08-26-26 Part One - Remembering Dolly Parton

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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. By the way, feeling very old. 50 years ago yesterday, the Boston album came out, I saw that yesterday, and I went, "Gail." Yeah, I was listening to long time on the way in, not tonight, but last night. I just just turned over, I was just scanning through and it was on and I cranked it and I just thought,

you know, the one thing about like Tom Schultz, an unbelievable innovator, far left guy, but unbelievable innovator, and he got a sound, he got the sound out of his band that nobody

“really could get. It was this full sound. And if you were in that era, when that album came out,”

it just ruled. Everybody, everybody, the intro to that song, long time, is one of the best things to learn as a musician, and one of the first things I learned as when I started playing bass. Watch the Lexington Lab band cover of that song. Mine, by the way, it's how they do it because they're camera work is just absolutely perfect. Another thing in music that I don't know why didn't know it. I had no idea that Dolly Parton wrote The Whitney Houston. Oh, yeah, yeah.

I will always love it. I had no idea until two days ago. Well, you know, she first recorded it.

Oh, I know. Yeah, yeah, she first, but I know I did, she wrote it and recorded it. I don't know why, it just, and two days ago, I mean, when it was coming out that she was, you know, sick. Yeah. It just came up. I think of my algorithms of YouTube because I just, you know, I love YouTube shuffle. I'm doing show prep sitting there, and I'm from my recliner. You know, do an all of a sudden, it's like, Oh, this thing on Dolly Parton. And that's where she said that

he was funny. She's laughing. She goes, I wrote the song. I performed the song and she goes, "But Whitney Houston, she owns that song." We said that about Johnny Cash when he did the nine-inch nails song hurt. Yeah. I wasn't ever a huge nine-inch nails fan, but when Johnny Cash sang that song and it was a ballot and Rick, the producer, I'm Blankin' on his last name, told him,

“you know, he kept sending it to Johnny Cash saying, "You need to do the song." And Johnny was like,”

no, no, no, no. Because you got to do this song. And so he finally, he got someone to play the version

basically, a sample of what, you know, how it would be played. And he was like, okay, we'll give it a shot. But when Johnny starts with, I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. I remember being in my truck going, I think we're going to have to pull over. I'm just saying, "This is painful." Because, you know, my dad was going through some things at the time. And this was years ago. My dad was, you know, still, he's still alive at 93. But my dad was going through some things

at that time. And so I just, it was like, oh my gosh, he owned that. When Whitney Houston's song, version of, they were going to do a different song for that, for that, for a movie. And they decided

to send, I will always love you to Kevin Costner, for the movie The Bodyguard. And he loved it.

And it was like, yeah, but, you know, it's got to be updated. And clearly, it's going to have to be Whitney Houston's. So, my music director at the radio station, I worked at said, I want you to come in here. He brought me in the production room and says, don't look. So, he puts the, the, the CD in the CD player for those under 90 CD CD stands for compact disc. It's how we used to listen to music. So, he puts the CD in the CD player and it starts cold. If I, in Whitney's voice, of course,

in top 40 radio seven a midnight was when all the kids listened and I said, play this song at the

“top of the hour, hour, every hour tonight. And I'm telling you, your phones will burn all night long.”

That song just skyrocketed. And, you know, the background on the song is pretty interesting. She was leaving the Porter Wagner show. And she had been on that show for about five years or so. But she knew that if I'm, she said, I got to do my own thing. Yeah, we're talking, we're talking.

Dolly Partali, not not. Yeah. Yeah. No, Whitney was never on the Porter Wagner show. Right.

It was, you know, you know, she probably was fully aware of them. But they were very close. And they, you know, always sang together, Porter Wagner and Dolly. That was, you know, back in the day, that was, you know, they were like, you know, it was, it was a, it was a real duo working, the, them working together. But she wanted to leave. And Porter didn't take it well. So she thought, well, I'll do what I do best. All right, a song. And she went into his office.

And she sang that song. And he stopped and he said, that's the best song you've ever written. And I'll tell you what, we'll work this out with your contract if you let me produce that song.

“Because this, you have to, that this song has to be heard. And then the rest of the history. And then”

she made over $10 million with with the Whitney Houston version, decided to take that money and invest it into a bank, which was part of a shopping center being built in a predominantly black neighborhood in Nashville. She felt that would be a tribute to Whitney. And that's what she did with the money. Because of what you said, she felt like, wow, that song wasn't really mine. It was Whitney's. And then in the end, she also said to the listeners, well, it wasn't

recently. But, but later, she said, you know, really that song belongs to the, like all songs, great songs, belongs to the people. Because it, you know, takes on a different meaning

maybe for everybody. For me, it's always about Whitney Houston. And my time in radio,

when that song was number one for, I don't know, it seems like 12 years. But it was number one

