No Spin, No Limits And More On The Brett Winterble Show

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Speaker 1 (00:16):
It is the Brett Winterbull Show.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
It is great to be back behind this microphone on
this momentous occasion.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
What is that, Well, it's the.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
New Year's EVEV. We are New Year's EVEV and it's
great to be here. I thanks so much for the
folks who were sitting in for me.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Really, you only had a couple of days.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Without me, but it felt like a long time because
of all the storylines that I've been watching one of
seven point nine FMWBT Charlotte's FM News Talk. I did
a little traveling, a very quick trip out to Texas
to spend time with our family. It was really wonderful.
It was really terrific. It was it was incredible. I

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got to tell you so though. One of the things
that took me by surprise. I always love going to
these different places and seeing things. I grew up in
West Texas, but we were in Central Texas and as
we landed in.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
San it's hard to say this to me.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Okay, I'm just gonna tell you because I'm so used
to flying into you know, like Dallas and Houston and
all those other sorts of things. But San Antonio is
such a beautiful city and I get there too infrequently.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
I love going there.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
The food is incredible, the culture is incredible, everything about
it is wonderful. But one of the things that struck me.
I have not been in Texas for probably about two
or three years. The speed limit on the toll road
is eighty five. Eighty five. Now, that is a state

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that respects power. That's what that is. And I'm telling
you it's incredible to even fathom getting the speed of
the vehicle up to eighty five. And we had people.
I had a guy on a motorcycle who went right
past us, and he had easily been doing probably.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Guess in one hundred and thirty miles an hour.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
I mean, he just flew right by. I like states.
I like places that trust the individual to make up
their own minds. And this is why I escaped from California,
I escaped from New York. I escaped from the places

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that prevent you from actually being able to do the
things that you want to do within reason. Obviously, if
you've got a tiny baby in your car, you want
to be cautious, you want to make sure they're they're
buckled up, and all that sort of stuff. But I
love the notion of freedom and the notion of freedom

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is really difficult. It is really difficult because inevitably one
thing comes to pass and it's this, Well, I know
I can do this, but the rest of these idiots
are not able to do the thing that I do.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Well.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
No, you know, the way you have to sort of
put things into perspective is you have a plan, you
execute your plan, and then you see what happens next.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Now, let me take.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
You to the international stage. Oh, don't worry. I got
plenty of stuff for you. On the economy, I got
plenty of stuff for you, all the different things that
are out now happening. But let me tell you something.
Iran is now saber rattling against the United States, and
this is a very poor choice. We whacked you once,

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We'll whack you twice, and will whack you three times
and then you're done. Iran has issued a new warning
against the president of the United States. Iranian President Masud
Pazeskian warned Tuesday that his country would respond forcefully to

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any attack, following the comments by President Donald Trump suggesting
that the US could strike Iran if it rebuilds its
nuclear program.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, we did it once.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
I don't think they've gotten back to par but we've
done it before we can level them again. Pizzekian said
on social media that any quote cruel aggression against Iran
would be met with a harsh and discouraging response. The

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answer of the Islamic Republic of Iran to any cruel
aggression will be harsh and discouraging for who, for.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Who, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
The President of the United States has been more more
than accommodating when it comes to trying to bring the
Iranians into the public stage. We have reached out to them,
we have attempted to talk to them. But all they
want is to kill Americans, harm Americans, take hostage Americans,

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and then kill more Americans. This is very clear with
this malign regime, and I think it's it's high time
that we all recognize what this is. And So when
I sit back and I think about the Iranian attack
that we undertook back what was that early last summer. Fact,

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I was in the I was on an airplane when
they did the attack, and then we landed and we
found out only at that moment that the attack it occurred.
I think we had a measured response. I think we
had a very specific reason for doing this. But if
these guys want to get back into the water, go
ahead and try it.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
See what that goes to. Because I think.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
The President Donald Trump has been more than fair with
the Iranian regime. The reality of any of this sort
of stuff needs to be understood that we are not
playing See the original attack, see what's on the ground

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going on in Venezuela. I mean, look, it is a
restrained president of the United States of America who is
not looking to harm innocent people. But if Iran wants
to get cute, if Iran wants to pull something, we
have ways to deal with them.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
And it doesn't mean.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
That we're going to use a nuclear weapon. I don't
think Donald tr Jump wants to use a nuclear weapon,
because you can take him at his word that he
thinks that's a horrible weapon that has to be used,
you know, in a very very dire situation. But we
do have a variety of other ways to do this
because right now, I know you may not know this,

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but there are hundreds of thousands of Iranians marching in
the streets who do not want to be under the
yoke of the administration of Iran. Why because it's crazy.
I know people want to be free. What is written
on your heart is to yearn to be free. Nobody

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wants to be held captive by a smelly, stinky, awful
regime like this organization. It is very clear, and the
people of America are in solitaire. We are in a
solitary fight for your freedom, for your stuff that you
want to do. But it's got to be you doing it,

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not you, not me, not anybody else. That is what
is happening.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
So you know, what do you got? What do you got?
How do we know? I I just want to know
what you think.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
One oh seven point nine FMWVT Charlotte's FM News Talk,
And we got a caller who is exactly right. I
did use the incorrect numbers for the UH for the
call in. I'm taking the responsibility for that. We will
not take any calls in the next fifteen minutes. I'm
going to go ahead and just talk about a number

(08:49):
of things. I don't want to create any sort of
a comical drama or anything like that, because the phone
number is seven oh four or five seven zero, one
oh seven nine. Okay, knuckles wrapped. Good to be with you.

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Now you can really call it. Actually, I appreciate such
such great listeners that they that they picked that up,
because even I didn't pick that up, which is that's
pretty common. Got to be honest with you, but it's
it's a pleasure to be back behind the microphone so
you are totally allowed to be a part of the conversation.

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This is what I love about this part of the
year because at the end of the year, we're looking
towards very important things that are going to happen, and
then we look back as well. So like I'm gonna
be here on the air tomorrow, I think we will
not be here during the actual New Year's Day, but

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we will then be back on the day after New
Year's So it's almost basically a a full boat. And
that's a pretty great thing. And I gotta tell you,
I gotta tell you I love this time of the
year because we get to think what's to come, and
we also get to think.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
What we've seen this year.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
And so with that in mind, you know, I would
I would love to ask you, guys, men and women.
Some decline to state that's totally cool too, what was
your biggest storyline? What do you think not personal storyline
because we can't verify that. But what was your biggest
storyline that you saw that that really struck you this

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this particular year.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
And what are you looking forward to?

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Maybe something good, maybe something that might change, something like that,
But really, what are you expecting in this next year?
Because I gotta tell you, and we're gonna do not worry.
We are going to do a whole lot with that
guy up there in Minnesota. This guy is in a
heap big trouble, is would say. And I can't I

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can't wait to see how that storyline breaks out, comes
out and that sort of stuff. Let's start with Robert.
We're going to give him the first slot. Robert, welcome
to the program. What's on your mind?

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Hey, Brett, you bring it every.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Night, dog, Thank you very much. That's very kind.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yes, sir. On this vacation topic, first of all, I
appreciate the heads up that you're not going to be
there Thursday, because that affects a lot of people. Brett,
when you're on vacation, kind of like when Rush was
on vacation, you may not realize the gravity of the effect.
It's like it's kind of like the tides going in
and out. When that gravity changes, it changes the tides.

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So just realize, Brett, that these these vacations that you take.
And by the way, I realize, I realize you're not
a robot. You're not you're not nuclear powered where you
don't right, but these these vacations affect a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Well wait, wait, hold on the second, wait wait wait
I did. I did the most minuscule damage that I
could possibly do. I went out on a Friday and
I went back on a Tuesday, and so you know
that that was I that was a pretty I tried
to cut that as razor thin as possible and uh,
you know.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
I don't want to leave anybody stranded in that.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Room, Brett, Brett, I'm acutely aware of your schedule, sir.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
WHOA Well, you know, are you and the bushes out
there with the with the binoculars?

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Are you serving?

Speaker 3 (12:35):
But I no, no, But I listen every day. No,
I know you do, and I'm uh and I'm part
of a vast audience that does the same thing. So
I'm know, I know Robin uh covered for you.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah, Robin, Robin Wilensky, tremendous talent.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Rob Yeah, Robin with the why and uh, she did
a good job. But Brett, these uh, these days are tough.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Dan, they can't be, but they can be.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Well, oh they are. It's not that they can be.
They are tough when you are away from that from
that one hundred thousand watt reaching microphone.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
I appreciate that. All right.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
So with that in mind, what do you think is
the biggest story of this year?

