Surveillance Showdown & Political Firestorm On The Brett Winterble Show

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And welcome. It is the Brett Wooderbill Show. It is great to be with you on this beautiful day. I mean, this is a, this is really a wonderful day outside. Absolutely gorgeous. I'm inside, but I can still appreciate it in all of the regard that we have got. Our telephone number is, as always, 704-5701079, and you are listening to 107.9. FM WBT, Charlotte's FM News Talk, and phone lines are now open and available as we speak. So we are definitely going to be talking about a number of things, not the least of which will be... Talking about Iran, talking about the, I'm just kind of nervous to say it, the Abigail Spanberger winning last night and a number of other things, including, but not limited to. The SPLC, and we are going to drill in to try to figure out exactly what it was that Chris Murphy was be clowning himself with. All of that straight ahead. Don't go anywhere. But let me start with something that I think is really important, because we have gotten to this place. And the place where we are right now is the idea of surveillance. for everybody, right? Everybody's got to be surveilled. Everybody's got to be looked at. I've got a story about the North Carolina law enforcement officers who have got drones up over us every single place. You don't have to see them on the side of the road. You don't have to worry about any of the other stuff. They're just going to give you a ticket. I've got that story. And I've got something else as well. And it's this. Ladies and gentlemen, people are really freaked out, obviously, about the Internet, right? People don't want their kids being involved with the Internet too deeply, too much information to go out, all that sort of stuff. And I did a deep dive earlier today, and this is really incredible. Do you know what the top nations are by Internet penetration, 2025 to 2026? Guess. Which countries are the most available when it comes to the Internet? Number one, Saudi Arabia, 100%, 100% penetration. The United Arab Emirates, 100% Bahrain, 100% Norway. 99% Denmark, 99% Switzerland, 99% and the Netherlands. 99%. You are talking about absolute massive, you know, sort of stuff that is going on and everybody has access to it.

Now, what's the big deal about this? Well, here's what the big deal is about this, because we now have a moment coming up upon us where you are going to have to give your information, your kids' information, when it comes to age verification for the Internet. That's here in the United States. Now, this is quite something. Age verification is coming for the Internet, and it is already raising red flags. Mandatory age verification, which requires websites and apps to confirm or estimate users ages before they grant access to certain content, has continued to become a traction nationwide as more states pass more laws mandating some form of it. Well, we're trying to protect the kids, obviously, right? That's the intent. But it actually goes in the reverse order. Supporters are arguing that the rules are necessary to protect children from harmful content, including pornography. Critics counter that the age verification could backfire. and undermine privacy and free expression online every single time an age authentication mandate goes into effect. The internet shrinks some. According to Eric Goldman. who's a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law out on the West Coast. In the United States, the bipartisan Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act introduced in March would require platforms to deploy age verification measures to identify minors in some of the cases. The Federal Trade Commission also recently declared, that it's got a support for the social media companies to collect limited personal information for age verification to protect the little ones. You know where I'm going here, right? You know where I'm going. Age verification technologies are some of the most child protective technologies to emerge in decades. And a lot of these kids know exactly how to get around it. But I digress. A wave of litigation.

targeting social platforms, including the recent bellwether verdicts that you've been seeing with meta and Google and all that sort of stuff, brought about, obviously, with Roblox now trying to protect their kids a little bit better than they have in the past. But the digital rights and free speech advocates are suggesting that there are better ways to make children online experiences safer that would not involve. mandating age assurance. So you're a mom, you're a dad, you're waiting in car line right now, you're getting ready to go to soccer practice, to go to ballet, to go to all that sort of stuff. And you know that every one of your kids likely has access to a phone. Most of them also have the ability. to look into this and say, hey, okay, yeah, you've got the protection on there. That's really good. Okay, they're not. Nobody's going to figure out who you are. Well, actually, there's a problem here. And this is a problem that I think it's very important. My kids are adults. I can't even imagine the fear at this stage of the game. with all the weirdos, all the suspect people, all this sort of stuff coming and going and coming and going and you're dealing with a six-year-old, a 10-year-old, a 15-year-old, whatever that's going to be. I'm going to tell you what is so potentially dangerous about the actual system itself.

Welcome back, Brent Wooderable Show. Good to be with you. All right. So I just want to let you know some certain things here about what it is I'm talking about here. Okay. And what we're talking about is you are just on the cusp. of having to use this new technology that's going to, it's mandatory age verification so that when you're on the interwebs, you know, you're made safe in some way or another, which I don't even totally believe. In February, Discord delayed the rollout of its own age assurance system after there was a backlash from users, many of whom pointed to a data breach of a third-party customer service support company that exposed 70,000 users' governments' IDs. The federal government IDs. Wisconsin governor, Tony Evers, shut down a bill this month that would have required users to submit government ID to access porn sites in the state. Now, you see how they're doing what they're doing? They're trying to make this as difficult as humanly possible.

The Age Verification Providers Association, which lobbies on behalf of age assurance technology developers, said companies shouldn't use providers that retain personal data after age checks are complete. Executive Director Ian Corby. said that there are ways to ensure privacy and age checking. Now, this is for the kids. This is not for the parents. This is for the kids, although it probably will bleed into the parents if you want to go look at stuff that you maybe shouldn't be looking at in the first place. Some countries require a double-blind age assurance. which means the websites don't get any user data from the age checks, and the age verification companies don't know which websites users are visiting. He said he rejects claims that age assurance means the end of the anonymity on the internet. Quote, I'm a gay man. And I have had LGBT groups in different states look up in arms. I've had to go to them and say, look, I wouldn't be supporting this if I thought it was a problem, said Corby. Now, that doesn't mean to say that you can do age verification badly. Yes, you can. And you can design it maliciously so that you're going to be able to suck in the information and use it to your own regard. See? This is the problem. This is the problem. Understanding the age of people online is an industry-wide challenge. Instagram wrote in a blog post announcing expanded policies for teen accounts last year. Well... Continue our efforts to help ensure teens are placed in age-appropriate online experiences like teen accounts, but the most effective way to understand age is by obtaining parental approval and verifying age on the app store. So what we're dealing with here, is it's not as safe and secure as much as you would think it would be. Legislative efforts to age gate parts of the internet are gaining traction, but there's a...