“for the longest time, said all these records. And that movie, the bodyguard, I think probably”

did better because a Whitney Houston was in it. But, but also that song, I've never seen it. Yeah, it's, it's actually a very good song, a good, uh, movie. Right. Wait from Walton, is in it? Oh, wow. It's, it's actually a very good movie. It's a, you know, kind of an action movie. And of course, you know, Kevin Costner playing her bodyguard. She's a pop artist, you know, and that, that kind of thing. So, you know, with Whitney Houston's death, there was, you know,

great deal of sadness and, and everything else. And, and, and Dolly, it had always been one of

these people where you never really saw her, have any, any grief toward anyone. She never really disliked anyone. She certainly loved everyone. And she was always, you know, perky and the whole thing. And she never, in fact, never backed down her critics, you know, she's all hair and makeup. But if you listen to her music, uh, there was a thing several years ago that started on, on the internet, and it was the song, Joly, Miley Cyrus, by the way, does an unbelievable version of

that song. But Jolyne, they put on the internet. Someone put it, and instead of playing it at 45, they slowed it down to 33. And it was a male voice. It was, it was kind of odd for those of us who grew up listening to that song, hearing it. But it sounded, it's much slower. But it sounded like a guy singing that song. And of course, the lyrics, you know, I guess in today's world, uh, there's nothing wrong with that. It's, I guess, acceptable. But it, you know, kind of took, took on this thing. But

as, you know, dolly kind of, in, in, in those years where she would appear on the tonight show, and everything else, and she would appear on a, a lot of shows over the years, then she started doing acting. You know, uh, nine to five steel, steel magnolias. Damn, he called me, sorry, the nine to five. That was, I mean, that was just, that was a fun movie. It was a funny, really, steel magnolias, not, not my thing. It's, it's hard for me to watch. It's, it's a, it's a,

it's a very sad movie. I mean, it's like, it's a really sad movie. But it was huge, massive, massive,

and now six grand daughter. So I don't get the, to use the remote control ever in my, in my house.

“But, but no, they, it was, it was really well done. Very well done. Um, and you look at,”

at the things that she did, that dolly pardon did over her life. And she just kind of poured herself into it. And, and when she had the wear with all to say, you know, I need to, because Porter Wagner brought her up on stage. He was the one that introduced her to the world. And back then when that happened, those artists like Porter Wagner kind of took ownership with it. Uh, Hank Snow was, was another artist that would do that. If he took you on tour, uh,

what she did with Elvis. And he would get up, he would get up, sent sometimes because Elvis would show up late and end up, you know, and the show has to start on time. According to Hank Snow, and if Elvis showed up late, he ended up being the headliner. And, and that was not the case for the tour. This is very early in, and, and Elvis is career. And that only happened a couple of times.

“But those types of artists took ownership in introducing, you know, uh, I remember Diana Ross”

introduces the Jackson 5, you know, and that kind of thing. Those artists back then took ownership in that. I mean, Gene Simmons talks about discovering Van Hale and he doesn't really take ownership. But he talks about the first time he saw the band and said, oh my gosh, these guys got to do something. And so he was part of, you know, they're really relaunching on a huge scale. But, but for her to have the wear with all of that time, be five years into it and have a good

gig. And then say, no, I've got to go out on my own. Was one of those decisions where

when you look back on it now, it's like, well, she was always going to be that independent,

type minded person. And it, it, uh, it showed till the end. And no one was going to knock her down. You could, you could, she made more jokes about her appearance than anybody else. I saw the, uh, where, uh, somebody yesterday one time they said, uh, you know, because she really would not get involved in politics at all. She said, I've, as many Republican friends as I've Democrat friends, they always were trying to get her to do that. And somebody yesterday one time

if she's, whether she would ever consider running for president. And she goes, no, there's already been too many boobs in that office. And I just, you know, but, but she would, yeah, she would be very self-deprecating. I mean, the Carson appearances as we all know. Oh, yeah. We're just absolutely legendary. But she had this, she had, she was an American superstar that you did not view as a superstar. There isn't anybody out there that would think that if I met Dolly Parton, it wouldn't be

a great experience at that point. Right. And that she wouldn't be just totally genuine at how you doing and laughing. And I know a lot of radio people that met her. And they said, she was exactly like that. She was just who she was. She was all, you know, she was just that way. And the way that she, you know, she had crossed over music. But it didn't matter, you know, we're talking, you know, a country and pop and, and all that, not, not maybe heavy metal. But the fact is there isn't

antwo, definitely not heavy metal. But there isn't, I don't think that was, that was Pat Boone. Yeah. I don't think there was, I don't think there was, that anybody disliked her. No, they should know. And she knew she understood, you know, what an entertainer is. And an entertainer

is what basically it was, I just have to be me. I have to be me with my sense of humor,

with my music and, and, and everything, and on the, I saw when they remember the Kenny Rogers tribute that was on, yeah. And it was just, you know, when they were, you know, talking about

“how, remember how they, I don't know if people remember, if you're our age, yes, remember that”

Kenny Rogers dolly part and tours, how big they were. Oh, no, they were, it was unbelievable. No, they, they, they really were. And, and, you know, the stories go on and on. What for me was really great to watch was in later years. I'd say over the last maybe 10 to 15 years. Her catalog of music started getting the more of the respect that it deserved.