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Well, I would have to say I and I. Well,
of course Trump came in to solve the two big
big problems that that he that he inherited, the the
illegal the illegal immigration crisis and the affordability crisis, the
the price spikes crisis that went on for four years

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under Biden. Right now, I think it's I think it's
the Ukraine Russia war.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
I'm I am curious to see how that that war
ends up finishing. Because not a lot of people didn't
pick up on this over the last I mean, you
probably know about it, but uh, there were a number
of people who didn't pick up the complaint that the
president had, which was apparently there was an attack on

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Putin's house basically for all intents and purposes, and that
could be something that's a very difficult thing to deal with,
especially if you're trying to end the war and now
you're bombing the commander of the other side, you know,
at his house. So I'm wondering if that's going to
cause any sort of a delay, And you know, maybe

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Zelensky wants to be famous for doing something like that.
I mean, that's one of those things that I think
is is a very interesting set of a set of effects.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Well, I know Trumps, President Trump yesterday said he was
he was upset to hear about that, and of course
President Zelensky has vehemently denied it. It's some some think
it might have been a false flag operation put on
by Pooting himself to be able to say, hey, this guy,
this guy's going after my home, so I'm certainly gonna

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not stop attacking him in his country.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
That's a great take, and that's a really smart take,
and you're probably right in that in that regard. I
appreciate you being out there, Robert, and thank you very
much for the for the very kind words.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
All Right, well, I'm gonna do something else on Thursday afternoon,
and probably probably well Thursday afternoon, that's that's New Year's Day.
So yes, sir, I think I'll probably take a supposed
to be sixty degrees here in the beautiful area, so
beautiful Charlotte area, So on that particular afternoon when you're
out you will do something else.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Well, feel free to download the episodes and you know,
go back and enjoy us in not so real time.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
I will do that, Brett, thank you, Thanks, Robert. Robert's great.
That was awesome.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Hey, what if President Trump said, okay to the Iranian rouge?
What if he said, you know what, I'm thinking about
something right now, and I'm thinking about using an EMP.
I'm thinking about just wiping out the grid. You want
to try to light off nukes, It's gonna be really
hard to do it with what we're talking about. A
high altitude EMP of the kind that could disable Iranians

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command and control infrastructure requires a nuclear device detonated in
the upper atmosphere. That is not sci fi, that is physics.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
You really think that that's all they've got.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
A nuclear EMP detonation over Iran would be interpreted globally
is a nuclear strike, even if no blast hits the ground.
Of course it would, because that's what the Soviets always do.
Such such cowards, the triggers every legal, diplomatic, and military

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trip wire the US has spent decades trying to avoid. Well,
I'm just curious. I'm just curious to see what would happen.
Even Israel's reported strikes on Irani and EMP programs were conventional,
not EMP based. I'll bet you we have some secret

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stuff that we could use.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
I'll bet you we could do that. I don't want
to see it happen.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
I just want to see the regime that has bothered
us low these many years, going back to the seventies,
and I want to see the people of Iran free, free,
free for them, them them.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Who's with me?

Speaker 3 (17:44):
You?

Speaker 1 (17:44):
How about you?

Speaker 2 (17:58):
I mean, this is this is mandatory metallic right there.
All right, let's get to it. You know what's on
your mind. I know what's on my mind. You know
what's on your mind. Let's dive into this. I've been
talking about this for the last couple of days amongst

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my friends and family, and this Tim.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Walls thing is really bad.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
I mean it is just putridly bad, horrifically bad. So
what do you say we just dive in on this. Okay,
We're going to start off with Tim Walls. This is
cut number one, and he's talking about, Well, what everybody's
talking about the money? Where did the money go? Where

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did it go? Eighteen billion dollars? Tim Walls, what's the story?

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Hit me go?

Speaker 4 (18:52):
Look, it's not law abiding citizens. If that were the case,
there's a lot of white men. Should be holding a
lot of white men accountable for the crimes that they
have committed. I think for the community to maybe educate
their population, because I think what you're seeing here is
there are secondary victims in this, that there's providers inside
the community that are then victimizing the community themselves by
signing them up. Because when we're going to some of

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these people, they're like, I had no idea I was
in this program. So I think it's asking us, then,
you know, for every crime, which of course the majority
being committed by white men, asking us to do more
about that. I think it's crime in general. And I
think the biggest thing on this is is just making
sure that we're educating the population. And again, this is
eighty people or so that have been convicted in this,

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maybe some more in that out of a broader ring
medicate fraud, wile stretch across all racial demographics, all ethnic groups.
So I think it's really important for us to note
each each community's got this in their own midst, but
to blame them and say that they should have been
responsible for stopping it, I think that's a pretty hard reach.

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I think we continue to educate folks about why they
shouldn't crimes. You would hope that it's being taught both
at home and at schools and in our society. But no,
I think this idea that the Somali community is to
blame for this because they didn't do more. I think
that's how we got into this, and that's you know again,
don't I know, We're not going to lose the whole
plot here. All this work is being done. Donald Trump

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brought this to the attention like this is something brand new.
This is not brand new, and it's been being worked on,
but he made it white hot and very dangerous.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
I didn't know until I heard that clip from the
governor of Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
I didn't realize.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
And I'm shocked by this. I'm shocked by this revelation.
So what he's saying is that white men are sending
ill gotten money to Somalia. That is what he just said.
He said, don't blame the people who are the people.

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He's saying, white guys are sending ill gotten gains to Somalia.
How did that happen? I mean, I just this is
blowing my mind. He is basically saying, I blame white people. Okay,
so blame white men. So those white men apparently are

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taking the money and sending it to the people in Somalia.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
What what a program?

Speaker 2 (21:36):
I mean, are they getting a vig are they getting
what are they getting in this regard? Because he just
told you, this is the governor of the state that
lost eighteen billion dollars and it was sent to Somalia?

Speaker 1 (21:56):
What is this? How does this happen? This can't possibly
be real.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Oh, it's the only it's the only thing that he
can tell you that. It's just don't blame the people
who might have stolen We know who the people were
who stole it. It is the folks, the white folks
who were sending it to Somalia.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
Which who knew that? Who knew that? Here, let's try
this cut number three. Chip Roy.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
He's a Republican from the state of Texas, and he
has a little thinking that he's using a good, good
good thinking cut number three.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Please go, Julie.

Speaker 5 (22:35):
Great to be with you if you had a merry Christmas.
And you know, it defies all logic and reason to
believe that Governor Waltz was ignorant of what was happening
in Minnesota. Let's be clear. He was campaigning on it
last year. With respect to the campaign with Vice President
Harris in her run for the presidency, he literally was
talking about it. Thank god that President Trump won that election.

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Thank God that we do not have a Harris Waltz
presidency because they would be encouraging this to continue, whereas
this president is rooting out the fraud, securing the border,
stopping the flow of people into our country. But this
is what happens when you have massive welfare programs that
are funding people that are coming into our country, whether
it's illegally or frankly through legal channels, that are being

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abused by the radical left and the Marxists who want
this to occur.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Now, if I was asking a question, if I was
if I was trying to do a cross examination or
any kind of an examination, I would say, Governor Walls,
how do you identify.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
He identifies as a white man?

Speaker 2 (23:42):
I would say, we have found the culprit in this regard.
He is whiter than white. He is Casper, the friendly
ghost white. And the fact of the matter is this
guy lost eighteen billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Do not collect, do not pass. Go, oh, please report.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
Immediately to the jail, because you're the guy who said
in that first clip that these white guys are the problem. Dude,
you are You are lily white. You are unbelievably white.
You are a white Lendist, is what I would say.
You come from white Lendia, that is what you're doing.

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So okay, resign.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
I see.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
I don't want him to resign because he is the
exact perfect kind of.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Person that you can just sit back and say, Wow,
what did he do? Now? What is he going to
do next week?

Speaker 2 (24:40):
You know, I'm remembering once upon a time during the race,
when it was his wife going out there and saying,
turn the page, turn the page.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
I don't know if I want him to turn the page.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
I feel like, because the people of Minnesota voted him in,
give him a third term. You people in Minnesota deserve it.
You deserve it as much as you possibly can.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Because you wanted him. Now you got him.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
See I think if you get rid of him, you're
throwing him overboard, and that's not gonna work because the
fraud will continue. At least we now know who's responsible
for the fraud. It is the governor. He told you,
white guys are ripping people off.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
This is the top white guy in the government. What
do you got? You got this now.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
I am very curious to see how many more reveals
are going to come out as a result of this,
because you know, and I know, there's going to be
somebody who's gonna come out and they're gonna say something like, yeah,
you know, I happen to know the people who know

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the people who collected all of this money, and I
know where it went, I know who sent it, I
know how it was distributed. I know all of this stuff,
and it all goes back to Hello, Walls.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Unbelievable, totally believable. This is what happens. This is what
happens when you trust and fail to verify in any
possible way. It could be Lehman Brothers, it could be
the Walls, it could be any of these folks. You

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gotta stay on them. Twenty four seven, three sixty five
and welcome back. I'm brettwitterbol good to be with you.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Telephone number, as always is seven oh four five seven
zero one oh seven point nine.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Would be a one o seven nine. Now obviously you can't.
You can't hit the point button there. That's that's a
little bit. You know, you're gonna have a tough time
if you try to do that.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
You're you're gonna probably end up with some some very
big telephone bills. So you want to call seven oh
four five seven zero one oh seven nine. And all
you have to do if you want to be on
the program is say let me on and let me
tell you it works.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Wonders. You just say, I have a take, I have
an opinion.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
I have opportunity for the listeners to hear about me
and what I'm doing. I'm dead serious, I'm not I'm
not selling this to you. I'm telling you what's what
a lot of good commentary coming in here from Allan.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
I like. I like Alan.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Alan is a smart is a smart person, and I
think he's got good takes. Maybe your intro should be
come and take the money and run. Oh, come on
and take the money and run.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah, we well we will use that.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
We will use that Steve Miller in the next hour,
in the next hour, right out right out of the box,
because it's a perfect, perfect analogy, except that the Steve
Miller band and Steve Miller, they were doing it all
above board. What's going on with all this other money
that's out there? You know what, For the life of me,

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I can't even tell you. It's one of these things.
You look at all this stuff, You look at all
the stuff that's going on, and we can we just
have a serious conversation for a quick second, Yes we can.
I'm gonna tell you this. There is no country more
generous than the United States of America. And the difference

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between living in a socialist hellhole and living in the
United States of America is this. The people in the
Soviet Union, the people who are now living under Putin,
and those folks, the Iranian regime, the Venezuela regime, the
Cuba regime, the Little Rocketman regime, all of that is confiscation.

