1989 Freedom, Senate Showdown On The Brett Winterble Show

And right before it all happened, people were saying, oh, look at this. This is going to be a cakewalk. This is going to be easy. This is going to be no, nope, nope, and nope. Why? Because in 1989, for the benefit of the folks that are listening right now in their cars or on the bus or anything like that, the Berlin Wall didn't just crack. It crumbled under the weight of human courage. Poland. held its first partially free elections in decades. Remember Lequilenza, one of the leaders? Remember Pope John Paul II helping to fight? And of course, you have to give the credit to Ronald Reagan and of course Margaret Thatcher. Hungary opened its border with Austria, creating the first literal breach in the iron curtain. Then now, back then, Czechoslovakia launched the Velvet Revolution, a peaceful uprising that toppled. A regime without firing a shot, and don't forget about the East Germans, flooding the streets, demanding rights that they had been told that they never had. The Baltic states began the singing revolution. Millions of people using nothing but their voices to defy an empire. There weren't just small reforms. These were tectonic shifts. Entire systems built on surveillance, rationing, censorship, and of course, ideological obedience collapsed because ordinary people refused to live small lives. Do you know who the little man is today? It's not Cuba. It's not the eastern block. It is now Zohran Mamdani. Zohran Mamdani. By the way, I happen to find some audio about how Zohran Mamdani actually really does talk. And we'll play that during the program. But contrast this. with 2026. Today, some Americans feel like the tide is moving the other way towards central planning, toward the state dependency and the ideological conformity dressed up as compassion. Instead of tearing down the walls, they seek to build new ones, bureaucratic walls. Cultural walls, digital walls. Back in 1989, that was a bottom-up liberation. 2026 feels like top-down management. Are you going to be managed? Are they going to manage you? Are you going to put up with those silly, silly people that are trying to take your freedom at every...

possible place. Once upon a time, we had a battle over Stettin. Now we have battles in various areas because people want to put us under the yoke. Some of those people under the yoke are your neighbors who just want to do what's right. no matter how they define it. 1989 was bottom-up liberation. 2026 feels like top-town management. And in 1989, there were millions of people reclaiming responsibility in 2026. Oh, these youngsters, these silly, silly boys and silly, silly girls and silly, silly, declined a state. Oh, they know what the truth is. They see it. The remedy now. is the same force that shattered the old world in 1989. Citizens refused to surrender their agency. The remedy, not despair, not disengagement, not silence. The remedy is civic muscle, iron muscle, practiced, sharpened, and deployed. It's debate skills. It's persuasion. It's showing up and defending for what is yours. It's teaching your kids that those people in 1989 from the east to the west fought for their right. to think, speak, build, worship, worship, worship, and disagree without permission. 1989 proved that the freedom wins. When the individuals stand up, 2026 will prove the same if individuals choose to make their stand.

If you believe that freedom isn't an inheritance, but a responsibility, this is your moment. Speak, organize, vote, push back against the idea that the future belongs to the planners instead of the people. Become the author of your next chapter of freedom. Because 1989 wasn't the end of the story. And now it's the beginning of yours. Welcome back. It's the Brett Winterble Show. It's great to be with you. And I came across something earlier today that I was, honestly, I was not going to throw this into the pile, but I got to do this. I have to do this. I have to put this into the pile because I got to tell you something. John Thune is a scoundrel. Not in a good way, but he is a scoundrel. Again, not in the good way. So if you go over to Gabe... What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Your local Toyota dealer has great deals available today on RAV4, Grand Highlander, Camry, and Corolla with the features and style you deserve. It means driving for less with hybrid and plug-in hybrid options across the lineup, delivering great MPGs. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles, meaning your car will hold its value for years to come. Shop Toyota.com to find out more. Toyota, let's go places. Way pundit. Some people may not, it may not be their cup of tea. I try to consume as much as I can of different things, right, and then just kind of figure out, okay, is this going to be for real? Is this going to be good? Get a load of this. Like, this should be something that I should have thrown in with all these, uh, with all these people that want to be later day troublemakers. Betrayal in the swamp. Turncoat. John Thune sends Senate home for 37 days. But schedules 11 pro forma sessions to block Trump from making recess appointments. What a clown. They never learn and they never stop hating you. That's the call out of this piece. In a move that proves once again that the DC establishment is completely terrified of the America First Agenda, Rhino Senator John Thune, Mitch McConnell's hand-picked swamp successor, has just pulled one of the most underhanded backstabbing maneuvers in Senate history.

