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I had a great weekend. Something kind of throwback happened and it was really interesting. We'll talk about that in more in just a minute. The president was talking to the media over the weekend, making some comments about Pope Leo.
Ron, let's play this audio here. This is the president speaking of at Joint Base Andrews to the media several hours ago about his comment that he posted the president posted on truth social, but here's more from the president in his own words. I don't think he's doing a very good job.
He likes crime, I guess. Yeah, he does think of it. He's worried about fear. What about the fear when the ministers and the priests and all of those great people that were arrested during COVID and in many cases they're outside,
10 feet apart, and they were arrested. So we don't like it. We don't like a Pope that's going to say that it's okay to have a nuclear weapon. We don't want to Pope this as crime is okay in our city. I don't like it.
I'm not a big fan of Pope Leo, he's a very liberal person and he's a man that doesn't believe in stopping crime. He's a man that doesn't think that we should be toying with a country that wants a nuclear weapon so they can blow up the world. I'm not a fan of Pope Leo.
All right, there's the president talking about Pope Leo and Pope Leo made some comments. I think by now it's expected that Pope's are going to talk about global events, especially when there's war going on. I'm not Catholic myself.
I know there's always that's always a big deal in the news.
And of course the president feels compelled to respond here. But it's again, it is part of the back and forth. I look at really the response by, I think what's important here to me is the response in terms of our war with Iran is the response by other nations in the Middle East. And we have had great support by those nations.
That's to me is what the key to all of this is.
“That's why I think the key going forward is going to be to maintain that support”
and you maintain that support by maintaining the confidence. And I think the president so far has done an excellent job. I think every move they've made has been spot on. And I think we'll see what the blockade does and they will blockade announced there in the
straight of our moves that that basically is going to choke Iranian oil out.
So nobody can get Iranian oil and we'll see what what that brings about. That's not going to be long lit. There is an impact on the markets that you did see oil prices in the overnight hours. Now have creped over a hundred dollars a barrel. I think the last I checked it was nearly a hundred and four dollars a barrel. And that's to be expected. Quite frankly, I thought I was expecting that to go a little bit higher and it might, but I think
right now the markets have just kind of priced in overall the skirmish with Iran.
“So I think this fluctuation of where we are within 95 dollars a barrel, a hundred and five”
dollars a barrel. I think is where we're going to live for a moment. Until I guess it's determined what happens long term with the straight hormones. So we'll see. But the fact that we do have
Those other nations, those middle Eastern nations, that are on board here, we...
Iranian regime and with Iran not having nooks, I think is the key. So Pope's making comment
to me, I don't have any thoughts on that one where the other, the president, of course, feels that he should respond. Next great point about, you know, there were during the COVID years of everything that went on there, but other than that, it's a non-story when you stick to what's going on with the war and Iran and the support we have in that region. This has the potential to be massive. Hey there, I'm Paula Pan. I help people make the smartest money decisions possible. You
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I was traveling when the news came down, the Senate had passed something. I was at the
“Mid-America Trucking Show, I was in Louisville, Kentucky, and I woke up to that breaking story”
on that Friday morning and then that Senate Bill was being sent over to the house.
And the house responded initially that, no, no, no, this is never fly, this is never fly.
And then a few days later, you, the house responded and said, oh, no, house leadership said, no, no, no, we can, we believe, we can work out a deal here with the Senate. Yet, they didn't have a head count clearly in the house, and I don't know why Speaker Johnson didn't, when he said, he believes there's a deal to work out with the Senate because the conservative caucus in the house just simply wasn't going to be on board. Can they get something
done this week? Is the question? We'll, we'll see. But DHS funding is critical. The Democrats,
“we know where they are on this, but can the Senate GOP and the House GOP get together on something?”
And that remains to be seen. So we'll see there. Also, you may have seen over the weekend, in case you haven't heard, Eric Swallwell is suspending his campaign. He's not going to be the next governor of California. It was, it's, what's interesting is looking at, and we get this a lot. The questions are, well, why didn't these accusations there are serious allegations that have been made against representative Swallwell by a number of people, including that he had twice
sexually assaulted a former A. Those allegations, Swallwell denied. He says he's going to fight those allegations. However, he writes, in part, after he writes, I'm suspending my campaign for governor to my family, staff, friends, and supporters. I'm deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment. I've made in my past. I will fight the serious false allegations that have been made. But that's my flight, not a campaigns. He posted that on Sunday on X. So the San Francisco
Chronicle had initially reported on Friday that Swallwell had allegedly sexually assaulted a former aide of his in 2019 and in 2024, both of which happened when the woman was too intoxicated to give consent. CNN also reported how to report it for women accusing Swallwell of sexual misconduct, including one woman who allegedly who alleged that Swallwell had raped her. I'm getting this from
Thehill.
