NC Sheriff admits using racial slurs but wants to move on (11-20-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] So, Mecklenburg County Sheriff Gary, not my fault, McFadden, admits that yes, he used a bunch of racial slurs against white and black people, but we should move on. Like, also, he's not very good at counting. I learned that in the interview that he sat down for with WBT's Brett Jensen. The whole interview aired last night on Brett's show. You can get his podcast at WBT.

[00:00:58] WBT.com, or listen live every weekday, 7 o'clock here. And so he, yeah, because at one point he said, you know, if I apologize 10 times, I'm going to apologize 10 times. And then the next time he said he's apologizing that he shouldn't have used all those racial slurs that were captured on the audio recording that then was published a couple of weeks ago and everybody got to hear it. And he said, okay, now it's 15. Okay, I apologize. Like, if I have to apologize now,

[00:01:28] well, 15th time I got, I'm apologizing. But it wasn't the 15th time because he just said 10. And then he said 15. And then after that, it was the next time he said he was sorry for it. He called it the 19th time. So I'm not sure he knows how to count.

[00:01:42] But, but, um, he wants to move on now. We just need to move on. Um, he talked at one point about how, when he was a CMPD officer, Charlotte Mecklenburg police officer years and years ago,

[00:02:01] uh, he talked about how there was a stall in the law enforcement, uh, center, uh, the headquarters for CMPD and that there was a bathroom stall and there was a whole bunch of racist graffiti on the wall in that stall.

[00:02:17] And he, so he's been dealing with racism his whole life. He, uh, told a story then about how he was working speed street one year.

[00:02:28] And there was a white cop who referred to a black motorcyclist as the N word. And then the cop turned and said, Oh, I'm sorry.

[00:02:40] He apologized immediately to McFadden who is black and, uh, McFadden said, no, it's fine. You just move on. Now that guy went on to become a supervisor.

[00:02:54] So like, do you think that supervisor would have been made a supervisor if the public knew that he had said that? Let me go to a tweet here. It's a Pete tweet. It's from Eric.

[00:03:07] And, uh, he says, I know it's low hanging fruit, but can you even imagine the storm that would be unleashed if a white sheriff admitted he used racial slurs to berate staff so often that he doesn't know which precise incident the leaked recording came from.

[00:03:28] McFadden needs to go funny, funny. You should mention that. I don't think I have, uh, don't think I have, uh, gone through once again.

[00:03:36] North Carolina general statute.

[00:03:39] One 28 dash 16.

[00:03:42] Any sheriff or police officer shall be removed from office by the judge of the superior court.

[00:03:50] Charges have to be made in writing and he has to have been, uh, charged with one of six offenses.

[00:03:58] Offenses.

[00:03:59] One for willful or habitual neglect or refusal to perform the duties of his office.

[00:04:08] I'm not aware of any evidence right now that rises to that level, but I am open to hear it.

[00:04:14] Um, willful misconduct or maladministration in office.

[00:04:19] That's the one I think that's the one I think that he has violated.

[00:04:25] Maladministration.

[00:04:27] Bad administration.

[00:04:29] Then there's corruption, extortion, convicted of a felony, intoxication or conviction of being intoxicated.

[00:04:36] Okay.

[00:04:36] So those are the six things.

[00:04:39] Um, the complaint or petition that is brought forth to remove him that would prompt this process, um, would be under the name of the state of North Carolina.

[00:04:51] And it can be filed upon the relation of any five qualified electors of the county.

[00:04:58] And that just me, a qualified elector just means a person who is registered and legally allowed to vote.

[00:05:07] Um, and so any, so a voter in Mecklenburg County qualified voter can, if you get five people together, you could submit a petition.

[00:05:17] Uh, then it would have to go to the, uh, county attorney or the district attorney or by any such officer upon his own motion.

[00:05:27] So a cop could do it to himself.

[00:05:30] So then it goes to the, um, then it would become the duty of the county attorney or the district attorney to appear and prosecute this proceeding.

[00:05:39] So you either take it to the DA or you take it to the Mecklenburg County attorney.

[00:05:45] I'm not so sure which one would be a, a more fruitful avenue to pursue, but those are, that's the way you do.