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They come out and they tell you how much you're
going to be allowed to keep, and it's.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Usually very very little.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
You are not allowed to keep the proceeds, your profits,
any of that sort of stuff. It is theft it
is absolute theft. In the Americas, but specifically in the
United States of America, we have a different system. We

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do free will donations. So there's a terrible earthquake, a
volcano explodes, some other horrible disaster occurs, and the West
is right on it, and they will spend the money
and help the people, even if the those people are

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held against their own will. We take care of everybody
in the world. The problem that I have with Tim Walls,
amongst many problems that I've got with him, the most
important one is he doesn't ever say thank you. He

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doesn't to the taxpayers, to the people who work in
his state. In his mind, everything is just about him.
That is terrible, That is horrific. That is awful. This
is a man. And I can give you the record
on this guy. I can do it proudly. I can

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do it easily. This guy is a wacko.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
A wacko. Now, how do you quantify a wacko?

Speaker 2 (30:57):
A guy who does not in the least care about
the individuals who are contributing to the system. He merely
wants to see what he can get out of this.
And you know I'm right, I know you know I'm right,
because this is what we see every single day with

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this guy. He's trying to be famous for being famous.
And if you go down his record, if you take
a big look into his record, you're gonna find a
lot of bad stuff, a lot of bad stuff. And
I know he wants to be the president. I know
he thinks he's going to run again. I know all
of this sort of stuff. But Tim Walls has had

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a ton of scandals. This isn't the first. Tim Walls
has faced several high profile accusations and controversies throughout his
career as the governor of Minnesota and during his twenty
twenty four vice presidential campaign. As of Decay twenty twenty five.
These include major fraud scandals in a state administered program,

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criticism of his military record, and his handling of the
twenty twenty riots in the main city there in Minnesota.
Let's just look at this industrial scale fraud. In late
twenty twenty five, and federal and state investigations revealed wide

(32:32):
spread Minnesota social service programs which may have cost over
a billion dollars. Prosecutors expanded the investigations into fourteen Medicaid
funded programs and suggested that more than half of the
eighteen billion dollars spent on them since twenty eighteen may

(32:53):
have been stolen through suspicious billing. Feeding our Future you
know the story two hundred and fifty million dollar scandal
involved a nonprofit accused of stealing federal funds intended to
feed hungry children during the pandemic. The critics, including the

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GOP led Oversight Committee, have accused Walls of ignoring red
flags and being slow to act on the fraud. Admittedly,
there have been administrative lapses. A twenty twenty five legislative
audit resulted in twelve compliance issues with the Governor's office.

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His military service record has become an issue his retirement
timing critics who have accused Walls of abandoning his National
Guard unit by retiring in May of two thousand and five,
just before there were official orders to deploy to a rock.
Walls maintains that he retired to run for Congress, and

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that he submitted the paperwork months before the official deployment
notices were issued.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
How do you know that rank?

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Claims He's been accused of misrepresenting his retirement rank, where
he said he served as a command sergeant major. He
did not complete the required coursework before retiring, meaning he
officially retired as a master sergeant. Weapons of war comment.
In a twenty eighteen video, Walls referred to the weapons

(34:29):
of war that I carried in war since he never
deployed to an active combat zone. The Harris Walls campaign
later acknowledged he misspoke, and then George Floyd The response
delays awful. Walls faced intense criticism for his handling of

(34:51):
the civil unrest following George Floyd's murder. Critics, including local
officials and republic leaders, accused him of freezing under pressure
and waiting too long to deploy the National Guard in Minneapolis,
and sustained roughly five hundred million dollars in damage as

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a result, same thing Nancy Pelosi did in January the sixth.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Abject failure.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Walls initially described the local and state response as an
abject failure, before eventually assuming full responsibility for the state's
actions and then going way way, way way back. Nineteen
ninety five. Nineteen ninety five, Walls was arrested in Nebraska

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for driving ninety six miles an hour in a fifty
five mile zone with a blood alcohol level of point
one two eight percent, which was above the legal limit.
He pled guilty to a reduced charge of reckless driving
and has stated that he quit drinking entirely after the incident.

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Misleading two thousand and six campaign claims. During his first
run in two thousand and six, his campaign falsely claimed
the reporters that he had not been drinking and that
his failure of field sobriety tests was.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
Due to hearing.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Loss from his military service. See this guy, I mean, look,
I understand people do dumb things once, twice, three times
a dummy, but it's even more than that. This is
a guy who stood on the debate stage and said

(36:47):
that Vice President Harris was going to be the greatest
president in history.

Speaker 6 (36:53):
Come, I mean, you know what's going on? That's right
to another with nothing matter to do.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
It's around the house. Good, I'm walking to Betty. And
here's what happened. When they decide of the count news
the head it out to.

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Swear the round into low great their castle job shouting
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Speaker 2 (38:07):
Welcome to the second hour. If you missed the first hour,
that's okay. You can go back and listen to it
and make it maybe your fourth hour.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
How about that. You could do that. If you miss that,
it's okay, It's all good. I want to say something.
I am excited about this economy, and I know there's
a lot of.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
People that are gonna it's really boring. I I want
to talk about the economy. Can I just give you,
guys some stats that I think are hugely important? All right,
anybody familiar with the name Brian moynihan. Anybody know who
Brian moynan is. That would be the cahuna, the big
guy over at Bank of America. Now, this is a

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really important story. Stay there, Dave, because I am gonna
come to you next. So just just stay right there.
Brian moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, has indicated that
the con zumer spending from Thanksgiving to Christmas in twenty
twenty five was good and solid, with data showing a

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four percent increase in total spending compared to the same
period in twenty twenty four. In fact, overall US holiday spending.
All right, so think about this. We're going Thanksgiving to Christmas. Right,

(39:30):
we just got Christmas and you had Thanksgiving, and.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Wasn't it it was?

Speaker 2 (39:36):
This happened to be one of those compressed Christmases, right.
I think we had like what three weeks, three weekends? Okay,
listen to this. Overall US spending is projected to surpass
one trillion dollars for the first time a trill.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
So we're talking three full weeks where we went around
the block. Moynihan's insights on spending. Here's what he said.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
He said, they have the ability to look at the
internal credit and debit card data in real time. They
can see our people buying, our people shopping, what is
going on. They looked at the Bank of America customers. Again,
this is the credit and also the debit card stuff,

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which provides a real time look at the consumer behavior.
The growth rates spend through the Thanksgiving weekend into early
December was up by more than four percent year over year.
That's not the Biden administration. That is this current administration.

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Moynihan has consistently noted the resilience of the US conc consumer,
who continues to spend despite some surveys showing lower consumer
sentiment income levels. This number is big. In fact, the
National Retail Federation that the NERF the NRF, it's the

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NERF also provided a positive outlook for the entire November
December holiday season, which aligns with Moynihan's data total spending.
The NERF forecasted a total holiday sales to reach one
point zero one trillion to one point zero two trillion

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for the first time. Now, guess what's going to happen
once you get into the next year. Twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
Democrats got a problem. Let me tell you, mister Walls.
Mister Walls, the walls are folding in on you. Buddy.

Speaker 7 (42:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
It's gonna be tough. Dave, Welcome to the program. What's
on your mind?

Speaker 8 (42:18):
Mister terribly yesterday Brett, Well.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
I appreciate you being here. Thank you for that.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Robin.

Speaker 8 (42:23):
Robin did a fantastic job.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
She's awesome.

Speaker 8 (42:25):
Some of your yes, yes, some of your nemesis tried
to get through and get to her, but uh, she
had all them too.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Sweet love that. I love that man. You want it,
you want to do you know, kick saving of beauty.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
That's absolutely so.

Speaker 8 (42:41):
Now what I wanted to talk about real quick. Is
the young man up in Many, Minnesota, Yes, sir, that
did the reporting, and she touched on this quite a
bit yesterday on the way the stealing of the money
for these daycare centers, and she played at clip and
I'm not sure where it came from, but he found

(43:04):
out more. This kid I call him a kid because
I'm an old man. Sure this kid found out more
in what two months than the prior three years up there.
And he was going door to door and I just
want to say, do yourself a favor. If you haven't
watched this guy's video, oh it's great. Watch them.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
It's amazing.

Speaker 8 (43:25):
He goes to one place, He goes to one place
and the word learning center is misspelled. He knocks on
the door. Yeah, he knocks on the door, and there's
a lady standing and screaming into the don't at sure
this Ice is here? Ice is here, and the kids
just as calm as the Canvidia's I'm not an Ice.

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I'm just I'm asking a question. There's supposed to be
ninety nine children in this building and there's no one
in the parking lot.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
What what is the audacity for these people to go
and do this sort of stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
You have to be like, I understand that the documentarian
guy is doing a great service. I mean, I would
hope he would be invited to the White House. I
would hope that he would be invited to which I
think would be brilliant for President Trump when he does
the State of the Union in this next State of
the Union address, he should have him stand up so

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that people can applaud the savings that are now going
to happen because of the theft of all that money.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
You know, that's an important thing.

Speaker 8 (44:33):
Absolutely, eighteen billion dollars.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Yep, eighteen billion, by the way, I got it. Even
you want to hear something even worse. So Nick Shirley,
we're talking about Nick Shirley. We're talking about the guy
that's looking up all the stuff that's going on. Well,
it turns out and I'm gonna i'll ferret this out
here in a.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Couple of moments.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
But Columbus, Ohio also has a problem, just like Minnesota.
They've got the exact same problem where they have billions
of dollars disappearing and nobody knows where it went.

