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March 24, 2022 58 mins
The CHAUNCEY Show-Meet Wendy Nevarez (R) Candidate for US Congress NC-D11. Wendy was raised in the foothills of Western North Carolina. Her family roots are very deep in WNC. Her father was born in Murphy, N.C. and is a descendent of the 1,000 Cherokee that remained in Western N.C. and Tennessee when most were forced out and down the Trail of Tears. “I find genealogy so interesting. To see how we are connected to the places we pass by and find new relatives we didn’t know we had. The biggest thing is to see the struggles endured and how I exist because they resisted and persisted.” 

Wendy received her Bachelor Degree in Political Science from UNC -Asheville (Go Dogs!) and her Master of Public Affairs from Western Carolina University (Go Catamounts!). During this time she has worked at law firms to help support her family and better understand law with hopes of obtaining a J.D. in the future. “My mom asked if I was finished with my education when I graduated with my Masters. My answer was and is that I am never finished learning.” 

Wendy's mission is to focus on families first by addressing the lack of workforce housing, economic growth that leads to jobs for the region, and improving infrastructure such as broadband so that it is accessible to all of WNC which will lead to better work and educational outcomes for citizens. 

Join national political commentator/host of The CHAUNCEY Show, Chauncey I. Brown III and US Congressional candidate Wendy Nevarez to hear about Wendy'r plan for the state of North Carolina and the nation. *Visit us on Linktree and follow us on all socisal media platforms https://linktr.ee/TheCHAUNCEYShowUSA
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A lot of talk Radian. Thisis the Jauncy Show where we're always right

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and never left. We put Godfirst in politics second. Welcome to the
show, Host Jauncy Brown. Wehave an exciting sofa you lined up this
evening. We have Wendy Navarrez who'srunning for US Congress out of North Carolina.
She's an exciting candidate to listen to. She's extremely passionate about taking care

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of the people of North Carolina andserving this country. Let me welcome to
the show. Wendy Navarrez. Goodact afternoon. How are you doing today.
I'm doing well. How are youand your family? We are doing
well, just doing the typical runningaround after school and finding quiet spots for

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everybody. You know, a mother'sjob is never done, you know,
and I'm sure you're extremely busy withbeing a mom and you know, and
running for Congress. Talk a littlebit about who Wendy is. Talk about
your humble beginnings growing up in NorthCarolina. So we get an opportunity to

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get to know who you are.Yeah. So, I was born in
Gastonia, North Carolina, and mymother and father had met there about five
years prior at a drive in movietheater. My mom was was bringing drinks

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and things that people purchased out totheir vehicles and UM, and they met
there and I guess the rest ishistory. UM, But my dad,
excuse me. My dad was bornin Murphy, North Carolina, and he
he ended up down in Gastonia dueto an adoption. He was a third

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child, you know, and theywere you know, fairly poor and couldn't
keep him, and so he wasadopted away. And so my my grandparents,
Margaret and James Limbaugh, adopted mydad, and so he grew up
there in King's Mountain, North Carolina. And which is where I also grew

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up. So when my parents metand got married, they they moved into
the house that I grew up in, which my mother still lives in.
And and I went to the samehigh school my father did. UM.
But my dad was in the AirForce back in the early u seventies,
UM, and obviously we were inthe Vietnam conflict at that time and after

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that in the eighties, and Ibelieve the early nineties, my dad UM
worked for IBM, so we hadlike the original UM compute home computers,
THEO because of your massive they weremassive. But I got to learn how
you know, how doffs worked andhow to you know, program things,

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um in format things old school forsure. Um yeah. And my dad
loved to go fishing and never treatedus girls like, um, like we
couldn't do anything that we didn't setour minds too. So you know,
we we got our gold hooks.I got my gold hook when I was

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six years old. And um,you know, camping and fishing with a
part of growing up. And youknow, he taught me how to how
to solder and weld and do allthat stuff that he knew how to do,
and just give me some of hisskill sets. You know, as

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I'm listening to you talk. Firstof all, I'm extremely jealous. I
grew up in the Northeast. Youcan tell by my accent, which sounds
horrible, but you know, growingup of my grandparents on my father's side
came from Georgia and came for Virginia, so there was nothing like Southern hospitality.

