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Speaker 3:
[00:55] All across America, we are Red Eye Radio. I'm Gary McNamara, Eric has the morning off, so it's me and you for this Friday. And just looking at the latest governor's poll from California. And you've got Steve Hilton still on the lead, the Republican with 17%. In second place, you have Republican Chad Bianco, the Sheriff with 14%, Tom Steyer also with 14%. So, I don't know, I was looking for the breakdown of the poll, whether, because they keep, they say that two Republicans have the top spot. Well, Steyer is tied for second. Now, if you do the rounding, are they rounding it off? Do they mean that Bianco is ahead, maybe by a tenth of a point, and they're both rounding down to 14%? Or are there 13%? Or one has 13.9, the other is 14.1? But that's really interesting, because with Swalwell out, woo! All right, who has to drop out now? Democrats are going to have to keep dropping out. So let me see, you've got 17% and 14%. So that means that you have 31% of the polling population. I don't know if that's, you know, that's polling. It's not, there was Emerson Poll. It's not, you know, people actually going to the polls, but it's the, it's not, so it's not a, it's not voting. It's simply polling. Think about this, with all the insanity. Think of all the insanity in California. Think about how the rest of the country looks at it. One of the reasons that, that Newsom can't get any traction is because it's very easy for any Republican to say, do you want to be like California? But you think about it, as we said a long time ago, that the Democrats are desperate. They're desperate not to change the philosophy of what they believe in, but somebody who can sell it. And that's why you hear all this talk from Democrat circles. We need to get a white man who can sell all of this. And by the way, they're talking about to get a white man to win their primaries. And then if you look at it, what they're also saying is that in a general election that you independents out there, you're all a bunch of racists. Now, remember, when Kamala Harris dropped out, and when Kamala Harris lost last year, when she dropped out of the, back in 2020, when she dropped out, she was the first one to drop out of the, you know, before you even got to the primaries, she stood no chance with Democrats, and she said the problem was sexism and racism. We're like, well, then the media never picks it up. Or if they do, they're just like, shut up. You're accusing Democrats of sexism and racism. Well, hey, as we've said, who are the ones that are promoting the radical transgender movement? Who are the ones that believe that men should be in women's locker rooms? Who are the ones that have threatened women and don't give a damn about women being able to play sports without male competition? Democrats aren't upset about this. The rank and file, the voter isn't upset about it. They're fine with it. In identity politics, that's all they're talking about. Identity politics in California, look what happened a couple of weeks ago. Oops, we did it by the polls. And the polls show in a massively huge Democrat state, because when you look at it, 31% voting for Republicans, that means the other 69% are voting for Democrats. And so you look at it and they're like, we can't, we cannot hold this debate. They're all white people. Well, what do we do? Well, we can't put anybody, we can't put a minority in there, because we Democrats don't believe we can win with the minority. They're in talk? I mean, it's, where was it? It was the, I was thought it was, was it, I got to find it. I got to make sure, I'm not going to, I'm going to have to preview it. But it was, what's her name? Kathy Griffin. Yes, the nut, Kathy Griffin the nutcase. Sally on Seinfeld. Was she, was she Sally? Yeah, that was her name. Sally on Seinfeld. You know, there, she's there with a couple of all the Hollywood people, and they're like, well, yeah, we need a white man. We need a white man. We need a white man. We need a white man. I mean, they're all about identity politics. They're all about gender and identity politics. It's like, wow. But they're trying to find, and yesterday was another day where I went, nope, they don't plan on changing at all. They don't plan on changing at all. When you had the illegal immigration. Testimony yesterday from the Angel families, just listen, because I watched, oh, what's his name, Mr., are we sure that if we don't put, if we have too much of a Navy on Guam, Guam won't tip over. People think we're making that up, we're not. That's a Democrat representative, Hank Johnson, who just blasted the Angel families and a lot of people get killed. Just think, listen to this, here's Brandon Gill, yesterday, Representative Brandon Gill just going, what the hell's going on? Here we go, listen to this.

Speaker 4:
[08:17] That was one of the most disgusting testimonies I have ever heard. To have Hank come in here and lecture Angel families about how they shouldn't be here, how we shouldn't be holding this hearing. What the hell is wrong with you guys? The reason they're here is because of open borders that you guys perpetrated for four years.

Speaker 3:
[08:40] What's inaccurate about that statement?

Speaker 4:
[08:43] Nothing.

