05-28-26 Part One - Knicks Knacks

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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. All across America, we are Red Eye Radio. He is Eric Hurley and I'm Gary McNamara. Hi! What's up? How's it going? All right, let's start out with relating sports to politics. I've mentioned golf in a while. Have I? No, you haven't. I've been able to sneak a golf story

in there in a while. Yeah, I have to. What do I do with all my live golf hats that I've worn? Are those? They're not going to be collectors items, are they? Yeah, but yesterday, and I had a laugh when I saw this one, because it was all over, it went viral. And that was the next, our seem to be a great team this year, from what I don't pay attention to sports like I used to. And I'll prove that in just a moment.

Right, right. I'll prove that in just a moment. Right, but a reporter asked Kathy Holkel,

“who was like, "Go nicks, go nicks, go nicks, go nicks." Yeah, she does the same thing you should see,”

because she's from the Buffalo area. People don't know that. So she always talks about,

she could think one time she went out there, she got booed like crazy. But when she makes a comment about the bills, you know, on X, she's just destroyed. I mean, she's just every single time. She does on, you know, makes some kind of promotion thing about it. But a reporter asked her, and the reporter asking the questions a little low. So just give you an idea of what's in this audio cut. It's a short audio cut. But the reporter says, "What do you say to President Trump

saying he's a lifelong nicks fan?" Okay? All right. And, you know, New York, Trump. Yeah, you can

understand it, right? All right. So here we go. All right. Now, listen, listen to her answer here,

and I'll explain it. People may not know it. But they did on the internet, and they just pound it on her. Here we go. All right. Okay. You hear the reporter, but it's very low. You can report or ask in the question. All right. Here we go. Do you think of him saying he's a little like, "I'm

“lifelong nicks fan?" I think that's how the plan to report on it. I asked him the name of the”

starting line up from 1993 championship team at TMI does. Yeah. So what do you say to the President Trump about saying he's a lifelong nicks fan? Hulk, I'd ask him to name the starting line up of the 1993 championship team and see how he does. The last time the next one of championship was 1973. Then it went in 1993. Well, but she didn't being basketball championship. They went on to do a ping-pong tournament later off-season and they won. Now to show you, look, do I have anything in my hands

to show you what kind of a sports fan I used to be compared to now. Right. Because I can not name one person on the New York Nicks. Not one. Right. I have no idea who plays for the next. Right. We're talking is basketball, right? Yes. Yes. Basketball. Yes. She's just just just when I attempt to promote how ignorant I am of sports. Hold my beer, Harley. Actually, no, I actually watch part of the series the other night. Oh, I know you know. Yeah. The, well, then again, I know. Now, 1973, right? Yeah. Now,

“remember, it was a different starting five than when, when they played in 1970, but not my,”

by much in 1973 and look at this. I got nothing in my hands. If you look at my computer, it's looking. It's right on X and nothing in my hands right now. Yeah. It was Willis Reed as the center. Oh, the Pearl Monroe replacing Dick Barnett, who was the, the starting guard. He was still on the team when they won 1970 former senator, the late senator Bill Bradley, Dave DeBusher and Walt, the Clyde Frazier was on that team and also one of my favorite six men of all time,

the Cassie Russell. Cassie Russell used to take a jump shot and he used to take his legs and flip him up behind when he would shoot. All right. So that's not now. That's, that's, that would, well, I'm sorry, Cassie Russell was 1970. He was, he was gone by 73. So for 70, it was, it was Dick Barnett,

and, well, Clyde Frazier. And since she's talking about the last championship, also as

“power forwards, Jerry Lucas and Phil Jackson. So there you go. And that's remembering. Right.”

And then, of course, a big part of the organization, Bill, the bucket Wilson. It wasn't on the team. He was a bookie. Bill Huskett was on that team in 1970. That, but that's just an example of how, when I tell people that I really was an insane sports fan, I was and I'm not as much today, not even close. Now, 1970 was the year, it was 6970, was the, and I was a fan of the mix. I was a fan at real big fan of that team. And then the

Buffalo Braves came into existence and they became my favorite team. But in 73, I was still following when the next made it to the championship. I was still following them. And so there you go. Just just so you know that I could pass Kathy Hockel's test that she couldn't pass. Well, she couldn't pass the question. If you can't pass the question, then there's something wrong. It was actually in an Oklahoma restaurant. The other night, it was Friday night and it was

spurs and the thunder, the thunder ended up winning. They, in fact, and I didn't watch the entire game, but I watched most of the end of the game and the thunder was dominating pretty much the entire time. And I thought, no, this is not good. Because everyone in the, in the, in the entire restaurant was screaming, there's screaming for the thunder. We're in an Oklahoma restaurant. And I'm just quietly gone, yeah, well, okay. All right, my spurs are not going to grow.

You've got the spurs. Yeah, yeah, you go up, you know, down San Antonio Del Rio, it's the spurs. This spurs one of the few teams absorbed from the ABA into the NBA. Yeah, and you know, remember, we were talking about the other day about football teams and the migration football teams and everything else. And remember when the people of San Antonio and God bless them, we're trying to get the Raiders when the Raiders were leaving for the Bay Area when they were leaving

Oakland. And they were trying to get the Raiders to go to San Antonio. And we were like, that's not going to happen. Because we were talking about, you know, what it takes to support a team,

“you know, build a stadium, you know, you have to have enough tax payers in the city.”

