Safety vs. Spending Debate On The Brett Winterble Show

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Brett kicks off the program by talking about the $3.4 million proposal to persuade people to ride the Charlotte light rail and his frustration with what he sees as misguided priorities from local leaders. He argues that instead of spending millions on marketing campaigns, the city should invest in safety—specifically by putting more police officers on the trains. Throughout the segment, Brett highlights the recent tragedy on the light rail and criticizes officials for failing to address rising crime.

Later Brett shifts the conversation toward a broader debate about safety versus affordability, asking listeners which one truly drives their decisions about where to live, work, and raise a family. He argues that safety is the foundational concern, emphasizing that if people don’t feel secure—whether on public transit, in their neighborhoods, at schools, or while shopping—nothing else matters. Affordability, he says, is more fluid and negotiable, while safety is absolute: you either have it or you don’t.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
It is the Brett Winterble Show. It is great to
be with you. I am so excited to be spending
this time with you today. And I got to say
something right out of the box. I feel like we
should compel people to who have terrible ideas. We should
compel them to stand in front of a podium of

(00:36):
shame and explain to the American people, in this case,
the Charlotte people, the North Carolina people, the South Carolina people.
I want to know who woke up and said what
we need to do is spend three point four million
dollars to persuade people to ride the light rail. I

(00:58):
want to know who's got that contract. That's what I
want to know, because what a silly, silly thing to do.
And I'm only saying silly, silly in place of a
lot of other words that would get me in trouble.
But who in the heck would want to be the

(01:23):
person that goes and pitches that to the American people
and the Charlotte people and everybody else. So three point
four million dollars, I'm I'm just gonna spitballet here. I'm
gonna guess we probably could hire what twelve fifteen extra

(01:45):
cops to just ride the rails, right, I mean, why
are we doing this? See, this is what happens when
you don't have a foundational belief in what is right
and what is wrong, period, full stop. And I know, Brett,

(02:06):
nobody cares. Nobody rides the light rail. Don't talk about it.
All we've been talking about the whole week has been
the light rail and the attack and all this sort
of stuff. Well, listen, I think this is this is
an emblematic sort of move. You know, I had this clip.
In fact, I do have the clip. I have the

(02:27):
clip of Gary McFadden and he's talking in this piece
about the people who were afraid in the aftermath of
the murder of the beautiful young woman who was riding
on the train and was murdered in front of people,
and nobody did anything to help her. You know. He

(02:52):
said that suddenly the magistrates were scared. Did you do
you have that clip? Let's let's listen to that clip.
It's the Gary McFadden clip, and let it let a
rep go.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
See is that our magistrate were attacked violently verbally when
I say violently, on social media and they lived in
fear for many days and we took additional measures to
protect them because of the violent nature of social media
and parts of other media, and also just the violence
that they receive just personally.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
So they're living fear now. And I have to say
that because for an entire day we had to talk
to the magistrates on how to live safely, how to
travel safely. And in the middle of all of that,
they were concerned after the shooting of Charlie Kirk because
they said to me, well, what if they shoot me?
Because of this? And so they're going to be more
cautious and reluctant to allow people to be released. And

(03:53):
we know that the law has now provided other guidelines
for certain people not to be released. So it will
increase our capacity here at the detention center.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
You know, you could you could just put them in PC.
You could take all the magistrates and you could put
them in PC. PC. You know what PC is, right,
I know that Nick knows what PC is. I know
that many other people perhaps know what PC is. No, No,
it's not, it's not. It's not Punk City. Don't say that.
It's a protective custody. And why not. I mean, look,

(04:28):
if you want to if you want to get get
the system back up and running properly. You know, you
could have the magistrates go and they could they could
have their own they could have their own facility. They're
in the uh in the jail, and then they could
just go face to face with these people and just
adjudicate all these sorts of things. The problem is this,
you're doing it completely wrong. The problem with what they're doing,

(04:56):
what they're doing right now, is is they're telling a
us that they don't have enough sentient behavior that they
would understand that you don't now go and say, let's
spend three point four million dollars to get people conned
into riding on the train. I mean, that's really what

(05:18):
it's about, right, I mean, it's like it's like it's like,
you you have a better chance. I'm gonna make an
argument for you, you have a better chance of doing
a timeshare kind of thing or whatever. Then then getting
people to go to the time going to the to
the light rail, because people are very familiar with everything
that is going on, and the problem is everything that

(05:42):
is going on is going badly. I don't I don't
understand how many terms has Vylil's been in. What do
we say ten, ten terms or five terms or whatever
it is. She needs to come out and speak to
the community. I mean, I'm talking about a televised speech
to the people of Charlotte. Why are we not doing that?

(06:06):
Mandami would do it, Bass would do it out in
La Why wouldn't you come out and address the elephant
in the room where we have crime and crime is
bad and as a result of crime being bad, we're
going to do things to mitigate instead of just try
to try to give you guys the rubber peach and

(06:28):
say no, no, no, it's a totally real peach. No
it's not. It's a rubber peach. And that's a problem.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
You know.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
I'm sorry. I was born at night, but I wasn't
born last night. And when you look at all the
stuff that's going on here, I mean, I'm telling you
right now, you're gonna see what's gonna happen when people
start freaking out more, because there will be another incident unfortunately,
law of averages and maybe at some point, maybe the

(07:00):
big banks are going to start to re examine the
way this is going because for some reason, it seems
to me that that the the answers that are coming
out from the institutional government. Are not the right answers. Nobody,

(07:21):
nobody believes that you can persuade people to ride the
light rail. If you want to get those those rails
absolutely jammed with people. You put cops on board, You
put cops on board, you do it, You have them
ride whatever it is. Take the three point four million

(07:43):
and give them over time to retake the the the situation.
But you know what is going to happen, right, we
all we all know what's gonna happen. Something bad is
going to happen again. And they're still not going to
require you to punch the ticket to prove that you

(08:06):
should be on board. This is the problem. So ask
yourself this. If you have a son, or you have
a daughter, if you have a husband, if you have
a wife, if you have declined to state whatever it
is you're talking about, are you going riding on on

(08:26):
that on a Friday night? Are you going to do that?
I doubt it? Sure, you know, think about this. This
time tomorrow, we're gonna already have been on one oh
seven point nine for a bunch of hours, which is

(08:48):
gonna be really cool. So stick around for that. Okay,
I have I've decided I'm going to fix this problem
once and for all. So Minnesota, Minnesota officials saw a
sign of massive fraud even before COVID hit. See, we
were always told everything just exploded because of COVID George

(09:09):
Floyd or COVID, COVID or George Floyd. Right, that was
the whole narrative during that period of time. But it
turns out that Minnesota got a very quick jump on
the graft. How much so well. According to CBS News

(09:30):
in July of twenty nineteen, Minnesota state officials spotted early
signs of fraud that would eventually siphon more than one
billion dollars in taxpayer money. But they were quickly facing
pressure from leaders of the charitable group Feeding Our Future

(09:50):
to stop asking questions. Sure, why not? You know what
it's for the kids? See this, this is such a problem.
So apparently the Feeding Our Future was asked to stop

(10:12):
asking questions, according to multiple former employees at the Minnesota
Department of Education. Now, remember some of this money that
was coming in wasn't just from the taxpayers there in Minnesota.
It was also those federal dollars that were attached to
this as well. The scandal which had already led to

(10:34):
sixty one convictions. That's sixty one more than we've seen
since the light rail on Friday Night has widely been
viewed as a byproduct of the COVID nineteen pandemic. So
let me ask you a question. Seriously, don't answer it
because it's going to make you look bad. Don't answer it.

(10:57):
Just think about it in your mind. So COVID was
the excuse for everything, Right, you could do whatever you wanted.
You could show up drunk, you could smoke dope, you
could you could do all that sort of stuff, right
because you were at your house, you were in lockdown.
You were just barely kind of showing up for the
different zooms and all that kind of stuff. Right. Okay, Okay,

(11:24):
was it a good excuse to go out and run
around on your wife or your husband?

Speaker 4 (11:28):
No?

