1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet, And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:32,920 your support. Congress came to Charlotte today for a field 10 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,759 hearing the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight. The topic of 11 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:43,640 the field hearing victims of violent crime. You heard the 12 00:00:43,759 --> 00:00:48,600 two witnesses testify about their loved ones who were murdered. 13 00:00:48,719 --> 00:00:56,000 Mia Alderman, grandmother of Mary Collins. She testified about Mary's 14 00:00:56,079 --> 00:00:59,640 case and the fact that it still hasn't gone to 15 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,920 trial it's been five and a half years. Steve Federico, 16 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:08,280 father of Logan Federico, who was murdered while visiting friends 17 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:13,959 down in Colombia. There was also CMPD officer Justin Campbell 18 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:21,239 who said the justice system in Mecklemburg County is quote trash, 19 00:01:21,719 --> 00:01:24,879 and he's like, I will suffer whatever consequences that come 20 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,040 with me saying that, but it's the truth and we 21 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:31,840 all know it. There was also Michael Woody, the owner 22 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,560 and CEO of eight to eight Bail Bonds. He's also 23 00:01:34,599 --> 00:01:38,000 the North Carolina representative for the National Association of Bail Agents, 24 00:01:38,359 --> 00:01:41,719 and as I mentioned last hour, he basically was there 25 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:46,599 to say, end the cash list bail system. It's not 26 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:52,000 making anybody any safer. I got some messages, I'm gonna 27 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,840 get to We have some more audio to go over, 28 00:01:54,519 --> 00:01:57,560 and we've got Alex who's been on hold. Hello Alex, 29 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,519 welcome to the program. Hey, I'm all right, what's up. 30 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,439 Speaker 2: Yeah. I just wanted to mention that the local political 31 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,240 leaders are inept and the judicial system is corrupt, and 32 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,840 we need someone in authority with ambition, intelligence and courage 33 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,520 to take control of this crime infested Democrat run hellhole. 34 00:02:16,159 --> 00:02:18,919 I've lived my entire life, almost sixty two years, on 35 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,120 the West side of Charlotte. You know how crime area, 36 00:02:21,879 --> 00:02:25,080 and I've seen the city's crime problem escalate dramatically, and 37 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:29,800 it's high time for corrective action to be taken such 38 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:34,439 as well, for one thing, make the criminals pay for 39 00:02:34,479 --> 00:02:36,800 what they do. I mean, it's slightly. They just get 40 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,280 a slap on the wrist and then they're out victimizing 41 00:02:39,319 --> 00:02:42,319 other people. Enough is enough. The people of this town 42 00:02:42,319 --> 00:02:43,240 have suffered enough. 43 00:02:44,159 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, it needs to be done right, and it's going 44 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:52,759 to require courage and leadership from the local Democrat Party leaders. 45 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:56,199 That's who this pressure has to be applied to. And 46 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,159 you know, they can easily dismiss us. You're going to 47 00:02:59,199 --> 00:03:02,199 hear it in these audio clips from the hearing. They 48 00:03:02,319 --> 00:03:05,400 just view all of this stuff as like, yes, yes, 49 00:03:05,439 --> 00:03:08,840 condolences you know, to the victims' families and all of that, 50 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:11,680 but this is all just political theater and you guys 51 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,319 need to just spend more money on stuff. And so 52 00:03:14,879 --> 00:03:19,120 that's that's been their approach. They are very aware of 53 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,759 what Republicans are pinning on them, which is this soft 54 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,280 on crime label. They're very aware of it, and they 55 00:03:26,439 --> 00:03:29,400 know it's politically damaging. That's why they keep pushing back 56 00:03:29,439 --> 00:03:31,840 on it. They have to, and they're trying to sort 57 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,240 of rebrand themselves as if we don't remember what they 58 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,360 were saying and what policies they put in place five 59 00:03:38,439 --> 00:03:38,879 years ago. 60 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 2: So, yeah, I just wanted to mention something about a 61 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:44,800 month ago. I phoned my cousin down in George and 62 00:03:44,879 --> 00:03:49,000 we were discussing the crime problenance cities like Atlanta and Charlotte, 63 00:03:49,199 --> 00:03:51,520 and I told her if the devil ever became mayor 64 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,439 of Charlotte, he wouldn't have to change much. 65 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:58,039 Speaker 1: Well, I mean that's fair. I appreciate the call, Alex, 66 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:03,360 thank you. Take care. Eric says that quote from Mia Alderman, 67 00:04:03,479 --> 00:04:07,000 the grandma, when she said only ten of us could 68 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:13,360 go to the graveside service. They couldn't even have a 69 00:04:13,439 --> 00:04:20,759 funeral for Mary Collins because COVID, and Eric says that 70 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,279 