[00:05:53] Cause there is no recall petition.

[00:05:55] There's no way to recall an elected official in the state of North Carolina.

[00:06:02] He also talked about, uh, in this interview, how he went to a rural, all black South Carolina high school.

[00:06:11] So I'm just, he talked about us.

[00:06:14] I'm just telling you that he mentioned that.

[00:06:16] Um, and then there was a part where he came pretty close to something that might even be considered a modicum of introspection here.

[00:06:26] I can say that I'm disappointed in myself that you got me so angry and I'm so frustrated that I use that word.

[00:06:35] It's just this damn war and that S.O.B. Johnson.

[00:06:39] Sorry.

[00:06:40] That's a Forrest Gump reference.

[00:06:43] Like, I'm sorry.

[00:06:45] I had to whip up on your honey, but you just made me so frustrated.

[00:06:49] Like, if you stop doing that, then I won't beat you.

[00:06:53] Don't you see?

[00:06:57] Maybe he'll get to the introspection here, but he's disappointed in himself that he allowed you to, to get to him.

[00:07:04] See?

[00:07:05] Did I use that word?

[00:07:07] And I use those words.

[00:07:08] And here's what angers me more than anything else.

[00:07:11] Okay.

[00:07:12] That the people who don't look like me will not probably call me now.

[00:07:16] The people who believe in me may not call me now.

[00:07:19] The people who bring their kids to this office and I have pictures with them may not call me now.

[00:07:25] I have that in my mind.

[00:07:26] I have a little girl that has celebrated her fifth birthday.

[00:07:29] I have a little boy that I wish I could see in Birkdale, but I don't know because his family might not see him now.

[00:07:36] Those are the things that bothered me.

[00:07:38] But then I have to understand that if you really know me and you really know my heart, then that shouldn't.

[00:07:44] But then the pressures of society will put so much pressure on you that you're going to back away from it.

[00:07:53] If you said how many people have how many county city officials have called me since this because they have to stay away.

[00:07:59] They have to stay away.

[00:08:01] Is this something that they ever heard me saying?

[00:08:02] It's not a tratten or a pattern.

[00:08:05] You know, somebody said, well, we heard it one time before.

[00:08:09] Did you or are you just saying that to make a click for media?

[00:08:13] Yeah.

[00:08:14] Ah, so now now he's saying that everyone's lying if they say that he used these words more than once because you only have proof on the audio recording.

[00:08:24] They just did it that one time, which, by the way, like if you're flipping through the mental Rolodex when you're all frustrated and the first thing you come to is a whole bunch of racial slurs against different people.

[00:08:35] I'm thinking like that's probably not the first time you've said that sort of stuff.

[00:08:40] But note the thing that he says he's most angry about.

[00:08:42] It's that there are repercussions.

[00:08:45] That he's become sort of an untouchable, you know, and not in a good way, not like an Elliot Ness sort of way, but like a leprosy kind of way.

[00:08:52] Like, ew, I don't want to get that, you know, like all of a sudden now people aren't going to be coming to him anymore because there are repercussions for his behavior.

[00:09:01] And that's what he's really angry about.

[00:09:03] That's what he's most angry about.

[00:09:05] He just said.

[00:09:07] That people won't come.

[00:09:09] Yeah, dude, you're in elected office.

[00:09:12] Are you aware of that?

[00:09:12] He may not be.

[00:09:13] He may not be aware.

[00:09:14] No, he's aware of it because he ran for he ran twice.

[00:09:17] He knows he ran for office.

[00:09:19] He is in the public eye.

[00:09:21] He is leading the sheriff's office.

[00:09:26] Yeah, people don't want any of this on them.

[00:09:28] Of course they don't.

[00:09:29] Why would they?

[00:09:31] You've just admitted that you used racial slurs against your own administrative staff because you are not a good manager.

[00:09:43] That's what this comes down to.

[00:09:44] Mal administration.

[00:09:46] You're not good at this part of the job.

[00:09:49] You're just not.

[00:09:50] Obviously.

[00:09:51] Now, maybe he can improve.

[00:09:52] I wonder if he's read any books like management books.

[00:09:55] That would have been a good question.

