Charlotte Dem calls for conversation... then shuts it down after husband's Kirk posts (09-19-2025--Hour3)

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Bud called for concrete steps to improve public safety, including more police officers states wide, stronger mental health support, and expanded authority for judges and magistrates to intervene when signs of mental illness are evident. If she wants to join this effort, I welcome her to this side of the argument. And I do I like, yes, any Democrat that is willing to toss off the dumb assery of defunding the police. I welcome them to team sanity. Okay, I welcome her. Now I'm a little bit more suspicious, or as the kid say, sus of Kimberly Owens, who was at the press conference. She is a Charlotte City Council candidate for District six. That is the seat that was held by Tark Bacari. He then went up and took a job in the Trump administration. His wife, Christa Bakari filed an application to be appointed to fill the unexpired term. City council broke in half, and there's a you know, the voting block with the mayor that said no to her. They put in Edwin Peacock instead. Peacock is now running at large. He's a Republican and this now opens that seat up for this race, and Christoph Bacari is facing she won the primary. She is facing Kimberly Owens, who is the Democrat. So Kimberly Owens is at the press conference and she praised Bud's approach and said the biggest start of all is a conversation, a by partisan conversation around Here's the key. What it means to be a healthy society. Okay, I shall take you up on this offer. What it means to be a healthy society? I would submit that what it means to be a healthy society is to shun people publicly who say things like, oh, I don't know. After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, you would say something like, I'm not here to debate. I'm glad he's dead. I think he deserved to die. I think a healthy society would not embrace that kind of rhetoric. That is decidedly unhealthy for a society. So let's have a conversation about that. Well, in fact, somebody did try to have a conversation with Kimberly Owens about those very comments. Now why would they try to have a conversation with her about those comments? Very good question, Glad you asked. That's what her husband said on social media. She posted a video of talking about you know, political violence has no place in our democracy, but her own husband posted on the Facebook or the Instagram. I think it's the Facebook. I'm not here to debate you. I'm glad he's dead. This country doesn't need his level of bigotry. Question is, did God need him in heaven or did the devil need him in hell? When it's your time, it's your time, right, smiley face. And then in another response, he says, hmm, I think he deserved to die, and so did the devil. Don't bleep with higher powers, and then he's got a laughing emoji. Lol. So about that conversation about what makes a healthy society? Okay? Well? A woman on Twitter responded to Kimberly Owens and asked her, Hey, what's up with this? She sent me the screenshots of the response. Kimberly Owens responded, Oh, this was email, sent me the response. I appreciate you reaching out and welcome a chance to connect over coffee. No, I do not share my husband's beliefs. However, I respect my husband's right to have different beliefs, as we have had vastly different lived experiences with respect to opportunity, safety, and assumptions about our intellect and our intentions. I don't even know what the hell she's trying to say there is. This is just pat as with the fact, as with the fact that he carries a concealed weapon each time he leaves. Oh that's nice. So this guy who's like, Oh, I'm glad to this person's dead because I disagree with his politics. Oh, I think he deserved to die. This guy's a concealed carry permit holder walking around. That's good to know, as with the fact that he carries a concealed weapon each time he leaves our home. I respect that I have different views, but we have no right to substitute my judgment for his, given that I have never lived as a black man in America. Oh, there you go, so as a black guy because Melissa or sorry Kimberly Owens is a white woman and her husband is a black guy. So therefore I can't judge him based on his lived experience as a black man. I'm not a black man, So therefore, calling for people to be killed, or saying somebody deserve to die celebrating a political assassination, well that's just his lived experience. Meanwhile, talking out of the other side of your disgusting mouth, you say the biggest, the biggest start of all is a conversation around what it means to be a healthy society. This is not healthy, Kimberly Owens, This is not healthy. That kind of talking, as I understand it, he has deleted these comments. She goes on to say, the expression of his opinion on Charlie Kirk is his opinion. I appreciate that a number of Kirk's more in sendiary racist comment. There are no racist comments, by the way. I mean, here's the thing, if you want a glimpse into this delusion, you've got the same people that are twisting and trying to see the meaning and the