07-02-26 Part One - Happy Birthday USA!

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“How dare the beginning of the show interrupt our conversation?”

What do you get? What do you get a country that's 250 years old? [Laughs] I'm racking my brain, man. There's nothing on Amazon.

You know, when you think about it, I think about, you know, my dad being 100 years old. And the country is 250. Yeah, and that crazy. But that's 93, but he's lived over a third of this country's existence crazy. But think about all the technology that both of our dads have gone through.

Think about, you know, where my dad was born in 33. So 26, I'd say, right around, let's say, 1940-ish, you know, dad would have been 70 or 7, and would have, you know, started maybe being curious about, you know, how things work. That's little boys do, and you know, go out and build a fort, or play in the mud, whatever. And then at 18 went into the Navy.

“But you think about everything, I mean aviation, like your dad was a pilot.”

And you think about now, I saw someone post on social media earlier, you know, woke up in Los Angeles, and I'm home tonight and DC, and I'm grateful to live in America, basically making the point.

It's still amazing that you can get across the country, you know, in just a few hours.

My dad was not a commercial pilot, I wouldn't make it clear, but he did the aerobatics in a plane. Yeah. He was a private pilot who, uh, some of the things that he did were insane, as young men tend to do.

No. Right. Now, he didn't climb the Empire State Building to propose to my mother. No. And when he did it, if he had done that, he probably would have put something a little

more thoughtful on the banner. Well, and he would have had a flag or whatever. And he would have had a parachute. Yeah. I have a friend who was a base jumper, and he, that's insane to me, and he has video videos

of them just hopping out of a van, and then jumping off of parachuting off of a really high bridge.

“You know, you know what I think, one of the things is you, we talk about, you know, just”

250 years of age is when you look at the, I always think of the people that live, you know,

some of the founding fathers, for example, who lived into their 70s and then 80s back then. Yeah. There was no modern medicine. I remember when I read the, the, the, the book on the, oh, I was at, uh, oh, I got, I got my blank here.

The great trek across the, the country, uh, you know, that, uh, I just got my blank here. But in, in the beginning of this, the, the book that I read, they talked about something that has not been passed down, that it has been passed down because it's in the history books, history books. History cloud.

I was thinking about that the other day, when the history books, I mean, the history cloud. Yeah. Right. And, um, that how scared people were of dying.

Yeah. You know, and, and you think about it, when my father was born when your father was born, there weren't, there weren't no antibiotics. No. Everybody knew somebody who had polio.

Yeah. Well, you look, you know, smallpox, you know, people with actual quarantine signs on the doors of their home, the flu epidemic, the, yeah, flu epidemic, you know, when, when you go back, that was just, you think about that. That was just less than a decade before my, my dad was born.

And when you think about it, you know, my, you know, when my dad was born in, in, in 26 really, you know, you were, until the industrial revolution came around, you know, you, you, it was almost semi, you know, neanderthal lifestyles that we lived. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, and, and the, the amount of technology that we have. And, and that's the one thing when I, and when I watched the, the, the history channel,

back on the air, and I went, wow, every one of us, even if you live in poverty in the

“United States, you live better than billionaires except for real estate, the amount of real”

estate you might have owned. And how big your home was. Yeah. That was it. Yeah. We live, we live better than billionaires did 150 years ago, all because of, of, of technology. There is no appreciation. And if you don't have appreciation, you can't be grateful. Right. Uh, to understand what technology has done to our lives, as you mentioned, the, the one gentleman

who, uh, who, uh, talked about how you can get across the country, I'll be flying, uh, sorry, forgot the date for a second. Tomorrow, I'll be flying, uh, uh, Friday to see my dad again.

Yeah. You know, I, I've recently passed on American Airlines, actual million miles.

I've been around the planet 40 times. Yeah. The vast majority of that has been the last really 15 years. The vast majority of it, you know, being able to, so to be able to do this and still keep the close family ties that I have been able to do because of airline travel. I appreciate, I appreciate that like you can't imagine every time I get in a plane, I'm like, this is unbelievable. Right. Because you look back and you say, you know,

what, you know, what did we have when I think about when my, when my dad was born, many homes didn't have electricity. No, they did have a phone, no end or plumbing, no indoor plumbing. My, my grandmother and grandfather, I remember when I was young, the ice box, the ice box. Why did they call the dam refrigerator and ice box because they actually had an ice box when they were growing up. And if you were lucky, you got ice delivered every

“day. Yeah. By, by horse and buggy. Yeah. Because that's what delivered seriously for”

that. That's what, you know, you had the ice man that would, that who wasn't a serial killer, you know, right. It was, and it's a professional wrestler, but, but, but I, but exactly, so I look, I look at the, you know, I, I look at medicine, for example. And how many, how scared people were a dime that, you know, you go to the late 1700s at all the way, the 1700s, 1800s, 1800s, you know, even until antibiotics came around, you could die from

an infection. Oh, yeah. You know, people were scared to death. It was a, a Lewis and Clark Expedition. I was thinking, I almost said it. Lewis and Clark. And I was thinking that, and I, I, I, I, I'm not sure that that's the one. Yeah. The, the book, I, I, I, I read on that, and it was like, they said, one thing that has not been passed, how people were so scared. Yeah. That you actually, you know, you, people, you go out. It was, you know,

agriculture was a farming society. Yeah. And if you, because that's all you had, I mean, if you think about, there wasn't retirement, you know, you didn't have money sitting in the bank. I mean, you might have, if you were, you know, I mean, way up there, you had a little money sitting in the bank, but most families, it required that you lived off the land, did work, the barter system, you worked as long as you could, you know, we're talking pre-salsa

security. So there was no real safety net at all. It was about, this was the work you were going to do and you were going to keep working as long as you could in order to feed

your family every day, day to day. Then we were, family was a necessity, was a 100 percent

“complete necessity. Right. You had, you know, that, that's how, that's how people survived.”

