Optimism, Opportunity & Leadership On The Brett Winterble Show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh, it is a pleasure to be with you, guys.
I gotta tell you.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Something, absolutely, I am so on fire right now about
this economy and what's gonna happen. I'm dead serious when
I when I say this, I just I just I'm
sitting back here and I'm looking at good things happening
in the country, and I don't know, maybe maybe maybe
you feel it, maybe you don't feel it, but I

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gotta tell you something, I am feeling extraordinarily optimistic.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Part of it is obviously the spirit of Christmas.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Uh, some of it is has got to be what
it is that we're gonna get to go into into
this next into this next year, just in a few days.
When you think about where we are today and we
have a lot of challenges, I understand that I'm not
I'm not, you know, gonna be somebody who's gonna, you know,

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pretend that there aren't many challenges that we have to
deal with.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
But if you think about.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
This for moment, is there any possible reason that you
wouldn't want to be around today, Like would you rather
have lived in the nineteen fifties, in the eighteen fifties,
in the seventeen fifties. The thing that I always say
when people ask me that question, Hey, when would you

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have liked to have lived? I always say now, now why?
Because I don't know how this turns out. I know
what happened in the fifteen hundreds, I know what happened
in the nine hundreds, I know what happened with all
those different things.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
I don't know what is in front of us.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
And that gets me excited to put my feet on
the floor and to get behind a microphone and to
talk to the smartest audience that there is. And I
love this, I really do. I love the United States
of America. I love our country. I love our people.
Why because we have got the capacity that so many

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people never think about.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Ugh, I just I don't want to be a part
of that. I don't want to do this. I don't
want to do well. Then then why is that the
position you're taking right now? You can open your phone,
you can set up a company, you can set up
a new business, you can set up a charity. You

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can do all of these things from your the palm
of your hand, and at the same time you can
use your other palm of your hand and hurt somebody
if you choose to do that, but I prefer seeing
things that are greatly done. This is important.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
There has been a consistent effort over the course of
the last twenty twenty five years to try to demoralize
the American people.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
What they're trying to do is they're trying to take
you and cut you down to size.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Who are they everybody who's not in alignment with the
greatness of this country. You don't have to vote Republican,
you don't have to vote Democrat, you don't have to
vote I'm talking about the existence we have absent the politics.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Now. Politics is obviously an important thing if you want
to see a strong economy, if you want to see
a strong military, if you want to have a strong.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Border, Yes, very important. But when we think about where we.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Are and the opportunities that we have. I don't know
if any.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Of you all are familiar with some of the young
people who are out there. You have never seen a
more entrepreneurial group of people than the people who are
between fourteen and twenty five. These are people who are

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starting businesses, who are working with their hands, who are
doing all of these things that are important. They're building businesses,
they're learning, They're figuring out that socialism is not for them.
That's why they work three and five jobs.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
How do I know, because I've had people that I've
worked with here at the station.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
I've worked with these folks. These are people who are grinders.
They are grinding, They are doing the things that you
need to do to achieve the things that you want,
And in so many ways it gives me an uplifting feeling.
You know, there are always going to be nar do wells,

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there are always going to be politicians that don't sell
it to you properly or tell you what's going on.
But the fact of the matter is, there is no
other place in the world in terms of opportunity than
this country. People try to break into our country, people
try to break into the country to steal money from us,

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all that sort of stuff, not good, terrible, bad, Prosecute them,
put them in jail, whatever that means. But where is
the land of opportunity we're living in it? Think about
the best place you ever lived, and then think about
the worst place you ever lived. You decided to make

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a change, you decided to empower yourself to go and
do great things.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
There is absolutely no.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Other country that I would want to go live in
permanently by any stretch of the imagination, because we can
wake up every single day and we can put together
what it is that we want to do. We can
influence people, we can talk to people, we can reach
out to people, we can inspire people. This is the

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lesson for twenty twenty six, because I'm going to give
you some of these economic numbers on the other side
of this segment.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
The numbers are looking really good.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
It looks like we're going to have a great coming
year if we can keep it on the tracks.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Now.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Remember, remember, you can sit back and you can say
this is not for me, or you can sit back
and you can say, there is the opportunity for me.
Every knock is a boost, and every op opportunity that
comes your way may not be perfect, but if they're

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still reaching out to you, it means something in a
very serious way. So what do you say we gather together,
we have some fun. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, And what
do you say we take phone calls and we talk
about the greatness of America, and we talk about the

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greatness of each and every one of us in this audience.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Why because because we.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Are here, in this time, in this place, and until
you get yourself in HG. Wells kind of time traveler,
you're stuck here. So let's make the best of it.
Let's make the greatest of it, and let's get to it.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Mass Shi Joe hasn't loved.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
This is a great This is a great one. Billy Squire,
I mean Billy Billy Squire. All right, light it up there,
let's hear it.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Cow is this thing.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
A what a what a great song? This is a
phenomenal Now, Nick, do you know what became of Billy Squire?

Speaker 5 (08:42):
Do you know?

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Are you here? You're old enough to remember Billy Squire
back in his prime?

Speaker 6 (08:45):
Right?

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Uh? MTV all that sort of stuff. Do you do?
You know what he ended up doing? He he left
rock and roll.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
Well, in his video sort of he had had that
video on MTV. That's sort of you know, he made
him a pria so I but other than that, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
No, he went he ended up leaving, Uh, he ended
up leaving baseball. He ended up leaving uh music. And
he is a guy who takes care of trees. He's
like one of those tree surgeons, which.

Speaker 5 (09:16):
Is an with a chainsaw and going up trees and stuff.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, that's what. Well, that's last I heard.

Speaker 5 (09:21):
Wow. Wow.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
I mean I don't know about it. I get nervous
if I have to go up the h if I
have to go up high on the with the tree.
I'm not a tree guy. I know lots of people,
one particular company that everybody knows here in Charlotte.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
They are they are amazing.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
And uh, you know, I like I like I like nature.
I just don't want to climb nature. I like being
on terra firma.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
All Right, So we got this great, great number that
came out in terms of the the economy, and we
have got I mean, this is this is blockbuster stuff.
And I and I'm blockbuster stuff because the growth in
the economy is moving very, very nicely. And if you

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go out there and you look at all of the
stuff that's happening the folks over I.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Can go to any one of these outlets. I'll go
to Breitbart here, Okay, how about Breitbart.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Looking at these numbers, it is outstanding what's happening here.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Because you've got growth.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
The US economy grew four point three percent, the fastest
in two years, smashing expectations. The US economy grew this
summer at the fastest pace in two years, far outpacing
the economists' forecasts. The Commerce Department said a US gross

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domestic product, the government's official economic scorecard, rose at a
seasonally and inflation adjusted four point three percent annual rate
in the third quarter.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
I mean that that is something that is outstand It
is great.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
It means that our economy isn't going to be kind
of strapped or any of that kind of stuff. We're
in a really good place. Today's blockbuster expectation smashing GDP
report is the latest proof that the First Trade and
Economic Agenda continues to turn the page on the Biden

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economic disaster. Think about all that stuff that we burned.
We burned seven trillion dollars, seven trillion dollars, and what
did we get for it?

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Zilch, zero, nada.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Gross domestic product is a broad measure of the goods
and services produced across the economy. Economists had expected the
economy to grow at a three point two percent annual
rate after the second quarter's three point eight percent growth.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Now what ended up happening? Now, think about this.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Prior to the inflation adjustment. The economy grew at an
eight point two percent rate eight point two percent rate.
Real final sales to private domestic purchasers, a slice of

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the GDP that some economists view as a clearer measure
of the health of the private sector, grew at three
percent annual rate, up from three percent in the second quarter.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
And so what happened. What happened?

Speaker 2 (12:43):
The Democrats had to get together and try to slow
the growth.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
And what did they do? They walked out for forty
days and forty nights, wanting to make a big deal
about the the Obamacare, three hundred billion dollar bailouts, all
those sorts of things.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Why were they doing that? Trying to crash us into
a russ I guarantee you that's what they were doing.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Because if you have corporate profits soaring in the third quarter,
rising at a seventeen point nine percent annual rate after
adjusting for the inventory pricing effects and depreciation, you know
what that means. That means that your four one k's,
your iras, all those things you're invested in those you

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want that to be going up. But leave it to
the left. Left doesn't want it, Left doesn't believe it.
Left is you know, the left is is just sitting
back there and they're saying, well, you know, it's not
really a good economy, it's not that great. I mean,
my gosh, there were really this is not this is
not anything special, this is this is none of that.

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We got to talk about Epstein, We got to talk
about Epstein, and we got to talk about who Epstein
and Epstein sounds like a law firm. The FED chair.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Candidate Hassett says, US is way behind the curve on
everybody's gonna love this lowering interest rates. What do you
have with the guy that is in charge of the
Federal Reserve?

Speaker 1 (14:32):
You have a guy that is not.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Doing America Justice National Economic Director Kevin Hassett said Tuesday
that the Federal Reserve is not cutting interest rates quickly enough,
even though the US economy grew at a much faster
than paced in the third quarter.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
You know what that means.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
That means you're getting host at all the different terms.
You're getting hosed on your mortgage, you're getting hosed on
buying a house, you're getting hosed on buying a car.
All that sort of stuff is hurting you. They should
be cutting cutting those rates there's no where's the inflation?