Speaker 8 (45:12):
Isn't that something we need to get Nick a plane
ticket to get him over there as as quickly as
we can.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Well, you know what's gonna happen. Now, this is gonna
be one of those uh, this is gonna be one
of those prairie fires that just takes off in every
state of the Union. And we're gonna be seeing a
whole lot of people having to answer a whole lot
of questions.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
That they don't want to answer. If you know what
I mean, I can dig it. Hey, Dave, you're the best.
You're the best brother. Be safe, but I love talking
to you. Good stuff.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
Down, Welcome back, five one o seven point nine FMWBT,
Charlotte's FM Newstalk. It's good to be with you as
we soldier on and we look at all these other stories. So, yeah,
this actually has happened. Over in Ohio. The Nick Shirley
effect has begun. Muck Raker founder Anthony Rubin on the

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ground in Columbus, Ohio, home to the second largest second
largest Somali community in the US, investigating daycare centers. This
development comes less than a day after the Ohio Attorney

(46:43):
Mehek Cook said federal investigators are examining allegations that elements
within Ohio's Somali community defrauded millions of dollars from the
state it's medicaid system. Now we're always told that illegals

(47:06):
cannot come in and tap Medicaid.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
I don't know if these folks are native born. I
don't know anything about who these folks are.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
But the first Somali affiliated daycare facility that we knocked
on after landing in Columbus, Ohio, today nobody answered, Rubin
wrote on x alongside a video showing another daycare center,

(47:37):
Great Minds Learning Academy. Rubin continued, a neighbor across the
street told us, I've never.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
Seen anybody coming out of the building or go into
the building. What must be a backdoor. Maybe it's invisible.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
So we now have another explosion in this regard meheck Cook.
Taxpayer funded medical fraud is also widespread in Ohio. We
really need to investigate the medicaid system and how much
it's increased since the Somalian population game.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
That's her question. You have chamath polyheptia.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
I trust cernovich instincts here if he thinks a grant
program can unlock tens of investigative journalists to uncover the
breadth and scale of California's fraud. Many people will survive.
See now we're getting a prairie far This is getting
ready to go, This is getting ready to blow. It's

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gonna be something. It's gonna be something. This is a
very interesting time, Winston, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
What's on your mind?

Speaker 7 (48:58):
Breaking the raw, breaking the law? That's right, hey, listen,
you know this misallocation of funds, federal funds. I thought
we had Elon Musk in there at the helm with
Goes Department of Government Efficiency. You know that here's an
individual that can put a rocket back on the launch path,
on the chop sticks. He could put somebody, you know.

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He said he's going to Mars and all this stuff,
but he can't root out the wasteful spending.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
What is he doing.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
He's running his car, He's running his company. He's running
his company.

Speaker 7 (49:30):
He's up very he's brown nosing Trump.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
He is running his company. He went back to his company.
That's what he's doing.

Speaker 7 (49:39):
Well he failed, Okay, he whiffed.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
Well you whiffed.

Speaker 9 (49:44):
No, I don't.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Yeah, you whiff you whiffed on this call.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
You're you're whiffing it right now, man, I mean I'm
gonna get I'll give you a second bite at the apple.
But I got a feeling where it's going to be
something involving weird space, aliens and whatnots.

Speaker 7 (49:57):
No, No, I want to ask you something. Share. What
was your master's degree in from college? My masters in
Homeland security and Intel. Yes, I wonder if you're not
working for the deep state up there at the one
oh seven.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Nine Winstead You're You're hilarious. You're hilarious and tackling.

Speaker 8 (50:20):
Are you doing it?

Speaker 1 (50:21):
You are hilarious, You're a very No.

Speaker 7 (50:25):
I got you.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
No, you don't.

Speaker 7 (50:27):
I got you.

Speaker 9 (50:28):
I slammed up game over see you later.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
Okay, you asked for it, man, Okay, here's the deal.
Here's the deal.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
I decided that I wanted to learn more in the
aftermath of nine to eleven. I wanted to learn more
about techniques and things like that that have been coming
out of the Middle East, and so as a consequence
of that, I decided I was going to take classes
in that regard, and I found it to be fascinating.
At one point, I thought, you know what, this is

(51:02):
something that is going to be very useful because the
war on Terror, which people like Winston would tell you
that the the World Trade Center didn't really fall down.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
I don't know why, but he's that type of guy.
I wanted to, you know, just learn more.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
And that's what I did, and it was It was
a robust, interesting, great thing that that I did, and
I really felt good about it. I wanted to go
into I wanted to go to a PhD program after that.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
I don't know if Winston what Winston does, but I
wanted to do it.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
But at that stage of the of the game, I
was starting my own radio show. I was doing all
this sort of stuff and it's interesting. It brought me
in contact with people like Bill Roggio and those great
people like that.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
And you know, I could.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Encourage anybody in the audience if you have a passion,
if you get this feeling where you say, Okay, what
I want to do is I want to learn more.
I want to try to find out more about whatever discipline.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
That you want. I encourage people to do it.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
There's no set time where you sit back and you
say I have learned everything that I need to learn.
I Winston obviously does have a lot of learning still
to come. And that's why I bring him in. I
let him come in as sort of he's a clown.
He's a jester who comes in, and I don't know

(52:30):
that he's necessarily a cut above or a cut below,
but I bring him in because I think he's kind
of a interesting fellow. I loosen the standards a little
bit here on these holiday weeks. But the fact of
the matter is, if you want to learn more stuff
and winsday, I would encourage you to do it. You

(52:51):
sound like somebody who would really benefit from actually getting
facts instead of just talking.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
To one of the most famous people in the world.
You understand what's going on. That's right. You know who
I'm talking about. You guys know who I'm talking about.
I'm talking of Alex Jones. Alex Jones, Are you going
to see what's going on over there?

Speaker 2 (53:09):
That's the kind of stuff, that's the Mickey Mouse kind
of stuff that this guy that this guy likes to
play games in. But let me use this for a moment,
because I would ask Winston. I would ask Winston, what
do you think the big threats are in our against
our country and what we've got? Because I actually sat

(53:29):
back and I looked for about an hour and a
half last night trying to see what is going to
be the challenge that we're going to face in twenty
twenty six. All right, and I think there's a number
of things that we should be paying close attention to. Obviously,
you got Ukraine, you got the Middle East, You've got Sudan, right,
Sudan is an important a battlefield that seems to be

(53:51):
taking really bad stuff and making it even worse. Some
of these ceasefires at the President and has tried to execute,
they've proved, they've proven to be fragile in some cases.
But the US China strategic competition, this is the biggest

(54:11):
story that's going to emerge in twenty twenty six. The
rivalry between the US and China is going to continue
to intensify, marked by trade wars, technology restrictions, especially involving
advanced semiconductors and AI chips, the increased military posturing around

(54:33):
Taiwan and the South China Sea. In fact, if you
look today, they're kind of mixing it up a little
bit there. And the new US administration's transactional approach to
foreign policy is also going to be I believe adding
uncertainty to the dynamic now doesn't mean that the President

(54:53):
of the United States is wrong in this approach, because remember,
he is not a trained politic. He is somebody who
understands the nuances of relationships, right, That's why he has
these conversations. Did you notice yesterday when bb net and
Yahoo came to the White House, did you guys notice

(55:14):
what he was wearing. He wore an identical look to Trump.
It was identical. That's an interesting take. I know, Winston
not a fan, not a fan of the Middle East
in any way, shape or form. Maybe iron I don't know,
maybe he is. But the technological change and the AI

(55:38):
governance that's also going to be huge. There are a
lot of storylines that are still to play out, drones,
AI decision making and supply chains, critical minerals, and of
course economic dominance. We are now the dominant We are
the dominant nation in the world. And that is a

(55:58):
very important bit because we can call the tune. Joe
Biden didn't even know where he was, and Cackline Harris
doesn't even know where she was. But this is a
very interesting time to be alive, in a good way
and a bad way. You're welcome, Winston. I appreciate the call.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
You take him all the manners and put him in
control life. It is the Brett Winable Show. Good to
be with you. Lots of stuff happening, other things in
the in the different sort of stuff this is.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
Let me just tell you something. I actually love Christmas Week.
I love Christmas Week going into uh and out of
and I love going into and out of the holiday
call all New Year's I just it's it's a really
great thing that we get to do because you know why,
there are people dipping in and out, and people are

(57:09):
driving through town and all this sort of great stuff.
One O seven point nine FMWBT Charlotte's FM News Talk,
and there are people who are listening to these programs,
to all of our programs in New Fashion and stuff
like that. I've had people send me a couple of
notes that said that.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
They were driving through town and heard.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
The stick and it's just it's amazing. It's just really
an amazing thing when you when you sit back and
you think about this technology that we have, we get
to reach back and forth between all of all of
the stuff that's going on here.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
But I want to go back.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
I want to go back to the situation that we're
dealing with and ultimately it's it's a responsibility that we
have to we have to look at very closely.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
We're in a tough position.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
Of our own making because the progressives in this country
have decided that they they alone understand.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
What the American people need. Now, you and I both
know that's not the case. You and I know that
is not the case.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
We don't need more government in our lives. We need efficiencies,
we need all that sort of stuff. So let me
let me talk about this.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
Eighteen billion dollars.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
That's not the national debt, that's not a Pentagon budget line. No,
it's not Wall Street losses that you might think about.
That's the amount that federal prosecutors say may have been
siphoned off in fraud right at the state level of
Minnesota itself.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
Period.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
Now we're not factoring in the other states that are
part of this mess. We already know Ohio were suspicious
of what's going on in California. We're suspicious in what's
going on in New York. Eighteen billion dollars gone. And
here's the kicker. This wasn't some slick Wall Street scheme