Speaker 3:
[08:47] But yeah, it was just brutal yesterday. We always know the excuse we hear about protecting illegal immigrants, because that's what sanctuary cities do. By the way, the voter is fine with it. They're fine with it. You don't see them getting upset. They're not upset. They're fine with it. We're not talking here. When we talk about sanctuary cities, we're not talking about... The Democrats try to make it sound like, well, we're talking about the people that have been here for years and built up roots in the community and love the community that they're in, and we're caught in an unfortunate situation. We're talking about illegal immigrants that have committed crimes besides illegally being in this country, and many of those crimes are violent. And the excuse is, well, there's not a lot, and well, you know, when it comes to the actual percentage, and by the way, this has been debated back and forth, but the actual percentage of American citizens actually commit more than the immigrants into this country, and it's like, that doesn't matter. They're here illegally. If they commit a crime, cities should not be attempting to keep them in the country and releasing them back into the public. But the Democrat voter is fine with it. And many independents are fine with it. Otherwise, Democrats wouldn't be winning elections at all. So still, when you see it, when people go, well, it's great, you know, wow, this is just wild in California. You've got two Democrats, excuse me, two Republicans that are one and two here. It's really not a big deal. You're talking 31% of the population. That means 69%, almost 70, are still saying, no, we need insane Democrat leadership that is absolutely insane on the issues, that want open borders, that believe that men should be able to expose themselves to women in locker rooms. You know, when you think about it, when you think about the, as we're finding out more, and Democrats are saying, well, yeah, we sort of knew what was going on with Swalwell. Well, for God's sakes, of course, unless he gets caught and unless the rape charges are in there, they think men should be exposing themselves to women in locker rooms. Why the hell would they care if Swalwell was sexually harassing someone? And so, yeah, I mean, it would be interesting if there were two Republicans, and a Republican became governor. But still, it's only 31% of the voter in that particular poll. This isn't even a 55-45 state, or even a 60-40 at the moment. So, no, the voter, the voter that is still in California is all for the policies, the insane policies of the Democratic Party. They're for open borders. They're for massive debt. They're for the radical transgender movement of men in women's locker rooms. And men playing women's sports. They haven't changed at all. Republicans need to understand this. They haven't changed at all. I think it was, I read an article yesterday about how at Michigan, they haven't changed the DEI policies. They've just changed the name of it. They practice identity politics. Think about it. As we've said over and over again, in 2020, when we hear Democrats say, well, this country is still, racism is still the biggest problem. It is. Do you know why? Because it's been institutionalized and it's since some is, excuse me, systemic inside the Democratic Party through identity politics, where they judge people by groups and not individuals. The thing is, it's all over the place. It's plain to see. And this is why we look at Republicans and, you know, Republicans should be out there every day, every single day talking about identity politics. Every single day should be talking about the racism of the Democratic Party and the misogyny and the sexism of the Democratic Party. They should be saying it over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. And for some reason, they just don't. They seem to be lost. And yeah, it's it's frustrating. But the marketing for Republicans, we've said this now for years. For a decade. I mean, identity politics has been around since, you know, modern identity politics really since the probably late 70s, or excuse me, late 70s, really came into the forefront late 80s, early 90s, when the attacks were on, when really modern talk radio came in, and there were black conservatives and a number of them in what I call modern talk radio, which came in the late 80s. You know, very opinionated and mass across the board talk radio. That's where it started. In my opinion, that's where it started. That's where I saw it first. And they were able to get away and they still today, you know, well, if you're a cop, you're not really black. Because you can't be black and be a cop. You cannot protect, you know, you cannot protect society. You can't protect your community. And I don't mean your community is being a black community. I mean a community with all people because skin color shouldn't matter at all. We are Red Eye Radio, brought to you by Hotshot Secret.

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[16:29] We are Red Eye Radio, he is Eric Harley, and I'm Gary McNamara. Eric, as the morning off, I'm here with you for this Friday show. Coming up on the Bottom of the Hour, we did it a little bit yesterday. I wanna do it again today because I've just gotten a ton of email on it. For some reason, there's a lot of interest in it, people just wanting to know what this all means. And this is where Virginia came out and their governor Spamburger signed the national popular vote Interstate Compact and a lot of people like, what is this about? We'll explain it again coming up following the Bottom of the Hour and get into why I believe it's unconstitutional, why it is unconstitutional to begin with. And this is where, for example, and I did find out that, I forgot which election it was. I saw yesterday that Virginia, if the voters voted one way, if they would have had the Compact in for, was it the last election? Where they voted for the Democrat, that all their votes would have gone to Trump. The electors would have gone to Trump. And this is where they wish to tie their electors from the electoral college to whatever the popular vote is in the United States. So we'll tell you why that is unconstitutional. The other thing that I thought was really interesting, because this shows you the population shift. Two things that I saw yesterday, one was, and this is why we have an electoral college, there was a map out there. I don't know what, I thought I put it on my phone and I can't find where I put it. I know I saved it, but I don't know where it is, but it showed basically a map, because I wanted to post it on X. It showed a map of the United States, and then it showed just, it showed Texas, and there was a little dot in the middle, or dot in the northern part of it, and it said DFW, this is why we have the electoral college, DFW, where I'm broadcasting from, right in the middle of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, that's about 8.5 million people, the vast majority of the states in the United States, just our little community here in North Texas has more population than every one of those states. And I just, I never counted how many there were, but it was just amazing. You look at it and you're like, whoa, you go, okay, that's why we have the electoral college. But when I saw the southern map, the projected electoral college after the 2030 census, the potential outcome right now, by the way, things are moving. The GOP will pick up seven districts, seven congressional districts, the GOP will pick up, the Democrats will lose seven. Texas will pick up three. Utah will pick up one. Idaho will pick up one. Florida will pick up two. California will lose three. Illinois will lose two. And New York will lose one, right at this particular point. And there's one other Democrat state that will lose, but I can't read it, the map is too small. So, but yeah, plus seven for Republicans, minus seven for Democrats, all because of the population shift. Why? We know.