maybe the most heart wrenching part of her testimony the 71 00:04:23,319 --> 00:04:29,360 family's ability to grieve arbitrarily stolen by Roy Cooper. Yeah, 72 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:37,240 by putting those caps on an outdoor funeral service. And 73 00:04:37,319 --> 00:04:42,160 some of us, like me were arguing at the time 74 00:04:42,439 --> 00:04:46,319 during COVID, I was making the point, you've got your 75 00:04:46,319 --> 00:04:51,800 three w's, you know, wear a mask, wait six feet apart, 76 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:54,240 and what was the other one? Wash your hands? I 77 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:59,879 think wind is the fourth. Add a fourth wind, ventilation, 78 00:05:00,519 --> 00:05:05,959 get airflow, go outside. But no, you had people that 79 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:11,639 just went absolutely bonkers, drunk on power. These you know 80 00:05:11,879 --> 00:05:15,160 their inner tyrants. Now you know free to fly their 81 00:05:15,199 --> 00:05:20,439 freak flags, and they filled in skateboard parks in California 82 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:25,600 with sands so kids couldn't go skateboarding. They arrested surfers 83 00:05:25,959 --> 00:05:32,759 out in the water, like just insane levels of authoritarian bs. 84 00:05:35,199 --> 00:05:37,839 Here's a tweet from It's all a distraction, It's a 85 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,680 peat tweet. These stories are gut wrenching, but I feel 86 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,800 so many Democrats will still defend the criminals. My heart 87 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:49,160 is breaking for the victims' families. Russ says, I am 88 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,439 aware of my bias, but it sure seems like DEM's. 89 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:57,160 It sure seems Dems fight attempts to address mental health 90 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,000 right up to the point where we start demanding more, 91 00:05:59,759 --> 00:06:03,920 and then suddenly they are champions of mental health or 92 00:06:04,079 --> 00:06:06,959 really anything to distract from their policies failing and to 93 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:09,920 ensure as many criminals and mentally unstable individuals stay out 94 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:15,879 among us. Yeah, I do get that feeling too, The 95 00:06:15,959 --> 00:06:20,040 Helian says man Deborah Ross trashed her own moment of valor. 96 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:24,959 She should just stop talking. Yeah, Like that's a very 97 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:29,240 bad mistake, But it also is indicative of the fact 98 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:34,439 that she doesn't know who Logan Federico was. She doesn't 99 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,600 know who this witness is in front of her, Steve Federico, 100 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:42,600 Logan's father, and she doesn't know what Arena Zarutzka looks like. 101 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,600 How could you not know that the woman in that 102 00:06:47,639 --> 00:06:51,360 photo is I mean, I know they're both attractive blonde girls, 103 00:06:51,959 --> 00:06:56,480 but they don't look the same. They're different people. And 104 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,920 Deborah Ross, sitting five feet away from the photo, thinks 105 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:05,000 that's Arena Zarutzka, whose family was not there, did not testify, 106 00:07:05,079 --> 00:07:09,639 but she made sure, you know, to give her condolences 107 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,680 and then also say, now you know, the family didn't 108 00:07:12,759 --> 00:07:17,600 want people sharing the final images and the video of 109 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,240 the attack. And then she threw in the line about 110 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,079 we shouldn't politicize it either, as if that came from 111 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,519 the family. I'm not aware of the family saying don't 112 00:07:26,519 --> 00:07:29,680 politicize it. I read their statement the other day. I 113 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,319 don't recall that being part of it. But this is 114 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:36,800 what democrats are trying to are trying to guard against. 115 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:42,759 They don't they don't want this issue percolating, this crime issue. 116 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,199 They don't want it because they know they are vulnerable 117 00:07:46,319 --> 00:07:53,160 on it, and for good reason. By the way, this 118 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:57,279 story The Charlotte Observer did a good story Joe Marrisak 119 00:07:58,199 --> 00:08:03,680 or Marusak. He did a an interview with Mia Alderman 120 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:07,839 for a story that was published today at the Charlotte Observer, 121 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:12,720 talking about this case, the murder of Mary Collins. She 122 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:17,319 was twenty years old, She had a cognitive disability, and 123 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:23,319 she was murdered in twenty twenty after Prosecutors say that 124 00:08:23,439 --> 00:08:27,639 she was lured to an apartment by people that she 125 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:32,200 thought were her friends but were not. She was stabbed 126 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,519 one hundred and thirty three times. Two men and two 127 00:08:35,519 --> 00:08:42,320 women were arrested. One of the accused is Kelly Lavery 128 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:46,399 or Lavery. