damage as we could.
We definitely set some things on fire here, we sure did. Yes,
it's a pleasure to be with you. Merry Christmas, my friend.
It's always good to be with you. All right, So

(10:14):
we get some messages coming our way. By the way,
Rick asked if he was whammed. Okay, I'm going to
I'm gonna give give you the sort of ruling that
I that I answered him with. He said, did I
get whammed? I walked into a grocery store and Last
Christmas was playing someone else was singing it. Not wham No,

(10:36):
George Michael, No, Andrew Ridgeley in sight. No you you
you got you got whimmed. You got whammed. I had
to check the the cannons of law, and yeah, you
got whimmed. Why isn't Pete protesting Trump for distribution of
drugs to the sea creatures? I wish I had an answer.

(10:57):
That's a that's a very good question. I'll have to
take that under advisement. Mark, how about a pot bellied
pig support animal on a leash? Mark from Concord. Uh,
I'm okay with that. If that's your support, If that's
your support. That's you're gonna have to bend down very
far to get to the potbelly pig because they're they're

(11:18):
not They're they're kind of small, aren't they. Do they
get do they grow up to be very large? I
don't know. Most of the pigs that I eat are
are are barbecue. I mean that's that's what that's what
I eat. Uh, Most twisted pre and post game came
together beautifully. You guys are awesome. Steve or Steve, I

(11:43):
think it's Steve. That was a very nice compliment. It
comes on you open up with most twisted pre and
post game came together beautiful. Listen, you're welcome. We we
I see Pete is a giver. I'm a taker. And
that's how we kind of make it work, which is

(12:04):
which is a really a good thing. We we we
have a we have a whole bunch of other great
stories that we're gonna be going through. So what do
you say we get started and we take a look
at some of the stuff that's happening. Number one. Number one,
what I what I want to talk about today that
I think is hugely important is you got the president

(12:26):
coming into North Carolina. Now, if people don't necessarily like
the president. That's that's you know, you're allowed to have
that sort of feeling. That's that's of your own accord.
But to see the President coming into North Carolina, and
he does this a lot. He obviously has a great
affinity for the state, and he also understands how important

(12:48):
this state is. And I think anytime he wants to
come into this area, anytime Jade Vance wants to come
into this area, Scott Besson wants to come into this area,
I think it's all for the good because you are
really living if you live in North Carolina. And I
will extend it into South Carolina as well, But if
you live in North Carolina, you really matter. I mean,

(13:12):
Marilynd's not getting any love. Tennessee gets a little bit
of love, Pennsylvania gets a little bit of love. But
like North Carolina is a hugely impactful place. And you
have business, you have culture, you have all the stuff

(13:34):
that you need to really, you know, do what you
want to do. Now. I would like to see, you know,
piggybacking on yesterday's conversation in the fourth hour, I would
like to see more ability to take care of the
people who are still suffering out in western North Carolina

(13:57):
from Helene, and I would like to see more action
happening there. I'd like to see people getting things built,
coming back being able to do these sorts of things.
But you know, when you when you sit back and
you look at at all the all the things that
you have in this state, this this state is pretty phenomenal,
h And you've got like, if you think about North Carolina,

(14:21):
it's kind of like a miniature country, like in North Carolina,
right because you have mountains, you have culture, you have
the beach, you have all the educational facilities, you have
all of this stuff. You have a big businesses, you've
got professional sports, you've got people coming here to make movies.

(14:43):
You got like if you think it's like it's it's
a complete sort of package. Great food, nice people, you know,
all this sort of stuff. I would like to see
more emphasis on people being safe on the light rail.
I would like to see more emphasis on taking taking
criminals off the streets who shouldn't be walking freely. That's

(15:03):
that's something that I would definitely uh want to want
to be a part of. But when you think about this,
this is this is a microcosm of the United States.
I mean it really is. If you if you take
a if you take a good look at this, you
have a variety of people who are who are who
are living here, uh, different sort of takes different sort

(15:24):
of things, and very smart people as well, which which
is important. And so that's why I think the President
wants to come in and and show a little love
to to Michael Waltley, but also to spend time in
North Carolina. Is it's huge, It's it's a it's a
big thing. If this seat goes to the Democrats, it's

(15:47):
going to be a very very bad night when it
comes to the election night. I mean, that's that's the problem.
You You do not want to see this fall into
the hands of a of a Roy Cooper. Uh because
Roy Cooper, as as you heard yesterday and as you've
heard for many many years, he's just not ready for
prime time. I mean this is a guy who is uh.

(16:09):
I think he's just he's just past his prime. And
it's interesting because you would think that they would go
dig somebody up and find someone who could hold that
that effort, who's younger, who isn't attached to COVID, who
isn't attached to the chacoms. Who isn't attached to all
that sort of stuff. But unfortunately, I guess nobody wanted

(16:30):
to be next person up. That's kind of interesting, right,
I think it's interesting. It is the Bret Winerbles Show.

(16:55):
What a seven point nine FMWBT Charlotte's FM News Talk. Okay, hey,
let's get down to brass tacks. Christinme is suspending diversity
visa lottery after Brown University shooter identified as a migrant.
Wait a minute, hold on, you can't. You can't stop this.
You can't. You can't do this to the people who

(17:17):
are demanding to come into the United States of America.
Homeland Security Chief Christy Nome has suspended the long established
Diversity Visa Lottery program after the revelation that the Brown
University shooter was a beneficiary of it in twenty seventeen.

(17:38):
Quote this heinous individual should never have been allowed in
our country, Nome announced late Thursday, saying in twenty seventeen,
President Trump fought to end this program following the devastating
New York City truck ramming by an ISIS terrorist who
entered under the DV one program and murdered eight people.

(18:02):
At President Trump's direction, I am immediately directing USCIS, which
is US Citizenship and Immigration Services, to pause the DV
one program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by
this disastrous program. The killer Claudio Nevis Valente, was a

(18:26):
Portuguese national who won the lottery in twenty seventeen. He
allegedly killed two people, a Portuguese nuclear scientist and a
conservative activist. The suspension spotlights the administration's popular policy of
reducing migration to prod Wall Street dollars and elite attention

(18:50):
to go towards the expensive task of growing ordinary Americans
productivity and wealth. Trump tried to block the program during
his first term, and his Department of Homeland Security has
recently tightened the oversight of the winners. But neither Trump

(19:12):
nor NOME can stop the Democrat backed program, which has
imported fifty thousand new migrants per year from countries with
diverse cultures and conflicts. Why would we bring people in
who are part of conflicts?

Speaker 11 (19:32):
Are?

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Are you a warrior on one side or another? Each
year's wave of fifty five thousand winners becomes far larger
as the winners gradually bring in their family members the
program was hold on, You're going to be shocked when

(19:54):
you find out who put this thing together. The program
was created in nineteen ninety by the sexiest man in
all of the Senate Democrat, Senator Ted Kennedy, Democrat from Massachusetts,

(20:14):
and then his representative, Chucky Schumer, Democrat in New York.
These two people have been the reason why we have
the sort of carnage that's going on in our country.
It was intended to expand the inflow of chaotic diversity

(20:38):
into the United States. The first beneficiaries were Irish citizens,
but now they bring people in from incompatible cultures like Soudan,
Azerbaijan to Jikistan, Paraguay, and many other countries. That's the
right up in Breitbart. That's not me saying it. The

(21:01):
program has welcomed many Muslim migrants into Schumer's home state.
The program is welcomed by business groups because it imports
additional consumers, renters, and workers, and because it forces up
government spending on welfare. That's right, the welfare, the resulting

(21:28):
civic chaos, including crime and terrorist attacks, and the poverty
that you're starting to see, especially with all the money
that's being slashing around in places like Minnesota. This is
just a this is just a shot in the dark.
They just say, Okay, we're gonna We're gonna take fifty
five thousand people, rando. And then they get to bring

(21:50):
their their folks with them as well. So imagine fifty
thousand people come in. You have a family average of
say four people, So that's not fifty thousand people, that's
two hundred thousand people that are going to be coming in.
It's kind of it's kind of interesting. Representative Brandon Gill

(22:12):
asked the question, do we really have an obligation to
throw away the citizenship? And I guess that's a question
that only you could answer because you are out there listening.
But Christy Nome is trying to slow this. At least
we have to have much better vetting. I mean, I'm sorry,
but we have to have much better vetting. You know,

(22:34):
we just lost lost three Americans over over the over
the last week, killed by ISIS. The Islamic State terrorist
organization published a statement on Thursday celebrating the killing of
three Americans, two servicemen and a civilian in Syria last week,

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but stop short of taking responsibility for the attack. So
why would we want to import these guys into our country.
Why would you want them to come into our country
if they're coming in for the purposes of destabilizing the country. Well,
we certainly have the ability to say no, not now,

(23:15):
not ever. I mean, we could do that, We could
do that interesting stuff going on with the White House.
We're gonna give you some more information on what's happening,
and I'm gonna let you hear the moment that they
discovered that the core inflation has gone down to the
lowest number since twenty twenty one. You got to hear

(23:37):
this from Steve Leisman over on CNBC. Pretty interesting sort
of breakdown. You how about you? How about you? That's right,
everybody wants some It's good to be with you all today.

(24:00):
My name is Brett Wittererbole. I am in for Brett
Witterble as well. It is great to be with you.
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number seven O four five seven zero one zero seven nine.
And it's a pleasure to be with you here. I
just it's I love this time of the year because
there's so much magic that's in the air. You can

(24:43):
just you can feel it, you can see it. Even
even the world of politics is something very very special. Uh.
And I got to tell you something about your your
friend AOC. Yeah, that's right, that's right, Nick, your friend AOC.
This is something that I never thought I would see.
This is something I never thought I would see. So

(25:07):
pay attention, folks. You never know when it can happen.
You ready for this. This is something unbelievable. Alexandria Acazio
Cortes is topping JD Vance in the twenty twenty eight
presidential poll for twenty twenty eight. For the poll that's

(25:31):
happening in twenty twenty eight, this is Breitbart. In a
hypothetical twenty twenty eight presidential race, Representative AOC Curtis Leewold
calls it all out crazy. Democrat from New York beats
Vice President J D Vance nationally by two points fifty

(25:58):
one to forty nine percent fifty one to forty nine percent.
President aoc Well, the New York Democratic congresswoman known as
aoc as Curtis calls her all out crazy, edges the
likely Republican nominee fifty one percent to forty nine percent

(26:19):
in the argument Verisite survey released on Tuesday. Okay, fine,
I believe that on Tuesday that the verisite argument platform
had her winning. But I can tell you this right now,
with near biblical certitude, people are looking at that and

(26:43):
they're like, no, absolutely not. We can't have any of
that going on around here. I'd buy that for a dollar.
But the thing is, you know when you sit back
here and you go, okay, all right, I got something
for you, and I have to play this. I have
to play this for you. This is going to be
cut number thirty one. So yesterday when we found out

(27:07):
that the number that the number was was lower than
expected in terms of inflation, well, CNBC, man, they don't
like they don't like Trump, they don't like Republicans, they
like the squishy Republicans, they don't like real Republicans. They
were shocked, they were they were nearly audibly shocked when

(27:28):
they got the number. So let's let's relive this event
from yesterday with the inflation number.