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Speaker 3:
[21:57] We are Red Eye Radio, he is Eric Harley, he has a morning off, I'm Gary McNamara, I don't. Welcome to A Friday. All right, I found the audio, and I had to listen to the entire thing, make sure there was no profanity in it. But this is, again, more evidence of the identity politics of the Democratic Party. And this goes back to the governor's race in California. And you remember a couple of weeks ago, the outrage, everybody was fine with having it, all of a sudden, uh-oh, everybody in the debate is white. Because it was done by the polling. You know, you had to reach a certain percentage. It was like, we can't have it if everybody's white. It's like, well, but that's what, and remember, you're talking about in a race right now where the Republicans of 31% and 70% goes to the Democrats. Now, it could still be where, and I don't think it will happen, but it could still be where you would have the runoff would be to Republicans. But still, 70%, 69% in the latest poll for Emerson is going to the Democrat candidates, even though Republicans are one and tied for two. But as we have stated, the Democrats believe, you know, Talarico winning the primary against Jasmine Crockett here, nobody, nobody was viewed as more popular than Jasmine Crockett. Texas Democrats don't believe, they believe only a white man can win. In California, Democrats believe that only a white man can win. How do we know? Because they tell us like this.

Speaker 8:
[23:49] We're going to talk Eric Swalwell, because unless you've been living under a rock, he was running for governor of California, and he got caught with many, many R-word allegations and even R-word under the influence, meaning the survivor was, there's a chance that her drink was spiked. We're not going to go into those details, but I am going to be honest and say that until this, I was actually supporting Swalwell, because I thought we're in this era of only freaking white straight guys can win.

Speaker 3:
[24:32] There you go. And I know it doesn't sound, you may be, I know Democrats are first saying, wait a minute, that's not Kathy Griffin. She's not screeching. That is Kathy Griffin, just so you know. I would understand though, why you would doubt the credibility and say that might be AI, but even if it's AI, it's pretty bad, because that sounded like a calm Kathy Griffin. That didn't sound normal for her. No, that actually was Kathy Griffin. So, we know that, and we know that Democrat... Look, the entire thing with...

Speaker 9:
[25:11] This is the...

Speaker 3:
[25:12] Again, it's so really incredible, the society that we live in, that the party that claims that the other party is racist consistently is open about their racism, is open about their misogyny, as open as you can possibly get, and they project it over and over again to the other side, and Republicans are like, what are we going to do today?

Speaker 9:
[25:39] Okay.

