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Speaker 1:
[00:07] 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 2:
[00:26] All across America. We are Red Eye Radio. I'm Gary McNamara. Eric has the morning off. All right. So from the sports scenes. From the sports, I'm cheating scene. We haven't talked about this. The Patriots coach, Mike Vrabel, speaks out after photos of him kissing the NFL reporter, Leek. And this was, again, whatever. Someone asked me, one of my friends asked me, what do you think about this? And I said, well, when I think about it is, what's going to happen now is it's going to get so bad because he was trying to protect his family. He was trying to protect himself because the New York Post was saying we have other pictures. And he was saying, you know, we'll get to that here in just a moment. The conclusion of this is he's not going to coach New England. They're going to hire former Bills coach Sean McDermott. They're going to win four Super Bowls in a row. And we Buffalo fans will just, you know, cry for the next 10 years. No, but this is what got me. New England Patriots head coach, this from Fox, Mike Vrabel took questions about his recent decision to step away from the team and a series of photo leaks that appeared to show him engaging in romantic and personal moments with former New York Times athletic reporter, Dianna Russini. Vrabel will miss multiple days of the NFL draft. In the hours that followed that announcement, photos appeared that showed him and her kissing at a bar that were published by the New York Post and were reportedly taken six years ago. Last Thursday, TMZ published photos of them at a casino. Vrabel said, My previous actions don't meet the standard that I hold myself to. My priorities are my family and this football team in that order. And there is a balance there that I'm going to create. At the end of the news conference, he was asked to explain why. He initially made a statement calling photos of him and Zini at an Arizona resort laughable after they were published by the New York Post earlier in April. He said, That's a private and personal matter. I don't think that those, I don't think that those comments, well, it was an attempt to protect my family. No, it was an attempt to protect yourself. Oh my gosh, I just love, I love when people cheat. And then immediately they go, I'm very much concerned about my family. That's a load of BS. The other thing in sports, it just seems like it's growing and growing and growing. And it really started from Brendan Carr of the FCC, about the NFL. And if you wanna watch the games, and I forgot what the amount is, if you wanna be able to catch every game, it's like over a thousand bucks, whatever. And they're talking about, you know, he's talking about removing their antitrust exemption. And they actually do have a point, because the antitrust exemption was to protect and ensure that, you know, way, way back when that the NFL stayed on free TV. And so they can actually make a case and just say, okay, the antitrust exemption is gone, which means, you know, apparently, they wouldn't be able to share TV revenue between each team equally, because that's what they do, they share it. And that would be viewed as collusion. And so in order to avoid that, you know, that's what they, you know, that's what they did. And if you did that, if you just set each teams on their own and can sell on their own, you probably get what you get in Major League Baseball, where you've got the top teams and you have the bottom teams because of payroll, there's such a massive difference between the large and small markets. I said this a while back and I can actually afford it. You know, at my age and where I am and how I've saved the nickels and dimes, I could afford season tickets to whomever I wanted. I don't see the return on the investment. That's simple, it's gotten too expensive. And it's just the way I'm billed, I don't care. I could be a billionaire and still look at something and go, no, no, no, it's not worth that. I'm not going to pay that for it. But it just, and maybe I'm just getting older and maybe it's because, you know, cause I'm really, I just don't watch as much sports anymore. And actually with my home teams because they've been so disappointing, it's actually easier for me not to watch when they lose, it's great when they win. I can't handle the losses anymore. But as for, you know, I used to arrange my schedule around watching sports and I just don't, I just don't anymore. Maybe part of it, I was talking to Eric about it one time and I said, maybe it's because, because of doing the show, since the Internet has come around. Because and I think there was some radio, radio conference and somebody was talking about this, I forgot who it was. And they were talking about the fact that doing a talk radio show, you know, 25 years ago was completely different. You gathered all the newspapers and everything else. You gathered your five newspapers in the morning. If there was an afternoon thing, you might scan it. But that was it. Really, a lot of new news didn't break with specific details. Now you're doing it 24-7. I was talking to my neighbor about it yesterday. And he told me, he said, he goes, you're home a lot. And I said, doing show prep all the time. You wake up, you never stop. It's 24-7. And it is addicting. And I told him, I said, he said, every day, he goes, gotta be a lot of pressure. I said, no, it's like a drug. I love doing it. As soon as I wake up, I love, it feels like I'm, it feels like I need a hit of the news. Can I get a news bong? I have no idea. People do bongs anymore. But it's just, as soon as I wake up, phone's in my hand, I'm scanning everything. And I just love, and maybe that's, talking to Eric, I go, maybe that's what's taken just, not my love of sports, but just in the priority, what I love doing, this has just taken over because I've done it so long.