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to twenty 129 00:08:46,399 --> 00:08:51,000 five years in prison, more than five years after the attack, 130 00:08:51,039 --> 00:08:54,879 though the other three have not been tried. That includes 131 00:08:55,039 --> 00:08:59,000 America Deal, who was allowed to stay with her mom 132 00:08:59,279 --> 00:09:06,159 and grandma in Clover, South Carolina at their home. Another 133 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,360 round of court hearings is scheduled for the end of 134 00:09:08,399 --> 00:09:14,720 the year, December eleventh and December thirty first for suspect 135 00:09:14,879 --> 00:09:22,799 James Salerno and Lavvy fam December the end of the year, 136 00:09:22,879 --> 00:09:28,200 still like Salerno was actually given bond back in twenty 137 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:35,120 twenty three for participating in the murder of Mary Collins, 138 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:39,519 stabbing her and then wrapping her body in plastic, putting 139 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,759 it into a mattress where I believe it is going 140 00:09:42,799 --> 00:09:45,919 to be argued that they were going to burn the 141 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,639 mattress to dispose of the body. That was the intent, 142 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,039 and he was actually let out on bail. So when 143 00:09:53,039 --> 00:09:55,799 I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, and 144 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,120 before he died, my mom and my dad took care 145 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,440 of him as he got worse. Forty years ago, there 146 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,919 were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family. 147 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,360 But things are different today because of the work of 148 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:10,240 so many people, including the Alzheimer's Association of Western Carolina. 149 00:10:10,279 --> 00:10:13,639 It's a great organization with awesome people with huge hearts. 150 00:10:13,799 --> 00:10:16,279 I've been a supporter for twenty five years. This cause 151 00:10:16,399 --> 00:10:19,840 means a lot to me. I participate in the annual 152 00:10:19,919 --> 00:10:22,720 Walk to End Alzheimer's and I'm leading a Charlotte team 153 00:10:22,759 --> 00:10:25,919 again this year, and it's called once Again Pete's Pack. 154 00:10:26,159 --> 00:10:28,039 You can sign up and you can join the team 155 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,080 and walk with us. It's on October eighteenth that truest 156 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:35,240 Field sign up at alz dot org slash walk and 157 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,720 then you can search for my team name Pete's Pack. 158 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:41,080 There's also a link at thepetepod dot com. There's also 159 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,960 a link in the description of this podcast. Also, I'll 160 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,080 be am seeing the Gastonia Walk on October eleventh, and 161 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:49,320 so you can make a team and join that one too, 162 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:51,600 or make a donation and help me hit my goal 163 00:10:51,639 --> 00:10:54,519 of five thousand dollars. If you do, I really appreciate it. 164 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,200 There are a bunch of other walks all over the Carolinas. 165 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,080 You can go to alz dot org slash walk for 166 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,879 all the dates and locations. Were closer than ever to 167 00:11:02,919 --> 00:11:05,279 stopping Alzheimer's. Can you help us get there? Will you 168 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:08,159 walk with me? For a different future, for families, for 169 00:11:08,279 --> 00:11:12,200 more time for treatments. This is why we walk. Let's 170 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,639 get Gary on. Hey, Gary, welcome to the program. 171 00:11:16,159 --> 00:11:18,919 Speaker 3: Well, Pete, Yo, this is a first. This is the 172 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,559 first time I have ever called you. My wife is 173 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:25,559 a big fan, and I wanted to call you today 174 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:30,200 with a statistic okay that I was given last night 175 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:35,720 in a conference call with the North Carolina High School 176 00:11:35,799 --> 00:11:41,360 Athletic Association, of which, just so I can have a 177 00:11:41,399 --> 00:11:47,720 little crid, this makes you're thirty two in multiple sports. Okay, well, 178 00:11:47,799 --> 00:11:53,360 state championships. But my point to this is one word respect. 179 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 1: Now. 180 00:11:54,399 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 3: I know your show is highly political, and yeah, either 181 00:11:58,279 --> 00:12:02,240 here or there, but I have a statistic for you. 182 00:12:03,039 --> 00:12:06,000 It's gonna knock your socks off. I hope you're sitting down. 183 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 1: I am always sitting down. 184 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 3: The school school year has been going on for about 185 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:17,799 six weeks. I think they have played eight weeks of volleyball. 186 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:23,799 I think six weeks of football. They also were playing soccer. Now, 187 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:25,559 when I tell you what I'm getting ready to tell you, 188 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:28,639 I think you can forget the volleyball. I don't think 189 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:33,559 this is happening in volleyball, but from Mantio to Murphy 190 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:38,159 in the state of North Carolina, in just the past 191 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:42,519 six weeks of high school athletics, three sports. Would you 192 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:48,639 like to guess how many ejections we've had. 193 00:12:50,519 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 1: Is this of the student athletes or is this also 194 00:12:52,799 --> 00:12:53,840 parod fans. 195 00:12:53,879 --> 00:12:57,399 Speaker 3: We're not talking fans, we're talking student athletes, just the students. 