Speaker 3:
[25:40] What are we going to argue about today? Between each other. For me, it's been the most frustrating thing because of how blatant they are with it. You go back to 2024, we all know it. Walt said it. The analysis was there. I was the permission structure. As he said, Tim Walz, the white... So many rabbit holes here. The white macho Tim Walz, the masculine Tim Walz, and remember this? Remember it was a different kind of masculinity. It was the permission structure for people to vote for Kamala Harris. Now remember, a lot of that is Democrats because it was Kamala Harris in 2020 when she dropped out first. She never made it to the first primary. She got pounded in the polls. And she said, it is the racism and the sexism of the voter was the reason that she was out. That was the primary. The primary consists of overwhelming. There are some states where you can vote a different primary, but overwhelmingly, it was Democrats. I mean, probably 95% Democrats. So she was saying Democrats are sexist and racist. We know they are because they tell us that they are. But then Waltz was the permission structure. You needed a white, not only did you need a white male, you needed a white male with a new modern masculinity of jazz hands flying in the air. And that to me is what's frustrating, is they're so blatant with their racism, sexism, the misogyny of the radical transgender movement. I've never seen anything in a modern political party so blatantly misogynist. Really, since I've been around, I haven't seen anything like that. You need to get used to male genitals in the locker room. As the Charlotte Observer wrote, what was that? 10, 12 years ago? Maybe they wrote that. All right. Other stuff on the docket, because I've got a lot of questions about this this week. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Boy, I mean, this is just, again, this is just a microcosm of where the Democrats are going. Now, this is where Virginia Spanberger signed the bill that would admit Virginia into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. All right. And this is where, and it wouldn't go into effect. I don't believe it's ever going to go into effect, but it wouldn't go into effect until they got 270, till they reached 270 total electoral votes. Right now, they have 222 with Virginia being in it. And this is where it doesn't matter how the people of your state vote, whatever the popular vote is in the state, excuse me, whatever the popular vote is in the country. For example, if your state votes for your swing state, you vote for Republicans, but the entire country, or excuse me, the popular vote, votes for a Democrat, well then your electors would ignore the will of the people and go with the other states. And again, we can sit there from the very beginning and say, all right, that's obvious. Obviously, the Democrats moving away as they claim no kings, as they claim they're the party of democracy, that they're not the party of democracy. Now, the problem with it is, of course, is the Constitution. You know, it's the same thing, you know, the media, the mainstream media, the last couple of weeks. The Democrats are now the first step of the 25th Amendment. The Democrats in Congress have introduced blah, blah, blah. It means nothing. Congress doesn't get to do anything until the president's, oh, I got my blank here, until all his secretaries, until they all say he needs to go out, and then the vice president says, yeah, that's not going to happen. This is, to me, symbolic, because the Constitution isn't going to let it happen. Why? Constitution. Article 1, Section 10, the Compact Clause, prohibits states from entering into agreements or compacts with each other without the consent of Congress. Over right there. The other thing is, when, because the Democrats are saying, well, the historical precedent is that the Supreme Court upheld the state's right to allocate electoral votes by district rather than winner take all, reinforcing broad state discretion and Article 2, Section 1, which grants state legislators the power, the absolute authority to appoint electors in any manner that they choose. And that's true. Because you don't have to. There is no right for an individual to vote for president. The legislature could do it. But what this bill does that's different is it puts all presidential elections on automatic pilot. It's not that, okay, we've decided that we're going to vote this way, and the intent of the Constitution was never to ignore, ignore completely what the legislature or the people of that state would want in an individual election. Because you may pass it now and say, we're going to go whatever way the country goes, and then you have a legislature in one year that says, well, no, we don't agree with it, or the people don't agree with it. But the biggest part of it is, there is no, there cannot be a work around the Electoral College. It's that simple. The Electoral College is the system that has been set up, and it's been set up for a reason. It's set up so every state is represented in some kind of way. It's the same reason, the Electoral College is the same reason that the Senate exists, which of course, Democrats wish to get rid of the Senate, because Democrats say there should be no equal representation in the legislature, even though we have a bicameral legislature, the House and the Senate, and the House of course is appropriated by the number of people, and the Senate, everybody gets two senators, and that was done for a specific reason. The reason, that's why we went to war with Great Britain. Representation, taxation without representation. In the Senate, the Senate gives smaller states representation in the legislature. That's why it exists. I don't even know if the majority of Democrats, I would say from the ignorance that I have seen from Democrats, especially constitutionally speaking, that they would have no idea that that's why it exists. Because if we have no idea whether the Senate exists, just get rid of it. Because the founding fathers knew, if you don't have representation, that's what causes a civil war. A country will be torn apart if that happens. We are Red Eye Radio.

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Speaker 3:
[36:26] We are Red Eye Radio, he is Eric Harley, and I'm Gary McNamara. Eric has the morning off. So, yeah, so that's what the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is about. But if it ever, if they ever got to 270 and wanted to enact it, there would be massive, massive lawsuits that would, again, you know, an election's every four years to begin with. But if an election was coming up, it would be stayed. And I see that, you know, the current Supreme Court would just blow it out of the water. This would stand, this would stand no chance. You know, the country's founding is built on the electoral college, is built on the Senate, is built on the separation of powers, is built on the representation of each state. And, you know, and it's built that way for a reason, but it's built on the electoral college. If you try, you know, to detour around it, Supreme Court's not going to go for it.