Speaker 10 (27:35):
Go the number of the morning the CPI, Oh, maybe
coming in a little bit better than expecting two point
seven percent A little light here, I'm not calling, I'm
just reading the headlines here. Year over year two seven ex.
Food and Energy Corps two six, So four tenths off.
That is a very good number here, and it really

(27:55):
I have not looked at the internals. I look at
them now, but it suggests that the internals are good
as well. Let's see year every year over the last
twelve months. There is no month to month, but some
guys will be able to calcut it seasonally. Just an
index for all items. Let's food energy rows zero point
two percent over the two months. So it crarecked my
math here, Michael san totally. But zero point two divided

(28:17):
by two is point one. Yeah, So therefore that's a
very very low monthly rate. Here the index for shelter increases.
You did get a really nice decline in shelter which
was zero two and so that was point one per month.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
Do you know why? Do you know? Why? Do you
know why shelter is lower? Just take a guess just
just hazard a guess as to why shelter is cheaper
and lower. You have people going out of the country,
people who are taking up real estate who you could

(28:52):
have gone and rented, or you could have gone and bought,
and you could have so, but what you got is
you got these people who have now who have now
left the country. And I'm not talking about pinko kami
leftists that are going out to their houses over in
you know, Lake Como. I'm talking about people are going
repatriated back to where they came from. And you know what,

(29:12):
some of those people are actually taking the money and
they're going back to their home country and they're saying, Okay,
at some point we're gonna try to come back into
the United States. That's doing it properly. Okay, that's the
first chance that you got. But this is very interesting
to me because because you would think with all the

(29:33):
craziness and all the stuff that goes on in different locations,
there's a there's an interesting sort of takeaway from this,
and I'm gonna I'm gonna share this with you because
i think it's very much worth worth sharing when it
comes to the information that's out there. So go ahead
and give me cut number thirty five, Please thirty five.

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AOC may be popular in one particular poll, but broadly speaking,
the Democrats, Oh, listen to this go.

Speaker 12 (30:09):
How are voters feeling about Democrats right now?

Speaker 4 (30:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (30:12):
I mean, Democrats in the minds of the American public
are lower than the dead sea. What are we talking
about here, Well, let's take a look the net approval
rating for Democrats in Congress. You Saidikate Balwin, the lowest ever.

Speaker 3 (30:23):
Look at this.

Speaker 7 (30:24):
Overall, they are fifty five points underwater. They're approval rating
is south of twenty percent. It's even worse when you
look at Independence. Look at this negative sixty one points.
That means that their approval rating is sixty one points
lower than their disapproval rating. Quinnipiac has been pulling this
question for the better part of the twenty first century.

(30:44):
They have never found Democrats, at least those in Congress,
in worse shape than they are right now.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
So don't go around like yo, feeling like you got
this thing the way you are. The reality is people
are not happy with what's going on in Washington, DC, period,
full stop. Okay, you have you have enough with crime,
you have enough with all the craziness that's going on here.

(31:14):
And and by the way, in just a matter of weeks,
like two weeks from now, maybe a week and a half,
you're gonna have Mundami take over New York And then
you're gonna see something. Now, at that point, you're gonna
see something that you have never seen before. You're going
to see a massive exfiltration coming out of New York City.

(31:37):
People are going to say, yeah, thank you very much,
see you later. Uh, don't call me, we'll call you.
That is what's going to happen because because you see
all the activism that's going on around around these big cities.
Uh did you see did you see the report earlier
today or yesterday that the Chicago Bears are looking to

(32:05):
relocate out of where they are right now and they
may go to Indiana. They may be going to Indiana
because they don't feel like the city is all in.
You've got a lot of people who were really worried
about the direction of Chicago. It's a place that you know,

(32:26):
you can't even arrest people, you can't incarcerate them, you
can't do any of that sort of stuff. And and
the folks, the folks who are are looking at this,
are saying, you know what, me, we should maybe think
about putting putting the Yeah, we should think about putting
it where we would prefer to be relative to the
city of Chicago. You would have two NFL teams. Think

(32:49):
about this, you would have two NFL teams in Indiana.
How many NFL teams are there in Illinois? One the
Chicago Bears. Right, Chicago Bears. That's a problem. You're gonna

(33:10):
go and pack it up and head it out. Wow,
that that is something. See, money will go and flow
to where it's where it is respected. But if you're
not going to respect the money, if you're not going
to respect the laws, if you're not going to respect
any of those sorts of things, well guess what you

(33:32):
may find at some point you're gonna have the Uh,
you're gonna have a football team, the Alabama Bears. I'll
bet you. I'll bet you they'd sell out every single
possible day. I guarantee that that's what would happen if
they decided to go, We're gonna go to Alabama. We're
going to Alabama and well and the Bears, Oh, what

(33:53):
would that be like? See, money needs to be respected
and you're seeing all of this horrible, these horrible numbers
in these blue cities. You got to keep it up.
You got to keep it up. You got to get
the people to decide that we need a stronger country, period,

(34:16):
full stop. It is the Brett Winterable Show. It's great

(34:40):
to be with you, guys. One O seven point nine FMWBT,
Charlotte's FM News Talk. Later on this hour will be
joined by Winston Kelly's going to be coming by talking
about everything that we've seen in the last twenty four
hours at the unfortunate, horrible accident that took place up

(35:00):
north and as we are getting ready to see what
actually happened. We're looking forward to catching up with him
at four thirty five. If you're of a mind to
stick around, we certainly would love you to be here.
President Trump says more than a million US military service
members will receive the Warrior dividend. The Warrior dividend is

(35:26):
a thing. As you know from the other night, President
Donald Trump announced that more than one million US military
service members would be receiving a warrior dividend of more
than one thousand dollars before Christmas. Actually, the number that
he said was seventeen seventy six because of tariffs, along
with the big the bill, I'm sorry, because of the tariffs,

(35:50):
along with the just passed one big beautiful bill. Tonight,
I am proud to announce that more than this, you're
going to get one point five war five million military
service members who will receive the special call the Warrior dividend.
And so that is something that you know that's going

(36:10):
to change. That's a game changer in a couple of ways.
But they can never, never, never, and I mean never,
they can never be happy for people when when they
get a little bit of a boost. Okay, and I'm
going to give you an example of one of these people.
This is cut number thirty three, and you know you
cut number thirty three. The elites are scoffing at the

(36:34):
seventeen hundred and seventy six dollars that's going to be
coming out. Listen to this elitist person, cut thirty three,
and he.

Speaker 13 (36:41):
Can promote seventeen seventy six costs all he want and
giving out a check that worked for him the first time.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
Seventeen seventy six.

Speaker 13 (36:47):
That's less than a rent check in DC. I don't
even know what the impact of that is going to
be bring and he can.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Promote well, so wait, hua, you know, come on now,
not everybody lives in Washington, d C. Not everybody wants
to live in Washington DC. Not anybody wants not everybody
wants to go and visit Washington, DC. But these are
people who are protecting the United States of America. So like,
what's the deal? What it's not coming from you. You're

(37:14):
not having to pay this. This is, by the way,
she is a former Biden administration person who is making
the rounds with all the different cable channels. But why
why why are they Why are they hostile? Why are
they hostile? When something nice happens to people who who

(37:35):
didn't ask for anything, the President gave it to him. Like,
why are these people scoffing? The scoffing has got to go.
I don't I don't understand why they do this. I
mean I do understand why they do it, because you
got to remember back back a while ago, there were

(37:56):
a lot of people who were looking there no is
down at the military. They were progressive leftists. They don't
they don't think we should have the military the way
we have the military, and any of this sort of stuff.
And when you sit back and you think about what
seventeen hundred you know, seventeen hundred dollars means to you,

(38:19):
that's a big deal, Like that's that's something nice. Maybe
you can get your car fixed, maybe you can you
can invest it, maybe you can do all these sorts
of things. And yet that's just that's not even I
can't even rent a place for that. Well, are you
trying to rent a place based on that money? Are
you in the military. You're not in the military, So

(38:42):
what do you care what these people are gonna do
with the money. It's a gift, it's a bonus you get.
I'm sure you get bonuses, right, you go on TV,
you get bonused. Whatever it's gonna be. But when you
sit back here, I just it is so annoying to
see the way people treat patriotic Americans and people who

(39:07):
are are not necessarily super elite and wait and you know,
and weighty and all this sort of stuff. Let me
let me give you a little bit of a of
an example here. Okay, I think this is going to
be something that after we get through this this segment,
I'm gonna let you hear it in its entirety. But
there's a guy by the name of Alex Shay. Alex Shay.

(39:34):
He he called out the elitism over at Brown University,
and he breaks this thing wide open, and I mean
wide open when it comes to being elite enough to
go to a particular college, to go to a particular university,

(39:55):
to do these sorts of things. This is a man
who admits of his own accord that he had the
ways and the means and the things like that that
that that came through. But this there is a super
structure in our country that keeps you, the the regular person,

(40:20):
from getting anywhere near these elite institutions. So whether it's Stanford,
whether it's Berkeley, whether it's you know, any of the
ivy leagues. These these are the people who say, oh, oh,
everything for me, but not for thee. And this is

(40:40):
a man who sits back and he says, listen, I'm
going to show you just how full of it these
people are, and just how pompous these people are, and
the way that they feel like, hey, we we can
do anything that we want. You know. It's it's not
lost on me that the people who came into the

(41:03):
country during the protests of you know, during the Hamas
protests over at Columbia and and Ithaca and all these
elite schools. It's not lost on me that these people
that these people look their eyes down at these at
these regular folks because they don't think you measure up.

(41:24):
I happen to know that you measure up perfectly fine.
And the reality is they're they're they're drinking their own bathwater,
and there they've got a real problem on their hands.
And this is going to be something that you have
got to hear. Will play that straight ahead. My name
is Brett Water. But it's a pleasure to be with you.

(42:05):
Oh it's the Brett Winterbowl Show. It's good to be
with you. Okay, let's listen. Let's listen to the secrecy,
to the unbelievableness that comes out of the Ivy League. Okay.
And we're going to go to Brown. We're going to
go to the Brown University. And this is really something.
It makes me angry. I'm not going to lie, it
makes me a little bit angry. This is going to

(42:27):
be cut number thirty nine. Police go.

Speaker 6 (42:31):
My name is Alex Shay and I'm a rising junior
at Brown University. One of the most exclusive institutions in
the world. But I'm not here to glorify the Ivy League.
I'm here to warn you the promise of American higher education,
of opportunity through meritocracy is under attack. I'm a legacy
student at Brown. I went to a prep school that
feeds to the Ivy League, and my parents are doctors

(42:52):
who can afford the ninety three thousand dollars a year
sticker price. In other words, I'm exactly who the Ivy
League was built for. But what about the kids who
weren't born on third base? Statistically speaking, for a smart
kid from a poor family, an Ivy League degree can
power their assent to the upper income brackets better than
anything else. That's the American dream. But today that dream

(43:14):
is now a luxury good. According to The New York Times,
at Brown, the median student's family makes over two hundred
thousand dollars a year. Half the student body comes from
the top five percent of earners, and researched by Brown's
own professor John Friedman shows that even equally qualified, low
income students are vastly underrepresented. At this very moment, the

(43:34):
American people are tightening their belts, and Brown is raising
tuition to beyond ninety thousand dollars a year, and even
while charging students the price of a luxury car, Brown
is on track to run a forty six million dollar
deficit this year. Where's all the money going. I'll tell
you where it's going. It's going into an empire of
administrative bloat and bureaucracy. Brown employees three eight hundred and

(43:57):
five full time non instructional staff for just seven thousand,
two hundred twenty nine undergrads. That's one administrator for every
two students. This is an education. This is bloat paid
for on the backs of students and families who are
mortgaging their futures for a shot at a better life. Meanwhile,
Grace Calhoun, Brown's athletic director earns over one million dollars.
A household assistant on payroll tends to university president Christina Paxson,

(44:21):
and when budget cuts are made, these expenses stay while
the student experience deteriorates. My dorm floods when it rains,
and the burger patties in our dining hall have been
replaced by an unappetizing beef mushroom blend. The idea that
Brown's administration can be streamlined isn't conjecture. We didn't used
to have these many administrators Across the nation. The number

(44:41):
of university administrators has risen by one hundred and sixty
two percent in recent decades, and it's no coincidence that correspondingly,
the cost of education has risen one hundred eighty one
percent in inflation adjusted dollars since the nineties. Across the pond,
a world class education at Oxford or Cambridge can cost
about half as much as an Ivy League degree, in
part due to a much lower administrative burden. The status

(45:03):
quo has a real human cost. I recently learned of
a brilliant young man from Pensacola, Florida, who got into
Brown but was forced to walk away because the financial
aid wasn't enough. Brown says, it meets one hundred percent
of demonstrated need, but Brown gets to decide what that
need is. Middle class students in particular suffer from these policies,
earning too much to qualify for generous scholarships, but not

(45:23):
enough to go to Brown without straddling themselves with significant
amounts of debt. And let's not forget that Brown is
one of several Ivy League schools that settled a federal
antitrust lawsuit last year for allegedly conlluding to suppress financial
aid offers. I'm a reporter for the Brown Spectator, and
to document this problem, I created a website called.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
Blow at Brown.