Numbers wise to afford today's stadiums. And and I was thinking of that moment when, you know, it only lasted a few minutes. It seems where they were saying, yeah, they should, the Raiders should come out here and they should be the San Antonio football team. Because in part, this was the justification. There already, their colors are already black and silver,

which are the colors of the spurts. And that's a silly reason. And also, Jerry Jones is never going

to allow that to happen. Well, I mean, there, I don't know if he could, he probably would have influence, but I don't think, I don't think it would affect the market of the Cowboys being what are the 285 miles away. Yeah. And let me tell you this. I mean, and I come from an absolute football town first, a hockey town second. It's funny because, you know, people say, well, when they build the minor league stadium, well, it can be expanded. And I said at the time, Buffalo will never

get a major league baseball team. They're not, it's not a baseball town. It just isn't. It's got minor league baseball that they are not a major league team. And they're going to look at the population. And, you know, they don't have the same type of revenue sharing as the NFL does. Yeah.

“Right. And, and so it's like never going to happen. I'll never forget the people that were”

sponsoring it. We're not happy with me because I was a talk show host in the area at that time. When they were promoting, we're going to get major league baseball. And I wouldn't know you're not

you're never going to get it. But San Antonio, I don't know if they look at that market and say,

it's not big enough yet. I will say this though. Crasion football fans there. I do not know of a city that has supported all the different minor league football professional football teams that have gone through San Antonio. Well, I mean, they're, they're, they are rabid fans that are in terms of the NFL that are split, of course, between the Houston Texans or back in the day when I was there, the, the oilers and the cowboys. Now, in Del Rio, which is western San Antonio,

we had one newspaper out of Del Rio. We had a couple of radio stations, but all of our TV news

came out of San Antonio, so we were Western San Antonio, but yeah, it was, with the friends I grew up, anecdotal, but with the friends I grew up with, everybody was a cowboys fan in Del Rio, but you could see the split between, and with baseball, and with baseball, it was the Astros and the Rangers. It, it seemed to lean more Astros than it did, Rangers. And, and that, again, it's just anecdotal, but in terms of football NFL, Del Rio, heavily cowboys fans, San Antonio,

“was a little bit younger, so I don't know, I don't remember, but I, I think San Antonio was a very”

vibrant sports town. I mean, they love sports, they just absolutely do. I think they could,

I do believe they could have a fan base. It's, you know, I, I just don't have the numbers in

front of me crunching the numbers of what it takes today. It kind of goes back to what we were talking about and have mentioned recently, and that's the cost of these stadiums. You know, they're just, they're just massive. Well, so, you know, I look, lost Vegas. You know, they were counting on Vegas to be, all right, because Vegas is a transient kind of town, you know, because where it used to be, where it's tourism, it's a global tourism, and that can work, you know, definitely for any sports

franchise or anything going on locally, but, you know, it's, it's, if you want to get into a real sports town, San Antonio would definitely be one you would have to consider. Yeah, the other reason I bring a Kathy Hockel is because politicians believe that the people are idiots, that you actually care who they endorse. Remember Hillary, where was she, when she couldn't decide, you know, who she was for and I forgot whether I mean today. For some reason, I'm thinking it was the bears

“or something they asked and, and she just, and I think her, Bill was the same way. Well, I like”

the team, but everybody else, I like all. And what she, there's something when she was running for Senate between, whether she was going to wear a Met's ball cap or a Yankees. Something like that, something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Nobody, nobody gives a damn. They believe people are such idiots. Yeah. That, well, if you're, if you support that team, I'm not going to, I'm not going to vote for you. And I bring that up because of the, in the third hour yesterday of the show, we played that

commercial from Platner and Maine that was running during a Red Sox game, which he says private equity, the basically the private ownership of professional sports has destroyed it. Yeah. And he doesn't like it.

And so we never really dealt into it much because it was the end of the hour. Right. Right.

But I guess the point is, and I was thinking about it during the day, I'm like, oh my god, so he's talking about, was he talking about something? He's got to ask him. Are you talking

“that government should own the sports teams? Should sports teams be owned by government?”

And who should own it? Should it be the state that owns it? Should be the city that owns it? Right. Should it be the county that owns it? Should it be the federal government that owns it? And I find it interesting when they're, they're like the, you know, because one of the things is the billionaire owners, if billionaires are evil, they shouldn't own, you know, our sports teams now. Right. I haven't seen him go much further on it. But that was prime territory for the

Republicans to just pound on him and have a heyday making fun of it. And of course, because of a couple of things like the, you know, the Jill Biden story. And I'm like, yeah. You know, I don't, they're just obsessed about that. Show's you how inside the belt way they are. Look, they all knew, I don't know whether she's lying or not. I wouldn't be surprised if she's lying. I'm not going to spend five minutes. I don't buy, I don't buy it coming from her. I think it

was some kind of, oh, well, I thought he was, he might be having a stroke. No, you knew exactly what was going on. I don't buy it. And then the, you know, the, the, the packs and things. So this, but I think it's prime to, you know, because people pay attention to sports. And not that they're going to vote on it. But somebody might say, wait a minute, are you saying that government should own all professional sports teams? You know, what's your point? Why didn't you put that out? Why did you make the

case that the private sector is destroying the Boston Red Sox? That's the case he was trying to make.

