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[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. He is Eric Harley, he has a morning off. I'm Gary McNamara, I am here. In case you didn't get a chance to listen to yesterday's show or podcast, Eric has been out a lot this week and he made it public yesterday that his brother had passed away about a week ago. And so he's been out quite a bit this week and the funeral is this weekend. So just make sure you keep Eric and his family in your prayers because it was something that was unexpected. And the family is grieving. So if you keep them in your prayers, it really, really would be appreciated. I've worked with Eric for a long time. And it's tough to watch what he has, what he and the family has gone through the last week. He's really, really, really, really, really, really a great guy. I mean, what you hear from him is really who he is. And so, you know, it's a terrible time. And if you didn't listen to it, I think about an hour and a half into the podcast yesterday, Eric, you know, talked about his brother and everything. So you may want to catch it. But so it's us. How's everybody doing? You hanging in there? You know, just looking past, looking at this entire week, and what I get out of it is, again, the level of insanity that we have gotten to on the left. I want to play this here. This is Fox News yesterday. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin. Yeah, he loses it. Goes after, you know, Chuck Schumer, who's out there promoting. Now remember what they're promoting. They're promoting absolute open borders. They're just doing it in a different way. You look at the two issues that the Democrats lost on in the last election. It was illegal immigration and inflation. And there is back as radical as you could imagine. You know, you're they're not even to the point anymore of of saying, yeah, but Biden straightened up and near the end of the term, he he he started, you know, he started being tougher on the border. And when when Harris ran, remember, she said she'd be tougher on the border than Trump. Remember that first ad that she came out with? I'm going to be tougher on the border. Trump has just completely abandoned the border. Now that's completely gone. And before Mark Wayne Mullin made this comment yesterday on Fox News, they were showing Chuck Schumer, they're talking about the complete defunding of of ICE and Border Patrol. No funding. This is just repeat from six years ago. This is just to fund the police in a different area. And when you actually break it down, everything that they've been talking about, whether it's ICE or Border Patrol, is the fact that they want sanctuary cities to stay. Nobody, it's funny because nobody debates this. It's a blunt, it's bluntly promoted by the Democrats. They want sanctuary cities to stay. They want to protect illegal immigrant criminals. By the way, it's good to see that I saw members of the Senate over the last 48 hours saying exactly what we have said in the exact same words that we have used for the longest time. Sanctuary cities are Democrats protecting criminal illegal immigrants. Now, that's two, illegally in the country and committing another crime outside of being in the country illegally. They wish to protect criminal illegal immigrants over, that's more important, their freedom is more important than the safety and security of American citizens. And they're blunt about it. And they've taken it to another level now. And here is Mark Wayne Mullin's response to Chuck Schumer on the floor saying, zero money, here we go.

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[05:44] It takes a lot to get me upset, but Chuck Schumer, no one respects you. The definition of a lying scumbag politician, that is you. You would be the definition if you googled you right now. I mean, why don't you just come out and be honest with American people? He wants to have open borders. You want to defund the Customs and Border Protection Agency. If you want to defund ICE, who is in there arresting the criminals, that the laws were passed by you, you had time to change those during the Biden administration. You didn't, because you're for open borders and you're for the criminals running a mock in our cities. And for you to say that is so disrespectful to the law enforcement that is out there protecting you, because he has a detail with him. How about he walks around these city streets without a detail? I wonder how safe he would feel.