But when you think of the Founding Fathers at Libond, there were 70, or anybody lived into there, 70s and 80s and the aches and pains that you couldn't do anything about the injuries that you got. You couldn't do anything about it. I think of all the, the little things that, you know, that, that pop up in, in me and it's like, no, these things are, these things are no problem. And, and so I am so, so grateful. So appreciative, I can put my life into

the context of human life and human history. And I'm like, damn, I'm glad when I was, the time in, in life when I was in history when I was born. I'm glad that I was born pre-IT world

but my mom's mom, even, I was probably in my teens, and they still had a party line, yeah, which could be very interesting or annoying. And you get on the phone and you're, yeah, sorry, your neighbors use your phone hang up. Yeah, no, I got an emergency call. So do I. And you, and then you think about, simple, you know, so communication being able to communicate, having a phone in the house, right, a landline in the house. You know, it's somebody did this video

that went viral. And it was a woman, you know, basically saying, you know, if we could have,

if I could only, I tried to call my knees. And if I could only, if they could only have one central phone in each house and she was, you know, alluding to, of course, people at first didn't understand that she didn't, that she was just having fun. It was tongue and cheek. Talking about

“having a central phone in the house. And when it rang, everybody's freaking out. That's why we,”

we learned to answer it with kind of, we were asking a question like hello and it was like, what the hell are you about to tell me and who are you? And then caller ID came in and we started getting selective. Yeah, I don't need to talk to that person. And then answering machines and everything else. Now you think about, I still love the idea of being able to communicate while you're on the fly with a mobile phone, with a cell phone. It to me is one of the greatest

technologies and the fact that it's a smartphone these days. You know, it could be frustrating, but the fact that we can do so many things on our phone. You can create a business, maintain a business, on a phone. On my smartphone, it's as we know, the phone, all the apps, you're here, you're,

“you're banking, recreation, tickets. I have a DJ sound system on my phone that automatically mixes”

the music where it, and I'm talking about no gaps. It actually, you know, the song is five seconds on the ending, the other one slowly comes in on it. I find that stuff just unbelievable that that we have this kind of technology to to enjoy and think about this. Think about how it used to be no problem if we used to call somebody. And the line would be busy for three hours and you couldn't get a hold of them for three hours. You just dealt with it. Today, you know, if, you know, you

call someone they don't answer, there's only never a busy signal, unless they still have a landline,

it just goes to voicemail and you leave a voicemail or you just say forget about the, you just don't leave the voicemail, you know, no, send a text because people just don't listen to

“voicemail anymore. It's too much of a pain in the butt to do that. So send them a text, follow it up”

with the text, and then you go, okay, I've communicated with them, you know, through, through one channel. And, and the thing, the other thing is to, I've read the other day where it's like, women are now are saying, men won't come up to us and talk to us and bars anymore. Men seem to have, no, it's not strong. You know, left, men don't want to date anymore. And you know what our problem was, our problem was, you had a main phone that was in the middle of where everybody

had their daily activities. If you wanted to call a girl in high school, you had to do it in front of your parents. And her dad might answer on the other end. Yes. And he's going to ask if you question. Exactly. I know, because I've been in that place. When we still had a landline, you know, it's like, who's this? You know, you know, it's getting direct, getting a call directly to the person you want to talk to in that house. You know, you think about that. And

look, there's a good and bad of all of it. But what it offers is opportunity. And also, in some cases, life saving technology. What it has given me is the opportunity to be so much more productive in the things that I wish to do every day. I'm able to accomplish it really hasn't given me any more free time. Right. But that's not what I'm searching for is free time to do nothing. My goal, my goal even at my age now is not to, you know,

not that I can't do it. I've always been able to turn it off. I mean, once every like three or

four months, it's like a Friday comes. I'm, I'm not going to do anything the whole weekend. That's a rarity. But I do it. And I know I've recognized you and I've been in this business long enough. I recognized at at one point, a couple of points in my life when burnout was almost there,

has taken a lot of that away because I can be, I know you believe the same thing too. You can be

so incredibly efficient and productive. I can bookmark and come back to it. Right. There's everything that you can do what what used to take us 10 hours now takes us a minute. Yeah. Right. And I'm not exaggerating on that either of research you can find out that quickly. It makes my life much more productive, much more efficient. And if some people wanted to take that to, you know, do whatever recreation they want, they're fine with that. I'm not against that,

you know, at all. I'm not, I'm the last one to judge what a person does, you know, with their, their life as long as they're, they're productive people. And they take care of their own business. And they don't try to bother me in my rights. Right. Yeah. Right. Exactly. If you build their

“responsibilities and obligations, that's what you want. Right. In fact, I'm fascinated with people”

that do things live a life completely different than mine. I'm absolutely fascinated by people

that get involved in certain things. And I'm like, wow, it's really so cool. I never do it.