Right. Somebody should ask him. Yeah. How do you fix it? What? I mean, seriously,

what, forget about that he's a conny Nazi. Yeah. He's an absolute idiot. He's absolutely clueless as how the world runs. Yep. He absolutely is. You've people in Maine, if it's true that he's actually up by nine points, I, I shake my head. I, I don't, I don't know what to do. You're, you're just saying to hell with our state. Let's just send it right to hell. Yeah. Why not? A conny Nazi, yeah, and I read the other day. Well, people are interested that, you know, in the, the

“backstory, and they know about the tattoo, the tattoo isn't important except that it's a Nazi tattoo.”

It's like they're, it's like the liberal activist media is approaching it like one of the old

Barbara Walters sit down interviews. Tell me about your tattoo. Tell me about the pain you went through while receiving the tattoo while getting the tattoo. So when you got angry, you decided to get a tattoo that was pro-concentration camp, millions of Jews died. Right. Right. So I mean, is, is there something that we need to understand here that we failed to understand? Well, understand. It's like Jim and Eglick, you know, more of a short asking Mel Brooks, what's your beef with the Nazi?

Yeah, it was that right. Oh, that's, it is that silly. Over the top silly. This whole thing is just absolutely stupid. Now, I didn't, I, I couldn't watch him do that all the time. Yeah, but I was a fan of those interviews. Oh, my gosh, funny. We are right. I radio brought to you by hot shot secret. Hi, I'm Jen Lumis, a transport safety expert at JJ Keller due to safety concerns many

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And the other question I'd ask Platner when he talked about the fact of he believes that you know, private equity is destroying sports, which means the billionaires owning the sports teams are not good because who? I don't even know. Is anybody not a billionaire that owns a major league baseball, basketball, hockey or football team? Everybody's a billionaire, right? Yeah. A billionaires are evil. They shouldn't own sports teams. Right. And so the question I would ask him

is how, you know, you look at the, you know, for example, the draft. They already have their own form of of trying to equalize or that's the major league, you know, DEI trained to make trying to make each team equal, right? Right. How would Platner expand DEI to professional teams if the government owned the professional teams? Now we did find out that in the state of Texas just getting Jerry Jones out of being owner whether it was government or not received 99% approval from the fans. Yes,

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“one and where you choose. All right, listening to a lot of the analysis yesterday about, you know,”

where the Republican Party is going. And quite emotional, it got yesterday. From no, the Republican Party because of this shows that they have, you know, they've got the guts. This is not loyalty to Trump. It's the base as we talked about yesterday. The base saying, no, we want somebody that's going to fight, you know, you heard the things like it's, it's, you know, it's about time, you know, that Corne has been in there for too long. And I will say this

look because we've got so many long-term senators in there. Here's how I view it. I view serving

in government like I do radio. I've always expected that I'm going to be gone in a week.

Yeah. Well, you and I've always had this mentality. We need to talk to her in the break. Go ahead.

“Anyway, why? We've always had this mentality. Yeah. Even if, no, from day one, right,”

since I was 18, I felt that. Right. It's, it's something that you just, you know, you know, it is a, it is a, a cutthroat business. Yes. And I've been let go. And as I said, I was actually let go from a job because I succeeded too well. And when I went in, you know, we got, you know, the ratings came in and everybody's happy and everything else. And I walked into the general manager's office. He said, congratulations. We're letting you go because the owner, he was a very,

put his way elderly man who might have not had all of his cognitive abilities there. Well, but he said he goes, uh, he wanted to say congratulations, but he wants to, he, he, he wants to go on because he believes because of the success you've had, you're going to ask for a big race and he doesn't want to pay it. And this isn't a smaller market. Right. Yeah. Yeah. But I actually had went to unemployment the next day and said that, well, they said I succeeded too well. I mean, come on. I, I felt like I was

the, the episode of Seinfeld, where George Costanza walks into collect unemployment and he's trying to get an extension. And he's not really looking for any type of job. And ended up, uh, the member dating the, the daughter, yeah, of the unemployment agent. Thanks for the big Mac, George. I haven't had one in a while. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh happened to a friend of mine who got her PhD and about a month later. They said, you're over qualified for the job. And

we're going to have to, we can't afford to have any gaps in the job that you do. And so we're letting you go because we know that now you, you are at a different pace scale. We know you're going

to ask for a race. So you're basically over qualified. And, and if you don't have, for example,

and, uh, probably, I haven't actually thought about it much, but he probably the majority of my career, you know, the, the contracts were completely one sided. As you know, I mean, early on, they're completely one sided towards, uh, towards management. They might provide, you know, a little bit of security for the first year or something. But after that, I mean, it was the, the contracts were, uh, you know, early on in my career didn't provide me any protection. And as, and sometimes there was no

contract at all, you just work day to day. Right. And they, you know, like I said, when they come in, when you learn that early on in your career, so I succeeded in your letting me go, yeah. Well, then what the hell should I be scared of? Not succeeding or succeeding? But, uh, and, you know, the things we're just moving in a different direction. Uh, and, yeah, then let go one time in my 42 years. Radio is interesting, uh, that, that it's, it's a unique, medium talk radio, especially.

I mean, I've started a music radio, but talk radio is so unique because for the most part, you know, you do not have producers dictating where you're going to go. It's not like TV. Did, did, did, did, did, did you see the number of people in co bears? Oh, my god. That picture,

“it's like 200 people. Well, no, no, when they used to remember back when they used to, uh,”

like they, they was show a picture from like the Emmy Awards, right? And it was, I remember this

one picture, and it was all, it was basically, everybody who received the award, you know, as I don't

wait, it looked like everybody from the, from the crowd, from the audience, got on stage. I'm like, there's no way they have that many writers. It was dozens and dozens of people, unbelievable. And, and here in, uh, you know, in, in talk radio, like for this show, there's four of us. Yes. Right. Me, you. Right. Allen and Ron. Right. And, and Allen does a great job,

but he always gets me three or four stories a night that are different than the things that I'm

looking at. He always finds out, oh, all right. Right. I didn't, I didn't look at that story that way. And just I had, when I'm just always amazed that he always gets me stuff that's like, wow. Right. Okay. Now, we're actually very fortunate to have a very, uh, experience production group,

“most shows at our caliber, don't. Was that a compliment towards our show?”

