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guess this was on Friday. Let me I got the
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this coming Thursday, December eleventh, we will be broadcasting on
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to simulcast BT on one oh seven point nine FM,
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to get into the engineering of it all, but like
when you flip the switch to make the station directional
because the AM wattage is so powerful and it just
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and you hear it too. You'll hear sun up and sundown. Basically,
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hear pH, that's what that is. It's flipping directional, because
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radio stations anywhere close to eleven ten AM on the band,
and so flipping directional meant that we lost western or
west of Charlotte, which is what the Gaston County area
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BT is always wanted to get an FM stick and
we will now begetting one starting on Thursday.
Speaker 1: It used to be.
Speaker 2: UH the link it was then it actually was like
back in the old days it was BT. So one
is one oh seven nine UH FM starting on Thursday.
This is one hundred thousand watt UH signal. It's a
very powerful stick that's gonna cover with the FM all
of the Charlotte area that UH that the AM covers basically.
So then there's some other movement with the link moving over.
W l NK mixed one oh seven nine is gonna
go over to one hundred point nine and ninety nine three.
So the ninety nine three that's that signal is gonna
flip on Thursday, just like the one oh seven nine is.
Speaker 1: Gonna flip to us. So it's a it's a good thing.
Speaker 2: This is a good thing because we're gonna get a
lot more coverage and a lot more awareness. I mean,
I'm not sure you might not realize this, but young
people they don't even know what AM radio is, if
they are even aware of what a radio station is.
So this is going to help reach more people. So
there is that again, that's on Thursday. We're gonna start
simulcasting on one oh seven nine.
Speaker 1: Also, want to.
Speaker 2: Thank everybody for coming out on Friday. We did not
get any rains so that was fantastic. For the thirty
second annual Hancocks Bikes for Kids Drive we collected I
think the final number just from the day was like
eight hundred, which is awesome. And you can still drop
off a bike with kids first and then they will
they'll get it to the local kids so they get
a new, fully assembled, unwrapped bicycle for Christmas and they
will be taking more donations through Christmas Eve. Okay, so
if you didn't get a bike over to us on Friday,
or you couldn't drop a bike off at Watson Insurance,
which thank you for acting as a drop off site
for the bikes as well. You can still drop one off.
They're in the McMullen Creek shopping Center. I believe the
Kids first. You can check out their website Kids First
of the Carolinas dot org. Also thank you to Garage
Door Doctor and also Thomas Rentals. They they transported a
bunch of the bikes from Watson, so we are super
appreciative of you. If you dropped off a bicycle. You
can also make monetary donations. Uh, thank you to everybody
who you know came out and said hello, we had
a great time out there, and thank you too. I
think it was Lisa who brought us the handwarmers. They
were Yeah, Bernie used like eight of them.
Speaker 1: In his shoes.
Speaker 2: He had them in his shoes and then he had
some on his hands and so yeah, clutch move. We
should really remember to do that ourselves, you know, have
some of these things. So oh, regarding the the nition
of one oh seven nine, uh as, I have no
information as to whether or not any numbers are changing.
I don't think there's been no changing of anything, so
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All right, so is everybody feeling safe?
Speaker 1: Now? How is your perception of safety? How's that do it?
Speaker 2: But with the big announcement, remember last week, late last
week where the CMPD police chief, the new police chief
of Stella Patterson and U city officials and they were
all like, hey, we're you know, we're gonna focus on
on safety. We're gonna like surge a bunch of safety
stuff into downtown because you know, your perception of safety
is being undermined by what we can't tell. We don't
really know why people wouldn't feel safe, but they don't
feel safe for some reason. And so there we're going
to be doing this, you know, surging of resources and
personnel in order to make people feel safer, to improve
their perception of feeling safe. And then an illegal alien
homeless guy stabbed a dude on the train, So yeah,
not not great timing there for Yeah, for the city
court records, according to Joe Bruno at WSOC TV, court
records say that Charlotte Mecklenburg police arrested Oscar Solorzano in
connection with the stabbing on the light rail line. He
was held on no bond and he did actually have
a court appearance today and WSOC reports that Judge Keith
Smith ordered Solarzano, thirty three years old, to remain in
jail without bond after he was accused of stabbing a
twenty four year old man in the chest Friday near
North Brevard Street and East twenty second Street in court.
