05-04-26 Part One - A Day at the Races

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This is Red Eye Radio. All across America, we are Red Eye Radio, he is Eric Hurley, and I'm Gary McNamara. Hi, before we go anywhere, here, okay, the Kentucky Derby, and Golden Temple Winning it? Did you see it?

No, I didn't. Okay. No. You haven't seen a tape of it? No, I didn't.

It's exactly the last scene of C-Pascade, the movie. Exactly. All right. When I watched it, there were so many horses in it, there was like 19 horses in it. It was just a lot of horses.

That's a lot of horses. That's a lot of horses. And so, at the end, you just see this, it looks like this one horse is maybe in fifth place

“and just, you know, Golden Temple takes off and, you know, wins it by a neck, I think they”

said, a neck. One-by a neck. Okay, and then immediately, they went, they said, came from last place going around the last turn and they, so then they show the whole thing, the wide shot of it. You can see it from the air, you can see it from the air.

And Golden Temple is in last place between two horses as they're coming around the last turn. Yeah. And passes by everybody and wins the dang thing. All right.

Wow. So, and so if you look at the last scene, and so I'm watching that and I'm went, that looks like exactly the choreography of the last scene of Seabus get the movie. Right. And I'm going back and watch it, I actually posted it on Facebook and Twitter.

Right. And you can see the last scene and he's like in last place and you can see us are coming around. It looks like, you know, they're coming around the back stretch, the, you know, the last, you know, the last turn when he takes off.

Wow. And normally, I don't know why this is, normally on Derby Day, I'm at my mom and dad's. I don't know why that is because it's not anybody's, it's not on anybody's birthday. Yeah.

But anyway, I, I normally am and, and then all of a sudden we just pause and watch it. I mean, we don't sit and watch the celebrities trailing in and everything. Oh, no. Some of friend who actually is a former bandmate and his family trains horses, that's what they do.

And he, uh, he's always posting pictures from him.

I don't know if I showed you the one picture of him with John Banner. Yes, you did. Remember? Yes. Yes.

And so Kenny's always out there. I didn't see anything. I also, and not on Facebook. I'm not very active in anything. What I say Gary has a much more active life than I do.

It's true. But we had other family matters going on on Saturday, and so I didn't catch anything. And then I saw that I did see the notification, you know, of the, I mean, my, the notification just go to the roof, you know, when, when they announced the winner, when, and, and so

all my notifications on my phone hit, I never went back to watch it.

But now I'm gonna have to go back and watch it. For me, my brother's really into horse racing, um, our family has a, uh, connection to Rio dosa. And so not Rio dosa downs, but Rio dosa, the Mexico, the area. And so my brother, uh, once took me to Rio dosa downs, uh, when it comes to Louisville,

uh, and Kentucky, I'm very connected.

“I have a key to the city of Louisville, which is presented to me by, uh, Rickie Schaxx, actually.”

And then, uh, I was made in honorary Kentucky kernel. Now neither of those things get me anything. I don't get any free chicken, and I don't actually get into city hall after hour. Not even a minjula. Not even a minjula.

I could buy one or derby pie, if you ever had derby pie, it's, it's managed though. Now, I really, I'm, be honest, I've no interest in horse racing. It's just, yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't really, when they can, uh, I was busy. My whole weekend was long work in house work, except for going out on Friday night, which was, uh, Tommy says high, by the way, yes, uh, the great Tommy Daniels.

Yeah, and the funny thing is, you know, I woke up Friday at a bunch of work. About one o'clock, I was tired, fell asleep, woke up at four, so as I woke up. My buddy Mike texted me, you're going to come out and watch hockey tonight. You know, and I went, uh, yeah, and well, I took a nap and everything else.

Yeah, so, uh, went to, uh, uh, TCU University location of Buffalo Brothers, because it's like, right now.

“Yeah, it's a Buffalo food restaurant, by the way, if people don't know it for work.”

Yeah, and, uh, so, uh, group of us are there and, and Tommy, who you used to work with, and I, yeah, I don't want to make the sound inside, but, uh, Tommy is from Buffalo, and my other friend

from Buffalo, basically, right, right, and, and longtime colleague, right, and, you know,

I didn't know he did mornings with, at the station you worked at. Yeah, I didn't know he told me that the other day, but, uh, I've met him through you, and I met him by accident a couple of years ago when he was there. Well, in fact, we go back even further than that job. We go back. Which is all falls. You told me. Yeah, we shall fall. And then he was doing a sports in the morning at the rock station. I was at,

here before in Dallas before I came here. And he's, he's ahead of like, uh, communications for the,