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[06:31] And plus the hypocrisy that just a few years ago, his opinion was 180 degrees in a different direction. Again, as we've talked about, when you look at the insane issues that the Democrats have been supporting for such a long time, and it's really, really, really amazing. I want to get the exact words of what Schumer said yesterday. I don't have it here in front of me, but I'll get it here in a little bit. Because you're shaking your head going, what the hell? And remember what this is over. This is because you had two people who obstructed law enforcement. One using her car that the agents thought she was using as a weapon, and the other one scuffling with police and they saw a gun. Scuffling with ice, excuse me. And you've gotten the rhetoric that because of those two incidents, that they're Gestapo, that they're Nazis, that the entire thing should be defunded, and everyone knows, every Democrat knows, what the Democrats are attempting to do. They want open orders. They're going right back to where they were before. And as we've stated with Biden, you know, well, you know, he didn't do the best job of securing the border. He did a wonderful job unsecuring the border, because that was his goal. I just love it when Democrats, you know, once in a while, depending on what week it is, will say, yes, well, Biden didn't do the best job in securing the border. He did a wonderful job, because that wasn't his job. That wasn't his goal. That wasn't his mission. His mission was to open the border. And he succeeded in that. That's why everybody, including Democrats, laughed. When he said Kamala Harris is going to be the border czar. It's like, oh my, I remember when that happened. It's like, my God, they're just, he just thrown her right under the bus. Yeah, I'm going to open the border you need to pretend to close it. And what did she call it that, you know, because then she was criticized. Look at the people crossing the border. Well, we have to look at what did they call it? We have to look at, you know, the other countries and, you know, the reason that this is happening. What did I forgot with the word that the phrase that that she used to describe it where everybody was just roaring in laughter because everybody knew what was going on. Biden did not fail to close the border. He succeeded in opening the border. And now every single, except for Fetterman, is there another Democrat that's Democrat in the Senate that is saying, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, we can't, this is insanity, we can't do this. You know, we can't, they want to defund border security. They don't care. And we knew it when Biden got in, we knew it when Biden came in, and remember trying to cross the Canadian border? Remember an American trying to cross the United States? Impossible. Meanwhile, open borders and people were coming in. You need to be checked. And if you need to go to this state, you need to make sure that you're in quarantine for a number of days. And then you need to make sure that you have a mask, meanwhile, on the border, just let him in. And they weren't checking him. And we're doing this because we care about the spread of COVID. If you cared about the spread of COVID, you would have closed the border, not opened the border, when you became president. Everybody knows it. It's not like there's a debate on it. We really, really, really, really, really live in interesting times. And so that's one of the things that I look at this week and just go, oh man, they're just doubling down on this over and over again. Then the entire thing of their new Joe Rogan, Hasan Piker and the interview we did with the New York Times and the Athletic where justifying the murder of a healthcare executive and then talking about how, well, yeah, you can justify stealing. You can justify this. You know, it's exactly where the left is going. And it's like they're asking Democrats, well, you know, you can't support this guy. You need to, you know, you need to denounce this person. Well, you know, I mean, there are many different opinions that are, murder should not be an opinion. Pro-murder should not be an opinion of a major political party. Well, it shouldn't be a, it shouldn't be an opinion of any political party, but a major political party in the United States, no. And so we get to this Friday and I just look at this, I'm like, my God, this is just unbelievable. It's just really, they just keep going further and further and further and further left. Who said it was it? It was actually somebody on the left. I think it was, yeah, it was Matthew Iglesias. And this is on the whole Piker interview that was done. And we'll get to that coming up in a little bit. And Frank Luntz put, and Frank Luntz, can't look at Frank Luntz and say, he's a conservative right-wing Republicans, Republican, and Matthew Iglesias has been a, you know, long-time liberal. These shouldn't be controversial statements. And then this goes to ex Matthew Iglesias here. You shouldn't steal, you shouldn't murder health insurance executives, you shouldn't reflexively side with every country that's hostile to the United States. This is all incredibly stupid. And he wrote that a couple days ago. He wrote that a couple days ago, Frank Luntz just, you know, re-posted it on X. But there's where we are. When you think about it, because I just love it when they go, he's the... By the way, the right's Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan is not the right. Joe Rogan is a populist liberal. Joe Rogan supported Bernie Sanders just a few years ago. But I just... He's the... And so when they talk about Piker, it's like, he's the right's... He's the left's Joe Rogan, as if the right is Joe Rogan. The right is not Joe Rogan. But it's just, there's where we are. Open borders, still the misogyny and the sexism of the radical transgender movement embraced by 99% of Democrats, including mainstream Democrats. And now, you know, Piker, they may throw by the side, who knows, but they've been throwing up the trial balloons. Should we support this guy? Let's listen to this guy. And all of a sudden, it's like, well, you know, you can, I can understand, you know, murdering a health insurance executive because of the social, I think the term was, social murders, the social murders that he's responsible for. Where even somebody as far left as Matthew Deglacius is going, because this was the whole thing. Well, we shoplift, you can shoplift from big corporations, you can steal from the big corporations. It's like, he writes, you shouldn't steal, you shouldn't murder health insurance executives, you shouldn't reflexively side with every country that's hostile to the United States. This is all incredibly stupid. What's the whole thing with the polling being done, where so many young Democrats look and they feel that Iran is more favorable than Israel? Israel is a modern Western democracy. I mean, it's just, you look at it, and then this week, Eric and I talked about this a little bit when he was in. It's like, well, you know, we need to compromise out there, you know? We need to figure out where do you compromise? Where's the compromise? There is no compromise. How do you compromise with insanity? Let's be half insane.

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[17:24] We'll be right back with more Red Eye Radio with Eric Harley and Gary McNamara.

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[17:42] We are Red Eye Radio. He is Eric Harley, and I'm Gary McNamara. Eric has the morning off. I did find some of the audio from Chuck Schumer yesterday as to why the Department of Homeland Security had Mark Wayne Mullins took off after him. Here is Schumer from yesterday. Here we go.