But man, that's the kind of thing ever. I love that. I love that. I love the watching someone else's experience. And then saying to myself, yeah, you know, that's, that's not my thing. But man, they're killing it in what they're doing. They're crushing it. I watched a guy and he came up in YouTube shop, you know, just random shuffle guy in Arkansas. Yeah. Took basically an ICBM site. Yeah. The silo they closed down. Yeah. But in the, all the living quarters,

everything that was all underwater. Yeah. He went in, drain the whole thing, built an entire three

“story house in that. And I'm like, how much money does it take to do this? Right. Why would you do it?”

What are the, the frustrations? He goes, I'm just a kind of person that loves to do this. I'm like,

come, I would never do anything like that. I was completely amazed. And I'm like, wow, that,

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“remember the 10 Democrats that came out and said, well, we're basically the moderates that are”

left. And nobody paid attention to them. One of them rode up at peace in the Wall Street Journal Democrats need to show our love for America. There's only one problem with that. It's not going to happen. Well, they don't love America. You can't, you can't, they get right. What are you going to do? I'm going to show love for the woman I don't love. Yeah, it's, well, it's, you know, I mean for those 10, maybe, but for the others, no, your party doesn't love America.

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“So, we look at this week, and I would have to say that this week was the week,”

officially, that we now know that the Democratic Party is the socialist communist party. I found this interesting because the Democratic socialist of America, one of their leaders, this is on Fox News earlier this week, was being interviewed, and was asked to comment about what one of the other leaders had to say here we go. I'm not sure that all your members see that distinction though,

between Democratic socialism and communism. Let me show you an example. This is National DSA political committee member David Jenkins. Watch this. Our goal is liberation.

Our goal is communists. We're a diverse body of libertarian socialist, libertarian Marxist, anarchist, left communist, and other schools of fall within the sort of left-wing socialist movement. He says, "Our goal is communism." We have a big tent of all sorts of barbarians.

This was the week of big tent. Everybody's, the big tent of communism slash Nazis, because we have to add, we've got to add planner in there, because overwhelming support in the Democratic Party for a Nazi communist.

Well, the problem is the Democrats can't have a big tent.

Everybody has to be in lockstep, because the radicals control everything. And if you were not in line with the radicals, if you're saying, "Well, a big tent, where do you disagree?" Go ahead, said, "Not to me." Say it to the radicals.

If you're claiming you're not a radical, then tell the radicals in your party you don't like where they're going. Tell them what you disagree with. Go ahead, I want to watch. This is after the Colorado Congressional race,

where the Democratic Socialist who said 9/11 was America's fault. This is a response from the Colorado Democratic Party chair, Shad Maruv, here we go. I saw it last night. This is what a diverse and strong Democratic Party looks like, and where you nighted toward victory, this November.

“What do you see as the overarching message to the country from Colorado Democrats?”

Well, look, thank you for having me here. The Democratic Party last night made its voice heard, and this is a party that not only nominates someone like Melat Curios, who's energizing young people in this Democratic Socialist wing of the party, but also John Hickamuber, who's a tried and trusted leader

who many would classify as a moderate to continue in the US Senate. This is the sign of a healthy, diverse party that's not afraid to have a typical conversation in public, but they won't have the conversation in public. No, they won't. They won't have the conversation.

They simply say we're a big tent. Right. Yeah. No, I'd love for the Democrats who aren't, or say they aren't radical to have a conversation in public with the other Democrats who are the radicals.

Go ahead. I want to see that. The Melat Curios, who won 29-year-old Socialist, who defeated Denver's 15-term incumbent. And represented, the judge was defeated as a progressive, a backer of abortion rights

gun control, who has co-sponsored Medicare for all legislation yet she lost. The press calls, Colorado is this from the Wall Street Journal. Colorado results, the press calls, more evidence of Democrats are in the mood to out-establish from candidates that's true. But the challengers aren't simply outsiders, new to politics,

they're on the far left. Ms. Curios told nine news last week. We already have socialism right. It's in the roads that we drive on. It's in our fire stations.

That's not what socialism is.

No. She wants the same model to be in health care. She wants free pre-K and college. She thinks dreams can be paid for by taxing millionaires. And 9/11 are fault.

She wants a U.S. arms embargo on Israel, including defenses that shield civilians from rockets. And more, she's as radical as you can possibly get. And everybody, they're in the big tent. They're in the, you saw a platner.

Not see as them is now. Part of our big tent. Communism, part of the big tent. I want to play this as Fox News.

You just heard that was on CNN with the, with the Democratic Party,

Chair of Colorado. Here's Ari Flasher, yesterday on Fox News talking about exactly what you just mentioned, Eric.

“There, where is this principal Democrat leader who says no to socialism?”

That simple. No. We won't caucus with you. We won't. We don't want your support.

We are Democrats. We're not socialist. What's wrong with them saying that? But they won't say it because they're scared to say it because then they get primary. Yep.

And that's exactly what's going to happen. You know, it's funny because David Hogg actually was the one who said in his few minutes that he was there at the DNC officially in power saying, you know, we need more radicals to appeal to my age group. You know, the 18 to 30.

Age group. He said we need more radicals.

“And that wasn't the only thing that they had a problem with.”