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And you know, as I'm listeningto you, you know, young
ladies like yourself, a woman nowthat grows up down south, a Southern
girl can do justifie anything can sixa flat tire. I mean, you
know, you know, maybe Icould have married something. I mean,

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because that's what I'm thinking about.When you're talking. I'm saying to myself,
you know what, when you geta Southern girl, that's one stops
shopping because you can cook and youcan go outside fix the car. She
can mode a launch, you coulddo whatever. Can go and go get
the gas. It's so funny thatyou say that. Like when I was
in pregnant, I got um.I was in San Diego and the Cornado

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Bridge, if you've never been across, it is quite a large bridge over
from the main San Diego over toCornado Island, and I busted a tower
tire on there while I was probablyseven or eight months pregnant. I was
huge, and I was in mywhite uniform and and I pulled over on
the other side. I had toroll on the rim for a bit because

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there's no place to stop on thatbridge. And I pulled over and was
jacking my car up and changing thetire. And I had a chief that
saw me and pulled behind me.You know, realize it was me and
said, what in the world areyou doing? You know, it's just
shocked them that I was down thereon my knees and my white uniforms seven

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seven and a half months pregnant,you know, changing my tire. But
I didn't want to be late towork, So you do what you gotta
exactly. Yeah. So it's themost down to earth and they can do
anything from anything from inside the houseto outside in the garage. I mean,
there is nothing they can't do,unlike unlike you know these girls today

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up in the Northeast. You know, you gotta know every roun form.
I mean, well, I meanthere there might be some ladies up there
that are they're well rounded, veryfew and far between. Okay, Well,
I'm raising I'm raising three girls andone boy. So my son's actually

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nineteen and living already out of thehouse, making good money. So I
ain't gonna I guess I did somethingright. And yeah, and I got
three girls behind him that I'm raising. So strong and courageous. Amen,
amen, I have two. Ihave two sons and two daughters. And
uh I after I had my firstdaughter, I said I would take five

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boys to one girl. Um challenge, listen, I have I have challenging.
I when it comes to my daughters, I am completely worthless. They
listen, They have. I can'teven listen. They got me wrapped around

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their fingers. They get it.They got to figure it out real quick,
and uh, there's nothing I cando. I mean, my thirteen
year old daughter and everybody. We'llget to politics in a minute. All
right, we're getting to know whoWendy is. Um. But I mean,
I'm paying I get dollars every takesto get my thirteen year old daughter's
nail's done. Oh wow, yeah, yeah exactly. And I'm saying,

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you know, Nick, my nameis Nicole. I'm like, Nick,
well, she can't get it nowbecause she's playing softball, so that it
give me about a four month reprieve. But yeah, I'm telling you these
girls today, and my daughter does. My daughter has two jobs right now
that she does, and she bringsin about five hundred a month, So
if she wants her nail's done,she buys it. You know, I

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just said. I did the samething with my son back in the day.
You know, when about five yearsago, he's wanting them playing twenty
one hundred fifty dollars pair of Nikes, and I said, well, son,
there's a law more. And itlooks like the neighbor's yard needs to
get cut, so you go handlethat. Amen. Amen, yeah,
yeah, he to them to workfor it. Well, you know,

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the good thing is, you know, well, my sons are older thirty
five and twenty nine. But myolder daughter, she's in her last year
of college. She was working,and my thirteen year old she's said she
to go to work. So thegood thing is they like working when they
could work. But my daughter,she's in her last year and she wants
to finish up, so she wantsto focus on, you know, getting

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her degree. And then my thirteenyear old, which is she's something else
out of all my children, Mythirteen year old wants to be get involved
in politics. She already has mesending her when she graduates this year to
a private school where she can dolaw and business. And then she wants

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to well, she hasn't decided whereshe wants to her undergrad it, but
she wants to go to Yale LawSchool. And she's only thirteen years old
and she already has it mapped out. And guess what she wants to be
when she grows up? What wouldthat be besides the lawyer the president of
the United States. I said,I can't believe that good ambition. It

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listened. Out of all my kids, I never thought that the young one.
None of my kids like politics,and even my son's the one son
who's got three degrees, like Dad, I don't want the attention, he
says, I'm not interested. He'sin the finance, you know. And
then I didn't realized that Nicole,in my thirteen year old had a real

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interesting politics un full durn covid.She called me up during the Senate hearing
of the nomination of Amy Komey Barrett, and my daughter called me and asked
me how come she wasn't answering thesenator's questions. And I almost fell out
of my chair because I didn't realizethat she was watching the stuff already.

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And I said, well, youknow, she's getting ready to become a
Supreme Court judge. She can't answerall the questions because certain cases might come
before where she has to decide onuntus. She has to be careful.
So she said, okay, Dad, thanks Alah, goodbye. You know.
Yeah, my daughters only keep meon the phone. I am minator
through an I gotta go. It'sit's it's yeah. I loved my daughters

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more than anything in the world.And I know that's why you're running for
your children, for the children acrossthe country. It is it is,
go ahead, No, it's gonnaask excuse me, what made you decide?
Were you in the military. I'mconflicting on if your family was you

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were in the military. So Iwas active duty for over a decade UM
in the Navy, and uh,okay, that's what I thought. Okay,
congratulation to support. Yeah, wellit was my pleasure. Um I
joined. I was gonna join priorto nine to eleven. However, I