Speaker 6 (45:43):
That used AI to assess whether each administrative role was
actually necessary. I sent each administrative employee a Doge style
email to ask them, what do you do all day?
Instead of answering, Brown's response was retaliation. My social security
number was leaked, our website was hacked, and Associate Dean
Kirsten Wolf launched a disciplinary investigation into a litany of

(46:04):
baseless charges such as emotional harm. When they couldn't get me,
they charged every single board member of The Brown Spectator,
an unprecedented attack on student journalism. But we refused to
back down and we won our hearings. There was no misconduct,
only exposure, and that's what Brown feared the most. This
committee has a responsibility not just to investigate Ivy League

(46:25):
anti trust violations, but to reclaim the American dream from
those who have twisted it into a racket. I call
on you today to subpoena Brown's president, Christina Paxson, and
ask her why Brown costs ninety three thousand dollars a year.
The American dream isn't just for the legacies, the coastal
elites or the children of privilege. It belongs to the
kid in rural Kansas with a four point zero GPA,

(46:47):
the first gen student working a night shift, and the
families who did everything right and still got priced out.
They deserve a seat at the table. They deserve a
shot at making it big. Their American dreams matter too.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
When you when you think about what all he just
laid out, it's it's not surprising. I mean, we we
sort of understood this. Remember all the rioting that took
place at Columbia University. You know, you had all of
these people who were marching around and were pro Hamas activists.

(47:21):
Some of them didn't even really go to the university,
but they were, you know, they were enrolled in like
one one class or something else. At Harvard University, right
student leaders reinstated after leading chants including Hamas slogans. Columbia
University protest leaders accused of running a Hamas propaganda arm.

(47:42):
These are all serious charges that that are that are
being directed. And when you think about this, where does
where does the education itself come in? You know, it's
not lost on me to think about the man who
was shot by this killer, who was a brilliant, brilliant

(48:03):
fusion person who was able to try to create something
special for everybody, and instead they took his life. It
is it is not lost on me that that man
lost his life at the hands of somebody who should
never have even been in the United States of America.
It's horrible. It's horrible, all right. Coming up next, we're

(48:27):
going to be joined by Winston Kelly. We're going to
talk about Greg Biffel and the accident that took place yesterday.
Get his thoughts and his reflections, because this is very
very important thing to do, right because we need to
understand about this man. We need to understand what made

(48:49):
him tick, and we also we also have to understand
the heroic approach that he took, and so we'll have
a conversation with him as well. Everything else is absolutely
fair game. If you'd like to raise an issue talk
about this, we are certainly happy to take your calls.
Uh whether on the the WBT text line driven by
Liberty Buick GMC or on the phones itself. The phone

(49:12):
number very easy to remember. One O seven point nine FMWBT,
Charlotte's FM News Talk. It's a pleasure to be with
you today, and I want to welcome to the program
somebody who who I've admired for a long time, and

(49:34):
it's been far too long since we had a conversation. Unfortunately,
the circumstances are that that Winston Kelly is spending time
with us here because of what happened yesterday. Winston, it's
great to have you here from them, from the Hall
of Fame and and and all of the great stuff
that is happening. Uh in that regard, but certainly we

(49:56):
we should be focused on on what it was that
we saw happen yesterday. Your your your thoughts on this winsday.

Speaker 9 (50:02):
Well, tragic. I don't know that the devastated is a
strong enough word. I think we're all numb with it.
Just seven wonderful people that tragically we lost way too soon.
But uh, you know, we're we're remembering, remembering them, honoring
them and thankful for to have had them in our life.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
Now. My understanding is you have you have an installation
over there remembering him. Is that is that the is
that the case?

Speaker 9 (50:34):
We do it various places throughout the hall. On our
exterior video board that faces Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard,
we will have a part of that scrolling video a
remembrance of Greg with his picture in some of the
highlights of his career. Similarly, in the on our fan billboard,
which is our large display in the NASCAR Hall of Fame,

(50:57):
then we'll have something leading into the Hall of an
He's there also front and centers the first thing you
see when you pull up our website. So that's how
we honor inductees or nominees or people like that that
we've lost. And then we have a thing we call
in memoriam that stays in here forever that when we
lose people that are within the industry, we put them there.

(51:21):
So off seven that were on the plane will be
a part of that in memoriam'.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
That's wonderful, that's good. That's the sort of thing that
is going to make people feel, I think what they
should be feeling that in that regard, what can you
think back to the first time that you spent time
with him or went and saw him. Can can you
share that with the audience.

Speaker 9 (51:46):
It would have been in the late nineteen nineties when
he came into the truck series back in nineteen ninety eight,
nineteen ninety nine. I can't remember the specific first time,
but I remember remember the championship that he had in
two thousand with the Truck Series, in two thousand and
two with the then Bush Series now O'Reilly Auto Parts Series.

(52:09):
And I also remember, you know, his last Cup victory
was in June of twenty thirteen. He won the one
thousandth win for Ford Racing in NASCAR, and it was
the first time his daughter Emma was in victory lane
with him. So I remember that one. And I remember
the last time I saw he and Christina both just

(52:31):
two weeks ago at a fundraiser that we were there
till nine thirty going on ten o'clock. That they were
both there signing autographs for a children's charity in Mooresville,
in the Mooresville area, So continuing to give back.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
What a good man, I mean, what a good man.
But when you had him behind the wheel, he was
ferocious as well, right, I mean, he was really in
it to get it.

Speaker 9 (53:00):
If I had to remember a few words about him, say, Fearce,
Ferocious fits into that fears fair, respected by his competitors,
and versatile. He could win in every type of vehicle
and on all types of tracks, are toughest tracks like Darlington.
He was a master at Michigan one four times there,

(53:20):
so Ferocious would definitely fit in that category.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
For Greg Biffel, great to be spending time with you here,
Winston Kelly joining us here from the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
What will will we see a change in terms of
the way people travel in this regard in the sport itself.
You know, obviously you've got to get to so many

(53:45):
different places in so many different ways. But but is
there going to be some sort of of a change
in terms of those those independent folks that get on
those aircraft and you know, get out there and try
to get from here or there.

Speaker 9 (54:01):
Yeah, I think I don't think so. And here's you know,
if you think about the volume of hours that we've
got a thirty six race season, that only a handful
we're driving to and we we're moving thousands of people,
whether it's on commercial aircraft or whether it's in private aircraft.
And you know, flying is safer by volume A number

(54:24):
of people than driving. So I think unless something comes
out of the NTSB investigation that suggests something different, I
think it's a very safe way to travel. It's just
it's tragic, So, you know, I think the nature of
the bit of any sport, but especially something like NASCAR,

(54:45):
where you're not football teams, basketball teams, baseball teams, half
of their games are at home. Right, there's three or
four in this area that you drive to, but the
majority we have to drive to to be all over
the country. So, you know, I think it's a safe
way to travel. I know Greg was very safe, and
I think we'll have to wait and see what the

(55:06):
NTSB UH brings out of this investigation.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
Now, one of the things that was very evident for
him he was very brave. He was he was a
smart person. He was he was ready to give back
and and that was demonstrated so much, especially after Helene,
when when he was getting out there and helping those
folks that were that were stuck in a really bad
in a bad way.

Speaker 9 (55:30):
Yeah, he got a text from a friend. He's got
a helicopter, he has the means, and he's definitely got
the heart to go survey and see what was needed,
and he was the catalyst to a lot of people
collecting supplies and delivering them either to the States or
the Hickory Airport and then have to helicopter men because
as you well know, and you and everybody at WBT covered,

(55:51):
there were so many areas that were inaccessible and a
helicopter is the only way you could get it there.
And he didn't do it for days, he didn't do
it for we. He did it for months, majority out
of his own pocket. He would take a donation for fuel,
but nothing else. And that's just the heart he had.
And his wife, Christina is involved in a lot of

(56:12):
cherries and charities, including our NASCAR Hall of Fame Foundation.
She's repelled off the side of the Embassy suites with
us five or six different times to raise money for
our foundation that subsidizes children most in need to be
able to come to our stem based programming here. So
that's just who they were is They wanted to roll

(56:34):
their sleeves up and be involved, not just to write
a check.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
Talk a little bit about the Hall of Fame obviously,
it's a destination like nothing else. And you have a
bunch of great projects that are happening, give us a
little preview of what you all are working on.

Speaker 9 (56:54):
Well. The first and next year, we will have about
five different exhibits that are change out, everything from our
Glory Road that changes out every three years to our
inductee exhibits, also our induction ceremony. Our big project is
what we call our space optimization project. We've got more children,

(57:15):
more education groups, and more events that also overlap with
our general admission customer to be able to accommodate them,
so we've got a plan to add a dedicated space
for our education groups and then move our gift shop
where it's out front of the building where it's more accessible,
move our cafe to an area that's also more accessible

(57:37):
in the building, but where the cafe is, put an
infill over some open area to be able to have
larger events space. So we're working on those designs and
contracts and all to start that next year. So it's
a good problem to have to not have enough space
for different types of guests, So we're very excited about

(57:58):
that project that starts next year. The construction will start
sometime mid next year.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
Where do folks go to get more information on all
the great projects? That you're doing.

Speaker 9 (58:07):
NASCAR Hall dot Com can tell you about everything that's
in here, and then when new exhibits come in, we'll
start posting about the project next year. But when you
pull up the website, first thing you'll see as a
tribute right now to Greg Biffel and the folks that
we lost. We won't always remember all seven of them,
and I think the way Greg would want it, not

(58:28):
just himself, but Christina, Emma Ryder, Dennis and Jack Dutton
and Craig Wadsworth. So appreciate you highlighting them as well.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
It's it's our pleasure, I mean, the the it's it's
it's such a terrible thing to have happened, but just
like everybody else, you know, people band together and they
understand that it's important to UH to respect all of
the people that lost their lives on that day. Winston Kelly,
it's a pleasure to speak with you, and I wish

(58:58):
you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. And
let's let's get together sooner rather than later, UH down
the road, how about that?

Speaker 9 (59:06):
I would love that. Brett, thank you so much for
having us on and hope you and your family have
a merry Christmas.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
Yeah, you as well. Absolutely, that's Winston Kelly. Such a
pleasure to talk to him about what's going on. Uh,
with all of these big storylines. I can't believe how

(59:37):
fast the show is going. It is great to be
with you. Seven four five seven zero. Uh. And of
course the one seven nine on the end of that.
You can send us messages. Let's see, we got some
people who are sending us thoughts. Brett, he should have
made the amount one seven seven six point four to seven.

(59:59):
The extra forty seven would represent the forty seventh President
Donald Trump. That's creative. That's from last hour. That is
very creative. Well what else? See what else you have?
My son is happy about the money. Proud Army Dad.
That is fantastic. I love seeing this. I love this.