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Speaker 3:
[39:05] All across America, we are Red Eye Radio. He is Eric Harley, and I'm Gary McNamara. Eric has the morning off. We are here on a Friday. And I have in front of me here the hockey playoffs are starting this weekend. And the secondary market prices are out for hockey. All right? This is the secondary market. You ready for this? All right? Just... It's one of the reasons I don't go to many sporting events anymore. At this point in my life, I can afford it. It's like, nah, not enough return on the investment. Okay, I've got my 500 inch, if I want to watch it, my 500 inch 970,000 K HD TV. Maybe I'm exaggerating just a little bit there. With the surround sound system with 427 speakers. You know, I do have a good surround sound system. I have a sona surround sound system and it's got the wireless speakers in the back and I have a very open floor plan in my house. So the TV room is open in the kitchen, you know, has like a counter and I have the two back speakers, actually on the kitchen counter, that go into that other room. And it's just, it's a wonderful setup. I can't tell you how many, especially if you're watching a baseball game or, you know, sometimes especially indoor arenas, but baseball games where it might get quiet for a little bit and somebody screams and I'll be sitting there and the cat will be sitting there. And we both turn around and look who the hell's in the kitchen. But when somebody curses, you're like, listen, and we're getting ready for the next pitch. Blankety, blankety, blank. You turn around, you think somebody's in your house. I mean, the technology is great. And there's only one payment for that one. You pay for it, you're done. But let's take a look at some of the tickets. I'm trying to look at the cheapest ticket on the secondary market for the National Hockey League playoffs. Remember, not a major sport in most of America. And I say most of America, because I'm from Buffalo. Where it is a major sport. But the Vegas Golden Knights, the cheapest playoff ticket on the secondary market, $76. The most expensive, $1,767. All right. Let's look at some other places. Dallas Stars, $83. On the secondary market, people are able to find it. Most expensive, $2,204. LA, cheapest ticket, $102. Most expensive, $1,072. All right. You look at it. Some might call it the nirvana of hockey, right? Montreal, right? The Canadians. Cheapest ticket, $292. Most expensive, $5,892. So, let me just see here. The Ottawa Senators, cheapest, $115. Most expensive, $507. They're at the low end of the most expensive ticket, the Ottawa Senators. The most expensive tickets for the first round of the NHL playoffs, Buffalo Sabres. The cheapest ticket, $464 on the secondary market. The most expensive, are you ready for this? The most expensive, $7,062. All right, who's gonna go to the Sabres game with me, huh? Well, no, unfortunately, just like whenever the Bills are in the playoffs, you know, are they gonna do a two o'clock game or I could watch it on a Saturday or I couldn't watch it anyway tomorrow. The independent Bob golf tournament is coming up. We'll talk about that in a second here, not golf, just I can't wait to see what independent Bob's gonna bring up on politics, but, you know, they play Sunday night at 730 or 630, so I'll be asleep. So like normal, I miss everything because of this show. You know, maybe I'll retire so I can watch sports. I'm kidding. Just kidding. So there you go. So there's a reason I haven't, I'm trying to think. The last NFL game I went to, I think was 2006. The last hockey game, I think I went to a NHL game, I think in like 2017. The last NBA game, 2004, maybe. Yeah, in high school games, yeah, I mean, I went to see my great nephew. And I haven't got charged the other day, he's playing in an adult league and they charge and the place was five bucks. So five bucks was okay to watch my great nephew play ball. But there you go. And you wonder why. All right. Bunch of different topics that we want to. Oh, yeah. Let's let's talk about. Let's get this out of the way. Yes, it's the I call it the independent Bob golf tournament, but it's actually his brother's tournament, Tom, who's a great guy. And it's for Make A Wish. And we do it every year. And I love it because for those of you that may be new to the show, independent Bob, I talked about a long, long time ago. When I first started, you know, doing the show, and I'd met independent Bob, I think around like 2006, when I was building my house and he lived near me. And for probably over a decade, we golfed together, became really, you know, became great friends. And then I got to know his brother and everything else. But I call him independent Bob, because he's actually more conservative Bob now. You could call him conservative Bob. In fact, a friend of mine said, are you gonna see conservative Bob? And I went, no, you still gotta call him independent Bob. And he went, what? He's still an independent? I go, well, he's more conservative. I don't know how, I don't know exactly how he voted. He lives up in Arkansas now. But I said, he has a much more conservative bent. I said, we really don't argue anymore where we used to argue all the time. And there's a story that goes back, this goes back 20 years ago. And I'll never forget, we were at the Marina Club. It was like a Friday night. And probably it was, and there's hardly anybody in there. But I know about it. I still know most people there, even though I hardly ever go, I go once a year. I don't get out much anymore. But it was, I don't know, 11, 11.30 at night, maybe close to midnight. They were getting ready to close. So Bob and I were going at it. I can't remember what it was about. So I said, well, I'm done with you. I'm out of here. I just, I'm done. And I go walking out and there's a bunch of young people, probably 20 feet away. And I walked by and the guy said, turned to me and said, you're Gary McNamara. And I said, how do you know? And he goes, I could hear you yelling. He goes, is that independent Bob? And I went, yeah. And then this goes back maybe 15 years ago. I remember walking in and the manager runs up to me and says, there's somebody here looking for you. And I just wanted to warn you, there's somebody here and I don't know, you know, what their intent is. And I said, you see them? They go, yeah, right down. There's a guy in a cowboy hat. And I said, well, he looks harmless. And so I went down and introduced myself to him. I said, hey, I hear you're looking for me. He turned and he was like, couldn't believe it. It's just like, it's so funny. As everybody will tell you in my life, I never think of myself as a talk show host until somebody calls me on it. It's like, oh yeah, that's what I do. That's right. I forgot about that. I just don't think of it. It's just so discommenting to do it. You just never think. You know people are listening, but when they actually tell you they're listening and want to meet you and want to discuss stuff with you, it's always still surreal. I love that it's still surreal. But real nice guy, a truck driver and heard me talking about the place that I used to go to all the time. So we had a great conversation. Think I bought him a beer and it was a real, real fun time. Independent Bob, we go way, way back. And so I'll get to see him tomorrow. He did call me yesterday. He was on his way. He moved up to Arkansas. So this is where we really hang out. I don't know if I'm playing in his foursome on Saturday. But it's just interesting to hear with everything going on. And I think he's almost gotten to the point where things are so crazy every day that he doesn't call me as much as he used to because I think at times, like for a lot of people it is, it becomes overwhelming. For me, it doesn't. I love it. And I don't get caught up in the what people say anymore and how outraged I am. I'm outraged by this because it's like, well, yeah, duh. Nothing that the left does surprises me. And nothing that happens on the right surprises me. And people would think that stuff, I mean, I get passionate as I did last hour because of the insanity on the left. And yeah, we criticize Republicans when we believe they should be criticized, but it's more frustration than it is shock that I can't believe this is going on. A lot of times it's more frustration because you just can't believe that the society or people, well, for me, it's wondering how people have gotten to that point of actually believing pure bull, the next word, beginning with an S. I think that's what surprises me. I just have always thought that there were more critical thinking people and that some people were at least more knowledgeable of what was going on. And I just, I'm amazed, you know, and again, dad told me decades ago that people want to be BS. But when you, when you see it and every single day and you live with it, it is not shocking to me anymore. I guess what's shocking is to the level that it's gone. I never thought, for example, a major political party would basically endorse and then create open borders and accept it. I never thought we would get to that point. I never thought that you would have a major political party promote men naked in women's locker room. And say, women just have to get used to male genitalia. And then at the same time, be outraged at sexual harassment. I just never thought we would get to the point where people would passionately endorse men competing against women and then say there's no difference between the physicality of men and women. Just never thought we'd get to that point because it's so delusional. And so to get tens, maybe hundreds of millions of people to agree to that, yeah, that may be a little, just over the top. And so with independent Bob, maybe that's why I don't hear as much from him because he used to call me probably a couple of times a week. Can you believe what they're doing? And you can see here, anybody who's in the, Alan and Ron can see me throwing my hands up in the air because Bob talks with his hands. So I expect to see that a lot. So it'll be fun to see them and hang out with them this weekend. We are Red Eye Radio.