Speaker 1 (11:29):
I mean, if you're that kind of person, if you're
wired that way, then that's a terrible thing that you
should that you would be doing. But my point is this,
at some point, just because people are stealing money doesn't
mean that everybody has to steal money. Thieves are gonna
be thieves, But we have to understand that this byproduct

(11:49):
of COVID nineteen. I'm about done hearing about COVID nineteen.
You know, if you go back in time, and I did,
I did some I did some research. You know, we're
like two thousand days back from from when COVID broke out. Okay,
so that's a long time ago. Acting US Attorney Lisa D.

(12:13):
Kirkpatrick said those convicted took advantage of the COVID nineteen
pandemic to carry out massive schemes that stole money meant
to feed children. I guarantee you that the kids were
still getting food. But you guys were also stealing in Minnesota,
and that's a big problem. But state officials say the

(12:37):
schemes aimed at diverting federal dollars. Federal dollars, Like I said,
this is not about Minnesota money. This is about your
money in Charlotte and my money in Charlotte and all
of that. But they were aimed at diverting federal dollars

(12:57):
meant for people who were poor, food insecure, or disabled. Okay.
You know, and I know that these people got food,
you know. And I know that the poor people who
were food insecure or disabled, they were still getting access
to the food and here's the thing on top of that,

(13:19):
they were just stealing it hand over fist. Because if
you really like, this is what's so pathetic about the
way the news media covers stories. Had they actually taken
the money in all of it, in the entirety, that

(13:41):
would have been a scandal because people would be like,
oh my god, this poor man is emaciated. It looks
like he hasn't had anything to eat in two weeks.
What's wrong with this guy? That would have rung the
alarm bell. So of course you were going to give
them X amount of money. You were just going to
take why and Z amount of money on top of that.

(14:05):
So let's be clear. Minnesota's Democratic Governor Tim Walls took
office in twenty nineteen. When did this start happening in
twenty nineteen? In its early stages, members of the charitable
group Feeding our Future build the State for some hold on,

(14:29):
this is impossible. This is impossible, Nick, What if I
told you Feeding our Future build the State for some
three point four million dollars? What else was three point
four million dollars? Do you do we remember in the
last segment, what was the three point four million dollar

(14:49):
number that was the for the roads that was for
the to get people to ride the train. What's the
three point four million dollar number? That's that's like one
of those numbers, because you can't have it be perfect,
can't be four million, can't be three million, It's got
to be three point four two five million or whatever

(15:10):
it is. By twenty twenty one, however, the number ballooned
how much so well before it was finally halted. Feeding
our Future had falsely claimed to have served ninety one
million meals, for which the group got two hundred and

(15:31):
fifty million dollars in federal money. So why are we
not taking these people and frog marching them and put
them in the orange jumpsuits and put them in jail.
Why are we not doing that? Because that's mean I
got plenty more straight ahead. I'm Brett Winerable, all right.

(16:03):
So very smart person named Don sent a message out
and it was this, Brett, check my math. But I
believe we could hire forty two full time officers an
average annual cost of eighty thousand dollars a year for
three point four million dollars. Yeah we could, we could.
But you know what, remember remember the the the belief

(16:26):
systems that exist are that we can't have we can't
have people uh being patrolled on the on the light rail.
That's that's that's just that's just a terrible that's a
terrible answer. Now I'm I'm being facetious in that regard.
I want people to be safe on the mass transit.

(16:48):
This what I mean. Let's let's try this. Okay, let's
try this as an experiment. This will be a thought experiment.
So let's say God forbid, and I really don't want
to see this happen. But like let's say, I gotta
be really careful here. Okay, Hey, there's a spate of

(17:13):
carjackings that are taking place someplace. It's not done. It
doesn't have to be in Charlotte, but for the purpose
of the argument, I'm gonna use Charlotte as the thing. Okay,
So can you imagine and I'm serious about this, So, like,
let's say there's an epidemic of carjacking. There isn't, but
let's say there is, and and you have people come

(17:39):
out and put out the messaging for three point four
million dollars that there's really not that much carjacking going on,
that the odds of you getting carjacked is probably very low.
So just just drive every where and if you happen

(18:01):
to see a carjacking, then you know. But you see
what I'm saying, right, this is how this is how
people want to ignore the thing that is right in
the middle of the room, and at the same time
they don't do anything about it. Be honest, the guy

(18:25):
that attacked the other man, he's not supposed to be
in the United States. You know, he's in jail right now,
which means he's going to get three hots and a
cot for the foreseeable future. You know that because the

(18:45):
mayor and the governor and everybody else does not want
to see an underprivileged man with tattoos all over his face.
Going back to undo us, Look, I'm willing to say listen,
and I've said it, and I'll say it again. I
promise you I'll say it again. You have to handle

(19:05):
the bad people with expert ability. I mean, you can't
just cut them loose. But that's what people want here.
People want to cut them loose. And that's a that's
like a major problem. That that's not even like, that's
not even And it's such an easy answer, right, It's
such an easy answer when you go ahead and you

(19:28):
look at at how all this stuff is happening. And
this is a this is a world class city, right
we have we have a Michelin restaurant here. And I'm
not talking about tires because I only go to what
he's auto service. But what I'm saying is the Micheline stuff.

(19:52):
That's that's something that is a big deal in this community.
We want to have much more commerce, we want to
have much more business. We want to have Super Bowls,
we want to have all these great things that we
can have. But as long as somebody decides that they're
going to go and attack people because they're drunk and

(20:17):
they're out of their mind and they're stabbing people, I
don't care how much of this that goes on. You're
just not gonna it's not going to happen. It's not
going to be the thing that we are going to
be known for. It's going to be known for, you know.
I mean, you know down the road from here right there,

(20:39):
there's a certain city that they call stab City. I
don't want this to be stab City. I want people
to feel like they're that they're safe and I and
let me just say one thing with absolutely no reservation. Okay,
I'm not talking about the cops. I'm talking about the
tolerance level of social justice wars, period, full stop. I mean,

(21:03):
you just had a woman murdered on the light rail,
You've just had an attack. Have we seen the governor
coming in and riding the rails to kind of build
build a camaraderie with the people who are doing that? What? What?
What is this? What is this governor? This mysterious governor

(21:26):
that we never see unless he's like cutting open a
you know, a ribbon to welcome a brand new sidewalk
or something. This guy is not hands on at all.
He is He's beyond not hands on. He's like a ghost.
Why is he not coming down? Why is Josh Stein
not coming down and saying I'm doing a press conference,

(21:49):
I'm gonna answer a bunch of questions. I'm getting all
the assets that we can give, et cetera, et cetera.
Why why are we not Why are we not seeing
Josh Stein come down? Are there? Are there? Are there
stabbing up in up in Raleigh or Durham? I mean,
is what's going on over there? Because I don't see

(22:09):
the news headlines like we're seeing in Charlotte. Charlotte's a
big is a big city, huge city. World No, we're
world known city. Where's the go like one on the
governor coming to do a tour right around the rails?
Do all that kind of stuff? Doesn't that make sense?
Wouldn't you want to see that. Maybe he's afraid. Maybe

(22:32):
it's not just that he's afraid. Maybe he's afraid and
he's getting told by the state police. Man, we don't
want you on that. We don't want you on those
those rails. Is dangerous. I mean, this is got it.
You gotta grab the bull by the horns, and you
gotta turn it and send it the other way. I

(22:59):
haven't an that there are people that are staying up
all night to witness the h the magic that is
coming at one oh seven nine. I'm just telling you.
That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Uh, this
is a very interesting thing from the President of the
United States. President Trump has bought a fleet of deportation jets.

(23:23):
The Department of Homeland Security has signed a contract of
nearly one hundred and forty million dollars to purchase six
Boeing seven thirty seven planes for deportations. DHS will shift
from relying solely on charter services to operating its own
aircraft after Congress approved a major funding increase for President

(23:47):
Trump's border and immigration agenda. That's according to The Washington Compost.
Two officials familiar with the contract and the records review
by the Post said that ICE may have a broader
plan for the aircraft. Well, like, what are you talking about?