[00:09:57] Like, where did you learn how to be a manager?

[00:10:00] Because you were, like, a homicide detective.

[00:10:02] You were a cop.

[00:10:03] So where did you pick up all of the managerial skills necessary to run an agency like this and the interpersonal management that you need to display to run this organization?

[00:10:14] And did that book say, call people crackers?

[00:10:17] Like, that might be in the book.

[00:10:18] I don't know.

[00:10:19] All right.

[00:10:19] Let's go and chat with Steve.

[00:10:21] Hello, Steve.

[00:10:22] Welcome to the show.

[00:10:23] How are you?

[00:10:24] Hey.

[00:10:24] Hello, Pete.

[00:10:25] How are you today?

[00:10:26] I am all right, sir.

[00:10:28] Good.

[00:10:28] Good.

[00:10:28] I wanted to point a finger at the lying that has taken place there at the sheriff's department towards the concealed carry permit holders, which I believe was intentionally and willfully done on the sheriff's part.

[00:10:44] You know, I filed for mine.

[00:10:46] I already knew that they said they were having a backup.

[00:10:49] So I waited three months.

[00:10:50] And I called them up.

[00:10:52] Sheriff's deputy told me the VA was holding it up.

[00:10:55] I waited till six months, called them up, got the same lie.

[00:11:01] So then I went to the VA.

[00:11:03] And I met this wonderful lady in the records department.

[00:11:07] And she pulled my stuff right up and showed that my application that had been sent to them was returned to the sheriff's department in 11 days.

[00:11:24] 11 days.

[00:11:25] So this man's not only a liar, he's requiring his sheriff's deputies to lie for him.

[00:11:31] And I wish somebody would bring this topic up on him instead of this other thing that looks like he got a little slap on the wrist for, but he ought to be thrown out of office.

[00:11:41] Steve, people have been bringing, I've been talking about him on the concealed handgun permit stuff for years.

[00:11:49] He's been sued twice.

[00:11:52] Oh, okay.

[00:11:53] Yeah, he's been sued twice.

[00:11:56] And the first time he agreed to, you know, make the process better.

[00:12:02] And then they had to, I think it's Gun Owners of America or maybe Grassroots North Carolina.

[00:12:06] I forget which group, maybe both.

[00:12:07] Then they then had to sue him again because he wasn't following the court's ruling.

[00:12:15] Exactly.

[00:12:16] So, but see, that's just being sued.

[00:12:20] He needs to be held accountable for intentionally holding these things up for thousands of people.

[00:12:27] And nothing's happening on that end of it.

[00:12:31] So it really frustrated me to find out mine had been returned to them in 11 days and I'd been waiting almost seven months and listening to their lies.

[00:12:40] It's just, this man is shameful.

[00:12:43] I think he's mentally and emotionally sick.

[00:12:45] I think he harbors stuff about being black as a young child and a young man.

[00:12:51] He's commented about that.

[00:12:53] And I just think he's got bitterness and hatred in his heart.

[00:12:56] And he's at the top of his chain so he can do what he wants to do.

[00:13:00] And it's time for this man to go away.

[00:13:04] Go away.

[00:13:05] Yeah, no, I agree with that conclusion.

[00:13:07] Steve, I appreciate the call.

[00:13:08] I think he's going to do what he wants to do.

[00:13:36] Like I said, I made it very clear early on.

[00:13:38] He fired her, if I recall correctly, before he'd even actually taken the oath of office.

[00:13:44] And there was some question about the legality of that.

[00:13:47] Like you're not even, like you were elected but you hadn't been sworn in yet or something like that.

[00:13:53] And he fired her.

[00:13:54] And then, of course, you have all these jail deaths, which Brett Jensen asked him about in this interview.

[00:13:59] And you want to take a guess what he said?

[00:14:02] Not his fault.

[00:14:03] Yeah, exactly.

[00:14:04] Gary, not my fault.

[00:14:06] McFadden said it's not his fault.

[00:14:07] Look, people die in the hospitals and nobody is making a big fuss about that.

[00:14:11] He literally compared the jail to the hospital and said, you know, people die and we're dealing with all these people.

[00:14:17] And they come in.