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[54:39] We are Red Eye Radio, he is Eric Harley, he has the morning off, I'm Gary McNamara. I'm here for this Friday. Coming up on the bottom of the hour, some of Mamdani's plans in New York City. Just fascinating because the whole supermarket, this thing this week, was a huge news that we covered. And again, I know what New York City doesn't affect what happens to you, but it is the microcosm for socialism today that we're looking at. It's a way to look at, okay, what are the plans of the true communist socialist out there? What do they want to do? And can they actually do it? And so that's what makes it fascinating because it's like its own little lab, economic lab there. And who said it? I think it was George Will who said, well, every couple of decades, the American people need to understand and go through the failure of socialism. And it's just what happens. It's the ebb and flow of things. And we are in that ebb right now. I thought one of the best things I saw yesterday was the headline in the Battle on B. Ready for this? Memdani says, city-run supermarket will be ready in three years, but recommends getting in line for bread now. But the supermarket, I mean, it's just... And I wonder when he puts out the figures and numbers, whether he understands himself, whether he has any clue that it's not going to work. I think that there might have been maybe just a little inkling that he does when they came out, when he came out and they said, well, everything isn't going to be low priced, only a basket full of things that are necessary. And the one thing I asked Eric the other day, I said, you know, you look at the growth of supermarkets. I think it's supermarkets when I was, you know, in the 70s, 60s and 70s when I grew up. And you think of what supermarkets have become, depending on where you live across the country, whether it's the, you know, the monster, you know, mega supermarkets, the way, you know, where I come from, up in the Northeast, the Wegmans, the Tops, down here, the HEBs, even, you know, Kroger, you know, the huge bakery sections that they have and everything else. And it's really gonna be fascinating to see what they come up with here. But it's just, it's amazing when you think, because the story that came out this week, in case you're just tuning in, was that for the five they're gonna open up, they budgeted 70 million, you know, for the, you know, basically what they need, the capital, to get them open. And the first store is already at 30 million. And it's another three years from opening. And apparently what they're saying is they've already spent 30 million on it. It's gonna cost, well, it's gonna cost them 30 million to get it open now. But it's not gonna be open for three years. And that cost has skyrocketed. Where the average supermarket, the average large supermarket, that's twice as large as we went through the other day, the, you know, to open those up, and that includes the working capital and emergency capital for the first year of opening is three and a half million. And you're like, do they know it's not going to work? Do they actually know it and still going ahead with it anyway?