So it was reported Joe Bruno it was in court
and this is where this information was first divulged, which
was Solarzano was not supposed to be on a train.
He was already banned from CATS, so he had already
acted like associopath enough where he got banned from public transit,
and somehow or another just banning him.
Speaker 1: Didn't quite do the train.
Speaker 2: He still got on the train, which really isn't surprising
because there's nothing to stop you from getting on the train.
There isn't even really anything to stop you from just
jumping on the train without paying.
Speaker 1: Which is what he did.
Speaker 2: Also, yeah, he didn't pay, So once again another person
didn't pay the fare and stab somebody. This is now
twice in the last almost four months. Arena Zarutska the
story that went viral, and now you've got this story
which is obviously now getting national attention as well, because
it's like, what the hell is happening in Charlotte. That's
what people are asking, what is going on in Charlotte.
According to the DA's office, Solarzano was drinking alcohol on
the train and started yelling at passengers, and that's when
this twenty four year old guy told him to stop
and just leave everybody alone, the DA's office said. Solarzano
then drank a bit more, walked over to the victim,
started yelling at him, and the victim told him to
back away. Solar Zano would not back away, fearing for
his safety. The DA's office says, quote, the victim pushed Solarzano,
who fell over a seat, probably because he's drunk, but yeah,
he got pushed down, got pushed away because he's getting
all up in this guy in the victim's face, so
the victim pushes him away. He falls over a seat.
He gets up, pulls out a large fixed blade knife,
and the victim backs up tries to get away from him. Solarzano, though,
stabs the victim in the chest. He then flees when
the train comes to a stop at the next station,
and when police found him, he had slurred speech, red eyes,
and booze breath. The Charlot Michluer Police Department said he
actually admitted to everything, which will make the trial much easier. Yeah,
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more transparent. Russ says that dude was banned from the
country twice. Why would a ban from a train keep
him off the train. It's a very astute observation. That's
an astute observation. Yes, banning him from the country didn't
keep him out, So banning him from the train and
the buses, why would that keep him out? That's a
fair point. Also, he says, my perception about safety is
highly affected by my observations about safety. So no, I'm
not feeling super safe in the city.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So let me go back to this WSOC article.
Speaker 2: The attacker on the light rail line that stabbed a
twenty four year old man in the chest, who by
the way, the last report on his condition that I
have seen is that he is still in critical condition
but stable. So if you are of the praying kind,
say a prayer for this man and his recovery as
well as his family. Solarzano is currently inside the Mecklemburg
County jail. That's the suspect. Ice has lodged a detainer
against this guy, and now our sheriff will have to comply.
And by the way, it is still unknown. I've been
trying to track down the chronology on all of this
because we have some details about his prior arrests. For example,
according to the Department of Homeland Security, the suspect is
from Handros and he was deported in twenty eighteen during
the first Trump administration. He was then arrested attempting to
cross the border again in twenty twenty one, but I
don't know what date that was, but I assume it
was probably un dur the Biden administration, which I'm surprised
that they caught him number one, and really surprised that
they sent him back. But he had already been deported
once and usually if you've got the deportation and then
order against you and they send you home and then
you come back again. That's a felony, and so usually
they will send you back again. So he crossed the
border again in twenty twenty one, he gets caught, they
send him back home again. He then enters for a
third time. But this is an unknown date and location,
so we don't know where he crossed or when he crossed,
don't know when the latest one was. But he's got
a record, he has prior offenses, and it appears that
these crimes were committed in North Carolina. I don't know
what the chronology is. Were these crimes committed prior to
twenty eighteen and the first deportation, or were they committed
after his re entry for the third time, because the
second time he got popped coming across the border and
he got sent right back. So is it like, are
these offenses things that he was charged with after he
crossed over yet again sometime after twenty twenty one, in
which case then you know, well not, in which case
we want to know where were these crimes committed. Did
he end up in a jail? Did he end up
in a jail like Mecklenburg Counties where we do not
honor ice detainer requests, and so he was released after that,
even though he had been deported twice before. I don't know,
I did, yeah, I did see this. I've got a
couple of people that have sent me screenshots of his
arrest intake, I should say, the intake website for Mecklimber
County Jail, and you can look up the inmates, oh sorry,
the residents.
