WEBVTT - 8-6-26: New Election Bill Passed 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:32.440 Hi Oh, let's go hi oh, let's go oh, Let's go. 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:31.200 Oh. 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.600 Welcome back to Dawsoners Talk one O seven point nine FM, WBT. 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:40.760 Brett Jensen here with you on this rainy, stormy Thursday 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.000 night edition of Breaking with Brett Jensen as we go 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:47.360 up until seven o'clock tonight. Seven oh four five one 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.760 oh seven nine is the telephone number that is also 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.639 the WBT text line driven by Liberty Buick GMC. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:54.040 Boys and girls. 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.680 Make sure you follow me on X at Brett's Underscore 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.760 Jensen for all the letters to Breaking News in and 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:02.920 around the shod area, and make sure you definitely want 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.560 to follow me tomorrow on X because I think I'm 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:07.560 gonna have some pretty big stuff to be putting out 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:13.880 there on X tomorrow. So and knocking on wood. The 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.920 big interviews that I thought I was that I told 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:21.639 you about I believe on Tuesday that I think's gonna happen. 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:28.039 A person that's been in national news, global news, I 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:33.200 think it's happening tomorrow. It as four thirty this afternoon, 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:37.880 it's happening now. Anything can happen between now and tomorrow. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:43.759 Emergencies kind of rise here or there. But uh, but Yes, 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:52.680 the big, big, big monster sit down interview is scheduled 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:57.240 to happen tomorrow, so we'll, like I said, knock on wood, 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.480 I don't want to jinx myself, and I'm still not 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:04.480 gonna tell you what it is just in case, but if 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.480 it happens, you'll know. 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:13.560 You'll know by two thirty two o'clock, two o'clock. 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.480 You'll know by two o'clock tomorrow if it's happening, if 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.560 you follow me on X because that's where I will 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.480 announce who I did the interview with, for how long 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.079 and all that good stuff, and it will be airing 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:35.880 tomorrow night should it happen, and again should being the 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.639 key turb should it happen. If it happens, it will 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:45.040 air tomorrow night. And so I don't know necessarily how 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:49.800 it all came about. These people reached out to me. 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:56.880 It wasn't like I put in a request because things 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.560 like this, ninety nine point nine nine percent of the 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:05.680 time if you ask, if you ask a thousand times 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.320 for a sit down in depth interview, nine and ninety 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:14.320 nine times, you'll be denied. So I just didn't even think, 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:20.400 like whatever, and uh, clear out of the blue Tuesday morning, 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:25.959 I got a phone call and I'm like, oh, okay, 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:30.079 didn't see that coming. Didn't have that on my being 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:34.120 good card, as they'd like to say. And then yesterday, 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:43.480 more conversations, Today, more conversations, and the last thing that 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.080 I got at about four thirty is we're looking forward 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:46.720 to tomorrow. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:53.720 I was like, okay, okay. 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:57.839 So anyways, that's uh, like I said, I'm not gonna tell, 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:03.280 but you'll know by about two o'clock tomorrow whether or 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.800 not it's happening, and you'll know with whom the interview 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:12.040 is with or with whom the interview is. So anyways, 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.360 but yeah, so I just wanted to let you give 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.000 you guys an update about tomorrow. 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:22.120 And also i'll have something on our website at. 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.720 WBT dot com about it, like I'll have either a 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.960 transcription of it like the Q and A so you 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:35.640 can read everything unedited or story. My guess is that 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:41.839 it's going to be a Q and A and because 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:45.200 there the only way, the only time you ever do cues, 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.599 the only time you ever do cues a Q and 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.720 A like you publish like everything, here are the questions 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.920 and then here are the answers. Is when it's an 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:59.800 extensive interview. You don't do that for five minutes. It's 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:09.279 okay here about anywhere from eight to twenty questions. You 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:13.039 don't want to go more than twenty generally, but you 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:16.280 don't generally want to be less, you know, less than five. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.200 Because you can just put that in a story. 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:25.359 So uh so, yeah, maybe doing that as well, Like 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:31.159 there will be something on onto BBT dot com over 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.159 the weekend, Monday morning, something. 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.280 For that effect. 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.680 Tomorrow night or tomorrow. It will be nearly impossible to 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:44.839 do it for tomorrow. And the good news is is 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:49.280 that you'll also have things if the interview airs tomorrow night, 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.040 you'll be able to go back and listen to it 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.560 onto BBT dot com by going to. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:56.920 My show page. 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:04.920 And I'm sure Bo Bath, Vince Pete, Warnable, I'm sure 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.919 all of them will be using parts of it or 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:09.080 playing parts of. 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:09.520 It as well. 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:16.719 And maybe even the fair haired child TJ. Ritchie, maybe 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.119 he'll even play a little bit of it. So but again, 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:26.040 where things can change, and it's a twenty I got 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:30.839 a confirmation today, a twenty minute sit down interview with 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:35.280 this particular person, and they said, are you going to 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.520 be bringing a lot of TV cameras. I said, the 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:42.520 only camera I'm bringing is my iPhone. That's all I'm 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.559 bringing is my iPhone. 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:46.080 I said. There'll be a couple. 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.800 Of clip on microphones, one for him, one for me, 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:56.200 and my cell phone maybe together like on a little 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.280 tripod to get video, because I mean, don't forget your 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.320 your Why are you gonna use your cell phone? 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:02.159 Yeah, I'm sorry. 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.160 You know you do know that your cell phones go 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.800 in regular ten eighty two K and four K like 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:15.120 we're okay, high depth. So anyways, I wanted to give 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.280 you guys an update because I talked about it on 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:21.360 Tuesday and as I talk to you right now at 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:25.000 this exact moment in time, it's happening. 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:25.160 Now. 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.560 If it doesn't happen, I will tell you who it was. 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.440 And if it happens, I will tell you obviously who 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:38.720 it is. But I don't want to put anything out 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.840 there in the universe. Just like in the world of baseball, 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.160 you don't talk about a no hitter or a perfect 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:48.800 game while it's actually happening, and so for fear of 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.080 jinxing it or whatever. 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:51.880 That's why in the world. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.880 Of theater they tell you to break a leg instead 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.840 of saying good luck, they say break a leg, hoping 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:58.600 that you do the opposite. 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:00.760 So we'll see. 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.240 I'm not gonna put it out there, but we'll see 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.480 what happens. All right, when we come back, I do 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.840 want to talk to you about a North some of 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:14.080 the road laws that were passed up in Raleigh yesterday, 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:20.120 specifically talking about elections, and Stein talking about how he 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.760 wants to veto some of these because it's going to 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:29.040 quote unquote make it harder for North Canadians to vote. 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:34.080 I promise you it's not. I promise you it's not 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:38.040 going to make it harder to vote. And he literally 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.720 used that in an email today to try and raise money. 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.600 Republicans are trying to take away your right or make 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.760 it harder for you to vote. No, no, no, no, 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.920 that is blatantly not true. 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:52.440 And I'll break it all down for you. 