(59:31):
Bernie madeoff style Ponzi. Khan no, that was the state
run programs, Medicaid waivers, housing stabilization services, child nutrition funds
turned into a buffet for the fraudsters. Minnesota became a

(59:54):
destination for what prosecutors literally called fraud tororism, not flawed,
flawed fraud tourism.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
Imagine that. Forget Disney World, forget Vegas.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Criminals were flying in from Philadelphia and beyond to set
up fake companies, build the state for services never rendered,
and walked away with millions. Minnesota wasn't just the land
of ten thousand lakes. It was the land of ten
thousand scams. And if you think, if you think the

(01:00:36):
money just stayed in Minnesota, you're wrong. Investigators have traced
millions of these stolen dollars overseas. Funds meant to feed
children and care for the sick were wired out of
the country, laundered through shell accounts hidden in foreign banks,
and funneled into international real estate that the Somali's in

(01:01:01):
some cases went and bought overseas. That means taxpayer money.
Your money wasn't just stolen, it was exported. It left
the United States entirely. While families here were struggling, fraudsters
were moving cash abroad, buying luxury properties, and living large

(01:01:24):
off the programs designed to help the most vulnerable.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
Think about that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
Not only did the fraud gut local programs, it drained
American wealth straight into foreigners' hands.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
This isn't just fraud.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
It's an economic scandal with global tentacles. It's Minnesota taxpayers
funding mansions in Dubai, condos in Turkey, and bank accounts
in Switzerland. But here's the part that should make everybody furious.
While billions were stolen, millions of Americans were left out.

(01:02:11):
Families who needed Medicaid waivers for disabled children were told
that there wasn't enough funding. Seniors who depend on housing
stabilization services were put on wait lists. Parents who counted
on child nutrition were told resources were stretched thin. In

(01:02:33):
Tim Walls's state, and all the while fraudsters were cashing
checks from phantom patients, fake housing meals that never existed.
People who needed help most, the poor, the sick, the elderly,
the children that were left behind. This is the real scandal,

(01:02:55):
not just the theft, but the abandonment. Americans who play
by the rule, who trust their government to deliver basic services,
we're told no while criminals filthy criminals were told yes,
and now let's talk about the accountability. Could Tim Walls
be indicted legally only if prosecutors found the evidence that

(01:03:17):
he perfectly he personally engaged in fraud. Right now, there's
no indication of that. But here's the bigger point. Indictment
about criminal liability. Accountability is about political responsibility. And when

(01:03:38):
eighteen billion dollars vanishes under your watch, when your state
becomes a hub for fraud tourism, when your citizens are
left out in the cold while criminals live large, then
accountability is not just a legal question.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
It's a moral question.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
Because what's worse a governor indicted for fraud or a
governor presiding over a system so broken that fraudsters thrive
while citizens Americans suffer. See this is the stakes, ladies
and gentlemen. This isn't just Minnesota's problem. It's America's problem.

(01:04:21):
It's the problem of government that too often fails to
protect the vulnerable, and that lets oversight collapse and allows
billions to be stolen while millions are left out, eighteen
billion dollars gone, the people who needed it most still waiting,

(01:04:43):
still struggling, still being told there's not enough. So these
next time someone's telling you about the fraud issue that
is just a federal issue, remind them of Minnesota. Remind
them of the biggest thefts don't always happen on Wall Street.

(01:05:04):
They can happen in your own backyard, in your own
state house, in your own very. Programs meant to protect
your neighbors.

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
And if we do not.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
Demand accountability, we must shine a light on this rot.
Then fraudsters will keep booking their vacations to the land
of fraud tourism on your dime, while Americans are left out.

(01:05:37):
Eighteen billion gone and the silence is deafening.

Speaker 1 (01:05:56):
And welcome back. I'm Brett Winnable. It's good to be
with you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
We got so many great things that are happening out there.
There are these things that people put together, you know,
these lists. You get the lists at the end of
the year, and that sort of stuff. I've come across
the best jobs of twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
Depending on what you value, here here we go. All right,
here's what we got. Astronomer.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
If you're interested in being an astronomer, you know the
median pay for an astronomer is one hundred and thirty
two and seventy dollars. Whoa wow, we oh, Nick is
getting ready to run out. Perhaps you want to be
an actuary? Would you actually want to be an actuary?

(01:06:46):
Perhaps there are actuaries in this audience who would like
to maybe do that? One hundred and twenty five grand
Computer Systems analyst one hundred and three thousand.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
That's your that's your beginning.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Then you could be who we a cartographer photo gamma ratist.
I don't even know what that is, but it's geospatial work.
Geospatial I want to stay on right here on the ground.

(01:07:22):
Big possible job for you guys, account accountants and auditors.
They're projecting seventy two thousand new jobs and it is
remote friendly. Amusement and recreation attendance there coming up with

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the World Cup and the two hundred and fiftyeth anniversary
driving seasonal hiring.

Speaker 1 (01:07:48):
You might want to do it. You might want to
do it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
Hospitality and event roles. Event roles are delicious.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
No sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
Hospitality and event roles Major twenty twenty six events are
boosting demand in eleven metro areas.

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
I don't know where they are. They didn't give me
that information.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
Best high paying jobs AI driven tech roles, that's the
machine learning, the medical specialists. Perhaps you'd like to become
a surgeon or an anesthesiologist. I'm gonna have to work
a little bit, gonna have to get that on, and
then advanced engineering. I can do none of these jobs

(01:08:36):
when I could probably be amusement and recreation and I
could probably do a couple of these jobs.

Speaker 1 (01:08:43):
But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
See, I like spending time with this audience. And if
I pick up like some hard job, like, for example,
a surgeon, that's it's gonna cut into the it's gonna
cut into my my time with my people. See, these
are the things that are important. But you know what,

(01:09:08):
think about where we live. If you ran a scan, okay,
about where we live. So we are here in Charlotte
or Charlotte and environs. Let's say, okay, all of the
areas that are around here, this is a geographically desirable

(01:09:29):
place to be. How do you know you see how
many people are moving in? Do you see how crowded
the roads are? Do you see that sort of stuff?
That is a nice problem to have. They do not
have that in other parts of the country. If you
go to blythe You're not gonna be very excited about that.
If you go out to sand Burdu, you're not gonna

(01:09:51):
be very excited about that. But there are people who
like different sets up, you know, in different ways. I
think it's fascinating to see how this current setup that
we've got.

Speaker 1 (01:10:07):
It's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
Like I came here, I came here two weeks before
the COVID thing really blew up, Like it was like boom,
and it caused me to think about all the stuff
that I wanted to do but couldn't do. Like I.

(01:10:29):
You know, you can't go to a restaurant, you can't
go to this, you can't do any of that stuff.
You know, you got to you gotta go home, you
gotta wash all of your groceries because of the COVID,
you know, all that sort of stuff. But it gave
you an opportunity. It gave me an opportunity to figure
out a lot of stuff in a solitary way. Most

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people are not comfortable sitting and thinking and creating stuff.
There are people who are are really good it, drafting contracts,
drafting buildings, doing those sorts of things like that. That's amazing.
There are people who like a challenge. There are people
who don't want to ever be challenged. I know people,

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I know plenty of people who just want to be
solitary by themselves in a room and not really integrate
with anybody else.

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
That's out there.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
Now, you think about the United States of America, and
you think about what a great economy we have. Broadly speaking,
I'm going to say, like over a history of the
last one hundred and fifty years, it's been a really
good ride. And there's no indication that we're gonna eventually
decide we can't do this anymore. We're shutting it, we're

(01:11:45):
shutting it down, and we're doing something else. That's the
incredible part about being an American, being born an American,
or being naturalized as an American, because you can be
in any of these.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
Countries around the world.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
You can be in neighboring countries Mexico, you can be
in Canada, and you might not necessarily feel like this
is for me, but you have the ability to do
so many things. Just go on like fiver if you
go on five, or you can get somebody from around

(01:12:21):
the world to get you a logo to do this
that the other thing now. Admittedly think about it. You
know that this is all going to change because of
what you've now got With AI. You can design things yourself,
you can put things together, you can create whatever you
want to do. That's why I love this country. It's
why I love this community because it's a dynamic place.

Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
It's always moving.

Speaker 2 (01:12:47):
I don't know that I would enjoy being in a
place where nothing ever changes. I think it's it's fascinating
to see what comes next. I've said this in the
and I've said it in a number of different venues.
People ask me all the time, when would you like
to have lived? And I always say now, because I

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don't know how this goes. Everybody else. Oh, I want
to live in the eighteen hundreds. I want to live
in nineteen twenty five. I want to live in all
these different sort of times. Yeah, but you know what
that's been like, Like, you want to go back there.
You want to go there and not have television. You
want to go back there and not have call ecovision.
You want to go back there and you know, not

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have an overhead projector where the teachers take teaching you
how to what a rhombus is.

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
I still don't know what that is, but that's the thing.
We have anything we want.

Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
And you know what's funny about it, People are bored.
People will tell you they're bored. Can you imagine? That's incredible?
That show was pretty good, but it wouldn't play today.
I mean, when you sit back and you really think
about it, you really think about it. On the verge

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of another brand new year, what are you going to change?
What are you going to start? What are you going
to cut out of your life in efforts to make
it better?