Instead of doing the work of the American people, useless John Thune is sending the United States Senate home for a massive unearned 37-day vacation. Isn't that nice? Isn't that beautiful? Isn't that exactly what you were hoping for? But it gets much worse. Much, much worse. John Thune isn't just going on vacation. He is purposely... scheduling 11 fake pro forma sessions during the break. The Senate will gavel into its first promo session on Monday, August the 10th at 10 a.m. Under the schedule approved before the senators fled Washington, D.C., a lone senator will periodically open and then close the chamber while no legislative business is expected. So we're talking about no anything that you wanted to see happen during this period of time. For those who... Don't know, a pro forma session is a sham. It's a fake session where one single swamp creature walks into an empty chamber, gavels in for 30 seconds and gavels out. No votes, no debates, no work. So there's going to be 11 of these, 11. before regular Senate business resumes on September 14th, September 14th. It's going to be August 10th, August 13th, August 17th, August 17th, August 20th, August 24th, August 27th, August 24th, August 27th, August 31. September, the first, the fourth, the eighth, and the tenth. The dates are confirmed by the official Senate floor schedule. No work will be handled. The Supreme Court's 2014 ruling in NLRB v. Canning held that these brief sessions count as genuine. Senate Sessions. Isn't that nice? That's just so wonderful. John Thune and his schedule carefully prevents that clock from reaching 10 days. It is a procedural barricade erected. I said, I said, erected by a Republican-controlled Senate against a Republican president. That's got to be shots fired. Like, that's got to be, what? What are you doing? Why are we not doing the work? Why aren't we making them all stay there? The sole purpose is to prevent the president of the United States from exercising his constitutional power to make recess appointments.

Trump is the only president in American history whose own party, whose own party has repeatedly used this trick against him. You know, if I was President Trump, I'd go sit in the chamber. Spring in or just have him sitting there, just sitting in there in the chamber and be like, you know, I'm just want to watch this. It's just pretty interesting. He should do that. I think that would be amazing. The U.S. Senate tomorrow will gavel in on the first four of the pro forma stuff that's going on. So isn't that great? They're going to be on recess for five weeks. Five weeks. Think about the stuff you could do in five weeks. There'll be nearly one dozen pro forma sessions until the recess is over. Mike Lee and Rick Scott. are still relentlessly pushing for the Save America Act so that, you know, we might actually be able to pull something from this, but it ain't going to happen, ladies and gentlemen. It's not happening. And it's all for the love of procedure. Mmm. Just go with it. Mr. President, please. Please, President Trump, just go roll up in the beast and sit in the chamber. I would sit there for like, I don't know, 30, 40 minutes. Just sit there. Look around. Look at all this sort of stuff. That's what he should do. Shame these people. These people are shameless. I mean, I just, that's all I could say.

Okay, for whatever reason, and I'm not going to out the person who said this, they, you know what just happened? Somebody just said me a note, not on the text line, somebody that I know, like somebody who I actually, you know, physically know who the person is, they said, they said to me, he's a Democrat, by the way. No, it's not, it's not our favorite Democrats, but it's a Democrat. And he said to me, Um, too bad how sad? About the, the shutting down, about the shutting down of, of, of, of pretend, you know, not letting Trump be able to do the stuff that he's supposed to do that, that, that, this is terrible. If you're just, if you're just hearing this, by the way, I, I just went right through this from the, from the gateway pundit. Um, there, what, what, why is John Thune so scared? Like, I remember when you had people who were managing Republican or Democrat, right? Okay. You had, you had all kinds, all comers, everything's doing what they're doing, right? Why is it that every time, every time? We go out there and we say to the people, we're going to get this done and this is going to be finished. It's going to be great and it's going to be awesome. And then all of a sudden, here comes the ball and they pull it away from you. And I'm telling you right now, President Trump has got to go and show up. Just go show up. You know what I would do if I was him? Because he can get on Air Force One and he can head up to. he can go any place he wants to go right i mean he's got the he's got the jets he's got all the stuff that he's got he's got all that he should he should show up because you would create chaos and it would all be all of chaos would be amazing because all he has to do is show up and you know what that cordon looks like you know the cordon that they have because you can't now you can't go in that building I think Donald Trump, it behooves him that he should get in there six o'clock in the morning, five o'clock in the morning. He doesn't sleep a lot, right? And just sit there when the people come in and he goes, yeah, so which one of you were blocking me this day, this week? You know what he could do? He could also bring in one of our favorite people. Scott Bessent could bring Scott Bessent in there. He could bring in JD Vance. He could bring in all of these people and just stand in the doorway giving the speech about what you want to talk about, about what you want to get across. People are really mad about this. Do you want to know how mad these people are? I'll read some of these that have come into us. Brett, our own Thom Tillis, is among the traders, always has been, can't wait for the barge anchor to be gone. And that's from Alan. Not giving up his last name. Because that's my prerogative. I mean, you look at this. This is despicable. And these people, they just, they don't care.