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was waiting on a waiver to join. Um I don't have the best size
site. Uh so I have correctivelenses and so just waiting on that waiver
and I would, you know,communicate it with the recruiter. And on
September eleventh, about six thirty inthe morning, he called me because I
had been bugging him to death,and he said, hey, you got

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your waiver to join. And abouttwo hours later, I was in an
autobody shop because my car had gottenit had gotten stolen, so I was
getting it back and getting some repairsdone. And I'm standing there just in
shock, watching the news on theTV in the waiting area as the planes

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hit. And so two weeks laterI was in boot camp. I could
have chose not to sign up atthat point, but I just felt even
more compelled to go and serve mycountry. I felt like it was,
you know, it was going tobenefit me but also benefit my country and
my future family at that time.And and then I proceeded to re enlist

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over and over again. So Ienjoyed it. I enjoyed that time and
doing, you know, taking onthat duty for our freedom. Absolutely,
you know, thank you for yourservice. I grew up my father was
a Navy veteran, and I wentto college right out of high school.

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But I always tell this story,I would rather have gone into the service
than be raised by a veteran discipline. Yeah, exactly, getting up at
five o'clock in the morning with you. I'm sure that they would. I
could have some conversations with them.My father. Everything was physical punishment each

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far as push up, set up, running, you know, the whole
discipline. Yes or no, sir, no hat now grew up a power
military lifestyle. It's ironic because Iended up becoming a firefighter and then later
a fire captain. And it's ironicthat you mentioned eleven named my brothers and
sisters that have passed. May theyrest in peace. Thank you for the

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service I was. I'm a Groundzero nine eleven survivor, and I amen,
thank you. And the only waythat I could describe what I saw,
and the only people that could understandit were people like yourself that was

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in the military that have been inan active war zone. Unconscionable, eerie,
the smoke billowing to even late atnight, the asbestos, the dust,
windows blown out, hundreds of floorsabove the skyscrapers, I mean,

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plain parts, all of I mean, it was just really a horrific event.
And you know, that's the lasttime, besides President Frump running per
se, that I saw America cometogether and I saw American patriotism. And
it is sad that it took acrisis like that for us to appreciate the

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country that we live in. Inless than twenty well more than twenty one
years later, the media or tryingto divide us what identity politics and has
morally corrupt the political system, oursocial system, educational system. And I'm

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gonna let you comment on that fora minute because you're running for office.
These are the issues you know you'regoing to be tackling, So I'll let
you share. So the divisiveness isexactly why I jumped into the race.
So, I mean, you know, the theories that go into what happened

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on January sixth can be argued anddebated, and there are people looking into
that, and I'm not even goingto go there. But the fact that
we got to a point where ourcountry has gotten so divided that something like
that would even occur is awful.Right. It's just not what, like

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you said, right after nine toeleven, when we were just kind of
banning together and there was this camaraderieas a nation. And I also of
course saw that in the military.How we got so far away from that
to the point where our neighbors oreven people within our families, you know,

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it's almost like you're being pitted againstone another as the enemy. And
I just stop and think about that. You know, it's the how do
you defeat someone? You divide them. You know, when people are unified,
it's hard to defeat them, butyou divide them and then they're easily

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conquered. Right, And that's um, that's been the path for a lot
of you know, people, nationsand conquests in our history of world's history,
our human history. So I justgo back to that, and I
think, you know, we've gotto get people in leadership to have a

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servant's heart, that have leadership skills, to bring people together and to unify
the country. And you know,I feel like that's me. Um.
I felt God kind of call onme to quit my federal job where I
could get benefits and whatnot, andyou know, go down to a one

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income family before kids, just todo this. We're not rich, we
we don't have millions of dollars orbillions of dollars. And you know it's,
um, this is just something I'mdoing for my fellow you know,
Americans. I'm doing it for mycommunity. I'm doing it for my kids
future. And so yeah, that'sthat's why I jumped into the race.

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Um. You know, Madison Costhorneis our our representative for this district currently,
and um, I didn't vote forhim. I didn't see. You
know, I've been a human resourcesupervisor before. You know, I kind
of evaluate candidates like I'm hiring themto take on a job which we really
we are right. UM. Ididn't see any UM. I didn't see

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any experience or um skills and abilities. Uh there other other than his he
does speak well, um. Butother than that, there was really nothing
else that I saw that was UM. That was you know, making him
the best person for the job.And so uh yeah, and then of

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course his UM he doesn't. Andthis is the thing. If you're a
strong leader, you realize your wordsinfluence the actions of the people that hear
them. Just like when you goto church, right, if you go
to church and the preachers preaching itstraight to your heart, you go out
and you know that reverberates throughout youractions, throughout your days until the next

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Sunday, you know, or hopefullyon and on. And it's the same
thing with our our government leaders.There are people listening to them that take
on those words and take action fromthem. And so we have to be
very careful about what we um.You know, what tone we set when

