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December 11, 2025 • 96 mins

Tune in here to this Thursday's edition of the Brett Winterble Show! 

Brett kicks off the program by talking about the federal charges brought against the light-rail stabbing suspect and the growing public anger surrounding safety on Charlotte’s transit system. He notes that U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson is announcing charges in real time, underscoring how the attacker—a Honduran national who should not have been on the train—has become a flashpoint for broader concerns about crime and accountability.

Brett highlights how U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson’s rapid announcement of federal charges signals just how badly the system failed, allowing a Honduran national—who shouldn’t have been here or on the train—to inflict a near-fatal attack. With yet another assault reported on the light rail this week, Brett says people no longer believe local leaders understand the fear regular riders live with. He ties Charlotte’s situation to what he calls a national pattern of weak enforcement, unserious politicians, and communities stuck paying the price. For Brett, this isn’t a transit story anymore—it’s a public safety warning.

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
And welcome to the Brent Winter Bulls Show. It is
great to be with you.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
One O seven point nine FM WBT, Charlotte's FM News Talk.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
We've got a.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Serious matter happening in real time right now as the
federal government is bringing charges against the light rail stabber.
This obviously happened last Friday. Over the course of this week,
we have seen the reaction. People are absolutely furious, absolutely angry.

(00:43):
And so now we have the attorney Russ Ferguson, the
US attorney in the Western District of North Carolina, and
he is right now presenting the charges for the Honduran
who is not supposed to be on the train in
any way, shape or form. So we will effort as

(01:06):
much information about this. We've got two different, big sort
of cases that are happening. So you've got obviously a
Russ Ferguson, US Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
And at the same time, we've got action coming out
of the Charlie Kirk suspect hearing in a closed session

(01:26):
that is happening over there at the other part of
the country right now. The FBI is talking James C.
Barnacle Junior. He is also saying a number of things
that we will try to effort at some point here
because it's really it's interesting. It's only being carried on
one of these channels on WBTV, and so the thing

(01:50):
with this, and it shouldn't surprise anybody at all, because
we're in a situation here where people do not respect
the law arient full stop. It is why you constantly
see people getting assaulted, raped, murdered, what have you. It
is a it is a it is an ugly reality

(02:11):
in this day and age that people just do not
at all respect law and order. They have absolutely no
regard for it by and large, especially when you get
those frequent flyers, those people who are who are out
there going day by day by day, assaulting, robbing, what
have you. It's it's a real problem. It is a

(02:32):
real problem that we're dealing with, and it's something that's
got to be handled. I watched part of the hearing
earlier today with Christinome and Christin Noam was talking all
about these violations that have happened all of these people
who who have decided that they were going to come
into the United States of America, and and she was

(02:54):
laying out the picture of the threats out there. And
I got to tell you something about about christin home.
She's she seems to be a little hesitant when she
is confronted by big time haters on the Democratic Party.
You can see it very very closely, very very clearly.
And unfortunately she is in a position where she's gonna

(03:17):
be damned if she does and damned if she doesn't.
And it's a circus with what's going on over there.
I was watching looking at the minority ranking member talking
about all the different sort of things, and I flashed
back to many, many, many moons ago. It was incredible

(03:40):
to think back this character, this person out of I
think he's out of Mississippi. He came out and said
in the second term of the Obama administration that you
want to go to the track, if you want to
go to the track, if you want to go and

(04:01):
see what's going on here, make sure you got your
shots before you go to a NASCAR track. A that's
not any kind of a joke. That really happened, and
there was massive blowback. The reason why I raised these
sorts of things. And by the way, if you're new
to the program, I appreciate you all being here and
spending time with us. One of the things that's a

(04:22):
problem here is the fact that the people in the
Congress I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go thirty percent serious,
forty percent totally unserious, and then sort of this way
and that way with the rest of of the group.
People come in here and they want to just be

(04:44):
made famous, They want to be taken famously, They want
to be the big new thing as you look at this.
But the reality is, if you're going to Washington, d c.
If you're going to Raleigh, if you're going to Columbia,
if you're going to any of these places, you have
to be serious people. Because we see one life has

(05:05):
been taken on the light rail, and now we see
another person who was assaulted.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
On the light rail.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
And on top of that, the person that was assaulted
on the light rail on Friday is now in the
custody of the police because he is alleged to have
been a beater of a woman who was pregnant. I mean,
this is a whole big storyline. And what does it

(05:34):
all come down to. It all comes down to regular people,
you and me hanging out, spending time on the radio
and talking about these consequential stories. You see, there are
a large constituencies who want to be able to ride

(05:54):
the cats buses, who want to go and ride the
blue line and things like that. But the fact of
the matter is, the fact of the matter is are
you going to take that risk? I heard earlier today
while Pete was doing his program in the one o'clock hour,
and and I heard a caller call in and he was,
you know, making a very very important point. And the

(06:16):
important point that he was making was these are people
who are out there who are predators, and we've got
to get our game on or we're going to have
real problems in total. Let me grab a call really quick.
My name is Brett Whatterble. It's a pleasure to be
with you, Bob. Welcome to the program. What's on your mind?

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Hey Brett, good to hear you on the other side
of the street here. They actually had a call yet,
and just make sure it was still you because I
usually listen to you and I am up in Denver
here and there's a lot of static, but anyway, I'm here,
thank you. I was gonna make one quick comment, sure

(06:56):
you know you're talking about the light rail situation, about
the city council there. You know, they decided to spend
three was it three point four million dollars for a
marketing You know, I don't know why everybody's getting all
worked up about it. It makes sense to me. I mean,
when I find a piece of rotten wood on my portrail,
I just paint over it.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Right.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Oh gosh, that's a great analogy that you're You're right,
you are right on that, Bob.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
I mean, that's exactly yeah. Let me just pay it
over it. I'm just gonna why where's where's that don't work?
Where's that DAP pen?

Speaker 2 (07:28):
I'll just fill it in and hope the gramdmat doesn't
fall through the wrong uh, the wrong uh, Bart. But
you're right, and and the idea that why, I mean,
if it's such a great deal, why not take the
three point four million dollars and and and really make
it super super better instead of just trying to convince
us that we're just nuts.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, but you know that's not the government way.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
Bright.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Let's don't fix the problem, let's whitewash it.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
I appreciate you call it. Thanks so much for being
out there. A great call from Bob. I will remember
that Bob was the first call that I took on
one oh seven point nine FMWBT, Charlotte's FM.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
News Talk.

Speaker 6 (08:15):
I I.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
And I am Brettwitable. It's good to be with you.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
One oh seven point nine FM WBT, Charlotte's FM news
talk station. Okay, I got, I got, stay right there
for me, Kirk. I'm gonna come to you just a second.
But I want to pay off what we were talking
about with the UH with the rail issue. So less
than a week after the stabbing on a Charlotte Transit
light rail, the US Attorney's Office and Federal Bureau of

(08:45):
Investigation held a press conference. Russ Ferguson is the US
Attorney UH for the Western District of North Carolina, and
James Barnacle, Junior UH is the Special Agent in charge
for the FBI in North Carolina. So they came out
and they laid out the picture for what the challenge
is going to be.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
So here it is.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
The latest stabbing happened on Friday the December the fifth,
and the police arrested thirty three year old Oscar solar Zano,
charging him with and this is what the charges are
going to be. The charges are attempted first degree murder,
assault with a deadly weapon, inflicting serious injury, break and

(09:30):
enter a motor vehicle carrying a concealed weapon, and intoxicated
and disruptive. He was denied a bond by a magistrate,
later by a judge, and later by a judge.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
So what do we have here, Well, we have him.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
He's locked up right now, and unfortunately, you know, this
is going to be a very slow process. You know,
how this goes, it's going to be a while before
we ever even see to Carlos Brown Junior going and
facing any of the any of the real consequences for
his transgression. And considering the fact that to Carlos Brown

(10:11):
Junior is an American citizen, right, he's not here illegally,
but this Solorazzo guy is is definitely here illegally, and
he's a frequent flyer. So this is this is a
big challenge. It's a big problem. Let's go to Kirk next. Kirk,
welcome to the program.

Speaker 7 (10:27):
Good afternoon. How are you today, young man?

Speaker 1 (10:30):
I'm well, thanks for calling in today.

Speaker 7 (10:33):
When you were talking about the light real system. You know,
everybody wants to hear these lawsuits. Yes, so why don't
you go in and if it happens now then everybody
says it's safe, sue the mayor, the city council to
them as a as a as a unit, and then
sue individually. And if you have, you know, your share,

(10:57):
lets people go yeah, instead of turnim over, something happens,
take it.