This is this we are the people who are supposed to be the guys that are doing this. When's the last time we block anybody? I mean, honestly, Chuck Schumer's okay. Chuck Schumer doesn't do it. Hakeem Jeffries doesn't do it. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn't do it, but we have to be the people that have to play the, play the game. Like I really agree with this. This is, uh, out of Pennsylvania. How is this allowed? There's nothing the POTUS can do. No, they can't do anything. They can't do anything to open it up or any of that sort of stuff. They just go in there in the dark a night. You know, and they're probably doing, you know, whatever they're doing. And then they just go walking out. Yeah, okay, okay, we're done. I don't have to do that again. We'll just get these other people to come in there and do their thing. I mean, it really is. It is terrible. Why did you want to become the guy who was going to be the guy that was going to sink the republic? Why would you want to do this? I don't know. All right. Now to this. This is cut number two. I did a bunch of research and I came across. Zohran Mamdani, okay? So everybody knows, in your mind right now, you're driving, I'm sorry to have to do this to you, but you're driving. And you imagine how Zohran Mamdani talks, right? You know how he is? Where he's like, well, we're just going to go ahead and take all your stuff, you know, knock, knock, knock. We're going to make you, you know, have to pay for this and that and the other thing. But then I came across Zohran Mamdani who speaks in a different sort of cadence. Like you can imagine, I don't know if we have a Zohran Mamdani guy clip. I don't think we have a Zohran Mamdani clip right now. But this is a different voice. He's got to be working on his voice. I'm not making fun of anybody. This is not to make fun of anybody. This is not to make fun of how people talk. You know, that is how people talk. That's how people talk. However you go. But this is something very interesting because the way he's talking and what he's saying to another person is kind of interesting. So this is cut number two. When Zohran Mamdani, I guess I'd have to say when he changed his voice, I don't know. Cut number two go. I think that with the interesting thing about our communities here is I think that minority communities, because we have never had representation, we are tied much more to identity. white communities they've had representation forever and so for them their tie is a little less identity and a little more ideology and so what I mean by that is we have a lot of voters here who think of themselves first as progressive voters and so we reach out to them speaking about our platform our progressive platform

And you're very right that you need someone in the middle to be a validator, someone to tell them to trust us, believe in us. We've had that with Tiffany, Kaban, and Cynthia Nixon. How about that? He's the he's the, he's the fixer. He's the fixer that's doing this. You see what he did? And he outed, he outed those, fire that thing up. Just one more time. And then we'll get out to traffic. Fire this up again, please. I think that with the interesting thing about our communities here is I think that minority communities, because we have never had representation, we are tied much more to identity. White communities, they've had representation forever. And so for them, their tie is a little less identity. Welcome back. It's the Brett Wooderbill Show. Oh, I went long in that last segment. I'm very sorry about the long. Yeah, I shouldn't have gone that long. But that's okay because I can tell you what we've got coming up in this next hour. What's coming up in this next hour is going to be fantastic. What if I told you, I know, it's like the cheesiest line ever, but what if I told you that we are seeing an epidemic of a good thing? You know what it is? Homicides are declining in 2026, and it's because the law enforcement people are doing great jobs, keeping people safer. This is remarkable. Also, in this next hour, oh gosh, I don't even know how to explain this to you. Apparently that Michigan, the College, Michigan, University of Michigan are, they're going to be shielded in the 2027 freshman letter grades from transcripts because they have a new mental health plan. You can't have anything that's in any way, shape, or form difficult. Why? Why? I'll tell you about it.

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Aurora, Colorado. I thought they were all just getting high all the time there. Aurora, Colorado, 58.8% drop. Suffolk County, New York. That's over, you know, Long Island, Long Island, 58%. Boston, 52%. Miami, 50%. Washington, D.C., 43%, and Memphis, 43%. Violent crime keeps calling on the door, and we are stopping it. And that is important. Why does it matter? Well, the decline now spans two presidencies. It began falling under President Biden. after the pandemic surge and has gone even deeper after President Trump. Trump came into office casting America as being overrun by crime at a time when the numbers were already declining dramatically. Yes, but it's going down even further. And this, my friends, is Washington, D.C., and this is Memphis. Two places that once upon a time scared people to go and spend their time in. And now with the major cities chiefs association, the Maka survey of 66 large communities, they're seeing nothing but blue skies in this regard. We got homicides down 17%. Robberies dropped. 16%. Rapes. 6.2% aggravated assaults. 5.7% taken together. Four categories were down about. 8.3% for roughly 1,400,000 fewer reported rapes and all that sort of stuff. So this is good. This is something that we want to continue to have. Who doesn't want that to continue? Oh, the silly people, the silly people who are running around saying, you know, we have to stop incarcerating people for crime. No. Why should we, why should we take people who are criminals and let them just roam without any kind of a penitentiary or anything like that? That's not, that's not the way you do this. The way you do this is to say, hey, hold on a second. We need to take care of the vulnerable. You've got all these other people who are running around all throughout the country saying things like we have to go and help the felons. We have to get them into the regular business of business. That's exactly what we've got to do.