“minor league team out of Allen Texas, right, uh, Allen McKinney, which is, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,”

the Allen Americans, and he's a play by play guy. Yeah, great. Really good play by play guy. He's, he's, uh, he's just tremendously talented. He lives the sports. He's the perfect guy for that job, and just loves it. The interesting thing is he didn't have his laptop within this time. Really. Wow. But he was so excited. He said he drove two hours. Yeah. Yeah. He was like, I just got to be here. I just got to be here. I just got to be a forward. So, uh, so that was

one, but that's like I said the rest of the picture was cool. The rest of the weekend was just, yeah, you can actually look at the picture, right? Yeah, actually posted it on Twitter. You can actually see me out and about. Yeah. And by the way, the women in front of me, uh, because I've ever, ever had to get any of those, and those women with you, and I went, now, now. No. We've been walking by as we took pictures. Not they were in the picture. I mean, they're, they were,

but so Saturday was just lawn, lawn work all day. Yeah. And so I came back. I did a lot early in the day. I came

in about 530. Yeah. And I like, oh, I must have missed it. I don't know why I always thought it was

like 537 or something that went on. Right. And, and I went, well, and about quarter to six, I went, well, let me turn it on to see who won. Like, no, there's still not in yet. And, uh, it's like, so I watched it. But every year, I mean, I don't, the thing is, it was, um, it's, it's like the Super Bowl. They start that thing. And, you know, here's the, the undercard or whatever, I'm like, I don't care. All right. So every March racing, every March, we go to Louisville for the

Mid-America Trucking Show, so the largest trucking industry event, uh, been doing that for, uh, man, almost 30 years now. Uh, I started like the second year I started on the show. I started going. And I MC everything, uh, at that event. But if you go out and have dinner go anywhere into town,

while you're there in March already. And I don't know if that, I've never asked

how soon the Derby Day countdown begins. But you'll see it everywhere. Derby Day in, you know, however many days locally they're in Louisville. And it's, uh, it's actually very cool. I mean, so there's, there are two things going on while we're there. The, the truck show, of course. And then the basketball, well, if, if, if, if they're in it. Um, so, and, uh, it's, and it's either, uh, you know, then Louisville and, and Kentucky both, you know, just kind of, there's, there's fans,

the both there and in, uh, in town, of course. But other than that, you look around and you see, you know, Derby Day in so many days and every day, it counts down. So, uh, yeah, um, it's, uh, I'll have to go back and, and watch the race. That sounds pretty cool, actually. Yeah, it was, uh, it was cool. It was almost like, I can't think of the guy in 72 for the United States, Ronald. Again, the war baseball cap. And he was in, like, the 5,000 or 10,000

meters. And I forgot which one it was. He was in last place. Right. And like, in the last half a lap, he went from last place, past everybody in one of the gold medal. Wow.

“It was first name, Waddle. I mean, like, it was so famous at that time. That's what it reminded me.”

I mean, I went, that's the sea biscuit movie. It's exact. And I went back and watched the last scene on YouTube. Yeah. When it's the last scene of sea biscuit. Right. And the choreography was almost the same as, you know, the horse. Right. How it went up in one. So, just, uh, fast, any, but what a weekend it was. Uh, I, uh, I tell you that I saw this on, on Saturday and burst out laughing. Yeah. Uh, I was, uh, getting a cold drink in the house after doing loose, a, a news,

a, you mean, lawnwork, not news work, not lawnwork. I see Trump posted this on true social ready for

mar relevant as it pertains to the Republican party and beyond. Bill mar is a weekend in effective person who I got to know very well during my dinner with him at the White House. He was nervous,

“scared. And the first words he uttered as he entered the oval office were, can I get a drink?”

It was, it was very enduring. But at the same time, absolutely pathetic. Well, that was it. I mean, I was losing it at that point right there. It was very enduring. But pathetic. He was much different than what people think. But last night, I happened to watch Gavin Newscomm and admittedly low IQ person, oh, by the way, to see the Trump referred to he came Jeffries as a low IQ person. Uh, and the people on the left were saying racist, racist, racist, racist. It's like, no,

he calls anybody. Yeah, disagree. Yeah, low IQ. Right. And so it's like, and there were people that were on his side. There might be people that were on his staff were in his administration at one point that he's referred to as low IQ. I happen to watch Gavin Newscomm and admittedly

“low IQ person who said he can't read a speech is dumb and essentially incompetent. And he took”

Bill mar over the coals. Bill mar was defenseless and totally deficient either he didn't have the knowledge or he choked because Gavin went out about how good California is doing, while it is doing very poorly, having by far the worst year it's ever had, where for the first time in history, more people are leaving than coming. Bill mar started out by saying California was doing poorly, only to have Newscomm speak for an extended period of time and lie about the facts. All you have

to do is look at what's happening to Los Angeles, San Francisco. The horrendous homeless problem

all over the street, the rail catastrophe that is billions of dollars over budget and has never

been built and the inability to rebuild the 25,000 homes that were destroyed by the fire because refused to allow water into the street from the southwest. And then just goes on and on, but it's like a Bill mar is a moron, those slightly more talented than Jimmy Kimmel, president Donald J. Trump. Yeah, all right. His mind drifts from one thing to another. Yeah, it cost, I mean it's just like it's amazing how the president was out speaking. It's like, hey, something front of the plane

making a pretty good speech here about what's going on in a ran. It's like, and just you run inside the helicopter. Yeah. Oh, not about the Bill Mar. Yeah, it's not. You know, we have said it in a different way than the president. Well, but as we've said before, he's moving in the right direction, but understand that like when Bill Mar talks about identity politics and the radical transition,

or movement and everything else, uh, he was not, you know, he was never screaming for 20 years

when the radical transfer, excuse me, when the when the identity politics were played being played by the Democrats, right, when when black, when black conservatives were being called Uncle Tom,