Speaker 8 (11:02):
You're putt him in court.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Very hard, very you gotta you got, it's very hard
to sue these people. They're there, a lot of them
are indemnified and and you can't, you know, because you
make a bad ruling as a magistrate or as a judge.
All you really can do is kick it up to
the to the higher courts and hoping that that you'll
get you know, you'll get your remedy. But very hard

(11:26):
to go and sue. It's a very hard thing to do.
Otherwise people would just not ever do these jobs. And
that that's the thing, that's the that's the bummer about
all this. And I think that's why Russ Ferguson and
James Barnacle Junior are picking up the mantle and saying,
you know what we're gonna We'll federalize this, and this
guy will go to a federal penitentiary. We don't have

(11:47):
to worry about the silly games with with the current
uh you know, Mecklenburg County judge, you know the judges
right of that sort of stuff. They're gonna take this,
they'll take this federal and it's gonna be a complete
different thing.

Speaker 8 (12:02):
I see where you're going.

Speaker 7 (12:03):
Is the problem with not being able to see the
people is you can't hold them accountable.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
That is exactly right. That is exactly that is exactly right.
I mean, my gosh, I played a clip from Sheriff
McFadden earlier this week, and you know he's talking about
how he had to give all this, all this advice
to these magistrates because after Arena Zarutzka was murdered, you know,
people were really angry. Well, people are really angry because
you give people bond or bail and you let them go.

(12:31):
I mean, that is that is disgusting and it should
never be that way. I mean, it's it's incredible. We
we are the jury system moves way too slowly. Wait,
especially when you've got video on camera. We should be
able to, you know, adjudicate this thing in six months.

Speaker 7 (12:49):
For me, six months is a long time.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Well a yeah, I'm just trying to be I'm just
trying to be reasonable because otherwise it's uh, you know
the seven years. I mean, look remember the remember the
Brooks case, right, it took them six years to get
these guys and to put them buying bars.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
What the heck is that? I mean, I know because
of COVID. COVID was the reason, is what they say
all the time.

Speaker 7 (13:10):
So well there's always some artificial reason.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yes, yes, it's awful and people do not feel safe.
We need to get this thing done. Kirk, thank you
so much for being out there. I appreciate the call.
Ralph is up next. Ralph, welcome to the program.

Speaker 5 (13:29):
Hey Brett had to miss a near people running red light.

Speaker 8 (13:35):
Sixteen is everything, But anyway.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
You're coming in crystal clear. It's been a god sin
that your own one oh seven point nine, two and
a half years ago, Grant had I was going down
seventy three and a tree fell on my car truck
forty five miles an hour, and a buddy of mine
owns a body shop, so he fifted. He was trying

(13:58):
to save me some money and put a new skin,
put bondo on top. But all of your listeners out
there if you ever have this problem that here there's
an an A M radio wire built in to the
top part of your mental root. And I couldn't get
your station. I had to stream for two and a
half years. I listened to Bustle Fall off the Ladder

(14:21):
one hundred thousand times for leaf Guard. Uh that commercial,
you know, streaming because all.

Speaker 8 (14:28):
The streaming part.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
Uh you have a lot of commercials and and thank
god I don't have to go through that anymore.

Speaker 8 (14:34):
But your man, you're all you sound awesome. Shout out
to Bob.

Speaker 5 (14:38):
I'm also up from here in Denver, but uh just
left the publics. But anyway, but uh man, uh you
know this minute, we ought to have a tick knock
challenge on uh if they want to.

Speaker 8 (14:49):
They saved a.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
Bunch of money. Uh, and just let people make videos
of TikTok on the light realm.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
The well you know that investigative reporter she was all there,
the one that associated with pologies and stuff. But she
said there was urination while she was drissed.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
So so awful. So it's so it's so awful. You
can fix this in one move. And you know, and
I know We could fix this in one move. Just
make people buy tickets and make them show that you've
paid for the fare.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
That will get out, that'll get rid of.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
You know, thirty percent of the of the near do wells,
you know. I mean, that's that's one of the things
that we're dealing with, you know.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
And it is one of those stations. They should have
one one transit worker there. Do I have to pay
for security, rent a cop.

Speaker 7 (15:41):
That's not gonna do nothing and everything that's right.

Speaker 5 (15:43):
It'd have one transit person at the door checking tickets.

Speaker 8 (15:47):
That would be a simple.

Speaker 5 (15:48):
Fix and everything, and you would see about ninety three
percent of this stuff go by the wayside.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Thanks Ralph, I appreciate you calling in and the kind words. Man,
thank you so much. We appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
But all right, man, you got it.

Speaker 9 (16:02):
Absolutely you take them all a man.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
And then.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Brett water Bowl. Great to be with you on the
Brett water Bow Show.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
One was seven point nine FM WBT Charlotte's FM News Talk.
It's a pleasure to be with you. By the way,
we are using the UH the text line which is
driven by.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Liberty Buick GMC.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
I was just sitting here and I was startled for
a quick moment when I was looking at this, So
feel free to reach out to us. We really enjoy
the back and forth and it's always a great opportunity to,
you know, hear what you're thinking about. You know, you
can put a little bit longer of a comment and
we can look at it, which is pretty cool. One

(17:11):
of the things that I came across on the way
in was this report that is now coming out. And
this report I think is very interesting. What if I
told you that the former President of the United States,
Joseph Robert at Biden Jr. Made housing way more expensive? Now,

(17:34):
how can a president make the housing way more expensive?
Anybody have an idea, anybody have a theory on that,
anybody have a feeling about this. Well, I can tell
you how it works. And it's the sort of thing
that you would expect. It is the ability to decide
whether or not you are going to let people pursue

(17:56):
the American dream. So what is the American dream? When
you think about the American dream, what is it?

Speaker 10 (18:02):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Is it your own business, Is it a house, is
it a condo? Is it a house and a condo?
Is it your very first starter home? Like, how do
you put this all together? Well, here's the deal.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
And I know this is this is something that's going
to sound like it's, you know, super obvious.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
But the fact of the matter is when you bring
in two million people, four million people, ten million people,
sixteen million people, those people need to live someplace. And
as it turns out, according to HUD, this is the

(18:43):
HUD investigation, they have revealed Biden's mass migration ended up
spiking home prices for low income Americans.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
What come on? Or has he would say? Come on?

Speaker 5 (19:00):
Man?

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Former President Joe Biden's record setting waves of mass migration
to the United States sent home prices and rents surging
for the lowest income Americans. Now, when they talk about
the lowest income Americans, they're talking about people who are

(19:25):
on the margin, who are trying to get their kids
in a school and all this sort of stuff. And
I'm talking about people who are here legally, people who
are Americans. It was Americans that took it the hardest
with the lowest income Americans. A newly published investigation from

(19:46):
the Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD reveals all
of this. The report was published annually by HUD and
it looks at the worst case housing needs, which is
defined as Americans who are low income but who do

(20:07):
not receive government assistance or welfare, and who pay more
than one half of their income towards housing costs. Between
twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three, cases of worst

(20:28):
case needs remained elevated at eight point four to six
million households.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
What was happening.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
He was bringing people into the country, and these people
were getting aid from the federal government because they were
migrants or illegal immigrants, or whatever you want to define
them as. But the regular American who was trying to
make ends meet was in the worst possible position that

(20:57):
you could expect. Port details pointing to Biden's bringing in
millions of migrants to the United States as a critical
factor as to how it was that many low income
Americans became increasingly strained by housing costs.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
What else?

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Food, the ability to go to schools, the ability to
be safe. One key cause of elevated worst case needs
is immigration. Between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty four,
the foreign born population of the United States increased by
more than six million people, the largest such increase over

(21:45):
such a short period in American history. Remember, when you
bring a bunch of people in, you have to have
a place to put them. And once you get the
place where they are put do they necessarily stay there. No,
they're probably not going to stay there because they're probably
in temporary housing. And you kind of understand how this
then works. The largest such increase over such a short

(22:09):
period in American history, the foreign born population now stands.
Guess how many people have come into the United States,
including what Joe Biden did, The foreign born population now
stands at fifty three million individuals, making up the highest
share of American population in history. This immigration driven increase

(22:33):
in households has contributed to a significant increase in your
housing demand, thus driving up the housing prices.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
So like you can.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Cut anything you want, you can cut all the stuff
that's out there. You can say, listen, we're gonna drop
the rates. We're gonna drop the rates. We're going to
drop the rates. Affordability, affordability, affordability, you can use all
the catchwords.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
But you're not building houses.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Because the people that would be trying to get those
houses don't have the ability to get those houses.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
This year's report shows two realities. The first is that.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Economic growth has been insufficient to lift the wages of
low income renting families high enough to make rent affordable.
The second is that the national macro economic policies, such
as record immigration, have combined to drive sustained high rental demand,

(23:40):
which has continued to place upward pressure on rent prices.
So if you're looking for the American dream, you might
have to go and ask former President Joe Biden if
you can live in that other house that he has,
that huge mansion on the beach.