But regular people, normal people, people who do everything right, who try to make sure that their kids are safe, that your grandma's safe, that your neighbors are safe, that your cars aren't getting stolen, all that sort of stuff. Ah, you know, these DSAs, they just sit back and they go. They didn't need that car. They totally needed that car to give to the cartels. And those cartels were going to, you know, create a whole new panorama of incredible things that they could do. Do you know how much fentanyl that they could probably do? I mean, the DSAs are just sitting back there going, yeah, you know what? They need more drugs. They need more drugs. They need more guns. They need more, all this sort of stuff like this. No, you don't. You don't. We need civilized people to behave like civilized people. And we've got to have the reality in the United States of America that you're right. Your number one right is a right to life. And you know what number two is? A right to life. And you know what number three is? A right to your stuff. You using your stuff. Not these criminals running around.

Came the snowflakes. Stick around. This is a tale of something I never thought I would see, but it's happening. Welcome back. It's the Brett Winterball Show. It's good to be with you. Yeah, so listen, there are so many big stories that are out here. And I got this guy, I don't even know. I don't even know what he's talking about. He's talking about people making things up. And he's demanding. If you go in there at the second to the bottom, he's trying to say that. that these different storylines aren't really real, which is so weird. And he says, somebody needs to be able to verify all this. Well, you need to get verified. I mean, why don't you make a verification and go tell us about what you learned from the verification? But I'm talking about stuff that's actually happening. Like, I'm somebody who is actually... looking at the stories that I look at, and this guy, this guy doesn't believe that the stories that are happening are happening. I mean, you know, I get it. I absolutely get it. I understand. There's a lot of people that they get kind of upset about things, which, okay, so that's what happens. All right, let's go here, because I, I just think this is something. That is also an interesting story. And it goes with the Sophie story from yesterday. That's right. That is exactly right. Okay. So I want to, for this guy that doesn't believe that any of these stories are true, I'm going to go ahead and give you the exact site. I'm going to give you the exact site. And you can sit there and listen to it as long as you want to do it. And it is. It is Linda Cohn. Linda Cohn is a very respected journalist and was a very respected broadcaster at ESPN and in a variety of different settings. So I'm going to play this. This is cut number eight about how ugly and wrong and terrible the coach at the fever. are doing their level best, but they seem to want to turn their eye away from stuff when you've got people like, well, Sophie being injured and others. So this is cut number eight, please go. I'm not, I don't oppose the hard foul, but I also don't think that she intentionally went for the net. I listened to that whole post game news conference by Stephanie White. There was no mention of Sophie Cunningham or any support for her own player. And remember last week when I told you about it on the show, when Sophie was elbowed in the face in another game and the officials gave Sophie Cunningham the foul and Stephanie White looked like a spectator because she didn't get up out of her seat to argue that call even after a video review, let the call stand.

That's Sophie's coach. She never supports Sophie Cunningham ever, ever. And then of course, you know, a lot of people, a lot of you guys who watched the show remind me, she did the same thing. Here she was praising the kind of player Dijon A Carrington is. She did the same thing with Alyssa Thomas and Caitlin Clark was on her bat and Thomas had her arm to her throat. And there was, you know, there was support for Alyssa Thomas and not a lot of concern for Caitlin Clark in that situation. I Stephanie White. This coach, listen, I know of her history. I know what a great player she used to be. You know what a great coach at time she is. But it's not working with the Indiana Fever. The reason why she's not fired already is because either the ownership or the team executives don't care or not even watching the games, which I don't think that's the case. But Indiana Fever, they're doing well. They're championship contenders in the WNBA this year. But they are not because of Stephanie White. They are because of Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell. That combo, that tandem makes Indiana fever games worth watching. Always worth watching. So Stephanie White, count your blessings for at least two of the players your coaching because they, I feel, my opinion, they have kept you in your coaching seat. How about that? Like that is, that is what you call talking, you know, shooting truth to power in that regard. And why would you, if you have these talented people that are playing and they are very talented people, why would you, why wouldn't you let them go out and do what they do? Like that's, that's the important part of this entire thing that people are worried about. Like, so what do we do? How do we do this? How do we fix this? I mean, in many ways, you would expect that these folks were going to be supportive of the teams. Wouldn't you think that that would be the case? But unfortunately, you have a bunch of people. who are not playing that game. They're just sitting back and they're saying, hey, you know what? We're just not going to rock the boat. We can't rock the boat. It's none of that. We got to keep it all the way it is. And I'm telling you, you need to be able to defend your fellow players. I mean, think about Rodman defending against Michael Jim Jordan. Like, you look at those guys. you're not going to go get one of these guys and knock them out. You're not going to knock them out when they're superstars when they're doing that sort of stuff. You have to have enforcers, not to the degree, obviously, with what goes on in hockey and stuff like that. But you have to be able to do that kind of stuff. And you have to make sure that that person is going to remember after they've decided to. to move on into some other place and do something else. But, you know, when you look at the way that Linda Cohn was talking and all this sort of stuff, this is somebody who's saying, listen, you've got gold. This is gold. You've got the drama. You've got the back and forth. That's what people like.