Because her image, and because she was so bubbly, and she would always have fun when she was

sitting on the couch with Johnny or whatever it was, you know, that, that kind of was the first image that people had. But if you take all that away and you look at her body of work that she

wow, it's, it's just to me, it's one of my favorite songs ever. And when

Miley Cyrus saw her as a saw dolly part and as a, a mentor. And she really did it as a, as a tribute. She recorded that song as a tribute. And you think about Miley Cyrus and he talked about image versus substance. Miley Cyrus is a very good singer artist. You know, the whole wrecking ball thing and the crazy stuff that she's done. I can't explain that part of it. But you talk about someone who, with dolly, it's, it's, it's, someone said this, I think it was,

it was a, it was a, it was a guest on Rick Biotto's channel on YouTube. And they said four guitarists,

right? Because there's so many YouTube guitars now. And they're great. They can, they're unbelievable

“players. Here's the thing. You can play eruption, but can you write eruption? And that's the difference”

I think with music. You look at someone who she created, dolly part and created an incredible library of song work. Yeah, tremendous. And, and, and that's the difference is can you write that? Can you, can you make a connection with people that are even maybe not listeners of your genre? Yes. And she did. She could, by the way, the, the bluegrass band that I love from Branson, the piercings. Yeah. Do an absolutely kick, posterior version of Jolyne. Yeah. Alley Peterson doesn't. I think that's

seen that. Yeah. I think it's got like 30 million views. Yeah. It's just, it's just just tremendous.

But one thing I have to say, because you said you were never fan of, uh, uh, what, uh, Trent

“Resner's up, um, nine. It's Dale. Nine inch nails. Yeah. You, but remember, the greatest lyrics about”

liberals ever in head like a whole bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. No, he's great. Right. Yeah. We are right. I've radio. Hi there. This is Hope Zavara with Mother Trucker Yoga. And here's your health tip of the day. Healthy driver, healthy diesel powered by house truck drivers are at high risk for carpal tunnel and grip issues from long hours at the wheel. Let's fix that right at the wheel.

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seeing it on my phone. I went, "Oh, no, wow, Robin Williams died." And everybody at that point, they all, you could see it move through the stadium. You could actually see like a roll, everybody turning their head and talking, you could see that movement like within 30 seconds it happening. I thought the same thing on social media yesterday, in just exploded. Well, I'll remember. Yeah, I was lucky. I just got in my car to run some errands. My truck

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The state sued Exxon mobile over claims. It misled the public and investors about the energy companies hydrocarbon burning policies. Yeah, we all know that. Yeah, yeah, huge huge thing. Right. States and local governments across the country have sought large damages and recent years from energy companies over alleged ties, alleged ties to climate change. Yeah, it's if they're their mobsters. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Hey, you know what? We could start dwelling for oil. You

know there's probably a lot of money in that over there. Shamrock, alleged ties to climate change. I like it using my characters. Yeah, sure. Yeah, sure. Exactly. You live in Texas, Shamrock. Get us in the oil game. What you're now the beautiful thing is now we all knew that happened. I mean, we've talked about that before. However, Exxon mobile is initiated a counter-law sued that requested public records from the state's database on initiatives to reduce greenhouse

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you know, really isn't getting a lot of publicity. Yeah. Yeah. I love sure that we cover. Well, you know, again, you know, if you're going to make that case, then you would have to make the case that every user of any petroleum product, which is pretty much everyone. You know, with the exception of maybe some isolated tribes of indigenous people in the Amazon every, every one else, they would be the exception. By the way, they would be the only ones not

“in the lawsuit because it would be the users, right? You know, this is the one thing, and I think”

George W. Bush even used this term, our addiction to oil. Stop it. First of all, it tells me,

When it's actually usable, if you don't want to use petroleum products, don't,

“there's probably a little space in the Amazon where you can go live. But I don't, that's not up to me.”

You can vote with your dollar. Now, you can write a bicycle. Oh, wait, there's petroleum products in the tires. You could, you know, maybe decide that you're going to, now you go, make sure if you're going to do this. If you're going to be true blue about this, you're going to have to get a list of all the petroleum products ever made or what we use on a regular basis and you'd probably be surprised. You're going to find yourself in a place where, oh, wait, no, I rely on this and and it does work.

But if you choose to live that life and say, I'm going to be petroleum free, you have a right

to do that. That's great. Go for it. Be completely off the grid and wear potato sex for clothes.

“I don't care. It does, that's your choice to do that. But this entire thing, you know, of”

suing companies because, well, they're responsible. They knowingly did this. They knowingly did that. And then you got to get it all the way to the end. Users, you and I talked over the years of these activists that would get in their cars and drive to these protests against oil companies. And then they would get in their cars and drive back to where they lived.