(01:00:20):
Is seventeen seventy six taxed or is it over eighteen
hundred dollars? This tax I think you're gonna get the
full seventeen seventy six. That's the understanding that I have.
If it changes, I will certainly report that out to you.
I have five members of my family in the military,

(01:00:41):
and they should be paid more. So, where is this
gift money coming from? Jeff B. Jeff b It's coming
from the money that the tariffs have generated. And so
that's that's what's happening in that regard. It's seventeen seventy
six percent more than Biden gave them. That's true. That's true.

(01:01:06):
That's see, that's that's a beautiful thought there, Walter. I like,
I like your your your gumption. Uh roads Man Roads
second fastest growing city in the US for years. Yet
has anyone seen extra lanes added, roads repaved, or even

(01:01:29):
trash being picked up? Build back better? My butt? Well,
not today because I'm busy, But I do agree with
what you're saying, and and and hold on you if
you really want to get those roads widened, have you
seen what they're gonna do. They are going to destroy
everything from where we're sitting right now all the way

(01:01:50):
to the state line. And let me tell you, oh gosh,
I mean, you can't widen that stuff very much. I mean,
there's you're gonna have the you're gonna have the big rigs,
You're you're gonna have all those kinds of things going
this way and that way, and then they'll probably what
they'll probably do is they'll probably shut it down over

(01:02:11):
here and then everybody can go on four eighty five
and on eighty five and because people love driving over there.
It's it's one of the things that people like. But yeah,
this guy's I mean, he is right, roadsman, roads You're right,
second fastest growing city in the US. Like think about that,

(01:02:34):
Like have you have you driven around not not inside
of Charlotte specifically, but have you driven around all of
the area. That's everything is getting built upon, everything is
being built upon you. You are going to see a
moment in time that's gonna be remarkable, Like I I think,

(01:03:00):
I think we're going to see in ten years it
will be unrecognizable, it will be vast, it will be
super vast. And that's you know, that's that's uh, that's
one of the things that's a challenge. But here's the thing.
If you want to have a world class city, you've

(01:03:23):
got up, you've got to build, and you've got to
do these these things. I would I I wish that
there was a way you could gussy up another airport
around here somehow, you know, like some some other like
a second a secondary airport. And I know that there
are regional airports and things like that. Of course, I
understand that, But I'm talking about something like I want
I want to see a side by side big airport

(01:03:47):
set up like that would be great, like like like LaGuardia,
like LaGuardia and Kennedy like like all of those like
do that. I mean you think about like New York
and New Jersey. I mean you can you can go
and sit there in Jersey and Newark and then you
can get He's given me a look, what do you

(01:04:08):
got there? Are you agreeing with me? Okay?

Speaker 11 (01:04:11):
Good?

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
Because I think this is what we gotta do. You
got to build it out. You got to build it out,
and you got to be able to uh to be
ready for you know, what's what's the next big thing. No,
I don't think I genuinely do not think that we
are going to do the big dig like they did

(01:04:31):
in Boston. Just put everything underground. But that would be
so good. I think anything that's getting built should be underground.
Houses should be underground, Parks should be underground. Providence Road
in County underground. You want it all underground. That's look.

(01:04:58):
You ever see that thing that they built in Denver?
I mean with that, with with all those like fifty
thousand miles of stuff that they've got. Something's going on
over there. There's a lot of some something happening. I
don't know what it is. But when you when you
get out there, you know, you know what you need,
you know what you need, you know exactly what you need.

(01:05:19):
You need you need to listen to some Christmas music
and all that kind because it's when you drive in.
I got to I had to go to a doctor's
appointment yesterday. It's just a check up.

Speaker 14 (01:05:32):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
I'm not used to driving in the dark in the morning, okay,
because I drive in the afternoon and then I go
home in the dark. But when I when I when
I I took Sharon Sharon, Sharon and Sharon and Amity
and Amity and Amity, and I went through all these
roads and I'm like, I'm gonna be late. I'm gonna

(01:05:56):
be late for my appointment. This is not gonna And
I left like an hour and a half of early,
and I'm like, what's where are these people going? Put
it underground, put it under the golf course, put it
under everything. Just let me get it. Look just to Sharon, Sharon,
Sharon and Sharon Man And then the Queen's Roads and

(01:06:17):
let me tell you something else. The chicken triangle over here, man,
put it you you get it over there, man. You
got all the chicken over there, right, you see it?
And you got you got you got your bow Jangles,
you got your pop Eyes, you got your you know
the other that well, that one place closed. Unfortunately that
the churches is not really what it was. Bury it,

(01:06:39):
Bury it. It's gonna be good. This is what we need.
I want more infrastructure that I can't see. That's what
I want. Okay, maybe you want to you want to
debate me, I'll take it. I'll take all comers. My
name's Brett Winterble. I do talk radio.

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but northbound area, but it's a here from Archdale drive

(01:07:23):
it through to Westinghouse, so they did shorten a bit,
but they're still under that twenty miles per hour. Now
over on the four to eighty five in are still
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Speaker 17 (01:13:15):
I'm in the Christmas spirit, Ladies and gentlemen, you're in
the spirit this.

Speaker 18 (01:13:32):
Come on, you're feeling it. I mean, it's so cool.

Speaker 1 (01:13:45):
I love this time of the year, and we've decided
we are going to be playing the Christmas music exclusively
from now until the end of the season. And that's
what's so cool, right, because we need to have a
lot of joy in our lives. We need a lot
of this to the extent that we can that we

(01:14:06):
can have it, because let's be honest, this this year
has been a little bit weird. A lot of weird
stuff has gone on that during during this year. But
in this season, in this season with a savior being born,
this is important and so I am just really really excited,
uh for for what comes next. Seriously, it's it's it's incredible.

(01:14:29):
We now know a number of different things. Let me
start with this one point five billion dollar powerball jackpot
is the latest in a growing list of stratospheric lottery payouts.
So I think this thing could go too. I think

(01:14:52):
this could go to two and maybe more because what's happening.
You've got more and more people who are auditioned it
out and look at it all this sort of stuff.
The first jackpot to exceed one billion dollars was one
in twenty sixteen. The very first time that that ever
happened twenty sixteen. Now, think about where we are. If

(01:15:14):
more lottery jackpots seem to be hitting new heights in
recent years, it's not your imagination. No ticket matched the
winning numbers Wednesday at the Powerball drawing. The jackpot now
grows to an estimated one point five billion dollars, the
seventh largest jackpot in the history of Mega millions in Powerball,

(01:15:38):
with eight of the top ten jackpots occurring just since
twenty twenty two. So it is like, woo, this is big.
It is the fourteenth lottery jackpot to surpass a billion dollars.
The first jackpot to exceed I told you was twenty sixteen.

(01:15:58):
The next Powerball drawing will be held on Saturday. Now
I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you something right now, and
I'm serious. If I hit, I'm I'm coming in. I'm
coming in. Nick, Are you Are you in? Are you in?
If if you hit, okay, he's he's got it. Okay,

(01:16:20):
So I said, so if that happens, I'm I'm I'm
coming in. Yes, you do gotta be stealth. There's a
lot of I like that because we were just talking
a couple of minutes ago, put it under the ground.
Just don't say anything. Just be cool. Everything's gonna be
all right. But when you when you sit back here
and you look at this, right, how is it? Why

(01:16:42):
is it that these are going to stratagy stratagy strata
feric uh numbers. Why do you think this is well?
One reason is that the Mega Millions and the Power
Balls have hiked the prices of single play tickets. Are
we getting gouged? Is it gouging? Is that what this
is assuring consumers that this will mean larger jackpot prizes,

(01:17:08):
but the odds of winning the jackpot have also gotten
lower as the games have been redesigned. What Mega Millions
raised the cost of the ticket twice, most recently to
five dollars each. Did you know that? I didn't know

(01:17:29):
that in April, up from two dollars. Prior to that,
the Mega Millions had hiked its prices in twenty seventeen
from one dollar to two dollars. According to the Mega Millions,
we expect more billion dollar jackpots than ever before, meaning

(01:17:49):
creating more billionaires and more millionaires as the jackpots climb. Plus,
this game will continue the important legacy of what do
you think it is. Come on, come on, you know
it's the supporting the great causes everywhere Mega millions is played. So,

(01:18:11):
I mean they just told you. They just said, listen,
you are going to be able to have better opportunities
for separating your money from your wallet. I mean, that's
this is what essentially it is. Just for the for
the record, because people will ask this question. You have
the estimated one point five billion dollar powerball jackpot has

(01:18:36):
not been one yet, and that's number seven in the list.
But the number one, of course, as everybody remembers, is
two point zero four billion dollars powerball jackpot one on
November the seventh, twenty twenty two. Two point zero four billion.
I'm of a couple of minds in this. For one thing, like,

(01:19:00):
wouldn't it be cool if you hit a billion, if
you hit two billion and then you say, you know what, Okay,
we're gonna we're gonna blow out two jackpots instead of
somebody wins all the money. No, that's not that's not
anything that we want to do. You know why, because
we are champions. We are people who were ready to

(01:19:25):
do what we will as the sole winner. Now, obviously,
if there's more than one winner. You are gonna split
the thing, and that's what's gonna end up happening. All right,
I've got people on hold. Stay there. I want to
talk to you, but I want to get in with
the Pam, the jam Warner and find out what's going
on on the roads. People are are are very interested

(01:19:47):
in getting to and fro what is going on out there.

Speaker 15 (01:19:51):
All right, Well, luckily I got all that info and
things are getting a bit lighter. I almost am nervous
to say it because I don't want it to strike
back up again, but we are so to lighten up
out there, that's the good news. Seventy seven on the
northbound side, they started getting smaller in the delays, but
now they're back from Clanton Road all the way through
to Westinghouse again. However, the good news is they're just
under twenty five. Last time they were wavering between that

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ten and twelve mile per hour. At least they're getting
a little bit of a move on now. Four eighty
five on the inner side, still dealing with a racket.
I seventy seven exits sixty seven, throwing it back to
West Bulevard. Traffic flows there just under twenty Caston County
typical evening delays. I had five southbound between Little Rock
Road and the DMV way station. Those are probably going
to be your slowest at just under fifteen And if

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you aren't landing on heading into the Huntersville area, you
will see traffic slowing here from Gillian back to West
Kataba Avenue and those are between fifteen and twenty as well.
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It is the Brett Winerble Show. What was seven point
nine FMWBT Charlotte's FM News Talk. Let's jump out on
the phones and grab some calls. Roger, Welcome to the program.
What's on your mind today?

Speaker 4 (01:22:18):
Sir? Thanks Brett. I love the fact that you honored
what Christmas is really about the birth of a savior,
and I wonder how many people really know why it's
so important that Jesus was born of a virgin.

Speaker 1 (01:22:32):
What do you think, Wait, so why Jesus was born
of a virgin?

Speaker 4 (01:22:37):
Yeah, this is so important. It's critical.

Speaker 1 (01:22:39):
It is critical, Yes, it is cuticle.

Speaker 4 (01:22:42):
Ahead's critical because everybody else you me, we were all
born from Adam's bloodline, yes, and that's why we were
all sinners. But man's blood did not have anything to
do it was it was the seed from God and
it bypassed that. And his blood was pure. And because
his blood was pure, he alone was able to forgive

(01:23:03):
our suin.

Speaker 1 (01:23:04):
That's exactly right. That that that that that is exactly,
that is exactly spot on. And you know, it's it's
interesting to see the way the secular world uh tries
to take the the narrative and and push it into
things that it's not really about. Like, for example, you'll hear,

(01:23:25):
oh they were they Joseph and Mary were we were
homeless or they were not not where they were supposed
to be, or any of that sort of stuff, And
and the left loves to pervert all of this sort
of stuff. The reality exactly, these were law abiding people
who who were going to be part of the census,

(01:23:47):
and you were forced to go to the census, and
and and they went into Egypt, which was a which
was a territory of Rome at that period of time.
So like when you when you look at all this
sort of stuff, people will take try to take it
and twist it in different knots. And I'm really happy
that you called today.