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.040 And don't forget Carolina Panthers got a game. What time 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.440 is the game tonight? Travers eight o'clock? All right, and 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:03.120 I assume it will be Yes, ESPN or whatever it is. 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:04.640 But I also assume that it'll be on one of 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:10.080 the local TV stations NBC. Okay, there you go, your 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.160 WC and C channel is where to be. Thank you 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.280 that for travers. All right, So when we come back 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.199 the elections, some new election laws that impacts every single 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.240 person in North Carolina that is voting. But it really 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:31.719 doesn't hurt you, despite what Josh Stein says, back to 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:36.600 breaking with Brad Jensen taking you up until seven o'clock. 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.000 All right, So we got a lot going on I 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:39.839 want to talk about. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.640 So the hemp thing got all the attention and rightly 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.360 so on Tuesday, and we spend a lot of time 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:51.400 on the show talking about it, and nothing came to pass. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:52.800 They didn't even vote on it. 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.560 They'll look at things going back in November, because there 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.480 are a lot of things that probably needed to be 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:03.679 adjusted in that bill, and every time they adjusted, all 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.960 it's going to do is piss off the marijuana companies. 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:08.319 Not necessarily sure that's a bad thing. 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:16.960 But anyways, But so then Wednesday, the House passed other bills, 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.440 and Stein has basically already said that he'll probably veto 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:21.079 at least when or at least some of the reports 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:21.560 that I've seen. 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:29.200 But North Carolina House Bill nine fifty eight is a 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:30.520 bill or a law. 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:37.800 That was passed that alters early voting, and it you know, 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:48.720 basically shortens early voting during two stages primaries or or 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:56.040 I should say, and municipal elections. So in theory twenty 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.080 twenty six, twenty twenty eight, thirty thirty two, thirty four 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.079 to thirty six, you know, number years when you've got 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:04.800 Senate and governors and presidents and stuff like that, Congressional 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:12.040 early voting still stays in place the same length municipal 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:16.560 municipal elections and odd number of years twenty five, twenty 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.960 seven to twenty nine, they're going to shorten it. The 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:23.960 amount of early voting also going to shorten the amount 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:28.840 of early voting in primaries. So for instance, and I 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:35.000 look this up, they're about eight hundred and fifty thousand 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:43.720 registered voters in Mecklenburg County, Okay, about eight hundred and fifty. 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.000 In twenty twenty five. 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:51.319 In the primary for twenty twenty five, which basically decides 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.720 all the elections in Mecklinburg County because everyone's a Democrat 0:11:54.800 --> 0:12:00.400 in this county. Right, it decides you know, you're city 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:06.920 council and all kinds of stuff like that, right mayor whatever. 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:18.959 So the people that were voted in for mayor or 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:23.920 like like. When Vy won in her primary in March 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:28.840 of twenty twenty five, she essentially became immediately the mayor 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.319 because there was no way the Republican was going to 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:38.200 beat her ever, and probably particular that one. 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.640 So. But out of. 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:50.760 Mecklimore County had all these primaries, right local municipalities, eight 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:56.520 hundred and fifty thousand people could vote. Forty two thousand, 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.439 I believe, did eight percent. 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:05.040 Eight percent actually voted. Eight percent of the eligible voters. 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:10.520 Voted in the primary, which basically decided who was going 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:15.360 to be your city council members and your mayor and 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:20.319 all that eight percent. But Josh Stein is saying, oh, 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:24.079 that's gonna hurt that's gonna hurt people who want to 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:24.800 vote early. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.120 No, it's not. No, it's not. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:34.120 Only eight percent actually showed up to vote in the primary. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:35.400 So no, it's not gonna. 