“he wasn't out there defending them saying stop it. No. No. And I think when it just became”

politically untenable, you know, for him or maybe he, you know, maybe he did have some moderate views is when he has changed. We're look, we look at it and go, at least he's moving in the right direction. It seems most the time, but then again, when he comes and haws on the radical trans gender movement, how many times have you and I heard him say, well, you know, there's there's there's some things out there that we need to consider. Well, what are they precisely? Right.

Yeah. And so it's almost as if people go on his show and they're afraid to even conservatives or Republicans and are afraid to blast and go, look, Bill, I'm glad you did this, but look, you said this, you said this, you cannot, you know, you cannot pretend that you've

always held these views and these opinions, especially on the racism of identity politics,

of the Democratic Party and say you've always been against it and you've been loud against it. Well, he walks right up to the point of having conviction because what he's trying to do, he always tries to walk that fence. So that, I don't know, he can maintain independent street cred. I'm not sure what his goal is. You know, criticizing both sides, but it's an issue. Have issue cred. Well, forget about, forget about the labels of the past,

have issue cred. Well, if you talk about the issue, you end up being right on the issue.

He's never had them. He comes out and he criticizes what the left does, but his own convictions,

really, he doesn't bring to the table. He can say, well, that's stupid. And blah, blah, blah, they shouldn't do that. And they're stupid for doing this. What he really thinks, where he really stands, he keeps in his pocket. And he's always done that. That's not true conviction. That's being critical. Anybody can be critical. Stand for something. Show your convictions. He doesn't do that. And it's, it's because he's

“trying to write that fine line. Always trying to write that fine line. That's what his show's”

been about. Well, all of his shows have been about, you know, going back to politically incorrect

on ABC, you know, he just kind of, and he's a liberal and then he criticizes liberals. Well, I chalked that up to a generational thing. He's old. So you see it, you know, I mean, that more the story is coming out about Barney Frank, who's in hospice criticizing his own party. The Barney Frank was one of the radicals who built the whole thing. Yeah. You know, I saw part of that interview and I just went, okay, it was soft-selled when he was talking in person,

Jake Tapper. Right. It was like, well, we might have gone, even if I agree with the

where their eventual conclusion is, I believe they went about it the wrong way. I said, okay,

I'm done. Right. You know, we know what he did with Fanny and Freddie. Right. So we know where he is. We know how far left he is. Yeah. And he's in hospice, but he's, you know, normally, I would even discuss it. Right. But he decided to get back into the arena vibe. He's the one that did the interview. So, I mean, you know, that those, those, those words are certain,

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“nation with a lot of idiots. Let's hear from Adam Schiff, okay?”

Okay, ready? Here we go. I need to press. Here we are. Adam Schiff. Well, let me follow up with you and ask about your state specifically. California has the highest tax on gasoline ranging between 60 cents to 70 cents per gallon. Would you call one governor Gavin Newsom to suspend the gas tax in your state? Well, again, I'd be open to that as long as we place that windfall profit stacks on that oil

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that 47% of Democrats it was taken. I believe in March. 47% of Democrats still believe that Trump staged the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. Yeah. Yeah. That's insane. That's insane. 47% of Democrats still believe that. Well, the White House correspondence center, the rumors, you know, conspiracy theories started right away online. Yeah. Staged. Yeah. Staged. Yep. And, you know, so it was a combination of that.

Adam Schiff, where again, I don't know, you would think that liberals that want to be taken care of would be upset that Democrats still promote corporate taxes, which is a stealth tax, which hurts

“the poor the most. And I've asked this question, is it the fact that they honestly don't have”

the mental capability to connect the dots? Some of the easiest dots that you could ever connect. Yeah. You increase the cost of doing business for the oil companies. What happens at your gas station? Didn't California do another? They did another research to a more investigation. Oh, yeah, it was recently. There's gouging and they can't find any gouging from the oil companies. They've

never been able to find gouging. Yep. Yeah. Democrats still scream. It's there. And so as we've all we

thought, it's just an amazing ability not to be able to connect the simplest dots out there that you see, feel and witness every single day when you go by gas stations. And everybody's got to fill up and they're all looking going, it's going up. Why? Well, it must. The gouging comes from the lawmakers. Think about this. What do they do? They hook on to a product that first of all, they know you need to use every single day. And then they complain about it. And then say,

to be a windfall for them. They're the ones gouging. The lawmakers are the ones gouging. They don't

produce the oil. They don't. They don't refine the oil into the finished product of gasoline and other finished products. None of that matters. All they need to do is get more taxes, more revenue from you and pretend and want you to use your jealousy and envy to give them the leverage.

