09-08-26 Part One - Iran, Clancy and the Trump Account

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The latest on Iran. This has now come down in the last. It looks like the last hour or so. The headline is scores wounded as Iranian-backed Houthis attack Saudi Arabia. So this is an obvious escalation and throughout the morning.

We'll talk a little bit about Iran as they continue to escalate.

“I believe that what's happening with Iran is that it is an escalation on their”

part, but what they're really trying to do is this is sort of a last gasp if you will.

But here's what happened with Saudi Arabia.

Saudi-led coalition forces are vowing a resolute response to a wave of attacks from Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels early Tuesday morning that they say Saudi Arabia says wounded at least 73 civilians. They say that they described the attacks as senseless saying Houthi forces had targeted civilian and economic sites, and so this is something now that the Iranians and the Houthi

rebels, because as you know, the Iranians back the Houthi rebels. And so this is a bionlarge, an attack by Iran on Saudi Arabia. This is Iran attacking our interests in the Middle East and our allies in the Middle East as well as this war continues. They say despite efforts to say clear of America's war with Iran, Saudi Arabia faced

missile attacks from the Houthi's back in July, ending a four-year de facto ceasefire between the rebel group and the kingdom. They do say that women and children were among the wounded in Tuesday's attacks. And so they say the attacks constitute a blatant violation of the kingdom's sovereignty and a direct threat to the security and the safety of its citizens and residents.

Well, this isn't a surprise, folks. I mean, if I were Saudi Arabia, I would do everything in my power to help the United States end this war because this is the kind of thing that Saudi Arabia is going to have to face because Iran, as I said, a couple of things are going on. Number one is that here we are coming off of a Labor Day weekend with gas prices escalating,

“gas prices continuing to go up, but also there were some articles in, I think, the Wall”

Street Journal, I think the other one was warriors, where they're talking about how this really is for Iran. They are, they are at their last days, if you will, the Iranian government to the Islamic

Revolutionary Guard, where it is that inside the Iranian government, you do have now

some members of the government trying to convince the Islamic Revolutionary Guard there in Iran. This is over. And we need to right now what we need to do is we need to negotiate some sort of a settlement while we still actually have something to negotiate with because the longer

that this goes, the worse it is for the Iranians. President Trump over the Labor Day weekend, he posted a meme. But it was a great meme, where it was basically the entire Iranian Navy and it was at the bottom of the sea. And it had the Iranian flag on it and everything else.

And so this is, you know, the President Trump is, you know, our President also troller in chief. So let me just go through some of the things that we've seen over the last couple of days related to Iran. So again, coming off Labor Day weekend, oil and gas prices, of course, do continue

to skyrocket. That is bad news for the Republicans heading into the midterms as everyone knows.

truckers out on the road as well. Clearly bad news for you with the price of diesel continuing to go up. There's more news regarding Iran over the last several days. You know, just to get you caught up. Iran says it's going to create an exclusion zone in the Strait of Hormuz.

They want to control what ships enter and leave the Strait. But they're not saying yet are any details as to how they plan to enforce that zone.

“So this was on Fox news over the last, I don't know, 24 hours, I think.”

So the Iranians, of course, you know, they're talking big. As they are now announcing this, as you just heard, this new exclusion zone.

Basically what they're saying is that they're going to be expanding their control over the

Strait of Hormuz that you heard Steve Harig and their Fox news saying, "Well, they're not telling us how they're going to do this. Just that they're going to do this." Now realize that that part of this is just, you know, perhaps Iran doing what Iran does.

They save a rattle. But, you know, certainly a Saudi Arabia found out. Iran does have the ability to do what they need to do, which is, of course, fund and control. The Houthi rebels to go after our allies in the Middle East. So, you know, they do have obviously some teeth behind their threats.

So this could be saber rattleing.

They do have to portray strength to their people in Iran. They're just, they're not really saying how they intend to expand that control. Now, the good news is that, yes, we have been able to get some tankers through escorting them through the Strait of Hormuz with our military that has been an ongoing conversation. That is obviously a very good thing.

But what has become clear, and if you had to get gas over the weekend, like I did, you know this firsthand, is that, yes, even though we've been able to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, we are still, they say, at record highs, as far as gas prices go, this Labor Day weekend. So regardless, as to what the President says, and, you know, he says this often, that we're

not getting enough oil through our, the Strait of Hormuz, that the President obviously would have to acknowledge that.