Speaker 4 (01:24:05):
Let me back up one step. Did you realize that
before God even created Adam and Eve he had it
in his mind about how the reproductive system would go?
And do you realize that the blood of the baby
does not mix with the blood of the mother based
on the fact that the placenta basically the nutrition, the

(01:24:25):
oxygen comes to the placenta wall and through the cord
to the baby, but the blood of the mother does
not mix with the blood of the baby.

Speaker 1 (01:24:34):
Yeah, that's an incredibly important thing. Roger, thank you so
much for calling. I appreciate you being here. Mary Christmas,
Merry Christmas to you as well. Absolutely, Carl, welcome to
the program. What's on your.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
Mind, Brett?

Speaker 11 (01:24:46):
How you been doing, Buddy?

Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
I am doing great, Thanks so much.

Speaker 11 (01:24:48):
And that was a heavy conversation and the stuff that
I really didn't know, but it's very very good.

Speaker 1 (01:24:55):
We talk about everything Merry Christmas.

Speaker 11 (01:24:57):
And I want to talk about the lottery again because
I think I called you one time. Yeah, I told Andrew,
I said, I think I called him out a scratch
off or something. But I got some in South Carolina
already because I'm heading.

Speaker 1 (01:25:09):
To Ohio tomorrow or oh wow.

Speaker 11 (01:25:11):
Friends from the South like to call it Yankee Land.
So Merry Christmas to you, and hopefully i'll talk to
you before the new year. But yeah, that Edwin Castro,
he's the guy that won the two point zero four
billion in California. Every once in a while something will
come up on my phone about him buying properties and
all this stuff. And when you win that much money,
you've never had that much money. I was thinking, it

(01:25:34):
comes down to this, how long can I last before
I implode or I get somebody to manage that money
for me. It's just would you so if you came in,
would you tell people? Obviously you couldn't come in the
next day and tell people until you got like, you know, yeah,
you got.

Speaker 1 (01:25:50):
To get all your lord, right, Yeah, you got to
get all your you know, your i's dotted and your
tea's crossed and all that sort of stuff.

Speaker 11 (01:25:56):
People people, people always tease me at work, say would
you come to work next day? I said absolutely, yeah,
but I don't think I would say anything. But I
might act a full or maybe get fired or something.
I don't know. I don't know where I don't want
to go.

Speaker 1 (01:26:08):
Well, here's here's a chount. But here's here's the thing. Right,
what if you go into work, right, you go into work, right,
do you have do you have it on you? In
your pocket?

Speaker 11 (01:26:19):
Like heck no, no, no, no, no, y'all. Don't even
know where to put it, That's what I'm saying, gets
wet or in the sun. It's like a scratch off
that's cardboard. You got to put it somewhere in safe
keeping and don't forget where you've left it. But let
me say one thing.

Speaker 4 (01:26:32):
Yeah, and these so when.

Speaker 11 (01:26:33):
There's the jackpaw gets this high. Because I don't play powerball,
we're mega millions. Until it gets that high, and people say,
what is five hundred million not good enough for you? No,
I just know the odds, and I get caught up
into fever like everybody else. I'd rather spend my twenty
bucks on a scratch off and win maybe five hundred
or a thousand and and and you know, not mess
with the power ball.

Speaker 19 (01:26:54):
Now.

Speaker 11 (01:26:54):
I do play the cash five, and then I say, yeah,
i'd split it when it gets to a million on
the cash five, I had it two or three ways
and then but I'm really lying, I really don't want
to split it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:04):
Well, you know what, Look, it's your at that stage
of the game. It's your money. You can do what
you want, you know what I mean.

Speaker 11 (01:27:10):
It's like and I still would be happy to win
three hundred thousand, but I'd have been better off if
nobody two other tickets didn't say, let me say one
other thing, Yes, go ahead, here's the odds. I tell
people when I see them buying those tickets. And I'm
not a smart alec. You could if they let you
play the lottery at six months old and you lived
to be one hundred and you had a drawing every

(01:27:31):
hour on the hour, twenty four hours a day, those
five white balls, not to let alone the power ball
might not ever come out. That's what you're looking at.

Speaker 1 (01:27:40):
Well, okay, that's that's a bummer, that this is a
holiday bummer.

Speaker 11 (01:27:45):
I don't mean to be Debbie Downer, but.

Speaker 1 (01:27:47):
No, no, I get it. I'm just joking with that
you let your run in New York.

Speaker 11 (01:27:50):
Thanks cars news and tell Pam, I said, Merry Christmas
if Joe answered the phone. And one other thing, You
guys sound great on the FM. I was bummed when
you guys were going to change, but it sounds great now.

Speaker 1 (01:28:01):
I'm happy. I'm happy that you're out there. Thanks.

Speaker 11 (01:28:03):
You can't wait to see you again one time. Yes, stories, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:28:07):
I'll do it anytime, anytime you want, absolutely right.

Speaker 11 (01:28:10):
Next year, we've got to have another get together.

Speaker 1 (01:28:11):
Okay, thanks Carl, I appreciate it. Safe travels to Ohio.
Uh that that's that's that's that's a funny. Look there's
people have dreams, right, You dream for a moment and
then your dreams come crashing down. But here's the thing.
You can live a little, don't do it too much.

(01:28:33):
Everything and everything in uh in in its own sort
of way. Oh well, I shouldn't have read this. What
the heck is? What is this? Britney spears the I
R S wants six hundred k. She says, they want

(01:28:53):
a piece of me, But I don't own a I
don't owe a dime. Well, you know, listen, she has
basically set up a little bit off kilter. She's a
little off kilter these days. She may be trying to
use that that may be like, I don't even know

(01:29:15):
about this, what are you talking about this?

Speaker 9 (01:29:17):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
That's I tell you. I admire people who decide that
they are going to, you know, go and do great things.
If you have money as a blessing, if you have
talents as a blessing, if you have a microphone as
a blessing, it's you can do it for good or
you can do it for ill. And I say the
default position should always be doing for good. Do it

(01:29:40):
for good, elevate, help people, talk about people, give people hope,
that sort of stuff. One thing I wanted from the
very first time in my entire life as a broadcaster
was this very simple. I wanted people to laugh. I
wanted people to think, and I wanted people to feel
like there's a better time tomorrow. And that's really what

(01:30:01):
it comes down to in my in my circumstances, and
I think if more people were having fun and more
people were laughing, and people were dreaming and doing all
this kind of stuff, the world would be a much
better place and we wouldn't have some of the catastrophes
that we see happening. Not of all the rangers. You know,

(01:30:28):
you're the master mind. Run run, rude off, run too
far behind, run.

Speaker 18 (01:30:40):
That kind of make it to town.

Speaker 1 (01:30:42):
I don't know. I don't understand how these reindeer have
the stamina for this to go all the way around
the world. I mean, ladies and gentlemen, I don't understand this.
This is a this is a very big challenge. Now
for the boys and girls who are out there listening.
Maybe maybe you have a theory about this. Maybe you think, okay,
they maybe they use uh, you know, rockets or something

(01:31:03):
like that. I never could understand how it is that
when when it's when it's almost Christmas time, when it's
almost Christmas Day, right, how how do they get around
like that? I mean, you gotta be you gotta you
gotta worry about cramping up, you gotta you gotta be
drinking beverages, you gotta be staying warm. I always wonder
about that. It's it's always it's always interesting to me

(01:31:28):
the way they the way they do this kind of stuff,
you know, I mean, it's very it's amazing. It's gotta
be they must sleep. I'm guessing they sleep till probably five, five,
six o'clock in the afternoon, just just because it's just
so tiring, I'm sure. And it's cold out there. It's cold.
I mean, you know, you know what's going on. We
all know what's going don't we all know what's going on?
We do, we we really do.

Speaker 11 (01:31:50):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:31:50):
I'm gonna talk about something that I haven't talked about
in a really long time, and that is, of course,
three Eye Atleas three Eye Atlas. Three Eye Atlas is
still a thing. Farewell. Comet three iatlis interstellar visitor heads
for the outer Solar System after its closest approach to
the Earth. Three iyatlas has now made its closest approach

(01:32:12):
to the Sun and Earth and is now heading back
out towards the Solar System. The interstellar invader, Comet three iyatlas,
made its closest approach to Earth. They came within one
hundred and sixty eight million miles of our planet. I
don't even know what that means. I do not understand that,

(01:32:35):
but I think it's kind of interesting that this thing
came all the way through and then went all the
way back. They said early on that all non interstellar
comets such as Haley's Comet, formed at the same time
as our solar system, so they are up to four

(01:32:56):
point five billion years old. Can you can you even
imagine that that was a It was. It was recorded
by the University of Oxford astronomer Matthew Hopkins. He said
that back in July. But interstellar visitors have the potential

(01:33:17):
to be far older and those known about so far.
Our statistical method suggests three I Atlas is very likely
to be the oldest comet we've ever seen. Okay, but
that's not saying much. How far can we actually go
and see? See, this is why, in total seriousness, we

(01:33:43):
don't know, because God's got a plan. God's eternal. So
so like you can say, oh, we're gonna go all
the way back to the well, to where you might
be in your bedroom and the the the origin of
this period of time that they're talking about might be

(01:34:04):
three blocks away from your house, But in reality it's
it's billions and billions and billions of miles out right.
We don't know, we don't know how how this all works.
But that's see, that's the thing. You have. All these
smart people they go to Brown they go to Harvard,
they go to all these other places, and they decide

(01:34:27):
that they want to just become political hacks. People that
don't really want to see the best in humans. They
want to see the worst in humans. They want to
play with gender, they want to play with this. That
the other thing to me, to me, we have every
single day of our life. We should be searching out

(01:34:51):
ways to be successful, to help other people, to do
other things. That's why Handcock's Bikes for Kids is so relevant,
so important. I mean, we had what eight hundred plus
donated to the kids. I mean, think about that over
the course of thirty two thirty three years. How many

(01:35:12):
is that? That's enough to change lives. That's what we
should always probably be looking for. We should be looking
for the goodness. Think of all the people over thirty
two thirty three years, whatever it is. You think about
how many years and those people gave bikes, and then

(01:35:35):
their kids and their grandkids gave bikes. Like you think
about all that stuff. That's a remarkable thing. That's a
remarkable thing to have this sort of of an approach,
because when you're sitting there and you're feeling kind of sad, sacky,

(01:35:55):
you know, things aren't working out for me. Think about
the good that you do in people's lives. A smile,
an encouraging comment, a discouraging comment, No, don't do that,
don't discourage people. You know, you look at all this
sort of stuff, and yet I just went over to

(01:36:17):
CNBC for a second because I'm always looking at what
the headlines are. They're so excited, they're so excited over
it at CNBC. What are they excited about? The Epstein
files have been released by the DOJ, hundreds of thousands
of documents, hundreds of thousands of documents. The Department of

(01:36:44):
Justus released some of the investigative files about Jeffrey Epstein,
the notorious sex predator. Okay, and what are we going
to get? You're going to get the exact same argument
that you see every every night on CNN, on MSNBC,
to a certain extent, on Fox, and then getting into

(01:37:07):
the weekend, getting into the holiday, getting into all of
this stuff, they're going to continue to yammer and yap
and that's what they want to talk about. That's what
they want to talk about. Well, that's fine, but there
are other things that we can look at. There are
other things that we can kind of sit back and say, Wow,
this is something that's a that's a changer, that's a

(01:37:28):
game changer. Here, let me give you an example. Okay,
when when we are resting on Christmas Day, or when
you are celebrating Hanukkah, or you are celebrating Kwanza or
whatever your your festivus, whatever you're whatever you're celebrating, there

(01:37:54):
is a Santa Claus rally that happens. Why how does
that Santa c Lost rally affect us? How do they
do that kind of a thing. Well, people have been
shopping for the last for the last month, getting gifts
to give their their coworkers, to give their loved ones,

(01:38:14):
to do all of that sort of stuff the economy has.
As a byproduct of all the great stuff that we
get to do, people are happy, people feel better, just
for one moment in time. And I'll take three calls
on this, four calls on this. If you want to
bind about this, you know, just just give us a

(01:38:35):
call at seven oh four five seven zero one zero
seven nine. I asked yesterday, I said, you, did you
buy more this year or less? By and large, it
sounded to me like it was a push, But here's
the thing. Does it make you feel happier to get
a gift or to give a gift? Tell me your answer.