But at that time, you really couldn't say that out loud. Even though other Democrats in power were saying it. Stacey Abrams, the permanent governor of Georgia. And they, you know, they've been saying it for a handful of them have been saying this has to be the strategy. We've got to go more radical.

So for those that keep saying big tent, big tent. Yeah. I want to see that conversation between your side of the tent and the other one. Yeah. Who's debating?

Who's debating the Nazi communists? Right. He's still deciding what to do. He can't figure out whether he wants whether he loves Lenin or Hitler. There's this big, you know, this big debate going on in Platner's mind.

Yeah. Yeah. On on that one. Right. But you look at the the rest of him.

You look at everything that's come out. You know, this is where we go to represent of Tom Swarzy who. Uh, wrote the piece Democrats need to show our love for America. Seating patriotism to the GOP does a disservice to our party and more important to our nation.

“What, you just wake up? Are you, are you, are you rip Van Winkle?”

The hell's going, where, where, where are you? How delusional are you? Right. Look at all the polling that has come out. Look at what Democrats and the Democrats socialist want to do who are taking over your party. How you, you can't love the nation.

If you wish to whittle down the first amendment.

The second amendment. The 14th amendment. You want to get rid of the separation of powers. And have everything being controlled by one branch of government as a democratic socialist of America. Yeah.

Is it, you know, is is a part of the platform that they're talking about. They want to get rid of the Senate. They want to get rid of the electoral college. Right. And then you look at where the party has already gone.

Which is the classism of identity politics, the classism and racism of the of identity politics. Judging people by groups and not individuals. Socialists and communists love that. Oh, yeah. I mean, that's exactly what they, that's exactly what they want.

Oh, yeah. And, you know, you, you look at that. You look at the incredible massageny and sexism that you see, you know, in the radical transgender movement that you can look at a authoritarian regimes across the world and how they treat women and the democratic party is right there. What do you, and these, these established, well, we're the established who went, no, no, no, no. You open the door to all of this. Yep. And then to sit back now and say, why don't we love the country?

Yeah, hate the country. You hate the constitution. You, and this is an us projecting on them. We're just observing what they're telling us. Remember how, uh, how angry. Uh, uh, uh, uh, James, what's his name, got it, and calling a Bernie, a communist, the snake calling a Bernie, the communist, uh, he said, you know, he's a damn communist.

And all the members, let's go back even further. Oh, Obama rejected the socialist brand because, in fact, they started by saying that if it was by the administration, then the Obama administration, that socialist was the new inward.

“Yeah, that's what they say. Yeah, remember that. And then he made the joke about, you know, a mop. I'm going to do some planning. It's a socialist mop.”

And, you know, made the joke about it. So here's the thing.

All new, still in power, not in power. It doesn't matter anybody who has any place in the democratic party. Go ahead. Speak out against the DSA. Go ahead. And when, and when you look at socialism and communism, and you look at, uh, you look at the, the former Soviet Union, you look at China, you look at, you know, you look at North Korea, where these were these things where we saw. And again, it wasn't, has anybody said that recently? Well, communism actually works. If you have the right people implementing it.

Yeah, right. But when, when we saw the mother of Sheridan Gorman yesterday, absolutely can't believe how Democrats, the rep, every one of them, completely cold and heartless as she talks about her daughter being murdered. Yeah. And represent a, uh, J. Apoll basically, we've been here four times already. We got more important things to do. Right. And the audio that we played, and she's just like, why, why are you putting illegal immigrant criminals over American citizens?

“What the hell is going, you don't even care. And that's what happens when you get to socialism and communism, your citizens are subjects.”

And that's their nuts. They're nuts. They're nuts. And that's where we are. Yep. They care nothing about.

And Americans. So the door has been opened by the Democrats in power. They don't really disagree with what's going on. They, but they're, now they're, they're like, okay, I got to be careful there because if I, I can't win. Maybe in my district, if I take the, you know, if I take the communist side, that they'll primary me. And so I could lose. So I really can't tell you what I really think or this is what I really think. Right. It's one, it's one or the other. And if you don't have the guts to stand up to communist socialist and Nazis and say it's wrong.

“Then really, I do agree with the number of of, I think it was the majority of Democrats when polls don't want to live in the country, then maybe you should go.”

Yeah, you should. We brought to that poll earlier this week. Right. The majority of Democrats don't want to be in the country. Bye. They won't, they don't want to be here. They don't love the United States. Did you see that thing on extra day about that guy who was going in was it a home deep or whatever. And he was like just live it that there were so many flags flying. Yeah. Oh, what the hell is this? What the hell is this? Where are all these flags? What the hell are all these flags flying? Yeah. And and somebody said, though, no, women, that's a liberal man walking into home deep. Oh, no, that, that, this has to be fake.

Well, he's not there to repair anything. He would know how. He's there to get some turning signal fluid and car. And so I mean, that's what's come out this really this week.

And anything that we say, you can't say anymore that you could never say it to us, but you can't say it to the right. Oh, you guys are extrapolating out to absurdity.

No, they can't say that anymore. No, they're promoting it. We're just telling you what they're telling us. The DSA officially put it out. This is what they want. Yeah, they voted for law enforcement. No money for the military. No defense for you whatsoever. They want to dismantle completely the constitution. And they believe the people that vote for them are stupid because they're trying to tell you that socialism is basically has the, the one, the one woman who won in, I can't think of her name at the moment now, that one in Colorado, that we already have socialism.

