08-13-26 Part Two - The WNBA's Definition of a Woman

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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, welcome and good morning. Thank you so much for being here this morning. Thank you. You know, one of the things I'm wondering about because we were talking about Chris Matthews saying that he rejects the DSA and their radicalism and open borders and everything else. And, you know, we can't accept

it. We're like, what are you talking about? This all came from the mainstream of the Democratic Party. The only reason the DSA exists is because you open the door to them with the insanity of the Democratic Party over the last 10 years. Open, oh, there's open border thing. They don't want

“ice. They don't want open borders. It's like, like James Carbel going, we got to stop with this”

voter ID thing. We have to be for voter ID. They've held these positions for over a decade now. It's the moderates, the people they're calling the moderates are the ones that created it. And I don't want to forget this because I was seeing the Peggy Flanagan yesterday. She was asked the question, should gender affirming care have a minimum age? She said, people need healthcare. Should there be an age limit? Gender affirming care is healthcare. So,

if a 10-year-old wanted it, it would be okay. That should be between a family, a blob, a blob, a blob, a blob. Yeah. You know, and, you know, it's like, okay, this is a socialist candidate here. That was, that was, that was mainstream in the Democratic Party before anybody was talking DSA or Mundani.

“Yeah. Yes, or Hong, or Siaid or any of them. Right. That was mainstream in the Democratic”

Party. The children should be able to cut off their body parts. So, please spare us this. We can't believe the DSA has infiltrated the Democratic Party. No, you open the door and you said, come on in. Well, that's it. It's, it was the goal. You know, it's like Governor Hogle saying, well, we got to do something about this because electricity rates are necessarily skyrocketing. She didn't phrase it that way, but Obama did. Well, but you know, and they came back, you know,

Democrats basically responded to her saying, no, that's the goal. Right. Well, I,

would I find that interesting because there was a, I guess a couple of stories out yesterday about Hogle that she's only up by 10 points. And they're like, this is striking range for a Republican. And it's a, oh, what's her name? The attorney general. The Latisha James is pulling higher. Yeah. And, and they're making the case. A Republican might have a chance. Well, why do Democrats dislike her? Because she's losing in, she's losing Republicans don't like her. But why

would Democrat? I don't know whether the vote for the Republican in this particular case. But one of the reasons they don't like her is because they want electricity prices raised. And she said, this may not be economically feasible. This will hurt us. And it will hurt me if electricity prices keep going up. And I can't do anything to lower it. And the Democrats and the legislature said, no, we created these laws to skyrocket electricity prices. We want higher electricity prices.

That's always been the goal. Yeah. Like, all right. Yeah. I just, but, oh, since we're talking

whole electricity and climate change, Bjorn Lumberg has written a column. Oh, all right. Bjorn Lumberg, by the way, the climatologist, who he is president of the Copenhagen consensus visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and author of false alarm best things first. If you don't know, Bjorn Lumberg, we've been talking about him for years. He is somebody who believes that man does have an effect on the climate. He doesn't know exactly what it would be. He thinks the left

way over exaggerates it. And he believes almost everything that the left is doing to stop it is completely in totally wrong. Right. Right. That's where he stands now. Right. The whole thing with the Canadian wildfires. Again, the left has taken either climate change, climate change, climate change, climate

change, uh, uh, he wrote an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal. And they're always, it's always

worth it because, you know, he does not get criticized like normal Republicans do for some reason.

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Canada's public broadcaster informed readers that smokey skies had only one true fix. Stop burning fossil fuels. But the headlines seem to have missed the most remarkable fact about the wildfires.

“Canada is having a below average fire year. In fact, the world is on track to a record low in areas”

burned around the world. Ottawa's own tally, by the way, for people that don't know, they say Ottawa, like we would say Washington, because Ottawa is the capital of Canada except for Alberta. Ottawa's own tally released. I didn't know they are the capital of Alberta too. Of because Alberta is still part of the Canada. Ottawa's own tally released for the moment. If I have to explain my own joke, I've lost the complete impact on it. Ottawa's own tally released to

lie nine showed 1.4 million acres burned less than 1/3 of the 4.6 million burned by the same date

last year. Talking to the quick facts of the government press release, beneath quotes,