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[18:00] Border Patrol and ICE that nobody respects in this country. When America's crying out for real relief on the skyrocketing cost of living, Republicans are spending another $140 billion on Trump's private militia, on these two rogue agencies that have no restraint.

Speaker 2:
[18:20] That's an absolute lie. And that's why he took off. And remember, Chuck Schumer, whose opinion on illegal immigration completely different just a few years ago. We played that audio here in the last couple of weeks. So now they're back to it completely. They want open borders. They want criminal illegal immigrants running free in the United States. That's what they want. I have no idea how Democrats justify it, but they do. And there really is not an outcry from the Democrat voter. They just stick their head in the ground and don't pay attention to it. But that's where we are right now with the Democrats. They found a way, they found a way that they believe will be successful. We don't know what there will be yet. But they found a way that they believe will be successful in convincing the public that open borders is a better way than having border security. Go figure.

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[20:44] And I'm Gary McNamara. Eric has the morning off. Download our Red Eye Radio app today, and you can listen when and where you choose. Interesting is we look at this entire week, and I know when I woke up to come to work, that was the one thing that just was sitting in my mind, and also part of yesterday, as I was doing a lot of law and work, including mulching more, getting more mulch out there. And this weekend is going to be, before it gets too hot, I think today we're going to be close to 90. But it's been beautiful weather. I don't think it got above 75 yesterday, so it was a great day to get all that done, but probably early in the morning, today, tomorrow and Sunday, and get that all taken care of. And then I'm done for a while. Got to get that fire ant killer on. So far, no fire ant mounds in my yard, but I got to get that done. But it was just one of those days where every time I just looked at my phone, I'm just like, wow. It's just, this has been one of those just crazy weeks again. And one of the things, and I think we might have, you know, we've mentioned him maybe once or twice, but the influencer streamer, whatever you want to call him, the new Joe Rogan of the left, Hasan Piker, who's a nutcase. And we were telling you about the chat that he did with the New York Times writer, and also a, who was the other one? Not the Atlantic, New Yorkers. And I'm just reading here from Charles Cook, National Review, in a rambling group chat that was filmed and transcribed by the New York Times this week, Hasan Piker, and you notice, you know, any Democrat politician is being asked a question, you know, why do you support him? What's going on here? And this here from National Review, in a rambling group chat that was filmed and transcribed by the New York Times this week, Piker repeatedly made it clear that he is disdainful towards the fundamental rules that keep our society together. Piker defended the murder of the United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, who he deemed to have been guilty of a tremendous amount of social murder. Where the hell did that come from? Social murder? That's a new term for me. Social murder. And I don't know how you define social murder. And he suggested, he also suggested he would happily steal a car if he could get away with it and laid out a complex framework for when it is acceptable to shoplift when the victim is a big corporation and when it's not acceptable when the victim is taxpayer funded with union labor and adjusted prices. It's also okay, per Piker, is intellectual property theft, stealing movies, things like that. To which the two people he was having the discussion with, The Times, Nadja Spiegelman and New Yorkers, Gia Tolento responded, wow, that all seems utterly psychotic. Have you considered getting professional help? No, I'm just kidding. They really didn't say that. In reality, Tolentino responded by explaining that she is opposed to profoundly selfish, immoral, collectively destructive actions, such as getting iced coffee in a plastic cup or flying on airplanes for pleasure, but that she is supportive of selfless moral, collectively constructive actions, such as blowing up a pipeline. And Spiegelman responded by saying, I can relate to what you were saying. It is just so hard to live ethically in an unethical society. And then Charles Cook writes it. Is it? I must confess that I do not find it so. But then again, unlike these clowns, I do not spend my day sitting on sofas pondering aloud whether it would be proper for me to rob someone. No doubt, this makes me some sort of plotting unfashionable reactionary. But I am rather steadfastly of the view that the norms that the Times Trio are hoping to dismantle are the core non-negotiable building blocks of our civilization. It is not in fact acceptable to murder people because you think they are quote social murderers, whatever the hell that means. It is not in fact acceptable to steal cars if you can get away with it. It is not in fact acceptable to shoplift if the store in question is owned by a big corporation. And no, blowing up pipelines is not in fact a thing that should be legal but isn't. So there you go. And so, like I said, by the time we got to Friday, I'm looking at all this stuff and I'm just like, they are just doubling down on the bat soup craziness that they have. But we had talked about it, you know, after