Speaker 1: You can look up their.
Speaker 2: Mug shots and stuff. And he is classified as a
white male. So yeah, I'm not sure what that does
to the data collection and the stats except completely screw
it all up. But anyway, he was arrested previously for
aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, destroying evidence, resisting arrest,
using a false ID, as well as convictions for robbery
and illegal re entry. And it says these crimes do
appear to have happened in North Carolina.
Speaker 1: That's according to WSOC TV.
Speaker 2: But I think the real story here is the republic
reaction to the story. Am I right? Like that's the
real story. That's always the real story. That's rule number
two of Journalisming. Rule number two is that when the
story is about a Republican scandal, then the story is
the scandal.
Speaker 1: But when it's a Democrat scandal, then.
Speaker 2: The story is the Republican reaction to the scandal, you see,
And so we are getting that kind of coverage. Of course,
from the Charlotte Observer headline, Trump lashes out as if
like lashes out. Shouldn't you guys be lashing out? Shouldn't
everybody be upset about this? Shouldn't everybody be angry? Trump
lashes out as latest Charlotte light rail stabbing reignites political fight.
That's the headline, the story by Mary Ramsey. The reporter
starts fussly quote another stabbing on Charlotte's light rail system
reignited political conversations about the city's handling of crime and immigration. Right,
these are political conversations, No, they're they're people just outraged.
This just happened. We just had the murder of Arena
Zarutzka that prompted all of this coverage, all of this
focus on Charlotte's crime problem, right, and then we had
all of the response from the city and from the
Charlotte Area transit system.
Speaker 1: They're like, you know, this is unacceptable.
Speaker 2: We're going to you know, ramp up presents and we're
going to put more people around, and we're going to
paint you know, boxes on the platforms where if you're
standing in that box, you better have paid for a fair.
And we're going to try some new technology to figure
out how to make sure that people have paid the
fair before they get on the train. But we actually,
I don't even know if they've painted the boxes yet.
But the response was because of the horrific attack. These
aren't political conversations, you know, I maybe I'm nitpicking too
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the text line seven oh four number says just a clarification.
If you are a resident in the Charlotte Jail and
not a prisoner, then you would not have a mugshot
because you're just a resident. I guess it needs to
be called a portrait. It may be a glamour shot,
a family photo. That's that's a fair point. These aren't
These aren't inmates. Inmates get mugshots. These are residents, so well,
I guess we would call them a portrait. Joe Bruno
reported also that this suspect that's been held without bond
address is listed as the roof above homeless center, so
he is a twice deported criminal illegal alien who is
living in or at least lists as his address the
homeless shelter. Charlotte Area Transit has not said whether PSS,
which is the company that provides security for cats. They
have not said whether there were any PSS employees or
personnel on the train at the time of the attack.
It doesn't seem like it. It doesn't seem like there
was anybody any kind of security on the train. And
they have told us that they can't staff one person
for every train, for every car, basically because you can't
walk between the cars on our light rail system, you
can't jump between the two cars, so you'd have to
put one on each car. The mayor put out a statement,
having learned from the previous stabbing of Arena Zarutska, the
Charlotte Mayer at least now is a little bit more
vi on the spot, a little bit more responsive to
these stabbings on the light rail system. She came out
with a statement posted up onto Twitter formerly known as
x She says everyone deserves to be and feel safe
in our city. Well, to quote Clint Eastwood in the
documentary Unforgiven, deserving got nothing to do with this. Okay,
this isn't a matter of deserving things. This is a
matter of we are paying for these things. We have
entered into a social contract with GOVC. You are to
do these things. It's not a matter that we deserve
it and everyone deserves this or that. No, this is
this is a transaction. Okay, we are paying you for
a service. You need to fulfill the terms of that contract,
which is to provide security, to create the umbrella of security.