“government quotes about climate change, driving ever more severe disasters was the quiet admission”

that wildfire activity remains below the five-year average. That's understanding it, satellite data, weekly updated by the European Union confirms Canada's total burned area in 2026 by August 5th was below the 2012-2025 average, the EU uses as a baseline. And the statistical news keeps coming. The US this year has remained below its 2012-2015 average with its most recent measurement 20% below average as of August 5th. North America and South

America are at record low burn since 2012. Every continent on the globe is burning less, some much less than usual as of August 5th, Oceana has burned 14% less in its 2012-25 average and Europe has burned 35% less. Asia has a near record low of burned area since 2012 clocking in at 41% below average Africa is at a record low with current burn rate 44% below average globally were on trend for the lowest burn since the collection of that satellite

data began in 2001 and likely the lowest since 1900 in the early 1900s, nearly 4% of global land burn annually, nearly double today's rate American annual burn area in the 1930s was about five times as large as its modern annual burn area. The deadliest aspect of fires has declined to smoke deaths. Air pollution from fires kills roughly 20,000 times as many people as fires themselves as fires have declined. The rate of annual deaths from landscape fire air pollution has fallen

substantially since 2000 according to the 2024 research given the current global population that

means fire pollution kills about 1.6 million 400,000 fewer than would have been the case

had the 2000 death rate remained. You wouldn't know this from any single media report out there to much coverage, cherry picks, smaller areas that happen to have a lot of fires, ignoring everything else with Canada, this summer, scary pictures, one out over compelling statistics in Europe wildfires in France and Spain repeatedly make headlines that the cotton and fires are significantly below average does not because one of the most the one of the worst

in 2020. The headlines were doomsday, but while the fires did come near heavily populated areas such

as Melbourne and Sydney where many media outlets are based, the total national burn was well below average according to the government's annual environmental overview, this sort of media coverage leaves a public with the impression that the planet is a blaze, whatever then shows the complete opposite is happening. There you go. Well, of course you're not going to get accurate reporting.

“Of course they can't put that out because the media's part of the activism, that's why we call”

them the liberal activist media. Your intent is to scare not to reassure whether it's climate

change or anything else, and Lundberg has been again, this is, well, Lundberg is in the same place as

Lundberg, Greta. You know why? Remember at the end where, you know, she was, I mean, she's still alive, she's less relevant. She was saying Democrats aren't doing anything, you're not actually doing anything about it. Your policies don't work. So, you know, she kind of agrees with Lundberg, but she hasn't covered the climate anymore. She's, yeah, she's onto anti-Semitism. Exactly. Yeah, she's onto, she's a Jew-hater now. Yes, exactly. Somebody wrote that the other day. They said,

David Hogg, David Hogg, well, was losing his relevance. Yeah, come and anti-Semite. Yep.

Greta Thumbberg. Yeah. Nobody's paying attention to me anymore. Uh-huh. Becoming anti-Semite.

Talk to Carlson. Yeah. Nobody's paying attention to me anymore. Yeah, let's become an anti-Semite.

“Yep. Uh, what's your name? The other one. Can't do so, it. Yeah. I'm, I think I'm losing my relevance.”

Okay. Becoming anti-Semite. It's like, it's almost said that they do that because they know they'll get the clicks, and that means money. Yeah. No, that's it. That actually is it. But, you know, you look at this, and the media is the biggest part of it. The world is ending, it's getting worse. Uh, you know, every time there is a notable wildfire or set of wildfires, you know, we saw this in the, we're seeing this play out the Northwest in Washington. And it's,

it is, that's exactly the play is, is to, oh, this is climate change or, oh, this is, you know, hey, by the way, some of those fires are man-made and they're called arsonists. Yeah. We saw that with the California fire. Yeah, but, but how do you know that they weren't

“upset about climate change exactly? Yeah. And, and, and wanted to do, yeah, like the Southern”

poverty law center, uh, and, and because they're against racism, uh, create more racism in order to stop racism. Right. Yes, you set the house on fire, and then you'd go around the front and grab the water hose to be the hero. Right. This is, you know, this is, and then focus the attention on why are these house fires happening. Right. Because you're burning them down. Yeah, because you started the fire. We are right, I radio brought to you by FPPF, fuel power max.