context of Jimmy Kimmel's words, right, trying to take all of that his one sentence out of context, trying to take little pieces of it to give him every benefit of the doubt and make it seem like he wasn't actually saying the very thing that he said. Contrast that to the twisting the words of what Charlie Kirk has said. And I played the other day, I played the actual sound bites in full context, so you hear the argument he is making. He's not making racist arguments. She says. Inceniary racist comments, coupled with the fact that black fathers are routinely taken from their families without a mass outpouring of grief, have triggered my husband to post his feelings to a friend on social media. So there's excuse making for depravity. That's what that is. That's called depravity. So I asked this person who was corresponding with Kimberly Owens, I said, did she say what the racist comments were that she alleges? And the woman says that she asked Owens to send her some proof of these racist comments, maybe send some videos or something, and she said that she was done responding. So that's how you start a conversation to a democrat, I guess, to a democrat running for Charlotte City council, right, you want to start the conversation, and it needs to start with what it means to be a healthy society. And when I identify something that your own husband said, you sidestep it, you deflect, you defend, and then you shut down the conversation. So you don't actually want to hear a conversation, which is precisely why Charlie Kirk was murdered. So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, and before he died, my mom and my dad took care of him as he got worse. Forty years ago, there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family. But things are different today because of the work of so many people, including the Alzheimer's Association of Western Carolina. It's a great organization with awesome people with huge hearts. I've been a supporter for twenty five years. This cause means a lot to me. I participate in the annual Walk to end Alzheimer's and I'm leading a Charlotte team again this year, and it's called once again Pete's Pack. You can sign up and you can join the team and walk with us. It's on October eighteenth, that truest field. Sign up at alz dot org slash Walk and then you can search for my team name Pete's Pack. There's also a link at thepetepod dot com. There's also a link in the description of this podcast. Also, I'll be am seeing the Gastonia Walk on October eleventh, and so you can make a team and join that one too, or make a donation and help me hit my goal of five thousand dollars. If you do, I really appreciate it. There are a bunch of other walks all over the Carolinas. You can go to alz dot org slash Walk for all the dates and locations. We're closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's. Can you help us get there? Will you walk with me? For a different future, for families, for more time for treatments. This is why we walk. Let me get to some messages, because I have been woefully inadequate in my keeping up with the massages. Terry says, since crime shows are so popular on TV, that is true, end on podcasts. Why doesn't the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce start promoting Charlotte as a destination for crime tourism. Visit Charlotte and witness a crime. Visit Charlotte and you too might be able to be an extra on a TV crime show. Just harvest those tourism docs. I like get Terry thinking outside the box a little bit. Ooh, we could get Sheriff Gary not my fault McFadden to reprise his role as I Am Homicide and we could get him to be like the host or something. Mm hm hm hm Okay, I'm just spitbowling here. Let me go over to the text line. Oh my goodness, so many texts that Scott says to adssault to the wound of the cats issues. There are dozens of positions that have salaries over one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars per year. I didn't see what the director makes. Deputy directors all made between two twenty five to two fifty k. You'd think millions on salaries for managers would at least give taxpayers good cause for expectations. Oh that's a good one, Scott, Scott, Scott, And that's not how that works. No, the the administrative bloat just gets blowtier. Okay, that's it. He doesn't lead to better outcomes come now, um, yes, then again, government exactly, Scott. He knows what's up. Jefferson says, Pete, what was that old saying about uh, Mussolini and the trains running on time? I think that was Stalin. I forget who it was about. It was some dictator, right, some bloodthirsty, tyrannical dictator who I hearded millions of people. And the joke was, well, at least the trains run on time. So Tim says, I know how to improve the train system in Charlotte. Everybody who rides the train system must be armed. And when someone tries to pull a trick like that low life, he gets shot dead. And then gets shot dead again. That will get the message out there. There are armed people always on the train. So if you want to die, take a train right on the train if you're a bad guy. Problem solved, right. Well, that's the