[00:14:17] It's like, dude, we're talking about preventable deaths.

[00:14:21] People go to the hospital because they are sick.

[00:14:24] People go to the jail because they've committed crimes of some kind, allegedly.

[00:14:30] And these are preventable deaths in certain cases, which is why the state came in and reviewed them.

[00:14:36] And then you're like, oh, the state's racist against me.

[00:14:39] They're doing this because they're racist.

[00:14:44] The guy has got serious problems.

[00:14:46] He is not a good administrator.

[00:14:49] He is not a good leader, despite what he thinks.

[00:14:55] Joseph says if he can't take the repercussions of his active racism, but yet he belongs to the party ideology that blames modern white people for things that happened hundreds and thousands of years ago.

[00:15:05] Yeah, he takes no responsibility for his for his own actions.

[00:15:11] He he's just he's just not a good leader at all.

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[00:16:16] By the way, people have asked me when when discussing Sheriff Gary McFadden and his removal from office, people have asked, is there any precedent?

[00:16:28] How do you do it?

[00:16:29] And all that.

[00:16:29] I already went through the state law.

[00:16:31] This has occurred way back.

[00:16:33] I'm old enough to remember this.

[00:16:35] 2022.

[00:16:39] Thank you for the article.

[00:16:43] That was just sent to me.

[00:16:44] A judge ordered Columbus County Sheriff Jody Green be immediately suspended from office after District Attorney John David filed a petition requesting Green be removed.

[00:16:55] In his petition.

[00:16:57] The district attorney, John David, cited racist remarks made by Green during a recorded phone conversation in 2019.

[00:17:12] Defendant has committed willful misconduct and maladministration in office.

[00:17:17] What did I say?

[00:17:20] They constitute corruption while in office.

[00:17:22] That was the I mean, every situation is different, but we'll see if there are, in fact, two tiers of justice.

[00:17:30] One for a white sheriff and one for a black sheriff, because that's what's going on here, too.

[00:17:35] And by the way, you know, the people in Mecklenburg County, the Democrats who are now, you know, distancing themselves from Sheriff McFadden.

[00:17:43] You guys are cowards if you will not confront this.

[00:17:47] You have people, your constituents, your employees.

[00:17:51] These are, you know, state and county workers that are living and working in an environment that even Gary McFadden himself says is toxic.

[00:18:04] He said it's toxic.

[00:18:07] Now, of course, it's not his fault it's toxic.

[00:18:10] I mean, of course, it's Gary, not my fault McFadden.

[00:18:13] He has nothing to do with setting the tone of culture in the sheriff's office after six years.

[00:18:20] No, no, no.

[00:18:21] The toxic environment.

[00:18:22] Well, Brett Jensen, who sat down for the interview with McFadden, and you can hear the whole thing on the podcast at WBT dot com.

[00:18:32] Breaking with Brett Jensen is the name of the show there.

[00:18:35] Brett asked him, is this a toxic workplace environment?

[00:18:39] I think it can be.

[00:18:41] Do I create it or has it always been here?

[00:18:44] You create it.

[00:18:45] That's what I'm banking on.

[00:18:46] You create it.

[00:18:47] You're the leader.

[00:18:48] You set the tone.

[00:18:52] Or it's a continuation.

[00:18:53] Or is it an easy thing to point at the guy who's out front now?

[00:18:58] And I think that's what we have to look at it.

[00:19:00] You know, I asked somebody, I asked a pastor last night.

[00:19:02] So let me get this straight.

[00:19:04] The prior administrations that were here.

[00:19:08] That administration was great.

[00:19:10] They didn't have no toxic environment.

[00:19:12] False choice.

[00:19:14] That is a false choice, Sheriff.

[00:19:17] That is an either or when it can be both.

[00:19:20] It can be neither.

[00:19:21] You're framing it as a choice.

[00:19:23] That, oh, this was great, so mine isn't.

[00:19:26] No.

[00:19:27] And again, that was six years ago.

[00:19:29] It doesn't matter if the last one was toxic or not.

[00:19:32] You've been in charge for six years.

[00:19:34] You set the tone for the culture.

[00:19:38] You set the policies.

[00:19:39] You give the direction.