the health care executive, Brian Thompson, was murdered and the response to it. Well, and we said, you know, if you have a contract with someone, if he's breaking the contract, sue the daylight side of him. Take the company. But if you're saying you went into a contract with someone and someone did not give you something that was not in the contract originally and that at that point, you believe that person should be murdered, that's completely and totally unacceptable. Look, I saw this coming a long, long time ago. This is, I'm going back, maybe 28 years. No, no, I'm going back. I'm going back over. This would be probably, this is over 30 years, probably 31 years. And I was working in my hometown of Buffalo, New York. I remember doing my radio show that day. And what had happened is, I remember it was a Friday night and the bank was around the corner from me. And I needed, I think it was $40 in cash. And they don't even deal with that these days. I guess you could take that out when you go up it's $300. Inflation, apparently. But it was either $40 or $60 or whatever I was going to take out. And did the transaction, you know, at the ATM. And what happened was, I think it was $40. And I got $60. And there was a piece of gum attached to the, from one $20 to the other. You know, and so instead of $40, I got $60. Monday, I went back in and gave them the $20. And they were absolutely shocked. They were just blown away. I said, hey, I was, use your ATM and here it is. And I actually kept the $2.20 bills to show the manager going, yeah, it looks like a little piece of gum. Was this done on purpose or whatever? I don't know. But, you know, I got the extra $20. And they looked at me and they just said, wow, you brought it back. And I said, it's not mine. It's that simple. And I remember talking about it on the radio and half my audience of a very conservative audience, way back then, said you were an idiot to give it back because if the opposite happened, the bank wouldn't have been so friendly to you. And that's not the case when banks have made a mistake. With me, that's not been the case. But that was the opinion that I got from... Now, callers are not indicative of your audience at large. I don't want to make that clear. But never forget that. You're an idiot. The bank wouldn't do it to you. And I said, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what anybody else would do. It matters what I would do. You know, that's, you know, character is judged by what you do when nobody is looking. But I didn't do it because I'm a person of high character. It was that simple. It's not mine. I was raised that way. You don't steal. It's not mine. I'm not gonna steal it. Doesn't matter if I could get away with it. I'm not doing it. And it's that simple. And millions, tens of millions of Americans, hundreds of millions of Americans live that way. Doesn't matter what you do, I'm not gonna do that. I remember the one time where the I think it was one of the armored cars. I forgot where it was. Remember it turned over and there were people that surrounded it so nobody would steal the money. That's my kind of people. And you can clearly see that this is where the left is going. Crime against people we perceive and come up with definitions that make no sense. Social murders are attempting to justify evil. That's what's happening. That's all that's about. And I said this a long, long time ago. Boy, what a perfect time to talk about this. Because I remember I was working, this goes way back again, even longer than 30 years ago. I was working in Illinois at the time. And the mayor of the city said that racism is the worst problem we have. And I said, no, it's not. It's jealousy and envy. Racism is moving in the different direction. You know, you've seen, and part of liberalism is you can never solve the problems. Once you come up with an organization, if we want to use the Southern Poverty Law Group, for example, once hate started to dissipate and society was moving in the other direction, they had to keep pounding it over and over and over and over again that it's the worst ever. So, the fact that they were doing what they were doing, it makes sense. It makes sense if you understand liberalism. If you solve the problems, they're not needed. If you solve poverty, they're not needed. If you solve homelessness, they're not needed. They don't wish to solve any of these problems. If they solve problems, they have fewer victims. And liberalism absolutely depends on victims and the perception that people are victims of things way beyond their control. We are Red Eye Radio.

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[35:05] Eric has the morning off. The president yesterday seems to be in more of a subtle way doubling down on his idea for the federal government to bail out Spirit Airlines. There seems to be no Republican on his side at all for this. We talked about this yesterday. It's like we have no idea. You're not talking about anything that has to do with national security. If Spirit Airlines went bankrupt, you would have other airlines that would make up for their routes. What was it, last year or the year before, when they tried to merge with JetBlue and the Biden administration said no because of a lack of competition, which is just ridiculous. There's no way even the two of them together could match close what Delta and American and United are doing. But I didn't see the president get any support for this yesterday at all. Hopefully he'll drop it this weekend.

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[36:29] This is Red Eye Radio on Westwood One. 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.