“I can't remember who it is. It finally challenged a Democrat. This goes back maybe three or”

four years ago. I know you remember it. And the time that it happened. I don't know if you remember the specifics of it because I don't. But it was when they were doing the same thing

about the windfall's profit tax. And they were saying, these oil companies are greedy so we need

to tax them more. And someone asked the question to the Democrat, well, if they're greedy and you tax them more. And we already see that when you raise the cost of oil, they immediately, they don't hesitate at all. They immediately raise the price of gasoline. It gets raised. Why do you think that if you put a windfall's profit tax on, if they're greedy as you are accusing, that they just want to increase the price. And the answer was, we'll because we don't

“believe they will. Right. Remember that. That was actually part of the narrative. The answer was,”

well, and we were making fun of them because it's, here's the short, short inversion of it. They're greedy. We're going to go after them by taxing them. Prices go up. They're going to pass it on to the consumer. Well, no, after we tax them, they won't be greedy anymore. Yeah. It's good. Huh? It doesn't make, it doesn't work. And this is an argument on the government through corporate taxes, putting a stealth tax on you because you don't see it

and it hurts the poor the most. Right. And no Democrat has ever been able to get to that point to say, you know, maybe we shouldn't do this because it's a stealth tax that hurts the poor the most. The gasoline is something that is, you know, necessary, but in corporate taxes overall, it's a stealth tax. The reason that the reason that Democrats love corporate taxes is because they get to tax the middle class and the poor. And they go, these idiots,

we're putting a stealth tax on them. We're telling them we're punishing the companies and they're cheering like, yeah, keep it going, keep it going. They're like, this is great. I can stay in office forever because these idiots can't connect simple dots together. You know, someone's probably already done it, but if they haven't, it'll happen soon.

Because we always talk about that hidden tax. You don't get the breakdown on the receipt.

Now, you get your total and then your local sales tax and then, you know, then the grand total on your receipt, but you don't get the cost of government as a whole on your receipt. Okay, this is the cost of remembering in what was it in Philly when they put on the sugar tax. And the store owners, the store operators said, okay, well, we're going to put a sign in our soda aisle that says the reason that a 12 pack of soda is now 20 bucks is because of the

local sugar tax. And then the local lawmakers were like, you can't do that. You can't tell them

“the truth. You can't be transparent. And remember, and we'll be talking about the airlines here in a”

little bit. Yeah, remember the the transparency act for the airline. Right. We think it's wrong that the airlines put with their cost is. And then when you go to check out, then all the cost of government is on there, which then shows you the final price. Right. The final price should be there without breaking down what the government takes. Right. Because that's full transparency. It's less transparency. If you actually show them, this is our price. And then when you go to check out,

here's all the government stuff. It shows you what the government is charging you to buy an airline

And if someone hasn't done this yet, I'm waiting for somebody to do this. Maybe you

love and must can do this. They can use grock. They're proprietary AI at X. And have it because you will at some point in the future. I was talking to Sven some time with one of my granddaughters yesterday. And she's working. She's in college. She's halfway through college. She's halfway through college. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah. And she's not the oldest grandchild. Yeah. So she's loving her job, working away through college, working and going to school. And I said, you know, in your world,

“with AI, there's no telling, you know, how things are going to be. I think a lot of things”

will be convenient and very productive. And, you know, there's a lot of questions we were just talking about AI in general. But somebody needs to come up with, have AI break down the cost of government, not as a total, like in your life, but with every purchase so that you could look down as you're making a purchase, right? And have AI break that down. What's the cost of government? What is the cost of, you know, and estimate what the cost of everything is?

That is something AI, I would love anybody in the AI world to do so that somebody has a receipt and you can break down why things are priced the way they are, which would by the way also include tariffs, corporate taxes, local taxes, not just the sales tax, right? The hidden taxes within. So I would love to see that to where it's, where's an actual tool on your device when you're breaking it down, where it says, yeah, because of this, this, this, and this, the price

adds up to this. I'd love to see that. Cost of government day last year was July 13th. Yeah, yeah, right. So the cost of government basically all the way, basically July 13th, in order, and then from there on the rest was yours. The average person works for July 13th, just to pay for the cost of government for everything. Right. After July 15th, to the end of the year. And there are necessary roles,

yes, you know, that are factored into that. But the transparency, it's like we've always said,

you know, AI can't do this because the IRS will never do this. You know, if every payday, the IRS to show it up is your at your door and said, did you got, it wasn't taken out of your check, but the IRS showed up and said, hey, right, it's your check for what you owe us. Things would change. That's not going to happen. But AI might be able to break down the cost of government with every purchase at one point. I'd love that. I just did it for Social Security last week.

Yeah, they let you take out like five, seven, yeah. I think it's 12, and then 22%. Yeah, well, I took out 12, and it wasn't enough. But 22%. I got hit with my, what it would have

will take out the first check. Yeah. Mike, well, I'm going to do that for two months, and then I'm caught up.

“That's how my, because I saw exactly, they sent me a thing. Oh, you're in change it throughout the year.”