Yeah, you know, the, you know, the the fire department fixing our roads. That isn't socialism. No, we are right. I radio. We'll be right back with more red eye radio with every currently and Gary McNamara. We are when I radio. He's already on Gary McNamara. I tell you this, though, the, the, the one thing, you know, you had, uh, some of the members of the Democrat socialist of America, they're promoting exactly what they want.

It's building roads and, uh, and fire stations. They have to lie to you because they know if they tell you the truth about what socialism slash communism is, you won't go for it. Right. So they, they, you know, they're out there. Some of them out there doing it. And now when it's like, oh, man, we could win this election.

Now they've got to back off and just pretend, no, no, no socialism is just what we've always done in this country.

Right. And we just, we, we just want to make sure that it works correctly when that's a bunch of horse manure. Well, and they're going to try as you mentioned earlier, they're going to try and sell it the way that others have tried to sell it over the years. Well, this is America. We can, we can do it better. We can do it right. If it's brought up that it's failed drastically time and time again all over the world. Then they always come back with, well, but we're America.

“We're a rich nation. We have enough money. That's what they'll tell you. There's enough wealth in America to get this done.”

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250 years. I remember 200. Yeah. I do. I do.

“You know, I'm just, I cannot remember what I was thinking.”

You know, that day. I remember what I did on the, on the bicentennial. Yeah. In fact, I remember driving with my buddy, Jeff. Who I've known since I was probably eight, seven, eight years old.

And we were driving down the road in the town of Tonawanda. Yeah. Which is, it means the town of Swiftwater, which is where I grew up actually. Can more town of Tonawanda is. It can more is a little village inside the town of Tonawanda, which is the town of Swiftwater right along the Niagara River.

Yeah. Upriver from Niagara Falls. Yeah. But we're driving down the road listening to Kansas, Song for America. Oh, wow.

As we drive by the blue jet on Brighton and Colvin. Yeah. Anybody listening and Buffalo's going, I know exactly what you're talking about. Is that, was that a bar? What was that?

What was the blue jet? The blue jet was a blue jet. It was a navy jet. Oh, that was sitting there like as a, you know, as a, as a, as a prop for a business. There's no, no, no, no, no.

It was a part of a park. Oh. It was a, I don't, I don't know what kind of a jet it was. It was a navy jet. Okay.

It was an honor of the, the navy, you know, the military. Yeah. The military.

“Did they put that there for the bicentennial or was it always?”

No.

It's always, it was always there.

That used to be able to climb into the engines. Well, partly. And then they had a bar, bar. That's all. Totally.

I am. Most people don't remember it. Now they've got that all covered up. But I think it's still there. I wouldn't buy there.

But eight months ago. Okay. Every time I go by the right thing about that. So I remember, but I didn't think of what I would be doing. Fifty years later for the next.

I was ten years old. For the next for the bicentennial.

Given my dad's position as chief of police.

You know, you kind of have to mind your peace and cues. Because I didn't worry about getting arrested at ten years old. But if any of the other SPs told my dad, you know, hey, it was out there near the back gate on that road. You don't let him go on on his bike.

You know, I'd get in trouble later when dad got home.

“But no, I, I remember just everything on the base being decorated for the bicentennial.”

And I don't remember Independence Day. Specifically, we mostly would go, I mean, on base. They had a short fireworks display near the flight line. There was a big field there. And so that's where they would put on the fireworks display.

I didn't think about years later either. My son was born on the Fourth of July, 88. And I remember looking out the hospital window. They brought him in. I felt him. I changed him. And then went to the window.

And it was facing north. And there was an air force base. North of that hospital. In fact, it's where my parents live now just across from that air force base. And they were setting off their fireworks.

So that was kind of cool. That was a cool moment. Yeah, and so I didn't think, you know, the bicentennial was just kind of, but it was ever present on the air force base. So I don't know if it's a fair comparison. We moved off base.

“I think the following year, the end of the following year.”

And, you know, but you were always aware of, you know, the bicentennial.

It was everything. The run up to the bicentennial was was huge. Yeah. And again, you can, you can romance things in your head. But I believe it was, even though we talked about the article.

There was written yesterday saying, hey, in the centennial. And even the bicentennial. We were in a pretty big split nation. You know, I think social media probably amplifies. You know, when I was sinking the other day when I looked at, you know, social media because people argue over anything now.

It reminds me of going up to my grandmother's house and all the brothers sitting at my grandmother's table. You know, my, my, my father and my, my uncles. My aunts really didn't participate in it. And they'd argue over anything. Yeah.

And I think all you're seeing on so because you sit there and you say, you know, I'll go on social media in the arguments that start happening. And I'm like, wow, we live in a simple to society. And I go, actually not. Because when you think about it, families used to do that all together. It's just social media has replaced that where people can say whatever they want. But we, we have a nation that is extremely obsessed about things that don't matter at all.

Yeah, if you look at social media. Well, you'll, you'll see something like, you know, we'll watch something where someone has a recipe for something. Hey, here's an easy recipe for something. Then I'll sit and I, I, I say to myself, okay, I got to venture over to the comments. Yes.

Well, you really shouldn't use that kind of rice. You really shouldn't, you should have done this.

“You should have done that. I'm thinking myself, well, why don't you do that in your kitchen?”