A number of compliance messes that are happening. And again, the most important thing that I'm thinking about here is the data security breaches. Somebody's able to drill in and get the information. And now they know exactly where you live, how old you are, all this sort of stuff. And they're going to tell you, oh, no, no, it's all double blind. Don't worry about it. It's totally fine. It's totally cool. So just be aware of this. Just be aware of what they're trying to pull over on you. Now, let's talk about the police department. This is something that I think is a big, big deal. This is a story that comes to us in a variety of ways. I've seen a couple of these stories. North Carolina Highway Patrol now has drones in the sky for motor vehicle surveillance. The State Highway Patrol updated its policy so aircraft, including drones, can be used for surveillance of motor vehicle violations on highways like I-40, I-85, and I-95. You cruise those long open stretches thinking that you're in the clear. Nope, cruiser in sight. No trooper hiding in the median. But now there's an eye in the sky. While drones are mainly tied to crash reconstruction and traffic monitoring. This policy shift means aerial surveillance is officially on the table for catching violations. The roads look peaceful. The enforcement just got a lot harder to spot. Got to drive accordingly in North Carolina. Now. I don't want you to be lead-footing it. I don't want you doing any of that kind of stuff. I don't want to see all of that happening. And look, to be honest here, North Carolina still is heavily restricting drone surveillance under GS-15A-300.1 with limited exceptions like plain view exigent circumstances or terrorism prevention. This applies to highway enforcement too, and drones aren't a free pass for warrantless monitoring. Get the wrong kind of governor in. You get the wrong kind of policy in. How can you guarantee that that's the case? Would you be comfortable knowing that you have drones flying over these highways, over these freeways? How do you feel about that? Do we know if you can pick up the drones on your on your little bear cat right there that's on the dashboard? I mean, what are we got? This is the thing that is interesting to me. We are in some ways.

ready to lock it all down and in other ways demanding to be free, free, free as a bird. I don't know what the answer is, but I can tell you somebody is going to figure a way out to automatically send you a ticket. Oh, it was an emergency. Oh, there was a storm. Oh, you did this. You did that. This is the problem. This is the challenge. This is what we're dealing with. I always, always default to the position of what? Freedom. I want freedom. As one person commented, we are being surveillance at every aspect of our lives. And it is unacceptable and unconstitutional. What would you say if you got pulled over in that regard? Because it is entirely possible that that is going to happen.

Way to go. That's it. Right there. Remember when you would try to get on the AOL and somebody would pick up the line and it would mess it all up. Maybe all screeching and screaming and all that. Those were better days. Those were actually way better days. You know why? Because you couldn't actually post a photograph of yourself with any kind of ease in that regard. Like, hey, okay. You know, everybody that was on that AOL thing. They were just, who golly, gee Willickers, yugly. I mean, that's all I'm saying. What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Your local Toyota dealer has great deals available today on Tacoma, Tundra, and Forerunner with the space and features for any adventure. It means driving for less, with available hybrid options, delivering great MPGs without sacrificing power. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles, meaning your truck will hold its value for years to come. Shoppedyota.com to find out more. Toyota, let's go places. But we got people who are commenting on a couple of different things here. As I mentioned, we will take your calls, and we're going to break everything down. I got plenty of time to break everything down here. I just want this to be something that's going to be kind of a special sort of an approach. So here we go right here. Brett, this is from Seth. Brett. If we'd all just let law enforcement put cameras in our homes, they could stop CDVs and child abuse before it's happening. You just wait, it's coming. I don't doubt that that would be, and I get it. He's labeled this minority report incoming. Sure, absolutely. I can see that that could happen. But look, the Saudis, they've got 100% penetration. Everybody's able to just get on that interwebs. And they get, they're like, hey, everything is really just good. This is Mike. Mike says just an FYI. In the Netherlands, when you get on a toll road and then you get off later, they check your travel time and send you a ticket if you traveled the distance too fast, Mike. Wow. That's why you have to go to Germany because you can hit the Autobahn and then you can drive as fast as you want. Mostly. Steve says Virginia already has air surveillance. Wife and I have amassed a few tickets going back and forth to Ohio. I tried to challenge one ticket by asking the officer if I could see his radar to verify what he had clocked me at. He says air radar got me and

I'll just have to trust it. Wow, that is tyranny. A crooked cop could easily abuse this and pull anyone over and claim air surveillance caught you. going to need proof for me to find this acceptable policing. Wow, I'm sorry to hear that that happened to you, man. That is, you know, that's difficult. And then you get into the whole thing with like tractor trailers and all kinds. I mean, there's a whole bunch of this stuff. And it just, it accumulates. This is Jason. This is the problem. This is. I'd like to see what happens if somebody decides to start following governor with a drone. That's pretty good. Brett, you said, golly G. Willickers. I was actually wondering where the Willikers part came from earlier today. I don't know. I wish I knew. Sometimes it just shows up. It's a challenging kind of a thing. Ralph, welcome to the program. What's on your mind, Ralph? Well, about the drone issue. Yes, sir. When you go into a store and they got video cameras, they got that little sticker on the door saying you're under surveillance. Yes. If they're going to do it, it needs to be a provision in there that they put on those electronic billboards for the Amber and other electronic devices for the highway. that you are under surveillance of a drone at that particular time and date. And then I would go to court. And I mean, you're going to say, okay, pull the data, you know, from the drone, and how do you cross-examine a drone? Oh, yes, that's good. Well, somebody's in charge of it, right? So they've got to figure that out. I'm wondering, you know, I wonder about this. Because if what if your car, I know you're driving the speed limit. But what if your car is driving and you got a guy right next to you? Who's going to get the ticket? Are you going to get, you know, if you're both going at a speed, a certain speed, do you both get the tickets? Have the ability to ticket you and ticket the other guy? I don't understand it. And that's a problem, at least with a cop pulling you over. On a highway, you have the incident record, you have the piece of paper, you got all that. Now this is just getting mailed to you and saying, hey, too bad, how sad, call your dad. I mean, this is going to be a revenue kind of an approach, I think.

Well, you know, Brett, for tractor trailers now, if you've ever noticed these high-looking L things with cameras on it, they're looking inside the cabs or tractor trailers to see, and they're orange. They're seeing if you're on your phone, and if you're on your phone, they're going to send you a ticket. Wow. See, this is it. I mean, we have made our own bed, and we have got to figure out a way to unmake the bed in certain ways. Yeah, it's one of those things, Ralph. Gosh. It's so much... We are just locking ourselves down, man. We're in lockdown 24-7 and we're being surveilled. We're just getting into AI now. I mean, it's going to be... Yes. That's right. That is exactly right. Great stuff, Ralph. I appreciate you being out there. I mean, holy cow. Kyle says... Airplanes use Vaskar time distance to determine vehicle speed. If you ever see a large, oh, if you ever see large white lines painted across the interstate slowdown. This is good information. This is like really good information. This is from Rick. Rick says there has been eyes in the sky for many years, but they would radio to an officer on the ground to make the stop in person. But just a drone flying, taking pictures, and sending in tickets in the mail is wrong. Sure. You have nobody to challenge, as Ralph was talking about. Michelle says, I believe. All of this is conditioning for future digital surveillance. Well, you know what you got to do? Keep your greenbacks. Don't surrender them, man, because that's, I mean, you got to aggregate those greenbacks. This is from 4555-5. I'm sorry, I'm just going to say that end of the number. I thought there was an amendment or something that states that if you take it to court, You have a right to face your accuser. Are you going to face a drone in court? Don't give him any ideas. That's a scary thing. Who knows? You never know. We have to wait and see.