“The President also, though, says that, yeah, you know what?”

We have complete control over the Strait of Hormuz. Clearly, we don't. He does say, on the one hand, that yes, it is still restricted, but he'll, on the other hand, definitely say that we do have complete control. Oftentimes, President Trump talking out of both sides of his mouth.

One of the things I believe the President is doing is he is talking about how we control the Iranian ports, while at the same time, saying that we do have complete control over the Strait. Don't, we still have severe restrictions on the number of ships getting through the Strait of Hormuz, but this is what the President does.

I don't know about you. It's been a little frustrating for me, watching this whole thing take place, but here's what we know, despite the President saying that we have control over the Strait gas prices are still way high.

“Now, as you probably know, it takes a while for what is going on in the Strait of”

Hormuz to hit the gas tanks, we all know that. So we'll have to see, ultimately, what happens, the Daily Mail has a great story on how the United States was able to clear the Strait of Hormuz of all of those mines. And so it does look like the Strait has been cleared of a lot of these mines.

We'll get into some of the details on that incredible story later on in the broadcast.

But, you know, there's no doubt about it that we as Americans are suffering and we need to figure out a way, Donald Trump needs to figure out a way to lower gas prices. Over the last couple of days, Iran has launched ballistic missiles at our U.S. warships. This happened again over the Labor Day weekend. So we blasted three, not one, not two, but three of their oil tankers.

This move by Iran comes after the U.S. hit three Iranian oil tankers on Saturday. The U.S. attacks were in response, retaliation for an Iranian attack around tried to hit two U.S. ships warships in the region, while that attack failed with ballistic missiles. Many saw it as a dangerous escalation because it was not commercial shipping being targeted, but U.S. warships.

And U.S. officials continue to say that they are escorting more and more ships through the Strait each week. Yeah, and that is part of what I was mentioning earlier. We got a lot of ships apparently now. They say more and more they're getting through the Strait, but so far we're not seeing

They continue to rise.

“And this is why I believe that this Venezuela oil deal that we have with Venezuela that we're”

working on is so important. Now not everybody agrees with me. This is one of the things that I've noticed about the Venezuelan oil deal is that some conservatives think that this is a great idea, and I'm going to say that's me. Others think it's not a great idea, and that's fine as well.

We will all have to agree to disagree. I respect everyone's opinion.

But here's the reason why I like the Venezuelan oil deal is because the more powerful

Venezuela becomes, the more powerful that we become in the oil producing business, the more we neutralize Iran, the more we neutralize the Middle East. And I do believe because some people are saying, how is this America first? I believe that it's America first because this makes America stronger. It does.

Did you see what?

“Others reported big Saturday article on how Iran's leverage is weakening big time.”

Part of that weakening leverage is that the more that Venezuela continues to work on getting more oil out of the ground years from now. This is not going to help us today or tomorrow.

But years from now when Venezuela hopefully is up to full oil producing power, that will

denigrate Iran's leverage in the Middle East. Because they're the ones that are politicizing the straight-of-war moves. And so yeah, over the weekend, big Saturday article, Iran's leverage is weakening. We know that their economy isn't tatters. The global oil market has begun to adapt to this disruption, especially their weaponization

of the straight-of-war moves. So part of what the Wall Street Journal and Orders and other places are reporting on is that the longer that this thing goes on, the weaker Iran's grip on the oil market becomes. This is energy secretary Chris Wright and he says, yeah, we got this. You know, every ship, the name of the ship, what it's carrying, you know, in these

convoys we're pushing.

So we did indeed get just under 18 million barrels of crude in a 24-hour period earlier

last week and the running average right now is over 9 million barrels a day. And that's good news. Obviously, we need to figure out any way we possibly can to lower gas prices. And again, the thing with Venezuela, that's not going to help us for years down the road. I'm going to talk about the whole Venezuelan oil deal a little bit later on in the program.

I just kind of want to give you sort of an overview of what is going on with Iran. So we do now have waiters, Wall Street Journal, both saying, yes, Iran's top political leaders, they are now being urged to end the war. They have to do it without looking like they lost. That is incredibly important to Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.

But they do need some sort of an off-ramp. And that's probably what Donald Trump is going to consider at some point is, okay, how do I help Iran get out of this mess so that we can just end this?

“And that's what Donald Trump needs to do to help lower our gas prices.”

Iran does need this off-ramp. They need one, I would say this before their country simply implodes because Iran, I mean, everybody knows what is going on with their economy. We have just decimated their economy. Thank you.