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we're speaking to people, and thatyou know, January sixth, he chose
a tone of divisiveness and hate,and so I think he you know,
his words impacted one of the actionsthat other people took that day. Again,
that's my personal opinion, but that'show I feel so absolutely for those

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that are tuning in you're listening tothe Jauncy Show, We're always right and
never left. We put God firstin politics. Second. We're honored to
have a veteran Navy veteran in theUS congressional candidate when in Navarrez in the
studio talking with US today about whoshe is that's North Carolinian, and what

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she hoped to do when she getsto Congress. How has immigration has well
North Carolina? Looking at that immigration, you don't really have an immigration problem.
I'm looking at the map now ofthe state of North Carolina. How
have jobs of an impacted as aresult of COVID or I don't know if

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North Carolina as much as the wayof energy. Yeah, um so as
far as uh COVID goes. Um, there's you know, depending on where
you are in North Carolina. We'reover here in the western part of the
state. Um, there's a bigtourist pull for two different reasons. Here.

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We have excuse me, we have, um, a national forest and
a state and some state parks,and so that draws a lot of you
know nature. Uh, you know, people who want to roam the trails
and mountain bike and camp and fishand a lot of the things I did

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growing up, right, So wehave that aspect, and then we have
our concentrated areas like Asheville, wherethere's just a broad spectrum I will say,
of people and eclectic uh you know, shops and businesses that are you
know, small business is owned bylocal people here. Uh, lots of

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great restaurants, um that are ownedby local folks here and UM and so
we draw a large tourist crowd forfor that as well. And UM.
So that was that was impacted youknow greatly, as it did around um
all of the country. UM.Our cities obviously saw a big decline UM

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and I saw businesses closed. Isaw people not be able to you know
even now of course, not beingable to staff their UM their businesses.
But then on the other side ofit, because you could go outside and
social distance and everything, you know, our our natural assets and resources here
in western North Carolina allowed um youknow, for a little bit more UM

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traction during that time than than saythe urban areas. So UM, that
was definitely one of the situations forus if the makeup because what's the North
Carolina. What is the makeup ofof your district as far as businesses?
Is it corporate as it rule?What is the makeup of your your district?

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I would say, um, Idon't have the exact percentage for rule
versus urban, but the majority ofwestern North Carolina is uh is rural with
some small urban areas. UM.So yeah, we um. I mean
our industry. We have a goodbit of manufacturing out here, UM which

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I actually worked for one when Ifirst got out of the military and handled
all their finances. UM. Sothat is one plus. Um. We
have a lot of corridors through thestate, UM as far as highways to
you know, to get things wherethey got to go. Um. And
we have a coast which allows usto you know, to bring things in

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on that end. So I meanwe're situated in a pretty good place for
industry. So I would hope tosee some growth once our our broadband gets
up to speed. The further westyou go into the mountains, the harder
it is with broadband, which isa huge initiative for anybody who's taking office

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here, whether it's a local orfederal office, We've got to get more
broadband out to these areas so thatthese businesses will come because they won't come
if they can't connect. It's assimple as that. So yeah, what
are some of the name issues thatyou want to tackle? Or I ask

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you to ask you what is yourposition on education, critical race theory,
vaccinating children? What do you thinkabout those things? Well? As a
Republican, you know, I believein limited government. Personally, at want
anybody telling me how to raise mychildren or um, you know, what

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what to do with their bodies.As far as mask or vaccines, Um,
it's left up to the individual inmy opinion. UM, I understand
there is a greater good out there. And maybe initially before there were vaccines,
that people who chose to get themcould take them. Um. You

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know, maybe that was a precautionthat that you know, for the for
for good intentions, was meant tolimit the spread. I don't think there
were too many ill intentions with that. Um. Although you know, people
argue that that's a checkpoint Charlie typeof situation to see how far that they

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you know, the government could seepeople push too, But we're resilient.
We believe in freedom. The countrywas built on that. The people of
this country aren't going it. Um. Let it fall into a totalitarian type

(27:06):
of UM. You know, situationlike we're seeing in in Russian and Ukraine
right now, UM, where youknow, people can't even communicate or share
their message or their freedom of speechum without without being basically carried off.
I mean we've seen it in footage. So you know, um again,

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it just goes back to our freedomsand liberty and I believe that the Constitution
stands strong in that. And thegreat thing about it is we have three
branches of government who get to doget out um and make sure that that
you know, we're holding each otheraccountable, um and making sure that the
people get to exercise their freedoms umas such. And you know that doesn't

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mean you're going to get your wayevery day. If it was. If
it was, if it was easy, then you know, we wouldn't have
a military in the world thin kumbaya. But that's just not how it works.
So yeah, speaking about our military, what do you think about the

(28:17):
Biden administration trying to mandate soldiers toget vaccinated. Yeah, so that's nothing
new. Um. If you lookhistorically that there were some pretty massive vaccinations
I think I want to call themguns. They were huge impact guns where

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you just got a cocktail of thingsat one time. I don't think vaccines
are bad necessarily. The point ofthe military is to be mission ready.
M if for some reason they feellike there is something that can calls them
to be mission ready or more missionready than they're going to do it.