And I thought of myself, you know, it's the hypocrisy knows no end. But it's, it's not just the

hypocrisy as we pointed out during the COVID years. They don't buy the science. What this is an effort to chip away at two things fundamentally, the constitution of the U.S. But also capitalism

“and take ownership of companies. Take control, more control of companies. And drive them to their”

knees and Obama set it under my plan of cap and trade electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket, but forget what I say about coal, whether it's good or bad, I will force those operations to retrofit their outfits, their operations. And they will pass those costs onto the consumers. And it will bankrupt them. He promised to bankrupt the coal industry. Right. It's what them, you know, and that's the, and we have stated this said, you know, people looking

go, well, you know, Obama was actually quite moderate. He wasn't. I mean, the whole radical transgender movement came from Obama. Yes. That started with, oh, but he's the one Yep, through his Justice Department and Education Department changed the meaning of biological female in, in, in, in Title IX. He is the one that started the misogyny that you see today that's now mainstream in the Democratic Party and identity politics. He's the one that created the cop hatred.

Right. He's the one that really marketed it and took it to that next level. And when it comes to again, the, the radical environmental movement, he is the one that actually said before he was elected, my goal is to skyrocket electricity prices. Now you take that from 2008. And you come to now 18 years later in New York, you have the climate change laws and hopeful, even though she's in favor of them realizes the prices are killing them. This is what

happens when you, when you, when you enact, when you enact these socialist policies and these regulatory policies, eventually it's going to be pushed back from the public. So she went and she proclaimed, we can't do this electricity prices are going through the roof. This could hurt us. And the legislature came back to her, the Democrats in the legislature and said, no, we're not going to change it. It's the electricity prices are supposed to skyrocket. Democrats in New York,

Democrats in California, Democrats across the nation want higher prices. They want them. They want high energy prices. That has been their goal. And so, you know, I hear all the time, well, you know, this race is getting closer, you know, with with with hopeful there, you know, for November. It's probably going to win, you know, Republican taking it, probably not,

no, we wish to go bat, soup, crazy. We wish to skyrocket prices. I mean, house,

do it. Is it instead of just saying, okay, who's poor? You're going to have vouchers to these private supermarkets. Right. The idiots communist. And I'm sorry. This is idiocy.

“There's no other word for it. And that's why I get so passionate when it's just so idiotic.”

I'm not angry. It's just, it's mind boggling. Right. Uh, that, okay, let's create supermarkets where the startup costs are five times greater than a regular private supermarket. Let's have just some items that will put below market price. But they're just below market price because we're subsidizing it

with other people's money. And oops, uh, the bodegas and other supermarkets are not going to complain.

Well, then we need to come up with a way to give them cash in order to survive the damage that we're doing by skyrocketing the cost because you're skyrocketing the cost. Yeah. A food in New York City. Right. And Democrats go, this is a great idea. Yeah. We love this. This is great. It's pure insanity. Well,

“it is insanity. You know, if you look at what the private sector has done and bringing costs down,”

you see the big farmer companies going to retail and retail actually reached out to them. Also, at one point, and we saw the the $4 prescriptions that continue today. Uh, for I don't know how many

prescriptions they're up to now and that's actually expanding. Right. And because the private sector

knows, look, you got to be a good steward. There, there has to be offerings and, and people are looking poorly, but you, you also have to be competitive to stay in business. You got to be competitive. And if you were looking, if I was looking to, if this were, you know, my approach and I were the mayor in New York City, you would come up with a plan and we talked about this. This is why we talked

“about it. You have those vouchers. Basically, it would be city type food stamps, but vouchers”

for anywhere you want to shop. But also, I would work with companies like I bought a and the modern and because everything is done electronically now, the modern apps that offer coupons on things. And it, those coupons would automatically be loaded on your voucher. So with anything has a coupon, it would automatically, because with those apps, you actually as a user have to go in and select which of those items you, you know, want to buy and do that. This would be automatic. I would work

with those good RX's this version and right now in pharmacies because good RX now shows up pharmacies are very good about finding discounts if it's even my pharmacist finds discounts, where it's better to use good RX than my company provided insurance. And so the point being is it's very easy in today's world. If you're looking, if that's your goal, if you wanted to give out something and provide benefits, forget the infrastructure, work with the private sector to do it, and then just give them the vouchers.

But that's not what they're looking to do. No, it's completely, it makes everything more expensive and what they focus on is, yeah, but these items are 30% less for the people that actually buy them. And now there's going to be no ID required. You can come from anywhere. There's going to be no no judgment on what your salary is, whether you're rich or poor, anybody can buy it. It is doomed to failure. And the cost is way above what the private sector could do, but all they focus is on,

yes, but because we subsidize it because other people will pay for it. You can get these particular essentials. Some people can cheaper. We don't know who those people are, whether they're in our city, whether they're rich, whether they're poor, whether they're actually going to black market entrepreneurs, they're going to take it and sell it in the street. We don't care. I mean, it's a complete loss prevention hasn't even been discussed in this whole thing. And they will have to deal

with it like any other retailer. We are right, I radio. Get in touch with what I radio told free at 866. Might be Red Eye.

interesting, you know, everyone knows. Every Republican knows that the answer that she gave

on Taiwan was horrible. Is it, is it the fact? And I don't know. I mean, I don't live in South Carolina. If I live, a lot of these races, as I said, you get a feel for it when you live in the state. Yes, sure. You know, as to what's going on, did she win? Because that was a horrible answer. Norman is a conservative. You know that. But are they looking just for the win? We need the name recognition. We'll get us the win and we need the win. Remember, this is a primary where you have

loyal Republican voters. Right. It is not the widespread voters out there. Is that what they were thinking? Because they know the weakness of that answer. That was horrible. And they let that pass.