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Where's the inflation? Hassett is a leading contender to become
the next potential Federal Reserve chair, but there's other people
that are running for it as well.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
If you look at.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Central banks around the world, the US is way behind
the curve in terms of lowering rates. US economic growth
came in at an annual rate of four point three
percent in the third quarter, faster than the Dow Jones
consensus of three point two. Hassett said one and a
half percent of that growth was due to the tariffs

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reducing US trade deficits capulla.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
That's what you got right now. This is a big deal.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
These are indicators that show us that we've got pretty
nice numbers. The President's primetime speech focused on affordability.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Beginning of the week.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
His approval rating on the economy stands at thirty seven
percent in a CBS News you gov poll published on Sunday.
Let's see what the number looks like now, because that
was Sunday before those numbers came out. People understand what's
going on here.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
People get it.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
People understand all of the stuff that's happening, and what's
happening here in this time in this place is you've
got growth, cut the rates and cut the nonsense.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
This is what we've got to do. And if you
don't like it, you know, I don't have to tell you.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
I want to see a really strong economy. Do you
want to see a strong economy? Yes, you do, because
it means that we're bad and we're not just a
little back. We're a big back. We're getting back to
that place.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
And what do you have. You don't have any way,
shape or form. You don't have anything dealing with. We
got to impeach, we got to get rid of them,
We got to do all this sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
The only thing they're holding onto right now, let's be honest,
is the Epstein files and the hope that somehow, some
way we get into some kind of a sticky wicket.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
I don't think that's going to happen. I think we
are going to be eminently and very strongly moving forward
in the future. That's my guess. I might be wrong.
What say you?

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Are you feeling it or are you still doubting it?
I'm Brett Whitterbalt. I approve this message.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
I just can't wait till Christmas time. I'm so excited
for Christmas. Come on, you guys are excited. I'm excited
easy air that I mean, what a great what a

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great riff. I mean, I just as phenomena. You can't
get better than.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
A c DC.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
I'm sorry, really, I mean, it's.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Isn't it Isn't it interesting when when you kind of
sit back here and you look at these different things
that that we're assessing right that we're we're looking at again,
I want to turn to something that I think is
is very important and I got I got tons of sounds,
so I'm going to dive into some of this sound
with you guys. We've got some fun stuff that we're

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going to be doing throughout the different hours, so we
definitely want to Here's a storyline that I think is
very interesting, and I know I don't want to upset
the apple cart, but this is going to be cut
number six. This is from this Morning with Mourning Joe.

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You guys are familiar with Morning Joe. You know what
their deal is, but.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Listen to what he says. They know what they're doing
with this whole deal. Cut number six.

Speaker 7 (19:39):
Joe Scarbroco one of the great mysteries to me and
a lot of other people. Is we've had reporting for
some time. Donald Trump is not on Epstein's less. There's
nothing in there that's really damning about Donald Trump. Ands,
as Susie Wilde says, not damning about Donald Trump are
Bill Clinton. So one of the great mysteries all along

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in this not been like, what's Donald Trump hiding?

Speaker 5 (20:03):
What did he do?

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Da da da da say?

Speaker 7 (20:06):
Why if he's not in these files, which all the
reporting says he's not, Why is he so obsessed on
blocking access to the files?

Speaker 5 (20:16):
Is he trying to protect somebody?

Speaker 8 (20:18):
Joe, you got to the actual heart of the question,
and it's actually not been reported. One of the reasons
Marjorie Taylor Green got on board with Massey in my
effort is she fundamentally believed that Trump was not implicated,
and she would call the president and say, look, just
get these out.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
I don't know why you're not getting it out.

Speaker 8 (20:34):
And she would tell Massey and me, of course he's
going to come around. And every press conference we had,
we never made it about Donald Trump. We made it
about the survivors. The survivors pleaded with Donald Trump, you
can be a hero. No previous president has done this.
Release the files, and what people are asking, and frankly
even I'm asking, is what are they hiding? Why is
it that they're not releasing the draft sixty count indictment

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when they only charged Epstein with two counts. Whyn't they
releasing the eighty two page prosecution memo of all the
implications he had with rich and powerful folks. Why are
they protecting this Epstein class? And why aren't they releasing
the FBI interviews? Every time they do one of these
things of concealing, they're just further down.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Okay, why do you think that President Trump is is
not doing what they just said that he should be doing.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Does anybody got you got to guess? Anybody have a guess?

Speaker 2 (21:31):
I I'm almost one hundred percent positive that I know
why Donald Trump is.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Functioning in this way, right, because what did you hear
from Scarborough? You're oh, yeah, no, no, we don't.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Think that there's anything that Donald Trump's a part of
this or any of this sort of stuff.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
So then so then why would you why would you
not just get it out of the way. Well, if
if you've got.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
People chasing you into into a swamp, well then you're
gonna run out and you're gonna run out of the
swamp and they're gonna get stuck in the swamp. I mean,
that's that's basically what it is. The problem that people
have with with.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
The president, with the current president, right.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
Is that he is somebody that wants to build. He's thing,
he wants to do things. He doesn't want to do politics.
This is politics. If Donald Trump didn't want to release
those records.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
He didn't have to. He could have vetoed that that document.
He could have said, no, we're done. That's it.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
I'm not I don't want to be a part of
this anymore. You guys go figure it out. It's none
of my business. I don't have anything to do with it.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
But he did. He signed off on this. He said
to Rocanna and to the other folks, hey, here you go.
I just signed off on it.

Speaker 5 (22:52):
There it is.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
And the idea of this whole.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Terrible turn with Marjorie Taylor Green March retail Green. We
know why Marjorie Taylor Green is mad at Donald Trump
because it's been said she wanted to run for the
governorship of Georgia. And the problem here is this, he

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showed her the spread, how how far down she was
relative to us off who wants to be the governor.
And he said to her, I need you in the house.
I don't need you as the governor of Georgia. And
that's that's the whole storyline.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
I don't think I really don't think.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Like Trump like makes things up to make people feel better.
I think he's just blunt. I think he just says, hey,
you you don't need to be doing that job. I
need you to be doing this job over here. And
she got mad, she blew her stack, and then you know,
she decided that he was going to be an enemy
of hers.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
The tell, by the way, the tell that you know
that Donald Trump is not involved with the Epstein.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
File is who who is the bell weather for this?
Do you guys know who it is?

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Nancy Mays. She was assaulted. She is somebody who has
a lot of different sort of interests and she's trying
to run for the governorship. Now, people may not like
her a cup of tea, but I can tell you
this right.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Now, if Nancy Mays, Congressman Nancy Mays had a whiff
that Donald Trump was part of this Epstein stuff, she'd
be blasting him too.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
But she hasn't like there are people who understand what's
going on.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Stephanic. You know, she was trying to run against Kathy Hochel,
but we saw that the numbers were gonna pan out.
So she's gone.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Brad Blakely is now running for that position, and you're
not seeing anything from her saying, oh, Donald Trump, is
this guy, that guy the other guy.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Sometimes it's just not your time.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Sometimes it's just not your your mission on this particular thing.
I've talked about this before when I was talking with
Michael Reagan a number of years ago, and I mentioned
I alluded to this a couple of a couple of
weeks ago. I said, when Ronald Reagan ran in seventy six,
and you had obviously Ford coming in to run in

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seventy six, sometimes it's not your time. But once Carter
got elected and then ended up imploding, Ronald Reagan became
the president.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Guess who didn't become the president.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Well, Jerry Ford ascended because of what happened with Nixon,
but he didn't get elected to the presidency. Sometimes it's
not your time. And I got to say something about Trump.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
For all the stuff that people don't like about Donald Trump.
The guy. You gotta admit, the guy's got good timing.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
He knows when the when it's time to build a building,
he knows when it's time to sell a business. He
knows when it's time to run for the presidency. He
won twice, split by Biden. But when you when you
think about all this stuff that's so ugly and awful
to me, I I just I just sit back here
and I go, I go, why why why not just

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work on the economy, Why not build things? Let let
the people who want to be.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Agitators go be agitators.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Fine, go do it, But we have a we have
a country to safeguard. I think maybe maybe maybe you
totally disagree. Everything's fair game today. If you want to
call in absolutely totally fair. My name is Brett WITTERBWLE.
It is a pleasure to be with you on WBT
right here at one oh seven point nine.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
I love this dial. I'm getting so many people telling
me how much they love listening to us. So stick around.
We got plenty more straight ahead Come.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Seven point nine FMWBT, Charlotte's news talker.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
It's great to be with you.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's a pleasure to spend the time with you here,
all right, So that is why, and that's why I'm
saying that is why the President of the United States
doesn't have time to play play games. You have got
to be able to string this out so far that
they can't pull in the slack.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Think about football games you've watched, like, for example, you
see the great win on Sunday uh with with.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
The Panthers, right and the Panthers. The Panthers are firing
on all I mean just all cylinders, and you don't
have to look behind you. You just keep going forward, forward, forward,
forward forward. There is a reason why champions don't look backward.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
You look forward.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
And so when when you do these things, when you
see these kinds of things, the best possible thing that
can happen to you is getting getting your your enemy
or your person who wants to try to sideline you
when they get stuck in the uh, in the in
the in the swamp. You do not want that to happen.

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And it's up to you that almost every mistake that
gets made in the world of politics is a mistake
that was chosen. And when you look at how these
people go out there and comport themselves, you've got to
be confident. You've got to be doing the thing you
got to.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
I mean, look, the Miami Herald's got this one. Latest
Epstein files named Trump multiple times for what for what?

Speaker 2 (29:14):
House Democrat demands investigation into nineteen ninety six FBI complaint
about Epstein.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
This guy's dead. He's dead. I mean, you're sitting back
here and you're looking at all this stuff and it goes, Okay,
how does how does this all work?