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[59:26] And I'm Gary McNamara, he's Eric Harley, he has the morning off. Download our Red Eye Radio app today, and you can listen when and where you choose. All right, this is the Friday show, so we've got to clean off the desk. So much going on that there are stuff that we didn't get a chance to get to that we want to make sure we get to. This is Mitt Romney this week. Mitt Romney this week on Republicans and more.

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[59:55] I can't remember who, I think it was Bill Clinton, who said it's the economy stupid. I think today it's the culture stupid. I think, my own view is Democrats have staked out some positions, or a number of Democrats have, that don't make a lot of sense to everyday Americans. Defund the police? It's like, are you kidding? You think that's going to sell in cities? Defund the police? Biological males competing in girl sports? That doesn't make any sense at all. Open borders, people flooding into the country, people saying, what in the world are you doing? Democrats were doing some absolutely, in my opinion, just crazy stuff, and that caused a lot of everyday Americans to say, I used to be a Democrat, but I can't put up with that stuff and they became Republicans. I think the Democratic Party is in a world of hurt, in part because of their posture on so many of these social issues.

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[60:47] And what about the Republican Party? Do you feel like where they are, I mean, do you feel like on immigration, I mean, there's a lot of policies where people would say they are extreme in their own way, and does that?

Speaker 15:
[60:58] Well, both parties are creating their own problems. I think what the president did to secure our border is wisely done and very popular. I think some of the ICE actions throughout Minnesota and other places is seen by people as being unnecessarily brutal, and has hurt the president's popularity. So some things I think the president's done that make a lot of sense that are politically attractive, other things I think are more harmful. Look, I have a list of things where I agree with President Trump, and it's a good long list. Then I have a list of things where I disagree with him, but I understand his logic.

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[61:36] There you go, Mitt Romney. And if Eric was here, Eric would say, wow, he didn't seem as robotic. He sort of lays out the midterms there. And it's what we've talked about, is how important will the economic issues be? Now, it was two things that defeated Byte, open borders and inflation. You look at, oh, was it, oh, was Harry Enton yesterday was talking about how of all the presidents in the 21st century, all of them, Trump has the best numbers of older people. And they're the ones that vote. Let me just see here, here, okay, here it is from from CNN over here, over the, I think it was yesterday.

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[62:39] Because President Trump is more than holding his own amongst a very large portion of the electorate, a very reliable voting block, and that is senior citizens. Take a look here, okay, Trump's approval rating age 65 plus, and March of 2025, 46%. Look at where it is now. It's basically the same. Seniors have not moved. He's at 44% now, and the key nugget here is, for all this talk about young people in the electorate, such as myself, or at least I like to include myself in that block, it turns out that older voters, senior citizens vote in far larger numbers. So Republicans look at this number and they say, hey, you know what, we can actually potentially do some real damage, or at least hold our own in the midterms, because President Trump is holding his own with this very important voting block.

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[63:26] So how does that number 44% compare historically to other presidents?

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[63:29] Okay, this is where it gets even more interesting. It turns out if you look at all the 21st century second-term presidents, and you look at senior citizens, Trump actually has the best approval rating at this point in the second term of all of them. Donald Trump at 44%, Obama was under 40% at 39%, George W. Bush was way down there at 34%. So Donald Trump is beating other presidents this century, at this point in their second term, beating all of them, and therefore, as I said, holding his own amongst a very key voting bloc. The President of the United States and the White House should like this number, especially compared to Obama, who Trump, of course, always likes to beat.

