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Speaker 1:
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Speaker 2:
[00:35] Now, it's Red Eye Radio. Gary McNamara and Eric Harley talk about everything from politics to social issues and news of the day. Whether you're up late or you're just starting your day, welcome to the show from the Relief Factor Studios. This is Red Eye Radio.

Speaker 3:
[00:54] All across the USA, we are Red Eye Radio. He is Eric Harley, he has the morning off. I'm Gary McNamara. I'm here. And just happened to see this here, just scanning during the top of the hour. And I thought it was really interesting because this is from a Democrat, former advisor to Bill Clinton, former advisor to Bill and Hillary Clinton. Iran's schizophrenia too. As was suggested, Iran's leadership has splintered and is typical, which is, as is typical when the top leadership is gone. The old revolutionary fundamentalist leadership was taken out and you have some who wanna make a deal and then you have the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which should not be confused with the mullahs. They are just plain old military dictators who have the guns and think that they will be thrown overboard in any deal. They either have to preserve some power in a deal or be decisively defeated. Likelihood is that there will be another round of fighting here, but nothing is certain. They know they can only strike out at the world economy, but face certain defeat with no air cover if the president goes all out here. The media remains in its negative spin all the time, and the Europeans continue to show their worthlessness as allies in the battle against Iran. Do not take anything the president takes as face value, as disinformation is a key strategy at defeating Iran. We talked about that earlier in the show, saying that you're talking to two audiences. One audience is again your enemy, but the other audience, if you look at some of the polling on the war, the Americans aren't looking too favorably at it. A lot of the messaging the president's putting out is directed towards the enemy, but the media uses it as its consumption for the American public. And we said from the very beginning, don't pay attention to a lot of what you hear because there is disinformation. Now, when the president talks about the golden era of Iran and the great economic things that could come out of it and that Iran wants a deal, I believe that's been taken negatively by some Americans because they're like, we don't know what victory is, we don't know one day the president's up, one day the war is over, the next day it's back again. What's going on? As I've said, if you can define a clear win here, which I believe probably a clear win would be that the American public believes that Iran is no longer a nuclear threat, I think the American public will look pretty favorably about what has happened. But he said, don't take anything the president takes at face value, as disinformation is a key strategy at defeating Iran. But the basic strategy remains, continue to step up economic and military pressure until they buckle one way or another. And the schizophrenia of Iran now is just another phase in the collapse of a regime that still cannot turn on the Internet for fear of real communications and continues to suppress the will of its people with heinous acts of mass executions on the streets and in the gallows. And we said that's the one thing that's been going on here with the media even over the weekend. President gonna commit a war crime. President gonna commit a war crime. Well, it wouldn't be a war crime even if you took out bridges and power plants. Because as we all know, they are all used for military purposes. And there is no international law that disagrees with that. And as for Democrats wanting to Iran, wanting Iran to win or putting out the propaganda that Iran is winning, that's delusional. But that's where we are right now. But I wanted to, I just thought it was interesting. Because that's Mark Penn. He's a Democrat. Hey Drivers, Eric Harley here for Catscale. You probably already know you can get guaranteed accurate weights when you weigh on a Catscale. But did you know that you get those same guaranteed weights much faster when you use the Weigh My Truck app? Simply pay, weigh and get back on the road. It's that easy. Look for the iconic black and gold Catscale sign at truck stops and travel plazas nationwide. And remember, weigh what we say or we pay. Guaranteed. Go online to create an account. Watch the helpful tutorial and download the Weigh My Truck app today. Check out weighmytruck.com to save time on the road. That's weighmytruck.com. Do it today. That's weighmytruck.com.