Previously on the Brett Water Bowl show. No, I'm just kidding. Let me jump out. I want to talk to Steve. Steve is holding on patiently. Hello, Steve. Welcome to the show. Well, good afternoon. How are you? Oh, great. How are you doing today? Doing great. Doing great. So two things. Yes, sir. I'm read. I'm correct. Correct. I'm wrong. Person of interest. The guy that played Jesus Christ, Passion of Christ. Okay. And he met a man who had created an AI. And they were solving crimes, preventing crimes. The AI tapped into everything, every camera, looking at the planes taken off, facial wreck, everybody. It was involved in all that. So it's here. Science and science fiction is here. The second thing, Star Trek, called court martial. Kirk was accused of killing a crew member when he gets in the pod into an ion storm, and it killed him. Yes. We'll come to find out the man was mad because he'd been passed over for command because Kurt did something. So what he did is he changed the visual records of him pressing the right button, where he did press the wrong button, but he pressed the right button. So he was accused of murder. Wow. So his attorney who had a computer doesn't use it as law books. hundreds of law books from all over the Federation. Right. So witnesses are here, witnesses are there, Spock's there, McCoy, they're all there. He has not asked them not one question. So the JAG says, we presented witnesses. Why haven't you question them? He says, I'm waiting to get this preliminary pretty much BS out of the way. He says, I want to talk to the man's accuser. Well, who's that? The computer. Oh. Wow, that's a good point. That's, that's big. That's big. So he says, I want to talk to the computer. So they went all up on the ship. They got rid of all the people. They believed the man was still alive. And they did some kind of a, they took the computer, which has a sound, can pick up sound, you know, pretty much you can pick up a mouse fart. Sure. And it, it. registered the man's heartbeat, so they knew the man was alive. That's what the man had done. He had changed visual records with AI, and that's what the computer on the enterprise is. There's an AI. And just like you see all these AI face out there, that's what the man did. And I'm trying to get back at Kirk. And, of course, it didn't work. Why? Because the lawyer says, hmm, I'm thinking. taking out of outside the box. Yeah. Wow. That's a really interesting take, and I think it's a window into the future in that regard. That is, I'm going to, I'm going to have to meditate on that for a little bit. Because he made a comment that, and I believe it's the same episode, I could be wrong, that men cannot be a machine.

That's right. The teams are subsubing the man, not the other way around. Right, because there's no bias. There's no bias in a machine. Thank you for the call. I really appreciate that. Frank, welcome to the show. What's on your mind, Frank? Yeah, the drones. Yes, sir. That's a good way they can do it. Kind of the way we did it in Iraq. We just had drones. They just surveil like a 25-mile radius. Yes. and just passively record. And then whenever like an IED goes off or whenever there's something happens, it just rewind the footage back to that time, zoom in on that one spot and then follow whoever was doing what. back to where they currently are, and then we'd send special operations to their knock on their door while they're there. Wow. That's an important point, too. There's a drone just to say over at Shover Charlotte, just rapidly recording it, whatever radius, and someone robs a bank, and it's in that radius. They can rewind the footage, zoom in on the bank, and then... Right. And then fast forward through it and actually follow the vehicles where they went from. Right. To the bank and then everything. Okay, but here's the thing. Here's the thing. At some point, thank you for the call, Frank. I appreciate your service talking about this. Here's the problem. The problem is at some point... somebody is going to figure out how you can put a virtual face on your face and use somebody else's face. Like at some point that will happen. You'll have some kind of a thing that you can put on your face. I mean, you can go by those green screens or the green outfits that people wear, and you can make it, you know, you may say that that's one thing or another. Now, here's the other thing. Now, I'm going to go in the reversal on this, and I'm going to point out something. You have tons of spot shotters that are around in Charlotte and in all other locations. Even in Fort Mill, they've got one in the neighborhood, what do you call it, the neighborhood place. And, you know, you get over there and you go, oh, wow, wow, that thing is still up there, huh? What's that all about? Yeah, it's the cameras. The flock cameras. Yeah, the flock cameras. That's what it is. And so when you go in there, then suddenly like, right, there's a robbery, somebody does something, and then now, boom, we've got their plate, and here we go. And then at the same time, what do you have? Sometimes you have people that don't have a plate. And they're just like, I'm going to go rob this bank. I'm going to come out. I'm not going to have a plate on my car. It's not going to matter. I'm going to dump it and I'm going to leave. I mean, there's so many angles on this thing. But I want to go back to the very beginning of the hour. And the very beginning of the hour that was important was the way it's going to impact kids. Because there's a lot of stuff with these kids. And it's going to be a very difficult thing. Now, Sherry said to me,

In the West, they have signs that say airplanes patrol highways. They have signs every so often alerting people so that they know that they're being surveilled, especially out in the desert. That's a very important component of this as well. We'll continue this conversation. I've got so many great people weighing in, Stephen, saying, there is fear all right. It is some of the... Oh, no, wait, that's the wrong one. That's this one instead. I'm sorry. I picked the wrong one. Brett, artificial intelligence or AI may end up being your accuser in the future. That's possible. That's why I stay in my house. I don't go anywhere. What else have I got? I've got... We drive this route. What is Toyota affordability? It all starts with buying smart. And your Toyota dealer has great deals available to qualified customers on reliable cars and SUVs, including the redesigned RAV4, Spacious Grand Highlander, sporty Camrys, and Corolla's. It means driving for less, with efficient hybrid and plug-in hybrid options available throughout the lineup, extending your overall driving range and delivering great MPGs, saving you money at the pump. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles. And as the best resale value brand, according to Kelly Blue Book, your Toyota can be worth thousands more than average when it's time to trade in. That's Toyota affordability. Buy smart, drive for less, and trade for more. Shop Toyota.com or your local dealer for deals and details. Vehicles projected resale value is specific to the 2026 model year. For more information, visit Kelly BlueBookskb.com. Toyota brand average resale value is 53% versus the average vehicle at 45%. Toyota, let's go places. Regularly, uh, let's see, what else? Add on to the Star Trek guy that they've already come out to people who are developing AI so that their AI has lied to them. It's not only lied to them. It's tried to blackmail them. When it thought that it was trying to shut it down, that... came from the guys developing Google and Elon Musk's AI company. So AI is more like us than we think it is. Well, that's a profound take. No doubt about it. Plenty more straight ahead. We can continue this conversation. I'm happy to be with you. My name is Brett Wooderble, and I am not AI. Back after this.

Welcome back. It's the Brett Wooderbill Show. Our telephone number, 704-570-1079. And if you want to opine, you can pick up and smile and dial, or if you want to, you know, spend some time with us over at the WBT text line, driven by... Driven by Liberty Buick GMC. Something caught my eye here with the storylines. But by the way, also, this is important. I must say this to you. WBT's News and Brews is back for 2026. Join the WBT Air Team on Tuesday, May the 12th. That's going to be such a great moment in time at Heist Brewery and Barrel Arts for a night of fun conversation about everything that's happening in Charlotte, D.C. and everywhere in between. It is WBT's news and brews. Visit WBT.com for tickets and event details. Cheers. How about that? We're not going to cheers. We're going to Heist, which is going to be really, really good. Let me start off with some of the stuff that's got people upset. I understand. I get that you're upset. I guess that you're sad. I guess I get all this sort of stuff. I understand. So I'm going to start with a cut number 11, please. Abigail Spanberger. Spendburger. I'm going to call her Spendburger from now on. And she just... Pulled a coup. I mean, the coup was pulled, and we understand that there's now got to be a retribution. Cut 11, please fire. The president began this effort because he knew that at the midterms, much like back in 2018 when I was first elected to Congress, that his poor leadership, the chaos that he is creating, the war he's begun with Iran, skyrocketing gas prices, failed promise after failed promise, would be enough to propel yet another blue wave in a midterm in the 2026 midterm election. And importantly, I believe that there will be yet another wave election because people recognize the broken promises and lies coming out of this White House. And most importantly, the negative impact on them, right? People who may have voted for him. believed him when he said he was going to work on lowering costs, believed him when he said that he was going to be there for them and support their families or their businesses or their communities. And those are all lies. And we see it very, very clearly. And so it's essential that there's a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives come next January after a win in the midterms because we need a House of Representatives that will be in the majority to conduct vigorous oversight of just about every.