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For example, when I was activeduty, you know, they were pretty
much giving all of us the anthraxshots. Um. I don't remember the
same outrage that I'm hearing now.It's no surprise when you sign a contract,
especially as an enlisted an enlisted person, but also as an officer,
taking a note that you're you're agreeingto do some things that you may not

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like, um, including you know, taking the life of another human being
on this earth, which is somethingour God tells us, you know,
not to do. So I thinkvaccines would probably be the lowest thing of
my concern when it comes to ourmilitary making sure that they are making sure

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they are trained, they have theequipment they need, and that we're not
causing them, for example in Afghanistan, putting their life at risk by not
keeping our lips closed, you know, loose lips sink shifts. It's um.
You know, those thirteen men andwomen who died because of our botched

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uh. You know withdrawal from Afghanistanwas all because somebody wanted to tout,
you know, Biden wanted to toutthe fact that he was going to make
this happen when you know the pastfew presidents did not. And the first
thing we're told, even as thelowest person on the totem pole, is

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you'd never tell anyone there you areand when you're going to be there.
They can find out after you've left. And and so that that would have
never been the way I handled it. I'm sure someone up higher in the
food chain, UM probably advised himof that, and um, and that

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was a conscious decision to do that, and that was extremely poor judgment m
to say the least. Yeah,that is I really feel bad for the
loss of lives, American lives soldiers, but the Afghan withdrawal, all I

(31:14):
could say is that it's just itwas sad. It was sad, And
yeah, I hope and pray forour soldiers and for our country and for
the people of America that better daysor ahead, when we get leadership that
is more conscious to the wills ofthe people rather their own personal political or

(31:41):
powerful positions that they want to holdor whatever whatever their endgame is. You
know, a lot of people arestarving and hurting as result. To people
in Washington. It takes a lotof courage for people like you to stand
up and want to push back againstthe mainstream narratives. But that's what it's

(32:04):
going to take if we're going toturn our country around. It's going to
take people like you who really careabout people to stand up to fight against
the sinchine. You want to say, Oh no, I just you know,
I kind of wanted to go offof what you said, um,

(32:25):
you know, going against going againstthe grain. I will tell you.
I mean, I've been in therace since April of last year, kind
of just plugging along here, andsomething that I've witnessed is this is I'm
getting I'm getting the attacks from bothsides when I'm just trying to speak the
truth. It's it really is notnecessarily a Republican and Democrat thing. I

(32:51):
think this is actions within both partieswhich we were warned about in the Federalist
papers. You know, it's youknow, so so I you know,
playing the team mentality or the tribalmentality where my team's better nerrors type of
thing that's, um, that's notgoing to get us anywhere. And um.

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The more that it that it happens, the you know, the further
the divide. So you know,I'm I've reached out and met some candidates
across the country who are doing amazingthings and and doing the same, you
know, sticking to basic principles oftreating people with dignity, UM and respect,
trying to to listen and bring somethingto the table to actually build off

(33:38):
of instead of just throwing um,throwing uh, you know, throwing dirt
mud at each other. Um.And so that that's where I grab some
of my positivity in all of thisis you know, finding like minded people,
you know, like yourself and andother folks that are running UM that

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may not be as vocal. Somepeople aren't as vocal, but they're there,
you know, so kind of anod back to the silent majority.
I think most people are tired ofthe of the hate and divisiveness. So
amen, Amen, you know,thank God for people like you and I

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and I thank God, and I'mvery blessed to have this platform where I
could have God forming people, patriots, people that put people first on my
platform. I'm extremely humbled and blessedthat I'm able to play a role in
this movement to help save our country. And yes, it is a great

(34:44):
feeling to know, because sometimes inour position we feel alone. We want
to speak the truth and as alwayspushed back. It's nice to know.
It's very comforting to know that Ihave a sister like Wendy, or I
have a brother somewhere else that Ican talk to that could understand where we
are right now. And that's what'svery important, is we are identifying who

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we are and we're all coming together. God is bringing all of us together
for his purpose. And we can'tagree with you more. Go ahead,
go ahead, go ahead. Start. Yeah, So I'm feeling it.
I'm feeling it. No, it'sso interesting. Um. You know,

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I show up where I feel likeI'm supposed to be and I'll stay as
long as I need to, evenif I you know, just to be
able to talk to everybody, answerto talk to and um, and I
feel like God puts certain people youknow, in my path in front of
me, and it's just so interestinghow it's all worked out thus far.