[00:19:41] You share your vision.

[00:19:44] And you surround yourself with people to help you get there.

[00:19:48] Everything was smooth.

[00:19:50] No.

[00:19:51] No, it wasn't.

[00:19:52] But because of who I am and because of how people take me.

[00:19:57] And, you know, being fearless and bold and outspoken, people want to knock you down.

[00:20:03] Oh.

[00:20:04] I think that we have a culture here, or we did have a culture here, that could be toxic.

[00:20:10] And I'll say that.

[00:20:11] When you watch young people walk across that stage and to receive that badge and that star,

[00:20:19] I can see the light in their eyes, gleaming and bright.

[00:20:24] But several months or several weeks go past and that light dims.

[00:20:28] Yeah.

[00:20:29] He said the same thing to the new recruits at their graduation ceremony.

[00:20:33] They're swearing in.

[00:20:34] This is what he told them as they were coming up to, you know, be sworn in and become deputies

[00:20:39] or get their promotions.

[00:20:40] He said this to them too.

[00:20:43] This is not healthy management.

[00:20:46] These are poor leadership skills.

[00:20:48] So to answer the question, is it a toxic work environment?

[00:20:52] Yes, but it's not his fault.

[00:20:54] It's everybody else's fault because, see, he's a fearless leader.

[00:20:59] He's bold.

[00:21:00] One person can't create a whole toxic environment.

[00:21:05] Was the environment toxic before I get here?

[00:21:07] I would say yes.

[00:21:09] Hmm.

[00:21:09] One person can't do it.

[00:21:11] One person can't create a toxic work environment.

[00:21:15] Not true.

[00:21:15] Completely not true.

[00:21:19] What you allow as the leader of the agency will occur.

[00:21:26] And what you prohibit will be minimized.

[00:21:29] And when you get in front of all your leadership staff and your administrative executive staff,

[00:21:34] and you berate them, you belittle them, you use racial slurs and that sort of stuff,

[00:21:40] right?

[00:21:41] You are setting the tone.

[00:21:43] You're creating the culture.

[00:21:48] Brett then asks him,

[00:21:50] why do you think, this is a very good question,

[00:21:53] why do you think that you're so controversial?

[00:21:57] Because I am.

[00:22:00] Because I'm different.

[00:22:02] That's it.

[00:22:02] All right.

[00:22:02] There you go.

[00:22:03] Why are you controversial?

[00:22:04] Because I am.

[00:22:05] Oh, okay.

[00:22:06] Oh, good.

[00:22:07] Glad we got that squared away.

[00:22:09] Right?

[00:22:09] You're controversial.

[00:22:09] Because you're different?

[00:22:11] Is that really why?

[00:22:13] No.

[00:22:15] No, that's not really why.

[00:22:16] Unless, of course, you mean different as in a really terrible manager.

[00:22:19] We do things a little different.

[00:22:20] I'm very outspoken.

[00:22:22] I'm very confident in myself.

[00:22:26] People say that I should wear a uniform, which I would.

[00:22:29] I love to wear the three-piece suits.

[00:22:31] As you can see, my family's on the wall with three-piece suits.

[00:22:34] I love the three-piece suit.

[00:22:35] And so that's a person that you have to attack because we're going to show him who he is.

[00:22:42] We're going to put him in his place.

[00:22:45] Persecution complex.

[00:22:48] This guy has a persecution complex as well.

[00:22:50] Now, everyone's out to get him.

[00:22:54] He's different.

[00:22:55] He's outspoken.

[00:22:56] He's confident.

[00:22:56] See?

[00:22:58] Why?

[00:22:58] Why are all these people attacking him?

[00:23:00] Because he's bold and he's fearless.

[00:23:03] A bold and a powerful and a furious leader is something to deal with.

[00:23:08] And we're going to show him.

[00:23:09] Imagine those conversations in the back, in the rooms.

[00:23:13] Imagine those languages in the back room.

[00:23:15] Imagine coming here and people said,

[00:23:18] I will never work for that black sheriff.

[00:23:21] And I asked people, did he say that?

[00:23:22] Well, no.

[00:23:23] They didn't really say that.