This is the primary thing, really, the only reason you
exist as GOVC.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Your primary objective is securing the peace, is creating an
umbrella of security, of safety, under which we may all
freely operate and associate and engage in commerce and activities.
If you cannot do that, then you need to clear
the way for somebody else who can. She says, there
is no room for violence in our community. Again, this
is just platitudes, right, there's no room for violence. I disagree.
As we have seen, there's obviously a lot of room.
There's a lot of room for violence in our society,
in our community. It's all over the place. So don't
tell me there's no room for it. There's plenty of
room for it. It's whether you accept it or not.
And you can pay the lip service to say that
this is unacceptable, but your actions indicate that it is
acceptable to some degree, to a large degree. Have you
heard of our sheriff Gary Not my fault, McFadden. I'm
just waiting to find out that this guy went through
the Mecklamburg County jail and was released even though he.
Speaker 1: Had ice detainers on him.
Speaker 2: Like, I'm just waiting for that information to come out,
and it will if that is in fact the chronology,
which I don't know yet.
Speaker 1: But he was.
Speaker 2: Deported, he came back in, he got caught at the border,
he was deported again, and then he came back in
at some point after twenty twenty one. We don't know
when he came in. We don't know where he came in,
and we don't know when those charges that he picked
up and he was convicted on these other things, we
don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen any reporting to indicate where that falls
in the timeline. The mayor goes on to say in
her statement, we have invested heavily in increasing security on
our transit system, and CMPD has been proactive in increasing
its presence across our city, including announcing a new multi
agency effort just this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we noticed that.
Speaker 2: We noticed the big announcement and then the immediate stabbing
so there are several aspects of public safety that are
outside of the city's jurisdiction, including immigration policy and enforcement.
But we will continue to disparage those who are doing
the immigration policy and enforcement.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: She doesn't say that, but that is what we saw.
Right when immigration enforcement came to Charlotte. All these same
people were screaming, bloody murder. How dare they do this?
Immigration enforcement? They pick people up, They're acting reckless and
racisty at all of this. But this is outside of
our jurisdiction. It's outside of our purview. No, you know
what is ICE detainers, honoring the ICE detainers. And now
that the legislature has basically forced our sheriff to comply,
now it's very easy for you guys to be like, oh,
we're cooperating totally right, But you guys never said anything
about our sheriff. You never applied any kind of public
pressure on him. And that's why we're seeing what we're
seeing now is because we have had eight years of
refusing to cooperate with ICE. And what happens is over
those eight years, people get arrested, they come to the jail,
they get released, and then they reoffend, and that's why
we're now seeing the people after two, three, four times
through the jail never being deported. That's how you get
that it takes a while to amass the criminal record.
There are several aspects of public safety that are outside
of our jurisdiction. We will continue to focus on public
safety and insuring a safe and vibrant community.
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Welcome to the program.
Speaker 3: Hello Alexy, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: Hey? I'm well what's up?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I just want to say, if we're going to
be taken immigrants, why can't we get some from civilized countries,
why are we continuing continuously taking in the violent corrypt
dregs of the Third world?
Speaker 2: Mean people, Well, this guy came illegally, So you're talking
because that's the idea behind controlled legal immigration is that
you are discerning.
Speaker 1: You know, Okay, do we want this person?
Speaker 3: I wish that as long as we're, as they say,
a nation of immigrants, not get some from civilized countries.
I mean, what I keep hearing is they keep, you know,
they keep using the term immigrant. They don't distinguish between
illegal and legal. I'm talking about, you know, if we're
gonna have, you know, illegal immigration, I was hoping we
could have some from some civilized countries. I mean, people
keep comparing today's immigration with immigration from one hundred years ago.