Chronicle, then you have to include CNN and all the other liberal activist newsrooms that are on this story, then it seemed to be too great to overcome certainly. You had Nancy Pelosi, former speaker,
basically talk about it and a couple of key Democrats who had endorsed Swallwell for governor,
had pulled those endorsements, of course. And the question is what is the future of his
“political career? Is he going to step down? Is he not going to rerun and remain a member of the house?”
I think his days are numbered. I just don't know what those numbers are. And so I think if you look at the political spectrum that is the Democratic Party, I don't, I really don't know what's left. Now, I said this before, it bears repeating here. I think Swallwell was not the future of the party.
Again, for some reason I felt like his party was kind of throttling him in a way they were not really
his gubernatorial run while he was leading for the Democrats. It wasn't overly impressive and there wasn't a ton of noise. And I just don't, and it may be because these rumors or allegations were in the hallways there at the Democratic Party and they knew this was going to boil to the surface at some point. But for whatever reason, there didn't seem to be that kind of support for Swallwell long-term. And I, I just don't think there is a political future for him. There isn't. When you're,
when you're both apologizing and also vowing to fight the serious allegations in one message on X, it spells a trouble. I don't know what he's guilty of or not guilty of. But there seems to be a consensus of the party that he is not the future. So now the question is for the Democrats, and again, not that I would have put him on that list before. But who is on that list as far as the future of the party? We've asked this question over and over and over again. Kamala Harris is still being asked
if she's going to run. She was asked in an interview over the weekend and said, she's thinking about it.
“That may take a while. Is it usually does if she's thinking? And again, who else is there? Newsom?”
Newsom also isn't a leader. In fact, I'd say Swallwell and Newsom are two peas and a political pod because of the following, because neither one of them comes off as a leader. They don't come off as people who can govern. And with Newsom there's proof, the wildfires debacle between it. Newsom and Mayor Bass, that was just horrendous. He shouldn't be governing anything. I was horrible. And I think he's been one of those who, and keep in mind, he's been around in the
political scene of California going back to San Francisco, said he counseled and mayor and
“lieutenant governor now governor. He's been around for a while. And I think he has that old school”
liberal mentality, not too old, but going back to maybe the Obama years of being a rock star. Now, some in the media, liberal activist media, who's a Katie Kirk, that said he's embarrassingly
handsome. By the way, I just let you know that's never been said about me and I'm proud of that.
Because I wouldn't want to embarrass anybody. I wouldn't want that. I'm not out to embarrass anybody. So I'm proud of the fact that no one has ever said that to me. But I believe that I believe that Newsom is, it really is of the old school Obama era rock star group. And he still thinks that. He still thinks in those terms. But the far left, the radicals don't think of those terms at all. In fact, you might need to put on some nerdy looking glasses and die your hair blue to fit in with them.
I don't know.
the rock star thing isn't working. Gary and I have said the problem with the Democrats over the
years is they have created, again, more and more victims than by default. You create more and more presses, even within your own group. This is the problem with identity politics. And what they started years ago. Well, but they need to have you need as a victim, a new identity. So a new reason to be a victim. You're now part of a new subgroup, which means everybody that was in your group before is now by default. You're a presser. And you see the division that I'm spelling out here.
That's the problem that they have. They're bad soup crazy in their ideas, which is the hope
for the GOP at the midterm. It really is. And by the way, it's not a small thing. The economy's not a small thing either. Price is under small thing, but I'll tell you when you ask yourself as a voter, what do I want in terms as the for the future of this country? What is it that I want? You can't possibly look at the radical left and say the answers are there.
“They just aren't. The only thing they have going for them that may appeal to some on the left”
or maybe a few independent, some of the independent says that they aren't Trump. But I don't think
that's as big as they think it is. I could be wrong. It happens. But I think it's interesting to look at where the party is not that nobody is rising in that party. No one is rising in that party. When you look in the GOP, you see it. You see it. Jadey Vance. Ron DeSantis. Marco Rubio. You see a complete roster there that is viable for the White House. And then when you go down that roster, you see others that are viable to be governors. I think Sarah Huckabee Sanders,
by the way speaking of governors, is part of the future of the GOP. I think she's highly credible.