problem right there is that they don't allow weapons on the train, which doesn't work if you don't follow laws, right. I know, it's a I am as confused as anybody as to how the suspect, the killer of Arena Zarutzka got onto the train with a knife when the sign clearly says no weapons allowed on the train. I'm not sure how that happened, so we may never know. This is from anonymous. I know somebody high up at CMPD and I was told they don't even investigate drive by shootings into homes anymore unless there's a death because they know it's not worth their time. Nobody's going to talk and it will be handled on the streets. Not surprising. Regarding one of the guys who was victimized, A homeless man was robbed at gunpoint. I believe it was on one of the at one of the stations on the light rail line. Yes, he had three grand in a cash app. I guess he had a smartphone as well, but he was homeless and he had three grand in his bank. So and I guess they forced him to turn it over something. I'm not really sure. Why not enforce ticket sales to increase revenue instead of taxing? Yeah, I would like to know that too, Charles. Can we get a can we get an accounting? I would love to se what the numbers would look like if you let, like, I don't know, take an average of fair collection rates around the nation in the transit systems, right, you know, compare apples to apples, you know, try to at least and say, okay, well, what's the average you know, successful collection rate? Is it ninety percent, is it eighty percent, is it ninety nine percent? Whatever it is? So find out what that number is, and then try to ascertain by increasing enforcement of fair skipping, do we do we find out like how much money we should be collecting versus how much we are. Look at the ridership numbers, right, and say, okay, and is that just based on fares or is that based on like body council on the train, using your cameras and stuff, right, try to ascertain how many people aren't actually paying the fares and find out what that number is, what revenue would we otherwise be collecting if we were not running on a complete honor system. And there, look it's not working. It's not working. Let me see here. Sorry the text message the system. It bounces. So they can add a thousand police officers and mall cops to the rail system. But if the DA judges and the Charlotte government continue to let the crooks and crime makers out on the street, it's going to do no good. Right, this is going to be the problem is and I've said this every time I talk about this, it requires legislative action. Republicans in Raleigh need to rewrite laws. They need to amend some laws, and they need to force somehow through the legislation tougher crime punishments to take some of this, to take some of the ability of these magistrates to let people walk on all of these charges. Like look, I'm not saying a three strike system, but how about a three strike system. Okay, if you start racking up misdemeanors, low level crimes, you start racking those up within a certain period of time, say five years, If you keep getting popped like no, now we're gonna start jacking up the bail for you to make it more and more and more expensive for you to go down that path to career criminal status. All right, You hear me talk a lot about incentives, Right, Well, let's talk about incentive trips, the kind that companies offer employees to fire them up and reward their teams. If you own a business or you work somewhere that offers these incentive trips, first off, good for you, but also there is a custom app that's a game changer for these trips. 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Yeah, yeah, set up a Blue Ribbon commission. Maybe we do something like that. That's what we need to do. Russ says, ooh ooh, I know what study the root causes actually means. It means we do nothing different but funnel more money into leftist aligned NGOs and keep our minions employed and enrich ourselves while we further to undermine, further undermined Western civilization. That's I'd say that's a pretty fair assessment of that. Let me see if there's anything on the wow okay, uh sorry, I'm just trying to make sure this is fit for air. The uh okay anonymous text says the see Something Say Something came to a screeching halt when people started getting called racist, homophobic, xenophobic, et cetera, or even being charged with murder. No one is stepping up anymore because the law will set their sights on the do gooders instead of the bad guys. How come we don't call them do batters. I'm just I just noticed that now do gooders versus do batters. Breaking news and exclusive. This is from the Daily Wire. The man who attempted to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh? Remember that one the left kind of memory? Hold that right quick? Apparently the twenty nine year old defendant now identifies as a trans woman. There you go, shocking. It's a new court filing outlining the case and identifies as transgender woman and claims to have been deeply mentally ill and suicidal. Also this story from cbsnews dot com. A twenty two year old man is in custody after police say he