federal agency and department at this moment to ensure accountability and to hold this president and his administration accountable. So Abigail Spanberger was a CIA operative. She was working in the CIA. And it's very interesting to me to see how this is all going to land because, all right. She's going to have to reckon for what's going to be coming out of Florida and maybe some other states as well. This is just going to be tit for tat, and that's how it's going to go. But the reality is she has got a dismal, dismal approval number. I mean, she's only been in the job for like, what, two months, three months, and she's just cratering. She is, it's remarkable to see what's happening. Now, what I want to investigate, what I want to put the word out, and I think if you're, you know, listening closely, you would, you would want this word to go out. And that is. What do you say we open the books that Spandberger is involved with? What do you say? We just kind of take a look and see what happens. I understand she's trying to hold the entirety of the country hostage. It's not going to work. She's not going to be higher than she is right now, and she is on a dissent. And I'm telling you right now, I understand, I get it, I see what's happening, and this is sort of like the thing, right? So let me give you an example, right? Like, it's very possible. We could just take this and run with it for just a minute. This is cut number eight. This is like... coming out of California, and this is a shocking, and I mean shocking, shocking, shocking, a piece of evidentiary stuff that is going on there in the state of California. Sheila Clark, let a rip go. You'd be amazed at how many hospices you, the door you can walk up to in California, and there is nobody there. There is... Five months worth of mail that you can see stacked up from CMS and nobody's there. And that passed a survey. How did that happen? How do you put a hospice in a burrito stand in California? How do you put a hospice in a tire store in California? That all had to be vetted through licensure and through certification and accreditation. Wow, that's quite something. That is quite something. You know, we've seen it in Minnesota. We've seen it in another, you know, different, different jurisdictions. This is a big deal.

I mean, this is really, this is a big deal. And I'm telling you, at the end of the day, the thing that is going to happen is they will aggregate all of the evidence when it comes to the fraud that has been taken. And this fraud goes all the way back to the emaculation of Joe Biden when he was elected. And he just threw money out of the window. It was unbelievable. Eric, welcome to the program. What's on your mind, Eric? Hey, you can hear me all right? Yeah, I hear you. Absolutely. Awesome. So, yeah, I just wanted to talk to you about the serious idea that I had to get rid of, like, you know, struggles with the Iranian war and also illegal immigration at the same time, kind of two, like two lizards with one stone kind of thing. Okay. What do you got? So I was thinking, you know, because we don't want to send like a bunch of like American troops into like, you know, I ran in all those different places. So what we do... is take all the illegal immigrants that are trying to come in and there's millions of them. We've got enough, you know. And we take each single one of them and require eight years of military service for each of those illegal immigrants. And then they go to like Iran or whatever with like limited food. And then they just get sent straight back to the country they came from after eight years of military service. So you're going to have them be like a Foreign Legion, right? That's what you're talking about, like the French Foreign Legion, where they go and they fight. Exactly. Look, that might work. The question is you're going to have to take a lot of effort to get them through that. particular way and we have to figure out you don't want to just hand guys guns because you know they could go nuts and do stuff like that i like the way you're thinking though and i think it's a creative idea and it's i it's not the it's not the worst thing that i've ever heard in my life and so i i appreciate you uh being on the show with me Well, what about if you, because, like, you can get crazy with the guns and stuff, but if you give them all guns, we'll put them on Iran, you know? Well, I don't think the war is going to go that long. I really don't. I think that what we're at this stage of the game is bringing these people so that they understand what's going on. I know. I don't know what he just said, whatever. Nobody heard you. I'm sorry. That's just one of those deals. It's a great day to be. A talk show host. All right. So we got some interesting commentary coming in here. Eddie says from the last hour, he says, Dear God, please destroy the internet and everything digital, amen. Then he says,

World Wide Web, what does a web do? It captures prey. That is a good line. I mean, that's a really great way to put it. There is bias in computers if it's programmed into it. Well, that is true. That I guess would be true, yeah. David, they also have antifacial recognition makeup and all kinds of different stuff. Yeah. Geez, I don't know what to do with that. It makes me sad. I mean, I don't know. We don't know. How do I know you're you, Nick? Nick, how do I know you're you? Andrew, how do I know you're you? Are you maybe just green screening me? Oh, see? I mean, I don't know. I don't know. This is, this is the stuff. It's especially bad on Amazon and, of course, surveillance price. Oh, this is from the morning. I'm sorry about that. I don't want to stomp on it. Do you think that we'll get to a point when we will have self-driving cars if you're detected as a suspect or part of a crime, the automatic cars will lock you in and take you to the police department? I've said they could easily just take you into the prison. They just drive in the prison. There you go. You're just going to have to stay there? Make big rock, make little rocks out of big rocks. Do you remember how the computer from the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey? Yes, I did. I mean, I remember the movie. Truth be told, I'm not a sci-fi guy. I'm more like a war picture guy, you know, just like they would say in the old days. What do you want to watch? I want to see a war picture. Let's go see a war picture. See what's going on over there. I got you what do you want to see I hunt for red October man I mean it's like it's the only movie you need um Pam says I hate I hate E5 and Lisa likes that she does that so there's a there's a little tip of the hat to uh to Pam the jam Warner Let me go over to this. This is the announcement last night, Kash Patel. We got a lot of Kash Patel fans kicking it here. SPLC indictment, Kash Patel, cut number six, let it go. Fire. What we're here today is to announce what the General just told you, the Southern Poverty Law Center. In a massive sweeping indictment has been charged with allegations of fraud and using the banking system to perpetrate that fraud. I just want to talk about a couple of brief things here.