You don't want to see anybody getting beat over the head. You don't want to see anybody getting, you know, blocked and, you know, in a secondary way. But the fact is, you've got to have to deal with this kind of stuff. And unfortunately, you know, in any contact sport, whatever it is, you got to make sure that you're going to be able to make your position known, but you're not going to get people who are injured. And that's... That's the ebb and the flow that goes. That's why people love sports because you don't know what the outcome is going to be. And you don't know how it's going to come and how this is going to be. This is what I think is the beauty of that part of the sports because you're talking about the ability to watch somebody succeed. And sometimes watch somebody just absolutely implode. All right, ladies and gentlemen, University of Michigan plans to shield 2027 freshman letter grades from transcripts in a new mental health plan. Oh, boy. This has got no doubt around me that there's going to be people who are not happy about this on both sides. On both sides. Freshman at the University of Michigan next year will get a semester-long break from having letter grades appear on the transcripts as school officials are looking for new ways to combat the mental health crisis affecting higher education. Starting in the fall of 2027, incoming first year students enrolled in the public research university's college of literature, science, and the arts will have their first semester grades designated as pass. or no credit on their transcripts in an attempt to curb mental health crises unfolding among college-aged individuals according to the university. Yeah, I'm wondering something here for a second. I'm not trying to be mean. None of this comes from a position of mean. But the reality is, when you go on the ROTC program,

Maybe you're going to enlist in the military. You want to take your stuff in college and you want to go into the military. Perhaps you've decided you want to do a hard science. Perhaps you want to go to law school. Perhaps you want to do stuff with all the other stuff that's available to you. What is the easiest way? to understand whether or not you're doing your best. What would that be? It would be your grades, right? It would be your grades. So if you're cratering, maybe you need help. If you're not cratering, maybe you need help. I mean, you just never know how this kind of... What is Toyota affordability? It all starts with buying smart. And your Toyota dealer has great deals available to qualified customers on reliable cars and SUVs, including the redesigned RAV-4, spacious Grand Highlander, sporty Camrys and Corolla's. It means driving for less, with efficient hybrid and plug-in hybrid options available throughout the lineup, extending your overall driving range and delivering great MPGs, saving you money at the pump. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles. And as the best resale value brand, according to Kelly Blue Book, your Toyota can be worth thousands more than average when it's time to trade in. That's Toyota affordability. Buy smart, drive for less, and trade for more. Shop Toyota.com or your local dealer for deals and details. Vehicles projected resale value is specific to the 2026 model year. For more information, visit Kelly BlueBookskb.com. Toyota brand average resale value is 53% versus the average vehicle at 45%. Toyota, let's go places. If stuff goes, but why are we trying to wrap more people in bubble wrap? Like, truth be told. I never even thought about going to the University of Michigan. I don't think I would have gotten it. I don't think I would have had the grades for it. I don't think I would have had any of that sort of stuff. But the fact of the matter is, You should be able to write proficiently. You should be able to handle stress. You should have all this stuff at the same time. But unfortunately, we're trying to make it easier for people to have an excuse before they even have an excuse. The LSA, which is the largest of the university's 19 colleges. and serves approximately 19,700 undergraduate students will provide students with their letter grades throughout the semester, but not include them in the final average of their transcripts. Why? Why? Why? Why are we making it easier to stop? This is a growing movement.

Why do we do fine, then no grades for anybody? Everybody's pass fail. Everybody's pass fail. And I can't wait to see how the folks that are at the law school, that are the hard sciences, that are looking to become medical doctors, all that sort of stuff. Ah, yeah, we'll just kind of figure it out. Transcripts will instead have a P for pass or NC for no credit. Doesn't that right there already tell you that if you got the no credit, That it's not a P? I don't know. I probably offended somebody. I probably offended somebody who is very, very upset by a variety of different things. So we're going to have my good friend, one of my favorite people in the whole world, and you know who it is. Bo is going to be joining us coming up next. We're going to talk about a whole bunch of stuff, stick it around, absolutely mayhem and dissension, or perhaps a lot of laughter. You get to pick it out.