Speaker 2 (29:34):
The Supreme Court has blocked the National Guard from going
to Illinois.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Supreme Court blocks trump effort to deploy National Guard troops
to Illinois.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
The Supreme Court has rebuffed President Trump's attempt to deploy
National Guard troops to Illinois to protect federal officials carrying
out his mass deportation policy. In their ruling Tuesday, the
justices noted that the federal law generally bars use of

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the military for law enforcement, and that they declared that
the law Trump used to activate the Guard is likely
only to apply when regular armed forces are insufficient to
maintain order. At this preliminary stage, the government has failed

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to identify a source of authority that would allow the
military to execute the laws in Illinois. The High Court
said in an unsigned order released more than two months
after the administration asked for them to weigh in. So
three conservative justices, Thomas Alito and Gorsich dissented, while the

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other conservative, Bret Cavada, declined to join the majority's explanation
of the rule of the ruling. So there's a couple
of things that can be done here when it comes
to Illinois, when it comes to Chicago specifically, but but
Illinois broadly, there's there's a number of things that can

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be can be utilized.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Now, this is going to be an ugly sort of
a of a take. Maybe you don't want to don't
want to hear this, but here's how you can handle
the situation. What if what if UH.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Duffy right, the Transportation Secretary Duffy decides.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Okay, here's what we're going to do.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
We're going to start checking every truck that drives through
UH Illinois and we're going to want to see their
CDLs and we're going to just do this as a check.
It's the interstate. These trucks are on the interstate. They're
doing the two and the from that is jurisdiction for

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the for the UH. You know, for for for the
for the federal government, and we're gonna check everyone. We're
gonna stop traffic, and we're gonna check to see if
you've got a valid c d L, and we're gonna
run you full warrants, and we're gonna do all that
kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
That's one thing that could be done. You know what
else could be done.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
They he could he could pick up the phone and
he could call uh Duffy could call the governor of
Illinois and he could say, Hey, we're gonna decertify.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Uh, we're gonna we're gonna decertify O'Hare Airport and Midway.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Uh, we don't want planes flying in and flying out
because you guys are obviously not taking seriously crime and
of course, uh illegal immigration that that's coming into the
into the state. So we're gonna go ahead and desertify
your ability to do that all you have to you
would if you called up Jay, let's say JD Vance.

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If you call up the governor and you said, guess
what we're doing next, he would not know what to do.
If you did both of those things at the same time.
If you said, we're checking CDLs on the interstate and
we're also thinking about doing this.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
That guy, the guy that runs the state of Illinois,
he wouldn't know what to do. And that's just that's
all you'd have to say. You don't even have to
do it. You just say, well, you know what, it
turns out, since.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
You don't want to cooperate, we're gonna have to check
everybody who comes through and everybody who's coming in, and
we got to find out you know, who's traveling through here.
And it's not really our fault, it's really your fault
because you don't want to play ball, because you want
to protect.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
People that you know, you think are important, like gang members. Brett.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
That's never gonna happen. You think, did you see what
happened here? Like two weeks ago? You remember this Nick,
Like two weeks ago, when they were checking all of
the CDLs. People were trying to drive through through Oklahoma
and they had roadblocks and they were making them. They
were saying, okay, let's see your let's see your CDL

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no such name. Remember you had the guy who had
no such name as his name. These are the sort
of things that you can do. You don't have to
go to the Supreme Court. You could just say hey,
on an administrative level during the most busy time of
the year, and I wouldn't do it now. I wouldn't
do it like before Christmas. I do it after Christmas,
like when people are trying to get home. That's how

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that's how you teach this guy a lesson, because he
he doesn't this this guy Pritzkert does not believe in
law and order in any way, shape or form, except
for except for.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Gender reassignment surgery that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah, he'll he'll do all that sort of stuff, but
he does not believe in following the laws as they're written.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
And that's to me.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
I look at that and I go, okay, well, then
that tells me that maybe people aren't going to be saved.
Maybe people are really not going to be out there
and be able to do the things that they need
to do. And unfortunately or fortunately, you know, you just
do spot checks and you say, Okay, what are you hauling,
show me your CDL Okay, you're good to go, see

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you later. God bless you have fun. But you're going
to run into a whole bunch of people who are
probably doing other stuff. And that's that's just good government.
That's just good governance. You want to make sure everbody's
going to be safe. You don't want to have people
getting on airplanes who maybe they feel like they may
not be as safe.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
As they would be. I mean, it's like you could
do all that sort of stuff. Federal government has a
lot of power, and most of it is attached to
the agencies. You don't even have to go to the
Supreme Court. All right, that's one hour down. I know
you freaking out.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Don't freak out. We got two great hours straight ahead.
Hour number two underway. It is great to be with
you here on the Brett water Bowl Show. It's a

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pleasure to.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Be able to spend this time, to spend this I mean,
it's just so much good.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
Stuff happening out there. Certainly, if you would like to opine,
if you would like to reach out, we certainly are
are excited to have you come on in and talk
with us as well. Let me let me also give
you a tip here. We're gonna be joined coming up
in this next little bit with Don Brown is going

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to be joining us at four thirty five. Four thirty five,
Don Brown will be joining us to talk about his
run for the for the Senate, see his thoughts and
what it is that he is looking at. And look,
I think I think it's great to talk to as
many people as possible. I think it's I think it's
fascinating to see what the agendas are going to be

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and all this sort of bit. Brown University outlines enhanced
safety measures after review and Security Assessment. Wow, is that
not the actual definition of locking the door after the

(37:33):
after the bull runs out?

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Is that not what this is? Because I think that's exactly.

Speaker 5 (37:38):
What this is.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
Brown University is outlining enhanced safety measures after action review
and security assessment. Well, now we know that we had
crazy people running around trying to murder people and murdering people,
we need to suddenly now put a lock on that.

(38:02):
I don't know about you, but you know Brown Brown
University in Providence is it's you know, it's it's a
small ish kind of town. But I got to tell
you something. When when you go to Rhode Island and
you go specifically to to where Brown is, Providence, Providence

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can be a that's a that could be a tough place.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Am i Am I right? Or am I right? Nick?

Speaker 2 (38:31):
I mean Providences can be a little bit rough. At times,
you would definitely want to have doors locked.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
I would, I would guess. I mean, I might be wrong,
does it? Who knows, I could be totally wrong.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
But the idea that you wouldn't have appropriate security, all
the sort of stuff that needed to come to play
in a in an urban environment, I think is I mean,
to me, I feel like it is absolutely, you know,
a miscarriage of justice.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
You know, there are places you can go or send
your kids to college that are Bucolic places. Right Oh,
it's out in the it's out in the woods. The
woods are all all over the place.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
You could do stuff, but you can still have lunatics
coming onto the campus trying to cause problems.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
This is one of the deals that we're dealing with here.
You know, when you when you when you look.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
At this and you think about all the all the
things that can come to pass in this day and age,
especially with all the nonsense that goes on online, things
like that, I would want every possible inch of the
campus to have cameras and to have people who are

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surveilling those sorts of things to protect the situation. But
you know, when you look at this and when you
kind of come around with a different sort of approach.
You're talking about seventeen year olds going to college. You're
talking about, you know, people who may not be accustom

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to a rougher sort of existence.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
That's a tough thing. I mean, that is an absolutely
tough thing.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
And I think that it behooves you, at a minimum,
after what we saw last weekend, it behooves us to
be a part of this sort of thing. All right,
what about the two thousand dollars tariff checks coming?

Speaker 1 (40:38):
What about the Warrior dividend? Right?

Speaker 2 (40:42):
Remember we saw that announcement that took place by the
President at the beginning of the week when he was
able to speak to the speak to the people. So
here's the way this story goes. You saw the President
last week earlier this week giving a speech I guess
what was last week, and he said that they were

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promising to send out Americans two thousand dollars checks. He
also said that he was going to spend put out
the money for seventeen hundred and seventy six dollars in bonuses,
suggesting the revenue from tariffs would pay for it.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
But a Pentagon official confirmed the Defense Department funding is
covering the two point six billion dollar price tag for
the so called Warrior dividends. So the money that's already
there is going out, and it's a two point six

(41:40):
billion dollar expenditure, and that is how those things are
going in. I heard from somebody in the last twenty
four to forty eight hours.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Saying that their friends and family who were part of
this have already gotten the money. And that, look, I
think that's fundamentally great because it means President's keeping his word.
He's taking the money and putting it out there to
the folks who are who are serving. Now a lot

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of people are hitting me up with different messages saying, well,
the reason why they're giving them all that money is
because we're gonna go to war.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Are we going to war? Are we at war right now?
The money went out. We have not invaded. Have we invaded?

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Have we invaded in any place? I know that most
people are probably looking at Venezuela Maduru.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
Maybe maybe they're.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Looking at that, But I don't believe that we've taken
any American troops and invaded Maduu.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
I don't, I don't.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
I don't see it happening. It seems to me like
it's it's that's not what's what's happening. But when you
you know, when you sit back and you say, okay,
money coming in, that's a plus. You're we're also you know,
going to be able to you know, sock away some
money or handle some expenses that you've got or whatever

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that is.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
That's a big deal. That's that's a big deal, especially.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
When you do the ab comparison between giving seventeen hundred
and seventy six dollars to the very deserving bonus recipients.
And then you think back just one term ago, uh,
and you saw what happened when Joe Biden was firing

(43:34):
people from the military because they didn't want to take
the fauci. He said, listen, you take the fauci or
you get out.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
And the people were like, I don't want to, I
don't want to be fauci, I don't want to be fouchified.
I don't want you fauci in me, so I'm not
taking it. And then they threw them out of the military.
They were restored, thank god.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
But when you when you see all this sort of stuff,
they were throwing people out of the US military ry academy,
all kinds of places, all because they would not get
down on their knees and take the faucia.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
But they wouldn't they want to. They're like, no, we
don't want to do that.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
That is, you want to talk about juxtaposing two different realities,
getting fouched or getting a bonus. Getting a bonus or
getting fouched. You tell me, I'll take three calls. Would
you rather be vouched or would you rather get the bonus?

(44:32):
I'm going with the bonus.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
I think most are all right, So guess what is
going to be popular coming up this this next year.

(44:56):
This is what people are saying. No, I don't know.
I'm actually nick.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
I'm gonna make you the I'm gonna make you one
of the guinea pigs here. Okay, so stick around here
with me just for a second. Apparently, according to the street.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
You know that outfit where they talk about different sorts of.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Investing, spicy food and comfort classics and digital ordering will
define the restaurants in twenty twenty six. Are you more
about the spicy or are you more about the comfort classics?