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:35.760 Hurt you at all. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:41.520 It's not even going to come close to stopping people. Now, Okay, 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.040 well what about Brett. What about twenty twenty six. I 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:45.760 know a lot of people don't show up to vote 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.640 in local elections, but what about twenty twenty six and 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.440 Senate races and congressional races. 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:52.000 And all that. 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:59.320 Okay, you had twenty percent show up. No, I'm sorry, 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:05.679 fifteen and a half percent showed up. Fifteen percent showed up, 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:10.960 So don't tell me it's gonna make it harder for 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:15.559 people to vote when they're not showing up to vote anyway. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.200 And how many times have you looked? Or I do 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:22.360 because I do this. You look at the Mecklenburg County 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.720 early voting sheets and they do it by day and 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.960 by precinct like a grid, and you look at it 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.560 and it'll say this precinct had twenty seven votes today, 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:36.480 that precinct had nine votes today. Really, like you're you 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.560 got to keep it open for nine votes. It also 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:50.160 saves the county and the state tons of money, tons 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:55.200 and tons of money. So it's they're gonna tell you 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:57.520 just Stein's already put it out the emails, trying to 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.080 raise money to stop the Republicans, because he's already telling 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.480 you Republicans are trying to make it harder for you 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:04.680 to vote because they're sore losers and they want to 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:05.800 take away early voting. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:08.520 Oh I mean, lest I chucked. 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:16.160 Republicans control the House, they control the Senate, so probably 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.440 early voting was going in their way, but it was 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.280 definitely going their way in the last presidential election. 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:23.320 Don't want to hear about that. 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.760 And the people that vote with the purple hair early 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:29.920 on the first day of early voting, they can vote 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.120 one week later on the first day of early voting. 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:37.680 Or the very stringy, wiry hair, or the very elongated 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.920 faces that droop and the glasses, those circle glasses or 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:47.480 the big thick horn rim glasses like Rachel Maddow liked. 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:48.600 I can tell you exactly. 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.360 I can see someone walking down the street and there's 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.880 probably about a ninety percent chance I can go Republican 0:15:53.960 --> 0:16:00.840 or Democrat just by the look of their face. It's 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:07.440 called our DF resting Democrat face as opposed to you know, 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:13.800 RBF our DF as a dog Democrat. So yes, So 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:19.200 that that was what Stein's probably going to veto. And 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:23.560 that's fine because it'll be overridden most likely come March 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.960 or come November. So that's not a problem. And all 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.680 it does is just shorten it up, shorten up the 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.880 voting time. I think you have basically three weeks now 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:37.400 to vote. It's like I think it's seventeen eighteen days 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:41.280 whatever it is, nineteen days, eighteen nineteen days. Well, now 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.840 they're just going to shorten it up. Okay, you still 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.200 get about twelve days to vote. You'll be okay. You'll 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.360 be okay, despite what Josh Stein and the Democrats tell you. 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.280 If you want to vote, you'll show up. You got 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.080 two and a half weeks to do it. You'll find time. 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:03.880 Welcome back to Ranking with Brett Jensen here in. 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:08.000 This stormy Thursday night edition. As we go up until 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:13.040 seven o'clock. And by the way, I had a caller, 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.520 because you guys know TJ Ritchie, I'll call him TJ 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:20.720 and the Bear and we play the play the theme 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:21.679 song to TJ. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:23.320 And there BJ and the Bear. 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:27.160 The really really bad eighties TV show but was popular. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:28.919 That doesn't mean anything because there are a lot of 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:30.560 bad TV shows that were popular. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:32.399 Well that was one of them. 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:34.560 And I never watched it, like even as a kid, 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.439 even with a little chimpanzee walking round, I couldn't get 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.160 into it. I just I just was like, nope, I'm good. 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:46.560 So but anyways, the I had a listener say, hey, 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:51.080 can you can you take it a little easy on 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:55.000 the BJ and the Bear stuff with TJ? Because I 0:17:55.080 --> 0:18:00.960 was literally named after BJ and the Bear, which I 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:02.680 think I got the email and I saw it, I 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:10.720 actually laughed. And the funny thing is, this is what 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.119 I'm about to tell you. Everything true is I swear 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:21.760 to everything holy. So I was as a kid, my 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:28.399 favorite show was MASH. Yeah, like Duke SA Hazard was 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.280 all in on DUKESA Hazard, and like obviously a lot 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:34.320 of other TV shows, but I really really, really really. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:34.840 Liked MASH a lot. 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:38.080 Like Mash was my show, especially in the early Mash years, 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.040 like the first three four five years when Frank Burns 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:46.240 was there, was like really my favorite, right and so 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:53.600 anyways there uh but BJ honeycut was a character obviously 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:59.200 on MASH, one of the main two characters, and I 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:04.480 liked that show so much. Brett Jensen, I wanted to 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:13.080 be called BJ after the character BJ Honeycutt. And the 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:16.440 worst part is, and everyone should know this, And if 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:21.160 you don't know this, then there's a problem. You can't 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:24.800 give yourself a nickname. You're not allowed to give yourself 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.679 a nickname. You can't do it. Hey, just call me 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:32.200 big Cheese or whatever. No, No, I will not actually 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.800 thank you. I'll call you cheese Whiz. I'll call you 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:37.600 big Cheese. Or whatever. 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:41.520 Call me the rock. No, I will not call you 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:41.920 the rock. 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:45.359 I will will absolutely not maybe Pebble's funstone, but I 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:49.479 will not call you the rock. So I tried to 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.640 organically get it started when I was like twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:58.240 tried organically, and. 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:03.320 Nobody would call me BJ. And then. 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:14.119 About two thousand and six, I was thirty eight thirty 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:21.400 six thirty eight thirty six thirty eight. One of the 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:25.480 sports media relations people at Clemson for the baseball team, 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:35.080 Brian Hennessy is his name. He's still there. Nice guy, 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:43.639 but goofy, like just goofy, but nice guy. And he 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:46.840 thought calling me BJ would be funny. 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:54.800 For various reasons. It goes, oh, ho, BJ, what's up? BJ? 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:01.400 And I'm like, really, dud, Like you're in your thirties, 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:05.320 really okay, So no one ever called me that. That's 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:08.240 literally the only time in my entire life that happened 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:10.760 to me. Like I said, but as a kid, I 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:13.359 wanted to be called BJ because of BJ honeycut on 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:20.960 mash and Nope, never happened. And looking back, I'm kind 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:25.879 of thankful, kind of thankful about that, especially going through 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:30.879 high school. Kind of thankful about that. But now I tried. 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:36.679 I tried junior high school or middle school. I tried, 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:44.800 and it just whatn't happen? So TJ and the Bear, 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:48.800 TJ honeycut. 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:54.160 We'll see, we'll see how it goes, all right. When 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:54.840 we come back. 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:59.560 Your Carolina Panthers have their first preseason game tonight on 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:03.040 national television. Just take a quick look at that, not 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:05.800 dive deep into it, not minutia. You're not gonna be 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:08.040 listening to a sports radio show or anything like that. 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:11.120 Just want to discuss it because it means football is here. 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:13.320 And oh, by the way, what in the holy blue 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:15.159 moon is going on at Chapel Hill again? 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:19.240 And I won't tell you what I've been. 