[00:23:25] They have a Facebook posting.

[00:23:27] Oust the sheriff.

[00:23:28] Oh, I've been there.

[00:23:28] Yeah.

[00:23:29] A Facebook that is contributed probably by my people who work here.

[00:23:33] So being outspoken, being bold,

[00:23:37] caused a lot of controversial issues.

[00:23:40] And so this is why I'm attacked every week.

[00:23:43] Hmm.

[00:23:44] It's not his fault, see?

[00:23:46] It's those people in their dang Facebook posts.

[00:23:49] Probably made by people that work for you.

[00:23:53] Nuts.

[00:23:54] All right.

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[00:24:25] Got a couple of people online.

[00:24:26] I'm going to try to get to you, but I got to play these two last clips.

[00:24:28] They're very short.

[00:24:31] McFadden wondered who he could trust.

[00:24:33] And he doesn't trust his executive staff.

[00:24:37] Trust level because of this.

[00:24:39] Who do you trust?

[00:24:41] If you can't trust number two and you can't trust your executive staff and you have somebody

[00:24:47] who says, I'm going to hold a tape for years.

[00:24:51] For years, I'm going to hold a tape and then I'm going to find the right person to give this

[00:24:57] tape to and produce this message.

[00:25:01] I'm different.

[00:25:02] Do I still have to lead this agency?

[00:25:04] Yes.

[00:25:04] And I am.

[00:25:05] Will I still lead this agency?

[00:25:07] I'm happy to.

[00:25:08] Bringing this agency to the forefront, I'm going to continue to do that.

[00:25:12] But am I different?

[00:25:13] Absolutely.

[00:25:14] Is my family different?

[00:25:15] Absolutely.

[00:25:16] Okay.

[00:25:17] So again, he's the victim and the hero.

[00:25:19] A hero's servant, if you will.

[00:25:21] I heard one of my executive people talk about chain of command.

[00:25:25] They do not want me to have an open door policy.

[00:25:28] They don't want me to have a relationship with my detention officers.

[00:25:32] Well, Sheriff, you can't believe everything that they say.

[00:25:34] I can't, but I want to listen to their cries.

[00:25:37] I want to sit and listen to them.

[00:25:39] When people leave here, I read the exit interviews.

[00:25:42] Read the exit interviews.

[00:25:43] It's just not Gary McFadden is causing a toxic environment.

[00:25:48] There's many people here cause a toxic environment.

[00:25:51] But it's controversial because I'm at the top and they hold me accountable and they hold

[00:25:56] me at a different level.

[00:25:58] So fire them.

[00:26:00] You're in charge.

[00:26:01] You had no problem firing a bunch of people from Erwin Carmichael's staff.

[00:26:05] Why not fire them?

[00:26:07] If you know who these toxic people are, why not, you know, take action?

[00:26:16] All right.

[00:26:16] Let me go over and get Elizabeth.

[00:26:18] Hello, Elizabeth.

[00:26:19] Welcome to the show.

[00:26:20] Hi.

[00:26:21] Hey.

[00:26:21] I was listening to that interview.

[00:26:23] I have never heard a bigger narcissist in my life.

[00:26:29] I've heard people who are right up there with him, but not a bigger one.

[00:26:33] Oh, my gosh.

[00:26:34] He is a unique specimen, I believe.

[00:26:37] Oh, my gosh.

[00:26:38] He's got the delusions of grandeur.

[00:26:40] He's got the persecution complex.

[00:26:42] He's got the arrogance and the sociopathic tendencies.

[00:26:47] I think everybody should ask themselves right now after listening to that interview,

[00:26:50] is that someone that you would want to work for?

[00:26:54] No.

[00:26:55] No.

[00:26:56] That's why his department is hemorrhaging people.

[00:26:59] Nobody wants to work there.

[00:27:00] Right.

[00:27:01] But I think he has a, I think he's got a way to fix that.

[00:27:04] He said during this interview with Brett Jensen that was, he aired last night,

[00:27:11] that he wants to open up the, a juvenile detention facility and he wants the state to basically

[00:27:19] close down the one that's in Cabarrus County and then just bring over all the Cabarrus County

[00:27:24] deputies that are working at that facility and have them all go to work for McFadden's office.