“I think she could, in fact, aspire to go maybe onto the White House one day. I don't know.”
She's even looking to do that. But I think the, again, the difference is very clear. The GOP has a long list in terms of their roster, the future. And the Democrats just simply don't. So where does it go from here? You're listening to Red Eye Radio. Brought to you by FPPF, fuel power max. Smart owner operators make every single week as profitable as possible. One trip is not enough time to be considered profitable or unprofitable. And in
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You're listening to Red Eye Radio. I'm Eric Hartly Gary Mac and there has the morning off. He's not feeling well. Hopefully, back soon. I rarely take any time off for being six, so if he's sick, he means it. We're going to talk here in just a few minutes about my weekend. Gary went to travel to see his dad and spend that weekend with him for his 100th birthday celebration.
We had a birthday celebration of our own that was kind of unique and fun.
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What an amazing life he has led in Gary's talked about it over the years and the things he's seen.
My dad will be 93 in May and I can't wait. My dad is just getting to the point. I know Gary has shared at times that his dad struggles at times with dementia. I'm grateful that my father has not up to this point. My mother has. My mother-in-law is and has advanced dementia, but my father has not. And I'm grateful because he's starting to share more of his military experience with me. And I'm making notes and just trying to
“log everything that I can. I think it's just a critical that you can and Gary could write.”
I don't know a series of books on his dad and everything is data-stone. Because his dad's got that engineering mind. I think our fathers are similar in that way. His father has the engineering mind and my father has the analytical mind of an investigator. He was career military law enforcement and Intel. And he thinks that way. He's got a very
good, critical thinking mind. So I love spending time with my father and being able to talk
about some of those things. Because he relates it to current events to whatever's going on now.
“And I love that. And it's probably because I do what I do for a living. We have these conversations”
and dad and I have our own little talk show in his living room every time I go. And I'm going to go again here in just a few days as we're going to have a belated celebration for my mom's birthday. She just celebrated her 88th birthday the other day. They can't wait to see mom. I got to talk to her just the other day and sent her some beautiful flowers. And my older brother went up to me and sent her a beautiful cake. Oh, my mom loves sweets. She's got a sweet tooth.
And she loves flowers. But man, that cake looked good. And I'm greatly appreciative of my my brother's efforts to get her that cake. It was beautiful. I'm hoping there's a piece of left when I get there in a few days because it looked delicious. I'm trying to cut back on sweets but man. Hey, it's a birthday celebration. You got to do your part. But as I'm thinking about birthday celebrations, we had one of our own over the weekend. Number eight, my youngest grandchild
turned seven recently. And we had his birthday celebration with a family. But it's interesting because in our school system, you know, back in the day, we could send like parents to send
Cupcakes with a whole room, right?
we had back then. And to celebrate our sons birthday and include the whole class. Well, you can't do
that anymore. I don't even, I don't think they even have big sales. I could be wrong. Back then, we had big sales. Think about this. We would buy things from strangers. We didn't even tell. Say, no problem at all. Big sales would raise money for whatever reason at schools. And so they're very controlling about what you can do with kids birthdays. And if you invite,
“if you send out invites, you have to send them out through the home home teacher and the entire”
class has to get an invitation. You have to invite the entire class, which is great because my grandson is great friends with the other 19 students that are in his home room class. So that's fine. So my son, his dad, decided, we're going to have a get together in the park, our city park, playground and, you know, there's a great little river that goes through it with ducks and turtles
and everything else and just let the kids play. And at first, I thought, oh, man, what do I know?