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And the people I've met, Imean, these are everyday people and they're
just doing um. They're just theright everybody is the right puzzle piece,
and we all together make you knowwhat I mean, am I understand clearly.
It's exactly why I reached out toyou. You know, like spirits
gravitate to like spirits get God's childrenwill gravitate to each other, and you

(36:17):
just exactly that's exactly what's going onright now. And people like ourselves that
are God fearing, we're attracting thoseother like spirits to us to aid us
in this battle that we are inand that we will be confronting. And
I'm blessed to be on the frontline with you as well as many other
people, because we're fighting for God, we're fighting for souls, we're fighting

(36:45):
for people's lives. And I thinkthat is the greatest honor that anyone can
do in this lifetime, is whenyou lay your life down from someone else,
and no one else knows that betterthan you. No one knows better
than you when you raise your handfor the oath of office to defend this

(37:06):
country against enemies foreign domestic. Thatis within you, that is a part
of you. Veterans like yourself willnever, for the most part, disobey
the Constitution of the United States.Yeah, and you know, like I

(37:28):
said, I grew up as achild of a dad that was a veteran
who was a conservative. But youknow, my dad taught me these things.
The Constitution, the Pledge of Allegiance, all of these things make US
America an irrespective of racism. Myfather was born in nineteen twenty eight.

(37:52):
I've never heard my father ever sayanything derogatory about anyone except love everyone,
respect everyone. There's good and badpeople of all kinds. And that's probably
one of the best blessings he couldhave given me, because I didn't grow

(38:15):
up racist in my father every opportunity. I know. I grew up in
the sixties. I know, Iremember Jim Crow, I remember the Civil
Rights movement. I remember the attackdogs and the fire hoses, you know,
Bull Connor. I remember these thingsvividly because that's what I grew up
with. That. My father alwaystalked about peace, humility, helping others.

(38:42):
Day, our society has gotten toa me too or me me society
rather than how can I help you? How can I raise you up?
How can I walk with you?How can we pray together? Yeah?
I live that every day. Um. I get told me, you know,

(39:07):
I get told by you know,the people who help me manage the
campaign. You know, they're They'relike, you need to cut this out
or that out, and I'm like, well, that's just not something I'm
gonna do. So I will.I will add you know, I will
go to that exhausted every day tomake sure I'm the best mom and my
wife I can be, and toput my all into the campaign and still

(39:30):
make those daily connections like sitting withVietnam veterans, you know, and having
a meal with people that you knowI may have just met, but I
connected with. It's those things areimportant to me and they don't seem like
they're gonna have a great return onmy time. Um if you're a strategist,

(39:52):
but in my mind, um,you know, building those relationships is
how we're going to move forward.U. How people get out of addiction,
right, It's how people do havea criminal record, uh change their
life. Um, they had acommunity, they got a community of people

(40:15):
that that lift them up. Anddon't you know, they're like, we're
not gonna let them sell. Don'teven look back, just keep moving forward.
And um, and there's so manypeople that can tell that story right
like they've they've lived in And I'vegot a great friend here who works on
a lot of things like that.And I met him through um, you

(40:36):
know, happenstance or God obviously,and you know, and we just sat
down and we had a meal,and before we knew it, we were
sitting out. We were sitting therefiguring out how to get people jobs and
um, you know, out ofand you know, after incarceration, how
to get them housing because you know, a lot of times they don't qualify.

(40:58):
Um, you know, it's justyou just got to sheer knowledge,
build relationships, show people that youcare and that you're listening, and start
putting the pieces and have pieces ofthe puzzle together. Then Amen, That's
what I'm trying to do, kindof be a master puzzle puzzle maker.

(41:22):
You know. Um, as I'mlistening to you, my listeners know my
story. I don't know how muchyou know about me. M I've been
homeless. Um, I spent twoyears in prison and I'm Marie or I'm
used to be or recovering at acooppholic and God is the most important thing

(41:44):
to my life, and he hadto use me as an example. And
you know, a father only chastisesa son that he loves. But God,
he's got a hell of a senseof humor because he broke me down
to the bone marrow, but hehas undivided attention. And because of my

(42:04):
commitment, my submission in my workand my faith, he's elevated me to
where I am today. And Igive him the honor of glory all the
time because I realized that he usedme as an example for his purpose.
And I am humble and blessed byall of those experiences that I've just shared,

(42:28):
because those lessons became blessings. Yesand yes. And when I listen
to people like you talk about storiesof helping people, I feel that because
I lived it, and I canfeel your passion of helping people. And

(42:52):
this is the type of leadership thatwe need, is someone who is going
to have compassion and understanding for theirbrothers and sisters because we did not want
to be where we were. Iwas sick and I needed help, and

(43:14):
Jesus never helped the people that werewell. They didn't want to listen to
him anyway. He helped the peoplethat were sick. So I am blessed
to be in the company of ourfather, he says. When two more
gathered in my name, I ampresident. And now you got me starting

(43:34):
to preach. Wendy. I hada skill last night with Laverne Spicer and
she's running in Florida, and shehad me to about a father or ten
minute sermon. And I'm not apreacher, but the spirit of God came
into me and he I called upLaverne after that show and I was like,
Laverne, now you brought the spiritout in me. You know.