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Are? What are you nick?

Speaker 5 (45:39):
Huh huh?

Speaker 1 (45:41):
All right, he doesn't want to answer. Here's some spicy news.
Spicy is the most prolific word on menus besides vegetables
and fruit. According to a survey by Data Essential, a

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market intelligence company for the food and beverage industry, in fact,
ninety five point three percent of menus now offer a
spicy item, up from ninety one point six percent ten
years ago. Looking for the new year, the National Restaurant

(46:23):
Association said that nostalgia, comfort, and flavor escapism.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Why would I want to escape the flavor? I don't
understand why I want to I want the flavor escapism?
Why would I want to escape the flavor? This doesn't
taste like those droids meals that offer bold, transportive ten
How are you able to sell transportive tastes?

Speaker 1 (46:55):
How is that possible? Look at this? You see these?

Speaker 2 (46:59):
You see these, I'm gonna throw them at you and
you can now taste them without the cost of travel.
Will define the desires in twenty twenty six them, I'm
starting to I'm starting to not buy this part. I
think people have liked hot food for a really long time.
I love hot food, and I don't mean hot food

(47:19):
like it it's cooked. I mean spicy. Spicy is great,
But you know, not everybody's built for that kind of stuff.
There are other people who like to go Gormond Taco
Bell KFC.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
I'm not judging, but like you, when you think about
like all this sort of stuff, I think it's kind
of interesting. Spice is really good. Like I've my whole life,
I've liked eating spicy stuff, and I think, I mean,
I think it's I think it's fantastic. It's it's a
it's a party in your mouth and everybody's invited. I

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mean essentially that's what they say, right, I mean when
you when you think about this, it's it's pretty cool.
You gotta be careful though, because like one person's hot
taste is somebody else's.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
You know, you're you're making me crazy, and you know,
I like, I like that. I think that's that's that's
pretty outstanding.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
But I also think at the same time, people have
different sort of levels of what you're going to do
in terms of that and how you want to how
you want to do that. Like, for example, you think
like any of this sort of stuff would be just
like you can knock it out of a park. There
is a ninety two year old Mexican restaurant closing its
doors forever and it's a San Diego staple since nineteen

(48:36):
thirty three. They're shutting it down. The family has run
has has run that business for.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
Ninety three years. It's unbelievable. But they're shutting it down.
Why why not?

Speaker 2 (48:55):
I mean, I guess you get to a place where
you just say okay, and nobody really wants to do
these things anymore, and that's that's what ends up happening.
I bring this to your attention because you know, we're
just within eyesight of when it is that we're gonna
be feasting and celebrating and doing all these sorts of things.
That's a that's a really really great thing that we

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get to that we get to do. All right, here's
something else that's very interesting. This is something that traditional
economics isn't ready.

Speaker 5 (49:28):
To deal with.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
And what is that? Well, here's what it is.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
People think that everything is going to stay static. One
of the things that's out there right now, there's this
giant AI build out that is keeping the economy afloat.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
But people are starting to wonder, is this thing actually
a bubble?

Speaker 2 (49:53):
Like the reason why I wanted to pivot over to
this from the thing I was just talking to you
guys about with the food. Food is iconic, food is eternal.
It's very hard to unless you really mess up a
brand or you do something like that. You can go
to a restaurant and eat at that restaurant for many,
many years. Like I was telling you about the nineteen

(50:15):
thirty three people, but people are now starting to say, Okay,
wait a minute.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
AI, are we overplaying Ai? And Ezra Cline was looking
at some of this analysis. I've covered the economy for
a long time, including the pandemic and of course the
financial crisis and all that sort of stuff. I can't
remember a stranger, more chaotic year than this one, where
it was so unclear about what the story was and

(50:44):
how other years the economy would be good or bad.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
But what is the economy right now? From liberation day
to the deals and the pauses and the car vouts,
it's unclear what our tariff pop. That's that's that's phony.
The tariff policy is what it is. If you drop
your barriers, we drop our barriers. If you raise barriers,

(51:13):
we're gonna raise barriers. This is why you don't want
to spend time with conventional sort of theories that people
are using, because you have a president and a vice
president who are both on the same page, and they're
backed up by Marco Rubio. Any any administration prior to Trump,

(51:34):
the first Trump administration, if you went back and you
looked at the potential of us getting into a SmackDown
with Venezuela, every other administration would say no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
No, we don't want to do that. We don't want
to do that. We're just going to have to try
to wait them out. Trump is pushing on this, okay,
and so what does that mean? That means that our
policy is tariff.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
If tariff is it's our policy, that means that we
get to erect barriers to people like the people in Venezuela.
You're not going to get to trade with us. We're
not going to trade with countries that trade with you.
We're gonna lock you out. And then on top of that,
what do you have. You have the giant AI build
out That is also one of the storylines that's important.

(52:22):
I would argue that the AI build out is more
important than the tariff fight because we've used tariffs for
a couple of centuries.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
We have used tariffs. It's not a new thing.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
It's basically you want to go into a fancy restaurant
or you want to go into a nightclub, you have
to pay a cover charge to come into our country.
You have to pay a cover charge to be part
of the country, to be part of what we're doing.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
That's all that is. It's so silly to sit back
and say this is an exhaust thing that we don't
know about.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
AI is something completely different. I started working with AI
in the last two years, and there's a lot of
stuff that you look at and you say, holy cow,
this thing can be used so well for good and
can be used so.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Poorly for bad things.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
And that's one of the challenges that we're also going
to have to deal with now. I understand people like
Ezra Kline. He wants to sit back and he wants
to say, you know, we don't know what tariffs are
gonna do to the economy. The reason why they don't
like tariffs is because it can be adjusted.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
At any point.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
It's a dynamic way of protecting your goods, period full stop.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
AI.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
AI is next level because at some point you're gonna
see countries using AI to enforce tariffs, and I can't
wait to see that. I think that is going to
be absolutely fascinating and I can't wait to see how
that all.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
Comes to pass.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
All right, coming up here in a couple of moments,
Don Brown's gonna join us. We're going to talk to
him about his policies, his ideas, and what he's looking
forward to.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
Big, big stuff all the way around, and welcome back.
It's great to be with you.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
One O seven point nine FMWBT Charlotte's News Talk.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
Let me reach out to.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
Don Brown, who is joining us now on the program.
I know you are a candidate for the position being
sent out by obviously the current senator in the position
right there, and I.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
Have a question for you. What are you doing to day?

Speaker 2 (55:01):
I figured you be out there, you know, looking for
different sorts of gifts and things like that.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Man, you are working hard today. What is going on?
Don Brown?

Speaker 9 (55:10):
Well, we're working hard, but we're doing a lot of
the interviews today. You're at number three, and of course BT,
that's always saving the best, so ass and one of
those reasons that God created Amazon is that help us
to be able to kind of order a few things.
And I'll be going to the mall tomorrow, so I'll
be doing a combination of both. And I hope you're
ready to go, Brett, you know, I mean, you're already

(55:31):
three or four steps to hit everybody. So I'm sure
you got everything wrapped under the tree. But I got
a little more catch up things to do tomorrow, right on,
right on.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
So let's let's talk about this race. Your your your.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
Desire to become the next senator from from the state
of North Carolina. What is your number one priority in
this regard?

Speaker 9 (55:54):
Listen, Brett, there are a lot of things to be
concerned about, but the national deck continues to explode. It
is an absolute emergency. I was going up to Ashville
about a month ago, and there's a website usdet.

Speaker 6 (56:05):
Clock dot org.

Speaker 9 (56:07):
If you go to it, you can see the debt
exploding in real time. And while we brought the rate
of spending down, that's a good thing. And you know,
the big beautiful bills done wonderful things. We have to
attack it and reverse it. If we don't, we're gonna
lose a dollar. And if we lose the dollar, you're.

Speaker 5 (56:21):
Going to look.

Speaker 9 (56:22):
You're looking at a central bank digital currency. And if
you think COVID was bad for totalitarian and pirate stuff,
you haven't seen anything yet, and so it is an emergency.
I'm running hard against it. I'm proposing a deep state
reduction that you've got to take the meat cleaver to government.
You have to actually eliminate agencies, Bret. That hasn't happened yet,

(56:43):
and Congress has gotten to step up. So I'm doing
this because we're going to fall off a cliff really
really fast, all of a sudden one day. If we
lose the dollar. It's international currency, a trade that many
other important issues as well, out of control judges, medical
freedom we're battling for. But that is the one burning
a tom bomb that's got to be addressed, and sooner
rather than later.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
So let me ask you a question about the the
model that you're talking about, and it's it's just it's
just just an open question that.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
I'm asking who who would you model after? Who was
very successful in doing these sorts of things in your
in your lifetime? Is there is there a particular politician
that you look.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
At you say, yeah, that's that's the guy that I
would want to emulate or work uh with that sort
of an approach.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Can you give me one of those people?

Speaker 9 (57:35):
Well, Jesse Helm was a great model, great senator from
North Carolina who was the original senator know who before
before Trump or Reagan, there was Jesse. Him's the original
solid strong conservatives who did not care what the liberal
media thought. I like that, But in terms of a
model and getting the job done, you know, we've got to. Unfortunately,

(57:55):
our congresses have been very weak in many respects. The
Democrats have come in with the shoes, massive spending programs.
You go back to FDR with a new deal, and
then you had WJ with a great society and Obamacare.
They just blow the government up. But when Republicans take
control ret we don't cut agencies. And so I don't
know that there is a recent model that I unfortunately

(58:17):
put point my finger too.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
But we have to.