And welcome back. It's the Brett Wooderbill Show. And this is the time where we get together with our favorite people, including but not limited by, Bo Thompson, and of course, Beth Troutman from Good Morning, BT. It's great to be with you, Bo Thompson. How are you? Am I mayhem? Am I dissension and my laughter? Oh, gosh. That's it. You know what? Mayhem and dissension, I think is good. I think it's all good. Depending, you know, this is you got to have different sort of options for so much. All right. What do you say? What do you say? We dive right into this because I... What is it? Like 72 people are running for office in the Senate race and all this? I mean, what is happening? What are you thinking about when you're thinking about this race and what this looks like? Take it away, my brother. Well, I mean, you know, five candidates that were polling enough that they were in those debates, or at least Darlene Graham was five on the first night, then four on the second night, because she didn't do the second one. And then there are five others technically, so there are ten people, like you say. I mean, it's a crowded race and it's a compacted race. I mean, we had a chance on the morning show, Good Morning BT, to talk to four of the... of the five. We did not talk to Darlene Graham, but we've had the other ones on the show. And, you know, you've got, you've got Mark Sanford, who has been around the block in politics and made a comeback. And he's been a governor, been a, been a congressman now trying to be a senator. But the numbers look like tonight is probably going to be or produce a runoff. And Darlene Graham and Ralph Norman are the ones that have been. polling near the top. And to me, I mean, it could end up being a different name, other than Darlene Graham and Ralph Norman. We'll see. But I'm expecting it to be those, too. And if it is, then that triggers, you know, two more weeks of campaigning and a runoff on August 25th. And I'm curious. I don't know what you are, but I'm curious, you know, what happens then as far as the gloves kind of come off with somebody like Ralph Norman. Darlene Graham, who obviously the big knock against her is experience. And, you know, a race like this hasn't come along very often. And this, you know, a Senate seat in South Carolina almost never comes along. So, you know, if you're Ralph Norman or any of those others not named Darlene Graham, you've got to be thinking, this is my shot. And I got to do what I got to do. Right. And, you know, I mean, you also got to tread. carefully right because somebody is going to get that seat at some point and you don't want to have a tough a tough situation moving forward right

Yeah, and then we don't know what President Trump does in the ensuing few weeks if there is a runoff because we've just seen him do a double endorsement in the governor's race a few months ago. So, you know, it's going to be fascinating. Look, we're right here over the state line, kind of watching all this go by, but we have a lot of listeners that, you know, listening to us right now that have a figure into this race. So it's been one of the more unexpected, fascinating. political stories since I've been doing this. Look, it's great. If you're a political junkie, this is what we live for. This is what we're doing. And that's always a good thing because we're learning and seeing and all the stuff that's been happening really right around the entire country. Let's talk a little bit about the NBA schedule. Let's take a look at what we've got happening. I mean, I can't believe that it's almost. It's almost ready to fire off. What are you thinking about this? So, you know, the NBA, like the NFL does, kind of leaks the schedule throughout the week, and then I think full schedule comes up on Thursday. But so today they announced the opening night matchup, which, as a lot of people thought, would be LeBron and Philadelphia against the Knicks, the champions. But then they release Christmas Day. And, you know, Christmas Day now is not just the NBA anymore. It's the NBA and the NFL. Right. There are eight games between the two leagues. starting at noon on Christmas Day. I think the most interesting thing for Hornets fans is that the Hornets are the only team never to play on Christmas Day. Wow. And not that I was expecting them to play on Christmas Day this year, but here's where the salt gets rubbed in the wound. On Christmas Day among the NBA games, let me make sure I tell you right here. Yeah. At 9 o'clock on Christmas night, the thunder against the T-Wolves. which means that this guy, lamello ball, will be playing on Christmas Day. So the Hornets are the only team to never play, and now they turn around, and the guy that just traded will be playing on Christmas Day. Will they ever play on Christmas Day? Is it just a fait accompli? What does it take to have that happen, Botops? I'll tell you exactly what it's going to take. It's going to take Steph Curry deciding to come back and play here. with this team, which is no longer, like, impossible. Right. A few years ago I would say he's going to finish his career in Golden State, and I wouldn't blame him. But now, like, you know, they didn't go and do anything this off season. They didn't get LeBron. There's words that Steph is kind of not on the same page with management there. Have you ever seen the Hornets have a team that would be more attractive to somebody? Jeff Curry to finish out his career. I don't think so. And if I'm Steph Curry, I got to seriously look at that team and all the draft capital that we accrued to when we made these moves. So I don't know. I mean, Steph's playing on Christmas Day still. He's playing against the Nuggets, against Warriors Nuggets late Christmas night. So, you know, his name still carries huge weight. And I'm not saying I think he's going to come here, but I think for the first time, Charlotte.