Speaker 11 (24:01):
I mean, it's just it's just incredible, And thanks so
much for joining us. It's a pleasure.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
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(24:33):
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Speaker 1 (24:44):
It's always a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
We are looking at a number of other big stories
that are that are now happy happening. So guess what's happening.
We just saw the President of the United States order
that tanker to be taken under control by the United
State dates military. The White House seized dark Fleet tanker
now en route to the US and track its position.

(25:08):
You can actually track the position right now in real time.
They have the technology. We can rebuild them better.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Oh no, wait, I'm sorry, that's a six million dollar man.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt told reporters that the
VLCC skipper that's the that's the ship seized by US
forces on Wednesday, is inbound to a US port. That
the US intends to seize the oil. However, she noted

(25:39):
that there is a legal process for such a seizure
and that process will be followed. So US forces reportedly
intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast
of Venezuela. The operation was carried out by the US

(26:01):
Coast Guard, according to two US officials speaking anonymously. The
vessel's name and exact location of the seizure have not
been released. But you actually contract this thing, Bloomberg data
has the Skipper just north at this earlier part of
the day of Saint Lucia in the Eastern Caribbean Sea.

(26:26):
The vessel is listed as engines underway and heading northwest.
So what are they gonna do? What are they gonna
do with the pilot or do they get rid of
the pilot already and say no, you're gonna you're gonna
be stuck over here. We're gonna let you just do
your thing. They may they may want to defect to
the United States. I mean, if I was if I

(26:48):
had a ship that was filled with that kind of
sort of what's the term I'm looking for. I want
to be I want to be dignified. I want to
be nice. I don't want to be rude. I don't
want to you know, I don't want to be jingoistic.

(27:08):
The last thing you need to be is jingoistic.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
I don't want to do any of that stuff. But
the fact of the matter.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Is this is a this is a sort of a
of a crisis for Venezuela because they got the ship,
they got the oil, and I don't think you're getting
it back. Levitt offered no information about the skippers port,
calling However, a few US ports can handle the VLCC

(27:36):
tankers because they draw up to twenty two meters of
water when fully loaded and require specialized deep water berths.
Here's what I think is happening now. I'm just I'm
just flying this out here, this ship. Why is the
coast guards so interested in this particular ship that is

(27:59):
only laden with oil?

Speaker 7 (28:03):
Right?

Speaker 2 (28:03):
It's oil that was supposed to be I believe earlier
on it was supposed to go and make its way
to Iran. Why would it ron need oil? They have
a ton of oil, They've got the straits of horror moves,
they've got all this. So is it possible, And I
just want to put this in your mind, is it

(28:24):
possible that there's some other sort of contraband on board
that ship? Think about this. If that's just a boat
with oil and maybe some other things, you don't call

(28:45):
out the whole cavalry to go do that. I mean,
they repelled off of helicopters on the boat, and the
boat did not have any kind of a resistance of
any kind at all.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
So what could they be hauling?

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Now we know the president is very enamored with the
Monroe doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine two point zero, which is
the revival of gunboat diplomacy.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
That's an actual formal phrase that they use.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
So it's a revival of the gunboat diplomacy where US
Force is just carried out the exceptionally rare move of
seizing a massive dark fleet tanker off of Venezuela, long
known as a tanker for Iran's shadow oil trade.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
But what else is on that boat?

Speaker 2 (29:39):
See, the whole point of this is to say, Okay,
we've got your boat, we've got your oil, we've got
all this sort of stuff, but what else is on
I'm telling you you're going to find out there's something
on board there. It could be something, something really shady.
There could be really shady stuff going on on this

(30:00):
particular place. Maritime Tracker Maritime traffic shows that the vessel
was commandeered by the US Special Operations Team, which repelled
onto the tanker's deck from a Blackhawk helicopter on Wednesday.
It was carrying a million barrels of crude oil. A

(30:25):
million barrels of crude oil. That is a lot. US
forces seize that tanker secretly loading. They were secretly loading
one point one million barrels of sanctioned mary crude at
Venezuela's Jose terminal. The vessel had been transmitting falsified AIS

(30:53):
positions during the operation, a tactic that's used by the
dark Fleet so that you're able to get out that
get that money out and get that money to where
it's got to go. The marine data shows the vessel
as being sanctioned by OPHAK back in November twenty twenty two.
It is now twenty twenty five. That means that they've

(31:14):
been using this vehicle, this boat for three years and
they've been doing.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
A lot of stuff.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Her cargo includes multiple liftings from Venezuela and Iran, while
operational risk signals show a two month AIS gap in
the Iranian waters. The vessel also conducted high risk and

(31:41):
dark STS transfers in the Red Sea, Iranian and Syrian zones,
alongside multiple AIS spoofing events.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
So if this thing.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Is not just oil, and they've got something that they're
not supposed to have have on that boat, like I'm
thinking fish, fishable material, I'm talking maybe nuke stuff.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Whoa, whoa.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
This may be what they call in technical terms, the
causus belli for the fight h.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Are you ready? Are you ready for the second hour?
It's starting any moment. Get ready? Are you ready.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
For one oh seven point nine FMWBT Charlotte's FM News Talk.
It is a pleasure to be with you hour number two.
If you missed the first hour, you gotta go back
and listen to it. It was really phenomenal, really exciting.
A lot of stuff happening. We are now into hour
number two of the program, and we are so excited

(33:43):
to have you all reaching out to us. You can
get us at seven oh four five seven zero one
zero seven nine, or we have the text line as well,
same number. And it's really just such a pleasure.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
To be with each and every one of you.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Seven oh four five seven zero one zero seven nine.
So let's take a look at some of the stuff
that's out there. I came across this article late last
night early this morning, and the story was this. It
is entitled El Pueblo Salva al Pueblo, How Carolina Migrant

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Network fought Border Patrol. Okay, see, you gotta be careful
with this. You have to be careful with this, ladies
and gentlemen, because why would you be giving up your
operational sort of theory. Why would you do something like
that and say, hey, we beat the border patrol. The
border patrol has been taken down.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Why are you why are you doing this? Why would
you do this? Well? Number one, I understand.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Okay, I understand, ladies and gentlemen, what it is that
we're seeing in the world today. Okay, we have millions
and millions and millions of people who want to migrate
to the United States of America.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Okay, number one.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Number two, we do not know what we do not
know about the people who have come into the country.
I told you in that last if you are with
us in the first hour, fifty three million people have
come into the United States over the course of time,

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and we don't have the ability to house them, to
teach them to do any of these sorts of things.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
And this is the challenge.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
I want everybody in the sound of my voice to
listen to the program. I want everybody to be a
part of this. But it has got to be done
in a very specific way. If you woke up tomorrow
morning and you went downstairs to get your breakfast and

(35:57):
somebody was crashed out on your couch that you had
never seen.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Before, what would you do, what what would you do?

Speaker 2 (36:08):
You would probably yell or scream or run back upstairs
and ask somebody what you should do. You might want
to call law enforcement and say, there's a person on
my couch that I don't even know who this is,
and you guys got to come and take them out.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Oh whoa hold on. When we try the.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Sort of arguments that are out there, we have to
use a reality sort of idea, And the reality is this.
If you if you think that illegal immigration is peachy keen,
you like getting free stuff, you like getting you know
this that the other thing you have to then take

(36:50):
them into your house. You don't get to you don't
get to be in the big house on the hill.
Why would you do that? You can't do That's not
fair at all. You should be bringing people in. You've
got three thousand square feet. Absolutely, we'll bring in fifteen
twenty people. They can live in your house, or you

(37:11):
can sit back and you can say, listen, in our house,
we respect the law. We respect the law in our house.
And whether it's somebody coming into your house, or maybe
you decide you're going to go to a concert someplace
and you find out that there are people who are
sitting in your seats who do not deserve those seats

(37:34):
because you have the tickets.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
What are we supposed to do?