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[37:04] All across America. We are Red Eye Radio. He is Eric Harley, he has a morning off, and I'm Gary McNamara. I am here. Did you see Mamdani? Story was all over the place yesterday. Last week, Mayor Mamdani stood outside billionaire Ken Griffin's apartment building and grinned, today we're taxing the rich. He said it like he was declaring victory. This is from the New York Post. It was actually a eulogy from one of the greatest cities of the world. I know what happens when you get tax policy right, because I watched it when I was governor of Florida. And this is from Rick Scott, who wrote this op-ed piece in the New York Post. For years, my state has taken advantage of the way New York drove its residents and its most productive businesses straight to our door. They brought their income, their companies, their employees, their charitable contributions and their tax dollars with them. Florida won, New York lost, and Mamdani has decided to double down on failure. Tax the rich, or as de facto democratic spokesperson, Hasan Piker would probably put it, kill the rich has become a rallying cry for a party that either doesn't understand the competitive landscape between states, or doesn't understand basic math. You saw that Griffin was angry about it, because this is about the annual surcharge on properties valued above five million, where the owner's primary residence is outside of New York City. The company spokesperson I saw, his spokesperson, his Citadel Hedge Fund and Citadel Securities, employ thousands of people in New York, and they're talking about, well, if they will continue to invest in New York City. You know, he makes somebody who does a tremendous amount of business in New York City, the enemy. And I think for New York charities, something like 160 million he has given to charities there. But you know, it's what the left is about. It's where they are on every issue. Everything is far left. What's a moderate issue that Democrats have right now? You know, what's a moderate issue? I don't know. You know, they're not the only ones, though. You know, we have a society that is pretty ignorant on economics. We believe economics is what we want it to be. I learned a long time ago, economics doesn't care what I think. And economics is simply how people respond to incentive. That's it. And anytime you hear someone saying, but it shouldn't be that way. You know, if we lived in, you're on the wrong track right there. People are going to do what people are going to do. You cannot wish people to do things that they believe are not in their best self-interest. And if you're going to ignore that, you do it at your own peril of having a, either a less productive society or a more productive society. It's that simple. And so I think really, you know, we come to this Friday and I looked just in general this week, which was just been absolutely insane from the left. And you just, you look at long term and you say, because you hear it all the time. There was an article a couple weeks ago that we read, we go, what are they talking about? It was either political or the Hill or something was making a thing that I think it was one of them. It was talking about the Democrat presidential candidates that are all looking to moderate. Nobody's looking to moderate. It's not anybody looking to moderate. We said it at the time, what are they talking about? If they claim they are, they're lying to you. I've heard this talk, it was post-Easter and whatever. We need to find a way to bring everybody together. How? As we've said, where's the compromise? As Rick Scott writes here, the best anti-poverty program any government can support is a job. And Florida built 1.7 million of them by getting the government out of the way. He said, I grew up in public housing, so I feel genuine sympathy for the working class New Yorkers who can't pick up and move out. They will bear the heaviest burden of this socialist vision that's taking over New York, losing wages and opportunities while the politicians that cause the damage pat themselves on the back. To be clear, good economies don't last forever. Something leaders in Florida and other red states, and other red state beneficiaries of New York's decline should keep keenly in mind. It takes constant daily work to keep growing jobs and improving people's lives. It's not just a tax cut here or there. It's a constant focus on making states affordable for all families, which is why I have never supported a tax or fee increase and never will. So there you go. The competition between states gets more intense every day. Blue states want to tax their way into prosperity, but it always fails. But they're doubling down on everything. Absolutely everything. And the Mandani thing is just interesting because now he's picking out billionaires. I've got to find the article that was talking about just how much Griffin puts into New York City, the amount of business that he has brought there and the belief he has in New York real estate. And so, yeah, it's, you know, it's sad, but it's the reality of where the Democrats are going. You know, I talked about when I was, there's been two incidents now of talking to people on the left over the last couple of weeks. And it's something that I've been wanting to do for the longest time, but they just won't talk. They just don't talk, they don't speak. I look at the thousands of people that either I've been following or friends with on Facebook or whatever, all the ones on the left, they don't say anything anymore. They're just quiet. I'm talking about regular people. They don't say anything, there's nothing. I've had two incidents in the last couple of weeks talking to a number of people. I can't get anything out of them. When you bring up something, you say, you know, this is the way that it happened. Here's the evidence. Well, I don't believe it. Well, then what do you believe? Here's what I believe. How? What do you mean how? I said, you said you don't believe anything that you read. What do you believe? And they look at me with a blank stare. And you just, and you think yourself, they haven't even connected a dot, a couple of dots, where they'll come out and say, here's my opinion. Yeah, but here's what, and you can even say, you can bring up, here's what this liberal, former liberal said. Here's this thing here. Here's what this came out here. You go, I don't believe anything that I read. Well, apparently you believe something because you formed an opinion. And they look at you like, okay, you caught me on that one. Well, well, well, I told you, the most interesting one I had was the one couple that I met and the one guy, I don't know why, because it wasn't part of the conversation, but it's something that must have been stuck in his head from 10 years ago with the Colin Kaepernick thing. He goes, well, they said Colin Kaepernick wasn't