Yeah, you can change back. Yeah, you go back. You go back and forth. Okay, there you go. I figured I'd just do for three months, and then figure out how close I am next year. Right. And then figure out what to do for next year. But it was like, I couldn't believe it. It was like the difference is like 600 bucks a month. I'm like, yeah. I think I paid 2,000 extra this year. Well, that's taking out, you know, that's, right, that's taking out 6,000. Right. Okay.

We're going back to 12%. Right. Exactly. And, but that's the reaction. Remember, I wrapped you saw on the front for me to go, what? Yeah. All right. We're going back to 12 after a couple of months. Right. Let him take that out a couple of months. I'll be caught up in the boom. Imagine an AI program that breaks down all your purchases and shows you the cost of government. I love the great. Yeah, no. We are Red Eye Radio. We'll be right back with more Red Eye Radio with every

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“I was just thinking after what you just said about what AI could do. Yeah. Maybe that's why”

the left is against AI. You know, they really have turned. Haven't they? Maybe they're against AI because AI will create the truth, the transparency can give you instant information.

There was, there was a, I don't know, it was a study about, I think it was Google AI and how much of it was not completely accurate and holding us. Yeah, you fight to a wrong all the time.

“But, you know, that's why I turned a week Wikipedia because everything on Wikipedia is that.”

But, but no, I mean, they they realize it will be one more tool. That's what you and I

always talk about. You know, you can go like your phone to the internet in general is a tool,

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All across the USA, we are Red Eye Radio. I'm Gary McNamara. He's our Carly. All right. All right. So, you're ready for more? I'm ready for more. I promise the booted judge cut. Okay. This is a Pete booted judge over the weekend. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we live in a nation of idiots.

I know. We really do. We really do.

“And I say idiots because they have no interest in finding out what the truth is.”

You know, and that's the one thing we had talked about. You know, you can look at AI,

but AI is another tool that you and I both use. I go to AI and I can just because we pay attention to the issues. It's what we do. It's our living. Right. So, you know, if it wasn't our living, it would be our addiction. And so, I'll sit there and go, okay, that looks like it's right there. Okay, that's wrong. That's definitely wrong. I saw something the other day that was completely ridiculous. They had, I forgot what it was about, but it was like somebody involved in it.

When it's like, that guy is involved in it at all. Right. And I read it again. And the same thing came out. So, yeah, AI, the problem would be garbage in garbage out. Yeah. But the fact is there will be enough new services out there that you'll be able to get the truth. And it's another tool that you can use, you know, to get the truth button. Here's Buddha Judge. One of his town halls. Here we go. You ready? All right. All right. Here we go. But one thing that would make a

huge difference is if we selected our president by letting the person who got the most votes actually take the office, the center of the national electoral house. It would be a really good idea. It would be a horrible idea. It would be a disastrous idea. And I go back to the fact of so many people who hate this country have no idea what the constitution is about or why the constitution exists the way that exists, or why the electoral college exists, or why the

Senate exists. And it's just when you, when you look at the ignorance out there, I say it's a willful ignorance. It's willful ignorance because I think people, many people are afraid of what the truth may be, and they like sitting there with their little stinkin' narrative that's completely off base, doesn't work. The reason that the electoral college exists is the same reason the Senate exists because in order to get the United States, in order to get states to join us,

if states were told, sorry, you can join the United States, but you really don't get any representation at all because everything is done on the popular vote of the entire country,

“and your state doesn't matter. That's how revolution starts. That's how civil war starts.”

How do we know? The lack of representation is why we are the United States of America, and not colonies of great Britain. And it's like they have no interest. It's to the point of jealousy envy and selfishness is the only thing that they are obsessed with day in and day out.

into a narrative that we fully don't understand because we really don't know how the hell

“things work, but it feels good. And so we're just going to say this is what we want. They got a”

standing ovation. And that's in Oklahoma. That was in Tulsa. Yeah. People are idiots. Well, and there's so many, not all. It's again, it is a combination of willful ignorance, and then those in the crowd who aren't willfully ignorant, who know exactly how it works, wanting to change the fundamental or the foundation of the nation, really. I mean, it's about the Constitution, but if they can get through, if if if if they could do this, which they can't

without changing the Constitution, but if they could get through this, then they've controlled elections. The next thing you know, California is basically

“electing all the presidents from now on. I mean, it's you're going to have the mob rules mentality”

at the polls. And it's never, no one ever breaks it down, because in a moment like that,

people do the judge. Yeah, with the most blows. Yeah, most blows. By the way, that he, he was a criticize saying, well, Trump would be president then. Yeah. Right. Exactly. Yes. Exactly. Right. No, it's, and it's, again, the willful ignorance of the crowd, the cheering what you hear is the emotion of it all. And, you know, and people, you know, some people believe that the hate started with just Trump, it didn't. The, the, the, the hate that I see that drives the absolute manic obsession,

emotional obsession with the liberals. We can go back to the Adam shift cut that we played last hour.