Speaker 2 (37:41):
See, everybody wants a deal, everybody wants a hack, everybody
wants Hey, I can do this. It doesn't matter. I
don't have to follow the rules on the light rail.
I don't have to follow the rules. When it comes
to paying my taxes. I don't have to pay you
know this, that.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Or the other thing.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
And so now we have organizations coming out bragging about
how they jacked up the border patrol. I mean, that's
that's something that's kind of interesting. I mean, isn't it
El Pueblo, Salva, El Pueblo. How Carolina Migrant Network fought

(38:23):
the border patrol. When pictures of a border patrol caravan
and route to Charlotte started circulating online, the team at
Carolina Migrant Network stopped what they were doing, hugged each
other and cried.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
And then what did they do? Then they got involved,
and then they.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Tried to you know, short short circuit the system and
all of these sorts of things. Either you want to
have safe streets, safe places, safe roads, safe rails, safe things.
Either you want that or you don't, but you can't

(39:05):
play the game anymore.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
You know.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
They have that very famous song that they were playing
back when Trump was originally brought into the to the
presidency in twenty seventeen, and they had all those folks
with their plinky guitars and their banjos, and they were

(39:29):
singing that old revival song from back in the nineteen twenties.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
Which side are you on?

Speaker 7 (39:40):
Well?

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Which side are you on?

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Are you, the listeners of this program, on the side
of law or are you are you on the side
of lawlessness? You tell me, and you tell me how
we fix this.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
It's just a.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
Little bit more, just a little bit more, just a
little bit more. One of seven point nine FM WBT,
Charlotte's FM News Talk. It is great to have you here.

(40:26):
We are so excited to hear from you. We have
the text line seven h four five seven zero one
zero seven to nine, and you actually can use that
phone number to call in with your comments or you
can actually just text us, which is a really great opportunity.
I am so excited to be here on this frequency,

(40:48):
on this station because we are talking about so many
different things at the same time, and I think it's
a phenomenal way to go ahead and fletch some of
this stuff out.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
So let me go local here for a minute.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Enrollment drops in North Carolina's traditional public schools. How much
and why it matters? This is taking Wee and David
Rayner over at the Observer. So let me take a
look at this because I think we could figure out

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what's happening with the school enrollments. Enrollment fell in nearly
every North Carolina school district this year, including in Wake
County and Charlotte Mecklenburg, continuing a trend of fewer students
attending traditional public schools. So it's like the traditional public

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school that you and I probably are familiar with, but
there are fewer of the people.

Speaker 9 (41:55):
Going into the schools.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
I wonder what's going on here.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
The newly released data from the State Department of Public
Instruction shows that one hundred and five of the one
hundred and fifteen school districts reported in ROMAN drops this
fall compared to last year. But while fewer students are

(42:20):
attending the traditional public schools, charter schools.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
Are growing.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Wait a minute, why can't they both grow at the
same rate at the same Is it possible that the
people who are in the public schools are now going
to the charter schools.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
Is that possible? Is that possible?

Speaker 2 (42:43):
I can't imagine that's that's that's falterol right there. Okay,
it's got to be something else. It's an ongoing trend
that has major ramifications for public schools since they get
funding based on how many students they have. Our biggest

(43:06):
challenge I think we face now is certainly issues tied
to declining student role enrollment.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
Who could have thought that? Where did that come from?
That's genius.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
Chapel Hill Carborough City Schools Superintendent Rodney Trice or three
times told a state legislative committee on Wednesday, that's one
of the primary ways that the school districts across North
Carolina receive the funding to educate the kids. Well, if
the kids are leaving, can they take the money with them?

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Can they go in enroll in a parochial school? Can
they go in enroll in a charter school? Can they
go and take the dollars? Are they allowed to do it?
Is it possible? The reasons for the decline have been
attributed to factors such as.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Get ready. It's amazing nobody ever thought of this.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Declining birth rates, increasing school choice options ding ding, and
dissatisfaction with traditional public schools. Wait, hold on, see that
is that is tricknology right there.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
They're trying to trick you here, Okay.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Because what they're saying is dissatisfaction with traditional public schools.
Hold on, they're trying to make you think that traditional
public schools are actually traditional public schools.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
These are woke.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Schools that are doing woke things. And the parents are
looking at this and they're going, you know what, I
don't really really, I'm not really about the whole we
are we talking about sex in every class? Are we
doing sex with the with the algebra? Or are we
doing that with the history of the history of sex?
Because it seems a whole lot of emphasis on the

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sex with these people.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
What is this?

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Well, the DPI released a report this month that determined
what level schools would be funded at next year based
on this year's enrollment. I'll bet it's gonna go down,
that's my guess.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
What do I know?

Speaker 2 (45:25):
If people aren't showing up, if a restaurant doesn't have
people coming in, if somebody goes on the light rail
and doesn't want to get stabbed. They're probably not gonna ride,
They're probably not gonna go to a restaurant. They're probably
not gonna bring their kids back into the system. Until
you guys figure it out, it's not really hard. It's

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really not hard. In contrast, charter schools and laboratory schools
operated by universities saw a four thousand, six hundred and
fifty four student gain.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
They don't know where they're going. Where are they going?
Where they go? Nick? Where are they going?

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Where are these people going? We can't figure it out. Well,
you just need more money. Just push in more money.
More money will work. The trend is even more pronounced
now since twenty nineteen, before the COVID pandemic upended the
educational patterns. Eh is that true?

Speaker 1 (46:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
It seems like they're just dancing around everything and they
don't want to say what it really is. People are
not happy with the schools, so they're walking away. The
state has seen a sharp spike in the number of
students receiving private school vouchers since the Opportunity Scholarship program

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was open to families of all income levels. While most
of the one hundred and three thousand, four hundred voucher
recipients were likely attending private schools before the fall. The
program encouraged some families to leave public schools this year.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
That's exactly what it is. What is this?

Speaker 2 (47:09):
It's it's it's smaller, it's smaller rates of childhood. No,
you have a shoddy project and people are walking away
from it. Gosh, I could have done that in like
two sentences.

Speaker 12 (47:43):
Give me few, give me fogive me that's out of.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
What are seven point nine FM WBT, Charlotte's FM News Talk.
Let's reach out to a person that I think. I
think this is a person who brings it pretty much
every day. Robert, welcome to the program.

Speaker 13 (48:15):
Hey Brett, I appreciate that you bring it every night.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Dog, thank you, and you bring it as well. Absolutely,
you know what you are. You are and I'm serious.
It's not going to take any time from you. But
you are prolific and I respect the prolificness of what
you do.

Speaker 5 (48:33):
Well.

Speaker 13 (48:33):
Again, that's how praise Brett. It's it's a strong word,
but if you choose to use it, I can handle it.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
I got it, I got it. What's what's what's on
your mind today?

Speaker 13 (48:45):
By the way, everything is coming in crystal clear. I
think all the listeners like me can can feel the
crackling of this one hundred thousand watt blow towards and
congratulations on the on the big, on the big inaugural day.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
We are so excited. Did we are so excited by this?
It's just really great.

Speaker 13 (49:04):
Yes, sir, very good. Well, I was just kind of
like we did last year. I was hoping we can
just talk a minute or two about some of the
big stories of the year. Were almost halfway through December.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
And sure, go ahead.

Speaker 13 (49:15):
It's been been a momentous year, of course, and there
are a lot of a lot of big ones to
choose from, I think, but to me, and I was
just hoping to running these by you right quick and
then just see what you think. But of course, going
back to January twentieth, with Donald Trump becoming uh, not
only the forty fifth but the forty seventh president of

(49:36):
the United States, that's that's caused a lot of a
lot of waves, a lot of a lot of cross currents.
Caroline Levitt was on there today at twenty eight years old,
and she is a superstar, and she took the first
five minutes of her press conference talking about the damage
that they had inherited and there and they're trying to

(49:56):
to fix. And then we go to the February meeting
with Zelenski there in the Oval Office late February and
the note the famous or infamous note cards meeting where
President Trump and JD later later pretty pretty clearly out
to predident Zelensky that that he had better respect the

(50:17):
United States and he had better be willing to to
to do some of the things that we wanted to do,
and even though he is in a tough position. So
and then Arena is killing uh that that was a big,
big story here in Charlotte and even nationally of course

(50:38):
Charlie Kirk's assassination. And then the only other things that
I would mention that I was hoping to hear. What
you think about is is how the Democrats have taken it.
I don't think they've taken the loss very well. I
don't think they've taken it very constructively, quite honestly, And
I think there are very few on the left who

(50:59):
were the who were today's happy warriors. I think that
I think they kind of got on the fennymous uh.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Sir okay, so to unpack this. I I agree with
you with the inherited mess. I agree with you on
the Zolensky stuff, obviously.