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it on Fox yesterday. This is interesting. Whether someone is older or younger, a younger sibling

“may be linked to certain health outcomes later in life according to a massive new study,”

analyzing medical data from 10 million US siblings over 20 years researchers from the University of

Chicago and Columbus University found links suggesting that birth order may be connected to specific long-term health risks. Researchers examined 569 disease categories across families and among siblings identified 150 conditions that were significantly associated with birth order. Firstborn children showed a higher likelihood of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnosis, including autism, ADHD, Tourette syndrome and OCD as well as immune allergic conditions like

food allergies. Secondborn children were statistically more prone to migraines, shingles, substance use disorders, gastrointestinal issues like gastritis. Discussing the findings, Dr. Mark Siegel from Fox Medical Senior Medical Analyst noted the value of such a wide-scale study. I love this study because it opens a lot of questions more than it gives answers,

“but I think I have some answers regarding the heightened prevalence of ADHD among firstborn,”

Siegel offered his own hypothesis. My theory is they get more stimuli. The parents are like hovering over them, helicoptering them, and they don't know where to look. Addressing the disparities in allergic conditions, Siegel pointed to early environmental exposure, stating, "I think it's because the firstborn's immune system hasn't seen the environment before, and if it's not set properly, you get an allergy," I don't understand what it means there. Siegel also

touched on biological and psychological factors. When evaluating differences between siblings,

I think the womb changes after you have your first child, and the second child gets a womb

“that's already been used, and therefore it's more set for it, regarding the higher rate of substance”

use disorders among secondborn children. He suggested emotional drivers saying, "It may be the same idea. I want attention. I'm looking for attention. I want to do something to get a rise out of you." So what he's saying is it could be psychological by a lot of this, by how the environment that you go come into. My question to be, "I'm the middle child, and they haven't said anything about the thirdborn child, and if you're a middle child, which again, maybe that is why I'm extremely

psychologically balanced." Nope. Nope. Nope. I mean, yes, you're the middle child, but the whole psychologically balanced claim is dubious, at best. I'm the fourth of five. So I'm not the middle child. I'm not the oldest, and I'm not the youngest. I don't know what kind of sender am I supposed to have based on that. I will say this. I was the youngest of four boys. The youngest is, you know, they finally got a girl with my young sister, and so she's the princess,

but yeah. I was able to do more things. I was like, by the time my parents came to me, when I got to be 13, 14, they just let me do things that I don't think my older sister or brother ever even asked to do, but when I did, they did say, "Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go there."

Well, my dad was a cop, so I learned from how, number one, you always had that fear,

because he was going to interrogate. He walked into the room, and then extend his hand and say, "Hello, I'm Jim Harley, I'm your father, and then I need you to sit down and answer some questions." But I learned from my older brothers, what not to do, right? If they got in trouble, it's like, "I'm gonna put that on the list." You're listening to Red Eye Radio, from the Ray Leap Factor Studio.

Right now, you're gonna do it right now, and you're gonna be listening in 30 seconds to our podcast. By the way, I met a young man, a Uber driver, the other day, had a great conversation with him. Name Noah, great guy, great guy. We talked to music and everything, and then he downloaded our app. Yeah. I taught him about the app and stuff. I must have said it when you were gone this week. Yeah. Two Uber drivers over the weekend, and both downloaded the app.

And I was getting out of the vehicle. Yeah. Well, because what was that again, I go, I'm Red Eye Radio, I go, I'll sit here to you get it, he goes, "I got it." Yeah, Noah, if you're out there, great job, great, I tip it.

Well, I always do, I, you know, it's like, "Okay, what are you hiring for?"

To get you to aid A to B, you know, and it was a pretty long A to B on that day. Two days ago. And I tip well too, because I still look at the business model and go, how do you do it? Yeah. And I have an asses in a while, but I remember, sort of back about five years ago, I asked one Uber driver, you keep all your records and do it, you know, for example, like an independent truck driver. Do you actually pay attention to what you can deduct and do it

all, because you can make a lot more money by doing that. And the guy said, "Yes, some did. I've got some people." I just do two months, and I just do it as a part-time thing. I've got a couple of friends that have the Uber license, I don't even know what you call it,