(24:10):
What are you implying? What possibly could we be doing?
How can that happen? They're going to have another plan.
What's the plan going to be? Congress authorized one hundred
and seventy billion dollars for immigration and border operations over

(24:33):
four years as part of the GOP tax bill, and
the plane funding comes from that package. The infusion of
money is tied to the administration's effort to expand enforcement
and meet its stated goal of deporting one million people

(24:54):
before the end of Trump's first year in office. So
what have we got so far? Border borders are? Tom
Homan said the administration has made more than five hundred
and seventy nine thousand removals through the government, but they
have not released to confirm totals. But that's the number
He's going with DHS data shows that nearly sixty six

(25:17):
thousand immigrants are in federal detention. Well, so if you
take sixty six thousand and you add that to five
point seventy nine, you're moving up that number, no doubt
about that. DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLoughlin. That's the person who
the maniacs wanted to try to hurt and kill because

(25:39):
they don't like the deportations taking place. She said the
planes would save money by allowing ICE to fly more
efficient roots. She added that the agency is delivering on
what she described as voter mandates for large scale deportations

(26:00):
of criminal illegal aliens. DHS Secretary Christinomme also says she
wants ICE to have dedicated aircraft for removals. Data lists
Aviation says it provides the commercial and charter aviation services
and tailors the operations to mission needs. Both executives are

(26:25):
also listed in the leadership roles at SOLACE Worldwide Solutions.
So this is the effort that's underway. Human Rights First
is upset. They are saying that ICE conducted seventeen hundred
and one deportation flights to seventy seven countries January twentieth
to October thirty first, and so, no doubt about it.

(26:49):
This is going to be a thing. This is going
to be some sort of of an outrage whatever it's
going to be. But either you're going to take the
the road that is more efficient or not. I mean
that's that's basically what you've got going on here. And
you know, we have to we have to figure this out.

(27:11):
You know. It's it's a it's it's a it's a
big deal. Yes, I did say it is the uh
is done in the Big Beautiful Bill. Yes, somebody was
asking Tom was asking a question. It is the Big
Beautiful Bill that that they are that they are utilizing.
Uh in that regard with other stuff. We have other

(27:32):
stuff and uh let me, uh let me grab this
one clip. Uh. This this is cut number twenty. Can
you give me cut number twenty six, please, Nick, cut
twenty six. Uh, I play it. You just draw your
own conclusion. Cut twenty six. Let ice come to my job,
or my house.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Or my neighborhood.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
I promise you I will be like that lady in
South Carolina and I will use my Second Amendment rights.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
See. I think that's a really bad way to go
so you're gonna shoot at federal agents. That's see, that's
a bad that's a bad pathway. You don't want to
do that. You just you don't want to do that,

(28:22):
all right. I know people ask me all the time.
Can we hear some more from Bernie Sanders? Well, yes,
we can cut number twenty nine in the midst of
the battle for healthcare. What does Bernie Sanders reveal cut twenty.

Speaker 6 (28:40):
Nine before the big beautiful bill, our healthcare system was
a disaster.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
It is this functional, and the American people and Democrats
have got to deal with the fact.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
What hold on? I thought Obamacare was like the pinnacle.
I thought that when Ce Pelosi, Fancy Nancy as I
call her, took that big sledgehammer sized gavel and circled
the capital what was it six times or sixty six times,

(29:15):
I don't remember what it was. She went around saying
you must vote for the bill, to find out what's
in the bill, and all that sort of stuff. I
would much prefer what would be offered by Bernie Sanders
than what we got with the stuff that Nancy Pelosi
was getting done. I would take Bernie's plan every day,

(29:39):
all day if it meant just the Democratic Party was
the only choice. Okay, I would go with Bernie. I'm
not going with Nancy Pelosi because you know, and I know,
Nancy Pelosi knows nothing about what the needs are with
the American people. How do I know? Because she lives
in San Francisco at the top of a hill with

(30:00):
millions and millions and millions of dollars and big refrigerators
and all that sort of stuff. Right, Bernie Sanders, he
talks to all the people and he understands what those
people are clamoring for. Nancy Pelos doesn't pick up a
phone call. She's not gonna talk about any any of
that sort of stuff. She's gonna say, you know, it's

(30:21):
you have to find out what's in it, and it's
it's wonderful, and we're gonna get to impeaching Donald Trump
at the turn of the next year. So just you know,
bea stay, stay stay by, be where you are, Stay
within yourself. I don't know what that means, because I
can't get out if I'm in myself, I don't know

(30:43):
where to get out. Help me out. All right, that's
one hour down. We got more straight ahead. You're gonna
love it. I promise, don't forget what oh seven point
nine tomorrow you want to listen, It's good, gonna be great.

Speaker 7 (31:02):
Buck the moment, and I have Brett water Bow.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
It's great to be with you. The President is sitting
with his advisors, you know, with with a bunch of
these guys that are sitting around at the at the table,
and the President just answered a question saying he is
looking at fixing these problems that are happening at this

(31:36):
at the city level, especially the Safety and Security mission.
So he's he's on top of this. And I'll tell
you something right now. I'm going to talk a little
bit more about it later, But affordability is an issue, right,
people talk about affordability. Okay, question for you seven oh

(31:58):
four or five seven zero eleven ten, or you can
reach out on the WBT text line. You can call
in if you want. What is more important affordability or
safety when it comes to communications? Right, when it comes
to the communicating of an important thing, are you going

(32:22):
to be more driven by safety or more driven by affordability?
And I have thoughts. I'm going to talk about affordability
later on on the show, but I think safety is
an imperative because if you're not, if you don't feel safe,
and it doesn't necessarily mean on the light rail, it

(32:45):
could mean in your neighborhood. It could be where your
kids go to school, it can be when you go shopping.
You're starting to see the neighborhoods getting hollowed out. People
are starting to pack up and head out of town.
What what are we what are we supposed to do?
How are we supposed to do? All this sort of stuff?

(33:07):
Because I think, to be honest, I think that affordability
is a is a fluid thing, kind of like a
gender fluid thing. But safety and security is a is
a very clear imperative. You are either safe or not safe.

(33:28):
Affordability is okay, I can't I can't get the newest
iPhone right, but it also means, oh, I can't afford
to purchase meat, I can't afford to purchase Christmas gifts
for my kids or any of the stuff like that.

(33:48):
So safety, I think, is all encompassing drugs, violence, light rail,
you know, having to to put up with less than

(34:09):
good conditions where you live, all all that sort of
stuff is very important. Just remember when you look at
a neighborhood, when you look at a community once upon
a time it was brand new, and once upon a
time when it was brand new, people kind of liked it.
And then what happens it falls on disrepair disrepute. You

(34:32):
then feel like, I don't want to go over there.
I don't want to be over there. I don't want
to do any of that sort of stuff. So that
I mean, this is this is what we're looking at
and what Trump is doing. And make no mistake about this.
I watched him last night. Bow and Beth and I
were talking about this this morning. The only thing I
didn't like about Trump last night he dropped a number

(34:54):
of sh words if you know what I'm saying, and
I didn't. I think if you have people trying to
consume the messaging, I don't know that you need to
drop the sh quite so liberally. But Trump, at his
best back in twenty seventeen, was a person who acted

(35:21):
like a mayor of a city. If you go back,
he was looking at all sorts of things that needed
to be fixed, and what he did was phenomenal. It
was phenomenal in the early part, and then when COVID
came in, when China sent the virus to the United

(35:43):
States to try to blow up all of our opportunity
with a strong economy, all that sort of stuff. Then
we ended up with a real mess. We ended up
with an amazingly bad mess because they didn't want Donald
Trump to succeed. They want him to get the edge

(36:03):
over the CCP. And now this is a different Trump,
but he should still go. And I think lead people
in terms of what it looks like for a mayor
or a leader in that regard. I think those are
important things to have on the line there because otherwise

(36:26):
people will just pack up their stuff and leave. America
is more mobile today than it's ever been at all,
even during COVID, right, So people can go to Florida,
people can go to Nashville, people can go to Texas,
people can go to the Midwest. People can go to
a lot of different places. And you can choose those

(36:47):
sorts of things if you don't like the way things
are going about. And yet you'll look at some of
these other cities and I think there are things that
can be fixed in Charlotte. I think there are are
easily fixable things if you decide to squash the social
justice sort of mentions and things like that. And you