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[06:59] All right, a couple of other stories here. I saw this story and went, what's the logic? Senator Chuck Schumer has called on FIFA to cover the full rail cost for New Yorkers attending the World Cup as New Jersey Transit train ticket prices are set for 150 bucks to get to MetLife Stadium for matches. Schumer released a statement on Sunday, calling for them to pay the full fare, which is astronomically higher than the regular cost to travel from Penn Station to the Meadowlands. So the New Jersey government jacked up the prices to 150 bucks. And Schumer is screaming insane, the soccer outfit should pay for it. Now remember, cities from all over the world bid for World Cup Soccer because of the economic benefits they believe that come from it. And so yeah, the economic benefits may come to New York and New Jersey and hotels, or excuse me, New York, probably parts of New Jersey, and hotels and everything else. But New Jersey wants to make a ton of money on this. They want to gouge the people that are in for the World Cup. But I just find it fascinating that the whole purpose of bringing them in is for economic benefit. That's why cities and states and countries bid for it. They want the economic benefit. Hey, come on. It's soccer. But apparently people around the world care about soccer. And so they're willing to come here for these games. And then the communities will benefit from it. This is where liberalism is going right now, whether it's Kathy Hochul. All right, let's get the people that have second homes in New York but don't live here. All right, let's get the people. That's the only place they can go now. They can't raise taxes on the people, so they're trying to find anybody that they can tax. All right, you're coming in for the soccer games. We're going to tax you. A ticket that's normally 12 bucks is going to be 150. And then Schumer comes back and says, the World Cup organization should pay for it. Wait a minute. They didn't cause the increase. New Jersey did. It's just hilarious. The New Jersey Transit CEO defended the Fair Hikes on Friday, saying the ultimate cost to the company should not burden New Jersey commuters. Well, are New Jersey commuters going to be hit with it or just how do you know? So, there you go. Schumer argued it's unfair for New Yorkers to have to deal with the price hike, especially considering that the World Cup soccer organization is eliminating parking at MetLife Stadium. Also, parking at the nearby American Dream Mall is $225. Well, walking access is being prohibited as well. In turn, mass transit is effectively the only way in or out of the stadium on match days. Well, the whole point is, is for the economic benefit around MetLife, right? That's why they took it to begin with. The economic benefit for New York and New Jersey. That's why they all wanted it there. They all bid for it, right? FIFA didn't come in and just say, no, we're ordering MetLife Stadium to take these games. Damn it. You have no choice. No, they willfully said we want it. So Schumer is furious. He doesn't go after New Jersey. He just says the World Cup organization should pay for it. I don't think that's going to happen. So there you go. I just find that's just, oh my, oh my, oh my, just hilarious. In other news, Harvard's recent great inflation controversy has renewed concerns about how many students are receiving top marks, but some professors say the deeper problem in higher education isn't just inflated A's, it is the quiet disappearance of failing grades. Hollis Robbins, a former dean and professor of English at the University of Utah, told the College Fix, the larger problem may be what happens to low grades before they ever appear on the transcript. Robbins says she hears from professors and lecturers across the country that they are under pressure from deans, not to fail students who are at risk. In a post on X, responding to a report about sinking academic standards, Robbins wrote that universities will not let professors fail any students because they will lose tuition dollars. When she was a dean at Sonoma State University, she told the college fix, she noticed, the resources being marshaled to identify students at risk of failure and to prevent the failure because their job is just to keep a warm body in there because you pay the tuition. While there are certainly good and socially responsible reasons for supporting students at risk of failing to public institutions, when the taxpayer is subsidizing the education, I have long seen the pressure put on faculty members not to give a student an F even if the student deserved it. Her comments come amid concerns about grading standards, especially at elite universities. In November, the fix highlighted a 25 page report from Harvard's Office of Undergraduate Education warning that the university's grading system is damaging the academic culture of the college. According to the report, 60% of undergraduate grades are now A's. Concerns about grade inflation are not limited to the Ivy League. At Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, recently released data shows a 0.15 point increase in the mean grade given in courses across all three of the college's academic divisions over the past 20 years, according to the student newspaper. Robin said, faculty are often nudged towards alternatives that keep failing grades off the books. A student, if they are failing sometimes, are allowed to withdraw from the class instead. Faculty are told repeatedly that the failure of a student is the faculty's failure. She tried that pressure to rankings and retention. Universities are ranked by graduation rate and retention rate, so every student who fails lowers the ranking of the university, Robin said, adding that the pressure on the faculty takes the form of constant reminders that any student failure puts the entire college or university at risk of a loss of a ranking and prestige. So what they're saying is, we need to lie about the performance of our students and we need to lie bigger in order to pretend that we are a prestigious university with a lot of young people that legitimately get a great education when in essence, it's going in the opposite direction and we can't let you know that. Am I right on that? Did I miss anything? We need to keep the pretend prestige that we are an elite education institution even though we're moving in the opposite direction. Now I guess this is for courses that really don't make the world go round. Because if you're graduating a ton of engineers that are really should be failed and they're getting B's and A's, you're going to have a problem out there in the real world, aren't you? Some of the other stuff, probably not. But in real world activities, where you need to produce things and create things, we always talk about the people that need to get things 100% right and then the people that can get things 100% wrong like government officials, and we tell them you run society while the private sector needs to get it 100% right or they're sued or people die. Pretty screwed up, isn't it? We are Red Eye Radio. Brought to you by FPPF, Fuel Power Max.