The more we are able to get ships through their blockade, while we're able to block their ports, we do untold damage to their economy. So more ships getting through the straight of Hormuz as their ports are blocked and their economy is being obliterated by the United States as we go after not only their economy, but we also sanctioned countries that are trying to do business with Iran.

And we are definitely on the right track, I'm going to tell you that I've been very pessimistic on this war for a long time. Tonight, I'm starting to feel actually more encouraged. Coming up some great words of wisdom from none other than Senator John Kennedy, I love what he had to say.

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you can text in, and I got to tell you, 615-737-9986, and the discussion about Venezuela and oil, and whether or not this is going to be good for our economy. One, yeah, I believe that it will be, it's a long ways down the road, trust me when I say I understand that. I think that what the president is looking to do right now, as we head into the midterms

here in the 2026, got the midterms, then it's his last two years in office. So I think that the deal with Venezuela is what I would call, one of those legacy moves that the president is trying to do something that will help America in the long run. And this is one of those things, because you know how often times in Gary and Eric, they talk about this all the time.

I know that I do as well during my morning show in Nashville, where, you know, there's some presidents, well, all presidents, when you look at their term in office, you look at their time in office, you can't really judge them based on the decisions that they make right now. Sometimes it takes a long time for their decisions to either, you know, bear fruit or to implode.

And that's just the way that it is. And so sometimes what looks really smart on a given day, 5, 10, 15, 20 years later, you look back and you think, boy, that was an absolute train wreck.

“For me, for the Venezuelan thing, I think what Donald Trump is trying to do is he is trying”

to set America up for lower gas prices for the long run. And I think that in 20, 30, 40, 50 years, we are going to look back on this move by Donald Trump and say, yes, that changed gas prices. That changed America's economy for the better courtesy of Donald Trump. So I think it's the legacy move for the president.

And again, a lot of people agree, a lot of people disagree.

Ultimately, we'll have to see what happens.

By the way, somebody pointed out on the text line that I'm using, 615-737-9986 saying that, oh, yeah, you know what, to like the point out that gas prices right now, they were still lower than they were four years ago under Joe Biden, that is true.

“I mean, I do understand that that not everybody wants to hear that, well, hey, you know,”

the gas prices or inflation, they're still under where Joe Biden had it at his peak. I totally get that, then I understand that, but right now, we are dealing with where we are currently and the impact of the war in Iran and other things have been having on our gas prices. And so yes, you are right, a couple of different things can be true.

Joe Biden had us in a far, far different place, a far worse place than Donald Trump did, that is most certainly true, but at the end of the day, the question is, heading into the midterm elections from a purely political standpoint, our prices higher at not only the pump, but also are they higher at the grocery store, not four years ago, but where they were, you know, just a year or two ago in Donald Trump's recovery, the sad reality that

is yes, that does not help us in the midterm elections. Got a lot more straight ahead on Red Eyed Radio. From the Relief Factor Studio, now for Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, here is Dan Mendus.

appreciate the opportunity to fill in.

“By the way, the text line that I use for my morning show in Nashville, Tennessee, 615-737-9986.”

If you can't call in, you can always text in, always appreciate the input talking about

this. Also controversial, Venezuela and oil deal, especially as it relates to the news of the day. I ran always part of the news of the day clearly, and this morning is no exception with the Iranians attacking Saudi Arabia, and injuring close to as far as we can tell about 100 people, Saudi Arabians are really, really angry, and as I said, this could be one last

gas before the Iranians, because both the Wall Street Journal and the Reuters are reporting that from inside, where it is that there is a very large conversation going on, where the Iranians are trying to convince the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, they're really the ones that control the negotiations and control the country. They need to come to an agreement while they still have some leverage, because their

economy is basically in tatters. I love what Senator John Kennedy had to say. This was over the weekend, and talking about what is happening with Iran, and, of course, here in America as well.

“I think no fair-minded person who believes in life, death, and the resurrection that that's what you believe in,”

can look around and think that the world is not safer because of a degraded Iran, degraded Hamas, degraded Hezbollah, and Assad is gone. The world is safer. We have accomplished all of our objectives in Iran. I would be glad to talk about what they are if you want to.

There's just one problem. The straight is semi-closed. It's not completely closed.

Anywhere from a third to a 70 percent, if you believe, Goldman Sachs of all is getting through.