“Yeah, they did. Sometimes emotion wins in election cycles. Maybe that's what went on.”

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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 and he is Eric Hurley and I'm Gary McNamara. Hi. You know, we had, we had cloud cover yesterday. It was great. It was like the first time. I thought we were having an eclipse or something. I freaked out. We had cloud cover. And it was my, my lawn, because it, uh, Tuesdays. And it's one of Tuesdays and Fridays.

Yeah. You know, we're always underwater restrictions in the town that I live in. Right. You

only water Tuesdays and Fridays on my side of the street. Right. So it becomes something you can't miss. What if you identify as somebody who's always lives in Tuesday and Fridays? Well, the thing is, I, I was, look, I don't want to identify as odd. I want to be even. They said, no, you're odd.

“So you've got that. Yeah. That's true. That was the problem there. Uh, uh, uh, but my lawn is”

except for one part in the back, which really is the easement, which is like it's slanted down and so water runs right off. There's just a small area there. Yeah. That's brown, the rest of it. I was yesterday. I went summers over. Yeah. Because, but I went out in the afternoon. Just like four o'clock. Just to swim a couple of laps in the pool. It felt cold. Yeah. It was 100 degrees. It felt cold. Dry air evaporating that that water very quickly. That's evaporative.

Cool. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's the whole concept of a swamp cooler, isn't it? Mm-hmm. And so uh, it was, uh, it was just a weird day, but I went, wow. The lawn screen. A lot of the lawn like wonders, no. Now, when I cut it probably Thursday, uh, the, the top of it just because it's, you know, because it's still still going to be 100, 100, 1 out, but it's not going to be 110. You know, there's still maybe some stress, uh, you know, on the bed. Yeah, but it's not shaded.

If it's not a shaded area, if it gets sun, like there are two spots in my lawn that gets sun, 100% of the day. I don't know how, but it's getting sun right now. And I don't know how it works, but uh, but no, there are two spots, um, and the problem with, and we've had actually a fairly nice breeze. It's, the breeze has been great, actually, not high winds, but a nice breeze and wonder. But that's like a low level blow dryer on your lawn in the whole

time. That's basically what that is. And I, I kind of knew this, but I read recently again,

that the best time to cut your lawn, like when we're going through a stretch of what we do. Now, listen, if you live out in Arizona or parts of Nevada, you don't have to cut your rocks. Okay, so you just wait until the fall, you can cut your rocks then. They have stone lawns out there, which actually probably would be, uh, and parts of New Mexico, same thing, um, that that would

way, is you've just peaked at the hottest part of the day. But as the sun, you know, if you've got

“enough time to cut it, uh, you know, uh, as the sun starts to go down, there's less stress on the grass,”

and then you can cool, you can cool it off by watering after you, uh, after you cut it. But really, there's nothing you can do if there's that sun exposure, because it won't, it won't matter the top of the lawn, it's just going to, it's just going to burn, um, that's the way it's going to, when you run, I don't know how many days we've had at a hundred or above, but it's been, you know, a month. Yeah, we have just, I haven't had rain since, I don't maybe like July 20th.

Oh, yeah, I haven't had any rain. I've had no, now there's been spots of rain. Thought I was going to get some yesterday, but it was great because I actually went out and to me, this is fall. I went, the cloud cover was so great yesterday. I rode the bike. I rode 15

“miles, you know, and 11 o'clock, that believe me, I would not have done the day before. And so that was just,”

it was wonderful. I got all my exercises and all that, but I looked at it when I went out, uh, in the late afternoon and did a few laps in the pool. I went, it's fall. To me, it's, because the sun's a little bit, I can tell it's a little bit lower in the sky. I went, it's fall. Okay, and that's the weirdest thing growing up in Buffalo that I, somebody who grew up in Buffalo, where the temperature probably now is 75 degrees, 75 to 80 there. You know, but I, it could be