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[08:21] But I just found it was interesting on social media this week, people saying, all sports should be free. Someone actually wrote, there should be a law dictating that all sports should be available and be free for everybody. Really? Now, I view it a little bit different. As much as I believe that sports brings communities together, the big leagues are about making money. It's a business and I understand that. And I know that I used to have the Sunday ticket. I got rid of it, I don't know, maybe, I forgot, seven, eight, nine, 10 years ago. And I used to have the, I will have occasionally, it depends, like I have it right now. I have ESPN Plus that you can do monthly. And I have because of the Masters. Couple of weeks ago, my hockey team is doing great. They don't play all the games, but they play the majority of them. I don't know, now with the playoffs, I don't think they do now. So I make it now that the Masters is over, I'll probably, since I can do that monthly, what is it, like seven bucks or nine bucks? And if I can watch four or five games, I'm like, well, that's worth it. Especially if it's out of mark games that you want to watch, or the early rounds of the golf majors. But I'll probably drop it. Now that there's nothing coming up, I'll see if the, when's the PGA Championship coming up? That's coming up soon. I'll see if ESPN's covering some of that. But I just, you know, I'm not gonna pay, what was it? It's gotta be like close to $500 for the NFL Sunday tickets. Like, no, I'm not gonna do that. It's just the return on the investment just isn't there. But yeah, people are screaming. They're screaming out there in social media. Sports should be free. But even the NHL playoffs are all over the place. I don't think they're on ESPN+. What are they on? TNT, ES, yes, ESPN, not ESPN+. ESPN, TNT, which also was on HBO Max, which you can get streaming. But I haven't watched any of the games because they're all being played when I'm asleep. So I haven't seen anything live to begin with. If there's a game this weekend, I might. But watch it. I don't know where they're on though. But yeah, it does get, you know, it's not, it's not like it used to be where things were free, but you've got to understand that automatically, when I was growing up, 50% of all of your home team you never saw. Like in the NFL, the blackout was for every game, not just for a sellout. And then I think in the 80s or 90s, it became, if it sold out 72 hours before, then they would show it locally. Now every game is shown in the home market. So you really get that one for free. I didn't notice so that the Dallas Stars here, that was amazing. I didn't know this. Streaming only. You have to go to an app if you want to watch them. Lot of stations are doing that. I know in Buffalo, they took the bills off the local radio station. I don't know if there's any new radio station or whether they're gonna do that all streaming, even for radio broadcast. They want to control all of the revenue. While the government and the FCC is talking about the NFL, I still think that you're gonna have to pay for the content in the future. Just look at what the ticket prices are. When I went to my first NFL game, it was either three or four bucks. Three or four bucks, yep. Used to go to NBA games for three bucks. And, you know, I'm not paying one thing. The return on the investment is not there. It's like, you're gonna give me a car with the season ticket that I'm, package that I'm buying. Does a car come with it? No, then I have no interest. But yeah, I found that also interesting this week that that seemed to also blow up that, you know, and then everybody responding to the FCC Commissioner. It's like, all sports should be free. We have a right to our sports. Censor me all you want. I don't care about any of my individual rights politically, but I have a right to sports. Yeah, we are Red Eye Radio. Brought to you by FPPF, Fuel Power Max.