“or qualified for Uber. Yeah. And they'll be going somewhere and go, "I think I'll turn on”

for the first time in two months." And they pick up somebody and they, it was sort of on their way,

and they pick up a few bucks and whatever, but they don't. Now, I have a mileage app. There is a mileage app that I don't think is Uber specific. But they have a mileage app, it's for any kind of gig work like that, like delivering food or driving for Uber or Uber, each or whatever. But there is a mileage app that you can turn on. So you turn it on when you start, right? And then, in that case, personal conveyance is what they call it in

trucking when you're not delivering a load. You're driving the truck back to home or whatever from work. And you would stop. You would just turn the app off or pause the app on your mileage. There is, I heard there's an accounting app, but the accounting should be pretty easy. Once you've got your mileage downloaded and everything else is maintenance on your car, I don't know how that works, but yeah. Well, what I wonder, I don't want to spend a lot of time on this, because I've

“got to get to the more important WNBA update. That's continued talking about Uber. I just wonder if”

if you can still do that or whether there's a minimum once you sign up for Uber, lip that you have to drive. I don't believe so. No. Okay. I just don't know. I know there is if you're doing Amazon flex. So delivering packages in your own car before you, because it's, I hear, I saw somewhere people were saying, yeah, I'm on the waiting list. You have to make yourself

available during all, basically, all day and every day, seven days a week, and everything else,

they need to be able to depend on having so many on the roster. I don't know exactly how it works, but you have to be in order to qualify and get on it. You don't have to do a shift every day but you need to to qualify. You need to make yourself available at any point in time.

“I think there's also a vehicle, obviously. What do you mean you have to make yourself available? No,”

you don't. No, when you're qualifying for it. So when you go in and you go to apply for it, you sign up and you, it says, are you available during these times? If you, if you got it down to, well, I'm available on Mondays between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sorry. We don't have any need for adding to, basically, that particular when it comes to demand timeframe. So you would have to go in and say, I'm available during these hours, most hours during the day, and also I'm available on weekends,

because it's based on demand. But even if you're not, even if you're not, what? Available. Yeah, I mean, if you exactly, because I know people list, because I know people that do Uber, you know, they, they've signed up with Uber, and they do it once every six months.

Okay. So your, your, you know, they've got to, they have a commitment to the customer that's already. Okay. These are already, you know, and you're delivering in your own car. Okay. So it's a little bit harder to get on, but yeah, you don't know, you can do, there are people that stack my nephew quit his job in stacks with Walmart, Uber, Eats, and Door Dash, and makes more than the full-time job he had before. Wow. Yeah. Wow. All right, here we go. Some excitement

in the WNBA this week. Are you ready? Here we go. All right, audio cut to play here. All right, here we go. When grace will win, humility will win, and kindness will win. I stand by them. I will

always stand by them. Everybody else can go to hell. Stephanie White, coach of the Indiana

fever, and the media, some of the media going after her for not when the press conference was held after Sophie Cunningham got hit, not defending. She's been accused of not defending her players enough

“and basically being too woke. That was one of her responses. And you know what I have to say?”

WNBA, welcome to the major leagues, and the parsing of the minutia of everything that happens with every single football team or NBA team or a baseball team, but mostly the NFL, that every single little bit of minutia of everything gets brought up in a press conference today in the day of social media. I love it when somebody says, I choose kindness, and then ends it with Go to hell. I know that was the best part. Give me the light to go to hell. But the

WNBA convened a task force to figure out what a woman is. And they emerged without an answer about what a woman is. This is the Babylon B. No. Scheduled more meetings to keep figuring out what a woman is. And then scolded everyone else for the hate and vitrials surrounding the debate.

On Wednesday, the WNBA finally offered an update on its progress. They will be holding more meetings.

Today's meetings covered a wide range of topics including ongoing discussions on transgender athletes and the continued hate and vitrials directed at players online. We will continue to engage

“all league stakeholders in the coming weeks and months. We will approach these important conversations”

thoughtfully and an alignment with the values of our league. And if you don't like it, you can go to hell. Okay. Added that. There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA. And we strongly denounce the bad faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others. The WNBA took the corporate escape hatch. Dodge the question, scold the critics and kick the can down the road. That was analysis from Fox News on it. But I

thought it was just beautiful. But they don't say, well, where's a hate coming from? Because why don't you answer, where's a hate coming from? Hate what give us a specific on the hate. That's the problem. The WNBA, because the media has been liberal, they've been liberal, have been dealt with what normal sports leagues this welcome to the major leagues. There you go. And in the major leagues,