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
That's a big deal. That is a huge deal. Our

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number three of the brentwater Bowl Show. It is great
to be with you.

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
What seven point nine FMWBT Charlotte's FM News Talk. It's
great to be with you. I'm so excited to be
able to look at some of the big stories that
are out there moving and what are we talking about here?
What are we talking One of these things that I
came across just a little bit earlier was why, uh,

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you're seeing new sort of approaches when it comes to housing.
We'll we'll dive into that, along with a couple of
other things as well. This is uh, this is somebody
that I want to bring onto the program right out
of the box, and this is Jim in San Diego. Jim,
welcome to the program.

Speaker 1 (01:15:30):
What's on your mind?

Speaker 10 (01:15:32):
Yes, thank you, jumping right out of the box onto
the onto the radio airwave scene.

Speaker 1 (01:15:38):
Yes, sir, there I go.

Speaker 10 (01:15:41):
Yeah, so I gotta welcome you back. Thank you, and
I hope you had some quality time with family. And
it's what it's all about.

Speaker 1 (01:15:48):
That's the difference, one hundred percent. That's absolutely right, yes, sir.

Speaker 10 (01:15:53):
Yes, what we display from what we project to the
world and what they are putting, which what is happening
here in Minnesota is very very Uh. It is a cancer,
and it is a cancer because we let it. We
let it must past this side. We let it happen.

(01:16:13):
We didn't cut it out when we should have. And
useful idiot like Tim Waal, we're the ones that continue
to make the uh you know, the tissue of americanum
mutate into this thing that has become this necronic, horrible
monster that it's become. And there's a lot more of

(01:16:34):
these useful idiots out there just like him. And the
problem is these guys get rewarded for being the more
useful they are, the more idiotic their behavior, the more
they are rewarded. And I'll give you the greatest example
of this. A person is Nikita Krushchev. Nikita Khrushchev was
the personal valet is a captain in the Soviet Army

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to Joe Stalin. His job every single day was to
go and round up, take a truck and round up,
go to the store, get as much vodka as he
could load, and then go to the school yard and
get whatever. Girls. He just decided we're good enough for
the Soviet premiere and report.

Speaker 7 (01:17:16):
That's what he did.

Speaker 10 (01:17:17):
That's what his job was, and for that he got rewarded.
He got rewarded by But when this and this is
when the Nazi army six million soldiers are descending on Moscow,
there were only weeks away. Wow, this is this is
one bit of particular anecdote. He was They were drunk,

(01:17:37):
and he was made to take one of the potato
mashers and put it inside himself and then.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
Many, I got I'm done with that. That's no, jam
I got a lead. Gee willkers all right, that's uh,
that's that. That that's that's two weeks. That's three weeks.
That's a three weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
I can't dude, it's holiday weekends, and what do you do?
Three weeks? Three weeks?

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
He calls, No good, Nope, nope, we gotta start. I gotta,
I gotta, I need some Here's what I need. I
need the ability to see what this person's going to
talk about. And so as a consequence of this, I'm gonna.

Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
Tell you a story. This is a wild story.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
Four hundred thousand worth of lobsters bound for cost Co
locations in the US, we're stolen in the latest high
profile cargo theft.

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
What is going on when sacred lobster is being pelf
You have lobsters choking on their mobsters?

Speaker 10 (01:19:05):
What is this?

Speaker 7 (01:19:08):
You got?

Speaker 1 (01:19:09):
You got a guy? Do you have Do you have
a guy? Do you really have a guy on the
lobster thing? No, but you could, you could.

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
A four hundred thousand dollars lobster shipment was stolen in
root to cost Co stores in do you know where?

Speaker 1 (01:19:27):
Do you know where? It happened? Illinois and Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
M thieves used identity theft tactics to impersonate a legitimate carrier, Rexing.
It's called Rexing Company's CEO. Cargo theft is rising with

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the American Trucking As Association, reporting a fifteen hundred percent
increase since twenty twenty one.

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
Now I want to know something.

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
You steal these lobsters, four hundred thousand dollars of lobsters?

Speaker 1 (01:20:15):
Are you keeping them cold? Are you freezing them?

Speaker 7 (01:20:19):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:20:19):
What are you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
You could be selling jankie lobsters all over Minnesota and
of course Illinois. A supply chain company found itself in
a real shell game. Dylan Rexing, the president and chief
executive of Rexing Companies, told Business Insider that a large

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shipment of lobsters worth four hundred thousand dollars was stolen
and went missing on its way from Lineage Logistics in Taunton, Massachusetts,
to cost Co Whole Sale foods stores.

Speaker 1 (01:21:01):
In Illinois and Minnesota over the weekend. Where'd they go?
Who did this?

Speaker 2 (01:21:10):
Is this like the scene in Goodfellas where they're having
the lobsters on ice? This is terrible. First of all,
I love lobsters.

Speaker 1 (01:21:19):
Are you a lobster? I love lobsters. I love them.

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
They're delicious, They're amazing, They're a very nice sort of
a thing. I don't know what I'm doing with four
hundred thousand dollars worth of lobsters. But here's what they're saying.
Rexing says he believes the thieves impersonated a real carrier
by stealing its domain, spoofing the email address, and even

(01:21:48):
changing the name on the side of the truck. He said,
I mean, it's organized crime at its finest. Okay, I'll
tie this back to Jim. Communists. Communists loved to steal everything.
Filthy communists will steal everything that you could possibly expect.

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:22:13):
This is what warps the marketplace because now you've got
to make up for that four hundred thousand dollars in lobsters.

Speaker 1 (01:22:22):
Where are we getting it? We can't. This is a problem.

Speaker 2 (01:22:29):
Gosh, I want those lobsters. I hope they don't end
up someplace, just in a town somewhere, hoping against hope
that things are gonna turn for them.

Speaker 1 (01:22:45):
You got to be sure that they don't turn, and
then you eat it. That's a problem. I'm Bretwitable. I
approve this segment, except for Jim. You feel that it

(01:23:09):
feels like lobsters and mobsters. Oh yeah, baby, all right,
here we go.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
I would look and see who has the ten thousand
lobster bids on order and start there.

Speaker 1 (01:23:31):
That is Adawn reaching out to us.

Speaker 2 (01:23:33):
I would look and see who has ten thousand lobster
bibs on order and start there.

Speaker 1 (01:23:39):
I think that's a good move. I'm with you on
that one. I think that would work. Gotta get inspector clus.
You know what's interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
We got all kinds of weird things going on in
real time. I was looking at a story just earlier today.
Why why more housing isn't getting built? You want to
know what really it comes into. Local governments control almost
every lever that determines whether new homes rise quickly or

(01:24:12):
never rise at all. The biggest impediments fall into five buckets.

Speaker 1 (01:24:20):
What are they here? They are?

Speaker 2 (01:24:21):
This is something that everybody ought to know, because everybody's
on asking where are the new houses?

Speaker 1 (01:24:25):
When are they coming in? Now? Are we building this stuff?

Speaker 6 (01:24:28):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
Number one zoning that blocks density is a factor. Most
cities still operate under zoning codes written for a nineteen
fifties world, single family homes on large lots separated from
commercial areas. Okay, I get that, But even if you

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go to big cities, you're going to see houses and
apartments and those sorts of things. Well, so what is
the effect of that That blocks the density limits the
number of units that can be built on available land,
makes starter homes, duplexes, and town homes illegal in many neighborhoods,

(01:25:13):
and forces developers to build expensive units to make projects
pencil out what else, lengthy, unpredictable permitting. Ah, we're starting
to see a pattern here. We're starting to see a
pattern of local governance stopping progress. And that's a real

(01:25:35):
big deal. Developers can wait twelve to thirty six months
four approvals, depending on the jurisdiction. The time is money
and uncertainty kills projects. Now take a moment and think
about that horrible fire that took place out in Los Angeles.

(01:25:56):
We are just about within a couple of weeks of
one year since that fire, and nobody's allowed to build
anywhere near that area. Why is that You owned the property.
You held the property, and now government, in the form

(01:26:16):
of the mayor of Los Angeles is stopping you.

Speaker 1 (01:26:23):
The governor is stopping you.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
You got higher financing costs, You got fewer builders willing
to take the risk. Smaller builders, who often build the
most affordable homes, get pushed.

Speaker 1 (01:26:37):
Out entirely, and that's a problem. What else?

Speaker 2 (01:26:42):
Impact fees and regulatory costs? Every rule, storm, water, tree, canopy,
parking minimums, traffic studies may be well intentioned, but they
add cost how much well typical cost loads are. Regulatory

(01:27:03):
compliance can add between twenty and forty percent to the
price of a new home. Parking minimums alone can add
twenty thousand to sixty thousand per unit. Oh you know
who's next? Oh that group that nobody likes. Even the

(01:27:24):
people that do it hate themselves for it. Nimbiism, nimbiism,
neighborhood veto powered nimbiism. Local councils often cave to small
but loud groups who oppose new housing near them. Common

(01:27:46):
objections traffic's gonna get really bad. How's seventy seven, how's
four eighty five? How's eighty five? How's ninety five? Traffic's
gonna get worse. It'll change the character of the neighborhood.

(01:28:07):
What's the character of the neighborhood?

Speaker 1 (01:28:08):
Define the character of the neighborhood? What is that? It'll
lower property values?

Speaker 3 (01:28:17):
Really?

Speaker 1 (01:28:19):
Maybe?