And by today's immigration, I mean illegal immigration as compared
to the legal immigration of one hundred years ago. Back then,
it was primarily European immigration, and they wanted to assimilate
and they wanted to become Americans. But these current crop
of illegal aliens coming into the country, they don't want
to assimilate. They want to dominate. And I have a
story that illustrates this perfectly. This happened about twenty years
ago in uptown Charlotte. There is a car ahead of
me in traffic, and it had a cartoon character urinating
over the word Lamigra, I later found out is Mexican
slang for the immigration and naturalization services. And I just
thought I want to find out about what that meant.
I thought that Makow perfectly illustrates the content that they have.
Speaker 2: Yes, some do, yeah, some do and look some some
have a desire to be here and to stay here.
Speaker 1: They don't want to go back.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is the problem when conflating legal with
illegal immigration. This is it makes it almost impossible to
have conversations about what policy would be best implemented and
what the impacts are.
Speaker 1: And Alex I appreciate the call.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is the this is the problem that
the media is forcing us into this, uh, this murky
conversation because it doesn't talk about illegal immigration. It's always
just migrants, undocumented migrants. They find all these different ways
to talk about the topic without having to to defy
illegal aliens illegal immigration. And yeah, it's it's difficult. And
most Americans are totally fine with legal immigration because the
expectation there is that there is some sort of standard
that people are meeting when they come, namely that they
want to be American, they want to be a part
of this project, right, that they are drawn to be American.
They're not coming here and treating us like some economic
zone where they just will work and then go back home.
You know, that's the expectation. Now, whether that actually happens
with the legal immigration system, that's a different discussion.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: But but look again, I don't have any problem. I mean,
I know Alex kept saying, you know, civilized society and this.
Look there there are countries all over the world that
are civilized, right. There are cities and places in various
countries that are quote civilized. The problem is when there
are large numbers of illegal immigrants, right, they've already shown
a propensity to violate the law. Particularly this guy from
Honduras who has been deported twice before. He keeps violating
our law to come in. He's homeless, he's not participating
in the society. He's using our freedom and he's using
our lax enforcement. He's using our good hearted nature right
to help people in his condition. He's listed as a
resident or his address at least is at roof above,
which is this homeless center. And I went and looked
at their website, one of the one of the things
that they vote.
Speaker 1: And I'm not here to drag Roof above.
Speaker 2: It's not their fault, right, But when you say our
services are specifically designed with no or very low barriers
to getting help, This is intentional, right, they say, our
soup kitchen provides meals to anyone that shows up at
our door. Okay, our year round emergency shelters do not
require photo identification, So no barrier or very low barrier
to getting help, quote unquote. So this guy knows that
this service is available. He's taking advantage of our kindness.
He's taken advantage of this nonprofit group, which by the way,
has pulled in a couple million dollars from taxpayers from us.
So we're funding these people. We're funding this organization that
is now giving the services and the place to sleep
and all this to somebody who has broken our laws
multiple times, has been ordered removed from the country, and
you're giving this guy shelter. This is why we call
it suicidal empathy. Your your call to be nice and
to empathize and look at me, I'm a good person.
I'm gonna help this person. You're gonna help them what
stay on the streets, continue with their addiction, continue breaking laws,
assaulting people, harming innocent people. This is suicidal, Like it
can't all just be this one, this one reaction of
we're gonna help everybody, everyone that comes to the door.
Sometimes you got to be tough, you know, sometimes that's
what is required. And that's how you ended up with
Customs and Border Patrol showing up in Charlotte. Which that's
the real problem, right, that was the that's the real problem.
Speaker 1: And this is this is.
Speaker 2: Quite the script because now we're getting people like the
editors over at the Charlotte Observer making an argument that
Donald Trump's enforcement operation coming to Charlotte was reckless, but
it should have targeted the criminal illegal aliens, and so
it's Trump's fault basically that this guy was free to
go stab someone on the train because Trump was focusing
on other people. Maybe if he had focused on the
right people, this never would have happened. All right, that'll
do it for this episode.
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