“Liberals want to feel as if they're hurting someone. We're punishing these companies. That's why”

Adam shift. Yeah. When he was asked, again, on meet the press, would you tell Gavin Newsom to lower gas taxes? Oh, yeah. I consider that, but only if we put a windfall's profit tax, I don't know, companies. Right. Right. And we all know that when you tax companies, they pass it on to the consumer. Yep. And we know in gasoline, they do it in oil, they do, because we see it every single time. There's anything that makes the cost of business

greater in the oil industry, gasoline prices immediately go up. Right. But the hatred of corporations is so great. The belief because it's been pounded into them, that companies are evil and need to be punished has taken away even the instinct of knowing that they're going to pay higher prices. Yeah. That the company isn't going to be punished. Right. I mean, they may, they may lose business or whatever. But if they lose business, that's less choice for you. But

they're going to pass the higher cost also onto the consumer as we know, whether it's an increase in minimum wage, whether it's an increase in corporate taxes, whether it's tariffs. Right. Doesn't matter across the board. You raise the cost of doing business. It's passed onto the consumer. Democrats, the biggest fly they've gotten away with decade after decade. And this is what makes them look at their people at both of them. And I'm not, I am not kidding here. They

go, these people, the people that vote for us are complete idiots. We can stay in power, just promote hate against things that they are perceived to want to hate. And we can take, we can take money right out of their pockets. Right. They don't even know it because it's stealth. And then when prices go up, we'll just scream, well, that's some damn companies. We got to tax them the more and these idiots will go, that's exactly how it works. And that's the thing

that gets to me that their hatred is so great, that their own instinct of self preservation,

and that we tax the companies. It will hurt the companies and they completely ignore the other

“part of the equation is you end up paying the freight. Right. And it's a stealth tax on you and the”

politicians that you vote for, laugh at your idiocy. You know the same thing in New York State. I'm Donnie wants to raise a bunch of money for all of his programs and those he needs the state to do it. Hockel is on this fence where she knows she's going to have to raise taxes to if she's going to cooperate with Mom Donnie and how dare you not cooperate. And so talking about

raising corporate taxes, which is raising cost of goods and services for everybody in the state

to pay for New York City. This is their approach and has been for the longest time. And again, you know, let's get rid of the Electoral College. Let's get rid of the Senate. Yeah. Let's get rid of the entire foundation of this nation. Well, how let's vote by Facebook, by the like button. Why do we even have to show up at the polls? If voter ID

“is prohibitive in terms of people getting access to the polls, right? Because that's what they say.”

Well, it's so hard to get it. I don't even know where my birth certificate is. I don't even know if I have a birth certificate. I'm not sure if I was even born. If that's a problem, if voter ID is a problem, traveling to the polls is a problem. By Godly, we should be able to vote on our phone. The perfect example is we've talked about the last few weeks is Virginia. The reason we have a Senate, the reason we have the Electoral College

is to stop the tyranny of the majority. Yeah. And if the perfect example is Virginia,

51, basically 51, 49. The 49% get 10% of the representation. Yeah. Less than 10%. Yeah.

“Other representation. Right. That's the entire goal. That's the tyranny of the majority. That's”

what would happen if the Electoral College in the Senate was gone. Right. That's where you get revolutions. History shows it. And it wouldn't take long. No. No. But this is exactly what they want. They've been shipping away at the foundation, the cornerstone of this nation for the longest time. And they do so through stupidity, ignorance. And then put a judge thinks he's an intellectual. That's the thing. Yeah. And these people think I'm smart. Right. They think I'm a George

Clooney or a Gavin Newsom. Yeah. People. That's so funny. I can sound smart and throw out idiocy. That way, the people, the person that gets the most votes wins. Yeah. Like Trump. I love that. Somebody in the crowd have done that. But I understand that's Oklahoma. Yeah. Yes. Probably considered the most conservative state in the United States. Yes. Yep. Trying to think of anybody. I know there were a couple of years ago. I'm trying

to think of anybody's match them. Yeah. I don't know. And still, but a judge can sell absolute idiocy. Yep. And Virginia can too. Yep. Virginia. I mean, that's the perfect example, as we've said over and over again. You want to understand why there's a Senate, why there's electoral college. Look at Virginia. Yeah. Virginia's actually to the point of saying, not only do we want, you know, we want minister representation for a huge segment

there are also saying we don't give a damn about the citizens of Virginia and how they vote in an election. Right. If you vote one way and the country goes another way, all of your votes are going to go to the opposite of what you wanted. And the people are like, that's so good to me. Oh, yep. I apologize for that voice because I'm making them sound too smart. Yeah. You need to slow it down. I mean, but this is a kind of stuff where you just have to,

clueless. Now they are. They're willing to give up their own representation.

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“at all. Anybody else wants to do it? That's fine. I think it's a big stupid virtue signal.”

Look at me. I'm saving the planet. Yeah. What about the lithium? It's all BS.

You know, he also joked afterwards about self-driving cars that he always tells his kids

that their kids will say to them, you mean you grew up at a time when they would let people just drive at any speed and steer the car themselves. Didn't they just crash and kill themselves constantly? You know, he had Letterman on in one of the episodes of comedians and cars getting coffee. And in one part of the episode, Letterman's driving his hot rod that Steve McQueen once owned. In another part of it, he's driving a Nissan Leaf, which is an EV.