Speaker 9 (58:20):
The Congress has got to take control of the situation.
You can't just sit back and wait on presidents to
come up with programs. We blow with the wind from
administration to administration. We've got to bring the torch of
freedom into the into the Senate. I like some of
the guys in the Senate. There are a handful of
guys I like. I like Mike Lee. Now, I like
the cemetery from up in Wisconsin. I mean he's he's
very good. I like Ron and I like you know,

(58:44):
I like Ted Cruise do a pretty good job. I think,
you know, John Kennedy is very entertaining. But there are
only a very few solid conservatives Inde, Senate. We got
to speak boldly, and we have to lead with CRUs
and we got to wake our people up to the
fact that we don't get this exploding down in to control,
everything is going to fall off a cliff.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
Now you've you've obviously seen a lot of a lot
of good and a lot of bad throughout the careers
and the stuff that you do. Tell me your thoughts
on this thing that we're doing with with with Maduro
and sinking those uh those those drug ships and stuff
like that. You know, would you would you vote for that?

Speaker 4 (59:26):
Well?

Speaker 5 (59:27):
What I vote?

Speaker 9 (59:27):
Well, I think yes, I think Well, if you're asking
me about the administration's policy taking out these drug boats,
of course, you know, you go all the way back
to the beginning of the Republic the United States, American
presidents have protected American lives and property in the high seats,
going all the way back to the Barbary Pirates with
with Thomas Jefferson Lincoln sees, you know, a British mail ship,

(59:50):
the RMIs Trent. Franklin Roosevelt almost a year before Pearl
Harbor was giving shoot to sink quarters to the United
States Navy in the Atlantic. We were protecting convoys against
U boats.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
You know.

Speaker 9 (01:00:01):
Reagan, you know, went into Grenada. We've seen this over
and over again. So it is absolutely proper and constitutional.
I've set over and over again. The only reason that
the Democrats are squeaking at this point is because Pete
Headshet threatened to pull Mark Kelly back up from the
active duty. Now, I think you should under the circumstances.
Their accid these six semeters are encouraging American military members

(01:00:26):
to disregard the order of the president. So they come
up with the second shot theory and all this kind
of stuff. Listen, here's the thing about it, Brett. Think
about what I said. More Americans killed than one year
from fentanyl coming across the border coming out of South
America than ten years of Vietnam War. These are weapons
of mass destruction. And if that boat wasn't sunk on
the first shot, if it's still in the water and

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still has drugs, you hit it with a second shot.
And if some terrorists is hanging onto that boat and
gets killed us, too bad. This collateral damage. Those terrorists
are trying to kill Americans, are trying to kill Charolteans,
North Carolinians. So I fully support that policy.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
So let's let's talk a little bit about you know,
where you might want to serve, what assignment you would
like to do. Is have you thought about that if
you get elected?

Speaker 5 (01:01:14):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
I have.

Speaker 9 (01:01:14):
I have a heart for armed services, and I worked.
I've written a number of military books, as you may know,
and work with the House Armed Services Committee when Walter
Jones is alive and Matt Thormber was a chair to
initiate an investigation into the extorce and some teams shoot
down work with p headset on some pardons of American
soldiers prosecuted under Obama's restrictive rules of engagement. I also

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have a heart for judiciary. I've written a book, Kangaroo Court.
Got to get you a copy of that. I've read
came out last year on the Democrats policy of political prosecutions,
and I think we got to bring that stuff to
an end. We've got bringing these out of control federal judges.
The Judiciary Committee would be well suited for that sort
of oversight. So those are the two. And I also

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really I'm really a big agricall through guy. My granddaddy
was a farmer. We've got to say small farms, and
I will be I will be honored to serve on
any of those committees.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
It's great to it's great to hear you. Good to
have you on the program. Uh. If folks want to
get get in touch with you, if they want to,
you know, get get with you, where do they where
do they go?

Speaker 5 (01:02:18):
Sir?

Speaker 9 (01:02:19):
Our website is round for MC dot com, b r
O w n F O r n C dot com.
We love to hear from folks. We respond to all
the emails. Uh, we're coming to the end of the
year here. We'll take whatever constitutions we can get. We
need money, of course to run a state wide race.
So we're very grateful for the opportunity to interact with
all North call onions and all voters.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
We appreciate your time. God bless uh America, and God
bless you and and and and don't forget. Make sure
you go get some nice stuff tomorrow because it's it's.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
It's coming sooner before you know it. And I want
to wish you're very happy, very Christmas, my friend.

Speaker 5 (01:02:55):
Thank you so much, God bless you. Merry Christmas for
you too.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
All right, take care absolutely, that's Don Brown and welcome back?

Speaker 8 (01:03:12):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
This? Go ahead?

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
Snow is listen a beautiful side. We're happy being night
walking in a Winson.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
Isn't this great?

Speaker 3 (01:03:24):
Gone away away?

Speaker 10 (01:03:26):
It's the blue bird here to Staysday's a new bird.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
He sings a love song. This we go along walking
in a win Oh, it's great to be with you. Oh,
I hope you're having a great time.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
I see a bunch of people as I'm looking out
the windows of the spacious studio here were watching people
having a good time. So it's gonna be seventy five
degrees tomorrow. I need somebody to explain this to me.
All right, I got all this hot cold weather gear
that I got and now it's going to be seventy

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five tomorrow. Are we supposed to Are we supposed to cook?
Are you allowed to cook out on Christmas Eve?

Speaker 4 (01:04:11):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Are you allowed to make hot dogs at Hamburgers? Fire
up the pool, get in there and swim.

Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
I I don't I just don't. I'm at a I'm
at a loss. I mean, was it not like nine
degrees two weeks ago? Was about two weeks ago? Is
nine degrees outside? And now seventy five? I mean, I'm
not complaining. The seventy five is great, but I mean
it's just this one of those things. Oh okay, Stephen

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just sent me a message. You know what Stephen just said.
He said, where was Jesus born? But obviously right Bethlehem.
And what part of the world is that? Well, that
is true.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
It's you know, it's not necessarily cold all the time there, right,
it could be it could be warm as well.

Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
So I guess that's that's an important point, very fair
point coming coming our way.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
But I just I sit back here and I say, wall,
wait a minute, what attire should I wear? No, I'm
not wearing my Brett Jensen half shirt. That's only for
important occasions. But here's the thing, here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
I love, I love, love love Christmas. I think it's fantastic.
I think it is so so great and we have
got so much to be grateful for.

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
Like you think about the stuff that we've done this
over this year, and you think about Hancock spikes for kids,
and all the good that's been done by this audience
and all the great stuff that is happening here.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
I am feeling very.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
Bullish on what we're going to have next, very very
bullish on twenty twenty six. I think there's a whole
bunch of really cool things. But before we get to
twenty twenty six, which we'll talk about next week, I
want I want to ask you guys some questions.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
And they're very easy questions, and if you want to
play the game, you can play the game.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
We're gonna have an actual game we're gonna play towards
the end of the hour of this next hour, But
it's this, what's the best thing you ever got for Christmas?
Or maybe if you celebrate Hanakah or any other of
the traditions.

Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
What's the best thing that you got?

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
What's the worst thing that you got? Because I always
like taking sort of like these census. You know, we're
doing a census here. Oh, so, what was the best
thing you ever had? What was the worst thing you
ever had? I mean, I can tell you right now.
And I said as much when I was on with
Clan Buck, I said, my dad.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
Brought me a five pound Hershey's kiss solid. It was
not hollow.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
It wasn't like one of those hollow monies that you
get UH for for for the uh for Easter. This
thing was a solid five pound Hershey's kiss. This thing
was like a shot put when I was a kid,
and I he.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
Gave it to me.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
He might he worked for Hershey's at the time, so
he gave it to me. I I couldn't, like you
couldn't bite into it without it becoming a mess. So
I went out in the garage and I found myself a.

Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
Hack saw clean. It was a clean hacks relatively clean hacksaw,
I guess, and I I took it in my room
and I cut it up.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
It was it was a Hershey's kiss. It wasn't drugs.
It was a Hershey's kiss. And I cut it up
and I ate the entire thing in like a day
and a half. Nick, I ate a five pound Hershey's kiss.

Speaker 1 (01:07:59):
In a day and a half.

Speaker 5 (01:08:01):
That's the way to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
Are you kidding me? Let me tell you something. Let
me tell you what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
Just about like two three months ago. I finally crashed
from from.

Speaker 1 (01:08:13):
Back in nineteen seventy seven, you know what I'm saying. Like,
I just was like whoa, And so I said, I
said to my dad, I go that Hershey's Kiss was
really good. My dad picked it up very very closely,
and he said, what do you mean was very good?

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
I said, I hate it because you eigh five pounds
of Hershey's Kiss.

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
I said, yes.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
Anyway, listen, you gotta have the stamina. You gotta have
the stamina. You gotta have the wherewithal. That's a very
important one as well. You can't just have stamina, you
gotta have wherewithal. You've got to have all that kind
of stuff. And you know what he was most mad about.
He was most mad that I took a hack saw and.

Speaker 1 (01:08:51):
Cut and cut it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
I figured, I'm not gonna use like a table saw.
I'm not gonna use anything that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
Might get me hurt. Hack saw is easy, nice slices, basically,
that's what it was.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
But that thing was five pounds. That was one of
the coolest things I ever got. I wish I still
had it, and in some ways I wish I didn't
have it. In some ways I wish I had kept it.
It might have been a collector's item. I might have
made money, but I couldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
I wouldn't and I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
So that's that's like the best and the worst gift
that I ever probably got. So it's your turn, and
I want to hear from you in this next hour.

Speaker 1 (01:09:36):
We talk about politics if you want, If you want
to ask me a political question, you want to do
stuff like that, that's fine. But what's the best what's
the best you ever got? What's the worst you ever got?

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
I would say, next to the Hershe's Kiss, I would
probably say a bike. I would say that my very
first bike would probably be would be right there side
by side with.

Speaker 1 (01:09:57):
The Hershey's kiss.