(43:59):
Because I do this is because it'swhat God wants me to do. I
don't do this for money. Ido this because I love my father,
and I love my country, andI love my brothers and sisters. And
we all have a role of play, whether it's me being a podcast host,
whether you're running for office, whetherit's somebody making phone calls, whether
it's somebody licking envelopes. We allhave a role to play, and we

(44:22):
all must play a role if wewant to stay of our country. It
is that importantly to gentlemen, ourlives depend on leadership that we choose today
and tomorrow in the lives of ourchildren. And I also want to say,
you know, before you vote,vote like you're voting for your children

(44:46):
and not for yourself. Maybe youmight vote differently when we have a few
minutes left. I love this showand this conversation I went through. You
are an awesome, wonderful person,and you are exactly candidate that we need

(45:07):
with the heart and compassion in mindand strength not only to represent North Carolina,
but to represent the country. Thisis the type of candidates people that
we need an office. So Ihope that everyone that listened to this show
and everybody that will listen to thisshow and all of my shows. I

(45:28):
never have politicians on my show.Anyway. I tried to identify, and
yes I'm prejudiced. I try toidentify God fearing people, people that I
know are going to put people first, in God first. I'm guilty of
that, and I'll be the firstperson to admit it. I have a
disdain for politicians. I used tobe one. I used to be an

(45:49):
elected official. So my disdain isproper in its proper place. And if
I think that someone as a goodwill but then you know, but like
I said, I have to Godhave to lead my spirit to the people
that I call on my show.Yes, so yeah that I will say

(46:13):
that, No, you're good.I was going to say, you had
asked me earlier about some of thethings that I, you know, initially
would like to do. UM.I try to. I went and spoke
at a college campus the other day, and I said, just just understand
that, you know, when youshow up to a new job, you're
the you're the lowest person on thistotem poll where you don't have a whole

(46:34):
lot of full UM. So youknow, with with as much hope and
UM wishful thinking and hard work thatI'll put into it, I would like
to UM work on some labor issuesand housing hood issues, some things that

(46:54):
honestly we can get these agencies insteadof them working at silos, get them
working together so that we use ourresources a little more wisely. UM.
And then and then of course UMtaking care of the people who have taken
care of us. Uh. Solike you you know, like you said,

(47:14):
it's our elders, you know,elderly, are you know our veterans,
UM, who have children's country Andyes, and of course our children
who may you know, I'll I'lltell you I've spoken one of our western
counties and the more rural areas seemto be getting hit the hardest with the

(47:37):
drug you know, the opioid addictionand drug epidemics, and the kids are
Honestly, there is a a missingsegment of our population that are parents of
children, UM, whether they're incarcerated, or they're on the streets, or

(47:59):
they're no longer with us, UM. And there's tons of children being raised
by their grandparents. UM. Isee it a lot. I substitute teaching
the schools. UM. I ama Girl Scout leader now for nine years.
We have a lot of grandparents thatare the primary you know, caretakers.
And it's not that they aren't doinga good job, but they already

(48:22):
you know, they already did theiryou know that time. Kids you know,
they need they need their parents.So we've got to find a better
way to you know, help pullpeople out of addiction and UM and not
penalize them for the rest of theirlives for a bad period in their life.

(48:44):
I think that's the biggest forgiveness part. You know, it's the forgiveness
part. UM. So that theycan get whole again and go back into
their families and lives, their children'slives, and be productive members of society.
Um. But you know, ifyou try to change even after for

(49:04):
example, prison or addiction or anyof those things, and you go out
into society and you're continually told noto jobs, no to housing, no
to you know, uh, buyinga car, you know, because you
can't get credit all these things.I mean, where else do you go?
You turn around and go back theway you came. And that's that's
the last thing we want folks todo. So, um, you know

(49:27):
that I would like to look atyou know, programs and things that help
people with job placement and you know, training them for their jobs, workforce
development. You know, we reallyneed to start getting people back out there.
And there's plenty of jobs, right, so why make it so hard
to get one? If you know, people are ready to jump back into

(49:50):
to be in productive members of society. So amen. You know, as
I'm listening to you talk, I'mreflecting on my past and I'm listening to
your compassion to help those like Iused to be challenged. And there's a
caveat I'd like to add to whatyou said, and I'm gonna put it

(50:15):
on the eye. Like I'm backin the rooms. I'm going to keep
it on the eye. I hadto address my mental state before I can
address my physical state and then addressmy spiritual state. What am I saying?