(37:09):
really want to get bad people off the off the streets.
That's important. And Rudy Giuliani did it. He did it
right after he took over after Dinkins. And you can
see this, I mean you can see it immediately. It
does work. It does work. I got more thoughts of
straight ahead. I'm Brett Woodabule. You're listening to the Brett

(37:32):
Woterbule Show. I got a question, what isn't this weird?
Like just think about this for a minute. Okay. J
six was this huge important story. Everybody was going to jail,
everybody was getting thrown out of the cup whatever. It
was going to be. Right when how come we haven't

(37:56):
heard anything else from the J six bomber, Like wouldn't
that be big story? Like if that was a guy
who was attacking liberals, like it would be it would
be all over the news. But it's weird. J six
I think just went away. Boom bye bye bye bye.
In Minnesota, nearly this is Breitbart reporting, Okay, John Binder,

(38:23):
solid writer. In Minnesota, nearly every Somali household with children
is on welfare. That's the reporting. It's more than eight
in ten households headed by Somali refugees in the state
of Minnesota are on one or more forms of American
taxpayer funded welfare. New data published by the Center for

(38:47):
Immigration Studies CIS reveals the data is based on ten
years of data from going back from the Census Bureaus
American community that's the one that always comes to your
house every ten years. It shows drastic disparities between native
born American households and Somali born households in Minnesota, where

(39:11):
nearly eighty thousand residents have Somali ancestry compared to zero
who had Somali ancestry in nineteen ninety. Okay, but we
have to be accurate with this. You didn't really have

(39:32):
a lot of Somali's coming into the United States until
right around nineteen ninety, which is when they started migrating
to the country of the United States. And that was
because George Bush, not George W. Bush, but George Bush
provided a pathway for them to come into the United States.

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And if you go back in time, because I remember
when this was happening, if you go back in time,
originally they were settling them in of all places, now
think about Somalia, right, they were putting them in I
think Caribou Maine. I'm not. This is not like any
kind of a joke. They took people from Somalia and

(40:19):
put them way up in the northern part of Maine,
which at the time I went to college in Massachusetts.
I went to college in Boston, and I remember seeing
the reporting that was coming down from Maine into the Hub,
and I remember seeing the stories that were being covered

(40:41):
in that regard. So, I mean, if you go back
to nineteen ninety, there were really not that many, but
from that point on they did migrate into the United States.
Just just to be accurate. In particular, the data shows
eighty one percent of Minnesota households headed by Somali refugees
are on one or more forms of welfare, including twenty

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seven percent who are on cash welfare that you get
straight just cash money, fifty four percent who are on
food stamps, and seventy three percent who are on medicaid.
Compare this welfare use to Native born Americans residing in Minnesota,

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only twenty one percent of whom are on one or
more forms of welfare, including just six percent who are
on cash welfare, seven percent who are on food stamps,
and eighteen percent who are on Medicaid. Now here's the
other point that I think needs to be looked at,

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and it's this, why why is Tim Walls not standing
behind a podium answering questions to the reporters, Because if
if there was this maximum amount of usage, why are
we not hearing that from the governor of the state
he was planning on running again? What is this all about? Right?

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I mean, when you when you when you look at
when you look at all this sort of stuff, it's
it just it makes you, It makes you wonder. And
and by the way, who knows who else is getting
aid around that are that are spread around the country.
Remember when when the when Joe Biden was bringing people

(42:37):
into the country. Remember we we had that conversation. So
when he was bringing all those people into the country
who were not necessarily eligible, remember there was a bunch
of kids they were they were flying them in the
darken night into you know, places like White Plains, New
York and things like that, those those sideways places. Are

(43:00):
are they still receiving aid? And who are the people
that are responsible for getting them the aid? Because a
lot of them, their parents weren't they didn't come. They
just went and took the journey on their own, and
so you have a whole bunch of NGOs. No ngo

(43:21):
does not mean not good. The NGOs are these organizations
where people go out there and they try to help
They try to help people, and they try to make
money off of it, and they try to do all
this other sort of stuff. I mean, look, we have
to be honest. The only way we're ever going to
get to the bottom of all of this has happened
in the last decade is just to find out what
exactly happened and how this all happened, so that we

(43:44):
can then say, okay, let's let's figure out what goes next.
And unfortunately, right unfortunately it's it's not a priority. It
just is not a priority. It's a it's a it's
a weird thing. Oh boy, just right on time. Gunboat

(44:08):
diplomacy returns. US seizes oil tanker off of Venezuela. This
just happening in the last hour. The gunboat diplomacy was
on full display Wednesday afternoon, after Bloomberg reported that the
US forces intercepted and seized a sanctioned Venezuelan oil tanker

(44:33):
off the coast of Venezuela. This move underscores the Trump
administration's Monroe two point zero posturing as Washington seeks to
reassert control over the Western hemisphere after years of neglect.
Bloomberg cited sources who did not disclose the tanker's name

(44:54):
or the general area where the US military forces seized
the vessel. Wow, congratulate relations to to the people at
Bloomberg for not giving up the name or the place.
That's that's a big that's a big move. That's a
huge move. The move here is foreign policy, and it's

(45:18):
a tactic known as gunboat diplomacy. It's where US military
has stationed warships, jets, bombers and troops that are ready
to push Maduro out. And we're gonna wait and see
what this looks like. I said yesterday and I said
it again this morning. The way you fix the problem

(45:41):
is and emp right on his palace. Just just take
out the infrastructure, not not the physical infrastructure, but knock
Meduro into the stone ages because he will not be
he will not have the ability to coordinate with all

(46:02):
of his generals and all of his people that keeps
him in power. You could just emp it and then
wait and then say, Okay, you're done. It's over. We
don't have to go kinetically. We could just pull the
plug on him. The polymarket odds, by the way, for
the US versus Venezuela military engagement by March thirty first

(46:23):
of twenty twenty six is surging. I don't think we're
gonna go to war, all right, We got plenty more
straight ahead. I'm Brett Wittable. Hey, it's the Brett Wittable Show.

(46:53):
It is great to be with you.

Speaker 8 (46:54):
You know.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
I'm still thinking about what we saw happen over the
weekend with the nonsense on the train. It's not nonsense.
It's attempted murder. And that's a very obvious to anybody
who sees this. But here's the thing that I never
thought we would see. And I'm dead serious. I never

(47:18):
thought we would see an optional sort of approach when
it comes to safety and security. Like I never understood
why it is that people will tolerate violence, will tolerate
all this stuff that goes on. And look, I've I

(47:39):
told you, I've I've ridden, you know, horrible subway runs,
I've done all sorts of things like that. And I
understand that you know, if it's if it's five gang
members on one person, you know, you got to kind
of understand that you're not going to get in a
fight with these guys. But here's the problem that I have.

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We have gotten to a place where we as a
culture are fragile. And it's not a nice sort of fragile.
It's a horrifyingly awful, disgusting fragile. You see these kids
in school. You see these kids in school. There are

(48:23):
no more fistfights. People decide they're gonna bring a gat.
People are gonna bring a gun and shoot people. That
to me, That to me is despicable. We have got
to get to a place where people understand that there

(48:44):
are going to be consequences. Either the consequences are going
to be foisted upon you or they are going to
be delivered by people who are sick and tired of
criminality at every possible turn. My gosh, you see this story.
It's been running all day and you've heard about it
on you know, Channel three and all the other channels.