100 degrees and I'm like, okay, that's not my definition of fall. But let's get to, uh, the, the whole terrifying, it's really interesting, the whole candidate thing. I, I find it just fascinating because, uh, everybody seems to be off the topic. You know, it's like, well, these terraces are justified

because Canada's socialist, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and our point has always been,

let's look at the economics of it. And we live in a day and age when if you're a Republican, there's a certain level of populist Republican, just like there is a socialist democrat, the believes that you can manipulate an economy to success by doing the things that you wish to do. And, you know, what we have seen in the whole terror thing and what was promised, did not come true. I just, I just saw the latest federal reserve, federal reserve analysis of the, of the, of the, of

the tariffs. I get just, let me just see what was, it was specifically, well, I'll go look at that here in a little bit, we'll get to that in a little bit because I have to put my, it's on my phone. So, I don't want to be doing that when I'm on the air. But when you, when you look at, you know, one of the things reasons we have to do this is because all this has to be done because we're failing. Yeah. Right. Right. The whole thing is we're failing. Things are not working

correctly. The, the economy has failed us. Capitalism has failed us. Is that true? No. No. Is that, is any of that true at all? What are the statistics? All right. We brought this to you the other day because the whole thing is if you're going to manipulate an economy, it has to be based on that the economy has failed the people that people have fallen behind. Great article written again, National Review. Michael strain goes right into it.

Critics argue that liberalism has not delivered broad-based prosperity, both the president, the vice president, and Democrats are selling the same thing. Now, they're going to about it differently, degrees of what they wish to do. But they're both selling it that it has failed

“and that's why we need to change it. Critics argue that liberalism is not a, a, a”

delivered broad-based prosperity and attack can be conveniently defended against in the comfortable language of statistics and quantitative analysis. But their critique goes further

asserting that free markets and capitalism is morally corrosive. That's the second part of it.

This critique too is off base on the former. Here we go. The free enterprise system has delivered employment opportunities and rising wages, living standards, and well. The rate at which people ages 25 to 54 participate in the workforce is, these are all from government statistics. Workforce is currently higher than it was at the onset of the 2008 financial crisis or the COVID-19 pandemic before that happened. Adjusted for inflation, the average wages for non-supervised

re-workers. That's the work in person, right? Yeah. One, both parties are trying to hit. Yep. The average

decades. Real median household income grew by 39% from 1994 to 2024. The most recent year that's

“available, real household income for the bottom 20% has increased by 80% from 1990 to 2022. The last”

year data is available after just adjusting for inflation, taxes, and transfer payments. Again, real household income for the bottom 20% has increased 80% from 1990 to 2022. After adjusting for inflation, taxes, and transfer payments, the inflation adjusted wealth of families in the bottom 25% has tripled from 1989 to 2022, which again is the last year that data is available from the United States government on a consumption basis. Well, over 20% of households were in poverty

in the 1960s compared to 1% today. Now, what has caused an increase in prices over the last few

“years? As we mentioned on yesterday's show. Well, how far back you want to go? It's a combination of”

tariffs and the inflation created by... Well, I'm going back to 20, basically, over the, you know, the, you know, since COVID, when we have seen when inflation is hit. That's government spending. That's, yeah. That's, that's, that's government spending caused it. When you look at the 2008-2009 economic crisis, government caused it. Government getting socialism caused it. Sudo government-private agencies were government again, controlling more of the capital in the

housing market and attempting to manipulate the housing market is what caused everything that happened 2008-2009 would not have happened without government intervention and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Banks would have never. Private banks would have never taken the risk. If they didn't have to

in order to compete with those Sudo government agencies of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that still exists today, that should not exist. They should not exist at all. And if you look at what has happened when it comes to since COVID, massive government spending, massive government infusion to buy its own debt, printing money, buying our own debt, all of these things that we're doing to manipulate an economy to success instead of just leaving the damn thing alone. Well, if you leave it alone,

probably things could happen. What's happening now? And when you look at, for example, tariffs, you can see the line on tariffs when they peaked last year at basically 12 percent rate. And

now we're down to 7 percent, you can look at the graph. It is incredible how the increase in

manufacturing as soon as it started coming down, the increase in manufacturing started going up. And job creation started going up. When it was going up, it went down. Yeah. When the tariff rate went down, the manufacturing went up. We pay right now. Uh, you see, you see here we Americans now pay 75 percent more for aluminum than the rest of the world and 64 percent more for steel, which means what? You can't export. Right. You can't produce

things in the United States to export to the rest of the world. If your base price is 75 percent

higher for aluminum and 64 percent for steel. These are with the new ones that the president has put in again. Uh, but that's the reality of what happens when you put in tariffs. Our thing is not whether a tariff is justified or not because you can make the case that tariffs are justified at times. But when you enact tariffs as part of your economic plan that you can control, I'm going to put tariff them over here, tariff them over here. I don't like what she said over here.

“There's going to be a tariff over there. Remember that one? Who was it? Who was it? I don't like”

what she said. I don't like her attitude. We're going to throw another 10 percent tariff on.

Yeah. On one hand, on the other hand, that he has taken off regulations.

“Yeah. He doesn't want to micromanage in those cases. Well, he also puts exemptions in on tariffs.”