Speaker 8 (51:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
The killing of Charlie Kirk absolutely horrifying. And I remember
the day, you know, perfectly, coming into the studio as
I was walking in here, Uh, there was Pete and
Pete said, somebody shot uh Charlie Kirk. And we were
on the air immediately and we were covering that that

(51:39):
entire story, that entire time, and the the the obviously
back in the summer, the Arutzka murder was was such
a heartbreaking thing.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
I know people who were friends with her, and unfortunately,
you know, they they they were just heartbroken because this
is one of the things that we should always know
and understand that when you come to the United States,
you should have a fighting chance to become the person
that you want to be. And unfortunately a career criminal

(52:13):
decided to steal her life, which is awful and it's
just such a horrible thing. I feel so badly for
this younger generation who's coming up and they have got
to look over their shoulder.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
Twenty four seven three sixty five.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
It's not like when you and I were growing up
It's not like where we could have fun and we
could just disappear for a couple hours and then come
everything was going to be okay. We are we have
got to be in the business of protecting our women
and our children. We can never turn away from being

(52:50):
aggressive and protecting them, because this is where bad things happen.
And this is I want to extend one thing on
this though.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
And it's this.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
We do not put people in jail for long enough
periods of time the way it was when you and
I were growing up. I guarantee you that there were
people that would go to jail for fifty years, sixty years,
never get out. And now you've got these weirdo magistrates
and these weirdo judges who are all believing that you
can that you can take the devil and turn them

(53:25):
into an angel. And unfortunately, you and I both know
that that devil is never going to become an angel
because they have chosen the path that they carry, and
the path that they carry is mayhem and murder. And
that is why the average American needs to be ready
to defend their very life when it comes to people

(53:50):
trying to attack us. We cannot go soft, and we
cannot pretend that it'll just go away. We have got
to be able to respond in the exact moment, and
that that's that's all I can say about that.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Your thoughts there, my friend, Well.

Speaker 13 (54:07):
Certainly crime is always a big issue. That's another that's
another problem or another tough issue that that President Trump
and his administration inherited. I I think, by the way,
just just for the record, I'm happy Joe Biden is
doing well. I wish him no ill will happy. He's

(54:31):
happy he's doing well. I've seen sure, I've seen Barack
Obama and then ne Used recently happy he's doing well.
And so I just kind of in the in the
in the holiday spirit, I think, yes, crime is important,
but I just hope that we can uh not view
our political uh counterparts as as evil or even bad

(54:54):
people or people having bad motives. Again, I'm a little idealistic,
a little bit naive at times, but there's so much
venom on the left and I don't think it's gonna
abate over these next six or nine months as we
go into the next elections.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
So so I'll pick up one thing on that, and
that I think is very important. If Mundami, for whatever
reason didn't win in New York City. I think you
would see a much more radical approach in in the
in the left, where they would they would be doing
things that we wouldn't want to see them do. And
so I feel like Mundami, for all all the stuff

(55:32):
that he wants to try to do, I don't think
he's going to have the ability to actually pull this off.
But he is going to be the the sort of
you know, thing up on the wall that people are
going to be looking at and trying to chase and
trying to do it. And I don't think I don't
think the American people are really on board with uh,
with with socialism in any way, shape or form.

Speaker 13 (55:54):
I don't think we are either, and I don't I
don't think Jasmine Crockett is going to fare very well
in the red state of Texas. So Brett, I appreciate it, sir,
I appreciate the time. Hey, great, and congratulations to all
of you there, and thank you at one O seven
point nine WBT, Hey.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
We are so proud to have you on the show.
Thanks so much for being there. You're a great listener,
You're a great caller and call back in as many
times as you want.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
Okay, thanks so much. I appreciate you.

Speaker 13 (56:19):
There, Robert, thank you, sir.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
Yeah, you got it.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
That's that's that's a great conversation. This is what's wonderful.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
People are getting exposed to a whole lot of great
stuff here.

Speaker 12 (56:39):
She has been made chers for the charity Goods the
Baby Waiting Tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Let's one O seven point nine FMWBT Charlotte's FM News Talk.
Let me tell you something about this is very interesting
with Rush when he was playing that and it was
a big.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
Deal to try to figure out what the lyrics.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
Were, and we had all these people calling in and
trying to get you what the exact lyrics were.

Speaker 1 (57:11):
It was.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
It was a very fun time in that once upon
a time, incredible time. And I know he's smiling down
on us today, no doubt about it. Let's go to
Susan next. Susan, Welcome to the program.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
Hello Susan.

Speaker 10 (57:29):
Yes, can you hear me?

Speaker 1 (57:30):
Yes, I hear you. What's on your mind?

Speaker 10 (57:32):
Okay? Well, a comment you made as I was getting
in my cardially work about how the violence and it's
our job to take care of, you know, protect the
women and children. My thought on that is I totally
agree with you on that. However, I feel that society
has we've gotten to a point where men have been

(57:53):
so demoralized yep, and emasculated and beaten down because of
feminism and because of some of the things on the
left like welfare you can't have a man in the house,
that kind of thing. I just feel like that we
need to do what we can to build me in
back up to what they can be.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
I could not agree with you more.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
And I'm hoping that this generation, that Generation X, is
still ready to keep grab that reins, because that's that's
one of the challenges that we've got to we've got
to do. And yeah, you know, we have to be influenced.
We have to be influencers like in the old school
days before before.

Speaker 4 (58:33):
The internet exactly.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (58:34):
Yeah, I have a Gen X son, and I hope
that we can teach him to, you know, be a man.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Great stuff, Susan. I appreciate you calling and call me
back anytime.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Okay, all right, thank you.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
Oh you're very welcome. Absolutely, it is great. Okay, I'm
gonna call I'm gonna call for a clip here. Okay,
it's gonna be cut number thirty nine. Cut number thirty nine,
Alex Karp. Alex cap is the guy who set up Palenteer.
This is a conversation that's happening between between the CNBC

(59:09):
host and Alex Karp. He wants men and overlooked Americans
to be back on the conversation.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
Cut thirty nine.

Speaker 14 (59:19):
Police, our country has selective empathy for everybody but working class,
particularly white males. So when you look at when you
look at coverage and mainstream newspapers about the constitutionality of
blowing up boats that are bringing fentanyl. Here, I guarantee
you if that fentanyl was killing people at schools we

(59:40):
went to present, potentially your kids are going to it
would be constitutional.

Speaker 15 (59:44):
To blow up both boats.

Speaker 14 (59:45):
There is selective, instrument instrumental use of of empathy that
somehow is only applied at the point where it would
help actualize what Sorry, sorry, you asked the cour question.

Speaker 15 (01:00:00):
You're gonna get the full answer.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
You don't want the full answer.

Speaker 15 (01:00:04):
You don't want you brought me on stage.

Speaker 14 (01:00:05):
You know what you're getting.

Speaker 15 (01:00:06):
Okay, it's uh.

Speaker 14 (01:00:08):
And by the way, I'm on stage, and I know
a lot of the people on stage sponsoring this are
skeptical I mean, you know why I'm on stage here
because at Paltier, and I encourage you to think of this.
I divide the world into Palenteer essentially, and pound your
derangement synstrome, palant your skeptics, and paland your haters. My
biggest fans started off as Palntier skeptics, and pound your haters.

(01:00:31):
I believe that someday almost everyone in this audience is
going to agree with me. You may not like me now,
but you're going to agree later. And I'll also tell
you something. Look to the left, look to the right.
The person you think is offended by this actually agrees
with me. That is one hundred percent true. All right,
well okay, sorry, and yeah it's one hundred percent truth,

(01:00:52):
and keep that in mind. I would to tell you,
I will tell you a secret that I hope the
New York Times and the Washington Post doesn't listen to.

Speaker 16 (01:00:59):
Okay, sorry, I just want to bring us back to
this one issue, which is no.

Speaker 8 (01:01:04):
No.

Speaker 16 (01:01:04):
You talked about the rule of law, and you talked
about things being constitutional, and so here are we talking
about these boats, for example, that were blown up, right,
and whether you have empathy for them or not? Given
the folks who are getting killed by fetanohl. The question
is whether this is being done on a constitutional basis
and being done in the right way. And if it's

(01:01:26):
not being done in the right way, well how do
you feel about that?

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
Of course?

Speaker 14 (01:01:30):
But part of the reason why I like this questioning
is the more constitutional you want to make it, the
more precise you want to make it, the more you're
going to need my product. So you keep pushing on
making a constitutional I'm totally supportive of that. You know,
a constitutional you would need to understand where the things
are going, how are they going, under what conditions, where
do they belong.

Speaker 16 (01:01:51):
But I'm asking you just as a person on a
sort of a moral basis, as a human when you
see people, young people, mothers and fathers and families getting
ripped apart with the masks on, with the.

Speaker 14 (01:02:03):
Ice folks, so you can't what you think of that,
of course, but you're this is you're at this point,
you're abusing empathy because I of course don't like that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
Go In likes that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
So what we have from him in that beginning of
that conversation is that he cares about people who are
being left behind in the United States, of America, and
yet we're bringing more and more people in and not
not vetting. At some point, this is gonna go haywire
and it's not gonna be good, and it's gonna make

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what's going on in Minneapolis look like child's Play. One

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seven point nine FMWBT Charlotte's FM News Talk.