(49:05):
This this young woman with kids who's disappeared. This should
be a big deal, but it's the kind of stuff
we've tolerated now. Now I'm I'm not like a wacko.
I'm not some kind of a nut. I'm not any
of that stuff. But I'm gonna tell you right now, females,

(49:25):
go get guns. You have to be able to defend yourself.
And if it means that, for some reason you have
to protect yourself, then good. The only way you stop
a cobra is to get a mongoose. Okay. And the

(49:47):
problem is we are surrendering every single day. We surrender
to the elements of crime and lunacy and all of this.
And I swear to you, the only way you're gonna
get right with this system right now that we've got
the only way you're gonna be able to do this

(50:08):
is to mandatory mandatory. You're getting locked up in the
in the crazy house, period full. I mean, why are
we allowing people to come around and get among the
regular people who are normal people. Why do we have

(50:28):
to tolerate these people? You want to know where it
all started? Schools. Everybody had to be mainstreamed, even the
lunatics had to be mainstreamed. You know what I'm talking about.
Once upon a time, they used to track the kids,
the smart ones, the less smart ones, the even less

(50:49):
smart ones and the ones who were probably destined for
heartache and pain. There is not a problem with looking
at a football game and saying that guy's a really
good runner. That guy is terrible. Why is he on

(51:11):
the field. Throughout your life, you have to make decisions.
I want to speak specifically to the young people in
this audience. Do not sell out your opportunities because you
feel guilty that you get good grades. You are a
stellar student. You are somebody who cares. You are somebody

(51:35):
who is doing all the right things in all the
right ways. Do not ever surrender that because you will
be functional when you get into the world. You will
be functional when you get into the world. You'll be
able to get a job. Do you know the most
important ability when it comes to getting a job being

(51:58):
a successful person, it's availability. You don't come in drunk
every day, you don't come in and reek of weed,
you don't come in and do all that sort of
stuff like that. You show up every single day and
you do it because you are are going to be

(52:19):
a successful person. And the minute the idiots, the dummies,
the weirdos, the dummies decide to come up and say, oh,
why do you want to be a smart guy. Why
do you want to be a smart guy? Because I
want money, because I want opportunity, because I don't want
to have to be in a class with you. I mean,
this is what we're talking about. I'm just giving you

(52:40):
real talk here, all right, I'm just giving you real talk.
The fact of the matter is, there is some sort
of a belief that if you kneecap yourself that that's
some kind of a tough thing or a big thing.
That's not the case. That's not the case at all.
I would much rather be around functioning person who can

(53:01):
put a thought together. And look, please, please, I am
not talking about people who have absolutely no control over
their lot in life. Okay, I'm not talking about people
who are profoundly in difficult circumstances. I'm talking about people
who choose to become criminals. I'm talking about people who
decide that they're going to go and take your stuff

(53:24):
sometimes try to take your life. This is the problem
we have. And there's a reason why Charlotte has the
crime rate it does, and the communities around Charlotte doesn't
necessarily have the same sort of challenges that exist. But
anybody can move into nicer neighborhoods. Anybody can move into

(53:48):
lesser neighborhoods, anybody can move out into the boondocks, whatever
it's going to be. But the fact of the matter
is this is an important thing that you have got
to understand. Every decision you make is your DECISSI again,
exempting the people who may have a a a defect

(54:08):
or something that is wrong that they can't control. I
understand that. I'm not. I'm not a person who is
you know, sitting back and thinking that that's that's just
too bad. I'm talking about people who choose to be criminals.
I'm talking about people who choose to go and attack people.
And for goodness sakes, for goodness sakes, we have got

(54:29):
to take this guy that went out and attacked that
man on the on the on the line, and you
know what we gotta do. We got to just send
him right back to ads. Just send him right back.
And I'm telling you, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna.
You're not gonna talk me out of this. We have
to chip these guys. We have to chip them. Just
give them a cookie, they go out, You chip them,

(54:51):
and then you know where they're gonna be or where
they're not gonna be. This is how it's got to be,
especially especially if you're coming into our country to try
to create problems. Who he's talking to nine three soon

(55:20):
to be one O seven point nine, it's going to
be happening. Well, by this time tomorrow, we're gonna be
one O seven point nine. It's gonna be awesome. I'm
gonna have a great opportunity later on today, tonight, I'm
gonna spend some time with the men and women of
law enforcement. And I got to tell you something. I
respect them so very very much. I don't think I

(55:43):
I would be able to fit the fit the bill
if it was time for me to go out there
and try to be a cop or something like that.
But you know, one of the things I'm going to
talk about, and it's I think an important thing, a
very important thing. You know, every officer who straps on
a badge knows that they may walk into danger so

(56:05):
others can walk in peace. And the sin, the sin
of the overhang after the COVID lunacy and the riots
and the things, is that people who went into very
difficult conditions during COVID, who had to go and spend

(56:28):
time with the emotionally disturbed people, whatever it is, and
the men and women of law enforcement don't get nearly
the credit that they deserve. They don't get nearly the
credit they deserve because every call that comes in, as
I just said, every officer who straps on a badge
knows that they may walk into danger so others can

(56:50):
walk in peace. They don't get the luxury of hesitation.
They don't get the comfort of certainty. They make split
second decisions in chaos, not for glory and not for applause,
but for duty. The people who defend our country overseas,

(57:14):
the people that defend our neighborhoods here at home, the firefighters,
the ambulance drivers, the coroners, sadly, the sheriffs, the police
officers that work in uncertain territory. They are the people

(57:37):
that we should be honored too. To be with, I've
gotten a couple of tickets in my life. A lot
of people have, and I have never even even when
I knew that I was on the right, that I
was right in what I did. Yeah, I never in

(58:02):
a million years would say horrible things to men and
women in law enforcement. Get a ticket, take your medicine.
Go get go, get your lawyer and see if you
can plee it down or do whatever it's going to be.
I mean a lot of people have to have to
do that kind of stuff. But and luckily I haven't
had one in a really long time. But I don't

(58:27):
look at people and say, I hope you da da
da da dua, because that's a that's not the way
it needs to be. And I understand, I understand. Everybody's
got a station in life, and sometimes it's things that

(58:48):
are foisted upon you. Sometimes it is the sort of
thing that just happens. And I have to tell you
the idea of the idea of watching these ice officers.
And you saw this story. I'm sure Tricia McLoughlin, who

(59:11):
was a I'm happy to say, a friend of mine.
I've worked with her at at the White House when
I've gone and spent time, you know, let me just
tell you something here. There's these two guys down in Absecon,
New Jersey who decided that they were going to kill

(59:34):
Tricia because they don't like that people are getting deported.
If you're angry about people getting deported, you should go
and visit Alejandro Majorkis, or maybe ask for a meeting

(59:54):
with President Biden. And I'm not saying the criminal guys, right,
I'm not saying that, But I'm saying, if you're mad
about if you're mad about ice officers having to operate
on American streets, you need to be angry at the Democrats,
not the Republicans. The shame of this is the men

(01:00:15):
and women of law enforcement are doing their job. You
can go in front of a judge, you can make
your argument, you can claim asylum, you can do all
that sort of stuff. But I'm gonna give you a
little bit of advice having grown up on the border,
and I sound like a broken record when I talk
about it, but when you live on the border with

(01:00:36):
Mexico probably a little different than people who live on
the border with Canada, but when you go to the
border with Mexico and you see the quality of life
that exists in Mexico, I mean, any one of us
would not want to live in Mexico. That we would
not want to be a part of it, We would

(01:00:57):
not want to be doing any of that sort of
stuff at all. But the reality is, this is this
is what we've got. And because Joe Biden wanted to
single handedly get as much of these people into our
country because the exodus coming out of inner city schools,

(01:01:21):
and he knows full well that he needs to refill
the coffers. It's Joe Biden's problem, it's Alejandro Majorcis's problem,
it's all of those people's problem. And I know, you know,
I'm gonna I'm gonna bounce around a little bit on
this and coming up to this next segment, I want
to talk about a mandami and this affordability thing. Okay,

(01:01:43):
and I don't I don't make light of it. I'm
not making fun of it, none of that, none of
that at all. But let me just tell you you're getting played.
You're getting played. You're getting played by Ilhan Omar, You're
you're getting played by Rashida Talib, You're getting played by
Hank Johnson. You're gonna get played by all of these
people who just want to tell you that, you know,

(01:02:05):
the country is changing. Is the country changing? Is the
country changing? Or are there just people coming in who
are trying to change the country. I would argue that
they're coming in trying to change the country. I don't
think the country is changing. I think what you're seeing
in American cities, big American cities, Charlotte, Baltimore, Washington, d

(01:02:30):
c LA, you know the riff. I think what we're
seeing is there are people who are saying, you know what,
this is getting too hot for me, and I think
I'm just gonna hit the bricks. I don't think I
need to be in any more of this than I
am right now. And so the thing becomes what happens

(01:02:51):
next well the cities, because you hollow out your money base,
you and up with the situation where the cities are
starting to collapse. I told you last week that any
twosome Newsom has got a plan, and the plan that
he has got right now any too, some Newsom wants