patriotic. Well, that's fine, people can criticize each other. That's not government censorship. And I brought it, I know how it was brought up. I told him about the FBI and the bureaucracy and the intelligence agencies and the censorship that was found in X and why Elon Musk bought it, and that the people that actually investigated it were all Democrat liberals that were horrified by that. And they just said, no, we don't believe that. But it's true, here are their names. We don't know who they are. So ignorance, and I mentioned the Barry Weiss's, Michael Schellenberger's, Matt Taibbi, all Democrat liberals for the longest time that were terrified by what they saw with the censorship there. And his response was, well, you know, their response was, well, we don't, we don't know any of those names. We don't know who those people are. So ignorance was their defense. Well, go check it out and see what they're about. Barry Weiss is now the editor of CBS. Oh, you mean that right-winger. We heard of her. She's not right-wing. To have a debate or argue in any type of way where there's any type of, I think, substance that comes out of it, you have to agree on some basis of truth. You can't get to that point of debate with anybody on the left right now. It's impossible. And it doesn't matter if they held 180 degrees, a different opinion, Chuck Schumer, just a couple years ago than they do right now. Just bringing that up because we had talked about that earlier. But the one guy I was talking to, we were talking about censorship, well, they attempted to censor Colin Kaepernick. I went, who did? Well, people said he wasn't a patriot. And he was a patriot. He was standing up. I said, that's got nothing to do with it. That's not government or law enforcement involved in anything. That's private people criticizing him. Well, well, then you criti- I'm not making this up. Well, you criticize him for not being a patriot. And these are the same people that wear flags on their clothing. And that's against the code. What are you talking about? He said people that wear flags on their apparel. And I went, no, that- The flag code is about the actual flag. No, it's not. Yes, it is. It's not about if you wear a decal on a shirt or if a shirt has stars and stripes going through it. That's not a flag. A flag is the code. And I said, we can look it up right here. I don't believe anything that I read. Then how do you know what the flag code is if you don't believe anything that you read? I mean, it was maddening, but that's what you're dealing with. And then the tangent was great. You know, when I talked about the censorship of X and social media, it was great. And then they had no idea, none. They looked at me with blank eyes when I told them, no, there was no Russia collusion. Yes, there was. What part of it? Well, you know, the stuff where he colluded. How? The dossier was fake. That was created by the Hillary Clinton campaign. Said, you want to look it all up? We don't believe anything that we read. So that's what you can, yet they have definitive opinions where they're livid. Yet they can't defend any idea that they have. They can't tell you where their idea came from. And they fall back on, I'm completely ignorant on what the issue is, and I don't believe anything that I read. So I've had, now I've known it before this, I mean, I've known it. Just from doing this for such a long time, we've seen this coming. But when you actually, you know, when you actually see it in person, and you look into their eyes, and it's like they're completely lost, they have no idea, no idea what's going on in the world, none, and they have no interest in knowing. They just wish to win an emotional debate up front without having any facts or believing that they need to produce facts and a coherent argument to win the debate. There's no interest in that. It's an instant type of reaction. And yes, these are the types of people that for a day, I would still keep my mind, but I would want the Vulcan mind meld just to see how their mind thinks. You know, how does it process thoughts? Because I do find it fascinating because it's so far from the environment that I grew up in, which is when I gotta be a critical thinker and you gotta be able to connect the dots. You have to be able to make a coherent argument. You have to be able to present the evidence for the argument. Well, when the other side says, no, we don't believe anything out there. We don't believe anything that we read. Well, then how do you come to your opinion? And they just look at you and then change the topic. They realize you've got them. They change the topic to something else, which is completely off the topic you were talking about. And what they bring to the table to defend that is completely and totally false. And that's what we're dealing with in this country. We are Red Eye Radio.

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[53:14] We are Red Eye Radio, he is Eric Harley, he has the morning off, I'm Gary McNamara, I'm here. So talking about Mamdani in a promotional mention of his new luxury property tax from people that don't live in New York full time, over five million, and he stood in front of the, that's the most expensive home sale ever in the country that he bought in 2019, 238 million, the building that Hedge Fund CEO Ken Griffin bought. And Griffin, whose net worth is estimated by Forbes at 50 billion wasn't amused. The top executive of his hedge fund sent a company wide email Thursday afternoon blasting the mayor's comment and hinting at a potential reversal on a massive midtown project. We are about to commence on the redevelopment of 350 Park Avenue, creating 6,000 highly paid construction jobs and supporting the creation of more than 15,000 permanent jobs in midtown New York, wrote the chief operating officer in an email obtained by the New York Post. The project, if we move forward, will entail more than $6 billion of spending. The Wall Street Journal earlier reported on that email, and Ken Griffin, the billionaire, not happy about it at all. You're taking someone, you're demonizing someone who's actually investing in your city. So we'll see what happens there. But again, socialism and a lot of populism today is based on jealousy and envy. And I will say this, so glad I was brought up in an environment where I was, jealousy and envy, you know, weren't a part of it. And it's a jealousy and envy that you justify by saying you're a victim of someone else. Bernie Sanders used it after Occupy Wall Street. That's the thing that came out of Occupy Wall Street, if you remember that. The big banks are bad and billionaires are the reason that I can't succeed in life. I remember Eric and I taking a call from a UCLA student who was saying it was just getting, you know, too expensive so you could work. No, I can't. I did. And it's just the pathology of dependency. I don't know how we get out of this cycle in this country.