The blockade was a smart play. It's hurting the Iranians badly. It's hurting the government. Nothing's coming in. Nothing's coming out.

They're going to have to eat and drink their oil.

“And I think we ought to leave it on for a few more months if we can stand the pain at”

the pump. The big question, can we stand the pain at the pump? I mean, obviously I can't mention it enough. Midterm elections are coming up and as Gary and Eric tell you, and they're absolutely right where prices are everything, you know, you can point to and I've got a list of positive

things that are going on with our economy right now. But at the end of the day, people talk about what is happening at the gas pump and what is happening in the grocery store. And again, our price is better than they then Joe Biden's peak. Yes, they are with Joe Biden's peak.

But where are they here as it relates to the last couple of years? They are definitely higher. The other problem we have is that the gasoline prices, the prices of the pump are directly a reflection of what we are doing in Iran. And so while we can say, yes, we are cheaper than Joe Biden at his peak, the bottom

line is we are more expensive than we were in the last couple of years when Donald Trump took over. So that's a big problem anyway. A lot of positives in the economy right now, the jobs market we had those great jobs numbers was a Friday, Thursday, Friday, they came out last week.

We didn't end up in a recession, a lot of folks predicted we would end up in a recession. We didn't. The stock market is strong, lots of investment going on as well.

Inflation is still higher, core inflation though, that's taking out the always volatile

food and energy that is not nearly as bad as it was. So that's good, wages have been growing as well, not necessarily keeping up with inflation but real close. So do I have some concerns about the economy? Yes, I do.

Is it as bad as some people say, I would say, know that it's not. Do I see light at the end of the tunnel with the Iranian war, which I've been very pessimistic on lately? Yes, I do see light at the end of the tunnel, fingers crossed. This isn't, you know, when it's lawyers and the Wall Street Journal predicting that the

end could be near because of the dynamics that are going on within Iran. It's not Donald Trump talking and blow-veading like the president does. I love the president, but let's all be honest, he, he blow-veates. He talks a lot and sometimes he talks out of his, you know, where he does. They want to make a deal.

If they wanted to make a deal, they would have made a deal. They don't even get me started on that. But when the Wall Street Journal and lawyers also reporting that they are talking about and considering a ways to get out of this war, looking like they can pull out some sort of a victory, some sort of an off-ramp than that is very good news.

61573796 is the phone number, I'm sorry, 86690 Red Eye is the phone number, 8669073339. Have you guys noticed that with the whole Lindsey Clancy trial, which is, of course, is probably going to know, ended in a, a retrial on Friday, they're now trying to decide what they're going to do next.

“But have you noticed that that motherhood is being villainized?”

There are so many disturbing things that have come out of this Lindsey Clancy trial. Now, had you told me when this whole thing started and you, I mean, you all know what it is, right?

Nancy, she basically, in my opinion, she murdered, but she killed her three kids. And she

claims that it was postpartum depression. It was the medications. You know, she didn't have enough medications. She didn't have the right medications. So on and so forth. And you have all of these women. This is the deccorasiness with it. You have all of these women that are defending Lindsey Clancy after she took her kids into the basement and murdered them. Center husband out, clearly

“premeditated, sensor husband out to go to the drugstore, pick up some food all the way across town,”

so that she could murder her three children, takes them down into the basement, and then she herself jumps out the window, trying to commit suicide, ultimately she ended up paralyzed. And now she has been on trial and again, it ended in a mistrial. One brave juror, you had all of these jurors that were willing to allow her to, I'm not going to say she would get off scoffery. She wouldn't, but she would go to a mental health institution as opposed to a prison and the

majority of the jury wanted to center to a mental institution, you know, get some psychiatric help as opposed to the prison. Well, there is one juror who said no, Lindsey Clancy belongs in prison. They couldn't come to an agreement, so they ended up in a mistrial. We don't know what's going to happen next. But, you know, there's a lot of disturbing things in the news today. There is a story of a crime that happened back in June where a mother and her mother killed their four kids.

There's another story that came out over the last few days of a woman in Chicago who killed her child. And this was a woman who apparently was very active in the Lindsey Clancy, you know, message boards and, you know, the chat rooms and all of that. Yeah.

And I hate to say it, but if Lindsey Clancy ultimately ends up getting away with this and not going

to an actual prison to serve hard time for the murders in my opinion that she committed.