Well, the temporary ground beef exemption, the 200 plus food products that they put exemptions on in December. And so in they stated in December and they stated with the ground beef, it will save families money. I had a guy who wrote me that very upset at me for my attitude and my loudness, which is the frustration of the president when it comes to the, you know, what he did with the beef stuff. That was just my buck. I mean, I don't think I don't think I got loud about that.

It was more laughing. Because he basically said, okay, we want foreign manufacturers to dump

their beef at below market prices in the United States. And it's a complete opposite of what he has been promoting. He's all over the place here. The guy said he was very upset at me for my tone, even though in the end we are right. He actually wrote that. Even though in the end, you are right on all of this. He didn't like my tone. Yeah. I was like, my god. I mean, it's like, what's wrong with people? Well, it's, you know, it's a very simple equation. My question is,

“why aren't more people outraged about it? Yeah. Or is it a quiet outrage?”

Are they not willing to vocalize, which by the way, if you're not willing to vocalize,

and you have the opportunity to do that, you're not forced to, that's your choice.

But the more people who do that, who sit silent when they know something is wrong, then the more we should expect those wrong things to be the rule of the day. We should expect that those types of policies are going to be the policies we live under for generations. And I infuriate, you know, we infuriate people when we say, look, the president lied on tariffs. When he said that foreign manufacturers paid them, investment was out there saying, no, they don't.

Right. We all know the American public pays for it. We all know why the president lied.

“I'm because they wanted people to think that. Why did he want people to think that? Why would”

you why, why not just tell the American public the truth? He was out there last week saying,

well, you're all willing to pay extra for for gasoline, as long as we can take down a ran. Well, no, he said that about tariffs. People are willing to pay extra. People want to pay extra. And it's great because we have all this money coming in. Well, conservatives don't look at this as a positive when the federal government is saying, we're doing things to create more revenue. And when Bessant was saying the American public already had the money, the Treasury Department

added. So we had it. It's like stop because Bessant has been telling the truth on tariffs. Right. Then he decided not to tell the truth. Right. If it's in your wallet, it's different than being in the Treasury Department. Right. Don't do that. We are Rudd, I radio. This morning's USDA farm report is brought to you by house products tested, trusted, guaranteed since 1920. The extreme heat of the past month over

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Federal Reserve, the 2026 manufacturing surge arrived as the effective tap,

tap, excuse me, tariff rates fell. And they go, the initial rate was 12.1%, and then he started

“putting in all the, remember, the exception here, the exception here. And then you can see when”

it, he's putting in the exceptions as it starts lowering the manufacturing starts going up, the industrial production. Then when the Supreme Court finds it unconstitutional, it's skyrockets as the effective tap, tariff rate goes down to 7%, industrial production. It's just, it's completely the opposite goes right up. Yeah. You can see it in

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the Republican Party, the populist socialism that they're trying to portray as being conservative, just free markets regulated correctly. You know, to me, I go back to the the one guy communicated with us and said, yeah, you guys are right, but I just don't like, you know, the way, you know, you're so frustrated and and loud about it. Well, we should be frustrated or loud. When the Republican Party that has been the party of free markets,

yeah, when the Republican Party and the people that vote in and start being delusional and start believing that, yes, our party can control the economy better than their party, can control the economy. You are delving into a economic philosophy that has absolutely destroyed other nations. Yeah. Yeah. And we should be here on Rennie radio and other people that really are conservative and free markets and understand economic history and understand economics,

which is in hard, economics is in hard. Everyone can understand economics. It's how people respond to and send it. Put that to everything out there and you don't fall for the BS.

together, the people come and go. The ideas remain. Yeah. The ideas and as you pointed out,

“I don't know how many times over the years, I wish I had a penny for every time you said it.”

You can't change economics. People cannot change economics. The government can't change

economics. They can manipulate. I look at it this way. I've always looked at it as

a track coach can't necessarily make you run faster, but they can put their foot out and trip you. I look at that as, you know, the government basically getting in the way through regulation. By the way, Trump knows all this. And Trump knows this with terrorists. Otherwise, we wouldn't have seen one exemption along the way. Not one. We wouldn't see the ground beef dump. We wouldn't see the 200 plus food terrorists. The argument is over. He ended it. Not me.

“If you have a question about it, ask him. I'm not the one who waivers from what I believe and”

contradicts what I say from day to day, back and forth and back and forth. And I made change my opinion if I learned something new. But when it comes to economics, there is nothing new when it comes to the very basic principles of the economy. The free market works as the free market is going to work. And when it becomes less free through government intervention, whether it's regulation or terrorists or anything else, that the government is going to do, then we pay for it. The consumer

pays for it. And when those people are out of office, we keep paying for it. These are the things with the nine plus percent in inflation during the Democrat reign there a few years ago, is still hurting us today. And because of how inflation works and the economy works, we're still going to be paying the same price. Prices aren't going to come down with few exceptions. There will be no true deflation unless we get into the great depression again. That's the

only time we've actually seen true deflation is in a time when people had no money and could barely feed and house themselves. And so we don't want that to happen. So it's hopefully and I don't

see that happening. We'll never happen again. But the fact is what the other side of that equation is,

prices will continue to go up from here. Even if we hit the target rate of just 2% inflation, that means prices are still going up. Prices coming down, bringing prices down, should never have been a political promise in 24. It should have been, we're going to expand