196 00:12:59,639 --> 00:13:03,799 Speaker 1: Well, I would guess's be ridiculous. 197 00:13:03,799 --> 00:13:05,919 Speaker 3: I'll give you a hand. Be ridiculous. 198 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: I mean I could be very very ridiculous. I mean 199 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:11,240 your wife would tell you that she could assure you, 200 00:13:11,279 --> 00:13:14,440 I could be completely ridiculous below go ahead, Well, I 201 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:15,759 could say a million. 202 00:13:17,159 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 3: Two hundred and fifty one ejections. 203 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:24,559 Speaker 1: That seems high, and that's not. 204 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 3: Coming from volleyball. And I don't think it's coming from soccer. 205 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,600 I don't do those. I can't say. So we've got 206 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:36,559 to believe there's one sport leading the way, which in 207 00:13:36,799 --> 00:13:40,679 the football t weeks. That to me is one of 208 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:45,840 the most astonishing statistics I have ever heard in my life. 209 00:13:45,879 --> 00:13:49,840 And it all boils down, It all boils down to respect. 210 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 1: I have noticed this weird thing among younger people that 211 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,159 demand well, it's usually the p I'll just say like this, 212 00:13:58,200 --> 00:13:59,960 because it's not just younger people. There's older people that 213 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:05,440 do this too. They demand respect from everybody else but 214 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:08,399 offer none of it to anyone. 215 00:14:08,919 --> 00:14:12,279 Speaker 3: It's all one sided right the time. It's all one sided, right. 216 00:14:12,399 --> 00:14:15,639 I know it's highly emotional. I know there's there's there's 217 00:14:15,639 --> 00:14:19,879 a lot of intensity to it. But at some point 218 00:14:19,879 --> 00:14:23,159 in somewhere and sometime along the line, you got to 219 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:25,600 know when enough is enough, and you got to know 220 00:14:25,639 --> 00:14:30,039 where that line is. And it's it's pretty much been 221 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:34,559 a known fact since I was a little kid. I fought, 222 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:39,000 but apparently that's not the case anymore. 223 00:14:39,039 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 1: On this. 224 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:43,639 Speaker 3: It's just so sad on this conference call that I 225 00:14:43,679 --> 00:14:45,519 was just I was dumbfounded. 226 00:14:45,679 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: So on this conference call when they gave that number, 227 00:14:49,559 --> 00:14:54,679 was there any discussion about like or any discussion about 228 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,240 it like or was it just like thrown out as 229 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,080 just a data point and then they moved on. 230 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 3: This was from the the supervisor in Chapel Hill to 231 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:11,840 the officials, so the number is accurate. This was from 232 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,360 the man himself. 233 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,919 Speaker 1: Right, But was there any was there any discussion. 234 00:15:17,559 --> 00:15:22,559 Speaker 3: A keep the fake conversation, do what you gotta do, 235 00:15:22,559 --> 00:15:27,759 don't turn a blind eye that kind of thing. You know, 236 00:15:27,879 --> 00:15:32,039 you hate it, You wish it wouldn't happen. You sometimes 237 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:36,600 don't know why it happens. But is bi o balcos 238 00:15:36,679 --> 00:15:38,720 you say it is what it is. 239 00:15:38,759 --> 00:15:39,519 Speaker 1: It is what it is. 240 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,519 Speaker 3: Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. 241 00:15:41,639 --> 00:15:43,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, So all right, so he was he was talking 242 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:48,919 with officiating crews basically and saying like, we see these numbers, 243 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:51,759 two hundred and fifty one injections so far this year 244 00:15:51,799 --> 00:15:55,000 in six weeks, so like, you're not crazy. We are 245 00:15:55,039 --> 00:15:57,320 seeing this across the state. And if you got to 246 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:58,799 toss people keep tossing them. 247 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:01,679 Speaker 3: That's that's true. 248 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 1: I mean it's sad, that's what it is. 249 00:16:03,279 --> 00:16:07,559 Speaker 3: Just it's appalling, and you just it all goes back 250 00:16:07,559 --> 00:16:10,960 to upbringing. Yeah, and uh and let me put it 251 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,840 to you. This'll put a PS to this. This does 252 00:16:14,919 --> 00:16:19,759 not that number does not factor middle school play because 253 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:27,080 middle school play is not governed at the high school 254 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:31,000 Athletic Association office, right, that's done by the athletic director 255 00:16:31,039 --> 00:16:36,080 in each county. I wonder it's just tenth ninth through 256 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:39,080 twelfth grade, uh, in high school play. 257 00:16:39,519 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 1: I wonder how many not. 258 00:16:42,559 --> 00:16:45,519 Speaker 3: Affected or added to in any way, shape or form. 259 00:16:45,799 --> 00:16:49,080 So it's just ninth through twelfth scenarios. 