No, I mean, you're taking it too seriously. I just love, but I've, I've noticed it on the, the sign-filled pages on Facebook. Where somebody naturally draws something that happens in politics and puts it on. And then everybody goes nuts. No politics, no politics. But sign-filled was political at points.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. You know, they were political at points. You know, not that there's anything wrong with that. That's probably the biggest thing that came out. One of the biggest catchphrases that really stuck for generations beyond sign-filled beyond the show was not that there's anything wrong with it. But I just, I find it just, I, you know, social media is fascinating and entertaining for the things and people.

I mean, and they get furious at each other over things that don't matter at all. I mean, things that are just the dumbest things and people are furious and, you know, basically cursing and it's like, wow.

And I guess it gets back to my point that, you know, we have, you know, there's serious challenges that society always faces.

The, the challenges that we have today to me are not as great as past challenges that we've had.

Yeah. When you look at the world war, too, when you look at the, when you look at the, the, the civil war. When you look at how, you know, the racist society that we were and the evolution into a society where only racism is used really and race baiting to try to get a political advantage. But most people, it's invisible to their lives. Yeah, most people, you know, now I believe, as I've said before, racism isn't the biggest problem at all. It's, it's envy, it's jealousy, it's the victim mentality and it's selfishness and it's greed and it's not greed from companies who are attempting to make a legitimate product.

“It's greed from people that believe that comes from the left that what you have should be mine because if you have what I don't have, you must have somehow been in moral in order to get that money so you owe it to me.”

Yes, I mean, that socialism everybody should be equal equally poor.

The government gives you only what you need and then communism takes control of the means of production. So, I mean, socialism takes, means of production communism is where, but they're still some private property in socialism, communism eliminates all private property. Right, but they both want to control the means of production. Yeah, that's, that's, and, and that's what I'm getting to and that's the whole thing is you get, you get nothing, you get no opportunity.

None, there is no freedom, but if you look at a generation that cares nothing about ownership of anything.

And I don't know how much of it is generational, actually, because I'd love to see the demos on that. I don't want to own anything because I don't want the responsibility, I don't want to own a car, I don't want to own real estate. Well, they want the money and the advantages that money can bring because they want your money. Oh, well, they want to own the money that you have. You mean, socialist, they may not want the responsibility of buying, of actually buying things and having the responsibility of taking care of it.

Right, what I'm saying is that creates the opportunity to say, well, you don't have to own anything and think of this idea where nobody owns, you don't really have a landlord. Well, you would, it would be the government. Which is the number one thing as we talk about this week was the week that socialism slash communism slash Nazism has really taken hold in the Democratic Party. The evidence is there as the leadership of the Democratic Party has crumbled and said, oh, no, this is all part of the big tent.

“It's more important that we win. We don't care how we win. We don't care if we're racist. We don't care if we're communist. We don't care if we're misogynist in the radical transgender movement. We don't care about if we're sexes.”

We don't care if we're cold-hearted when it comes to sanctuary cities and we basically tell the American citizen, we don't give a damn about you. We care more about the, the illegal immigrant criminal. And, but the one thing that isn't, that isn't talked about is the left that for years and they're still talking about it. Now, the corporations are too big and we can't have them monopoly. Yet they want a monopoly to control everything. They want the biggest monopoly that you can possibly imagine, a socialist communist government, to control the means of production, to control the, the, the, to control property, to take away your choices.

You, you think that monopolies are in corporations. You think Elon Musk? You know, he's, he's an oligarch. We, we need to get out of this plutocracy. Elon Musk controls the country. The hell he does? If you think that's control of the country, you're completely clueless as to what socialism slash communism is.

“Well, and, you know, this idea, AOC floating the idea that Apple, you need to break up Apple as a, as a company because they're going to have an increase for the cost of the iPhone.”

You know, they're, they're too big and, and the company is getting too big and they believe that they should go unchecked. Well, in capitalism, there is a check. You start charging too much for your iPhone. You were people quit buying the iPhone or buy an older iPhone or buy a cheaper phone from somewhere else.

No, stop it and when Trump does that, you make it easier for socialist communist on the other side to say, well, look at your guys doing he claims to be a conservative.

“And he wants equity. He wants government equity in different corporations. Yes.”

No, the housing bill that almost that he almost signed and probably eventually will sign. They'll get around to it at some point. Yep. What that, what that does is it kicks the door open to government ownership of property and less ownership by the private sector of the individual. It, which means property rights start to disappear. You know, you, you look at the amount of subsidies put for the, the elected vehicle for solar and wind and everything else. And now you've got, you know, a sub mementani put out.

“Put your recognition of 78 the grid can't handle any of this. We live in the United States of America because of government wanting to control the means of production through subsidies and your taxpayer dollars have made it.”

Where this is self-inflicted the United States should have no problem with energy. None. Zero. And the reason isn't bad corporations. It's the monopoly of the government. Yep. Yep. And all the rules, the regulations and all the incentives handing out taxpayer dollars left and right. And that's where the idiocy of the public, they rely on, they say, you're an idiot because we can sell you any damn thing and you, my, as I said, my father told me when I was 14 years old, you're going to find out in life that people want to be biased.

“The way I get that back from so many people in our audience going, oh, my gosh. Wow, you're your father really predicted the future, he goes, my dad told me, and I was a, idealistic 14 year old, no dad, people want the truth.”