Well, let's just say you and I do. They're highly overqualified themselves. But, but when you, so it's completely, and, and I love it this way. I wouldn't, I could not, I, one of the things, and, and you were asked a long time ago by, by somebody in executive, you know, what's, what's your goal? And you were on this show and you said to do this show? Yeah. I, yeah. I love, I love radio. I just, right. And it's not, you know,

there's a difference between, I love doing the job and I need to be on the radio every day. Now, I can say technically, I need to be on the radio every day, personally, so I can vent. But it's not an ego thing. I don't, it's not to build an ego. It's, it's to vent. But I love, I love, love doing right. I love the process. I love the, I love the editorial control that you have. I love that you can take in in whatever direction that you want, where you can't do that in television.

Look, that's one of the things Tucker Carlson is complaining about now. Well, that wasn't really telling you what I believed. Other producers were actually doing all of it. Yeah. Well, then you just lose complete credibility because you just admitted you were a sellout. Yeah. I mean, it's just like, wow. And so that would be that would be, you know, very, very, very, very tough to do. But with that comes the fact that if you don't succeed,

you're gone. And right, I'll be honest, I never thought that I would be, I would last this

long in the business. I never thought, but my mentality always was, I could be gone like you, they could fire me next week. I always had that in my head. Even when I know they could still say

“you're gone next week. They got to pay us for a while. But the, the fact is you do have, you eventually”

later on in your career, you actually do, if you've had some kind of success, you know, you do have some guarantee. Well, I'll have that underlying fear to the, in fact, to the point that that next Thursday, I have an interview at Costco. So it's, well, just to make sure with politics, I've you with the same way. You know, I was reading that was almost like an obituary. And it's so sad, corn and headache for decade. Well, yeah, for God's six, four decades, I look at Congress and say,

well, for decades, you know, that's unbelievably long. Yeah. And one of the biggest, you know, complaints, you know, people talk about, you know, when you call it term term limits, we don't believe that's the solution as many people believe it is because especially in congressional districts, you know, you don't get anything. And as you see in the state of Texas, if the party, the people that vote for that party are unhappy with the candidate, they can lose even after 40 years and they can

lose big. But when I, when I, when I look at a lot of what I saw yesterday, whether Republican party is succeeding because they, they kicked out the incumbent and put this person in. And now the

“Trump agenda can continue forward. Well, what's the thing that's really ticked off a lot of Republicans?”

I think the number one issue was that they couldn't pass the, they, they don't have the votes to, you know, for the save act. Yeah. They don't have the votes, basically, for voter ID. Yeah. And, and, you know, and it's like, we'll get rid of the filibuster, get rid of the filibuster,

get rid of the filibuster. I don't, I never thought the Republicans would do that.

They would wait for the Democrats to do it. And even if Republicans got rid of the filibuster now, anything that they could pass could be defeated when Democrats took over, to power. Exactly. I don't believe my opinion and yours on this case is we're looking towards the future. Uh, you know, other, other people may have different viewpoints on it, and that's fine. The concern of the Republican party should be to not have any chance of the Democrats winning.

Right. Right. It's not, it's not, you know, so whether it was, whether it's,

that the Democrats lose than the the save act passes. Why?

Because that you can use that to pound on the Democrats over and over. Yes. It's an issue that you've got 80% of the 80, what, 82% 83% of the country is it? What is it? No, no, it's, it's running out 80% because it was like 83% of, you know, whatever. I forgot the exact demographics, but it's

“around 80%. Yeah. Well, you can use that. What's more important to pass that tomorrow or to win in”

November. My focus is winning in November. So the Democrats don't win. And so I didn't care.

I don't care whether it's Paxton or Coran. All I want is the win because either Paxton or Coran

would be better than Democrats taking over the Senate. And my concern is not right now passing the Trump agenda and the issues on the Trump agenda right now, if you can pass them next year because you've got a bunch of senators, you've got the Senate again for a couple more years. And so to me, the the infighting in the Republican party is a strength because the Republican party can evolve. There was an article where is it here? Uh, Michael Dority and National Review Democrats

“learned how to need to learn how to fight each other. And it's like, look, part of the infighting”

and the Republican party can hurt them. But it shows you are actually the party that's evolving. What were the Democrats? They're not evolving. They're not the party of change ever because they're sticking to their ideological, you know, insanity. It's for the GOP. It is for the most part. It is it's on the issues. Uh, there is some the tribalism that exists there. Uh, with the whole magazine, there were before a minute, there seemed to be this battle to prove I'm more maga than

you are to the point to the extent where some people were trying to say they were more maga than Donald Trump. They seem like they were trying to make that point. The point with the left is it doesn't matter who you are, even if you're a member of my own party, you're the oppressor eventually. An identity politics has set up that model to disintegrate to erode that unity and it keeps happening more and more. This is why, you know, Cory Booker over the weekend, you know, party needs new

leadership andrew Cuomo. You know, what's going on? And you have more and more of these Democrats. I don't consider those names. They're, they're known names. Bookers still act. They're Cuomo's, I don't know what he's doing. Um, but, you know, he's probably going to make a run maybe again somewhere at some point. But the point is, is that I know that it runs deeper throughout the party, that there is something fundamentally broken with the democratic party. Well, what it is is

exactly what you and I have been describing, identity politics. You create more and more victims, more and more subgroups every day, and by definition, by default, you create more and more

presses, even within your own group. And that is a problem and always will be. It's not going

to change in our lifetime. Yeah, I look at the long term future of the, the Republican party,