(01:38:59):
Do you feel better getting a gift from Santa or
giving a gift from Santa? That that's the test, that's
the test.

Speaker 18 (01:39:11):
Nine the stars of like he shine.

Speaker 20 (01:39:16):
It is the night of the dearcious on the world
in sanaab.

Speaker 1 (01:39:31):
Sell he be spearing bell it's worth Oh, this is
Rob Halford Judas Priest. I like this. This is good.
Turn turn it give me a little boost there again. Wow,

(01:40:10):
see is amazing the night that Christ was born. Now,
now you know what, I want to say something about
Judas Priest and I want to say something about Rob Halfert.
They got they got done dirty. Back in the day
when they were saying that these people were all like
Satanists and all this kind of stuff, and people were
killing killing themselves because of the rock and roll stuff. Look,

(01:40:32):
I believe, I believe that there are a lot of
unhappy people that walk around by and large. But but
you you have to be in control of your emotions.
You know when when that when that sort of stuff.
And I love, by the way, that is one of
my favorite all time Christmas carols that that that is

(01:40:53):
a really great that is a really great, great rendition,
because you know, you want to see you want to
see people who were happy. Right, there's a there's a
lot of stuff that that we should be happy for
except for this.

Speaker 18 (01:41:13):
Boy.

Speaker 1 (01:41:13):
Here we go, Here we go, Nick, Are you ready?
You're ready? Homeowner's massive Christmas lights display in Waxhaw draws
hoa complaints. Can you not be happy for just a
couple of minutes?

Speaker 4 (01:41:29):
What?

Speaker 21 (01:41:30):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:41:30):
Why are we doing this? Why are we doing this? Waxhaw,
North Carolina? This is crazy, beautiful, awesome. Let your kids
see this stuff, says one couple driving through the This
is from last week. Remember with the aero plantation. That's
what Pete was talking about. Again, Let's just look, it's

(01:41:53):
only going to be up for a couple of days,
a couple of couple of months, a couple of years,
whatever it is. I like to see people enjoying themselves.
I genuinely I like to see people feeling joyful. We
have so much crazy stuff that goes on that you know,

(01:42:14):
what are we supposed to do looking around just being
sad moping all that? You don't want any of that
stuff because because it's the reason for the season that
you have, right, It's the thing that you do. But
you know, there's always going to be a spoil sport.
There's always going to be somebody who's going to say, oh,

(01:42:34):
I don't like it, I don't like what that is?
All right? Here? Can I get cut number thirty eight? Please?
This will be something you guys can talk about. This
is fascinating. Cut number thirty eight. Get a load of this,
mister and missus America go.

Speaker 22 (01:42:51):
I spoke in the fall about the iceberg. I saw
ahead something's fraud that's much larger than what's been visible
to the public. When I said that, it wasn't hyperbole
or rhetoric, it was a warning. And today I want
to talk and I want to show here a sense
of what that iceberg looks like, because I think people
deserve to know what that is and how big this

(01:43:13):
problem is, because we can't solve the problem until we
grapple with the size of it. So the Center for
Medicare and Medicaid Services pulled the claims data for those
these fourteen programs dating back to twenty eighteen, and those
fourteen programs in Minnesota have cost eighteen billion dollars since

(01:43:34):
twenty eighteen, and more than three and a half billion
dollars in twenty twenty four alone. So that's a sense
of the magnitude of the problem. These are the fourteen
Medicaid programs. It's is just a part of Medicaid, these wavered
services that have been flagged as being having issues with
program integrity and fraud. Now, I'm sure everyone is wondering

(01:43:59):
how much of this eighteen billion dollars was fraud. That's
not the million dollar question. That's the eighteen billion dollar question.
The answer is far too much. And the task ahead
of all of us is not only figuring out how
much of that money was fraud, because we know, as if.

Speaker 1 (01:44:19):
I put you in charge for a day and I said,
in Minnesota, people are stealing to the tune of eighteen
billion dollars eighteen billion dollars of ill gotten gain, how
do you fix that problem. I can tell you how
you fix that problem very simply. The way you fix
that problem is you indict Tim Walls and you put

(01:44:43):
him in the whoscal where he has to now tell us,
why didn't you take seriously the fraud that's occurred. You're
the chief officer of the state of Minnesota and you
are running for a third term. He's running for a

(01:45:07):
third term, so obviously this happened on his watch. How
many how many? How many years do you spend when
you're elected to be a governor? Typically it is four,
So let's go back four right, twenty twenty one. Let's

(01:45:30):
go back before that, Let's go to twenty fifteen, twenty
twenty sixteen. This guy was the only guy that was
in charge as the governor. So like, you want another
you want a third term, how about we clean this up?
And that's this. This is this is just this is ridiculous.

(01:45:54):
You want to see how ridiculous really it is. Cut
number thirty six, Cut number thirty six. Prime Minister Albanese
is taking people's guns from them in Australia go.

Speaker 23 (01:46:10):
We expect hundreds of thousands of firearms will be collected
and destroyed through this scheme. Consistent with the approach that
was taken in nine and ninety six, the government is
proposing that stites and territories will be responsible for the collection, processing,
and payment to individuals for surrendered firearms. The austral and

(01:46:30):
Federal Police will then be responsible for the destruction of
these firearms.

Speaker 1 (01:46:37):
It could come here. It could happen here very easily.
It can happen here. You just get the wrong kind
of person running the federal government. And suddenly, now Chuck
Schumer is your overlord. Suddenly now Dick Durbin is your overlord.
Somebody right now, it turns out it's going to be
you know, this person or that person. And so yes,

(01:47:00):
we are going to do a forced buyback in which
you give us your gun or you go to jail
and we'll just give you a couple of bucks. This
is this is this is the problem. This is why
the founders were as smart as they were, because they
understood that at some point there may be a possibility
of tyranny coming to the American continent. And boy, have

(01:47:22):
we seen it since about nineteen sixty two. I just
we're gonna We're just gonna go ahead and nun, We're
gonna give you this check a dango ate my baby,
and I'm gonna go out there and I'm gonna go
and get your guns and your bullets, and we're gonna

(01:47:44):
do whatever we gotta do, because that's what we do.
This guy is not a good ally for the United
States Albany's. He couldn't even protect the people on the beach.
This is a disgrace. This guy is not ready for
prime time. He audited go out there and dance, dance,
dance with the dingo. I approve this message, I really do.

(01:48:07):
I have approved this message.

Speaker 15 (01:48:10):
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Speaker 12 (01:49:12):
The Justice Department today began releasing the documents in its
possession regarding the life, death, and criminal investigation of convicted
sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Kentucky Congressman James Comer says him
and his team are going over all the documents, but
explains that it will take some time.

Speaker 24 (01:49:27):
It'll take several days to go through all of these documents.
But this is what the American people wanted, this is
what Congress overwhelmingly voted for, and I applaud the Trump
administration for complying with this request and getting these documents
so that everyone can lay eyes on them and judge
for themselves.

Speaker 12 (01:49:46):
In November the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed and signed
into law, which requires the government to release the files
within thirty days after announcing efforts to lower drug prices. Today,
President Trump says he has a new idea to lower
healthcare call.

Speaker 1 (01:50:00):
I'm going to call a meeting of the insurance companies.
I'm going to see if they get their price down.
To put it very.

Speaker 12 (01:50:04):
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into americans pockets. With a proposed health savings account, Trump
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Speaker 8 (01:52:18):
The Panthers will be without two starters on defense when
they take on the Bucks Sunday. Defensive tackle Turk Warden
and linebacker Trevin Wallace have both been ruled out due
to injuries.

Speaker 3 (01:52:28):
Bobby Brown started for Warden.

Speaker 8 (01:52:29):
Last week and did a good job, says coach Dave Canalis.

Speaker 5 (01:52:32):
Yeah, Bobby was disruptive last week.

Speaker 19 (01:52:33):
He was getting off the blocks really well, playing with
his hands and playing big and athletic like he is,
and was really fortunate to have him be able to
step into that role.

Speaker 8 (01:52:43):
Cay Allie said. Left tackle ikey Akwan, who was limited
in practice today, he'll be a game time decision. Seahawks
linebacker Derek Hall has been suspended for one game for
unsportsmanlike conduct, and last night's went over the Rams. The
Seahawks played the Panthers next Sunday. The Bills are signing
former Dolphins pass rusher Matthew Judon, and the Jets are
shutting down star receiver Garrett Wilson for the rest of

(01:53:03):
the season. Duke quarterback Darian Mensa is returning to the
Blue Devils for another season instead of entering the NFL draft.
Mensa threw over thirty six hundred yards and thirty touchdowns
this season. In college hoops, good news for North Carolina
Seth Tremble. We'll be back in the lineup tomorrow when
the twelfth ranked tar Hills take on Ohio State. The
senior guard has been out with a forum injury since

(01:53:24):
early November.

Speaker 1 (01:53:25):
Tip office at for three o'clock.

Speaker 8 (01:53:26):
Right here on WBT. Theklain Hurricanes looking to extend their
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At WBT we lead Local. I'm Annie Erkson, WBT News.

Speaker 2 (01:53:40):
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Speaker 1 (01:53:43):
This is that country that is a stouch cut out
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Speaker 3 (01:53:46):
Don't be battered like a fool.

Speaker 1 (01:53:47):
Say what you got to say?

Speaker 10 (01:53:49):
That's all.

Speaker 3 (01:53:49):
Didn't shut your Dave Pahoe.

Speaker 1 (01:53:51):
The following takes place between six pm and seven pm.

Speaker 18 (01:53:56):
Cool, cool, Yeah, it's great to be with you.

Speaker 1 (01:54:05):
So much good stuff that we're going to be talking
about the Epstein records have you know, all started to
come out now And I was just having a conversation
with somebody about this, and we were talking about the
notion that there is uh, there's there's no evidence of
any kind uh in the regards of of of Donald

(01:54:26):
Trump trafficking women or anything like that. This is this
is this is a really sketchy time because this is
six o'clock in the afternoon, six o'clock in the evening,
and and now they're suddenly trying to spread it all
around but there's nothing to spread. There's nothing to spread.

(01:54:49):
Very very interesting. I want to grab a call right
out of the box. Mary Anne, Welcome to the program.
What's on your mind?

Speaker 27 (01:54:57):
Hey, Brett, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:54:59):
To Hugh and your fan Oh, Merry Christmas to you
as well in your family.

Speaker 27 (01:55:03):
Well, I thank you. When you had the segment you
had before, you were talking about was it the Prime
Minister of Australia talking about dying back the guns from
the citizens? Yes, well, hey, listen, congratulations dude, you're going
to disarm your citizens and make them even more more
vulnerable than they already are because of the strictest gun

(01:55:27):
laws probably on the planet. So congratulations to him for that.
Those four folks they were sitting dunks on that beach
as it was, there was nobody to protect them or
no one with a concealed carry that could have probably
taken both of these guys out if they could have.

Speaker 1 (01:55:43):
Yep, that's right, So.

Speaker 27 (01:55:45):
You know, congratulations, So congratulations to him. I hope he
can look himself in the mirror.

Speaker 9 (01:55:50):
He he is.