The Southern Poverty Law Center themselves advertise to raise money to dismantle violent extremist groups for a period of at least a decade. They used their donor network to raise money to purportedly dismantle violent extremist groups. However, the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, used the money they raised from their donor network to actually pay the leadership of these very groups. I just want to say that again. They used the fraudulently raised money by lying to their donor network, thousands of Americans, to go ahead and actually pay the leadership of these supposed violent extremist groups. The groups, as the general laid out, include the Ku Klux Klan, the United Clans of America, unite to right. National Alliance, the National Socialist Movement, the Aryan Nation Motorcycle Club, and the National Socialist Party of America, and also the American Front. In at least one of these matters, our investigation revealed that funds were used to facilitate the commission of further state and federal offenses, totaling over $3 million. Furthermore, our investigation revealed that the Southern Poverty Law Center, on top of perpetuating this widespread, decade-long, multi-million dollar fraud conducted more criminal activity. They attempted to hide their criminal activity from our financial banking network. They set up shell companies and entities around America so that the financial institutions that we rely on as everyday Americans were deceived in believing that money was not coming from the Southern Poverty Law Center in the perpetration of this scheme and fraud, but rather fictitious entities they stood up to perpetuate this ongoing fraud. This is a serious and egregious violation of a group that purported to dismantle. violent extremist groups, but in turn actually only fueled the hatred. This is an important case brought by President, by President Trump's administration. We're thankful for the president for his leadership and funding of not just the FBI and DOJ, but his commitment to go out there and wipe out fraud and conspiracy and waste and abuse wherever it occurs, including the Southern Poverty Law Center. Even though this money was made to appear to be coming from legitimate people, and legitimate entities, we at the FBI, with our great partners at the Department of Justice and in the state of Alabama, were able to comb through a decade worth of material, a scheme that took a decade to build so that we were able to follow the money.

Because money never lies. And they got caught. As the Attorney General said, these charges are varying. They are widespread and wide ranging. And this investigation is very much ongoing. Today we're here to announce the charges of the Southern Poverty Law Center. And this investigation and the individuals who are responsible will be brought to justice. Okay. So I have a couple of questions about this. I just watched Chuck Schumer feign outrage on the floor of the Senate saying that this is not true, that this is a set up by Donald Trump. What is wrong with Chuck Schumer? Like, what is actually wrong with this man? This man is so bogged down that he can't see the truth from the darkness. So. Is Chuck Schumer saying that they didn't... What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Right now, your local Toyota dealer has great deals available on some of the most reliable trucks on the market, like the off-road ready to coma, rugged, full-sized tundra, and legendary forerunner, each with the space, tech, and features to handle it all, from the work site to the trails. It means driving for less, with efficient hybrid options available. extending your overall driving range and delivering great MPGs, meaning bigger savings at the pump without sacrificing power. And it means trading for more. The Tacoma and Tundra are ranked number one and number two in resale value over all vehicles, according to Kelly Boo Book, which can mean thousands more than average right back in your pocket when it's time to trade in. That's Toyota affordability. Buy smart, drive for less, and trade for more. Shop Toyota.com or your local dealer for deals and details. Vehicles projected resale value is specific to the 2026 model year. For more information, visit Kelly BlueBookskb.com. Toyota brand average resale value is 53% versus the average vehicle at 45%. Toyota, let's go places. Actually do that with the money? And if that's the evidence that he's got, show us the evidence that you've got, Chuck? Hakeem Jeffries. I mean, the whole crew of the folks who are sitting there saying, none of this really happened. Okay, so what did happen then? Like what exactly? Now, arguably, we could say, oh, guilty till proven innocent. No, it will be tested. There are obviously people who have been part of this, part and parcel of this. But why, like in your... wildest dream, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is not really much more than it was ever, okay, they're not a huge organization. Why would they try to pull this wool over the eyes? And why is Chuck Schumer blaming the Republicans for this case? Like, it's bizarre.

Have you ever done dirty deeds, done dirt cheap? Or do you pay full price? I got to know. 20% off, 30% off. I mean, it's just, I got something for you. So good. I mean, this is such a... What a riff. What's that number? All right. All right, this is for... Robert De Niro. This is for Robert De Niro, okay? Get a load of this. You're going to love this. This is amazing. It's only a matter of time that this was going to happen. Okay, so we're very, very happy about this. Robert De Niro has fled Manhattan. He's moving to Connecticut. He's going to Connecticut to escape Zohran Mamdani's wealth tax hell. Oh, wait a minute. Hold on. What are you doing, Bobby? You used to be somebody. The same guy who spent years screaming fascist at Trump just threw in the towel on the socialist utopia that he helped to create. Listen. according to this guy, says, I'm no fan of this New Haven a pizza crap, but I give up De Niro whined. He's crying that he can't afford Zohran Mamdani's brutal wealth tax because he's not some billionaire. Oh. The penalty alone to sell in Bolt, he's got to pay 100K to get out of there. That's what he's got to pay. Even when you give up, they still get you, he admitted. I learned a lot about communists. They're not looking out for your best interests. The ultimate irony. The guy who virtue signaled for decades just got economically hammered. Hollywood liberals are finally tasting their own medicine and it tastes bad. I mean, this is incredible. He's hanging out. He's gone. He's going to Connecticut. You know who his senator is going to be now, right? You know who that is? Chris Murphy, the guy who's real. Oh, Chris Murphy. You haven't never heard of him? Chris Murphy, Chris Murphy, uh, was rooting for the, uh, Iranians. I know he says it was a joke. But that's not the case. All right, Jen, Jen sent me a message. Brett.

Two different exclamation points. Just when I thought you were the perfect guy, you're not a sci-fi guy. Broken heart, broken heart, broken heart, broken heart, laughing, laughing, laughing, still love you and your show, Jen. Well, I'm not really a sci-fi guy because I'm a man. Anyways, no, I am. Sci-fi's okay. The last sci-fi movie that I really enjoyed, I think, was probably, Hunt for Red October. Brett, all governments want total control. They will get it eventually. That's Alan from Gastonia. That's a very fair take. I mean, that's a very, very fair take. Stephen is reaching out to us. And Stephen says, artificial intelligence or AI may end up being your acute. Oh, he already signed me that one. If Trump is supposed to be such a big racist, why would he enable his own administration to go after the KKK? Well, no, no, no, no. I don't know. Yeah, they're not paying. They're not paying them the KKK. That's insane. You were very kind to a young man with an interesting idea. I try to be. Listen, I was once a young man, and I have lots of ideas, and I'm more than happy to share them. Rob from Charlotte said, I'll tell you what's wrong with Chuck Schumer. He's a brain-dead Democrat, and look at Hakeem Jeffries, another idiot. We got to elevate. I want to elevate on this. There's a reason for what these guys are trying to pull off here. So the Southern Poverty Law Center is willing to go out while convicted of bribing the leadership of all these terrible criminal groups. They will have shattered the criminal groups on their way down, kind of like Samson taking out thousands of Philistines on his way out. Keep up the good work, Dan, from Waxaw. And then what do we have over here? Jen says, I'm perfect now. All right. You know why? Because I uttered the magic phrase, hunt for Red October. That's how you get. That's what you got to do. All right. One of the things that I think is one of the coolest storylines of the moment is this. And I want to share this with you because this is a historical thing. And I love the historical stuff that exists. So do you know what yesterday was? Does anybody know what yesterday was? Yesterday is a monumental date yesterday. No, it's not yesterday by the Beatles. Stop. Here's what it is. One of the greatest and oldest special effects in history can be witnessed where? Rome. Yesterday. Rome yesterday. Check this out. It's unbelievable. It's been playing out on Q for 2,000 years. All right?