(50:36):
Most people that are on drugs havesome type of mental issue. Until
that mental issue is diagnosed, identified, counseling, medication, it is a
long process. I live it everyday still. I've only been clean and

(51:00):
sober for ten years. You haveto and we have to make mental illness
a priority because the mental illness,you have the homelessness. You also have
climb with mental illness, and youalso have the substance abuser that's on it

(51:22):
with mental illness as well. Somental illness is a very big issue something
that we need to tackle. Sowe could prevent resticism in the prison system
as well as resiticism and recovery andrelapsing in addiction. It's a long road.

(51:45):
I pray for those who did notmake it. I pray for those
that are struggling every day, andI pray that we all will arrive together.
Wendy, I want to thank youso much for what you've done your
service to our country, your community, and then you want to stand up

(52:07):
again and sacrifice your life by runningfor Congress to represent not only North Carolinians
but Americans. That is extremely nobleand courageous of you. And I want
to say thank you for standing up. Well, thank please, I'm doing

(52:29):
it, and I'm doing it foryou and for everybody, for everybody else.
Am sure and I feel it.Please please share with my audience your
website if they like to donate,or if anyone else that's listening wants to
have you on your podcasts or showor whatever, share your information please with
my listeners. Yes. So,my name is Winny Navarrees. It's Windy

(52:52):
Navarrees dot com, w E nd y n e v A r e
dot com. My m social mediahandle is at wendy four that's fo r
w nc UM and you can findme on all the social media platforms with

(53:14):
that handle. And my donate buttonis on my website through donor box because
they don't profit. Um they're anonprofit, so I don't think we should
profit from our elections. And yeah, I really appreciate being on the show.
I appreciate the the time and thegenuine conversation and then uh I as

(53:42):
well, Um, when is yourprimary election? So our primary is May
seventeenth. Early voting starts April twentyeight m and so that's coming up fairly
quickly. UM. And I'm tryingto get my uh you know commercial,

(54:05):
my sixty second or maybe it mightend up being a little longer. I'm
not sure how how great I mean, I know he's great, but like
how how much work he's gonna haveto do with all my bloopers? Um
in my video but that shit,Uh, you get nervous even when there's
a camera and no audience, right, Um. And so that that will

(54:30):
come out in about a week.Uh, sometime next week. That'll be
out so everybody can kind of seewhere where I've come from and where I've
been and um and where I seeus going and and so yeah, So
if I get get past the Mayseventeenth primary, then um, I'll be
in the general election against the Democraticnominee uh in November. So I would

(54:53):
love all the support that's that,uh, that you know you feel compelled
to give. Well, talking aboutsupport, I'd like to if I can
try to have you back on myshow before May and also I created a
new podcast called American First Patriot Podcastthat's really taking off. I've only formed

(55:16):
it about a month ago. It'sover three thirty three hundred followers already on
Twitter. And that show is liveevery Monday and Wednesday from seven to eight
and we take call in so ifyou'd like, if you're free, we
can maybe have a conversation. Wouldlove to have you pop on one of
our shows. Whatever we could doto help get your name out there and

(55:38):
get your voice out there, tohelp you get elected. We're here to
support you as well. Wendy Well, I really appreciate that. I think
we can make that happen for sure. Okay, thank you so much again.
God bless you and your family.Be safe and we will chat soon
so we can set up on anothercouple of shows. Thank you so much

(56:00):
for taking time. Okay, thankyou, Yes, thank you, Bye
bye bye bye. You're listening tothe Chauncy Show, where we're always right
and never left. We put Godfirst and politics second. As always,
I'm your host, Chauncy Brown.We were honored, blessed and proud to

(56:20):
have in the studio. What acompassionate woman, Wendy Navarrez, Navy veteran.
We're listening to her talk. Youcan hear her passion for people,
for those with challenges like myself thatI've suffered in my past. These are
the type of candidates that we needto elect into office. We don't need
politicians anymore, we need people thatcare about people, and Wendy demonstrated that

(56:47):
clearly. You could hear in hervoice and her passion through the whole podcast
on how she feels about standing upor representing North counta under mark who.
We thank her for service to ourcountry. We thank her for courage to
want to step up again and fightagainst the behemoth in the room, because

(57:09):
people, we are going through aspiritual warfare right now. Ladies and gentlemen,
it's not against flesh and blood.In those who fear God know what
I'm talking about. So we allmust stand up a day accounted for.
We are our brother and sisters keepersbefore it's too late, save yourself,

(57:30):
before you lose yourself. We're hereevery Tuesdays and Thursdays from six to seven
on The Chauncy Show. Please followus on all social media platforms, only
on Twitter because we've been suspended threetimes is that The Chaunty Show USA.
I want to thank all of ourlisteners for tuning in. We'll be back

(57:51):
here next Tuesday. Have a greatweekend, a safe weekend, a blessed
weekend. God bless you all,and as always, keep the faith.
Good Night now
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