[00:27:30] So they can quit too, I guess.

[00:27:32] That's right.

[00:27:32] I don't know.

[00:27:33] You know?

[00:27:34] Yeah.

[00:27:34] I mean, oh my gosh.

[00:27:35] Yeah.

[00:27:35] So I've lost all these people.

[00:27:37] So the state needs to come in and fix this because it wasn't my fault.

[00:27:40] Right.

[00:27:40] Like people don't want to work for you as it is.

[00:27:43] And your, your solution is to force people from Cabarrus County to come work for you.

[00:27:48] That's yeah.

[00:27:48] Oh my God.

[00:27:49] Yeah.

[00:27:50] And none of it's his fault.

[00:27:51] And that apology that he gave, that not an apology, that was like an abusive boyfriend.

[00:27:57] I'm sorry, but you know, you shouldn't do this.

[00:28:00] Oh my God.

[00:28:02] Yeah.

[00:28:02] It's Darvo.

[00:28:03] It's reverse victim and offender.

[00:28:05] Absolutely.

[00:28:06] I appreciate the call, Elizabeth.

[00:28:08] Let me get Robert on here before the end of the program.

[00:28:10] Hello, Robert.

[00:28:12] Well, Elizabeth took my thunder, but that was fine.

[00:28:14] But I was going to say that this guy, his hubris is so nuclear.

[00:28:19] He's going to end up, he'll end up in jail for something.

[00:28:22] But he's like defending his presidency or something, but he's like a one step above dog catcher

[00:28:28] or something.

[00:28:28] And he's, wait till he loses his job and the women come out of the woodwork with their complaints

[00:28:33] against him.

[00:28:34] Well, I've not heard.

[00:28:35] Yeah.

[00:28:36] I've not heard that.

[00:28:37] I will say, I was not aware.

[00:28:39] Oh, Robert.

[00:28:40] I appreciate the call.

[00:28:41] I don't know what happened there.

[00:28:41] Um, but, uh, I was not aware, but he told Brett that he, um, he is on the presidential

[00:28:51] transition team.

[00:28:53] They pick a Democrat and a Republican sheriff, and then they work together on whatever the

[00:28:58] transition is going to be.

[00:28:59] And so I guess they staffed it before the election results.

[00:29:03] Right.

[00:29:04] And so now he is actually going to be part of Trump's, some advisory group or something.

[00:29:11] I don't know.

[00:29:12] I have no idea, but yeah, he's, and I'm sure they're going to give him some sort of a certificate

[00:29:18] of participation or maybe a medal or maybe a little statue, you know, I don't know coin.

[00:29:27] And I'm sure that'll go up on his wall to show everybody how important and awesome he

[00:29:32] is.

[00:29:34] Um, let's see.

[00:29:36] Walter in an email says, uh, Gary McFadden.

[00:29:41] McFadden is either confidently arrogant or arrogantly confident.

[00:29:46] I'm still trying to decide which.

[00:29:50] That's right.

[00:29:52] Um, John says, my goodness, he is a professional victim.

[00:29:55] His explanation of the word cracker doesn't even make any sense at all.

[00:29:59] He says the white guy is out there working.

[00:30:02] And then under the circumstances that he's in, like what circumstances being a white guy

[00:30:07] in McFadden's administration.

[00:30:09] Yeah.

[00:30:10] It doesn't make any sense.

[00:30:11] His answers don't make a lot of sense.

[00:30:13] Um, and then regarding the word frustrated here, right?

[00:30:16] Uh, Stan says, and here I thought I was the only one who got frustrated.

[00:30:20] Good to finally know.

[00:30:21] I have comrades, uh, in arms.

[00:30:24] Yeah.

[00:30:24] Flustrated.

[00:30:25] Uh, it's a word.

[00:30:27] Um, thank you also McFadden for reminding us that he could have lied, but he chose not

[00:30:34] to.

[00:30:34] What a stand up guy.

[00:30:35] Thank you, emperor.

[00:30:37] Yeah.

[00:30:37] This is the guy in charge of the sheriff's office.

[00:30:40] Nothing to worry about.

[00:30:42] All right.

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