Speaker 1 (01:55:51):
He is a particularly nasty guy and he he in
the aftermath of the of the of that attack, he
just wanted to say, we have to blame the gun.
We have to blame the gun. We have to know
there are people who own firearms who do not go
out and shoot Jewish people who do not go out
and shoot innocent people on a beach who do not

(01:56:13):
go do any of that sort of stuff. And unfortunately,
and I feel badly for Trump because he has had
to deal with this kind of a yo yo u
for a long time. And Albanese, he Albanese is is
basically the Gavin Newsome of Australia if to put him

(01:56:34):
in any kind of a picture, or it might even
be it might even be the former Prime Minister of
Canada that that might be who he is. I mean,
it's it's just it's so despicable and it's so awful,
and we are saddled with so many bad, bad, bad
allies and it's a it's a sin. I hate it.

Speaker 27 (01:56:55):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, well totally agree. And and both
of these they all three of these people that you
just mentioned, they've all been dipped down into the same die.

Speaker 11 (01:57:05):
That's right, It's just the way it is.

Speaker 27 (01:57:07):
They're going to be all be the same. And you
know talking about you know, they're bringing it to America,
going to try to bring it to America. Listen, I'm
sixty five years old, you might as well say. And
they've been trying to bring it to America.

Speaker 3 (01:57:20):
For as long as I.

Speaker 27 (01:57:21):
Remember, when I was in college, you know, you had
these risk left wing liberals that were talking about taking
people's guns away. And it's kind of like blaming a
fork for being fat. It's the same thing.

Speaker 1 (01:57:36):
That's true, that's exactly right, That is one hundred percent
right on with what you're with what you're hitting there.
Because why when we go, when we go and you're
you're out there, I'm out here whatever. I have never
had a gun magically pop up and shoot somebody without

(01:57:57):
my hand, you know what I'm saying. It's like, it's like,
oh wow, that happened. It's on the it's up on
the you know, it's up on the shelf, or it's
it's locked up or whatever it is where people keep
their stuff. And and I have never once seen a
gun jump off the counter and then just go walking
across the room to shoot somebody. But they absolutely not.
They only talk about the gun. It's only about the gun.

Speaker 27 (01:58:18):
Yes, yeah, well, the criminals are always going to have
a way to get guns, because what do they think
the black market's all about. Absolutely, But it amazes me again,
these left wing liberals and all of these people even
flying and crying about these drug boats. Yes, my god,
there should not even be an argument about what's going

(01:58:40):
on with these drug boats, because what's happening there is
that these people that are on these drug boats, they're
just not willy nilly saying, oh, there's a boat they
might have drugs. They've been watching these people load this
stuff at the factory. Yes, they know who these people are.
They have emos on these teas, they have facial rest

(01:59:02):
recognition shot to these people. So this is not just
something they're blowing out of the water willy nilly. They
know who these people are. They know how many people
on the boats, of course, and they know what's on
the boat and how much of it there is.

Speaker 1 (01:59:15):
Okay, would you like to hear something? Can? I want
to play something for you that you may not know about.
But this is something that is going to fit beautifully. Okay,
I love it. This is cut number thirty seven. Please
go this in front of me.

Speaker 28 (01:59:30):
This is the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act of nineteen
eighty six, authored by a member of Congress in nineteen
eighty six from the state of New York.

Speaker 1 (01:59:37):
His name Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 28 (01:59:38):
He wrote the law that passed almost unanimously, that makes
it legal to blow drug boats out of the water.
It happened in the eighties a lot and the ninetes lot.
Go ahead, look it up, folks. Chuck Schumer the author
of this bill that made what we're doing with Venezuelan
drug boats fully legal. We don't need permission from the
rest of the world. Chuck Schumer gave us that in
nineteen eighty six.

Speaker 1 (01:59:59):
How about that, Mary, there you go.

Speaker 11 (02:00:02):
There, you go.

Speaker 27 (02:00:02):
See that's just as that's as black and white clear
as it gets. And you find that with a lot
of things. Yes, they're raising kine about and they're having
intestinal grief over.

Speaker 18 (02:00:13):
Oh yeah, if you go back, if you go.

Speaker 27 (02:00:15):
Back far enough, they're the very ones who have who
introduced these laws and these bills that they're now bitching
and griping about because Trump approves it, and Trump is
inacting laws that have been on the books for years,
but nobody had the intestinal fortitude to stand by it.

Speaker 1 (02:00:33):
Man, you're you're you're my kind of person. There, Marianne,
you are you are singing, you are singing my tune,
and that is great. God bless you. And uh, I'm
so happy you called in today because you are you
are one hundred percent correct.

Speaker 27 (02:00:48):
I appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (02:00:49):
Very much, Brett.

Speaker 27 (02:00:50):
We've enjoyed you that extra hour this week.

Speaker 1 (02:00:52):
Thanks much. I appreciate it. Thanks so much, and we'll
talk again very very soon. I appreciate you being out there.
All right, what do you say we get? I had
a break in here. We're going to hand it off
over to my very good friend, that is Pam the
jam Warner. And what's it looking like on the roads?

Speaker 9 (02:01:09):
Maam?

Speaker 15 (02:01:10):
It's not looking bad. We did start to clear out
of it early, which is what we usually do on
Friday since we start off so early, but we've got
a few extra things that have checked in recently. Now
I did mention we are dealing with an accident, this
one at checking it over on eighty five at northbound
at Mallard Creek Church Road.

Speaker 1 (02:01:26):
Now it is off to the shoulder.

Speaker 15 (02:01:28):
Moments ago it was blocking three left lanes, so that
is quick moving for the officials on scene, but we're
still going to see traffic back up to the city Boulevard.

Speaker 1 (02:01:36):
Not too bad.

Speaker 15 (02:01:36):
It's not that large of a stretch and they are
just under twenty five miles per hour now. Over in
Gaston County. He's still going to see slow down scare
over on I eight five southbound between forty five it
Ter and the DMV way station. Those are trending just
under fifteen and seventy seven over on the northbound side.
It's just kind of been a just a hassle with
them since earlier. This afternoon, we're showing those delays now

(02:01:57):
back to Clanton Road all the way through to Westinghouse
just under twenty five, though they were a lot slower earlier.
Got a new wreck here. Providence Road south Foundain's South
Sharon Ambity, be careful on the approach. No traffic is
really like halting. However, on the northbound side of the
Providence between Cherokee and Shoreham Drive, those dropped just under twelve.

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Speaker 1 (02:03:15):
And I am Brett Wable in for breaking Brett Jensen.
It is a pleasure to be with you guys today.
Lots of great stuff happening, going through all the different
storylines that are out there happening. Okay, we were just
talking to Marianna a couple of minutes ago and she
was talking about the right to keep the bare arms
and all of this sort of stuff. Well, I came
across a story that you need to hear, and I

(02:03:40):
mean you need to hear this. This is cut thirty
two and it's about a frequent flyer. It's about a
person that keeps getting arrested and not getting convicted in Virginia.
Cut thirty two.

Speaker 19 (02:03:57):
Go Ice is telling us not only is this suspect
illegally in the country. They had put a detainer on
him that was not honored. In addition, it turns out
he's been charged with multiple crimes in the past, including murder,
seemingly with no consequences. Police spent a long time investigating
at the home where this happened on Wednesday afternoon, and

(02:04:18):
there are a lot of questions about why the crime
was ever allowed to happen and why the suspect was free.

Speaker 1 (02:04:25):
Hey, this is very shocking.

Speaker 3 (02:04:26):
You know that this happened in a neighborhood that's supposed
to be safe.

Speaker 19 (02:04:31):
Brian del Sid lives very close to the home where
the homicide happened. He says, what's also shocking is that
suspected shooter, Marvin Morales Ortez had just been released from
jail less than twenty four hours before allegedly using this
gun to shoot and kill a man.

Speaker 1 (02:04:47):
It is very upsetting that he literally just got out yesterday.

Speaker 19 (02:04:51):
Police remained on the scene investigating Wednesday night. The crime
happened inside this home on Fanshell Court, in Resting. Until Tuesday,
Ortes had been in jail facing charges for allegedly brandishing
a gun and assaulting and injuring someone. He was released
when the Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney's Office decided to drop
the case. They taught us in a statement, prosecutors were

(02:05:13):
unable to move forward with the case because the victim
told police that they were out of the country and
would not be coming to court to cooperate in proceedings. Sadly,
without the victim's necessary testimony, we.

Speaker 1 (02:05:24):
Could not move forward with the case.

Speaker 19 (02:05:26):
But this is not the first time the County Commonwealth's
Attorney's Office has chosen not to press charges against Morales Ortes.
Court records indicates since twenty twenty, he's been charged with
at least seven crimes, including first degree murder back in
twenty twenty one, and every single time but one, prosecutors
at some point decided not to move forward. The one

(02:05:48):
time he was found guilty for a theft, he was fined,
but records show he never paid it.

Speaker 1 (02:05:56):
Can you can you believe this? This is Virgilrginia. This
is Virginia. The sheriff is Stacy A. Kincaid of Fairfax County.
She ignored an ice detainer, released the criminal illegal alien,

(02:06:21):
and a Virginia resident was murdered hours later in rest.
In Virginia, sanctuary policies have real victims. Holy cow, who
are these goofy people that do not look they will

(02:06:42):
come to your jail. You can hand them over to
ice and it's no more problem for you. Now, What
I worry about and what scares me, especially when we
when we see like people like the current the current
sheriff of Mecklenburg County. What scares me about what he

(02:07:06):
does is the idea that, well, you know what if
this guy comes down from Virginia and he decides he's
gonna go and spend time here in Mecklenburg County and
then he goes and he commits a felony and they
put him in jail, and then what do they do?
They let him go? Like, who are these silly, weird

(02:07:31):
people that don't believe in protecting? Because they don't, you know,
you gotta understand them. The people who do these things
are mobile. They can be in New York one day,
and then they can be in Virginia one day, and
then they can come to Charlotte one day and then
they can go you know, all this sort of stuff.

(02:07:52):
You are able to take them into custody, right, Fax
County failed the victim by refusing to work with ICE
and releasing this criminal onto the Virginia streets instead of
safely into an ICE custody. He's not an American, he

(02:08:14):
doesn't have citizenship, He's not supposed to be in the country.
A DHS spokesperson responded, telling Fox News that this is
nothing more than sanctuary politicians trying to pass the blame
for their refusal to protect American citizens. A DHS person

(02:08:37):
responded to honor a detainer. Officials do not need a
judicial warrant. The sanctuary politicians of Fairfax have blood on
their hands and they should have turned this serial criminal
illegal over to ICE. Instead, they chose to release it

(02:09:00):
back into the neighborhoods over and over and over again,
and he ended up murdering. Marvin Ernesto Morale, no relation
to the accused illegal alien killer. What are they doing?
What are they doing? This is not social justice, This

(02:09:23):
is social lunacy. You could be out there doing everything right.
You could be out there shopping in a supermarket. You
can go out to your car, and then this guy
or somebody very close to him decides he's gonna go
and attack in try to take your stuff and do
all this sort of stuff, and God forbid, you try
to get away from him and you end up running

(02:09:44):
away and you end up getting hit by a car
or something like that. I mean, come on, this is
got We have got to take this seriously. We have to.
I don't understand somebody, I really believe, I really believe
some but he's getting paid. Somebody's getting paid off to
look the other way. I cannot believe that a law

(02:10:07):
enforcement officer in the sheriff's office would be okay with
just letting somebody go and commit homicides. I mean that
this is this is bonkers. Fairfax freeze illegal alien. Hours later,

(02:10:29):
he murders rest in resident. That that family that lost
their loved one should should be should sue, should sue
this person until they are not available for this job
any longer. I mean, I'm telling you right now, this
is this is really crazy. And what is it? It's

(02:10:53):
the progressive sort of approach, and it's a it's a
it's a sin, it's a shame. It's awful justice for
those who have been harmed, period full stop.