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[56:39] And he is Eric Harley, he has a morning off. I'm Gary McNamara. I am with you. Yeah, so just, you know, looking, as I've said, we made it to Friday, and just all the, it seems like the insanity has just been doubled down, tripled down, quadrupled down, quintupled down. I mean, it's just like, wow, you know, every single week. But just talking about, we were talking about Mamdani going after Ken Griffin, the billionaire in his promotional ad outside of his building that he bought, and everything that his investment firm actually does in New York City, where now they were hinting that they may remove a $6 billion construction project that they were involved in, because Mamdani is using him as the point person as to why we need to tax these billionaires. And this all goes back to the whole concept of how you market socialism, how you market liberalism, how you market communism. And it's all jealousy and envy. And I've stated this for years, jealousy and envy. That's the biggest problem that we have. That has been institutionalized. Jealousy and envy and justifying it because you're a victim, which means there's an oppressor out there. The one key example, which really Bernie Sanders, as we mentioned earlier, started after Occupy Wall Street, was if you're a young person, you can't make it because of the evil billionaires. It was around that same time that Bernie Sanders was talking about the fact that what a waste of capitalism is flawed because we have 40 types of deodorants. Not really. I mean, they're all in business making a profit and it's competitive. That means prices are kept lower. You say, we don't need 40. We only need one. It's like, wow. But the entire thing that billionaires are responsible for your lot in life and it is so foreign to me that that mindset that was not a part of my environment. In fact, it was just the opposite. You know, when this goes back, oh, I don't know. Whenever Bar Rescue started with John Taffer and when I would see John Taffer, he'd tell these people, there's no excuses. You are completely in control as to whether you survive or not. Society isn't the problem that you're not succeeding. The president doesn't matter. You matter. You are in charge of whether you make it or not. It's how I was raised. I was raised that way. I never paid attention. In fact, when I look at the opposite of envy, it's like, wow, that guy is a billionaire, spent $238 million on a home, he's got servants, he's got this. I'd hate that life. I'd absolutely hate that life. I don't want that life. There's no envy and jealousy for that. I would hate that. I was reading something that said Tiger Woods, and what's her name? I can't think of the, oh, his girlfriend. I just got, Trump, I just can't think of her name. That they're firing people, like he's firing people because they're leaking out information. And really what it is is the people that work for them, I'm assuming, housecleaning, chefs, whatever they, I would hate that. So I was never really one to go, I wish to be a billionaire and have the kind of security that Elon Musk have. And every morning I wake up, there's people all around me taking care of stuff in my private space. That's not me. It will never be me. I could never live in a huge mansion that when you walk in, there's the marble steps on both sides going up and there's a huge dome that's like 60 feet in the air. That's not a home. That's a government building. I don't want to live there. I'm being serious. I mean, I don't. But other than that, other than my personal preferences, I can honestly say I don't believe I've ever experienced, maybe as a child. I don't think it would be jealousy. I remember I hated my name. People go, Gary, Gary. It didn't sound, I remember thinking to myself, I wanna be a Jim or a Bob. I don't wanna combine, I don't wanna be a Jim Bob, but I just wanted a simple Bob. You know, you can't do a Gary. I guess you could do Bob. But it's not the same. There was something about the G in the beginning of my name. I remember as a kid thinking about that. I don't like my name. But I don't really think that's jealousy and envy because somebody has a better name than you. I'm fine with it now, okay? I've come to the conclusion that Gary is a fine name. Now, the middle name together, when all my friends found that out, Gary Michael, Gary Michael, you know, that bothered me a little bit. But other than that, I don't think I've really ever, I think I've ever, I've looked at people and said, I'd like to get to that point, for example, maybe in the business. But then when I grew older and saw what happened to them, I went, no, no, I'm, we're just, I'm happy, happy with me. I've never wanted to be anybody else. I might have wanted to attain something, you know, business-wise, that, you know, that I worked for and earned. I've never viewed myself as a victim. I've never felt that there were oppressors. I've never looked at industry and business as being this evil thing, even though I have disagreed with management in a number of industries, it didn't mean that I didn't, you know, look at a particular business and a business model and the people in it go, they're going to fail. What a bunch of idiots. But it was all about the business model. I just, I, and I feel so blessed because I can't imagine going through life feeling jealous or envious or a victim to be, you know, somebody who is helpless. And that's one thing