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
Worst thing I ever got. You're gonna have to wait
for the next hour. You'll have to know from the
next hour the worst thing I ever got. And it
wasn't even intentional, It's just it was one of these
things that I didn't realize what they were given me,

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and it kind of freaked me out.

Speaker 1 (01:10:21):
We'll talk about that straight ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
Plus everything between now and then. We've got another great
hour straight ahead, and it's so great to be with
each and.

Speaker 1 (01:10:30):
Every one of you. Do not try to find do
not try to find that Hershey's kiss. They don't exist anymore.
I'm Brett Witterble. I approved this hour. Let's head on
over to the next hour back after this, bring it.

(01:11:03):
I am so stoond, I am excited. Welcome. You are
this close to Christmas Eve. I am Brett Winterbow. It

(01:11:23):
is a pleasure to be with you. I've been I've
been looking at some different sort of topics that we
are going to get into during this portion of the program.
We are taking your phone calls.

Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
As always seven oh four five seven zero one, zero
seven nine. You can reach out to us on the
on the transom, you can reach out to us on
the text line.

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
We are fully right now. We are here.

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
It is just crossed five o'clock and I am excited
about the holiday.

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
I am excited about Christmas. I am excited about all
of it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
And I went and I did a little bit of
research because I understand not everybody has the same sort
of tastes in mind or things like that. But over
the course of the ranking of foods that come out
during Christmas time, I'm absolutely I'm absolutely shocked by the
order of these things.

Speaker 1 (01:12:22):
I asked the AI. I know, I know you're sitting
there and you're.

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
Going why would you ask the AI, Well, because I
wanted to see it's able to kind of pull up
a bunch of different sort of factors, and I wanted
to see what were the top ten foods when it
comes to Christmas foods. And I gotta tell you, I'm
a little bit shocked. I'm a little bit shocked by

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the order of what's popular and why it's popular.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
I also went and did a deep dive into stuff
that people eat that's not popular.

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
So over the course of the next hours, hours, days, months,
you know, over the course of the next minutes, I'm
gonna go through this. I do think this is kind
I think it's it's kind of an interesting sort of
a setup. So I'm gonna start with you tell you
a little bit of this, and then you, guys, if
you want to call in, if you want to check in,
if you want to tell us what was your favorite

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gift you ever got? What was the least favorite gift?
That's okay, you can you know what, you can just
tell us what your favorite gift is. You don't have
to insult anybody, you don't have to say listen, I
hated this particular thing. I remember once upon a time
when somebody gave me this and I really didn't enjoy it,
that sort of stuff. But let me look at this
food here. Okay, now I'm looking from ten to one. Nick,

(01:13:43):
I hope you're taking this stenography here. It's very important
to have it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
We want to have the records so that when people complain,
we you know, we'll know how to respond to them.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
Number ten, number ten, Christmas cookies number nine, Cranberry sauce.

Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
Number eight, green bean casserole number seven, Prime rib.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
Number six, ham number five, Stuffing and dressing number four,
Bread or rolls number three, Turkey number two, mashed potatoes

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number one, roasted potatoes.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
Does that seem like that that's in accurate order? I
don't think this is right. Because Christmas cookies that's gotta
be number one, because everybody likes sweets and roast p.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
Patoes and mashed potatoes. I mean, I like, I like
everything on this list, absolutely everything on this list. But
I mean, I'm thinking about the.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
Order roast potatoes is.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
They're saying it's universally loved comfort food, and the mashed
potatoes are creamy, nostalgic, and crowd pleasing. What if you're
not inviting a crowd of people to come to your house.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
What does that mean?

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
Turkey is the classic centerpiece. The bread of the rolls
are essential sides, easy win stuffing and dressing. A holiday
flavor bomb ham, sweet, savory, photogenic and easy to prep.
Prime rib, high end, celebratory main dish, green bean casserole,

(01:15:48):
iconic American holiday dish. That's a cop out, Like that's
nobody says, hey, it's an iconic American holiday dish.

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
It is, But like that's your that's your tagline. Cranberry
sauce completes the turkey plate, and of course Christmas cookies,
tradition and family activity.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
All right, I want to know right now, and I'll
take the calls. I'll let you guys opine on this
regard telephone number seven oh four five seven zero one
zero seven to nine. Is this the proper order? This
order feels like it's kind of out of it. It
feels like it's a little out of order, you know,

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a little little out of order.

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
Here.

Speaker 2 (01:16:33):
I'm looking at this and I'm and I'm just saying, okay,
I guess you know. I have the least popular.

Speaker 1 (01:16:41):
Christmas foods, And of course everybody wants to know what
the least is. I will I will share it with you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:49):
There's a couple of things in this in this out,
you know, in this sort of deal where I'm kind
of like, wow, not bad, not offended, nothing like that,
But there is there's a stack.

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
Up of some things that we have to maybe discuss
a little bit about.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
I think there's a couple of things that we have
to you know, I just want to I so badly
want to tell you the one that I just can't
deal with. But uh, you know what, it's okay, it's okay.
I don't know how you eat this. I understand what

(01:17:27):
they're trying to say, but I don't know. I don't
understand how you eat this. No, it's not figgie pudding
or mince pies or candy ams.

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
This is something that I never thought of. I mean
I thought about.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
It, but I didn't know where you would put it
in the dynamic of the meal. To me, this feels
like it's something.

Speaker 1 (01:17:52):
You would maybe kinda ooh, you might need to go
see a dentist after this. That's all I can tell you. Well,
I'll tell you what this list is coming back, mister A.

(01:18:17):
I am Brett Winterbow it is a pleasure to be
with you here.

Speaker 2 (01:18:20):
All right, I'm gonna give you the list of the
ten and then I'm gonna go out to the phone.

Speaker 1 (01:18:23):
So do not hang up, please.

Speaker 2 (01:18:25):
I want to I want to pay off this because
people are sitting in their car going, Okay, what is
the ten most not wanted things with the Christmas dinner?

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
Okay, here we go.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
Number ten canned yams, mushy texture, overly sweet.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
Number nine mince pies that sounds like a player in
a sport. Mince pies, polarizing, spiced, filling. I'd still eat it.
I would. I would just eat it right out of
the can. A ribbon ribbon candy. This was the thing
I was alluding to in candy. It breaks teeth and

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looks better than it tastes. Figgie pudding. I never understood
the figgy pudding like I like figs. I'll eat figs.
I'll eat fig Newtons. I'll eat a sleeve of fig Newtons.
I'll eat two sleeves of fig Newtons. But this is
apparently described as suet plus steamed cake, hard cell Are

(01:19:27):
you in or out? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
Fruitcake, dense, dry, infamous holiday villain. Why it's a delicious
thing that you can eat.

Speaker 6 (01:19:38):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
I do uh tofu, I'm fine with tofu. Tofu's good.
It's seen as a non holiday by by some people.
I guess plantains. Love them. I'll eat them. Can't get
you know, can't give around it.

Speaker 6 (01:19:54):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
Turnups turnup's tough. I just I feel like if you're.

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
If you're eating turnups, you might you might need to
have your room to yourself, like you gotta be just
like by yourself. With the next thing, goose are Why
are people anti goose?

Speaker 1 (01:20:17):
I don't know. It doesn't make any sense me. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
And then cabbage too sulfuric, too much sulfuric. I would say,
if you're gonna do it, stack it up, do it right.
And what you do is you have the cabbage and
the turnups and the ribbon candy and just get it
out of the system.

Speaker 5 (01:20:33):
Right there we go.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
That's that's what I'm saying. Your your miles may may vary.
We'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:20:39):
Let's go out and take some calls. Let's check in
with uh Jim san diego, Jim. What's on your mind?

Speaker 5 (01:20:50):
Jim?

Speaker 1 (01:20:51):
Jim going on? I'm okay, what is on your mind.

Speaker 4 (01:20:55):
Sir, Yes, sir, I was going to leave you alone
for today, but this new announcement of this new Trump
class of battleships has me intrigued, and I want to
try to enlighten people as to what the true purpose
of these machines are going to be.

Speaker 5 (01:21:11):
So what is it?

Speaker 1 (01:21:13):
What's it going to be?

Speaker 4 (01:21:14):
Okay, so anybody who knows that everybody knows the obsolete
nature of the dreadnoughts skipping the surface of the ocean
is been pointed up by a number of engagements the Falklands,
the occurring engagement with the Ukrainians. But what these things
really are because they near named a class, but Trump Class.

(01:21:39):
It's its purpose. It's it's name for that for a purpose.
But they will be They will displace great lethalities, a
Secretary of War will make sure of that. But the
purpose is an ambassador role. They will sail just like
the White Fleet did for President Roosevelt, Eddie Roosevelt. They
will just show up unannounced because of the stealth nature

(01:22:03):
that they displace. They'll anchor it a harbor. It will
be announced that they're going to do. They want to
have a meeting with whoever is in charge wherever they go,
and they will talk about peace, they will talk about commerce,
they will talk about prosperity and opportunity for the people
that the ruined class oversea. It is a the modern

(01:22:28):
equivalent of the big stick.

Speaker 1 (01:22:30):
And it is.

Speaker 8 (01:22:34):
It is, it is.

Speaker 4 (01:22:35):
It's completely trump it's completely and totally. Well, what would
this country really need is the proactive way of going
to meet the world and talk to the world in
a diplomatic fashion.

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
Well, I got to tell you what I like about
this notion is the directed energy weapons. That's going to
be a game changer, like like no game changers have
ever been in that way.

Speaker 1 (01:22:57):
I think that's going to be a very interesting thing.

Speaker 2 (01:22:58):
But you can also just put them on the other
ships and use directed energy weapons and make us, you know,
even more lethal than we are currently.