Each year on April the 21st, the traditional birthday of Rome, the legendary date, Romulus founded the city in 753 BC, the midday sun pierces the oculus at the crown of the pantheon. dome and casts a perfect disk of light that settles squarely on the temple's entrance. For roughly two minutes and 50 seconds, bronze doors blaze gold. At that exact moment, the emperor would step across the threshold. His body swallowed in sunlight as though the heavens themselves were handing him the city. Hadrian's engineers designed the entire building as a cosmos in miniature. The interior is exactly 43.3 meters wide and 43.3 meters tall, meaning it's a perfect sphere that fits inside of it. The Roman senator Cassius Dio... wrote that the vaulted roof was meant to resemble the heavens themselves. But think about how they could figure that number to the exact point. You're talking about something that is remarkable. You can look at the, there's videos, you can find them. But 43.3 meters wide and 43.3 meters tall. Boom. There you go. And it lights up the entire building. You can say a whole lot of things about Western civilization being horrible. But I'll tell you this right now, building the aqueducts, all the construction that was done in Rome and around Italy. Those folks knew how to do everything. And they didn't have computers. That's what's cool. Welcome back, Brett Wooderball Show. I've got an update for you coming up on the Virginia Circuit Court. Let's talk to Bob next. Bob, welcome to the show. What's on your mind?

Yeah, thank you for taking my call, Brett. I just wanted to comment on the previous caller, the words that he had to say. He was the one who came up with the idea to, as he said, kill two lizards with one stone, I believe he used as his quote there. And so taking some illegal immigrants and have them. fight for us overseas in wars. And I think he actually said it should be, if I wrote this down correctly, eight years service. That's what he said, yeah. Starved them or make them hungry and then send them back, I guess, to their country of origin. What is Toyota affordability? It all starts with buying smart. and your Toyota dealer has great deals available to qualified customers on reliable cars and SUVs, including the redesigned RAV-4, spacious Grand Highlander, sporty Camrys, and Corolla's. It means driving for less, with efficient hybrid and plug-in hybrid options available throughout the lineup, extending your overall driving range and delivering great MPGs, saving you money at the pump. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles. And as the best resale value brand, according to Kelly Blue Book, your Toyota can be worth thousands more than average when it's time to trade in. That's Toyota affordability. Buy smart, drive for less, and trade for more. Shop Toyota.com or your local dealer for deals and details. Vehicles projected resale value is specific to the 2026 model year. For more information, visit Kelly BlueBookskb.com. Toyota brand average resale value is 53% versus the average vehicle at 45%. Toyota, let's go places. And so, and I was just, I was actually appalled, and I was kind of surprised at your response. And I wrote this down, too. You said, I like the way you think. Well, before he... I'm just curious, do you really like the way he thinks? No, no, because... Yeah, no, I don't, because that's why I dropped him. That's why I saw where he was going with it. I said this would function much more like a foreign legion, okay? And he started giving me the layout on this. And I said, I dropped him. I said, dude, that's not what I'm about. So that's, I mean, I wish, Bob, I wish. I wish I could have satisfied you in a different way, but you know what? It's like I haven't dropped you yet. You seem to be like somebody who wants to have a conversation. So what do you got, man? Well, yeah, I guess in a situation like that, I mean, and again, maybe as a young man, maybe he...

He could use a little guidance. I actually think he was a clown. I actually... Right, but I think he was a clown. I think he wanted to try to, you know, spice it up and do all this kind of stuff. I've been... I've done this job for a very long time. I can sniff out the, you know, the sensible people. I can even, you know, look at some of the cooks that'll call and say things and whatever. But the reality is I run a tight ship. And I take a ton of calls from people. So that's why I dispatched him as quickly as I could. Well, and I guess the last thing I'd like to say is that I hope your listeners... weren't pumping their fist in the air and thinking that that was okay, because it may have been a little unclear to some in the audience. I mean, I don't think there was anything conservative or American or Christian about what he said. Well, there you go. I mean, I think you've, I think you've, I think you've, I think you've sewed it up beautifully. I mean, and I think you've, and you've stayed on the line, you know, for a number of segments. And I'm really glad that you're in the audience, and I'm glad that you love. the show. So thanks so much for being there. It's a real pleasure to get to know you. I've talked to you before, by the way, and it's always nice to have a conversation with you. So Nick Sotor, or Sortor, I should say, Nick Sordor came out and he said, look, breaking, a Virginia circuit court has just ruled. yesterday's redistricting vote unconstitutional and has issued an injunction blocking the results from being certified per Ken Cuccinelli. This is big. It is not over yet. This is Nick Soder saying this. And then going on to say it is very likely that this will end up at the state. I mean, we have to wait and see. Look. This cuts two different ways, right? So we had Texas, Texas redistricted, California redistricted. The Commonwealth has redistricted. But this one happens to be a very different sort of. animal. And I'm not saying that about the governor. I'm saying this particular way that they're doing this is very different because they just talk all of the red voters and through them at the end of the... of that portion that exists now, which doesn't really work. So that's the challenge. That's the problem. That's what we've got here. I mean, I just sit back here and I just wonder. Give you fuel, give me fire. Give me that what I desire.

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, hour number three, great stuff that we've got in front of us here. I want to start with this, though. I don't mean to make you get mad. I don't want you to get angry, but I have to apprise you of this because this is the sort of stuff that these eggheads try to come up with here, okay? This is a really weird thing. Let me start like this. This is by Matt Taibi. The New York Times on old people. That's not even the worst. It's not agist to ask when older people should be required to give more to younger Americans. Older Americans favor restrictions on immigration. There is a correlation between age and resistance to policies to halt the overheating of the planet, impose age ceilings on political officers, and of course, older Americans own much of the most desirable real estate. It's not... Aegis finally to impose policies to transfer jobs, houses, and wealth down the generational chain. Yale law professor, Samuel Moyne, whom I interviewed once, not me personally. This is, this is Taibi. But he interviewed him once. seemed generous and reasonable, even when our politics differed. But unless it's an elaborate meta-joke, the above-column and forthcoming book, Gerontocracy in America, how the old or hoarding wealth and power. in America advance some of the most intellectually vicious ideas I've ever seen. The Godwin's Law factor alone is a shocker. Moyne is a real guy. He's a real professor. Moyne observes that people of years have accumulated money. and influence and contrives to end the tyranny of the old by having the elderly divested of political power, wealth, and property because reasons. The title of the Times piece, Older Americans are hoarding America's potential carries the obscene lefty connotation that no one really owns anything and that the elderly, by din of living too long, to begin with and having generally quality of life.