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Speaker 1:
[14:57] Coming up, more with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley. It's Red Eye Radio.

Speaker 2:
[15:15] We're Red Eye Radio. I am Gary McNamara. Eric has the morning off. It was about 10 days ago, maybe it was 10 days to two weeks ago, we played a collage of different Democrats over the last 15 to 20 years talking about the fact of how we need to close the border, how we need to stop the insanity of the asylum programs that we have, how it's all wrong. And Chuck Schumer was one of them. And the point that we were trying to bring up is the Democrats that have left the Democratic Party that have said, look, we didn't change, they changed. And, for example, and we had played numerous cuts from Chuck Schumer over the years. This actually goes back because we want to show how this wasn't like a slow evolution, that Schumer has always taken the position that illegal immigration is wrong, and the asylum process is completely screwed up. This goes back to the Clinton administration and a young Chuck Schumer. And the purpose of this is to show you that these are long held opinions and passionate opinions that Democrats have that I believe they still believe, but they want power and they believe that the power is the radical left. So they're okay with open borders. They're okay with it. But here's Schumer from a little over 30 years ago.

Speaker 5:
[16:55] There's a need to keep the doors open for people who legitimately deserve asylum, but that the abuses are so large that unless you undergo major changes, you're not going to be able to sustain it. Someone's in the country illegally. After six months of tracking them down, the INS catches up to them, and all of a sudden that person says, I'm going to go to asylum and gets another two years to go through this. That has not been addressed here, and I think that's a major problem. Also, the many levels of appeal that have been built into the process that make it so long and time consuming that it becomes ridiculous. Our immigration policies are a shambles, plain and simple, and the word has gone out from one corner of the globe to the other that not only is there a legitimate policy, but there's a policy that's wide open to abuse.

Speaker 2:
[17:48] Just to show you where they were. So when you hear Democrats say, I didn't change, they did. When you hear people like Dershowitz or any of the other Democrats that have left the Democratic Party now, it's exactly what they say. Bill Maher has said it. And he's still a Democrat. He goes, I didn't change, they did. And Schumer yesterday, by calling ICE and Border Patrol rogue entities and for supporting all the insane lies about protecting our border, understand where Chuck Schumer was, not only a few years ago, but going back, this goes back 34 years ago, the audio cut that we just played. These are long held, passionate opinions of Schumer that he's willing to change like this in order to retain power. And that's the thing about Schumer. He's willing to, he knows what's right. You can't look at him and say he's the same as a AOC, who's a young radical, who's always held those opinions. Chuck Schumer knows what is right. He is the current leader of the Democrats, right now in Congress. And his position is, I want open borders. He knows it's wrong. He knows the opinions that he holds now are wrong. But he wishes to retain power even if it harms the country.

Speaker 1:
[20:30] Navigating the Bizarro Sphere. Every night, Eric Harley and Gary McNamara. Red Eye Radio.

Speaker 2:
[20:39] And he is Eric Harley and I'm Gary McNamara. Download our Red Eye Radio app today, and you can listen when and where you choose. Eric has the morning off. All right, you know, earlier this week, when we saw the story of Ilhan Omar, who changed her filing to Congress, that she was no longer worth, her net worth was no longer between 6 and 30 million, but between 18,000 and 95,000, we said, people are going to investigate this. We don't know if you would have been better off just leaving it at 6 million and stating that it was, they weren't paying attention and their accountants, this was an accountant mistake. Now, any of us, even if you own a business, can sit down with the calculator or even with a traditional pen or pencil. And with the matter of minutes, come up with a rough number as to what your net worth is. If you own a company, you should know what the net worth is. And you can do the figuring out, you know, about what you could sell it for based on your revenue. And you know, the standardized equations that exist out there if you own a business as to what the wealth of the business actually is worth. And so you can do it. We said to have this type of mistake, you're gonna have everybody looking into this going, wait a minute here. And they have. This was on Fox Business yesterday. And apparently a Forbes story. And they had on Steve Forbes talking about the Ilhan Omar situation.