“the economy and give you greater buying power. That's what we want to do. The inflation happened”

and there's not much we can do on bringing the prices down to pre 2019 levels. But what we can do is get out of the way with deregulation and give you greater buying power through a stronger economy and leave it at that. You don't have to. These are promises that were made that were completely unnecessary politically when you've got the reality working for you already. This is the frustration. The frustration is that reality does work for you. Reality works for you because you didn't

start this. But when you jump in and then you become leadership, when you are in power at that point, you own it when you touch it. When you decide you're going to try and change it in any way that

government manipulation is always going to cost you unless it's deregulation. It's always going to

cost the consumer. Part of the frustration is once I don't hear it much but once you guys think you're so smart. No, just the opposite. Just the opposite. It's you've got a significant number of Republicans that just are bearing their heads in the sand. Look, New Gingrich wrote on this

Americans everything it's fine. Yeah, right. What we can do is show them what is changing,

prescription drug prices are falling tax relief is putting more money in Americans' pockets. We are working to lower the cost of health care, housing energy and unnecessary regulation. There's a real strategy under way to lower cost and rebuild economic growth. Our job is to

“explain it clearly. Honestly, and with the facts, people can see in their own lives. It's too”

late now with the midterms two months away. Yeah. Right. And that's been our entire uh point. It's

not the political point when you sit there and point. Yeah, but you know, that's an unfair training

practice because we need to put tariffs there. Our point was being honest on economics. You aren't going to become and build yourself a rich nation by tariffing by putting tariffs on. Because when you make things more expensive, you produce less of it. Yeah. That's like gravity. Yep. That's has the economic certainty of gravity. And for Republicans to pretend that doesn't

“exist or ignore it or say, I'm going to just not comment on it because I practice political”

idolatry towards this particular person. That's on you. And we should be angry about it. And we should be frustrated that Republicans are now more and more every day saying to hell with free markets. Yeah. And ignoring the reality of free markets versus socialism, which is the worst economic system ever devised, which destroys nations and destroys economic output and destroys people's quality of life and you pretend it doesn't exist. Right. To sit there and take a hard look at what

the Republican party is doing and how socialism is creeping in and then promoting it as economic justice, that's actually a bigger problem than what the Democrats are doing because it gives the Democrats the excuse to say, look at what you people are doing. Yeah. You agree with us. Right. It's, you know, this is, this is the door you kick open time and time again that I've seen you and I have seen the Republican party do far too often. It's akin to

“new language, sitting with Nancy Pelosi. Yeah. You need to get with your elected representatives”

on climate change. Right. Once, once you do this, I mean, class of 94 new Gingrich. Yeah. No. And then then it's because it works for you politically. Well, that's basically what he was saying at the one breakfast when he said, hey, Republicans need to kind of get with it. Even if you don't agree with it, we can't fight it. It's the trend basically is what

he was saying. Yeah. Never for me. I don't give two soups about trends. I'm going to

said the other word. I know I gained clothes a couple times this week. I don't care about trends. Trends are what send you off the deep end, too. And as a nation, we can't, literally, we can't afford it. Look at where the trends got us. Look at what's going on. Take every level of the cost of government out of it. Now, there's necessary roles and conservators believe in them beyond necessary roles. Look at government intervention and it didn't start with Donald

Trump and tariffs. No, in fact, he didn't start tariffs. No. But when you look at the cost of government intervention, add that into the cost of everything, it's absolutely stupid that we're paying what we pay. We shouldn't be paying what we pay for it because we're the king of the free economy. This is what it should be except more and more control. There's the problem. If you have any thought that government revenue coming in as a result of the people

tariffs or anything else, because a tariff is a tax. If you have any thought in that direction,

that is not a conservative thought, that is not what the founding fathers intended. And it's not what we should be as a nation. And when you start line about economics as a political party to promote the populist socialism, which is increasing in popularity in the Republican party. That with the long history of Republicans and free markets in the United States is absolutely

immoral. Yeah, it is. The people come and go. But when the parties, when the two major parties

start blending more and more and more and more, we've heard this over the years. Well, they just all blend together, and that was kind of a populist complaint. It is more and more true. It's getting closer, especially on economics. Oh, easily. Yeah. We are run eye radio. We'll be right back with more, run eye radio with every currently and Gary McNamara.

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“"Oh, no, no." And he wants to wear the same t-shirt, the coach wore. Can he get back in?”

This is what I asked the other day. Well, he's being discriminated against as a woman. Right. How dare you? It's the continuing misogyny of the self misogyny of the WNBA. Yep. He wore a shirt. Yep. She pointed him out. Yeah. Well, you're dead. Yeah. Yeah. This is Ridae Radio on Westwood One. The Dan Bongino show, folks. It's not my job to sit here and

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