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Speaker 2:
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Speaker 3:
[19:27] We are Red Eye Radio, he is Eric Harley, and I'm Gary McNamara. You know, it's interesting reading that story about professors saying they're under pressures at elite universities not to give Fs. Looking at it from a student's point of view, when I was in high school, and I mentioned this, I mentioned it before many times, even in my senior year, I remember cheating. Yep. Then came college and I had to pay for it. Completely different ballgame. It was my money. I was paying for my college. Changed completely. I've told my story about the college loan I took out and then put it in the bank for four years. And then right before I had to pay, you know, start paying, making payments on it with the interest, I paid the whole thing off. I used it to my benefit. I actually did. Now, I worked a couple of jobs and went to college. I worked over 50 hours a week when I was going to college and went to college full time. And so once I was paying for it, my whole attitude changed. I didn't want to skate through. I wanted to learn something because that's what I was paying for. I was paying to learn things. And I'd get angry at teachers. You know, that's part of it, too. If young people aren't paying for their educations, if their parents are paying for it, what value is it? Education became valuable to me when I had to pay for it. I had to work to pay for the education. I just didn't want the grade. I wanted to see when I got to college how it related to the real world. And then after college, I realized how much money I wasted on college.

Speaker 2:
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Speaker 3:
[21:58] And I'm Gary McNamara, along with Eric Harley, who has the morning off. All right, so after Rahm Emanual's appearance, former Obama advisor on Bill Maher, is he running for president now? Here's part of the back and forth, all right, because this all relates to what happened late last week where Senator Mark Kelly has signed up 32 Senate Democrats to repeal the school choice tax credits. All right, this is where taxpayers can get a credit up to $1,700 for donations to scholarship organizations that fund tuition for children to attend the school of their choice. Mark Kelly and 32 Democrats now have signed up to repeal it. He claims the scholarships take money out of public schools and give to private ones. No, they don't. They take no state money at all. None. Zero. He's making that up. The Democratic Party is not for school choice. So, here they are talking about education. This is Bill Maher with Rahm Emanual on Friday night. Here we go.

Speaker 5:
[23:22] What you're doing... Does that include the teachers union? Because that's the Democrats' biggest constituency.

Speaker 3:
[23:27] You just went on a rant about how bad the education system is.

Speaker 5:
[23:30] Rahm knows something about this.

Speaker 3:
[23:32] You're going to have to take on that group in the Democratic Party.

Speaker 5:
[23:36] Are you willing to do that? I have a record that showed that I took... We had the shortest school day and the shortest school year in the United States of America, which was in the city of Chicago. And I finally got him a full school day.

Speaker 3:
[23:47] Okay, now that's what he talks about. You got him a full school day. Not sure exactly what he's precisely talking about. Did education improve? No. That wasn't the question. Does he want to give the monopoly of public schools? Does he wish to continue that monopoly? Because the other point that Bill Maher brought up is this one here. It was on the Radical Transgender Movement, but he was trying to make a point here. Here's it. Let's go.

Speaker 5:
[24:15] He sounds a lot like you.

Speaker 3:
[24:17] He sounds a lot like this Democrat I wish would come forward and not wilt. We'll see if he wilts, because everybody wilts. I only see wilting so far. I hear a lot of this stuff, and then I see wilting.