that the left does. And we look at it from climate change and, you know, we go to these young liberals who are talking about, well, it really doesn't matter what we want to do in our life because our life is over. And then you realize what type of evil adults do that to kids or do they believe it themselves? Has the wanting, as my dad always said, has the wanting to be BSed actually grown into what they believe reality is? Have they created their own reality? So yeah, I just feel, I feel so blessed because there's, there's a certain amount of, I think, just freedom. When you believe you're autonomous, that when you believe you are in control of your life, you're responsible for the bad things and you take credit for the good things. And you take responsibility for when something is done wrong, and there's a certain code that you live in. To get back to the whole thing from the early beginning of the show, from the whole Piker thing about, I could justify murder, I could justify stealing, I could justify this, I could justify that. I never have to worry about that. I know it's wrong. And there's just a certain amount of freedom, and I'm so happy that I had the parents that I had, because by telling somebody, look, it's up to you. You determine whether you make it or not. How freeing is that? I can't imagine having the liberal mindset and being angry all the time because I've been brain, I've been B.S.ed, which turns into brainwashing, that I'm a victim and I can't make it. I can't imagine living in that space. It would be incredible agony. No wonder they're so angry all the time. No wonder they're furious about anything. You know, it's like being in this business too. You know, I'm triggered by something. Come on. You call me an idiot. I don't care what you call me. I could care less. The people that know me, my good friends and family who have earned my respect, they can straighten me out if they wish to and I'll listen. But in the general social media sphere, I could care less. I was triggered by your comment on social media. You said something. I was triggered. That wounded me deeply. You know, and that's because we were born and raised under that incredible philosophy. Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names will never hurt me. And we believe that. But I just, I view that, and it's the environment that I grew up in. Like anything else, I had to be moldered by the society that I grew up in. And the most immediate impact on my environment was my parents. And it was no excuse, none. To me, that is a, that's how you set somebody free. You tell them, your life is a result of the decisions that you make. Incredibly freeing. And then being grateful for everything that you have. And for me, being grateful was opportunity. Not the necessarily, not necessarily the conclusions of that opportunity because it didn't always go my way. But it didn't matter, I knew that was gonna happen. I knew I was gonna fail. How did I know? I was told that everybody fails. And it's how you react to that failure, that you don't give up. And that was my philosophy. It wasn't done in a mean way. Well, you can't tell kids it will fail because you might hurt their feelings. No, that's the reality. The whole thing about young people, adults need to be teaching them how to handle being adults. And part of that is the fact that things aren't always gonna work out your way. And when they don't, you move on to something else. Serious story one time. I got let go from a station because they were paying me too much money. And the boss came to me and said, hey, let's go for a drink. You know, I know you're sad. I go, no, I'm fine. He goes, no, no, no, you probably need to come out. I said, I can't. I got to look for another job starting now. I hadn't even left work yet. I was let go and it was a boss above him that fired me. But he felt sad. I said, we'll do it later on this week. I had a job the next day. And a much better job the next day. And once they said you were done, it was over. In my mind, gone. On to the next thing. And that happened, you know, that happened because when I was young and failed as a kid, it was tougher to deal with. When something didn't go my way, it was like nothing I can do about it. I can't change somebody else's opinion or their authority over me in this particular incident. I got to move on to the next one. That's so empowering. That's so, you feel so, it's such a free way to live in life. I can't imagine having the mind of a liberal where I'm a victim. That to me would be hell on earth. We are Red Eye Radio.

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[71:09] We are Red Eye Radio, he is Eric Harley, he's As the Morning Off, I'm Gary McNamara. I'm here, wow, just looking here at some of the video of that tornado near the Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma. Wow. They were pretty close, or they were zooming in pretty close. I saw last week on YouTube, and this was, I think it was last year, I believe, these tornado chasers, storm chasers, and it was the closest I had ever seen a camera shot to a tornado actually taking down a house and actually taking down trees. You saw the trees actually being ripped up. It was incredible camera work, and if it was me, I would have been 100 miles away. But, yeah, but that footage yesterday from last night, wow, early yesterday evening, I guess, just incredible out of Oklahoma.

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