Speaker 4 (01:23:11):
Yeah, but these things will have command and control and
operations communications capability that will anywhere they're at, they will
can be in there will be in a heartbeat, and
the nexus of whatever engagement, whether it's diplomatic or kinetic,
that's what the real purpose is. And they all will

(01:23:32):
have like a drone fabrication capability, so they we'll be
making those things custom built on site with raw material.

Speaker 1 (01:23:41):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:23:42):
Okay, I'm excited about that too, Jim. I am awarding
you the figgy pudding. I appreciate you being here and
thank you so much for calling in and have a
very merry Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:23:52):
Jim, I appreciate talking to you always as it. Hi.
You're very welcome. Let's go to Matt next. Matt, welcome
to the program online.

Speaker 6 (01:23:59):
Two. Hey Brett, we were talking yesterday and you ran
into a we ran into the end of the show
and you asked me to call back today. So here
just to go on the thing you were talking about
the other day yesterday, you said something to the effect
that you were bold enough to suggest that maybe people

(01:24:20):
high on illegal narcotics shouldn't have a gun in their possession.
And you know, it's a shame that you actually have
to explain that to people, but that's such a bold notion.
Like next thing, you know you're going to be saying
things on air, like you know, alcohol and motorcycles don't mix,
or some outrage.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
No that's true, but no, that's true. That's absolutely true. Yes,
that's rue.

Speaker 6 (01:24:43):
But you were talking a couple of segments ago. What
was the best and worst present you ever had, Yes, Christmas,
mine is the same one. Right around eighty three eighty four,
I was eleven or twelve years old, and my uncle
Jim got me a BB gun. And you know, you
and I are about the same age, and you know,

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back then, BB guns weren't powerful machines like they are now.
They make ones now that are as powerful as a
small caliber handgun or something, but you know, you pump
them up once and you plank it. Whatever. Well, my
buddy got one too, so you know, Pennsylvania, Northern Pennsylvania,
Christmas time, you're all bundled up, we start playing war,

(01:25:23):
me and my buddy Jason, so and we realized with
all our clothes on and the layers, it just planks
off you and it's funny. Well, I end up shooting
my friend Jason in the face with it. I missed,
I missed his eyeball by about an inch and a half,
and immediately his mother confiscated both the guns, which we
never got back. And so that was the best present

(01:25:47):
I ever got, until it was the worst present I
ever got because we both got grounded and so on
and so forth.

Speaker 1 (01:25:53):
But anyway, Wow, that's a great story, and I'm glad.
I'm I'm glad you shared because I'm sure that a
lot of people are driving around right now going yep, yeah, yep, yep.

Speaker 6 (01:26:06):
That means what would they say in the movie, you'll
shoot your eye out. Well I almost did.

Speaker 1 (01:26:11):
Gosh, I'm glad. I'm glad the guys. Okay, are you
still friends?

Speaker 6 (01:26:15):
Yeah, we're still friends. We got over that, okay, thirty
five years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
I appreciate.

Speaker 5 (01:26:21):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:26:22):
Well then, I'm i'm i'm I'm giving you. I'm going
to award you a canned y ams. Okay, how about that?
All right? You can have you can have a fruitcake.
You want a fruitcake, I'll give you a fruitcake.

Speaker 6 (01:26:34):
No, Merry Christmas, brother, I'll talk to you next year.

Speaker 1 (01:26:40):
You got it. Merry Christmas? Absolutely? I mean this is fun.
I love this, This is great. All right.

Speaker 2 (01:26:45):
I need John to stand by, and I need Dan
to stand by, and I need Nick to stand by
as well. We're gonna we're gonna spice it up a
little bit once we get past this uh this period
of time. Uh, We're gonna we're gonna play a very
truncated game that's going to give you an opportunity to

(01:27:08):
name that scream, name that scream. Okay, uh, we want
you to to do this because it's it's a it's
once a year, I will do this, and today is
the day we'll do it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:21):
I know, I know. You do not try to clamor
there's no clamoring.

Speaker 10 (01:27:29):
Amasitata Santa please Novato with a bone in knees it
coming down the street with not choose on his feet
and he's going to no, no, no, Ma, Mama, Cita
Santa Claus. The guy with the heron is Jsy.

Speaker 1 (01:27:47):
That's a Christmas throwback right there. Holy cow, cheaching Shaw.

Speaker 8 (01:27:55):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:27:56):
One of the things that I think is uh that
that is fun is to think back about, you know,
gifts that.

Speaker 1 (01:28:04):
You may have gotten.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
And we were talking about that just a couple of
minutes ago. No, we got these gifts that people give, like,
for example, here are the top ten best Christmas gifts
for everyone. A cozy throw blanket, luxury or weighted. I've
never had a weighted luxury thing. Portable gaming console like

(01:28:27):
a Nintendo Switch, to quality wireless earbuds or headphones. That's
pretty cool. How about a small do you hate nick?
Do you have a s'mores fire pit kit.

Speaker 5 (01:28:40):
I do not have one, No, I do not, but
I have seen them. I think. Actually we got some
as gifts for some people a couple of years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:28:46):
Oh that's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (01:28:47):
Okay, a photo book or personalized keepsake. Okay, that's gonna
that's always popular. Essential oil diffuser or a candle set.
High end slippers or lounge wear. Why I think you
need to get both of those together, high end slippers
and lounge wears.

Speaker 1 (01:29:05):
What I think you would have to want to do there?
Maybe I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:29:07):
Uh, lego sets for do people adults and kids? Do
adults do legos? I didn't know that stylish travel bag
or weekender. And then gourmet gift basket fruit chocolate snacks.
So those are some like tips that you know I'm
giving you. Now, this is allegedly the ten worst. May

(01:29:32):
it may cause screaming. I don't know, So let's go
with We'll go with number ten. Gifts clearly meant for
the giver, not the recipient. Tools, gadgets, et cetera. Nine
joke gifts that land badly, coal, toilet paper, et cetera.

(01:29:55):
Lingerie given at the wrong time or place.

Speaker 1 (01:30:02):
I I don't know what to do with that. Pets
you do not You cannot give people unless you've pre
cleared it. You don't just hand somebody a pet. That's
that's that's that's wacky.

Speaker 2 (01:30:17):
Religious or self help items that the person did not
ask for. Cheap or generic socks and underwear. I disagree.
I think you can have as much socks and underwear
as you want. Uh, clothes in the wrong size. Well,
you know, gym memberships are.

Speaker 1 (01:30:35):
Diet products, cleaning supplies, nick cleaning supplies.

Speaker 5 (01:30:45):
Well, I've gotten worse.

Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
Used or regifted items like yeah, like maybe used or
regifted items that were supplies.

Speaker 1 (01:31:01):
Maybe I don't. This is this is what this is
the challenge, right you got you gotta just be careful.
You gotta do your thing.

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
You gotta make sure, especially when you're talking to people
about what you know, what you want to give them
and that sort of stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:31:15):
I mean, that's that's a big deal. Let's go out
on the phones. I believe we still have some folks
that want.

Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
Are opined John from Kannapolis on three, John, Welcome to
the show.

Speaker 4 (01:31:27):
Green's the Salutation's good sir?

Speaker 1 (01:31:29):
How you doing?

Speaker 11 (01:31:31):
If I was any better?

Speaker 4 (01:31:32):
People wouldn't be able.

Speaker 12 (01:31:33):
To handle me.

Speaker 1 (01:31:34):
Oh that is great. I like the attitude, go for it.

Speaker 11 (01:31:39):
So I'm gonna give you two things. First off, my
best and worst Christmas present, exact same thing. Thirty four
years ago tomorrow I went to the hospital. Oh no,
oh no, Yeah, was a young man and I was
in the military, and I found something that shouldn't have
been there and I had a maligna tumor removed.

Speaker 1 (01:32:03):
Oh my gosh, and I have been cancer and tomorrow.

Speaker 11 (01:32:05):
Night will be thirty four years cancer free.

Speaker 1 (01:32:08):
God bless you.

Speaker 2 (01:32:08):
I'm so happy. I'm so happy that you were able
to continue being here with us. And uh man, that
is that is that's really good. I'm so happy that
you you got that and and got rid of it.
And that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:32:23):
That is so so important.

Speaker 4 (01:32:25):
Oh, you have a scream for me as well?

Speaker 1 (01:32:29):
A scream?

Speaker 5 (01:32:30):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:32:30):
Do we have a scream? Nick? Do we have a
scream of any kind? Okay, go ahead, let's hear the scream.
He's gonna play it, Nick, right.

Speaker 8 (01:32:45):
What is that?

Speaker 1 (01:32:46):
What is that from? Is that from?

Speaker 9 (01:32:48):
That is a soy boy data male scene.

Speaker 11 (01:32:52):
The photo that was posted by Vice President jab Vance
of him doing pt with the name the Seals on
the beat him along.

Speaker 1 (01:33:02):
Wow, Okay, I guess that could be what what is
that actually from Nick? What have we got on that one?

Speaker 5 (01:33:07):
Or it's from the Grinch, It's the Grinch.

Speaker 1 (01:33:10):
There you go. I'm glad, listen, I am glad.

Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
I am glad that you are that you are all together,
and thanks so much for being out there. You're you're
you're a pleasure to talk to, and God bless you,
and I'm so happy that you're you're still with us.

Speaker 9 (01:33:24):
I hope that I am the worst person that you
have to deal with for the rest of the year.

Speaker 1 (01:33:28):
Good sir, Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:32):
Let's go to Dan dan Is from San Diego Online.
Four Dan, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (01:33:38):
Brat?

Speaker 12 (01:33:39):
Long time no talk? Gosh, I miss you back here
in San Diego.

Speaker 1 (01:33:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 12 (01:33:43):
And you're an iron man. I heard you earlier on
Buck and Travis filling in for them. And you know, uh,
let all the Carolinas know, you know, we're not always
we're not all crazy libertards out here. You know, there's
a big chunks bus that are that are you know,
conservative and Trumpers and and uh, you know, I just

(01:34:07):
you know, we're not into glitter. Jel Boy, Gavin Newsom
and that guy should never be in opice.