“and I believe it's in much better shape than the Democrats. Oh, yeah, because the Democrats won't,”

if they're, if they're not willing to evolve now, they're not going to evolve. Right. Yeah, for a long time. Right. We are right. I radio. We'll be right back with more red eye radio with every currently, and Gary McNamara. We're in our radio. He is there early, and I'm Gary McNamara. Yeah, so it was an interesting day yesterday. Just seen how everybody was analyzing it. And, you know, again, my point is simply, I want the

Democrats to lose. That's all. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I really, at this point, because of how radical they are, I'm not really that concerned of who the Republican candidate is, unless you have a

a common Nazi. Yeah. So, what I care about is whoever can win. And, you know, can Paxton win? Yeah.

“You already see that yesterday in the CBS News interview that, uh, I'll have to find the audio.”

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All the cross America. We are Ridae Radio. He is here at Hurley and I'm Gary McNamara. All right, more sports and politics. All right, more plans. Well, this sort of relates to a planter in Maine about he's, you know, upset that the private equity and billionaires own sports teams. Yeah. His idea is that private equity has destroyed the Boston RedSize. And somebody needs to ask him the question. So who should own sports teams? But this is a

New York and New Jersey launch investigation into World Cup ticket pricing. All right. New York Attorney General, the T.S. James and New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport announced that

“they have sent subpoenas to the fight for president and other seeking information about their”

ticket policies. Quote, New Yorkers have been waiting for years for the World Cup to come into their backyard and they deserve a fair shot at affordable tickets. Okay. It's government's job. Is the government's job to make sure you have a fair shot at affordable tickets? I will say it's kind of outrageous given the prices. If you break it down to the cost per point scored for goal for any given match it combines score. I mean with both teams,

it's pretty expensive per point. No one should be, Latisha James said no one should be manipulated into pain sky high prices for seats. And then also added this is true though. Fans should be able to trust that the tickets they purchase will be the ones they receive. That's true. If that's it, if you make a contract with the company and they don't, you know, that they would be a company. And they don't fulfill that contract. You have every right to go after them for that. But they start

out by talking about it's their job to ensure that there's fairness and equity in ticket prices. Fairness and equity. Okay. All right. All right. So here we go. You and I talked yesterday about about Tallarico and how he would run his campaign. And we

we talked about Kamala Harris back in 2020, excuse me, 2024. Yeah. And she never made it because

because nobody talked about her. Well, she never made it to 2020 because the Democrats are racist and sexes. That's right. Now, by the way, that comes from her. Yeah. She's the one that accused Democrats of being racist and sexes back in 2020. That's right. She was abandoned before Christmas. Yeah. But 2019. Democrats were so racist and sexes. They said, no, letter two thanksgiving, but no way. She getting past Christmas. That's right. It's the holiday season.

But we talked about, and we talked about this couple of weeks ago, too, that when, you know, and that was because Kamala Harris is still, you know, at the top of the, the bunch of who Democrats wanted to run in 2028. And we had gone back all the way. In fact, I found the, the ex posts that I put

in the nation. Yeah. And I got some great responses because of it. And because Kamala know, and that's when she ran that ad where she said she's going to be tough around the border. She didn't believe in open borders. She talked about a wall and a bunch of other topics that Trump was leaning in. She said, no, I'm going to try to co-opt him on that. I'm going to try to beat him on that. It didn't last long. The left would not allow her to do that.

“Many people don't even remember she promised to invade Greenland. And so she,”

she pulled back from that because she couldn't sell it to the Democrats. And I remember you and I in the midterm of 2006, we have long memories. Wow. 20 years ago, Eric. It's 20 years ago. Wow. But the midterm of 2006 after the election, we went, wow, that, that, and Democrats did very well. But it was really after that, 2006 election, where Democrats were not trying to run or even

before it. We're not trying to run as much to the middle. They're always trying to run to the middle.

And really, since then, and as we even get up to the last election or you look at, you know, California, whatever, they, they cannot moderate whatsoever. And the question would be, will Talariko try to do it and would he be successful? He's trying already. He's walking back the things he said already was interviewed by Edo Kief, who, by the way, one of the criticism of Edo Kief was like, and Barry Weiss who hope you're listening, he didn't push back.

Yeah. He just had some question. He answered, he went to the next question. Right. And answered, going to the next question, didn't say, "Well, wait a minute." And he starts by asking him about the six biological sexes. All right. All right. And listen to this muddle answer, and he did not get pushed back from Edo Kief at all. Here we go. Let me, let me run one more by Edo Kief. Because again, the president, the other Republicans are

stirring it up. Again, in 2021, while the baiting a bill that restricted transgender student athletes, you said modern science, technology, six biological variations based on chromosomes to argue that sex

“is a nuanced spectrum, not a strict binary. Do you still believe there are six biological sexes?”