Speaker 2 (01:28:20):
Perhaps, But even when zoning allows it, financial constraints can
be an issue. Even when zoning allows it. Banks will
not finance projects in areas where permitting is unpredictable. Go
see California. Political opposition is likely Go see California after

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the fire, and local rules change frequently.

Speaker 1 (01:28:47):
So what can you do? How do you fix it?
How do you get people in homes? Well, you know what.
The fastest way to get people in homes.

Speaker 3 (01:28:56):
You know what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:28:58):
Enforcing the laws of illegal immigration. Remember all those folks
that were coming into New York City when Eric Adams
was the mayor there, and they were putting them up
in the high rise hotels and all of those places,
and they didn't have to pay a nickel dimer or

(01:29:18):
a penny. They didn't have to do anything at all.
That ends up having to be recouped. You have to
get that money back into the coffers. You have to
get that stuff done. You think that they left it
in pristine condition or do you think that they decided
they were just gonna do whatever the heck they were
gonna do. That's the problem, that's the issue. You know,

(01:29:43):
everything happens in its own time. So what can really
be done? Well, legalize more housing types allowed duplexus, triplexus,
town homes and small apartment buildings in more neighborhoods.

Speaker 1 (01:30:00):
That's one possibility.

Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
Reduce minimum lot sizes, remove parking minimums. That's the fastest
way to increase supply without subsidies.

Speaker 1 (01:30:12):
But what else is there?

Speaker 2 (01:30:14):
Guaranteed timelines by right approvals for projects that meet the
rules digital permitting systems.

Speaker 1 (01:30:23):
That's pretty interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
You also have to understand a couple other things like
reform tree ordinances. Oh, we have to have a certain
number of trees, we have to have a certain size
of trees. We have to have this sort of tree
adjust storm water requirements to scale with project size. Replace

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parking minimums with parking maximums or market based parking. Man,
there's a lot of people obsessed with the parking. What
is the issue with the parking.

Speaker 1 (01:30:57):
I don't know about you.

Speaker 2 (01:30:58):
Many houses have the ability to park like two cars
in the garage. Not everybody has that. Obviously, some stuff
was built in the nineteen fifties where there's like only
one car garage, and then you got to park in
front of your house.

Speaker 1 (01:31:11):
And who the heck wants that?

Speaker 2 (01:31:13):
Because God knows, you're gonna wake up hearing the breaking
of a glass window and someone's gonna.

Speaker 1 (01:31:19):
Take your car out on the road. Who knows.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
That's the challenge. These are the issues. This is how
we have to deal with all this sort of stuff. Now,
what is the way to fix this? Demand go to
the people who are blocking you and demand that they
be allowed to build a house. To me, government is

(01:31:48):
an impediment to success. And there are people who can
say what they want to say. But the serious reality is,
these are things that can be fixed, that can be handled, unless,
of course, you have the nimbi's. The Nimbi's just don't
want new people moving into their neighborhood for whatever possible reason.

Speaker 1 (01:32:10):
Maybe you have an idea, maybe you have a thought.
I'm Brett Wittable. It's great to be with you. It

(01:32:35):
is the Brett Wittable Show. Great to be with you.

Speaker 2 (01:32:37):
One O seven point nine FMWBT, of course, WBT Charlotte's
FM News Talk.

Speaker 1 (01:32:44):
Let me do some sound. We haven't done any sound.
I got all this really great sound. All right, here
we go. This is gonna be cutting number nine.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
I was just talking about Karen Bass and you know,
trying to blank blank everybody out and all this sort
of stuff because they want desperately to turn those those
beautiful vistas looking out over the ocean into basically apartment buildings.
But these folks are not going to be remunerated as

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a result of that. That's a terrible thing. Now she's
also mad about something else, though she's really mad about
ICE members. She does not like ICE, hates it, doesn't
want to see them in their town, doesn't want to
see them around, none of that sort of stuff. Cut
number nine Karen Bass Well, in a.

Speaker 1 (01:33:35):
Way, I think it's it's sad.

Speaker 11 (01:33:37):
I think that those Border Patrol agents are going to
have a difficult time when they're out in the field
and they see what actually happens in real life separate
from their training. But I do understand that their primary
incentive is financial. I think it just speaks to the
financial situation that millions of Americans find themselves in.

Speaker 1 (01:33:58):
And I definitely I am concerned about that report. Now
here's a thing that I'm wondering about.

Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
Okay, So she clearly hates ICE, She clearly hates the
people that work for ICE, men and women who work
for ICE. What does she feel about with TSA? How
about the Treasury Department? How about how about the FBI?

(01:34:28):
How about any of these folks that are serving in
a variety of capacities to look at what needs to
be done. Now, what does ICE do? Does anybody know?
Does anybody know what Ice does? Ice is responsible for?

Speaker 7 (01:34:47):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:34:49):
What is it? I don't hear her talking about I
hear her slinging the lingo, but I don't hear her
saying Ice is this thing that is bad?

Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
What is it? You know when when you think about it,
it's it's.

Speaker 2 (01:35:05):
An incredible sort of texture. So let's look at this
because I want to be a factual person and I
want you to have all the facts Ice. US Immigration
and Customs Enforcement. Now they've they've taken it to the
to the to the to you know, just Ice, this

(01:35:25):
is just Ice. No, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The customs enforcement part is where you bring or import
products into the United States, and we are at ICE right.
You collect the tariff for that, or if you don't

(01:35:46):
have a tariff, then you're just sort of one of
the people that has to fill out the paperwork and
say yes, you may bring in this or artisanal cheese,
or you may bring in these.

Speaker 1 (01:35:58):
Tires, or you may bring in this ferrari or whatever.
That is okay.

Speaker 2 (01:36:03):
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement carries out three major categories
of work.

Speaker 1 (01:36:10):
One one.

Speaker 2 (01:36:13):
Here we go arrests and detention and deportation. That's called
er O. That part of ICE is what most people encounter.
Conducts arrests of non citizens accused of violating immigration law.

Speaker 1 (01:36:33):
Wow, that's a crazy thing to do.

Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
Runs detention centers and manages transfers, executes deportation orders. Now
you know and I know that if you are put
for a deportation order, it means you've gone in front
of a judge. They don't just let you grab them

(01:36:59):
and throw them out out of the country. They have
to go in front of a judge and a judge
says you need to leave the country you're not legally here.
Coordinates with local jails except for Gary mcvatten, and so
you have all of these things right, So that is

(01:37:20):
what ICE actually does. Then you have HSI criminal and
national security investigations. This is the investigative wing, very different
from the deportation side. They investigate things that I think
you would probably want to be investigated.

Speaker 1 (01:37:41):
Can I give you some examples. Sure, they investigate.

Speaker 2 (01:37:44):
Human trafficking, money laundering, drug smuggling, identity fraud, and terrorism.
Does Karen Bass disagree with those missions. Maybe she disagrees
with using surveillance tools, digital forensics, and long term undercover work.

(01:38:10):
Maybe she doesn't like the working with the US Attorneys
and other federal agencies that are part of this. Okay,
And then you have OPLA, not OPRAH.

Speaker 1 (01:38:26):
OPLAH.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
ICE has its own legal arm that prosecutes immigration cases.
They argue against asylum claims, they push for detention or
removal from in court, and they set regional legal strategies.

Speaker 1 (01:38:43):
So they're basically lawyers.

Speaker 2 (01:38:45):
This group, OPLA is a bunch of lawyers, and they
argue against letting people stay in the United States if
they're not eligible.

Speaker 1 (01:38:54):
Number four.

Speaker 2 (01:38:57):
Surveillance, data collection and tech driven in for Smith, what
is that well, the critics highlight ICE's use of license
plate readers, facial recognition data, partnerships with private tech firms.
Those tools feed into both enforcement and investigation. Now you're

(01:39:18):
driving in your neighborhood. A cop is behind you, a
regular cop like a town cop or a state trooper.
Do you think he can run your plate? If you're
driving through a neighborhood, are.

Speaker 1 (01:39:35):
You are you allowed to?

Speaker 2 (01:39:37):
Can they check your plate to see if that's the
car that matches what that car is supposed to be. Yes,
so license plate readers, okay, facial recognition. What's on your license,
license and registration?

Speaker 1 (01:39:55):
Please? Boom? Okay Nick, Nick? Is this really you? Yes,
it is really you, Brett, Is that you?

Speaker 2 (01:40:04):
Well, I put on a couple pounds myself, but it
is me and you can check it out.

Speaker 1 (01:40:12):
That's what they disagree with.

Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
They don't want you to allow a federal agency to
run your license license plate.

Speaker 1 (01:40:23):
Well, okay, what's next. We don't want to have to
file our taxes. That's suppression. No, no, no, no, the
left loves that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:40:37):
Finally, collaboration with local law enforcement through formal agreements or
informal communication. Some sheriffs and police departments share information with ICE.

Speaker 1 (01:40:53):
Oh how dare you? How dare you?

Speaker 2 (01:40:57):
You're making it harder for people who shouldn't be in
the country to stay here. That's not right, that's not fair.
That's bad, is it?

Speaker 1 (01:41:10):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:41:11):
I'm looking at this and every bit of this that
I read to you just now, from the RO to
the HSI to the OPLAH to the tech driven and
driven enforcement and all that sort of stuff. And then
collaboration with local law enforcement. All of that exists because
of what it exists, because the Congress and the Senate

(01:41:38):
approved those provisions, and they are now a totally different setup.
This is a situation in which you want to change this,
you want people to have open borders, you are going
to have to rewrite the laws because that is how
this works.