“And Jerry Seinfeld was giving him grief at the end. It's like, what? What?”

This is just one of your many vehicles. This isn't the only vehicle you drive basically,

I'm paraphrasing, but he was giving him grief because he was pointing out exactly what he said here in this interview. That it is just virtue signaling. That's all you're doing. You want people to think that you care about the planet. You know, there are two core customers for EVs. The tech heads and they, I think they probably saturated the market on that, I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. And then beyond that, it's those who want their neighbors to see an EV out in

front of their home or in their driveway. That's who we're talking about, those are the core customers. I had to look it up because Seinfeld is a collector of Porsche's. He loves Porsche's. Porsche does make an EV. Who was it? I forget which high-end sports car maker said recently. Yeah, we're giving up the EV thing. There's no point. It wasn't Porsche. It was another one like them, but Porsche does make an EV. But it's, it is virtue signaling. Look, if you're driving around town,

if they ever get it to the point, the price where the price point makes sense, the longevity of the

is to a large extent, virtue signaling for those who are buying.

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Well, the Spirit Airlines. Oh, man. Then, um, Democrats scrambling like crazy. Yeah. Let's play people to judge from a few minutes. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. Here we go. Normally, we don't get involved in it, but we need to stop this merger. Yeah. A couple years ago between JetBlue and Spirit here. Yeah. Our department, the Department of Transportation has generally not gotten involved

“in these merger cases, but that's changing today. It is so important to make sure that passengers”

have choices, that they have access to low fairs, that they have access to competition.

And yet we've seen less and less and less of that competition over the years. We are taking a step that again is unusual in terms of recent years, but we think it's the right thing to do supporting the DOJ's lawsuit and independently using our own authorities, which are a little bit different from the DOJ, starting our own investigation and taking other actions. You know, you sound like you really want to say something. Well, there's so much crap.

And what he just said or what he said back then, and we just played. Because if we were talking at the time about American buying Delta and United, right? And like a three-way merger of those three getting together, you're talking about, okay, they're controlling

a huge part of the market share. By the way, I heard a joke by Stephen Wright. I'd never heard.

I thought I had heard every Stephen Wright joke on the planet. He said, I just heard this yesterday. He said, I have a concern about one company, only one company making the game monopoly.

“But I just laughed wherever on that one. But if you talk about JetBlue and Spirit, right?”

We're talking about the two discount airlines. In that scenario, it's important. It's critical for the, any of the regulators to look at that with the analysis of the books. What is going to happen inevitably if there is not a merger? If you don't create one stronger company out of the two. Inevitably, one of them's going to go away. And what happens when one of them goes away? Well, you have fewer choices. Exactly what he was complaining about.

Spirit Airlines had 17,000 employees. 17,000. That's a lot of people, did you see the video with the one pilot who was about to fly his retirement, his final flight for retirement? And he didn't get to do it because of the shutdown. And when they talk about this, you know, when the regulators say, well, we can't have this, these margins, but that particular proposed merger was not one of those, again, that would be like American buying United and Delta, where it's like,

oh, and I gosh, they control the entire, you know, massive chunk of the market. I've often said that one of the things I don't understand is decisions that they come to in, in, in anti-trust. But, you know, anti-trust decisions. To me, there's a great wherever the political wins are is where that's going to move. And I view this, it's sort of like define what a monopoly is.

you sort of said it, we said it a couple of weeks ago when the United CEO was saying, oh, we, you

“know, we want to talk to American Airlines about a merger and we went, that's not happening.”

Yeah, that's not going to happen. That's not going to happen. But when you look at spirit and jet blue, if they would emerge, they would have been 9%. Right. And this is the interesting thing. I want to read this from the, the Wall Street Journal, they make great points here. The demise of spirit airlines is a tragedy for its 15,000 or so employees, though at least taxpayers were not forced to pay for a bailout. Thank God that failed. Yeah. But the airlines closer should not pass

without giving dubious credit to the main culprit, the anti-trust theorist of the Biden administration recall how Timothy Wu Jonathan Cantler, Lina Con, and others on the left sought to revive long discredited theories of anti-trust that view nearly all mergers as anti-actually,

“exactly. Mr. Canter tested that few on the airline industry with disastrous results. In 2021,”

the Biden Justice Department challenged a jet blue air waves alliance with the Northeast

and American Airlines. In 2022, jet blue offered spirit a $3.8 billion merger lifeline.