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
I am Brett Whaterbull.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
It is great to be with you as we cross
over just past five five in the afternoon. It is
a pleasure to be with you this hour. I gotta
tell you, I've had so much clamor so much begging
for more, more, more, Jasmine Crockett, We're gonna we're gonna
help you out with that. But first I want to
go and talk to Preston, who has been patiently holding

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on right out of the box.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
Preston, welcome to the program. What's on your mind?

Speaker 8 (01:03:43):
Hey, Bret, can you hear me?

Speaker 9 (01:03:44):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
You sound great?

Speaker 8 (01:03:46):
Okay, Hey. I just wanted to dovetail our comment on
the caller before last who was very optimistic, and I
just wanted to say I was like that too. I
used to think the Democrats and Republicans both wanted what
was best for Americans, and obviously maybe the Democrats were
just different, you know, they wanted more government involvement and
that sort of thing, which is different from my thoughts.

(01:04:09):
I no longer think that. I think the Democrats want
what is good for the Democratic Party always, you know,
the American people be darned, you know, it's what's good for.
And the case in point that we've recently seen is crime.
You know, if they are seen as being tough on crime,
they're worried that that will, you know, look bad on

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their base. The base will look bad on that. You
know what I'm saying that being tough on crime would
be unanimous. I mean who I mean, everybody should be
against that, and they won't do it because it looks
bad on their base. And we're seeing that obviously in
the blue cities, and we're seeing that on the line,
you know, the blue line right now on our train.
And where I wanted to evote back to this is

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when you know, there's a social contract, right we pay taxes.
We hope the government you know, protects us roads all that.
But when we're paying taxes and they no longer protect us,
it goes in the hands of people, like people start
taking it into their own hands right, And I want
to if you think back to the early eighties, Bernard

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gat Bernard Gatz, remember the guy, Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
Yeah, yeah, Bernard Gats, yeah on the subway.

Speaker 8 (01:05:19):
Who've got robbed? And you've been robbed multiple times? And
he shot those guys, and obviously it became a big
old thing. Sure, but to some people he was a hero.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
Manu.

Speaker 8 (01:05:29):
I don't want to see it get to that, sure,
but I almost think Democrats invite it and then they
want it to happen. And when it happens, oh gosh,
if it's a white guy who did it, it's racism.
But anyway, I'll take it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
Off the air. No, no, Hey, by Preston, you've made
You've made very important points in this regard. And the
one thing that we should always remember is that there's
no upside for crime.

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
I mean, it's like you're you're either you're there.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
You're either there or you're not. And we should never
want to see crime. I mean, why why would we
want that? And yet at the same time, it's it's
very interesting, Uh, we we have to acknowledge that criminals
come in all shapes and sizes and and and and
things like that. I mean, there are two very high

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profile cases that we just witnessed with with with the
murder by de Carlos uh there on the on the
on the train and then this attack that took place
on Friday night. But there are also two other big
stories that are out there at the same time, including
but not limited to this, this person with the brewery

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who committed sounds like absolutely the most shocking and heinous acts.
Uh obviously innocent ntil proven guilty, and that's a person
that had a lot of power, had a lot of stuff.
And and we've also seen other stuff that's going on
over at at the University of Michigan and and the
drama that's been taking place over there. So crime comes

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in all kinds of sizes, all kinds of things, in
all those ways. And what we always have to do
is we have to understand that everybody does have a
presumption of innocence, but once adjudicated, whether you are let
go or you are convicted.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
That's where it stops.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
And unfortunately, you know, we have people in our country
and around us who don't take things seriously.

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
This is going to be cutting number thirty five.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Jasmine Crockett was at a hearing yesterday and I got
to tell you something. This is the sort of thing
that just makes me go bonkers. She's trying to make
the case that, hey, you have to accept a certain
amount of fraud in all of the systems. You just
have to do it. You just have to take it.
Cut number thirty five, please go.

Speaker 6 (01:07:50):
I do want to make sure that I cover one
other thing that the chairman spoke about. He specifically said
that he's concerned about the fraud. He's not given us numbers,
but I can give you some numbers if we're concerned
about how much money it may be costing us. Because
systems are not perfect. We have no perfect systems. We

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have always had some level of fraud in anything that
we have, because there's no such thing as perfection walking
on this earth.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
Wait a minute, hold on, you mean like the one
hundred and sixty five year old person that is claiming
social security in the DOGE set up, or all the
money that got stolen out out of the USAID. Come on, Okay,
I understand, And by the way, I dislike the way
she ends her argument because she's throwing a little aspersion

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on the only perfect person that ever walked the earth,
who is Christ so she's out saying, oh, well, of
course we have to live with all this amount of fraud.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
No you don't.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
Why Let's say here, I'll give I'll help her out.
Let's say Representative Crockett that you order fifteen gifts for
Christmas and you only get seven.

Speaker 1 (01:09:18):
Oh, it's fraud. Oh, you gotta get used to it.
You gotta get used to it.

Speaker 8 (01:09:23):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
I mean, I'm sorry. You parked your car outside, your
big fancy car outside, and then you got up the
next morning and the car's not there. You just gotta
put up. You just gotta put up with a little
bit of crime. Just a little bit of crime. You see.

Speaker 2 (01:09:35):
This is what's goofy, and it's wrong. Nobody should have
to tolerate crime. Nobody should have to tolerate fraud.

Speaker 1 (01:09:44):
It's not right. Jake Tapper tried to have a conversation
with this is cutting number thirty six.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
Boy, this is a slog I'm just warning you right now,
Jake Tapper. He tried his best. He was he was bested,
no doubt about that. And let's go to cut number
thirty six.

Speaker 17 (01:10:03):
Let me ask you about a quote that you've made
that has some Democrats worried about your ability to win statewide.
And in December twenty twenty fourth Vanity Fair profile, you
talked about quote and I'm going to read a lot
of the quotes just to put it in the context quote.
All the complexities within the Latino community. The immigration thing
has always been something that has perplexed me.

Speaker 15 (01:10:22):
About this community.

Speaker 17 (01:10:23):
It's basically like, I fought to get here, but I
left y'all where I left y'all.

Speaker 15 (01:10:26):
And I want no more y'all to come here.

Speaker 17 (01:10:28):
If I wanted to be with y'all, I would stay
with y'all, but I don't want y'all come into my
new home.

Speaker 15 (01:10:33):
It almost reminds me of.

Speaker 17 (01:10:34):
What people would talk about when they would talk about
kind of like slave mentality and the hate that some
slaves would have for themselves. It's almost like a slave
mentality that they have now. About the time that that
was published last year, around a million Latino voters in
Texas were voting for Trump.

Speaker 15 (01:10:51):
Do they all have slave mentality?

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
No?

Speaker 15 (01:10:53):
And that's not what they said at all.

Speaker 6 (01:10:55):
To be clear, it did not say that every Latino
has that type of mentality.

Speaker 17 (01:10:58):
No, No, but slave the ones vote for people and
strong or Trump's immigration policies.

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
So I don't.

Speaker 6 (01:11:06):
Believe that the people they voted for Trump believe in
what they're actually getting.

Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
Why why why?

Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
It was a matchup between Vice President Harris and Donald Trump,
and people chose Donald Trump. There can be no other answer. Wow,
it's not supposed to be this hard.

Speaker 1 (01:11:31):
Shan Shan and I am Brett Whaterable. It's good to
be here. One O seven point.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
Nine FMWBT Charlotte's FM News Talk.

Speaker 1 (01:11:42):
Good to be with you, guys. You know what, listen, listen.
That's the only slip we've had. It's the only actually,
it's the only.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
Slip we've had, like probably in weeks. In weeks Nick
Nick was trying to find a deep a deep dive,
deep cut.

Speaker 1 (01:11:58):
And we're good. We're good. Let's go out and talk
to Hello, Tara, it's been so long. What's on your
mind today?

Speaker 4 (01:12:05):
I've missed you. So I waited to call because I
wanted to be inaugural with one oh seven point nine caller.

Speaker 1 (01:12:11):
You are awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:12:12):
I traveled all over today. There was no gutsy sound there.
I've been literally one hundred and forty miles just all
over running. Errands came in loud and clear. I'm still
confused about the whole thing, but that's fine, y'all come
in clear, and I've got you, and I've got an app.
That's what I listened to you before. Love it.