threatened to kill New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayot. Ayot, a Republican who previously was a Senator in New Hampshire, defeated Democrat Joyce Craig in the race for governor last November. The suspect lives in Hooksett, New Hampshire, and discharged with criminal threatening and harm or threats to certain government officials. The criminal complaint against him, released Thursday, alleges that he quote did knowingly threaten to commit the crime of homicide and or assault against Governor Kelly Ayot, the current governor of the state of New Hampshire, for the purpose of influencing such officials action or in retaliation for action taken as part of such government officials duties. The suspect was allegedly messaging with a woman on Snapchat and said quote, I'm going to target the New Hampshire Mayor Kelly Ayott, not the mayor. Just for the record there, she was not the mayor, she was the governor. And he said he was going to do so with quote my weapon of mass destruction Anderson. Oh sorry, I'm trying not to name this guy. He made this anti He also made anti Semitic remarks as well. Oh see, so if it's if it's not the trans issue, it's going to be the free Palestine guys, right, the the hamas holays. The woman on the snapchat conversation told police that he owned guns and that he had made mention of making pipe bombs. He also had allegedly shown the woman metal tubes he was using to make the bombs, as well as nuts and bolts that he was going to put in the bombs. And now people may be thinking, why would he say all of this stuff on the snapchat. Here's one of the things these types of losers is what they are. They want to be noticed because they're losers. They have no purpose or meaning in life. They have no self respect or self esteem. They don't feel like they are getting noticed for how awesome they are, and so they want to brag they and you know, even if they carry these things out, they then want the credit. That's why they go on to these message boards that are you know, fantasizing about mass shootings, and they do all this research on the mass shooters and they like they grade them and critique them. This is what I would have done, and all of that. There's always this idea, this is the thing that's going to give my life purpose. Because they're losers. That's why he would say this stuff. He wants the acclaim, he wants he wants to be supported. He wants them to be he wants to be affirmed. And good for this woman for speaking out, seeing something, saying something, and foiling a plot. Game on Week one starts now and every touchdown brings you closer to a payout. With Draft Kings sports Book and official sports betting partner of the NFL. This isn't just football, it's first touchdown fireworks anytime. TD rushes live bets that ride every momentum shift. At DraftKings, every play is your next shot to win. Will the Panthers win? Will we even get a touchdown? New customers bet just five dollars and get three hundred dollars in bonus bets instantly, plus get over two hundred dollars off NFL Sunday ticket from YouTube and YouTube TV. So your season starts now. 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Let me let me calculate, that's like three probably yeah. Yeah. They also the audience was treated to a mini opera about gastro enterologists, a mini opera. Where did this happen? Mit Mi t Mitt Yeah, Boston. So they honor some of the stupidest research. So for example, you're ready for this. So the theme of this year's ceremony was digestion. The Nutrition prize went to a surprising study published in the African Journal of Ecology on the pizza topping preferences of rainbow lizards pizza. So that's where the preferences. So that's where the US AID money. Went, right, of rainbow lizards. Rainbow lizards, So many different ways I could take this what do you think the preferred pizza topping of the Rainbow Lizard is. I would maggots. No, no, no, like standard pizza toppings, like we. Would eat whatever Alex Padia is doing. Because he graduated mit I just refer to him. I don't know, that's weird. Four Cheese, the four Cheese pizza. It had these things dropping. No, they had them dropping out of the trees to get the pizza. They love the Four Cheese, not to be confused with the Four Seasons pizza, which they basically ignored. Oh you know, he was such a talented singer. I agree. How about this one. Telling somebody that they are smart when they don't deserve it, you might actually be making them more narcissistic. That was a study that was done, or they went back and they actually gave an award posthumously in the from a study that was done nineteen ninety one in the Journal of Pediatrics. The study looked into the effect of eating garb on breast milk on breast milk and whether it changed the suckling behavior of Bibbi's what the heck are we doing right? Overall, by the way, the baby seemed to kind of like it man, m hmm, that's wild. Also, yes, sir, bats, should they get drunk and fly? Yes, because they do not have bat uber yet. They do not have bat uber, although I guess when they're young they do, don't. 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