260 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder how the middle school numbers would impact 261 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:55,960 this two fifty one. I also wonder how many fan 262 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:59,879 ejections there have been that would count also on that, 263 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:01,559 So Gary, I appreciate. 264 00:17:01,799 --> 00:17:03,879 Speaker 3: I don't know if they track that be something that 265 00:17:03,919 --> 00:17:09,039 I guess the game day administrator at each school would 266 00:17:09,079 --> 00:17:14,759 have to to keep some count some way. At Chapel Hill. Yeah, basically, 267 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,839 the UH police and that kind of thing handle all 268 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:19,440 that stuff once they come out on the field or 269 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:21,759 they come out on the court, or they throw something 270 00:17:21,799 --> 00:17:25,279 on the floor, or you hear them stand up and 271 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:29,319 yale one of two words basically there for the ticket 272 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:30,960 will let them do a lot of things. I got 273 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,119 what I've told a lot of them. You bought a 274 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:35,680 ticket to get in, and you don't need one to leave. 275 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 1: Mm hmm. That's good advice. 276 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:37,680 Speaker 3: Gary. 277 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,039 Speaker 1: I appreciate the call man. Thank you, Thank you, brother. 278 00:17:40,039 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 2: I have good day. 279 00:17:40,599 --> 00:17:46,599 Speaker 1: You're too, take care. Yeah. I don't know what to 280 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,680 make of that two hundred and fifty one ejections. I'd 281 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,440 be curious to know how many they've had historically. Like 282 00:17:51,519 --> 00:17:54,720 the trend line is probably not good on This not 283 00:17:54,839 --> 00:17:58,400 good game on Week one starts now, and every touchdown 284 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:01,079 brings you closer to a payout. With Draft Kings sports 285 00:18:01,079 --> 00:18:03,960 book and official sports betting partner of the NFL, this 286 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,000 isn't just football, it's first touchdown fireworks anytime TD rushes 287 00:18:08,079 --> 00:18:10,920 live bets that ride every momentum shift a Draft Kings, 288 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:13,640 Every play is your next shot to win. 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I'll 319 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:05,200 allow it. What kind of lawmaker are you? You don't 320 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,920 even know what Arena Zarutzka look like. How pathetic you 321 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:12,720 are living under your elitist rock. That's directed to Congresswoman 322 00:20:12,799 --> 00:20:19,079 Deborah Ross, who misidentified a murder victim to her father 323 00:20:19,559 --> 00:20:26,880 at the hearing today. Here's an anonymous Democrat. I'm gonna guess, 324 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:31,400 cashless bail. How would that have prevented the mass shootings 325 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:38,640 that just occurred? Too little, too late. Yeah. So see, 326 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,319 here's the thing. Leftists always do this whenever you start 327 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:48,680 talking about crime and shootings. Gun control stuff. This is 328 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:53,160 the conflation, right, They talk about gun deaths, and they 329 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:57,160 use that to paint this picture that you know, we're 330 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:01,480 a wash and guns and all of this, and you 331 00:21:01,559 --> 00:21:08,039 conflate suicides with domestic violence with street violence, and those 332 00:21:08,079 --> 00:21:12,480 are all different types of crimes, right, or in the 333 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:16,039 case of suicide, you know, events or incidents, and the 334 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:20,480 response to suicide is not going to be the same 335 00:21:20,559 --> 00:21:23,880 response to domestic violence, and that's not going to be 336 00:21:24,319 --> 00:21:30,400 the same response to street crime. Right, They're different, just 337 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,000 like and none of those really applied to the mass shooters, 338 00:21:34,279 --> 00:21:38,079 which are very rare, but like, this is what they do. 339 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:39,880 They throw it all into this one basket. And then 340 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,119 they say, oh, so we shouldn't change Cashle's bail because 341 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,519 it wouldn't prevent this one thing. Yeah, but it would 342 00:21:45,519 --> 00:21:50,039 prevent these other things. So again, don't whizz on my 343 00:21:50,079 --> 00:21:53,039 boots and tell me it's raining. They go on to say, 344 00:21:53,079 --> 00:21:56,599 it's mental health programs that barely exist. And the assault 345 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,440 rifles that you hand out like popcorn. Okay, I don't 346 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:05,519 hand out assault rifles like their popcorn, okay, because that's 347 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,160 just not profitable for me, Like that would cost me 348 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,920 a lot of money. You're not expensive. Those things are like, yeah, 349 00:22:12,079 --> 00:22:14,200 the hundreds of dollars and then I'm just not going 350 00:22:14,279 --> 00:22:16,680 to go hand them out to people. Also, that would 351 