And the interesting thing is, as a 14 year old, I was probably a pathological liar. Well, Joey pants in the matrix is sitting there and he's sitting there with the two matrix guys going, yeah, I know I'm not really eating a steak, but ignorance is bliss, yeah. I mean, and if there's ever you want a week where you can sit there and look and go, wow, do the American people does a significant portion of the American public ever want to be biased. It's the left trying to sell you socialism, communism, Naziism, fascism, racism, misogyny, sexism of the radical transgender movement, the identity politics is where I talk about the racism.

Basically, it's just a big 10 thing and we're all willing to work together, and socialism is just having a fire station or having roads. Well, you're a sucker if you buy into that.

You didn't build that because the government built the roads and bridges to it. Well, without profit, you would have no money, none whatsoever, nothing exists if companies aren't making legitimate products. That's right, you can't fund the government, you can't fund nonprofits. If there aren't legitimate profits, you can fund nothing. And they've been trying to sell this for years, same old, same old idea, but now they believe they're on a roll.

Yeah, and if they win in November, that's going to be a huge problem and a threshold that we've crossed that we may never be able to get back from.

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“This must be the late '90s I think Milton Friedman because he looks a lot older here. Here's what he had to say about 50 years previous, which would have been in the 1930s.”

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“That's what has been discussed this week as the Democratic Party has made it clear to America.”

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You know, when we talk about socialism versus communism, it's one of the reasons that I played Milton Friedman. It had to be maybe the late 90s, maybe early 2000s when he because he looked definitely older in that where he just said, you know, 50 years previous, which would have been probably half century before. You would have been closer to the 1940s, 1930s, especially 1930s when socialism was pretty big in this country. You know, it's a Nazi rallies that blew away anything we've ever seen today. But when you go back and look at the history, I mean, you go back to the earliest part of the 20th century.

And the anarchists had existed, you know, for example, the anarchist movement. So we've had a ton of different things. You know, and then we can talk about the Civil War.

which is actually the average life that a person lives, is relatively free and prosperous.

“And, but when you talk about socialism, the thing that really boggles my mind is when you break it down.”

And unless he's idiots believe that socialism is, oh, if socialism is a fire station, socialism is the roads that we build. That's not socialism. Yeah, free markets in capitalism does not say you don't have a government.

Right. It doesn't say it at all.

But I want to just get back because this is where you number one, you've got to explain to people about the benefits of free markets in capitalism. And you've got to make it simple. I have another audio cut from Milton Freeman that I wanted to play here because he talks about the fact that people just can't believe that a system. And remember, this goes back 40, 50 years, this one because he's younger here.

They just can't believe that a system of people pursuing their own self-interest can actually promote an economy in the well-being of a country at the same time.

They just believe that the government is there to stop anything bad that happens, the government needs to come in and fix it. Yeah, because the belief would be that people are inherently bad if they're involved in capitalism. Now as we know in free markets in capitalism,

“the reason we talk about free markets capitalism within a democracy is because that's why business law exists.”

That's why tort law exists. That's why contract law exists. It all exists and is a part of capitalism, contracts that are enforced by the government. So free markets doesn't mean that contracts aren't enforced. Right, free markets doesn't mean that there isn't regulation, so you don't interfere on somebody else's business or somebody else's life. There are rules and regulations in free markets and capitalism, but I just want to play this audio cut because I thought it was really interesting. Here we go.

Because the story they tell is a very simple story. He's used to sell. If there's something bad, it must be an evil person who's done it. If you want something done, you've got to do it. You've got to have government step in and do it. The story, Hayek and I want to tell, is a much more sophisticated and complicated story. And somehow or other, there exists this subtle system in which without any individual trying to control it.

There is a system under which people in seeking to promote their own errors will also promote the well-being of the country, Adam Smith's invisible hand. Now that's a very sophisticated story. It's hard to understand how you can get a complex interrelated system without anybody controlling it. It's a great point.

“When you look at how it all works, but as we have said before, when you look at, I think one of the interesting things is just look at, for example, the Social Security system that we have here.”

And look at the vast majority of people who have 401k's and mutual funds. And what they have built, and what more they could have built, if they were able to take that money and put it into a 401k, put it into the free market instead of trusting the government with your money, which is a monopoly, and can make their own rules as they go along. And look with the Social Security system, we all know what's going to happen in a few years. But if you look at your 401k, by the way, the President said yesterday that the 401k's are up 85%, I don't know what 401k's he's talking about.

No, but if he could point the direction, then maybe I could get our employer to give us that form, but no, I look at anyone that's put their money into just a medium risk 401k with your company, and you put money in every single week from the time that you're young. I don't know what the government's out does government, I don't know what the percentage would be, in a mind-boggling amount. Yeah, absolutely mind-boggling. And why not the government? Well, the government came up with a Social Security, well, but if you took your own responsibility to do it, when you think about it, government got involved, government gets involved in a ton of different things.

Right, that you're a child, you can't handle your own responsibilities, you don't want to handle your own responsibilities.

But this gets back to what you said, because I realized it was a flaw in my argument when I said, well, no, Eric, you know, people may not buy things, but they definitely want money. Well, they don't necessarily want the responsibility of having that money and having to make the decisions of what to do with it every day. They're not, they're not making that money, they're not going out and the same people don't care that, you know, they have an opportunity to, you know, some of some people, again, nothing applies to all.