So the combined companies could offer more competition against the other four U.S. airline giants. Mr. Cantler's anti-trust division sued to block the merger in 2023 and prevailed in court. In January of 2024 and one of the most bizarre opinions we've ever read. We talked about this back then. Yes. Federal judge William Young, listen to this. Admitted spirits financial troubles, he also agreed that an expansion of all aspect of jet blue's business,

including network fleet and loyalty program would allow for more vigorous competition with the

“big four, which carries most passengers in the country. He's still ruled against the merger”

and called it an anti-trust violation because it would eliminate one low-fair option from some routes. And where are we now? They're gone. We eliminated one exactly what he was afraid of. Exactly what he would a judge talked about in that audio cut. Exactly what they say. And we've talked about this for years. When there's a merger between, when there's a proposed merger between two companies and both companies are on the brink or have, you know,

don't have the strength against in terms of their industry, their competition. And this would have given again a stronger competition in terms of the, the nature of the discount airline. And you would only, while you would only have one, they were trying to make the case that, well, this would only leave one discount airline. But you still have the one against the other ones. I say right, JetBlue, and it's merger, bid soon thereafter, spirit declared bankruptcy

in November of 24 long before. Yes. The Iran War fuel spike. Yep. Now it's shutting down for good. Yep. As these columns warmed up for the judges ruling justice has essentially set spirit up for failure. Well, congratulations, Judge Young, with spirits demise that low-fair option is completely gone. Yep. The big boys are likely to snap up spirits planes, airport gates, and other assets. There will be less competition than if the merger had been allowed JetBlue

was also struggling these days. Judge Young owes those spirit employees and the traveling public

and apology and so does Mister, you know, canter. Look, the reality is,

the airplane business is not a mom and pop business. No, that isn't. The capital that is needed, the infrastructure and capital that is needed to have an airline with such thin margins, depending on what's going on in the world at a particular time, because the airlines are susceptible to everything that we see. Oh, yeah. If we've ever seen how susceptible airlines are, right? And they're low margin profit of margin,

where they'll go quarter after quarter without making a profit, then do it. It is not a mom and pop business. The competition is between the monsters. And if you brought

this is the, this is the insanity. If you allowed spirit airlines and JetBlue,

“to merge, there would be much more competition, it would create much more competition”

for the other biggies. Yeah. He admitted it. Right. But since they might lose one price option on some routes. Sorry, it's anti, that's not what anti trusted. No, that's not what a monopoly is. No, it isn't. Well, and when you look at it, too, they were offering an option. What did that option get them? Bankruptcy. Yeah. And the one low fair option and their

business model at that point got them to bankruptcy. The JetBlue merger would have changed

what they were doing and hopefully saved and gave them more competition against the bigger

“airlines and more choices for the public and more routes for the public. Well, it wouldn't, again,”

at the basis of it, two struggling companies. That without a merger, don't have the leverage against the bigger companies in their industry. If they're not allowed to merge, one or both of them is going to go away. That's just the way, that's the nature of it. And you're talking and their excuses, there will be, well, if we let them merge, there will be less competition. They're going to go away. They're, they're dying right as, as we speak. And then here we are two, two years

later. And it's over for spirit. And their complaint was, well, no, we'll have fewer airlines.

“Well, now you have fewer airlines. And 17,000 people are unemployed. Hopefully they can find”

work in the industry somewhere. But you have one less choice as well. How about you make one stronger company and give them a shot? It's not the definition of anti trust. No, the judge admitted it while he was saying it. Basically, he just said it was anti trust because he couldn't help himself as somebody who was clearly on the left. He was creating basically this false sense that it was, they were creating a monopoly. And it was, there was nothing of the support. It's liberal

theory over the reality of what actually a monopoly is. Right. And the anti trust laws in this

country were never supposed to apply to something like this. No, you're not talking. Again, as we said,

maybe I can't give you the exact definition. But I can tell you that if you united an American try to do it, that wouldn't go through. Right. I mean, you look at the, yeah, you look at the routes, the markets they all serve, everything else, the size, you know, and then, okay, well, now we're forced to pick basically the one combined company. That wasn't the case when, because they tried to make it as if, well, we're going to protect the American public by

keeping in place two separate discount airlines. Well, no, no, they're struggling. They're under water and they won't survive. One or both of them will be gone in a couple of years. And of course, that was the case. We are right. I radio. Coming up more with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, it's right. I radio. We are right. I radio. He's are currently an I'm Gary McNamara. Again, I want to read this

because this is a quote from the judges ruling that did not allow the JetBlue Spirit Airlines merger a few years back. This is a quote, quote, an expansion of all aspect of JetBlue's business, including network fleet and loyalty program, would allow for more vigorous competition with the big four, which carries most passengers in this country and of quote.

That's what I mean because your price is on a route is meaningless. It's exactly, you know,

“if you're talking anti-trust, what is the share of the market? That's it. And isn't going to”

me if you're saying that a merger will make the entire industry more competitive. It's impossible

for it to be an opponent. Basically, we're saying because it would lose one or only end up with

one discount airline company and we can't have that. Well, that's not what anti-trust means. No, it doesn't. It's there. What is the share and the combined shares you point out would be what have been nine percent? Nine percent not even doubled digits. And by the way,

likely still struggle. Because as a discount, you're just you're always teetering and based on

fuel prices and everything else. There was just again, there were a lot of add-wims unintended for that industry. And the disc counters are the ones who suffer the hardest. This is RIDI radio on Westwood One. Hello America, Mark Levin here. Many people seem to be incubating

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