Speaker 5:
[24:28] Okay, here's what-

Speaker 3:
[24:29] And that's the point. They say one thing, but when they get in office, they do another. As we have seen, for example, Spanberger is a perfect example of that in Virginia. Say, here's what I'm going to do, and does the opposite. And that's what Democrats, that's what they're looking to do, and that's why, if Rahm Emanual would run, you know, we talked about this last week, the identity politics, the Democrats are bluntly saying, we've got to have a white male in order to win. So we need a white male to sell the insanity, but here's more from Bill Maher.

Speaker 6:
[25:00] This is why people like it.

Speaker 3:
[25:01] Did I use a wilt?

Speaker 5:
[25:02] I don't remember.

Speaker 3:
[25:03] We'll say, well, you know what, they asked you about the trans thing and you said you were the only one who said, you know, basic what? No.

Speaker 5:
[25:12] No, but then you said, and I'm going to get killed by this.

Speaker 3:
[25:15] I won't get into it.

Speaker 5:
[25:15] Okay, I don't need to hear that. I don't need to hear that. You know, don't, just, what?

Speaker 4:
[25:21] I don't hear, you're going to get killed by my old people.

Speaker 2:
[25:24] Just say it and own it. That's it, okay.

Speaker 3:
[25:28] Just say it and own it. And again, you can see it in his face. It's like painful for him to say, no, I'm not going to go for that. You can see it's pain. You can see the pain in his face. He didn't want Bill Maher to bring that up. He was like, okay, I said that a while back, but let's not bring it up again. I don't want people to know about it. But that hit me over the weekend, both that and then the Mark Kelly story, because I'm looking for any evidence that Democrats truly want to change, and I don't see it. The Democrats wish to moderate at all. You know, we talked about the Liberal Patriot and Roy Teixeira, who put it together. And if you've been a long time listening to the show, you know we've read his stuff, because it was point on as to what's wrong with the Democratic Party. They had a close up shop about three weeks ago, lost all their donors. Donors said, no, we can't have you saying this stuff anymore. Everybody has to basically get in line with the insanity. And he was point by point right on everything from identity politics to the radical transgender movement, to the border, everything that is a problem for the Democrats. Everything where they hold insane ideas is what he would bring up as a lifelong Democrat. Sorry, can't do that anymore. And school choice is like voting, is like a voter ID. It's got the same count of numbers. And the interesting thing is when Rahm Emanual says, see we have long memories here. When Rahm Emanual says, you know, he didn't say he would take on. Bill Maher asked him, will you take on the, will you take on the school, the unions? He didn't say take them on. He simply said, I help expand education from being basically part-time where there was a full day of class now. And I'm like, you mean a union, was the union keeping that or was that just the Chicago School District? But understand that under Rahm Emanual, it was Obama that really did everything he could to stop school choice. His Department of Justice went after, what was it, in Louisiana, went after the school choice program, the state school choice program. Not federal dollars weren't being used. They went after it for being discriminatory. They eventually dropped it because of the pressure inside from Louisiana from so many minorities who voiced their outrage because they loved the fact that they were getting a choice of education for their children. That easy. They loved it. Everybody understands choice except Bernie Sanders. Oh, I did see that over the weekend. Mum Donnie Mart. The Mum Donnie Marts. Oh, and we'll have to, did I have that here? Because that's also about choice. I found out that the one that's supposed to cost 30 million dollars, I wonder if, like, less than a three-minute way of walk is a supermarket that has produce and everything else. He said that, and there was the study on New York City saying New York City is not a food desert. Really interesting stuff coming up as they actually examine those things. But I just thought that it was, just get back to this here for a moment, that school choice is one of those things that has landslide numbers for one of the main constituency of the demographics of the Democratic Party that have voted Democrat, which is minorities. And there's Mark Kelly there, saying, Oh, you know, nope. And lies about the fact of why he won't do it. No, no federal tax credit, because it will take away money for students, because it doesn't take away any state money. This is all federal. It has nothing to do with the state at all. Doesn't matter. He doesn't have any way to justify it, except lying about it. I'm an astronaut, and therefore I am of a higher morality and credibility. I will not lie, because I'm a scientist, and I'm an astronaut. Stop the BS, Mark.