I'm not going to read that word, compared to the young and voting incorrectly, selfishly, hilarious in the context of open scheming to seize their savings and wasting resources playing for time for another day, month, or year among loved ones. makes them lousy stewards of what the author unironically calls, quote, our inheritance, i.e., their homes and bank accounts. How are we supposed to deal with this? Because here's the problem. All right. The problem with this story that this guy's talking about at the New York Post, at the New York Times, this is how you get really bad policy birthed. So because this Moin, Samuel Moyne, decides, hey, we should be able to take all the money and the riches from the other generations. That starts to take root. I guarantee you, Zohran Mamdani's going to get on to this. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is going to get onto this. Jamie Raskin's going to get on to this. Gavin Newsom's going to get on to this. Abigail Spanberger is going to get. They're going to look at elderly people, and I'm not saying elderly in a... pejorative way by any stretch of the imagination, but people who are older, people who have more experience, people who have investments, people who have businesses, people who, you know, decided that they were going to be frugal and then be good with the rest of their life, all that sort of stuff. That's where you get this now, because this is what will come next. And let me tell you something, I don't like the idea of generational looting. I think it's terrible. I think it's awful. And you want to know what the word is for this? This is actual communism. We're just going to go and take your stuff. And you just, it's too late. Sorry, get out of here. Get away from us. Now, people of a certain age, I am appealing to you. How does this land with you? I'll take an anonymous, I'll take an anonymous take or two if you don't want to have your name on, you know, put the name out there. But how does this make you feel? Like this, this is despicable. This is disgusting that they would want to go and just take your money. The subhead on this is New York Times, old people suck, and we should just take their stuff. It's time to do away with these societal grifters and stowaways, says an eminent Yale professor. Holy cow. That...

I'm telling you. I'm telling you. This is what happens when you let the left have any measure of power. I mean, I'm sorry, but that's true. That is absolutely what this is going to be. And it's terrible. One person commented saying, this piece doesn't just seeth with collectivist bloodlust. It's incorrect. Moyne confuses a handful of old politicians and billionaires with their wider category of, quote, old people. who far from being antisocial hoarders have been repeatedly victimized by public and private interests over the last 20 years, always for the same offense, being good citizens. I'd say it's astonishing that a Yale professor could not know this, but sadly it isn't as someone who had to cover the rip-offs. It's lunacy.

All right. Well, I don't know what to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, but I got to tell you, people are fit to be tied with this story that I just told you guys about the, from the New York Times with Moini, wanting to take all your money because it's too late. I mean, whee. Let's see, what do I have here? Matt. Matt, sorry to ask you to repeat yourself, but I just tuned in. What did you say about New York City imposing some kind of tax on Robert De Niro as punishment for leaving the city? Great show as usual. He's going to Connecticut. He's fleeing to Connecticut. He can't make ends meet. To Pam the Jam, a family of ducks. Okay, that one's already been sent out. Let Bernie Sanders be the first one that they take from. It's really good. Kathy says, this is Kathy from Rock Hill. I am 65 years old, and I have worked my tail off for 40 years of it. Anybody comes for my stuff. because they think I'm too old or taking up space will find out that I'm quite capable at aiming a good shot. Wow! Kathy, you're in my corner right there. That's really good. Stanley, the reason if they want to take the elderly people is because they don't want you creating generational wealth. If you leave what you've created for your kids, your kids will not have a mortgage or a credit card debt or car payment and small business debt loan. They'll be free from the slave system. They can't. have that so they're going to take it from your parents before they can leave it to you and do what they want. Well, I understand some of that. Yeah, it can get that. Got somebody laughing. I've got, sounds to me like the left wants to take working for a living and saving for retirement to be an extinction event. I do plan to pass my saving, my life savings, accumulated sessions, and wealth for whatever that's worth down to the younger generation, but it will be my lineage and on God's time, Lloyd. That's a very good take. Alan, Molan Lab. Good. That's a good one. As a wise man said, you can take whatever you won't after you pray my gun. Oh, pry my gun from the cold dead hands, John, aka Ralph. Okay, I got that. Every old person on their birthday should be forced to pay $100 to the youthful lazy fund.

That's great. No name. I'm sorry. 7.7.8. Chris, Brett, do you know why the New York Times are trying to divide the old and the young? This is just more cultural Marxism. I'm surprised the New York Times didn't mention getting rid of some new four-olds. Some new four-olds. Don't forget, the Red Guard used young generations to take over and beat old people in the street. That's horrible. It's easy for us to look back and think Mao's actions were foreign and would never happen here. But now I can see that they are probably first out. put out ideas just like this to gin up the class wealth jealousy of young against the old. Yes, very much so. Rob says, Rob says, I would love to get in a cage match with, I'm not going to read this. You know, no. Yeah, I read it. I'm not going to use it. The first old rich dude to be stripped of power and money should be tricky. What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Your local Toyota dealer has great deals available today on RAV4, Grand Highlander, Camry, and Corolla with the features and style you deserve. It means driving for less with hybrid and plug-in hybrid options across the lineup, delivering great MPGs. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles, meaning your car will hold its value for years to come. Shop Toyota.com to find out more. Toyota, let's go places. And his girlfriend, Nancy. I'm going to keep going. I'm scared. When I hear this, I'm sure. I'd be getting communists. I earn six figures and drive a 24-year-old vehicle by choice to save for a better later day. I'm 65 and working until 67 to have a better third age. Harvard can kiss it.

I think it was, I think it was Yale, but that's okay. I'm not going to hold you to that one. And then finally, what do we got? What's the definition of elderly? Anyone they can squeeze more out of. Ben from Lake Wiley. Yeah, that's it. You got it. I mean, this is it. So that's a little bit of the tour of the folks. If you want to opine on that, you actually can as well. Very happy to have you in the audience and looking at all this crazy stuff that we're looking at. Let me, let me. give you a symptom that is, I think, very interesting. Do you guys remember when they were firing all the USAID people because they were sending all that money out around here there and everywhere? Listen to this. I feel terrible for anyone who loses their job. I'm not trying to kick anyone while they're down, but these USAID and NGO workers are the latest sympathetic unemployment people that I've ever seen. Every person in the story was making well into six figures. USAID employee won $175,000. USAID contractor, $127,000. USAID funded NGO employee, $272,000. USAID, advisor at the DOD, $190,000. It gets worse. USAID contractor, $200,000. There were 16,000 employees at USAID and the New York Times was only able to interview one making less than $175,000. Worldwide, there were an estimated 280,000 contractors. So that's like 200. and 80,000 contractors at $200,000. All of these people getting paid from our tax dollars. Many were making two times the wage of the average American taxpayer. Yes, USAID did some good work, especially during the Cold War. And yes, many of the agency's employees were hardworking Americans with good intentions. Again, we should take no joy in seeing them cut to the curb. But that amount of money, oh my goodness, it is unbelievable.