I'm an old man. I'm thinking, no, these kids need devices, right? You got to have tablets. You got to have something for them to ride. You're going to have to have, you got to keep them
“entertained. Because, no, no, I think this will be a good approach. I'm like, all right. So”
we get closer to the event, which was this past Saturday and the forecast start showing rain in the forecast. Well, late Friday afternoon, it was showing during the day on Saturday, just spotty showers, off and off. Okay, we can handle that. I've got a 10 by 10, a tarp tent that you can set up that we set up, that everybody could stand under and, you know, so we set that up. My son made some really cool cupcakes and a cup, which was a brilliant idea, especially if it was going to rain,
there were waterproof and brought drinks and everything for the kids and party favors and some games. And then, just as we get the canopy set up, it starts unloading from this guy's
“raining cats and dogs. So we're thinking, oh, oh, no, right. All the adults are right there under”
the tarp under the canopy and we're thinking, you know, because nobody wants to get any water on them, that would be dangerous, right? No lightning involved, no high winds, no dangerous situation, because I'm in constant contact with my all my weather apps and local stations and it was rain only. Next thing you know, these kids and we had a pretty good turnout. It was about eight
or nine kids total. Start running around in the pouring rain and loving every second of it
and they had a big playground there that had, you know, ramps and everything else and as I said, we turned the slides into water slides and we're having the best time interventional downfall. That lasted, I want to say a good 20 minutes and they were just having fun and I looked over at my son who looks back at me and then he was just nodding like, you know, it just worked out because his idea was let's just let's some the kids play.
They're still at that age. All them roughly seven years old. My grandson just turned seven. So they're all roughly seven years old and let them go out and just play. And so we started having conversations with amongst the parents we were talking about when we were kids. We didn't even have helmets for bicycles. We were drinking out of the water faucet because we didn't want to go inside because everyone inside. That's when the day was over. No, no, no, no. We would drink out of the faucet.
The water hose. Sometimes the water hose didn't even have that metal thing on the end of it. It was just cut off. It was just a cut off piece of rubber at the end of it and you're just drinking and you were drinking lots of water out of that water hose. And I remember being in
San Antonio.
in San Antonio, we would always ask our parents when the rain stopped if we could go outside and
“play in the water. That water being the water, that tiny little stream now, that rushes along”
the curb on the street, right? And it was a lot of water and we loved to splash around in it. So we're having this conversation with the adults on Saturday about what we used to do as kids. Of course, we weren't some things. That water was maybe contaminated with some engine oil or other things. Nah, we didn't care. We really didn't care. And hey, I made it okay. There's very few things wrong with me and probably had nothing to do with
getting outside and actually playing. But as we're watching these children run around and just have
the best time splashing in water in mud and everything else, it was just the greatest.
“Because you can go and it's perfectly okay. In fact, a lot of people do it. Go rent a space”
at a pizza place or at a place that has a lot of games. And what you'll notice there is the the kids will all kind of separate and all go play different games at different times. And that's fine. But my son's idea here was to get these kids together and have them play together as they are classmates, but they don't get to play that way at school. You know, for a few minutes on
at recess, but they don't have cupcakes and Capri Sons during recess. An endless supply, by the way,
that we had for them at the party. And so we got, it was like an extended recess and they got to play in the rain. They weren't told to come in out of the rain because they didn't have to. And I just thought to myself, just watching them, it was so great. Girls and boys, a couple of set of twin girls who were just the most adorable, waiting to boys on every little excursion and they were just running all over the place.
Having the best time. And it just filled my heart with joy. Just a reminder of children. You know, I had just said a couple of days ago to my wife. We had seen this young toddler that's probably 18 to 24 months old somewhere in there, just starting to walk on this YouTube channel that we follow with this young couple that are mom and dad. And I just noticed this toddler was just had the greatest expression of joy on her face. And I said, you know,
toddlers can be very afraid. Of course, you know, the parents have to be there to protect them. So there are things they haven't learned yet about the world. What the dangers are, but also that same fact, lens to them, getting the greatest enjoyment and happy true, happiness, real joy in life as as kids. And we witnessed that once again on the playground on Saturday as a part of this birthday celebration. But it just became something much more,
you know, it wasn't just a birthday celebration. It was friends from school hanging out. And I told my, the fellow parents there, well, I'm grandparent, but I was telling the parents there that still today, I've got a group of men that I've known since, in some cases, fourth grade. And we get together every year, just a couple of weeks ago, we did. For reunion, we all grew up and dealt real together. And we're still friends.
And part of that is the bonding, the real bonding of, you know, just having, again, that not real freedom of kids, but certainly you're enjoying those moments of true joy as kids. And when you bond during those moments, I think you bond for a long time. And I told my son, I said, make sure that your son keeps in contact with these friends at this age.
“And they remember these moments. Because those are the moments I think that that make us”
and form us as individuals as we grow older. So I love those moments. And I hope to experience more. He's our youngest, but we're savoring every moment with our grandkids.
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