Speaker 7 (01:12:30):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:30):
I love it, And especially at night when I'm cooking,
I could never get you anywhere in my kitchen without
my app. Without the app, however, I want to talk
about the crime, and I'm so glad. I I do
not live in Charlotte. I live outside of Charlotte. Five
years ago. We moved out mainly because of how democrat
it was getting, how better it was when Pat mccroy,

(01:12:52):
when I just am amazed at this three point whatever
million they're going to spend on advertising. You talked about
false advertising. You're telling people that come into the city
they should be able to sue the city council for
telling them to ride the light rail with the murders. Secondly,
there's people my age, you know, aarph above that need jobs. Yes,

(01:13:18):
it would you know. I travel all over I always
buy my ticket, always travel. The only place I don't
travel is in Charlotte on.

Speaker 5 (01:13:27):
A rail system.

Speaker 4 (01:13:27):
Wow, it is the most unpredictable. And when my kids
were little, we loved it. We loved going to games
and going to theater, but no more. And this is
the best solution that the city council. Mean, you can
hire some people fifty five and above. They can check tickets.
I mean, it can be done. And this is their
best solution. This is Charlotte to a t.

Speaker 1 (01:13:51):
You know, this is exactly you know you make. You
make a very important point.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
And so I'm going to kind of flip the script
just a little bit ninety degree and it's this. You know,
when you see police officers, you know, when you see
school resource officers that are parked at the schools, you know,
and they they're they're they're patrolling along the area. So
many times you see people who are much older, like

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they're at the end of their career sort of thing. Right,
That's what people always sort of think about. They say, oh, Okay,
this guy's a school resource officer. He doesn't need to
be a young person. When you said people checking tickets
on the light rail, I would I would argue that
that would be a tremendous training for law enforcement officers

(01:14:39):
who are coming in early when they're young, and they
would be able to spot pickpockets and violators and all
these sorts of things that you would want the younger
side to be handling all of these sorts of jobs,
whether it's the school resource or whether it's the light rail,
and they would they would pick up so much information

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very quickly, and they would be a detern in many ways.

Speaker 5 (01:15:02):
I think.

Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
I think if you have a presence of that, I
don't care where you are, Europe, New York, they're going
to come through. You better have your ticket ready.

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
Yes, but I think it's.

Speaker 4 (01:15:13):
Well known in Charlotte that anybody now do well can
get on those trains and it's keeping the good citizens.
I don't know why, Charlotte City Council, I'm screaming to
you and bilized, Oh, you guys are on the wrong trajectory. Wrong,
it's and we're not going to get we're not going
to get visitors right.

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
And look, here's the That's exactly what you just said
is is the main driver right there. At some point
it's going to hit the bottom line. And that is terrible.
We've got such great opportunity here and unfortunately, you know,
we're not taking it seriously enough. Where we're people are
going to just bail and that's terrible.

Speaker 4 (01:15:55):
Well, what's going to happen is they're going to take
that money and they won't be able to pay Jenny's
off and the secret hip little funds they have, that's
the problem. They're gonna spend all their money so they
can't send these secret checks everywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:16:07):
Yeah, never heard of it. Never heard of it. Tarr.
You're awesome. Thank you so much, and Merry Christmas to you,
my friend, miss Christmas. Great to talk to you. Call again.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
I enjoyed our conversation. David is up next, David.

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
Welcome to the program. David.

Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
Hello, David, call back, David. Okay, I got to play
this clip. Can I do this clip? I'm gonna do
this clip. This is something that's being tested to maybe
support Jasmine Crockett.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
This is cutting number thirty eight.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
Get a load. Everybody puts your headphones on, if you're
if you're here in the studio, we want to hear this.
This is really a very special piece of music that
she has commissioned her for her big run. Let's hear
it go.

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
She's a will sweet said this so just a present.

Speaker 14 (01:16:58):
I can't rent my head, don't want to say from
those Republicans, she advocate feeding chis they protect Thomas touching
the Trump.

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
And lady is in Patrie Walder army what a chose?
We remember poor helped up by Lee Kennedy bombing.

Speaker 9 (01:17:10):
Vote which I thought we wasn't was out doing that
thing good?

Speaker 14 (01:17:13):
They think again, ain't only trying to scatter running.

Speaker 15 (01:17:16):
Because they think she want It's in thought.

Speaker 14 (01:17:18):
I told y'all, don't have a skitch now A keen
minds at the doctor gotten words for every racist back
the adjustment cracktics every one and maggot isn't racist.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
Yeah that might be true, but in armor history are
never seen and lost the black and blue. So besides,
you want to choose me. I hope my man ain't
rose to the side that isn't trying to say a for.

Speaker 12 (01:17:37):
The billing these A hope she's staying on till Miss
Aulting told Tess.

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
Tough, don't need no more bad built, bleached blonde butch
bodies moving forward.

Speaker 1 (01:17:46):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
My My critique of that is you you need to
have the audible higher for the vocal.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
And the sound needs to that would.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
I mean, look now, Nick just confessed to me that
he was he was pre listening to that when we
came back in.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
Is that is that true? Nick? Is that what was happening?

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
I was.

Speaker 14 (01:18:15):
I was obsessed with listening, listening through that, and that's
why I mishit the bump.

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
If you were, if you go back and listen to
the beginning of the segment, back and to the left,
back into the left, back.

Speaker 15 (01:18:24):
Into the left, you'll hear the first ten bars of
that masterpiece.

Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
Okay, now travers very very He's very with this. He's like,
he's like, listen, listen, this has got real potential, or,
as one of my teachers famously said at school, it
has a lot of potential potentiality, which like I don't
even know what that is, but I think that I

(01:18:51):
say play it, I say we we they play it
like twenty four seven three sixty five. It's a very
it's a very etherory sort of of a vibe.

Speaker 1 (01:19:02):
Okay, I didn't say we needed to hear that again.
I just all as I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:19:06):
Is all I'm saying is it's got potentiality or potentality.
It depends, it depends, you know, Tomato, Tomato, I mean, you.

Speaker 1 (01:19:16):
Know, what what do we got? I just I just
gave you. Don't be mad.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
I just gave you people three Jasmine Crockett mentions. Come on,
nobody's doing that. Calendar's not doing that. TJ's not doing that,
Jensen's not doing that.

Speaker 1 (01:19:40):
I mean, I don't you know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
This is I dig deep, I dig deep for these clips.
These clips, they're they're there. They have a limited shelf life,
especially when you're moving at the speed of Trump because
it's like boom boom boom, here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
That's it. You gotta love bas like bass.

Speaker 8 (01:20:27):
Bass.

Speaker 1 (01:20:28):
Where it's at.

Speaker 11 (01:20:30):
It is.

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
It is the Brett Winterbull Show one O seven point
nine FM WBT, Charlotte's FM to news Talk, or I
could tell you this Charlotte's FM News Talk one o
seven point nine FMWBT.

Speaker 1 (01:20:45):
I mean, we can do it either way. That's that's
that's what we do. This is how we roll.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
Okay, let's take a look at some of the other
news that we have not yet dived in on. The
Indiana Senate has rejected the redistricting the red districting bill,
the redistricticking bill uh in, the uh in the that
Trump is demanding. So they've decided they're not going to
be a part of that anytime soon. The Trump administration

(01:21:11):
sees that oil tanker off of Venezuela. We talked about
that earlier today, and now we find out that Trump
is sanctioning Maduro's nephews six ships carrying oil. He's gonna
bleed them dry. He is gonna bled I'm just telling
you right now, he is gonna bleed them dry. And

(01:21:33):
that's you know, when you when you think about all
this stuff, you just you just hope this thing gets
taken to another place in a better way. Okay, That's
that's all I can say. I don't want to see
American troops going down and fighting against the Venezuelan military

(01:21:53):
or any.

Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
Of that sort of stuff. I want to see this happen.

Speaker 2 (01:21:58):
I want that country to be free, and I want
Machada to be able to come in and take over
that country because the people of the of Venezuela are
suffering massively. Anybody that tries to tell you that communism
makes sense, or that communism works, or that communism is interesting,

(01:22:18):
or any of that sort of stuff, you run from
those people because they're just selling you a Ponzi scheme.
In fact, you probably have a better chance of winning
at a Ponzi scheme than in a Commi scheme. I mean,
we don't this, we do not need It's terrible, you know,
you just you sit back and you say, how the

(01:22:39):
heck do we get to this place. One of the
big things that's in vogue this season. Some would call
it Festivus, some might call it Christmas. Some people might
call it Advent. Some people might call it Hanukkah. Some
people might call it Kwanza. I mean all those different

(01:22:59):
sort of iterations. There is a problem that is happening.
And look, you have the right to free speech.