I know there are two sexes. Many women. I also know there's a very small percentage of people who have these chromosomal abnormalities. And I believe they deserve to be treated with dignity

and respect. The other one. Okay. No. He went to a never-challenge demand that.

All right. Right. And he's making the case that every transgender has a chromosome differentiation, and that's not true. Right. I don't know. I don't know anybody that's ever tried to make that case. No. No. That don't keep just like that slide right by. Yeah. Because you would stop and say, based on what? Show me that data. Yeah.

But you said six biological sexes. Yeah. And by the way, you know, and again, scientists didn't, by the way, scientists didn't agree with that, by the way, he was lying back then when he said it. Right. And liberal activists didn't agree with it. Because they believe there's a lot more than six. Right. Right. Well, we had said it until about who was when Biden said, how many junters are there? Three. We went, oh my God, you can't give a number like that.

You're done. So, but there's him attempting, let's see this next question. Here we go. All right. Okay. Hang on. We're ready. Here we go. All right. We in respect. The other one, they keep harping on. And it's perhaps the most curious of all. They say you're vegan. Not a vegan. I'm an eighth generation Texan. I've been eating barbecue since before,

Kim Paxton's first indictment. And this campaign basically runs on Texas barbecue.

If all they have is lying about me being a vegan, I feel pretty good at that our chances. But they're not lying. You said it. Why? You said it. He said you're a vegan. I mean, it's like, no, not lying about it. And he was asked also the other question was on the border where he said that, you know, that the Republicans are lying, he had said, remember,

“and we had played the audio before. I think we've played in the last couple of days where he,”

but this was back then, but he said that the border should be like the front porch. Right. Where the welcome at you. Right. With the welcome at you. Welcome the good people in,

I just said let the, it's an open border for good people. But he's trying to make the case that he said,

you know, that that, that to give the impression that he was against sanctuary cities. And he's not. Right. Because that would be our next question. So are you against sanctuary cities? Where legal immigrant criminals are protected? Right. Right. So this is his attempt to lie by again projecting and calling the Republicans' liars about things that he clearly said.

“And so you have to, you've got to go after him for that. And again,”

Eddo keeps just, you hear him laugh. Eddo keeps laugh. Yeah. He said, you know, the Paxon indictment. I mean, it was, it was Barry Weiss, Eddo keep today horrible job. Right. Just let him answer, so let him go. Well, it's, it's, it was a propaganda piece. If you're not going to hit them back, if you're not going to question, every answer that comes at, every response that comes at you, you're not doing journalism. Just, just hand him the mic and let him just talk and lie. Yeah.

Because that's basically what you did. That's not journalism. But it shows,

it, it shows a change that the Tala Rico people believe after over a decade of not attempting

“to go to the middle. Because remember, that was always what they were attempting to do,”

comma to try it and fail on a national level. Right. Tala Rico and his campaign now believe it's time to move to the middle and lie about where James Tala Rico really stands. Right. And the belief is or the hope is that Democrats in Texas know he's lying just like when, remember, when Obama said, I'm grappling with gay marriage. And remember, the gay activist, we're, we're, the, the pro gay marriage activist, we're, we're talking about later on ago. No, we all

knew he was lying. Everybody knew he was lying. He wasn't grappling with what he was lying. Because the difference was, is that, and not exactly a Sunday morning talk show, but Ellen did generous. And her daytime talk show that, and she brought on John McCain, you know, what do you believe in terms of gay marriage? And he was his response, marriage is to end a man and a woman. Obama had said the same thing already. And look, we had our issues with John McCain in terms of

him being a senator. But if you're talking about two different parties, the candidates were each party being questioned. And the exact same issue, one gets away with it. And the other one, and, and they get away with it because exactly what you just said, no, we know he's lying. We're okay with him lying. Just, and then all of a sudden he was grappling and evolving. Now, what you do here, because, unfortunately, we have to help the Republicans on basic communication

skills. You take everything that he said in that interview. Here's what James Talleriko said

this week. Here's what he said back then. And those are the ads that you make. And then you say, James Talleriko is lying to you. He doesn't want you to know what he would really do as a senator. Right. And I'll say this. Why? Because adults don't change their mind on basic issues. Right. adults don't all of a sudden change their mind on foundational issues they don't. Right. And those are foundational issues. Right. You don't go from saying there are six biological

sexes that are proven by scientists. And then five years later, say, oh, no, there's only two. There's only two, but there are some chromosome of differences, which are not that does not explain the radical transgender movement at all. But on the border, I'd say, oh, fine. Then, oh, and he said he criticized, he criticized Obama, you know, for, you know, for the border. Did he? I want to see if he's got that on there, whether he would, I don't believe he did.

“I don't remember any Democrat until you got to election time that said Biden's got to do”

something on the border. He's going to lose because of it. And then at that point, they were saying you've got to do something. Right. But it wasn't that Biden didn't do the job on the border.

Yeah. His border plan was to open the damn border. Yeah. And he succeeded. And then when politically it worked against him at the end, who was at minority whip Catherine Clark the other day.

“Oh, well, he got the border under control. He got the, I think he was there. She was on CBC.”

He got the border under control by the, by the end of his term. Yeah, he made me so he actually got it under control by the end of he caused it. Yes. And they didn't challenge around that either.

No. And in challenge around. No. No. And it's, and these are basic, this does not, you know, a third

greater could go through those, these points that we're making here. They, you're not getting in the weeds on these issues. These are very simple issues with very few moving parts. And I would ask you to say, well, you said, it's like a front porch. You welcome everybody. But the bad people you don't, if they're bad, you don't welcome them. My next question would be so you're against sanctuary cities. Right. Right. Right. This isn't that hard Republicans.