“you're going to have a reporter ask every single little manucia of a question. That's why you see”

in the NFL. Watch NFL coaches. They've got it down. Yeah. They've got it down. They'll just sit there

and they'll give you an answer that isn't an answer, but seems to satisfy everybody. They're never

going to get into it. But you will always see. You're really never going to see where you don't have a coach immediately, immediately, instinctively defend their players and give that impression every time they're at the podium. Right. And when you have a case like this because when Stephanie White said she's not educated enough to understand the whole thing of the gender thing, that's also about defending your team. If I'm a, you know, you had that other coach from the

I forgot which team it was that, you know, ahead, come on and talk to about inclusion and everything

It's who can get us the wins except if you're a bills fan. And so I'm a bills fan. So I can say that. And, and so that was stupid to begin with, but when Stephanie White was asked a question,

she played stupid. First thing I do, if I'm a woman's coach, no, men should not play in the

league. This is about all these women that play. I love these women. These are biological women.

“That's what this league is about. When you can answer that question, it's going to come up.”

Well, are you really supporting your players? If you believe that men should actually be able to play. And then the one coach where you couldn't tell where she was going, the nobody would ask a question. And then the tape comes out where she's the the biggest supporter and critic of men coaches in women's basketball. And believe it should be biological women that should

be coaches of teams. You cannot be all over the place on this issue. And when you're not going to win,

the media is going to drive you and you can tell, whoa, the temper's are short. Yeah, it's, you know, it's, the answer starts with this. It's the W in the WNBA. This isn't the TWNBA. And when they, what was the, let me just get the, because I have one more

“thing where they said, what I do with it, see what happens when I try to organize them?”

Yeah, when we talk about the, the bad faith efforts, are they talking about the two NBA players, former NBA players? Are you calling that a bad faith effort? They're claiming their transgenders for basketball. Who the hell? What kind of hate is in your heart? Were you determined that that's a bad faith action? Is that what they were talking about? All right. You're going to have to answer that question, too. You cannot win it when the

entire narrative and your entire belief is based on a completely 100% biological science lie. Yeah. End of story. Yeah. That's the problem.

“It's fantastic. Just fan. I believe in kindness. Go to hell.”

Love is love. Go to hell. I don't love you. Love is love when they do nothing, but exude hate. I know. Love is love. Love is love. How come you can't understand love is love? We love you Luigi. Yeah. Kill more people, please. Yeah. We love love is love. And we love murderers. We love people who don't love anybody else. Wow. Yeah. See, I think this is all entertaining. Oh, I did vote by the way. I did watch last,

yesterday. My sportswatchy now is almost 95% highlights of a game. It's I don't have time for a full game. Yeah. But I did watch the Indiana fever, the highlights of their game. And I realized as a

70-year-old man, I'd be one of the first cuts I could not compete against those women. They're

really good. Yeah. Yeah. Right. It was a, it was a, and Indiana fever really entertaining to watch. It really, really, really entertaining. Look, if it inclusion is going to be the thing that I want somebody to put me on the team. Oh, you know, I posted yesterday. You see the grandpa basketball, the grandpa's on the court playing a guy, one on one, and just beat some and he's an old man. It's all AI. Yeah. And then the crowd goes crazy with their phones, taking pictures or going, yeah.

I put that and I said, here's me on the basketball court. Exactly. We are right. I radio. Coming up more with Gary McNamara and Eric Carley. It's Red Eye Radio. We are Red Eye Radio. He is Eric Carley and I'm Gary McNamara. Yes. So the WNBA stuff is going to be so entertaining because look at something that if you see it, I could just turn remember, what was the coach of New Orleans? Remember when some some guy asked him,

so you think you got a shot at the playoff and he's like, playoffs? You think we're going to make the playoffs? They reminded me of Stephanie White yesterday from the Indiana fever. And I'm like,

And now they know that they can get a reaction from you. It won't stop. And it's not going to stop.

“And with the WNBA now with the whole thing of, okay, we're still trying to work out. We're”

workshopping and trying. We need a number of meetings trying to figure out what a woman is.

Yeah. Oh my god. Just great entertainment.

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