(01:03:13):
to be able to claw back money out of your
tax refunds, even if you left five years ago. Oh
good luck. Our number three of the Brett Winterbowl Show.
It is great to be with you as we soldier
on and we look at all the different storylines that

(01:03:34):
are happening. I watched the President last night. I thought
the President gave a pretty good show. There was some
stuff in there that I wasn't necessarily hyped about, but
affordability is an issue that people are talking about. And
I understand the affordability thing. Believe me. I've lived in

(01:03:54):
really expensive places and I've had, you know, sometimes not
live in great places because I didn't have enough money
once upon a time. And the reason why I think
the President is gravitating to this idea of affordability is
because affordability, if you get down to the brass tacks

(01:04:16):
of affordability, affordability is whatever you want to define it as.
And I know it sounds crazy to say it that way,
but if you want to find out about affordability, what
is it? It's not something that cuts across the lines.
Somebody who is living on the streets has a profound

(01:04:42):
problem when it comes to affordability. How are you supposed
to go if you're somebody and you try to go
to a men's shelter or a woman's shelter, depending on
your circumstances. You know, it's awfully hard to get a
job when you don't have clean clothes, when you don't

(01:05:03):
have things that you would need as a daily sort
of approach. Companies sometimes will will not want to have
somebody who lives in a shelter because they don't have
a permanent place to live or a semi permanent place
to live, because companies will say, well, this is maybe,

(01:05:27):
you know, maybe you should work on a couple of
things and then try to come back. I mean, these
are the challenges that exist, right. So you when you
talk about affordability, right, you can go affordability all the
way from somebody who's on the streets or somebody who's
got mental mental defects where they're not really able to

(01:05:47):
take care of themselves, all the way up to you know,
a very wealthy person like Nancy Pelosi who started off
with just a couple of bucks in her pocket, and
she became somebody who was, you know, able to have
a you know, three hundred million dollars in in in
in the in the book. But here's here's the thing
about this, though. Affordability is kind of something like well, spicy,

(01:06:16):
right if you if you say, how how do you
want to have your uh, your your food? Oh I
like it spicy? How spicy do you like it? See,
the Left is really good at taking these words and
then sort of shaping them and moving them into a

(01:06:37):
desired outcome. Now, the desired outcome is always the same.
There is no doubt about this at all. Okay, the
desired outcome is always higher taxes. You are greedy, uh,
socialized medicine and whatever else they need, right they they

(01:06:58):
they never talk about a and I'm not I'm not
making any fun of anybody. They don't talk about the
affordability of sex changes. Right You hear all the time
from the from the Blue States. Well, we have to
we have to have gender affirming treatment for these people

(01:07:19):
who are not in their right body. They need to
be in the other body or whatever that is. I
don't even know how expensive a sex change operation is,
which is essentially what we're talking about. I don't know
what that costs. I'm gonna guess it's probably like one
hundred hundred and fifty thousand dollars maybe, I mean, depending
on where you are. But is how are these people

(01:07:42):
affording that? What's the affordability of that? Oh no, no, no,
don't worry about that. Don't worry about that, because we
have a foundation and we have donations that come in
from Hollywood, and they will certainly cover the cost of
your trans transgender reassignment. Okay, there's no problem with that
at all. Yeah, but what about the veteran on the corner.

(01:08:04):
What about the veteran who's in a shelter? What is
there affordability for him? Does he get anything special? You
can give him a one hundred thousand dollars house. See
this is it's about the notion of affordability is really basically,
when you drill down on this, affordability is what you

(01:08:24):
can afford. And I and I know, I know it
sounds like I'm Joe Isuzu. If you remember that commercial
back in the in the eighties, he just lied about everything,
lied about everybody, lied about all this sort of stuff
like that. In fact, the fact of the matter is
affordability is how much you can afford. Now, if you

(01:08:47):
think about it, right, Beto O'Rourke, he probably can afford
a lot because he comes from big money. You think
about somebody who wants to run for off, Kamala Harris
or Kamala Harris. I don't want to I'm not trying
to be a jerk either. It's either Kamala or Kamala Harris.

(01:09:08):
She's got she's rolling in dough. You know who else
is rolling in dough? But he may be rolling into
the jail cell at some point, Tim Walls, Tim Walls,
I mean, what did they take a trillion dollars? No,
not trillion dollars, but a billion dollars in waste, fraud
and abuse. So when you hear people talk about affordability,

(01:09:32):
affordability is just what you can afford. There's no way
to take from the rich and give to the poor.
I mean you can call for that. We tried that
once with Occupy Wall Street or Occupy Wall Street because
everybody was pooping on the sidewalks. You could do that

(01:09:53):
all day, every day. But again, how are you actually
manifesting what needs to be done here? And while we're
talking about the idea of these folks who are in
our country, who are newcomers? Right? Remember they there was
a big, big back and forth to find out who

(01:10:14):
the newcomers were. One person that I met said to me,
I haven't met the newcomers yet. And I said, what
do you mean the newcomers? This person thought it was
a family called the newcomers, right, weird, very very literal,

(01:10:35):
a very literal take. But they said, oh, I haven't
met the newcomers yet. Well, they're all over the place.
You don't see them around the neighborhood. So the challenge
here is to get with it now. Mom, Dami was
really the guy in this iteration to spearhead the notion

(01:10:59):
of a every other word out of his mouth was
and we're going to have affordability, and we're going to
have a lot of affordability. Affordability is going to be here.
We're going to have grocery stores that are stocked for free,
and it's going to be wonderful. And you can ride
the train. Come on, ride the train. Woooo. I mean,

(01:11:20):
the thing is, if you if you want to find
out what's what and how it's going to be manifesting,
you want to try to be around these progressives. Why
is it And I'm going to talk about this in
the next segment, but why is it that that we
will go around the world to overthrow governments but we

(01:11:45):
will not go around and overthrow governors who might actually
need to be turned out. Why Why are we not
running operations like that? And I'm not talking about anything
like illegal. I'm just saying, is all I'm saying. News
Talk eleven ten nine nine three WBT Brettwitterbull Show, Good
to be with you, don't forget tomorrow, tomorrow. It's really

(01:12:08):
really technically, if you look at the clock, it's just
hours away where we are now going to be heard
on one oh seven point nine, and it's gonna be great,
very excited. Everything is gonna be a remarkable tomorrow, and
no doubt about it. I'm very excited. I'm also very
excited about getting a chance to go and spend some

(01:12:28):
time with great men and women in law enforcement. And
I'm gonna be spending a little bit of time tonight
speaking to the men and women of law enforcement and
of course Chief Kathy, which is always great love. I
love the service that people are able to be a

(01:12:50):
part of. And you know, when you think about all
of this stuff, right, when you think about all of
these things, got great opportunities here, I mean really great
opportunities when when you look at the when you look
at the challenges that we're facing. It's a serious thing.

(01:13:12):
But unfortunately we have a situation where we have people
who are very unseerious in their own sort of life.
Oh Brett, come on, I mean, who are you talking about.
Oh oh you want you want evidence? I got evidence
for you. Hold on, Hold on right here, check this,

(01:13:32):
check this out. You guys know Hank Johnson. Hank Johnson,
Remember he was the guy who thought that Guam was
gonna capsize if you put any more troops on the
on the ground. That's not a joke. I mean, as
Joe Biden would say, not a joke, not an autopen,
not an autopen at all. But yeah, he he thought
that if you put too many troops on Guam you

(01:13:56):
would capsize, uh, the land, which would be incredible, it
really would be. But listen to this. There's a guy
named Dean Obodalla. Dean Obadala is a super progressive leftist,
pro Palestinian kind of guy. And I don't care, I mean,

(01:14:19):
whatever is politics. So I'm just trying to give you
the backstory as to who this guy is. So he's
got Hank Johnson on the show. Okay, ladies and gentlemen,
I want to warn you in advance you do not
punch your car, radio, or your device because he this guy,

(01:14:44):
not Obadella. Obadella is like he seems to be a
little bit. Hank Johnson says that America is the great Satan. Now,
that is direct, straight up, one hundred percent, no doubt
about it. Iranian talking points if ever there was one.