Speaker 1 (01:41:59):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:41:59):
I get Karen Bass wants to make fun of US
immigration and Customs enforcement, but I can tell you this
without any bit of nonsense, she's not got a leg
to stand on in that regard, not after nine to eleven,

(01:42:21):
not after the massacres around the country, not I mean,
just think about all the stuff that's going on. America
is a great place, but America is a place that
learned the lesson twenty five years ago. We don't ever
want to go back to that. And so vigilance is important.

(01:42:47):
Except if you live in California. I guess which is
weird because I can guarantee you there are tons and
tons of folks walking around in the state of California
that are not so supposed to be in the country,
and they in some cases might be dangerous. You want
them coming into your house. I don't want them coming

(01:43:10):
into my house.

Speaker 1 (01:43:11):
Or their house.

Speaker 2 (01:43:15):
Seven oh four five seven zero one zero seven nine.
Take your calls straight ahead. Let's head on over to
Mike Don and get a look at the roads.

Speaker 1 (01:43:26):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 12 (01:43:27):
I have a crash on eighty five southbound just past
I forty five. It's causing some minor delays, but it's
not really much to worry about, especially the way the
traffic usually builds up around this time of day. Have
a collision in the north injury accident at Mount Holly
Huntersville Road at Mount Holly Road, Sharon Amity at Milton Road.
That's also to the north north Trion Street at Pavilion Boulevard.

(01:43:47):
And over in the Plaza Midwood area of the Plaza
at Matheson Avenue. There's a collision out there. This report
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Speaker 1 (01:44:22):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:44:25):
I have not heard this, probably since it came out.
Holy cow, Thank you very much. Yes, I was intent.

Speaker 1 (01:44:32):
That's right, all right. Let's jump out Brett Witerble show.
Good to be with you. Let's jump out to Mary Anne.
What are you thinking today? Mary Anne? What's on your mind?

Speaker 9 (01:44:45):
Hey, Bret, you know this Karen Bass, she just really
gets under my skin and somebody like her is just
a boil on the butt of humanity. I have googled
her home in California. Yes, and if you look at
her home, it's got six to seven foot brick pyelone sure,

(01:45:08):
with a heavy duty wrought iron panels there and then
a main gate. Now why does she have to have that?
I guarantee you that gate stays locked along with her doors.

Speaker 2 (01:45:25):
That's exactly right, because the number one, she's the mayor,
so of course she has to be protected from any
kind of different thing that could possibly go wrong. And
so yeah, they is it is always, you know, do
not judge the because I'm an important person. I'm somebody

(01:45:47):
who needs to be understood as being an important person.

Speaker 1 (01:45:51):
And that's just how it's got to be. This is
the stuff that's so crazy, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:45:55):
I mean, have a standard, have a standard that's real,
and have a standard that's that's going across both both sides.

Speaker 1 (01:46:03):
But she doesn't like she doesn't like the enforcement. She
doesn't like any of that stuff. I think she's.

Speaker 2 (01:46:08):
Still smartened from when she went to and was out
of the country when the fire broke out, And I
think she's just trying to blame everybody but herself for
going out of the country when people were quietly saying, look,
we got Santa Anna wins is the problem?

Speaker 9 (01:46:25):
Oh yeah, absolutely well, yeah, and she'll always try to
draw away from that, Yes, because they've got lawsuit after
lawsuit now in California that could break them on that along.

Speaker 1 (01:46:35):
That's true.

Speaker 9 (01:46:36):
And she yeah, she is just someone like you said,
what is good for thee is not for me. But
also with her as well. She is always the first
to point a finger at people.

Speaker 2 (01:46:51):
But then she's the very one.

Speaker 9 (01:46:52):
I would guarantee you if I showed up on her
doorstep tonight, she'dn't want to know who I was.

Speaker 1 (01:46:57):
Oh heck, yeah, are you kidding?

Speaker 2 (01:46:59):
Well, first of all, you wouldn't get to the doorstep,
because you know, she's got.

Speaker 1 (01:47:03):
All the security and that that that she possibly needs.

Speaker 2 (01:47:06):
She's probably got a permanent detachment detachment that's outside you
know where where if you try to walk up to
the house you're you're gonna get questioned and handcuffed and
all that sort of stuff. But here's the thing that
I want to challenge people in the in the coming
uh you know, in the coming uh months. Anytime people
complain about ice, everybody ought to go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:47:27):
You can look it up. It's very easy to see
what all the all the ice does.

Speaker 2 (01:47:31):
And you should demand what part of ice these people
uh should should, should not, should get it get rid of.
And that's what I think is important because people just
throw ice around all the time and they go ice ice,
ice ice, Well.

Speaker 1 (01:47:47):
Tell them, okay, what what part of ice do you dislike?

Speaker 2 (01:47:51):
And they're gonna they're gonna be they're gonna be stock
And I think we need to demand specificity in twenty
twenty six.

Speaker 9 (01:48:00):
Well absolutely, but these are the very people Brett and
her along with it. Yep, these are the very people
that if somebody broke into their house, so's the first person.

Speaker 2 (01:48:10):
Oh, that's absolutely right, that's absolutely Look, Gavin Newsome, all
of those people out there on the entitled West Coast
is the same deal. Great great stuff, Mary Ann. I
appreciate your calling today.

Speaker 9 (01:48:24):
Always my pleasure.

Speaker 1 (01:48:25):
Brett, thank you, Sorry, Happy new year.

Speaker 2 (01:48:28):
Absolutely, and I can't wait to talk to you again.
This is the stuff that we kind of have to,
you know, think about. There's certain things we got to
think about.

Speaker 1 (01:48:39):
But I want to go.

Speaker 2 (01:48:41):
We got we got basketball coming up here soon. UNC
taking on from FSU. Right, Okay, I want to give
you ten striking biblical.

Speaker 1 (01:48:54):
Archaeology stories of twenty twenty five. All right, and I
can do this. I'm a professional. I know we can
do this. What if I told you that.

Speaker 2 (01:49:04):
Megiddo, site of the biblical armageddon and home of the
discovery that capped off the ten top ten list last year,
continued to yield world noteworthy discoveries in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:49:22):
So that's Megido. Meguido is linked to King Josiah's armageddon.

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
They're still looking at all this stuff in the Jezreel
Valley of Israel, and this is still getting incredible stuff.
How about the hasmanin wall excavated from under Herod's Palace.
They're working on that, one of the sturdiest walls that

(01:49:51):
ever surrounded Jerusalem, thirty feet tall fifteen feet wide, was
apparently dismantled from the inside, but Israeli archaeologists aren't sure
whether King Herod or one of his predecessors did it.
So they're working on that. Number eight new Roman roads

(01:50:14):
map has been released, including as the Apostle Paul so
ably demonstrated, the web of well constructed roads across the
Roman Empire facilitated the spread of the Christian Gospel. And
now we are getting a look at the new road
map that is taking shape. How about this Samaria gets

(01:50:41):
another look and stirs controversy. Samaria, the capital of the
Northern Kingdom of Israel from eight eighty BC to seven
twenty two BC, has largely been off limits to archaeology
for the past half century due to the politically sensitive
area at the west. But they are now looking at that.

(01:51:04):
Number six Egypt nationalizes St. Catherine's Monastery. You can actually
look at that, you can go seek it out. It's fascinating,
and the imagery there is just incredible. Number five pottery
inscription details a Syrian threat to ancient Jerusalem. That's a

(01:51:24):
really cool story. I read about that a couple of
months ago. AI is redating Daniel in the Dead Sea scrolls.
They're able to do this. The artificial intelligence has bolstered
conservative Bible scholars in the debate over the Book of
Daniel number three. A wildfire has revealed much more of

(01:51:50):
Beth Satan. The loss of digging tools to a wildfire
last July was tempered by the revelation of the widespread
remains of a Roman period village that surrounded the excavation
at Eleraj. The pool of Siloam that we talked about

(01:52:14):
about a month and a half ago uncovered behind a dam,
and finally Gihan Spring cultic center announced. A curious discovery
announced in early twenty twenty five rates a closer look,
not only for its timing, but also for what it
didn't say. That's a big storyline right there. Fifteen years ago,

(01:52:39):
researchers discovered remains from an eight room cultic center near
Gihan Spring, in Jerusalem's original water source in the Kidron Valley,
in the midst of a still standing wall. They found
a small olive press and wine press, as well as
a standing stone a mesiba to mark a holy lot.

(01:53:00):
It's the only one ever found in Jerusalem.

Speaker 1 (01:53:04):
This is great stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:53:06):
This is the kind of stuff that we can dig
into that we can understand and understand very very strongly
that we have an incredible an incredible opportunity to always
be learning, always be working, always be uh spending time
with your family. There is so much still to see.

(01:53:28):
This is why I said.

Speaker 1 (01:53:29):
Earlier in the program, I love not knowing what comes next.
I don't want to look back.

Speaker 2 (01:53:37):
I want to look forward, really far forward, like maybe Friday.
Maybe Friday gonna that's gonna do it?

Speaker 10 (01:53:48):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:53:48):
For me, it's a pleasure to be with you.

Speaker 2 (01:53:51):
Thanks to Nick, thanks to Travers, thanks so much to
Lonnie and each and everyone of you.

Speaker 1 (01:54:02):
It's a pleasure to be with you.

Speaker 2 (01:54:04):
You're gonna get to hear some amazing basketball, and I'm predicting.

Speaker 1 (01:54:09):
I'm predicting u n c Witz TarHeels win. That's my prediction.
Stick around. Before you know it, it's gonna be tip off.
I'm Brett Woitterbull. I'll talk to you tomorrow.

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