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:20,839 be illegal, and that's called straw purchasing. This is one 352 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,799 of the other things why I identify this person as 353 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:27,160 probably a Democrat is that they don't actually know what 354 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,480 the gun laws are. They think it's easy to get 355 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,200 a gun. They think it's it's so simple, and we're 356 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,079 handing them all out, and like, no, that's that's not 357 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,319 the case, and that would be illegal. Handing out guns 358 00:22:39,319 --> 00:22:44,400 like that is illegal. You that's straw purchasing. When you're 359 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,640 buying a gun and then handing it off to somebody else, 360 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:50,400 that's illegal. And typically the law abiding people that are 361 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:54,200 the vast majority of gun owners, legal gun owners, commit 362 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:58,240 no crimes. It is the criminals. So let's crack down 363 00:22:58,279 --> 00:23:04,920 on the the violence, criminal offenders, felons that possess firearms 364 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,160 after they get out of jail and prison and then 365 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,839 they go out and they're a prohibited buyer, but then 366 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:13,759 they go out and get stolen guns and they use 367 00:23:13,839 --> 00:23:16,119 them in more crimes. How about we crack down on 368 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,960 them even harder. How about that would you be okay 369 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:24,799 with that North Carolina is not even in the top 370 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:29,359 fifty most dangerous cities. Yeah. The Democrats said this today too. 371 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:31,680 They pointed out that Charlotte is like the ninth safest 372 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:35,680 city and Raleigh is the tenth safest city, which I'm 373 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:42,039 sure is great comfort to the victims' families there. They're 374 00:23:42,079 --> 00:23:47,039 identifying problems in the judicial system. And you may want 375 00:23:47,079 --> 00:23:49,000 to bury your head in the sand on this, but 376 00:23:49,079 --> 00:23:51,680 people who have been paying attention to it, either because 377 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,880 a loved one has been victimized and now they are 378 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,000 thrown into this world and now they see how this 379 00:23:57,079 --> 00:24:00,160 stuff works, or you're somebody kind of like me. I've 380 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,799 been a reporter and a talk show host in Charlotte 381 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:07,480 in North Carolina for now almost thirty years. So I've 382 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,680 covered a lot of crime, covered a lot of court cases. 383 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:16,079 And as the CNPD officer said, the court system in 384 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:20,599 Mecklenburg is trash and the people who interact with it 385 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,359 know this. We're five years waiting for a trial, and 386 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:28,319 think about this. The crime spike that we saw in 387 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,839 twenty twenty at COVID and all of that, right, we 388 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:35,799 saw this huge jump in crime and those cases now 389 00:24:36,519 --> 00:24:38,839 would be working through this, like, we haven't even gotten 390 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:42,039 to the spike yet. They're not even trying those cases yet. 391 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:43,519 I mean, they want to talk about the You know, 392 00:24:43,519 --> 00:24:47,039 the crime levels have dropped in the last two years, 393 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:52,160 and that's good. Absolutely, I am pro declining crime rates. However, 394 00:24:53,559 --> 00:24:57,519 you have das that are just now finishing up the 395 00:24:57,559 --> 00:25:03,079 twenty nineteen trials, which means that the big bulk of 396 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,519 the crime that we saw in twenty twenty and twenty one, 397 00:25:07,079 --> 00:25:10,759 like those numbers, they haven't even gotten into the system yet. 398 00:25:11,079 --> 00:25:14,880 They haven't started the trials for those. That's a problem. 399 00:25:15,279 --> 00:25:17,079 And again, you can stick your head in the sand 400 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:21,559 about this stuff, but I'm not going to. They then say, 401 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,559 get back to work and support healthcare, including mental health 402 00:25:25,599 --> 00:25:29,880 for these veterans, and others think they make a change 403 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:35,000 and stop whining. Yeah, I know. I feel like I'm 404 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,680 paid pretty well to wine been doing it for a while, 405 00:25:37,799 --> 00:25:39,640 so I think I'm just going to keep doing that. 406 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:45,559 And some say that I am making a change by 407 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,599 my whining. I mean, it's not a lot of people 408 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:53,240 that say that, but Aaron says, they just don't care. 409 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,519 They want to pass the ball off to somebody else. 410 00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:59,279 Dan says, this is the reason we have somebody like 411 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:01,680 Trump in the White House. For decades, the Democrat and 412 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,400 Republican establishments at all levels of government have failed to 413 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:08,039 protect citizens from crime. Yeah, I mean there's running on 414 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:16,240 a law and order campaign has worked for candidates for decades, decades. 