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[64:13] I don't know how he threw that in there. And that's, like I said, the hope for Republicans is the Democrats. I think that's the best hope that they have. We brought this up yesterday with the inflation numbers, and we didn't hear a lot of commentary on it because of gas prices. But the other numbers, again, it's just one month, and we don't make a judgment on anything based on a month. You give us six months, then there starts to be a pattern. But inflation, there were some things that were below the 2% Fed goal. What really brought that number up for inflation was gas prices. But you get some kind of, you know, ceasefire here. And excuse me, not ceasefire. You get some sort of agreement here with the Iranians, and you get the nuclear material out. I know right now that the public doesn't like the war. You get the victory, everything changes at that moment. Everything changes. Because historians, people will have to admit, I'm not Democrats, but there will be, you'll see it. It'll be publicized. You know, if he does that, he has brought security and a much more likely chance of peace in the Middle East over the next couple of decades, which no other president has been able to do. And that will be good. The only thing that I see right now that has, that hurt the president is prices. That's it. But the good thing for the president there is all the polls are showing, people don't believe the Democrats will do any better. And then when you see what's going on in all these different states, because it is being publicized, when you see Hokel, when you see, you know, okay, we need to raise more taxes, when you see Mondani, the things that he's coming up with, these things make the news. When you see the situation in California, you know, with their deficit that they're having, when you see the number of states that are liberal, and the taxes that they are initiating, I've just seen in the last week, you know, when you look at, for example, the state income tax, we talked about it yesterday, the state income tax, and the difference to tens of thousands of dollars that the middle class are being taxed for it. And finally, you're seeing news outlets come out and talk about the fact that, well, you know, all the great socialist programs they talk about in Europe, the middle class pays a lot more in federal taxes than we do here in the United States. And then when you break it down over and over again, as we did, you know, that 40% in the latest tax analysis, that 40% of the population pays nothing, or excuse me, 40% of income earners pay nothing to get money back from the IRS. And the public is saying, well, we've got, the taxes are too high right now. Taxes are too high. After every, think about this. After all the tax cuts that Trump has put in and the Democrats are complaining about, the public still believes that taxes are too high. As we continue to increase spending, really interesting article that I was reading yesterday, breaks down the numbers that we brought to you before. Jim Garrity's, why your taxes are never enough for the federal government. And he talks about how tax revenue, we have more tax revenue coming in now. I don't know what that will be when all the rebates and the interest are paid back on the tariffs, when they have to go back. But in fiscal 2024, the US government collected $79.1 billion. Let me see, that's in tariffs in fiscal 2025, which included the first year, Trump's second term. That jumped to almost $195 billion. In fiscal 2026, the US government has collected $144 billion. Still tariffs and custom duties represent a small slice of the money. And that's going back anyway with interest paid. That's going to end up being in that negative to begin with. But as I say, if the US government's revenue by itself were the gross domestic product, it would be the third largest in the world. With record tax revenues, you think we might have a manageable deficit this year? Because even besides tariffs, revenues are going up. Nope. You'd be wrong. The US government does not have a problem with revenue. It is a problem without a controlled spending. We are on pace for a $1.6 trillion federal deficit this fiscal year. The US government has spent about $3.6 trillion so far this year. That sum is $84 billion higher than the same time period last year. We spent $7 trillion last year, and the Congressional Budget Office projects that the US government will spend about $7.4 trillion this year. So we'll spend another $400 billion this year. And they talk about the interest. The interest that went from $391 billion to now $1.3 trillion, which is $600 billion right there. We've said it already. They're gonna have to skyrocket the budget, or they're gonna have to make cuts because of interest. Just the interest is being paid, and it keeps getting greater and greater and greater and greater. And there is no consensus in Congress because there's no consensus in the country to do anything about the debt. None. The poll that came out showed that the majority of the country is completely ignorant about the debt problem in this country. They know debt's bad. But when it comes to how do we solve the problem completely ignorant, they have no idea what the hell they're talking about. None. Zero. Because the majority of the country says if we get rid of waste and inefficiency, which they'll never do because you don't in a monopoly, and that's what the federal government is, they're a monopoly, it's impossible to do that. You can try, you're not going to do it. And foreign aid, and every other item, a majority of Americans, majority of Americans believe more money should be spent on it, that the only thing that should be cut is foreign aid, and even President Trump. If you're not going to get it out of President Trump, and Trump said it when he ran, we're going to get rid of foreign aid. And he was questioned, why are you giving off this foreign aid? Well, we're giving out foreign aid the right way. Look, I'm not saying that foreign aid isn't necessary. I'm just telling you what the public is saying, and the fact that, yeah, we use foreign aid to influence countries. And it's an extremely small part of the actual federal budget that's not going to solve any of the problems. And everything else, we're like, nope, it's fine, and we're going to spend more money on it, we're going to borrow it, and we don't care. So there is no consensus in Congress. People go, why isn't Congress doing anything? The people aren't complaining. What kind of protest we have in this country? That we are an imaginary monarchy. We have delusional protests now. Let's get rid of the monarchy! Or a constitutional republic that specifically has the three branches of government, so power cannot accumulate in one branch. We are the complete opposite of any type of monarchy. Well, we're going to... Delusional! Let's do delusional protest! Let's take our delusions! Let's smoke pot that's ten times stronger than in the 60s! And they were delusional on the concept that there's actually something called free love. Nothing is free, not even love. We're smoking stuff that's ten times more potent. Let's pretend we're in a monarchy and protest on that. Idiots! We are Red Eye Radio.

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[73:42] We are Red Eye Radio. He is Eric Harley. He has the morning off. I'm Gary McNamara. I'm here. Just reading your Jonathan Turley, drawing the analogy. Eric and I did it the other day about Swalwell's current position to Hunter Biden. It turns out the comparison is broader than we thought. Hunter's sugar brother, I guess it's what they're calling out, sugar brother, Kevin Morse also supported Swalwell. We're talking about, where do these, where do these, I have to say it because of Kathy Griffin. We got, in order to win, we're told we have to support white men. All these white men apparently have sugar brothers. But the New York Post story that Biden, Hunter Biden is not out of the country hiding somewhere. Hunter Biden hiding out from $20 million debts at Luxury California Estate, not South Africa. It's a ruse is the headline. Hunter Biden is hiding from his creditors in California, avoiding paying over 20 million he owes to various people. The New York Post has learned. So we found another sugar brother?

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