Welcome back, Brett Waterbull Show. Good to be with you as we chart this crazy storyline, right? We have these crazy storylines that are popping up here. And I think some of them are important. I think we've got to pay close attention to certain things. For example, for example, right? Many of you in the audience are... You know, you want to try to make sure that you're as healthy as you possibly can be, right? So there's certain things that you want to do to be, you know, to be healthy so that nobody can come and take all your lucre and all that other stuff like that, right? So common eating habit may trigger premature immune system aging study finds. I always love the study finds. The study finds are quite interesting. Mice, so mice on high sodium diet showed premature aging of blood vessels. You didn't know that? What? Hold on. Eating too much salt has long been linked to high blood pressure. Or some of the people in the know, call it HB, right? But new research suggests it could trick the immune system into prematurely aging blood vessels. So making your blood vessels get, yeah, a preclinical study recently published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. has identified a biological chain reaction that links a salty diet to a cardiovascular decay. Scientists at the University of South Alabama observed that mice on a high salt diet experienced rapid deterioration. in their blood vessel function. Okay. But if, are we only feeding them salt? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, is that how this goes? Well, let's do a little bit of a dive because I think there's important stuff here. After just four weeks of high sodium intake, the small arteries responsible for regulating blood flow. lost their ability to relax according to the press release. So it's like you're expanding, but it's not going back. The team found that the cells lining the vessels had entered a state of cellular senescence, a form of premature cellular aging. in which cells stop dividing and release a mix of inflammatory signals that can damage surrounding tissue. So essentially what they're talking about, obviously, right, is you don't want to take too much salt in. Like, for example, I had a roommate.

for a period of time and we would go and get food when we were in when i was in college okay this kid i never understood what this kid was this kid perfectly healthy solid guy not a party or anything but do you know what he would do he would get like four or five bacon at the at the at the at the commissary Dude, he would put salt on the bacon. That's a choice. Have you ever done that? No, no, no, but my brother-in-law, your brother-in-law? He would put salt on Chinese food. Salt on Chinese food? Oh, oh, man. Okay, but what if I... Okay, but that's soy sauce. Salt. Salt. Okay, well, I'm looking at this picture, this excess salt trigger, you know, this is somebody who's eating, who's eating, I'm not making this up. Nick is going to be my vouchsafe, okay? That's a pizza. A very thin pizza. That's a very thin pizza. Yeah, probably from New Haven. This is a pizza. And those are olives. And she's pouring salt on the olives, the black olives and the artichokes. That's artichokes. You need the fiber. You need the fiber for that. Maybe. Probably. Once these cells age, they fail to produce nitric oxide. Is that what they do with the racing cars? Nitrous oxide? And you get it going, huh? The essential gas that tells arteries to dilate and stay flexible. Stay solid. Stay flexible. All right. I mean, that's your first story. Here's the second story. This one's maybe a little sexier than that one was. No, it's not even, no, it's not salt. It's not salt.

Truth be told, I have never done this. So I'm going to just read this straight up. And you know what? Straight up. Call and let me let me know if your freak flag flies. Okay, here's what we got. Here's what we got. Did you know there is a product? There's a product out there. That's big with all the kids. High alcohol, ready to drink cocktails, spark overconsumption concerns for the Gen Z drinkers. What is it? Buzzballs. It's buzz balls. A wave of sweet, high alcohol canned cocktails is gaining traction among young drinkers raising concerns among some experts. Nick, buzz balls. Ever clear. A no. A brand of a brand of premixed, ready to drink alcoholic cocktails created in 2009, well, I guess they age well, has gained renewed attention online in recent years, sold in small neon colored round containers. I heard a mm over there. I think the boy drinks them. Uh-huh. Okay. All right. It said the mouse is out of the bag. I know about this. Okay. Most Buzzball's drinks are about 200 milliliters of 15% alcohol by volume. See, but that thing, that thing's like tiny. Well, no, they do. I saw, I was. Packs a punch, I'm sure. I was buying a bottle of something. You were experimenting? No, and I saw, they have, they have buzz bombs, which are like, they're big, not quite as big as like the old beer balls from the mouth. Why, why not just drink? Why not just have something nice? Why do we have to do this? Bring back the original four logo. No, no, no. One viral TikTok video shows a man approaching young adults and asking them to chug a buzz balls biggie. That's what it says. It's what it says. I mean, it's in public for a hundred bucks. Why are you, don't do that. I'm your Huckleberry. Do not do that. No, no. I'm the warning guy.

I'm the warning guy. Look, save up your money and have nice, like just one, a little bit of wine. That's all you got to do. Wine and pizza and salt on the pizza with the black olives and the artichoke hearts and the double load of the, yeah, this is, wow. Welcome back. It's the Brett Waterbull Show. It's good to be with you. Let's turn a page into something completely different that I think is a fascinating story that I think everybody would kind of enjoy hearing about. So let me do this. For three years, he wasn't allowed to speak to her. On his 21st birthday, he wrote, One letter. She was engaged to someone else. He got on a train anyway. January 3rd, 1913, Oxford, England. J.R.R. Tolkien sat down the night before his 21st birthday and wrote a letter that he had been composing in his head for three years. Dear Edith, I've never stopped loving you. Will you marry me? For 1,095 days, he hadn't been allowed to see her, to write to her, to speak her name. His guardian, a Catholic priest named Father Francis Morgan, had forbidden it. Edith was a Protestant. She was three years older, and worst of all, she was a distraction from Tolkien's studies at Oxford. When Father Morgan discovered their romance, he gave Tolkien an ultimatum, end it or lose everything. The priest had raised Tolkien since his mother died when he was 12. He'd paid for his education. He was the closest thing to a father Tolkien had. So Tolkien made a choice that would haunt him for three years. He obeyed. He stopped seeing Edith, stopped writing, stopped everything. And he told himself, when I turn 21, I'll be free. I'll find her. I'll ask her to wait. But three years is a long time. They'd met when Tolkien was 16 and Edith was 19, both living in the same dreary boarding house in Birmingham. Both were orphans. Both were lonely. Tolkien's mother had died of diabetes when he was 12. a death that might have been prevented if insulin had been discovered sooner. Edith's mother, an unmarried governess, died when Edith was 14, leaving her daughter illegitimate and alone. They found each other in that gray boarding house with its lace curtains and climbing vines.

They'd sneak to the tea shops and drop sugar cubes in the hats of people walking below laughing like children. They'd sit by the window late into the night talking until sunrise while Big Ben told the hours. Edith would appear in her little white nightgown at the window and they would whistle call. They took a long bicycle ride. Through the countryside, Tolkien fell completely desperately in love. But Father Morgan saw it as recklessness. When Tolkien failed his Oxford scholarship exam, the first try, the priest blamed Edith. You will not see her again, Father Morgan said. Until you are 21, Tolkien could have refused. He could have defied him. But Father Morgan had more of a father in him than many real fathers. The priest had rescued him. and his brother from poverty after their mother's death. He had given them a home, and he believed in Tolkien's brilliance. So Tolkien agreed he wrote Edith one final letter explaining why he had to disappear for three years. The beautiful part of this story is the way they got back together. They married. On March the 22nd, 1916 in a small Catholic church in Warwick during World War I, it was a Wednesday the same day of the week that they had been reunited in 1913. Edith had converted for him a sacrifice that estranged her from her remaining family. This is the thing that is important. The man who created Middle Earth, who invented entire languages and mythologies, who wrote one of the greatest love stories in literature, lived it first. He waited three years in silence. He got on a train when she was engaged to somebody else. He watched her dance in the woods and built a mythology around that single moment. And when she died, he inscribed her name on their shared grave as the immortal elf who chose mortality for love because the greatest fantasy Tolkien ever wrote was just the shadow of the real thing. Enjoy the night. What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Your local Toyota dealer has great deals available today on RAV4, Grand Highlander, Camry, and Corolla with the features and style you deserve. It means driving for less with hybrid and plug-in hybrid options across the lineup, delivering great MPGs. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles, meaning your car will hold its value for years to come.

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