Speaker 6:
[22:27] Steve, new information coming in in Forbes magazine, your magazine has reported this too, that the state of Delaware and Washington DC canceled the registrations for Omar's husband's investment firm, Rose Lake, for not paying its back taxes. We saw it owed more than 400,000 to Delaware and nearly 1800 to DC. She's claiming it's worth 25 million from less than a grand a year before. How can his investment firm not afford to pay taxes? It's supposedly worth an estimated 75 million to 150 million. This is really weird stuff.

Speaker 7:
[22:59] Well, weird is not the word for it. There's another word for it called crooked. And that's why we have to have an investigation into this. As you know, the Biden administration started examining her finances and that of her husband. And so, surprise, surprise, that investigation went nowhere. But it's amazing how people can go into Congress and then become these entrepreneurial investing geniuses where they come in, she had under $1,000 of net worth and her husband didn't have much. And suddenly now they're multimillionaires. Is there a money laundering operation here? And in terms of the firms themselves, they have a sketchy background. That winery in California that she and her husband own, where did that come from? Where's the wine there? And nobody can seem to find it.

Speaker 2:
[23:47] Everybody's gonna be investigating this stuff, left and right, because it doesn't make any sense. Everybody knows it doesn't make any sense at all. There's no way anybody who has figured out their net worth, I remember the first time I did it a few years back, I just went, what am I worth? And within about three or four minutes, you have a nice, basically a nice area of where you are, you will know where you're at that point and anything that you have on your house. What's my house worth? What could I sell it for? How much do I owe? What's the difference? That's my wealth. My automobile, anything else that I have, you figure that out. You figure out if you've got payments, what you owe and what you have in actual equity based on a blue book value or reasonably what you believe you could sell it for. In the business, you do the same way. And most people have done it and gone, Oh, interesting. But you can do it. Nobody is off because if you look at if you look at if you go to the furthest end at the minimum on the furthest end, she's off on her net worth by $30 million because it was 18 to 30 million. On the other end, it would be 95,000 to 6 million. You're still off by a huge factor. So either way, it doesn't make sense, you know, why you were doing it, why you reported such great net worth to begin with. Oh, were they trying to get loans? And again, Congress allows you to have that wide area of what you believe your net worth is, because if you have stocks, it can jump up and down or whatever, but still, wow. Now, this was fascinating. When you had, again, the leader of the Democrats in the House yesterday say that Iran is better positioned now than it was before the war. He said that yesterday. This is the panel with Brett Baer. We're all just like, where the hell is this coming from? Look, as we said before, the best leverage that Iran believes they have is not that the United States can't wipe out the current government, the Israel and United States can't wipe out the current government and the government underneath that, the government underneath that, they could continue to do it over and over again. They believe that the United States' biggest weakness and the reason that they believe they will have ultimate victory is the fact that the United States never completes the job and the history shows it. That's what they believe is their best leverage. We'll find out whether that's true or not. But I'm saying that's what they believe. But to sit there and say that Iran is in a better position, well, let's let Brett Baer talk about it and then go to some of the panel on it because it is Bizarro world.

Speaker 8:
[27:39] The House minority leader to say that Iran is in a better position today than it was before the war started is just seems so disconnected.

Speaker 9:
[27:48] It's so disconnected and I can't really figure out what he's doing. The partisanship at this point has gone off the charts. You could be confused if you're listening to Hakeem Jeffries about whether he's a spokesperson for the Supreme Leader of Iran or a spokesperson for the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives. That is totally divorced from reality. You saw the announcement today of the extension of the ceasefire. Time is on the side of the Americans here. The president has complete command and control over this situation. Iran is not in good shape at all.