You know, it's, uh, I just, uh, again, I don't want the Democrats to win. No. So let's not celebrate

too much primary victories. Yeah. No. Let's not. We are right. I radio.

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“It's a ton of audio today. This is Michael LaRose, former chief spokesperson”

for Jill Biden. Jill and for Joe Biden in the 2020 campaign. So this is a loyal, loyal Democrat talking about Platner and talking about Democrats in, well, Democrats in Washington.

Here we go. This has always been sort of a white whale for Democrats in the seat

and Susan Collins. And she won by nine points being outraged outspent both two to one by the Democrat. And the Democrat outpold Susan Collins for a year in all the public polling. What's funny to me is that Democrats in D.C. in the consultant class or the activist class think that somehow that guy right there represents what real America and normal America wants back home or outside of D.C. It's not. I mean, if Maine wants a self-proclaimed communist and

guy who has Nazi tattoos and talks about his masturbation habits and mocks wounded U.S. soldiers who were shot by the Taliban, Maine is going to have that choice. They can make that choice. They will make it in November. No. Well, I learned something new during that audio. Yes, I did not know about the habits. It's habits. Probably because I didn't want to. I've got the sign filter. I did not know about the self-gradification.

Well, if you're not here, you automatically the master of your own domain. Hey, I don't wait. I would think that's the case. What I don't. We're. We're not trying to be suggest. We're not bringing it up. We're just we're responding to

currently in America. That's all we're doing. We're grappling with all of this. We're grappling.

We're just a couple of simple fellows trying to learn. [Music] Catch Red Eye Radio Live every night on the Red Eye Radio app available in the App Store. Red Eye Radio. And we are in a radio. He's here, Crooney, and I'm Gary McNamara. And since the last last segment, the show went into the gutter. Not because of us.

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your three week quick start at 1995. So this audio was actually from CNN from election night. Yeah. And it was the it was Scott Jennings, CNN's Laura Cotes, and Democrat, to strategist from Texas, Chuck Roca. So here this is okay. All right. Listen to this. Here we go.

“And I think the race is still likely or lean, lean Republican tonight. But look, they got”

a run the race. Hold on, Chuck, is are you laughing at the most radical? Is that hyperbole that you can relate to at all? Look, I'm going to say that Kim Paxton is the most flawed, corrupt, divorce, biblical, all these things is what this campaign most be about when Scott Jennings am here on this TV. But to the voters of Texas, it's going to be whether you care more about pronouns or gas prices. If you care more about what the price of your utility bill is,

or what gender you are. Right now in Texas, I've been polling all over Texas, not just for Tyler Rico, but when you go to somebody's house and ask them, what's your biggest concern? It's normally how they're going to make ends meet. Not about like who's got a P.P. and who don't?

“So he wants this race or I'm let that go for a second. Thank you. But he wants that race,”

right, Tyler Rico. You're just going to let that go. I'm let the people go right now. Yes, I am. I'm 11 oh seven. We'll just come back. But right now, I'm going to get back to P.P. Please, I'm a lady. I'm a lady. Okay, I'll tell you. So I'm sorry, but I'll like keep thinking as Mr. Bookman from Seinfeld. You like that Seinfeld? Trying to protect the kids from opening a book and seeing a bunch of P.P. and wewies. And but I will say one thing, if the Republicans lose,

it's because I read what Jim Garry put on X yesterday. Jim Garry from National Review. The president and his administration is laser focused on everything except affordability. And if the Republicans lose, they lose because they've ignored it. Yeah, that of story. That'll be the reason. The only weakness Republicans have right now

is affordability and they don't seem to care. Yeah. And and it is absolutely amazing to me

that there seems to be no concern about it whatsoever. You cannot talk your way by bringing up any successes elsewhere at all about affordability and the lesson is Biden. Yeah, yeah, he lost because

which became, you know, the the women's issue of 2024. But every one of those were on the side,

you know, where the public voted against it was for Republicans because Republicans were saying

“we'll solve all of those problems. Right. The number one important thing that affects people”

the most affordability. And the Republicans don't seem to care. And this administration doesn't seem to care at all. They talk a good game. But nothing. And I'm not talking just about gas prices. Well, I'm talking about everything across the board. I got to want to read this here. I got a here it is. David wrote a shester day when we were talking about it. Gas prices are too high, but I'm not going to sell our beautiful country for $1.69.

I'm not going to change my vote. Right. It's not about you, David, it's not about me. As I said, my major thing, whether they're weak Republicans or strong Republicans, they're not insane Democrats. That's all I care is that Democrats don't win. Right. And doesn't matter how you think, David, doesn't matter how I think it's understanding the

public at large. Remember, and you look, you said it. I never figured because you made a big deal

out of it after after the 2016 election, why he won about the Wall Street Journal article that went to Harlem and said to people that actually voted for Hillary at that time, why did Trump win? Trump won because he talked about issues that affect us here at home. Hillary's talking about everything else except what affects us here at home. And now Republicans are making the exact same

“mistake. The only thing Republicans have is competence in other areas that they have done in”

things like deregulation and everything else, but you can, and if the president succeeds in getting a deal with the ran in the Middle East, that will also be great, but still the number one issue is the economy stupid. And we found that again back in 2024. And the problem here too is that if the America, if enough people enough of the voting public believe that Democrats are going to start handing out checks, which by the way, it won't happen because they will not get a voting,

they will not get a veto proof majority. That's not going to happen. But it doesn't matter if their perception is, they'll do better with the economy, or if the perception is that I need to send

“a message to the GOP that they suck on the economy. It's just as punishment, even if they believe,”

no, I probably won't get anything for a couple of years, but if I give the Democrats momentum, if I help give Democrats momentum, then, and they get the White House in a couple of years, and they have the House in the Senate, then they start writing checks again. When people are under water, they don't care anything about the national, nobody cares anything about the national, that our audience not included, but the American people have given up on the national debt and

have, in fact, I wonder if they ever cared about it. So, in terms of writing checks, in terms of handing out free stuff, those free promises, whether they even come to fruition,

or not, the free promises will drive people, and they always have in a bad economy.