(01:15:08):
So here's the problem. You can have free speech all
you want. You can free speech yourself twenty four to seven,
three sixty five. But unfortunately, this kind of stuff goes
around the world. People go out there and they they
hear what this is and they think that, yes, the
United States is the great Satan. We are the great Satan.

(01:15:29):
It is the most disgusting sort of an argument you
can make when you know how many Americans, how many
Americans lost their lives to IEDs that were put together
by the Iranians, and this dummy not saying who I'm

(01:15:53):
not gonna mention his name again. This guy thinks it's
just a talking point where you can just say terrible
things about our country. But he's a member of Congruous.
This guy needs to get balanced somebody. Why doesn't somebody
run against him. Why don't we get Marjorie Taylor Green

(01:16:15):
to be useful and go and take his seat. I'm serious,
I'm not joking around. Here's the problem that I have
with all of the stuff that goes on, all this drama,
stuff that goes on. The rest of the world sees this,
They see this, and they understand that they can utilize

(01:16:39):
this against the United States of America. I saw a
video earlier today, very early, because I get up like
crazy early, and I was looking at the video and
the video was, of all things, it was the boats
that are going out of Venezuela to liver cocaine and

(01:17:02):
other stuff to our country. And let me tell you something,
and I'm gonna give you an ab comparison here over
the course of the next two segments. There's a guy
named It just makes me laugh. It makes me laugh
when I say this guy's name because he's a congressman

(01:17:23):
from Washington State, Adam Smith. He's the furthest you could
possibly be from. Adam Smith. He is not a free
market guy or anything like that. And I do think
he kind of hates the country. I think he likes
his job, but he kind of hates the country. I think,
you know, we have a lot of people who are

(01:17:43):
very embarrassed about the United States of America, kind of
like the cousins that you have that they have to
show up at your house and you're kind of embarrassed.
You don't want to talk to him, which I think
is terrible. You should always just be decent with people.
That's what I try to do. I call a lot
of people out. I sometimes maybe even try to throw
an insult here or there, but it's almost always, it's

(01:18:06):
almost always deserving. But Adam Smith, Adam Smith, is well,
he's just this guy that wants to be on TV.
I mean, for real, Like, I remember how milk toast
he was when he was massaging General Millie after the

(01:18:26):
failure of the pullout in Afghanistan, and it was amazing
to me that he was completely non plussed. He was
completely nonplussed. He was without plus. And I want you
to hear Adam Adam Smith, because the real Adam Smith,

(01:18:47):
the original Adam Smith, is probably spinning in his grave.
My lord listen, listen to Adam Smith.

Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
But even worse than that, the notion is that cocaine
still could have gotten to the United States, and they're
treating that cocaine like it's a weapon. Basically, they're treating
that image of those two people on that boat like
a situation where I don't know, you see a car
bomb headed towards an embassy or something instruck. It seems

(01:19:15):
like it's incapacitated, But is it incapacitated.

Speaker 1 (01:19:18):
We don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:19:18):
There's still a couple of people there. Maybe they can
complete the mission. Maybe they can get that bomb to
the building and blow it up, And that too is
kind of absurd.

Speaker 1 (01:19:28):
Wait, if cocaine is as valuable as it is, of
course they're going to start throwing it overboard, hoping, hoping
that somebody else is going to be able to come
by and pick it up. I mean, this, why why
do you why do you denigrate this notion? He seems
like he's excited about the cocaine. He seems like he's

(01:19:48):
really excited about it. But I mean, what are you doing? Man,
I'm serious about this. This is this is crazy time.
I don't fortunately, this is what we've this is what
we've got, and it's a it's a it's a sin.
It's it's really a sin. And welcome back. It's the

(01:20:12):
Brettwitterer Bulls Show. It is great to be with you
as we uh soldier on and talk about everything that's
kind of interesting to me as far as I'm concerned,
and as you are as well.

Speaker 4 (01:20:22):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:20:22):
I'm going to be spending time later tonight with a
fundraiser at Sheriff Cathy's re election, and we're gonna be
uh getting together over at the Hunter Farm, and I
can't wait to see the folks who are coming out
to get my thoughts there. They've they've asked me to
give some thoughts on on what it is that is

(01:20:44):
ailing us and and what it is that is ailing
us abroadly. And so I'm excited. I'm excited for this.
You know, I always love to interact with people. So
I give you have something if you if you have
an event that you would want me to come and
talk to you. Ah, I'm game. I'm game for it
as long as I'm not booked. And the thing is

(01:21:06):
what I like about all of this is it's important
for talk radio to interface with the folks in law
enforcement or in businesses and things like that. And here's
why I say it, because in many ways we are

(01:21:27):
right there with the people who are coming around and
and and wondering, well, what are the people having to say?
Like I get a bunch of people coming around, going
so what are the people saying? What are they calling about?
Talk radio is like the most effective way to find
out what people are talking about. And and I will
and I will be ecumenical, okay, or acumical, whether it's

(01:21:52):
news talk or whether it's sports talk at WBT and
over at FNZ, you you will find out immediately what
people are thinking about. And that's what's so cool. I'm not,
I'm not. I don't want to like beat a dead horse.
But let me just say something about talk radio that
most people do not understand. And it is not that

(01:22:17):
we are pummeling you into agreeing with everything we say,
because there's a lot of people that try to say
that they did that a lot with Clinton, uh and
Hillary Clinton, and they would say that, you know, Rush
Rush Limbaugh is mind what was it? Mind spring robots

(01:22:37):
and all sorts of things like that, right, I mean
it was, it was. It was a remarkable thing to
see in that time. Mind numbed robots. I know, I'm
just joking around. Mind numbed robots. Talk radio is it's
exactly one hundred and eighty degrees the other way because
you call in and we have a conversation, and you know,

(01:22:59):
I I I take calls from everybody. I don't necessarily
take them like all the time twenty four to seven.
But if people want to show up and talk to us,
I love it. I do it. Pete does it, Vince
does it, Bo and Beth do it on Good Morning BT,
and then you know TJ. Ritchie breaking, Brett Jensen even

(01:23:23):
all you go into the nighttime hours and what do
you have. You got George Nori. He's taken calls and
he's not telling you what to think. See, people who
don't want regular people to be part of politics, they
just create this lie that is you're just pro you're

(01:23:43):
just promoting only what you want to promote. Well, that's
not really true. Like, for example, if I suddenly became
very very engaged with something like Scrimshaw, Okay, go look
it up, and I just talked about Scrimshot twenty four
to seven. I didn't talk about news of the day.

(01:24:04):
I didn't talk about Trump, I didn't talk about Biden,
I didn't talk about anybody else. Yeah, I would be
I would be very short lived. They'd be like, you know,
have you ever thought about doing a podcast? By the way,
I'm gonna do a podcast coming up in the next
couple of weeks. I've got a whole new podcast, a
project that's gonna be dynamite. But but the thing is,

(01:24:25):
we are not mind numbing. First of all, we are fascinating.
Number one number two. We are excellent at what we do.
And it's it's it's a buffet of incredibleness when you
when you get to spend time with people who call
in on the show. And there's a reason why I

(01:24:47):
like I like my regulars and I like my newbies
because different sort of ideas, different sort of things coming
your way, always good, always good. Learning more you're learning,
I learning, we're learning. That guy over there, he ain't
learning nothing because he's just gonna stick to his talking points.
But that's okay, that's another way of doing it. But

(01:25:09):
let me let me let you hear from your minority
senate leader in one mister Chuck Schumer, this is just
beyond the pale. Listen to this, check this out.

Speaker 8 (01:25:26):
It was a very unsatisfying briefing. I asked Secretary Hexceth,
Secretary of Defense Exceth, would he let every member of
Congress see the unedited videos of the September second strike.
His answer, we have to study it well. In my view,

(01:25:48):
they've studied it long enough, and Congress ought to be
able to see it. I told him that every member
of Congress, so many members of Congress, Democrat and Republican,
had a right to see it, wanted to see it,
and should see in terms of Venezuela. I asked them
what their strategy is and what they were doing. Again,
did not get satisfying answers at all.