Speaker 18 (02:11:22):
And I am Brett.

Speaker 1 (02:11:23):
What areble in for breaking? Brett Jensen? It's a pleasure
to be with you here today. It's been a pleasure
of the entire week. I I've enjoyed all of our
back and forth, in all of our conversation, and very
very happy to be with you. Joe is up next, Joe,
Welcome to the show. Hey Brett, Hello, Yeah.

Speaker 29 (02:11:41):
You said you said social lunacy. I say, it's social malpractice.
These guys that are letting them out. There's got to
be a law pass that if they let somebody out
and he kills somebody, they got to go to jail.
I'm with you on that third degree or or you know,
they got to do something.

Speaker 1 (02:11:58):
So when what what do you think is the benefit
for these people to let these people out? Like I can't. I,
for the life of me, I don't know what it is.
It's absurd, I think.

Speaker 29 (02:12:10):
I think they can sit there at their posh homes
and their dinner parties and say, gosh, look how good
I am. Oh yeah, how look, look look at me.
I am morally superior to some little old lady that's
going to the market that gets run over.

Speaker 1 (02:12:26):
Oh that's exactly right, you know that is You nailed it. Great,
great stuff. Thanks for calling in and have a very
merry Christmas. Yeah, yeah, you got it absolutely. I mean,
you know, I'm old enough to remember, and it sounds
like a cliche, but I'm old enough to remember. When

(02:12:50):
people would get arrested, they would do their time, they
would come out. We we have got this weird patch
sort of patch patch for people who do not know
how to behave themselves in public. Think about this. Standards

(02:13:12):
are important, Like standards matter. You go to a restaurant,
any restaurant, fast food, fancy restaurant, whatever. If you sit
down in that restaurant with you to have your meal, okay,
and the server comes over to you and takes takes

(02:13:35):
their hand and serves up the spaghetti and meatballs with
their hand on the on the on the dish, would
you say something to to the person? Would you say
would you say something to the server? Would you say, wait,
did you just pick up did you just pick up
meatballs and sausage and spaghetti sauce and put that in

(02:13:57):
a in a plate right in front of me? What
is wrong with you? Would say that right immediately he'd
be like, what is wrong with you? What is this?
This is crazy? This is not how you serve food.
And then and then and then you you get a
tap on the shoulder and they go, sh don't don't

(02:14:18):
tell them that they they this is how they serve
the food. And then the person brings you a glass
of wine, and and that that server drinks a sip
of the glass of wine and puts it down on
the table where you're going to drink that wine. And
you go, what are you doing? You're drinking my wine,

(02:14:38):
You're touching my food, You're doing all this kind of stuff.
Would you stand for that for like ten seconds? What
would you do? You go to the you go to
the manager, and you might just walk out of the
restaurant and say, this is disgusting. I'm gonna call Mark
Garrison and we're gonna we're gonna have the report. It's
gonna happen on tuesdays or whatever. But what what is

(02:14:59):
that call? That's called standards? Right, go to the doctor.
He's gonna he's gonna do some surgery on you. And
you notice on his hand he's got like some some
gunk on his hand, and and you're like, hey, did
you wash your hands?

Speaker 11 (02:15:14):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:15:14):
I don't use I don't use I don't use gloves.
That's not my thing. I don't. I don't use gloves
at all. Well, I'd like to talk to your supervisor. No,
I'm not gonna let you talk to my supervisor.

Speaker 11 (02:15:25):
You know.

Speaker 1 (02:15:25):
I just now go ahead, just just just take a
deep breath. We're gonna put you out and then before
you know it, you'll be fine. I've this, This is
like the fifth call an askapye I've done? I haven't.
I haven't washed my hand yet. Nobody would put up
with that. So why do we put up with this
when cops don't want to be cops? So I'm dead serious, Like,

(02:15:46):
what do you do when these cops don't want to
be cops? I I I sit back and I think
back to so like I I grew up in El
Paso Tech and those cops that were patrolling in El Paso, Texas,
right along the border with Mexico, right along the desert

(02:16:08):
all that sort of stuff. Man, they were cowboys, they
were little, they were legit cowboys. And if you if
you ran a foul of them, you were going to
go to the clink. You're going to the jail. They're not,
and they're gonna leave you in there for a couple
of days. All right. I lived in New York City,
I lived in Boston, I lived in Los Angeles, I

(02:16:30):
lived in San Diego. I've lived in all of these places,
and I always had respect for law enforcement. I don't
want to get pulled over. I don't want to get
a ticket. I don't want to get arrested. I don't
so I'm I'm I'm a law abiding person by and large. Okay,
but what are the standards now?

Speaker 11 (02:16:51):
Are?

Speaker 1 (02:16:52):
What are the standards now?

Speaker 4 (02:16:55):
We have?

Speaker 1 (02:16:55):
We have surrendered standards. Let me, I'm gonna try a
little experiment here. Okay, how many downs do you get
when you're playing football? Four downs?

Speaker 4 (02:17:08):
Right?

Speaker 1 (02:17:09):
So what if I say now I'm gonna do six downs,
I'm gonna do eight downs? The coaches are gonna come
over and scream it. You're like, they're gonna be like, what,
You're crazy? What's wrong with you?

Speaker 4 (02:17:20):
See?

Speaker 1 (02:17:21):
Standards are are the things that keep us on the
straight and narrow. I I've decided I'm gonna go become
a professional football player. But I am I am going
to use a bowling ball and I'm gonna throw it

(02:17:44):
at I'm gonna throw it at the receiver. Why can't
I do that? Because it's not the rules. This See,
we don't have standards anymore. We do not have any
standards anymore. The standards are whatever you want it to be.
It can be you. Are you tired of that? Like,

(02:18:06):
I know, I know what you're saying. You're driving right
now in the car. You're going down seventy seven or
you're going eighty five, you're going four eighty five, and
you're driving and you're watching somebody and you're going I
can't believe the way this person is driving. They are
tailgating me, they are they're getting right up on me.
They are doing all this kind of stuff. Standards, standards,

(02:18:28):
and if you complain, you're the bad guy. How do
we unwire this? I think I'm gonna write a book
about this. I think we have to have a come
to decency moment.

Speaker 18 (02:18:44):
I feel so.

Speaker 20 (02:18:45):
Good, half feel so now.

Speaker 1 (02:18:47):
Yeah, So I came across the story that makes me
feel better in light of what happened with J six.
Remember with J six, things we're going nuts and and
things like that. Albanian lawmakers lit flares and hurled water
bottles in a parliament brawl. One of the things that

(02:19:10):
I'm pretty proud of as an American, is that with
the exception of J six, you you really don't see
brawls taking place inside the chamber. And I think, I
think that's fundamentally good because I don't I don't want
to have that kind of reputation that we have. We
we are really the leaders of the world in so

(02:19:32):
many ways. Opposition lawmakers from the Democratic Party of Albania
unleashed chaos in parliament on Thursday, lighting flares and throwing
water bottles at the speaker Nico Poleshi, Nico Pleshi? Who
is who is that? Who is Nico Pleshi? I just,

(02:19:55):
I just will you hold on a second, let me
go back here, Okay, I gotta, I gotta get a
I gotta get this all set together. Opposition lawmakers from
the Democratic Party of Albania unleashed chaos in parliament on Thursday,
lighting fires, flares, throwing water bottles at speaker Nico Poleschi
as he tried to restore order, and scuffling with the cops.

(02:20:19):
The riotous scene was the culmination of a months long
battle over you guessed it, corruption allegations. Shabani is a
younger former law professor who would seem on paper to
be a solid choice for Albania's top human rights official.

(02:20:42):
He entered the six person race to succeed the long
time on budsman Arinda Blancra, with approval from the Parliamentary
Committee of the Legal Affairs and the strong multi partisan support.

(02:21:02):
The parliament convened in the city capital of Toronto and
they were to swear in the next person and then suddenly,
here we go. Shabani unfortunately found himself in the midst
of a long brewing battle between the DP and the
ruling Socialist Party and its political coalition partner, the Social

(02:21:26):
Democratic Party. The problem was that Shabani ran for office
in twenty twenty five as a minor party candidate and
became embroiled in a heated argument over who would occupy
the contested parliamentary seat. He was the head of the
oh my gosh, I don't even know I can pronounce
this thing, Nisma Thirji party until he resigned to run

(02:21:53):
for the ombudsman job. Long story short, they didn't like
what the outcome was going to be and they start
they started fighting in the in the in the parent parliament.
Now I've I've been to some parliaments, I even knew
some people who smoked parliaments. I'm a big fan of

(02:22:15):
the parliament. Funkadelic, big time, big time. But the one
thing this is why I don't like this is why
I like our system. I don't like parliamentary systems because
you can get like thirty two wackos and they can
band together and they can take over the entirety of
the government, and I don't. I don't like that kind

(02:22:37):
of stuff. There is there is something to say for
a constitutional republic, which is what we have. And that's
because really, over the course of history, you haven't had
a lot of violence in in the in the in
the Congress. Yes, I know, I know you have. You

(02:22:57):
have the guy that was caned back during the civil
the Civil War era, and yes we had a J six,
and yes we had people who tried to bomb Harry
Truman's place and all that. Yes, all that stuff happens,
but it doesn't happen like every two weeks. When you
go to a parliamentary system, this stuff goes and you

(02:23:19):
just you don't even know which end is up. These
people can come in and just make chaos. You ever
see when you see some of those fights that take place,
especially in Southeast Asia. You'll see these people throwing like
desks at each other. Now, I mean they will actually
pick up a desk and throw it at a person. Now,

(02:23:42):
now listen, remember what I said a couple of minutes
ago about standards. I think the desks are for standing,
but I would not I would not throw desks at
people because somebody is really going to get very hurt.
And so this is why it's not just the United States.

(02:24:05):
And I want to make this very important point in
the last couple of minutes I have. It's not just
the United States. It's pretty much everywhere, all the time
and forever. And I'm going to tell you exactly who's
behind this problem Sorrows. I'm telling you this guy decided

(02:24:29):
back in about two thousand and nine twenty ten that
he was going to break the borders. He was going
to send millions of people from the Middle East into Europe.
And you saw a whole lot of stuff that was
going on there, and that then came to the United States.
After COVID, we had twenty million plus people come to

(02:24:53):
the country. We were told by the federal government that
the border was secure. You and I saw it every
day on television for almost four years, and we saw
what was coming, and we saw what was happening. And
Donald Trump is now the bad guy because he wants
to see a functioning border. He wants to see America

(02:25:18):
out of entangled sort of things. He wants to have
a country where we are going to be profitable, where
it's gonna be good for us, where it's going to
be a strong place. And unfortunately he is swimming up
a paddle. He is swimming up against the current, and

(02:25:41):
that's a problem. Watch the speech tonight because Michael Wattley
and Donald Trump are gonna be at that speech tonight,
and you need to watch this. It's gonna be nine
o'clock tonight. You'll see it probably on Fox or another channel,
C Span, whatever. But watch what you hear from him.

(02:26:01):
He's going to go through the litany of the bad
stuff we had back during the Biden administration and the
things that he has fixed. People may not like his methods,
people may not like his approach, but the fact of
the matter is inflation has finally come down. Look at

(02:26:21):
the price of gasoline, look at all of that stuff
that has to count for something. You may not like
what he says, you may not like what he does,
but in terms of the economy, it's looking good. We're
just starting to get out of this. They spent seven

(02:26:44):
trillion dollars and now we're starting to get some oxygen.
Thanks so much for being here. Thanks for Travers, thanks
for Lonnie, thanks for Nick, thanks for Anna, thanks for Pam,
thanks for Brett, and thanks for Brett, which Brett was

(02:27:07):
that you have to come back on Monday to find out.
Enjoy the weekend. We have the greatest country in the world.
God bless the United States of Amnica.

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