And it's hard to say bad economy right now, because there are many things in the economy that are great. But if your own personal economy, at home, your own budget is failing over and over again, and your underwater, and you've got nowhere else to turn, you think about where what people are doing on, sidegits, everything they're doing to earn extra money, and wages aren't keeping up. And now inflation ticking up again, and we know what's driving this up-ticking inflation.

Which is why we've got to, if you get back to the Iran thing, we've got this mission has to be completed for every reason, for number one, for the mission itself. And number two, politically, you want this to be done sooner than later, so you can get the benefit of that. And again, I mentioned yesterday, it could be that by comparison, if the mission in Iran is completed to the

somewhat, because the transportation of goods will also be cheaper.

If the 150 days, which is up in July, on its current tariffs runs out, and there's nothing else that he's going to throw at the courts, or it's going to be extended. By that, by comparison, there may be some positive effect. I wouldn't count on that. Right now, as we've said all along, I used to say, run like your 20 points behind, run like your 80 points behind. Yeah. And that's exactly what has to be done. You can have all the cabinet meetings like he had

publicly yesterday. And that's where the, I think, Gary had the comment, Jim Gary from National Review, their laser focused on everything except affordability. But we said this gesture and agree with you.

“That's why I said, if they lose, Republicans can still win because the Democrats are so bad.”

And in the polling, it is showed up to this point that even though the administration gets horrible marks on the economy, the people don't believe that the Democrats are the solution. Right. Right. So again, you don't know. And I agree with you, if the war can end, and then even remembers, we said earlier, though, if we weren't in this war, prices might have moderated because remember,

the amount of tariffs went down drastically. Right. You know, they're probably raising what a third

of what they were before with Trump's new tariffs. So that would have moderated that that might have moderated prices. And if we weren't in the Iran war, prices, the inflation numbers couldn't be looking, you know, really, really good, but they're not going to come down. You know, that's the point gasoline will come down. And maybe there will be some products because of shipping

“that might come down a little bit. Well, they, I think that would, I think that's going to happen”

actually in a considerable way because of where diesel has been. Diesel prices, again, is the ship. And so, but it depends on the level of the drop. You know, I know that's a Captain obvious statement, but I don't know where diesel will settle after this gasoline makes settle. But then again, if it happens in the middle of the summer, still in the heart of driving season, and I don't know what will happen again, or how far drop, how far of a drop the diesel prices would

be in the event that we get the straight ahead of Hormuz settled. And we'll see where it goes.

It's, as it always is, I think the markets are kind of skittish. I think even with any kind of

agreement frame work, whatever you want to call it, on the straight of Hormuz, it's going to be,

“I think it's going to be slower. I think the markets are going to be a little timid and really”

going, dropping those prices in a dramatic way. I hope I'm wrong about that. But the point is, I don't think they'll trust in agreement. I think they'll believe that there's at any moment that that chaos could ensue in the straight of Hormuz. But I will say yesterday when they detect that they went after the Iranian ground control station. It was about to launch another drone. Yes. These actions were measured purely defensive and intended to maintain

the ceasefire. Yeah. Well, the Wall Street Journal, by the way, had a very interesting story yesterday about how the the Chinese are buying oil secretly and they've got this set of planned destined ships where they're actually running a line, filling these ships with oil and selling them to China, Iran is still selling oil to China. I don't know the volume. I didn't get that far into the story. But that's a problem. And if that's not, if that's not completely controlled and

settled, you know, there's going to be a problem long term. My chuckle was military action is intended to protect the ceasefire. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we're going to warn to protect the ceasefire. We are right. I radio coming up more with Gary McNamara and Eric Carley. It's right. I radio.

an interesting next five months. It really is. No, it may be one of the most that, well,

“I think I guess we say this every. Yeah, the new one always is. But the latest is always the”

the most interesting because now there are so many factors that are involved here in determining

well, trying to grasp, guess, pull, determine what the American people are worried about

and how that's going to drive votes. Again, pricing is going to be a big driver. But will it be outdone by the absurdity, the insanity of the left? Because the absurdity and insanity isn't just

the lives of TikTok moments. It's it's about the threat, the existing threat of what has become

the violent left, justifying taking lives or attempting to take lives, coming after your children and control of your children. These are very serious issues and that definitely will outweigh pricing with some people. It has to be enough though. This is Ridae Radio on Westwood 1. Hello, America, Mark Levin here. Many people seem to be incubating

“a rage looking for somewhere to go. Are there times when you think the country is out of control?”

Do you see all these things and you wonder, what in the world is going on? What's that this way five years ago, ten years ago, 20 years ago? Do we have the will or not? But we are Americans.

“And I believe we absolutely do have the will. I do this show for you. And when you're not”

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