415 00:26:17,519 --> 00:26:20,240 It is the fundamental thing that a government is supposed 416 00:26:20,279 --> 00:26:23,960 to provide first and foremost. It is like the this 417 00:26:24,039 --> 00:26:27,000 is the you know, the hierarchy of needs. You need security. 418 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,720 That's why we sacrifice some of our liberties, turn them 419 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:35,920 over to the government in exchange for that security. 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Here from the live stream of the House 444 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:57,079 Judiciary Committee's field hearing in Charlotte, where Congresswoman Alma Adams 445 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:03,079 of the variety of hats from Charlotte, and she said, 446 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:07,279 this is all political theater and this is just about 447 00:28:07,839 --> 00:28:10,039 Republicans trying to score political points. 448 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:14,039 Speaker 4: I'd also like to extend my condolences to the family 449 00:28:14,079 --> 00:28:21,279 and the friends of Arena zdus Gamp on this tragic murder. 450 00:28:21,319 --> 00:28:24,880 It was senseless and certainly we're continuing to hold all 451 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,759 of you in our prayers. No one should feel unsafe 452 00:28:28,759 --> 00:28:32,359 in their community or in their home. Senseless acts of 453 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,680 violence have no place in our society, and they must 454 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:40,640 be met with a commitment to creating safer communities for everyone. 455 00:28:41,279 --> 00:28:45,960 All perpetrators of violent crimes must be held accountable, and 456 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,000 they must pay their debt to society to ensure that 457 00:28:49,599 --> 00:28:53,680 justice is served and to protect our communities. I'm a 458 00:28:53,680 --> 00:29:00,000 little disappointed to Chairman that my colleagues here are politically 459 00:29:00,079 --> 00:29:03,640 sizing the pain under the guise of seeking justice, when 460 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:07,960 really I think there's an eye on this open seat. 461 00:29:08,599 --> 00:29:11,480 That's the real prize. And I'm gonna just be honest, 462 00:29:11,519 --> 00:29:14,319 that's how I am. But this is why I think 463 00:29:14,759 --> 00:29:17,680 we're here, and even though we should be in Washington 464 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,440 trying to make sure that government stays open. But the 465 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,960 hearing for me is not really about public safety. It's 466 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,920 about my colleagues trying to paint Democrats have soft on 467 00:29:29,039 --> 00:29:34,279 crime and we're not, and engaging in political theater, probably 468 00:29:34,359 --> 00:29:37,799 to score some headlines. Now, we don't need to try 469 00:29:37,799 --> 00:29:40,960 to distract the American people to cover up our own 470 00:29:41,039 --> 00:29:44,720 failure that we have not had the real solutions. And 471 00:29:44,799 --> 00:29:48,200 while we refuse to equip local government with the funding 472 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,839 and the resources that they need to keep communities safe. 473 00:29:51,119 --> 00:29:55,799 We've heard that here. Public safety transcends politics, and that's 474 00:29:55,799 --> 00:30:00,279 why Congress in twenty twenty two passed the Bipartisans saye 475 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,759 Communities that signed into law by President Biden. 476 00:30:04,119 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: All right, so there you go. The Republicans are politicizing it, 477 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:12,240 trying to score headlines with an eye on the open seat. 478 00:30:13,759 --> 00:30:18,920 I'm guessing she's talking about a congressional district in North Carolina. 479 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,599 Is this the Don Davis District? One seat that's a 480 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:28,200 swing district? Is that the idea? But also this idea 481 00:30:28,279 --> 00:30:38,559 that Republicans are somehow politicizing crime. Okay, yes, and see 482 00:30:39,039 --> 00:30:42,559 what do you think? What do you think? Politics? Is right? 483 00:30:43,359 --> 00:30:47,920 This is how we come to policies, and the policies 484 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:53,839 and laws are what govern our judicial system. That's the point. 485 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,359 And so we have law makers, one of whom is you, 486 00:30:58,079 --> 00:31:02,920 Alma Adams. You're a law so you can, as the 487 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,960 name indicates, make laws. And so when you engage in 488 00:31:07,119 --> 00:31:13,599 the debate about what law to make, that's politics. And yes, 489 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,440 that's where all of the crime stuff gets hashed out 490 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,000 is among the lawmakers. And when they identify problems, when 491 00:31:22,039 --> 00:31:25,440 people when the public comes forward and says, this system 492 00:31:25,519 --> 00:31:30,880 you made isn't working. We demand justice, We demand speedy 493 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,880 trials for the murderers of our loved ones. Right, you 494 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,039 should pay attention to that. And if you're not going 495 00:31:37,119 --> 00:31:40,359 to pay attention to that, then that is to your 496 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:46,880 own political peril. That's on you. Like I am perplexed 497 00:31:47,079 --> 00:31:53,160 at this reaction among elected Democrats, like are you that 498 00:31:54,039 --> 00:31:58,720 wedded to these terrible ideas? Are you? Are you so 499 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:03,240 afraid of your base getting angry? And what voting Republican 500 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:09,279 like this was an opportunity to kind of tack back 501 00:32:09,319 --> 00:32:14,000 towards sanity and they just can't do it. They just 502 00:32:14,039 --> 00:32:18,160 cannot bring themselves to do it. Then there was this 503 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:22,160 This is Kevin Kyleie Republican from California. 