Speaker 6 (01:34:13):
He is, he is.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
I don't understand, like I genuinely do not understand the allure.
I don't think there is any allure for him. I
think he's just one of those people that is just
gonna try to do it until he gets pushed through
or whatever it is.

Speaker 12 (01:34:29):
And he's Russia to say he's the plastic banana.

Speaker 1 (01:34:32):
He got pretty much pretty much.

Speaker 6 (01:34:34):
Yeah, you know, I just want to.

Speaker 12 (01:34:37):
Give thanks to you know, this time of year, to
God and Christ for getting me the last through the
last five years of my battle of cancer with cancer and.

Speaker 1 (01:34:47):
Awesome, awesome.

Speaker 12 (01:34:48):
It wasn't easy, but you know, come back, you know,
from the worst of the worst. And I listened to
you out here in San Diego every day.

Speaker 5 (01:34:57):
You know, thank you you're the man.

Speaker 1 (01:35:01):
God bless you, God bless you.

Speaker 2 (01:35:03):
And I'm gonna keep praying for you, man, and and
thank you, thank you so much for being out there.

Speaker 1 (01:35:07):
Dan.

Speaker 2 (01:35:09):
It's it's it's nice to hear from you, and thank
you for your kind words. And and go get him, man,
go get him.

Speaker 1 (01:35:14):
Okay, you got it. That's Dan. See, we have so
much cool stuff that's going on on this show today.

Speaker 3 (01:35:32):
Moments kissing, Oh yes, and.

Speaker 1 (01:35:48):
How cool was that?

Speaker 5 (01:35:54):
There you go, she did?

Speaker 1 (01:36:03):
This is great. That is awesome. All right. So here's
here's something that that I that I I'm very thankful for.

Speaker 2 (01:36:19):
I'm very thankful for this, uh this program, to be
able to spend time with with you all, keeping you
company as you're driving around, as you're doing.

Speaker 1 (01:36:27):
All this sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:36:28):
But really, one of the things that I think is
hugely important in terms of gratitude is it's not I'm
on the show.

Speaker 1 (01:36:35):
I'm doing my show. We're having a really good time.

Speaker 2 (01:36:38):
But we have got so many great people that I
get to work with and my my team, my crew
that that I've got is is beyond beyond what I
would have expected when I got into into this business.
And so I want to I want to just acknowledge,
you know, Nick nick is is my is my producer,

(01:36:59):
and he's a he's a wonderful, wonderful producer. And we've
got Travers who is here, and Lonnie who is here,
and uh Anna and Pam who are here, and and
of course you know this this show comes together each
and every day, and we don't necessarily know what we're
walking into on any given day, because we could have

(01:37:19):
a whole plan and then suddenly, uh, there's there's a
whole bunch of other stuff that's that's coming. There's a
whole bunch of other storylines and things like that that
that are that are coming our way.

Speaker 1 (01:37:32):
But that's the excitement, Like this is this is the exciting.

Speaker 2 (01:37:37):
Part of radio because you guys are out there shopping,
or you're driving to and from or you're going anywhere,
uh in the area or out of town or all
of that, and we all get to sit together and talk,
and we get to go back and forth, and and
we get to have all of these different things.

Speaker 1 (01:37:58):
It's it's it's a dream come true. Really it is.

Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
When I was a little kid and I was thinking
about what I wanted to do, I always always fell
in love with radio.

Speaker 1 (01:38:12):
Just because it's such a special medium.

Speaker 2 (01:38:16):
Like you are imagining all of you people who are
in the car right now, or in the truck or
wherever you are. You are all imagining people who are
listening to this station in totally different ways. And I
think that's like that's one of the best things in
the world. I've done TV. I've been on NEWSMACS a

(01:38:42):
bunch of times. I had a couple of shows for
a while. I love the intimacy of radio because from
now until the end of the night, as we get
into tomorrow, which is Christmas Eve, you know, we have
this opportunity to to spend the time together in our

(01:39:02):
own special way.

Speaker 1 (01:39:03):
And I and I think that that's one of the
things that I am.

Speaker 2 (01:39:06):
I am most grateful for because I get to talk
to really smart people, really funny people, people from you know,
all different backgrounds who like to be part of the show.

Speaker 1 (01:39:19):
And I wouldn't trade that for anything.

Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
I think it's I think it's one of the best
sort of deals that you could possibly have.

Speaker 12 (01:39:28):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:39:28):
With that in mind, right, with that in mind, you know,
we we look at all these different sort of storylines.
I've got some sound I want to I want to play.
I want to play some sound okay, uh, and I'm
trying to decide which.

Speaker 1 (01:39:42):
One I wanna I want to deploy. Okay, I'm going
to I'm gonna deploy this particular this particular clip, uh
President Trump yesterday, and I hope it's I hope it's clean.
I think it is clean.

Speaker 2 (01:39:59):
President Trump warned Colombia about sending cocaine to the United States,
and this is one of these things where you sit
back and it seems to be not really shocking, but
it's interesting to see a person warn another country you
better knock it off. And so we'll give me cut

(01:40:21):
number ten with an eye towards hearing this clip.

Speaker 1 (01:40:26):
Go ten Venezuela.

Speaker 5 (01:40:27):
Colombian President Gustavo Petro criticize the United States by saying, well,
the Southwest has stolen land and that it should be
returned to Latin America.

Speaker 1 (01:40:35):
I just wanted to know what your response.

Speaker 8 (01:40:36):
To that is.

Speaker 13 (01:40:37):
He has to watch because you know he's got drug factors.
They make cocaine in Colombia, and he's no friend of
the United States. He's very bad, very bad guy, and
he's got to watch his ass because he makes cocaine
and they send it into the United States of America
from Colombia. We love the Colombian people. I love the

(01:40:58):
Colombian people. They're great, energetic, smart, right, but their new
leader is a troublemaker and he better watch it. You
better close up those cocaine factors. They have at least
three major cocaine factors. We know where they are.

Speaker 1 (01:41:13):
He better close them up fast. Yeah, Now, can I
just say something about that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:19):
That's the President of the United States already, he's the
most powerful person in the world, okay by default. And
he comes out and he defends our country, but he
defends it in a way that there is no wavering
in this regard. And so when you see what he

(01:41:43):
does and you see what he says, the President of
the United States is laying a marker down saying, listen,
you need to stop harming our people.

Speaker 1 (01:41:54):
You don't get to do that to us. Now.

Speaker 2 (01:41:57):
It seems to be so simple, right. It's it's as
if you're you're sitting back and.

Speaker 1 (01:42:02):
You're saying, wow, Wow, this guy really cares.

Speaker 2 (01:42:08):
Think about all of the stuff that you've seen in
your lifetime dealing with US presidents. The person who I
think would be closest to what Trump is doing, I mean,
I can go I can go two different parties. I
can say that's sort of like an lbj uh. You know,

(01:42:31):
we're not going to take anything from you. You can
also see it as a Richard Nixon. You could also
see it as Teddy Roosevelt. If you were sending cocaine
into Teddy Roosevelt's country when he was the president. They went,
they went to San Juan Hill. I mean, you think

(01:42:51):
about like all this kind of stuff, the language, the coarseness,
whatever that is. He was conveyed something that was very
important to this guy over in Colombia because he is
basically allied with Maduro, and we, by all rights, should

(01:43:12):
have the ability to go to the Hague and to
sue them for all of the people that lost their
lives because of the drugs. We should absolutely have this
guy in the dock. This guy should be taken out,
not killed, I'm not saying killed. Take him out and
put him in the dock. And you know what he

(01:43:33):
should have to do.

Speaker 1 (01:43:34):
He should have to.

Speaker 2 (01:43:35):
Get prosecuted by the guy that tried to prosecute Trump
with the phony charges.

Speaker 1 (01:43:43):
This is rough stuff. We see a very rough world
out there. But for goodness sakes, how.

Speaker 2 (01:43:52):
Can you possibly feel like this guy doesn't care about
our country. I think he does, and he's trying to
save the lives of every kind of person that's an American.
He wants to see that they are safe, that they
are secure, that that stuff is not going to come

(01:44:13):
in and murder us. This is a very important thing,
and I know sometimes it's a little uncomfortable, but I'm
telling you right now, we're probably not going to see
this sort of iteration again because this is a person
who wants to protect the United States. A lot of

(01:44:35):
people get elected and they try to see what they
can do to make money to make this that the
other thing about the United States.

Speaker 1 (01:44:45):
This is why I love talk radio.

Speaker 2 (01:44:48):
This is why I love being able to go out
and find clips and then talk about these sorts of things.
We live in precarious times. But if you go back
to the the immediate past and you see where we
have come from, we are stronger than before. And if

(01:45:08):
you go back way in time, way way in time,
when Jesus Christ was.

Speaker 1 (01:45:16):
Born to.

Speaker 2 (01:45:20):
To an incredible mother who said yes, who gave her yes,
and Christ came to save us. When you think about that,
that was a very rough neighborhood as well, and yet
Christ came so that all of us could be redeemed.

(01:45:44):
We all have that opportunity. Tough men create tough situations
and deal with them. But in the form of a baby,
Christ came to us us, the King of the universe.
He came to us to save us all. And I

(01:46:07):
am so blessed to be a part of this show.
And I am so blessed to be a part with
all of you. May God bless you and keep you
and let's get back together again really soon.

Speaker 1 (01:46:18):
Let me just tell you something.

Speaker 2 (01:46:20):
Over the course of the last two days, I did
forty eight segments of radio and I love it. Thanks
to nick Anna, Pam Travers, and Lonnie. We'll talk to
you in a little bit. Thanks so much, God bless you.
And Merry Christmas, Christmas Time, time

Speaker 3 (01:46:47):
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