Speaker 8 (01:23:08):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:23:08):
You can display things, you can free speech things, you
can do all that stuff. You are protected to do that.
But for some reason, the popular place to go and
make your opinions known seems to be.

Speaker 1 (01:23:27):
With churches.

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
People are putting things in churches in the churchyards that
you typically wouldn't see. A Charlotte church says it wants
to disturb passers by this Christmas with a Nativity scene
depicting Jesus, Mary and Joseph with masked immigration agents wearing

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bulletproof vests and brandishing handcuffs. This is the Mission Gathering
church at four twenty East fifteenth Street in Optimist Park area,
and casts the Biblical Holy Family as targets of modern
immigration enforcement. The church's pastor said the goal is to

(01:24:18):
force viewers to confront the fear that many immigrant families
in Charlotte felt recently during the immigration arrests in the cities. Okay,
so we're gonna traumatize kids, So like, let's just get
down to brass tacks. We're gonna we're gonna traumatize kids, right,

(01:24:40):
We're gonna traumatize kids. We're going to try to ruin
the holiday in all of this sort of stuff. And
you know what's interesting, Remember before Rovers's Wade was adjudicated
and you end up with a different with a different
iteration there, it was always in vogue to go and

(01:25:00):
attack Catholic churches, crisis pregnancy centers. You had all of
these things, and it's it's always in vogue for some
reason to go and target Christians. And I got to
tell you something, we as Christians are really not that fragile.

(01:25:25):
We're not that fragile. We've been at this for two
thousand years plus. Okay, we we are, We are not
We are not necessarily going to freak out now.

Speaker 1 (01:25:37):
This church, the Mission Gathering church. They have property. They
can put whatever they want in their yard.

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
They can put whatever they want, all right, free free expression,
free speech, way to go. What I would like to
see is you all not trying to traumatize kids, right,
because let's just take you from Facebook value and the
church's pastor says the goal is to force viewers to

(01:26:04):
confront fear that many immigrant families have in Charlotte following
the recent immigration arrests. Okay, so that's fine, and I'll
take it your word. What about a kid who lost
their parent at the hands of violence, or what about
a kid that lost their parent because they were deported?

(01:26:30):
Are you not now also trying to get up with
these folks and say, hey, this is something that we
want to show the kids. We want to really disturb
the kids and make it horrifying. That's one of the
what's one of the quotes. The goal is to disturb,
to make people feel something. Why not feel happy for

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being a Christian? Said Reverend Andrew Shipley. What's been happening
to shark lit families is disturbing and is graphic and
is horrifying. He said that the installation was created by
an outside artist collective called task Force. Task force is

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one of those words where you're gonna have a situation
that's that's not safe. I don't feel safe with the
task force word. I'm offended by the task force word.
I always thought the task force was a war was
a war thing. That's what I always thought. But you
know what, you never know, which created similar installations in

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cities across the country. Okay, so this is probably Soros money,
Shipley said. The group contacted the church by phone and
email with the idea, and the local artists built the display. Well,
that's great, that's that's that's phenomenal. That's that's the way
you're celebrating Christmas. Shipley said. The concept builds on the

(01:28:00):
biblical account of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus fleeing violence under
Herod's rule, a story that he believes parallels what many
families are now experiencing. Wait, hold on a second, Hold
on a second. So Jesus, So Jesus is fleeing violence

(01:28:24):
under King Herod's rule, a story he believes parallels that's
happening to families right now.

Speaker 1 (01:28:33):
Okay, does Shipley look between.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
The two different sort of people that like there are
innocent people who are getting rolled up, and there are
actual violent felons who are getting rolled up. Are we
to treat the violent felons on par with the innocent?
How dare you? You can't judge? You are not allowed
to judge?

Speaker 1 (01:28:58):
Oh yeah, we are.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
We can judge anything we want, because that's also part
of the constitution.

Speaker 1 (01:29:07):
You're welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
One O seven point nine FMWBT Charlotte FM, Charlotte's FM
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then we'll have a break in Brett Jensen joining us.
It's gonna be a wonderful, wonderful night, and you certainly
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Speaker 1 (01:29:58):
So there is a sc.

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That has a skunk scratch in Idaho that leads to
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So listen to this.

Speaker 2 (01:30:19):
I mean, this is I'm not a big nature guy.
I always I was very excited when I lived in
the desert because you kind of see everything that's coming.
You can hear a rattlesnake, you can you can see
a vulture. You can see all that kind of like
I like, I like the desert, Like the desert is
a pretty cool thing. I enjoy the desert. I'm a
desert guy. I grew up in it. Scorpions, I don't care.

(01:30:42):
You don't touch him or you know any of that
sort of stuff. Right, Okay, There's a man who died
of rabies from an infected kidney donor who contracted the
disease from a skunk attack.

Speaker 1 (01:30:56):
This is this? What are this is?

Speaker 4 (01:30:59):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:30:59):
What are the odds?

Speaker 2 (01:31:01):
A Michigan man died of rabies after a kidney transplant
from a donor who was infected with the disease by
a skunk. A new report has revealed this was back
in November twenty twenty four.

Speaker 1 (01:31:15):
Just so we're we've got this.

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
This is People Magazine, and I trust to inherently People magazine.
In November twenty twenty four, the unidentified donor was scratched
by a skunk that approached him while holding a kitten
outside of his rural home in Idaho, according to a

(01:31:41):
report released by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on
December the fourth, during the encounter that rendered the skunk unconscious,
the donor sustained a shin scratch that bled, but he
didn't think he had been bitten, said the CDC. According

(01:32:04):
to the family, the donor attributed the skunk's behavior to
predatory aggression towards the kitten. Okay, if I have a kitten,
I'm not going out where there's a skunk. And if
I see a skunk, I'm not going out, period, full stop.
Five weeks later, the donor experienced symptoms such as confusion, hallucinations,

(01:32:32):
and difficulties swallowing and walking. Wait a minute, as five,
that's five weeks after right. He was later found unresponsive
at a home and was presumed a cardiac arrest. At
the time, neither his family nor his doctors knew that

(01:32:55):
he had rabies. So the donation of the kidney and
corny has moved forward, so other people are now downloading
the parts. I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:33:11):
The Michigan man received the kidney.

Speaker 2 (01:33:14):
Transplant right after the donor died. Five weeks later, the
recipient experienced tremor's lower extremity, weakness, confusion, urinary incontinence. Per
the report, Seven days later, he was hospitalized and he
passed away. Because his symptoms were consistent with rabies, doctors

(01:33:35):
tested the kidney tissue and it was positive. It was
determined that the recipient had died of rabies. Organ donations
do not.

Speaker 1 (01:33:48):
What what?

Speaker 2 (01:33:52):
Organ donations do not typically test for rabies? What as
the disease is rare among humans. Ah, let's hope they're
changing that now. The report comes after the Michigan Department

(01:34:14):
of Health and Human Services confirmed to People magazine in
April that a Michigan resident died in January after contracting
rabies through a transplanted organ, one month after receiving the
transplant at a hospital at Ohio.

Speaker 9 (01:34:30):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:34:32):
I I let me just say, I want everything tested.
I want I want to I want the doctor tested.
I want I want the nurse test. I want everybody.
Everybody's getting a test.

Speaker 1 (01:34:44):
I want. I want to make sure that we are clean, clean, clean.
That is that's really scary. Holy cow. I mean when
you think about that, I just you know, I.

Speaker 2 (01:34:55):
Just got to sit there and you just got to
say Wow. Number one. Okay, number one. And this is
probably the best advice I can give you. I'm not
a medical doctor, but number one, you get a skunk
in your yard, don't go out there and fool around
with the thing. Those things are nasty, nasty, like Donald

(01:35:16):
Trump used to say at the rallies, nasty.

Speaker 1 (01:35:19):
Get him out, Get him out.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
That's what you gotta do. I'm not doing that. This
is not my this is not my jam. This is
not my jam in any way, shape or form. So
you just gotta you just can't be too careful again,
not bad. Go to the desert. You're in the desert,
you're getting some information, you're seeing things like that. It's

(01:35:44):
nice because it's so hot, you can't I've always said,
because the desert is so hot, he.

Speaker 1 (01:35:52):
Kills everything, just not me. And I don't want that
to ever happen.

Speaker 4 (01:35:58):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:35:58):
It's been such a great pleasure today. We've enjoyed the
program immensely. I've enjoyed the interaction. I'm scoring each and
every one of you a seven point two today, a
seven point two. I think you can get an eight
tomorrow if we get together, you know me one oh
seven point nine. FM WBT Charlotte's FM News Talk. Here's

(01:36:24):
some rock and roll to go out.

Speaker 12 (01:36:39):
Play Away Southeast, Stop with me se
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