Speaker 2:
[30:50] I'm an astronaut.

Speaker 3:
[30:53] And just like... It's like when he was on the Artemis 2 launch, someone said... He voted against all the funding for this, by the way. He voted against the funding that actually funded all of this. He's out there promoting all of it. It's like, yeah. All right. But as the Wall Street Journal writes on it, enter Mr. Kelly, who claims a scholarship, takes money out of public schools and gives to private one. Sigh. They write, the tax credits take no state money. They are credit off an individual's federal tax liability. This looks like a flat-out pander to the country's two main teacher unions, as Mr. Kelly likely prepares to run for president. The National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers want to kill the tax credits because they promote competition for their monopoly over public schools. You think, you actually believe, anybody is foolish enough to believe that the Obama surrogate, Obama, who went after school choice with the full approval of Rahm Emanual as his chief of staff believed that Rahm Emanual would stand up to the school unions? Please. That isn't going to happen. It's gonna be one of those weeks again. Anything going on with Swalwell? Oh, I heard what? Taxpayer-funded stuff for liquor? I saw that one. I don't have the story in front of me here, but apparently, not taxpayer, excuse me, campaign funds. You know what I was thinking about that the other day, how they spend their campaign money? Seriously, if you ran for office, wouldn't you view every campaign dollar? If I'm gonna run for political office, especially if I'm gonna run at that level, I'm gonna use my campaign, I'm gonna make sure that my campaign money is spent so efficiently because my only goal is to win. Odds are I probably can afford the stuff that I wish to do, and if it's a legitimate campaign expense for the things that I want to do, yeah. But am I gonna be blowing money for a ton of liquor? Well, I guess you're running for federal office, because the next thing I'm thinking, well, let's have an edible party for all of our donors. I guess it's still technically illegal on the federal level. But no, that's the last thing, because I'd want as much of that money to go into the actual campaigning and advertising. But yeah, I saw that story on Swalwell. Oh, and in Texas here, the other story is Abbott going after those states, the sanctuary city states, and states that aren't. It was interesting because I saw Gregg Abbott over the weekend when there comes to police and sanctuary cities and all this. And Gregg Abbott, the governor, wrote this editorial over the weekend. These editorial writers can't read or think. The state did not force, this is Austin on the money for the police department. The state didn't force Austin or other cities into a contract. The city signed a contract to get money from the state. After they got the money, the cities refused to comply with the contract terms. Those terms include the requirement that the cities repay the state all of the money they got if they don't comply with the contract. Enforcement of the contract doesn't defund the police. I signed a law preventing defunding the police under the law. The cities that still have to fully fund the police, they just have to find other funds in their budgets to pay for it. If cities don't like the contract terms, they should have never entered into it. By the way, the contract is just one page with clear requirements and consensus for failing to comply. As to the local control, entering into a contract was a local decision. Breaching the contract is a local decision. If you agree to get money and then you say, no, we're not going to use it for the police for this or the police aren't going to cooperate with the state or whatever in any way, sorry, you lose the money. You're the one making all of the decisions. You're the local government. You made the decision to take the money and abide by the contract. We are Red Eye Radio.

Speaker 2:
[35:53] We'll be right back with more Red Eye Radio with Eric Harley and Gary McNamara.

Speaker 3:
[36:11] We are Red Eye Radio, I'm Gary McNamara, Eric has the morning off. Okay, I found the story about the robot running. It was a half marathon. A humanoid robot that won a half marathon race for robots in Beijing ran faster than the human world record. The winner, a Chinese smartphone maker, completed the 21 kilometer 13 mile race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, according to the post from the Beijing Economic Technological Development Area, where the race kicked off. That was faster than the human world record holder. The performance by the robot marked a significant step forward from last year's inaugural race. But the competition, which was held alongside a race for humans, wasn't without hiccups. One robot fell flat on his face in the starting line, and another bumped into a barrier. But there you go, robots are now running half marathons. So it was actually pretty cool watching the robot run. That video was excellent.

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