Speaker 1 (01:26:11):
Chuck Schumer is not long for the position that he's
in because he's just so mad all the time. There's
zero joy with this guy. I would just hand it
over to who would I hand it over to over
on the Democrat side, Maybe Patty Murray. I think I

(01:26:31):
think I would hand it over to Patty Murray. I
think Patty Murray would be She's been there forever. I
mean she's been there since like ninety six or something.
She's from Washington State. I'm not a big fan of
Patty Murray, but I will say this about Patty Murray.
She is somebody who has certainly put in the time
and the work. You'll know Patty Murray because when you

(01:26:52):
look when Chuck Schumer is speaking or they have a
cutaway from the Senate, she's a older lady and she's
got she wears like a bob, haircut like a bob,
and that that's her. She's usually sitting h right behind
and maybe to the right from Schumer. Because she's a

(01:27:15):
she's a very high ranking person, and I think they
ought to they ought to give her an opportunity. I
think it would be great. Look you had you had
Nancy Pelosi, who was you know, a person who was
able to to to really wreck the house. But she
was she was somebody that people were afraid of. And
I think Patty Murray Chuck Schumer, Chuck Schumer should not

(01:27:37):
be He shouldn't be in the number when he shouldn't
be in the Senate because he's in New York City
and New York City is not what it was twenty
five years ago. It's barely holding on affordability, affordability. I
don't think we can afford Chuck Schumer. I think the
affordability kind of bite back has got to go uh

(01:27:58):
with with Chuck. Chuck's got to be that guy. He
has to be that guy, because what's the point, right,
I mean, this is Chuck is not getting it done.
Go give it to Hakeem Jeffries. He would be historic, right,
you would have Hakeem Jefferies give him the job. But Chuck,
Chuck has nothing, no way, no how, no plans, no

(01:28:22):
none of that sort of stuff is going on. All right,
I'm due for a break. We're gonna get this break.
I've got thoughts on the other side. Stick around. I'm
Brett Witterbow. I've approved all of these segments so far,
and I am encouraging you to when you're in your
car hit that one oh seven nine because we want

(01:28:44):
you to be able to hear us tomorrow. I'm serious.
It's gonna be great, I promise. All right. My name
is Brett Wiable. I am doing talk radio. And let's
head on over to Pam the Jam Warner and get
a look at the roads and welcome back. It's the
Brettwinterer Bull Show. All right. So let's take a look

(01:29:04):
at a couple other stories that that are that are
making making people's tongues wag. Okay, And I I mean
it's just because this is this is the sort of
stuff that I think is very interesting, the policies, the
stuff that we're trying to, you know, accomplish in a
variety of different sort of ways. When when I when
I go back and I and I look at a

(01:29:26):
lot of this territory. Okay, I just gotta say a
couple of things, you know what, I'm not even gonna
say it. I'm not even gonna pre sell it to you.
I'm gonna let you hear it. Boom bob boom, okay,
boom bab boom. It's a technology that is working very well. Here.
Let me let me start with with this and and

(01:29:50):
this is something that is remarkable in and of its own. Uh.
This is Jasmine Crockett. You know, she's gonna run for
the Senate against h Cornin, and it's because her seat
has been you know, basically taken out. And so here
is a Jasmine Crockett. And one of the things about
her is she's she's got it right right where it's

(01:30:14):
got to be. Here here we go three to.

Speaker 5 (01:30:17):
What I understood what was kind of pushing them there.
And so I do want people to know that just
because someone has committed a crime, it doesn't make them
a criminal. That that is completely different. Being a criminal
is more so about your mindset. Committing a crime can
come for a lot of different reasons.

Speaker 1 (01:30:38):
Okay, I think I've got a better job for her
than running for the Senate because I don't think she's
gonna win the Senate. I think she should be the Look,
let's be honest here, Okay, there's a lot of crime
in the country. There's a there's a substantial amount of
crime in the country. So why don't we have an
ambassador to criminals? No, I'm serious. You could. You could

(01:30:59):
have them in. You could have them interface with Maduro,
you could have them interface with Putin, you could have
them interface with all the rough neighborhoods around the planet.
Just give this, make this person. Let's take Jasmine Crockett
and she will be able because she just told you
she has the secret sauce. The secret sauce is just

(01:31:20):
because you get convicted, you're not a criminal. You don't
have to be a criminal. You're not a criminal. I
can't even twist my mind on that. I just can't.
I can't. I can't. I can't get that through my mind.
What is wrong? What is this? It's bonkers? Yeah, you

(01:31:42):
know what, you know what, I'm calling it an audible
right now. I gotta I just gotta play. I just
have to play Hank Johnson. I realized that I kind
of shortcutted him. I gotta give you some Hank Johnson,
because this is the only way you're gonna feel better.
I'm serious, is check it out.

Speaker 6 (01:32:02):
Yeah, we we are the world's number one bully, and
we're using our immense, unrifled power to rule over those
who have less power, and we're doing it with impunity.

(01:32:22):
And this sends a shocking message to the world that
America is indeed, uh the what did what did they
used to call the Great Hand of Satan or something
like that. I mean, America under the Trump regime is
demonstrating that that Moniker was h was entirely accurate, the

(01:32:47):
Great Satan. That's what we have become in this country.

Speaker 1 (01:32:51):
I mean, why do you, why do you? Why do
you do that? Winnerable, why why did you do that
to the people were in the cars and you already
said that they shouldn't punch the console. Do not punch
the console. Punch the button for one oh seven point nine,
because that's where you're gonna be able to hear us
tomorrow on the FM dial. It's gonna be amazing, it's
gonna be exciting. I'm very all wound up about this.

(01:33:16):
But here's the thing. Here's the thing. These people really
believe this. Like if you go back to Jasmine Crockett,
she she really doesn't. She says, just because you get
arrested and just because you go to jail or whatever,
it doesn't mean you're a criminal. Fine, I will. I
believe in redemption. Okay, I'm a I'm a Catholic person.

(01:33:38):
Some people acknowledge us as Christian. But the fact of
the matter is, I believe in redemption. I think you
can you can be redeemed, right, I mean if not,
then what's the point of this journey we're walking on, right,
I mean, what is the point? But the fact is,

(01:33:59):
you just cannot. These people do not understand that around
the world Al Qaeda, what's going on in Somalia, what's
going on in Russia, what's going on with China, all
that sort of stuff. People do not understand that the
world watches the things that are being said, and we
look incredibly unseerious. It's not everybody, but it's the it's

(01:34:24):
the Democratic Party in many ways. I mean, just go
back to to the Supreme Court confirmation where the Supreme
Court justice who was up for nomination could not define
what a man or a woman is. Like, I understand

(01:34:47):
social correctness or whatever you want to call it, but
that is that is what is that? I mean that
you don't know what a woman is, you should know
what it w is. You should know what a man is.
If you don't know what a woman is and you
don't know what a man is, then then that's that's foundational,

(01:35:11):
Like you know that from the earliest stages of your life.
And when I when I look at all this kind
of stuff, we have a very high tolerance for stupidity.
And I'm not saying I'm not saying the Supreme Court
justice is stupid. I'm saying we as a culture in
a country, we will put up with all kinds of
dumb stuff, and we tolerate far, far too much of

(01:35:34):
the dumb stuff that that should never really be a thing.
You have people, you have people who say incredibly dangerous things.
You have people who are in many cases out of
their minds, and people don't try to help them. They

(01:35:57):
don't try to help them. Now I started the I
started a lot of these segments with important things that
we ought to be paying close attention to. And if
we decide that we're just going to become a silly
a silly country, then I feel like the rest of
us who do not want to be a silly country

(01:36:18):
need to pick up the mantle of leadership all the
way around.

Speaker 4 (01:36:23):
And.

Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
What we need to do if we want to Really,
if you believe in saving the republic, you have two
things you have to do. You have to persuade people
to your way of thinking number one, and number two,
you have to have an answer at every possible turn
for why you feel this way. You know they always

(01:36:46):
say that, especially when it's when you're dealing with people
who are proselytizing. Give us the reason for your joy.
Tell us the reason for your joy. That's going to
do it for me. Breaking Brett Jensen is coming up next.
I am Brett Whitter Bowl. Don't worry, We'll be back
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