is a plausible place for him to consider. That's what I would say. I think that's a beautiful sentiment, and I hope that happens, and it would be outstanding. And you'd have a lot of people wanting to get those tickets to see, because, you know, it's going to be incredible. What do you got set up for tomorrow, my friend? Well, hey, it's all about this South Carolina Senate race. And, of course, tomorrow morning we'll know who either the winner is or the two people that will face off in the runoff. And like I said, my money's on there being a runoff between probably Darlene Graham and Ralph Norman. So we'll have everything that's going on, the speeches, where we go from now, and the timelines starting tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. with Beth and me. mandatory listening, mandatory time, all that sort of stuff, because you're going to get smarter. The more you listen to the program, and thanks so much for coming by today, my friend. I appreciate you. Yes, sir. Always good to talk. I give me that what I desire. And we're back. Our number three, where almost anything could happen. And we're certainly happy that you're listening to us, that you're spending time with us, that we're breaking all this stuff down. I mean, I think that's a good thing. Before we went to Bo Thompson, we were talking about these kids who are going to college. At a prestigious college, I mean, is it not, is that a prestigious college? I think it is. The University of Michigan, they have like 100,000 people that come out for football, all this kind of stuff. It's a serious place. I think there's a medical school there. I think there's a lot of these different schools. And folks are just as shocked as I was to see that they're going to try to. Kind of plan down a little bit so that these people don't have to worry about their grades. And I got to tell you something. And believe me, waving my arm on my fist and yelling at the people saying, this is not right. This is not, this is not good for us. No. But the reality is. If you went to college, okay? Here's what we're going to do. I'm going to call an audible right now. If you went to college and you had a difficult time in college, I'll take your call right now. I'll take your call right now. If you had a tough time, I'm talking like first semester, you know, I'm just going to go first semester. Because that's really, you either acclimate or you don't. So you have your life. You did what you did. If you had a tough time in that first time, and don't be calling them and be like, hey, man, we used to just party and smoke weed and all this kind of stuff. And this guy jumps through the roof and all that. No, no, no, no. I want to know, like, did you have travails? Because this is what's going to help these kids coming up here in a couple of weeks. They're all going to college.

And they need some toughening up. And they don't have any of the toughening up. So the snowflakes for the kids are now just playing along with this. And I don't understand why you would do that at all. When I got to college, first of all, I matriculated in my college in the second semester. I never had a single of a first semester because I just matriculated when I had my money and I went in and I had a room and I knew people, not really. And I traveled all the way from little teeny tiny Texas all the way up to Boston. And I had to kind of figure that out. And you know what it was? It was exciting. It was exhilarating. I remember the night when the guy chased me with a lead pipe. And I never went down that road before. Had never done that. But the reality is these snowflakes, I think they're going to be harmed by this. Just go in there. Nobody's happy when you first go to college. Nobody is. You don't have any money. You got zits. You're not dating anybody. You're worried about the people that you left behind at home, all that kind of stuff. Everybody, everybody's had that. Everybody's had that. But I don't understand why we're trying to, we're going to try to retrofit these kids and say, you know what? We don't think you're ready for this. Okay. All right. I mean, that's one way of approaching it. You ever teach a person to go get on the freeway or the first time you got your kid and they're driving the car? And suddenly, like, they're just like, you know that they're panicking. Do you take the wheel from the driver and just put them on the side of the road? Or do you say, no, you got to deal with this? You got to figure out how you're going to get this done? We are. We are a very special group of people in our country. You know, Beth's favorite Russ said the left and horseshoe right deciding between allowing data centers and the third spaces for the Utes. That was the first comment. The second comment was. Brett, I don't know. The great thing doesn't sound bad. We have never let our kids learn to walk because we were afraid of them falling. Sure, they're in their 20s and can't stand or support their own body weight, but they're safe, right? Yes, it's exactly it. That's exactly it. It's very simple. These are the same kids in their generation. where they would play baseball or any other sport, wouldn't keep score, and everyone got a trophy. So they're used to this ridiculous treatment. They are weak, and we are not going to make it in society. Very possible. Very possible. Dan says Brett.

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During this time, and during, especially during COVID, there was a huge opening of the Overton window. We were shut down. There was some of the highest unemployment rates that we have seen because of those shutdowns. And I think that. The doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place. And I actually think that the discussions that were had in that time were quite fruitful. I think that when we talk about crime today. It's fundamentally different than the way that we talked about crime in bringing crime down, right? And I think that we all share in the goals of having as low a crime rate as possible. I think that, you know, during lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today. And I'm grateful that these candidates have the opportunity to present who they are to their electorate and what they're campaigning on in this moment. Do you remember the riots that occurred with George Floyd?

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This is something that I think is bizarre in so many different ways. And it's because of CNN doing a report about the president of the United States transiting from... Where he was in the Middle East, what was that? It was about like a month and a half ago. The president then moved into a different airspace, and he moved into a different place on that plane. And this is just something that is so strange. It has been established that the Iranians want to kill Donald Trump. It's been established. I mean, they want to kill Donald Trump. And he was told by the security detail that he was working with that they needed to move to a different airplane. And now CNN is effectively mocking the president being in a safe place before he went on to that other airplane. And, I mean, I don't know what to say about CNN. I don't think that there's a whole lot of it there anymore. They used to be much more robust in covering things and doing things like that. But this is quite something. Cut number six, CNN mocking the president. because they had to change flights because of a terrorist threat, cut number six, please. Right? He wasn't cowering in a catering truck. Well, he couldn't see him. He wasn't. I mean, he was using that as a vehicle to get to another plane for security purposes. Most likely, as you point out, because Secret Service said, this is the way we need to handle this. So it seems odd to frame it in that way. And the Tommy Veter texts, I'm sorry, the tweets are absolute. lunacy. I mean, that is a ridiculous way to frame a security protocol to protect the United States of America, almost as if they're goading him to go into situations in which there's another assassination attempt on his life. I don't know what the practical matter is of that other than to try to shame him for not being the subject of an Iranian plot to murder. I mean, when you think about this, if you go back, if you go back in time, That night, the very first time they tried to kill him at the White House event, at the, you know, the first one, not the second one, what happened? Donald Trump was standing there. He was talking. while the commotion was happening, and then they pulled him down and they took him out and they went behind the corridor and all that sort of stuff. So what's interesting to me is the press, the people who are responsible for the press are, oh, they're big tough guys. They're like big time tough guys when the Donald Trump Express is coming through and they're looking to try to make him into something that he's not.