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:22.920 Told about the situation involving Belichick's son. 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:27.760 I can't say that for liable purposes. But it ain't good. 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:32.399 All right, welcome back to you, breaking with Bret Jenson 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:34.120 for a few more minutes until we hand it off 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:38.479 to TJ. Honeycut. TJ and the Bear. I'm gonna keep 0:22:38.520 --> 0:22:41.639 coming up with them. God, I'm gonna keep coming up 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:44.120 with them, your fair haired child. 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:46.560 That's it, all right. 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:50.840 So in about an hour, almost an hour and eight 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:55.760 minutes to be exact, almost to the penny. The I 0:22:55.760 --> 0:22:59.000 know it's the second, I just say penny, but almost 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:04.160 to the second. The Carolina Panthers take on the Arizona 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:06.840 Cardinals in the Hall of Fame Game, the annual Hall 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:11.400 of Fame preseason game in Can't, Ohio. And yes it's 0:23:11.400 --> 0:23:14.000 the Carolina Panthers, and it's the first game, and everyone's 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:15.760 interested to see what they look like, even though Bryce 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:18.960 Young's not playing, and that's smart, I get it. But 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:24.920 it's also extra special because of Luke Keighley and he's 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:29.159 being inducted this weekend. Now, I this is not favoritism. 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:32.680 And anyone who's ever listened to me over the last 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:38.560 twenty years on Charlotte Radio, the overwhelming majority of that 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:46.120 in sports, they know Brett biased Panthers. That does not exist. 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:50.480 Like I'm not fanboy, never have been. You can't be 0:23:50.520 --> 0:23:57.399 a fanboy when you're covering the team. So but I 0:23:57.440 --> 0:24:00.200 will say the fact that Luke Keighley wasn't put into 0:24:00.240 --> 0:24:02.560 the Hall of Fame last year and a first ballot 0:24:04.280 --> 0:24:11.359 was unbelievably shocking to me. It was a foregone conclusion. 0:24:12.160 --> 0:24:16.920 Defensive Rookie of the Year. What five time first team 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:17.440 All Pro. 0:24:17.520 --> 0:24:18.239 I believe it was. 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:20.040 These are just off the top of my head trying 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:26.680 and remember Defensive Player of the Year. The difference between 0:24:26.720 --> 0:24:33.399 All Pro and Pro Bowl is this, A lot of 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:38.840 people make the Pro Bowl. Dozens and dozens make the 0:24:38.880 --> 0:24:43.040 Pro Bowl every year, Like you might have three quarterbacks 0:24:43.280 --> 0:24:47.959 and six wide receivers and a couple of kickers and 0:24:48.040 --> 0:24:50.840 punters and blah blah blah blah. That's just on one team. 0:24:51.040 --> 0:24:54.720 That's just on one team. And then you have the 0:24:54.760 --> 0:24:56.959 other team like back in the day, right when they 0:24:56.960 --> 0:24:58.840 actually played each other in Hawaii. 0:25:00.640 --> 0:25:02.960 At the Iloha Stadium, which doesn't exist anymore. 0:25:04.240 --> 0:25:10.080 But all Pro means you are the best at your 0:25:10.200 --> 0:25:11.960 position in the entire NFL. 0:25:12.960 --> 0:25:16.200 They do first team All Pro and second team All Pro. 0:25:16.280 --> 0:25:19.120 They don't divide them up by conferences or anything else. 0:25:19.240 --> 0:25:20.359 They throw them all together. 0:25:20.640 --> 0:25:25.320 Who's the best middle linebacker in the NFL period? And 0:25:25.400 --> 0:25:27.879 it was Luke Keickley, I believe five straight years. 0:25:28.760 --> 0:25:31.919 I believe. Maybe Travers can double check me on that 0:25:31.960 --> 0:25:33.960 and look it up. Look up as Luke Keagley's stats 0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:34.360 real quick. 0:25:35.720 --> 0:25:39.840 But I think he was five time All Pro, which 0:25:39.880 --> 0:25:42.919 means for five years he was the best player in 0:25:43.000 --> 0:25:47.240 the NFL at his position, Player of the Year once 0:25:47.280 --> 0:25:50.119 on defense, Rookie of the Year once on defense. 0:25:49.760 --> 0:25:51.520 Because I think you can only be a rookie once. 0:25:52.600 --> 0:25:57.200 So anyways, he's going in into the Hall of Fame 0:25:57.800 --> 0:26:01.200 in his second year of eligibility. All Pro First Team 0:26:01.520 --> 0:26:04.919 twenty thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, seventeen, and eighteen. So it was 0:26:04.960 --> 0:26:07.440 five times, okay, and the one time he wasn't was 0:26:07.480 --> 0:26:08.199 when he was injured. 0:26:08.240 --> 0:26:11.639 Okay, got it? So thanks. 0:26:11.760 --> 0:26:16.639 So anyways, now some people say, well, you know his 0:26:16.960 --> 0:26:19.920 career was a little shorter just because of the concussions, 0:26:20.000 --> 0:26:24.480 and I was like, don't care. Your five time first 0:26:24.480 --> 0:26:26.560 team All Pro that automatically gets you into the Hall 0:26:26.560 --> 0:26:28.480 of Fame, Defensive Player of the Year, defensive Rookie of 0:26:28.480 --> 0:26:32.280 the Year, Like what are we doing here? And I 0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:34.280 was on to F and Z earlier in the week 0:26:35.119 --> 0:26:38.200 and Colin Hoggard I was on his show from ten 0:26:38.240 --> 0:26:43.040 to twelve and he said, what do you remember about 0:26:43.119 --> 0:26:44.480 Luke Keighley? And I said, there were a couple of 0:26:44.520 --> 0:26:49.520 things that I remember about Luke Keighley before he was drafted. 0:26:50.680 --> 0:26:54.840 Then Duke football coach David Cutcliffe, who is like the 0:26:54.840 --> 0:26:58.720 Guru of quarterbacks was to the Mannings, you know, Eli 0:26:59.280 --> 0:27:01.439 and and Peyton and all that. 0:27:01.520 --> 0:27:08.320 Right, Guru to Quarterbacks called Luke Keighley the best past. 0:27:08.119 --> 0:27:12.520 Defending middle linebacker in the history of college football. In 0:27:12.560 --> 0:27:15.520