Speaker 2:
[28:25] To make that case is just... I want to get back to the quote of what we started the show with today. Because this was all on the... It started with the Hassan Piker chat that he had with a journalist from the... Well, a political activist from The New Yorker and a political activist from The New York Times, where he justified murdering the health insurance executive, Brian Thompson. And then he talked about the fact that, oh, he'd steal a car, that it's okay to steal if you're stealing from a major corporation. And the two other political activists, you know, sort of agreed, you know, they agreed with it. Yeah, you know, you can... How is it? It's so... In such an unethical society, it's so hard to be ethical, and that's ridiculous. That's the biggest cop-out ever. But this came from Matthew Iglesias, and I did see tonight some people coming out and saying, Hassan Piker does not represent the Democratic Party. And it's funny, because I saw that after I said, they're probably going to figure this may not be a great idea for anybody to attach themselves to him. But Matthew Iglesias, well-known liberal, for decades, said, you shouldn't steal, you should not murder health insurance executives, and you shouldn't reflexively side with every country that's hostile to the United States. This is all incredibly stupid. Now he put that on on April 22nd. Two days ago, Frank Luntz commented on it yesterday and said, these should not be controversial statements. But there, it's where the left is going. And so everything is a delusion. And you could see it in Bret Baier's face. It's like, what are they?

Speaker 4:
[30:28] What are they talking about?

Speaker 2:
[30:30] They're not in a stronger position than that, unless the United States allows them to be in a stronger position. It doesn't seem to be where the president is going. But where Iran is now from before, you can't even make that. But then again, when you live in the head of a liberal Democrat who is a member of Congress, and you believe that a man can be a woman if the man says so, if you believe in the misogyny of the radical transgender movement, if you believe in the racist anti-Semitism, which is growing and is becoming, just like identity politics, systemic and institutional inside the Democratic Party. They judge people by groups and not individuals. All of that is Neanderthal thinking It's wrong thinking, but it's also delusional. But it's across the board. It was just hilarious to look at Pratt-Bearer going, it just, it just, it doesn't make any sense. And everybody in the panel is like, what do you do? The Democrats have decided to take positions that have no basis of critical thinking at all, no connecting the dots at all. And I think that's probably one of the most frustrating things because you realize that there is no debate with these people. There is no logic with these people. There is no critical thinking. But when you are driven, and whether you believe it or not, but when you're driven with promoting the fact of victimization, that you're a victim, and anybody who doesn't agree with you is an oppressor, and it's so evil, they need to be eliminated. Health care executive. When you're driven by the worst human characteristics of envy and jealousy. When you're just angry, you're not really sure why, you can't explain it, but you're a victim, damn it, because these people, this party is telling you a victim, you're a victim, and anybody else is an oppressor, and they owe you. If you're delusional across the board on all of that, why is it such a leap to be delusional on every major issue? We are Red Eye Radio.

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Speaker 2:
[34:00] We are Red Eye Radio, and he is Eric Harley, and I'm Gary McNamara. Eric has the morning off. This was, this is the audio cut of the day because it was so, audio cut of the week, because it was so stupid. But it shows you everything we've been talking about, the ignorance of the left. And the thing is, the ignorance of the left, but arguing with confidence, and almost arrogance, with complete ignorance. Listen to this, Sonny on the View this week. Here we go.

Speaker 10:
[34:30] You know, I just read that this war is estimated to have already cost us $50 billion. $50 billion, which is more money than this country has spent since World War II.

Speaker 2:
[34:47] How do you, look, you go, are you out of your mind? There's not even a, you know, a reasonable response back would be, you are completely and totally stupid and ignorant. Because it's such an outrageous statement. That $50 billion, even it was $500 billion, more than this country has spent since World War II. Shows complete, to say a statement like that means you are completely and totally ignorant on the federal budget, what we actually spent, and how long ago World War II was, and how many budgets we have gone through since World War II. That's what we're dealing with. And that's why by the time we get, like I said, we get to this Friday, and I look at this entire week and I went, wow, it's just been insanity squared. It's been delusion to the 10th power. And it just keeps getting more and more and more and more delusional every week that we go on. Well, it makes it so we can do a show, right? Shows are easy.

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