Some people will go out and they say, all right, you and I have both met people from other countries recently that I said, no, I'm, I work multiple jobs, I work all the time, because I have an opportunity to earn all the time. And the one driver that told me that, you know, just said, I haven't stopped since I got here. And he came here from Cuba. He said, I haven't stopped and he goes, I won't stop. He said, look at everything you can, you can do. And you look at all of what we have available to us yet we still have, in fact, we have a growing number of people that want that really don't care.

I mean, the, the surfer dude, a number him makes, you know, they make him look like a, a Milton Friedman capitalist based on, you know, where they are, but it's, it is that similar mindset.

“I don't need to own anything. I don't need all of that money. That's how people are easily sold on socialism because then they say, well, then if the government's going to write me a check.”

Then why not? Well, when I just want to make sure, when I was talking about the responsibility of money, for example, there's a comfort zone for a lot of people that, oh, the government takes care of the Social Security for me. Oh, the government takes some money out for me. I don't have to worry about, you know, paying my taxes each and I've got to worry about that once a year. The government takes care of the government. There's, there's a comfort zone in not having that responsibility. You and I look at it as we talk about the 250th, you know, a birthday of the United States.

We look at it and say, we love the United States not because we don't love the United States because something is guaranteed to us, you know, some kind of material is guaranteed by the government.

That's not why we love the United States. We love it because of freedom and opportunity. I've always looked at those, those, what's the happiness quotient?

The happiness quotient are people that get all these great social benefits and everything is free. Well, we look, for example, if the Sweden and other Scandinavian countries that did that and realized they're moving in the different direction because they were taxing the daylight outside of their middle class in order to support all these great things that they were talking about. Happiness to me is not being taken care of. If that's your, if that's your definition of happiness, well, then I disagree with that definition.

Right. Because happiness to me is simply opportunity. It's freedom and then opportunity.

“It's, it's knowing that you can earn something yourself. That's how we view it.”

I believe the people that look at socialism, they could give a damn about opportunity. No, they don't want it to be easy.

They want it to be easy and therefore the government can make it easy, you know, whatever, when think about this and I go back, I'll probably always go back to my dad's lessons.

But when my dad told me, and I think it's some of the best advice out there. Again, when I was 14 years of age, a lot happened to me at 14. My father decided, all right, we're going to have to straighten you out, kid. But when my father told me, you need to be good because you got to realize it's a different place we're heading into. You know, it goes really post World War II. It wasn't post World War II, but post World War II, there were a ton of jobs that came in. We had the economy boom, you know, the baby boomer after the 50s, but this was late 60s.

And he was saying, you're not going to be able to hold a job for 20 or 30 years anymore. It's not going to happen. You better be good at four different at least four different things. Right. And it was, and he said, and the whole thing about college and trade should be college or should be a trade.

“My father said, both, you need to be good. You need to have a college degree.”

You need to be good at a trade. You need to understand engineering. You need to know how to do sales. You need to know how to market and maybe whatever you think you would want to do that would be something that would be fun. In your life can be another option. But you've got to cover all four of those at least four of those.

You're not saying, well, college or trade, you're saying, I need to learn both. And then I need to learn sales. I need, and his whole point was you had this opportunity to prepare for life. Nobody's going to take care of you. And it's the biggest BS statement. If you believe that government's going to take care of you because it's not going to happen. And even if you do let government take care of you, it's not going to be a good life for you.

It's not going to be a productive life. It's not going to be a happy life.

No, my wife and I never could we never in fact relied on just our day job.

We knew we were going to have to do more. And we started there. And that's where we are today, still that mindset. But it was on entrepreneurs. But we wanted to do it. It wasn't like, oh, we've got to do this. It was like, no, I got to do this. I got to know it wasn't like a negative.

“Oh, life is so tough because I've got to work two or three jobs.”

It's like, no, I can have another opportunity to work here. I can do this. I can do that. Well, this is great. There's tremendous opportunity again. It's, it really is unlimited if you apply yourself. We are Red Eye Radio.

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We are Red Eye Radio. He's our currently an I'm Gary McNamara. I go back to what Milton Friedman told Phil Donnie who at one time.

He said, you're under the assumption that political greed is more moral than economic greed. Right. It goes, that's the big fallacy. Well, it's the same people that are screaming no kings are calling for socialism and communism, which would be a dictatorship. And they call Trump a dictator.

I know. None of it makes. That's the thing is we said, none of it makes it. There is no can say what you want if you disagree with us. There is a consistency to our our opinions and our discussions.

Yeah.

You can connect the dots with the left anymore.

No. Roll over the place.

“You have to look at what they're accusing the other side of.”

And then realize very quickly. That's actually how they think. But that's correct. That's the thing that what they accuse the other side of is what they are. We appointed that out so many times. Yeah.

They're projecting the things that they believe on the other side. Yeah. And the thing is, though, they've been successful in doing it. You're still winning elections. There's a lot to scroll through on X on Instagram on TikTok or cutting through the clutter.

One hot take at a time. Love seeing you all in the chat before the show. I tried to jump in just a few weeks ago.

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I think that's what we're talking about. I think that's what we're talking about. I think that's what we're talking about. When you all have the chat before the show, I tried to jump in just a few minutes before to say hello.

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