And then he comes with this sort of stuff. So what do you say we look at somebody who's a real tough guy? I'm going to give you a real, real tough guy. And this is Abdul El-Sayed. And this is quite something. This is something that's been unearthed. And I just, I don't know how you guys are going to take this. Abdul El-Sayed on Sharia law being part of what we need in the United States. Cut number five. What does that mean? I don't know. And yet the voters banned it anyway. And I don't have to tell you that the same exact forces that drove native peoples from their land two centuries ago, destroyed Black Wall Street a century ago, bombed a building decades ago, and tried to ban Sharia law not a decade ago. that those forces are alive and well today. Hmm. That's, that's, that's, that's something that I had not heard until this morning when I was doing some research. Um, let me also play just to balance this. Uh, cut number four. Former president, then president, Barack Obama on a Christian nation. This is cut number four, please go. We are no longer a Christian nation. We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation. The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. Islam has always been a part of America's story. There is a mosque in every state in our union and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. Let there be no doubt. Islam is a part of America. So there's president, Barack Obama. I tried to figure out where Bagala, why he doesn't like the socialist. And when we come back, I'm going to let you hear from Bagala about the socialists. He doesn't seem to like him very much. I'm kind of shocked. I would think that it was in his own lane. Welcome back. It's the Brett Winterbull Show. Good to be with you. Final segment of the program. Everything is a fair game here in this regard. So what's going on with Paul Bagala? He really doesn't like the social justice warriors. And I'm wondering why that's the case. So let's take a detour and check out what Paul Begala is looking for for a new leader in the country. Go. Abdul won a narrow victory. And more problematic for him, he has a narrow coalition.

The socialists all say, I'm a moderate, I don't like the socialist, I can't stand them. I just want to just gore. That's great. But they always say the socialists that they care about the working class and about black folk. Well, I could tell you, black folk in the working class don't like the socialists. Abdul's got a lot of work to do. I talked this week, actually, one very impressive, democratic black leader in Michigan. They hadn't even been contacted by Abdul yet. Like, what are you doing? Well, wait, you shouldn't tell him that they should go and do it. I mean, for goodness sakes, why are you doing that? You shouldn't be doing that. That's a bad idea. Let him figure out his way around and get the stuff done, and he's going to do what he's going to do. But that's, you know, that's one of those things. Like, I wouldn't walk up to him and say, hey, hey, you know, you got a problem. Nobody's heard from you. He's, does, does nobody know what this plan is? The plan is he skates in on this and then he doesn't have to do any of the hard work. And if, unfortunately, he doesn't get elected, they'll just drop the, they'll just drop one of the cards. Whatever the card is, whatever the card he wants to use, he'll drop a, he'll drop a card and he'll say, yeah, they didn't take me because I was a bad person. They didn't, they didn't understand what I was trying to get done. I got to tell you something. The weirdest stuff that I've seen coming out of, out of that particular person is this. I mean, the blues clues and all those weird videos that they're doing. I understand he's got young kids maybe, but that's a weird thing to be doing. It really is. It doesn't feel like a serious person is trying to get important serious things done. But this is somebody who's making a place much safer. 16,000 arrests have been made as part of operation to make. Washington safe. How about that? More than 16,000 people have been arrested in Washington. This is Washington, this is Washington, not Washington on the West Coast. They have arrested that many people for the launch of the make DC safe and beautiful task force one year ago. with U.S. Marshals, and they announced that just earlier today. One year later, the results speak for themselves. The U.S. Marshals said those arrested, included more than 3,200 people apprehended for drug-related crimes, more than 100 known gang members, and 35. And so as a consequence of good policing, you know what's happening here? You got homicide is down 41%, motor vehicle theft, 54% and sexual assault, robbery and carjacking. All of these are down. I can't imagine why anybody would want to live in a city that's dangerous, especially a city that's as expensive as this is.

I hope this holds, but it's probably not going to happen once the barbarians are at the gate. Thanks so much to everybody. We'll be back again tomorrow. It's been a real pleasure. I am Brett Winterball, and we'll be back again tomorrow. Enjoy your evening. What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Your local Toyota dealer has great deals available today on Tacoma, Tundra, and Forerunner with the space and features for any adventure. It means driving for less, with available hybrid options, delivering great MPGs without sacrificing power. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles, meaning your truck will hold its value for years to come. Shop Toyota.com to find out more. Toyota. Let's go places.