504 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:27,319 Speaker 5: This sense of lawlessness is seen in the ordinary conditions 505 00:32:27,319 --> 00:32:30,319 of life for people as well. In Los Angeles, the 506 00:32:30,359 --> 00:32:33,640 police chief has advised people do not wear your jewelry 507 00:32:33,799 --> 00:32:37,000 when you go outside. People have to walk through homeless 508 00:32:37,079 --> 00:32:39,519 encampments on their way to work with all manner of 509 00:32:39,599 --> 00:32:43,400 drug use. Another unlawful activity. You walk into a CVS 510 00:32:43,519 --> 00:32:46,119 or a basic store and your shampoo and conditioner is 511 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,359 under lock and key because theft is so rampant. We 512 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,640 see that in Washington, DC as well. You probably see 513 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:55,839 it here in Charlotte. So these and in fact, in 514 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,599 my own state of California, we just had an incident 515 00:32:59,119 --> 00:33:02,680 two weeks ago where and apparently an act of politically 516 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:07,200 motivated violence, an individual fired three shots into a local 517 00:33:07,599 --> 00:33:11,079 news organization and he was at large for some time, 518 00:33:11,119 --> 00:33:13,319 and then we all breathe a sigh of relief when 519 00:33:13,359 --> 00:33:15,880 he was apprehended. Thankfully, no one was hurt, the shots 520 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:19,160 didn't hit anyone, but then he was immediately released. A 521 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,119 man who just fired three shots into a news studio. 522 00:33:23,279 --> 00:33:26,519 Fortunately there was a federal nexus. The FBI apprehended him 523 00:33:26,759 --> 00:33:30,480 soon after that. But this is the core of the problem. 524 00:33:30,559 --> 00:33:35,039 It's criminology one ZHO one that the best deterrent against 525 00:33:35,079 --> 00:33:38,119 crime is the certainty of punishment. And the way that 526 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,880 many of these jurisdictions are set up is there's various 527 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:46,519 dimensions to the criminal justice system that undermine the certainty 528 00:33:46,559 --> 00:33:49,319 of punishment. So if you're a criminal committing even a 529 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,799 very serious crime, you probably think there's not a very 530 00:33:51,799 --> 00:33:53,759 good challenge you're going to get caught, because the police 531 00:33:53,799 --> 00:33:57,640 departments are understaffed and they've been defunded. But then even 532 00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,680 if you do get caught, there's a good chance you 533 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:03,160 won't be prosecuted because you have these rogue district attorneys 534 00:34:03,799 --> 00:34:06,440 who don't prosecute crime. But then even if you do 535 00:34:06,519 --> 00:34:09,239 get prosecuted, there's a pretty good chance he'll be let 536 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,000 out on pre tario release on bail, or even maybe 537 00:34:12,079 --> 00:34:16,280 on on supervised release without bail, or that even if 538 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,920 you are convicted, then the punishments are so weak that 539 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,079 it really won't be much of a punishment at all. 540 00:34:23,639 --> 00:34:28,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's exactly right. This story out of California that 541 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,960 he mentioned, this was an ABC affiliate that was shot 542 00:34:33,039 --> 00:34:38,280 up during the you know, the left fever dream of 543 00:34:39,159 --> 00:34:45,800 free speech. Martyr Jimmy Kimmel and some guy drove down 544 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:50,440 to the local ABC ten station in Sacramento and fired 545 00:34:50,519 --> 00:34:55,039 a bunch of rounds into the building And he was 546 00:34:55,400 --> 00:35:01,239 then bailed out, Like what are you doing and shot 547 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,559 blindly into a building. He could have killed many people, 548 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,840 and you're just gonna let him walk back out onto 549 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,719 the street. You don't think that that might be a 550 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:14,920 security risk to the society. Of course it is. He's 551 00:35:15,039 --> 00:35:19,280 obviously unstable he's deranged. He also worked for the teachers Union. 552 00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:24,039 I'm sure it's not connected though. Oh actually, all right, 553 00:35:24,039 --> 00:35:26,400 that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much 554 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,480 for listening. I could not do the show without your 555 00:35:28,519 --> 00:35:31,280 support and the support of the businesses that advertise on 556 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,119 the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too 557 00:35:34,159 --> 00:35:35,840 and tell them you heard it here. You can also 558 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,480 become a patron at my Patreon page or go to 559 00:35:38,599 --> 00:35:42,320 thepetecallanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, 560 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:48,639 and don't break anything while I'm gone.