“Well, then I think we're going to find out exactly how sick our society has become”

because we're going to see women do these horrible, horrible things. I want to play you a piece of audio. This is a very disturbing piece of audio, but it's indicative of what we're seeing on the socials right now where you do have this realization of motherhood. Listen to this. And then I get pregnant and I have a daughter. I have a girl. The, oh my God. Dream come true. I was like, this is great. I have been severely disappointed with the dream.

My husband works a lot more than he used to. So spending time with him, it's not like it used to be. I can't take a shit by myself. I can't eat when I want to. I can't go out and just get a dunk in whenever I want to. I can't film a video whenever I want to. I can't. I think this woman is nuts. It's scream whenever I want to. I can't go to dinner whenever I want to dream bigger.

Dream bigger. Do not try to make the family that you've always wanted. Don't even do it.

Don't do it. Go be hot. Go create your family with friends and experiences and yourself and your spirituality and nature because hot take. So she says hot take. It's not worth it.

Dan Mantis show, but you know, I watched this video. Number one, I'm trying to figure out if it's

actually real because we don't see a baby in there. But the other question that I would have is girlfriend, your baby sounds like, you know, she, it's a she is, I don't know about three or four months, right? My grandson, I just spent some time with my grandson over the last couple of days. And he's about three and a half months. So that sounds exactly like how my grandson cries.

“If you're so miserable, give your baby up for adoption for the sake of the baby. Right?”

If you're so miserable, newborn babies and small babies, they are adoption gold.

And so for the sake of the baby, give it up for adoption. And if I were the authorities,

you know, if I, I don't know, I don't know who this woman is or where she is. And by the way, when I utilize the term woman, definitely using that term loosely, but she's certainly no mother. But wherever she is, if somebody knows who this woman is, I would absolutely report her to the authorities. Do not have children, do not do it to yourself. There is no return receipt, the rage I have inside of me, right right there. The rage, she says, that I have inside of

“me. I hope somebody's paying attention in her in her state,”

because to me, this is all part of motherhood being vilanized, but also it sounds like she's threatening this baby. The depression and the wanting to, I have inside of me, even with a supportive partner, even with a person that's your help that your village sometimes, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's still f*** sucks because a baby for many, many, many, many years, not just in a newborn, for many years. They are a parasite, and that means that they will not only

suck everything of your energy, but they will also suck every ounce of your soul from your body. Don't do it. I mean, again, give it up for adoption. This is not difficult. You know, my opinion is the baby would be better off without this woman as a mother, because clearly, she is not. And this is part of the dynamic in America of the Lindsey Clancy trial, is all of these people are supporting and standing up for and defending Lindsey Clancy,

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"You're making people leave your show with the audio of this horrifying horrific woman. I get it."

“But the reason why I played that audio is because it is emblematic and indicative of some of the”

reaction to the Lindsay Clancy trial. And how motherhood is absolutely under attack. Families are under attack. By the way, did you hear it Donald Trump wants to do to save families? Details try to head. This is Red Eye Radio. On Westwood One. Now, it's Red Eye Radio. We've talked about everything from politics to social issues. And news of the day. Whether you're up late or you're just starting your day.

Welcome to the show from the Relief Factor Studios for Gary McNamara and Eric Hartley. Here is Dan Mendus.

86690. Red Eye is the phone number 8669073339. Always appreciate the opportunity to fill in for Gary

and Eric here on Red Eye Radio. My text line is open that I use liws for my morning show in Nashville, Tennessee. Listen, if you would, 61573796. I do host a morning show in Nashville, Super Talk, 997WTN. So there is a lot of news to get to. Of course, over the three day weekend, there is a lot of news that did come out. I thought this was interesting.

“Is the Trump administration going to give money to married couples with a state home parent?”

Now, I'm going to go ahead and say it for my libertarian friends. I do understand that it's not the role of the government to raise families. I do understand that. But, you know, I feel like that ship is unfortunately sailed. We give a lot of money to parents. We essentially are subsidizing parenting so that parents can pay for child care, that kind of a thing. So I do feel like that ship is sailed. And so now, what the president is doing, apparently, is he is going to start helping

married couples with a state home parent, give them $9,000 for each child. So if you've got, you know, obviously, one child, $9,000 to children, you're going to get $18,000. And this isn't

“necessarily to help you pay for or reimburse you for child care. It's basically to cover expenses”

because one parent has decided to stay home, make those sacrifices. And now the Trump administration according to the New York Times is wanting to make that happen. This was all over the socials,

over the weekend, basically what they want to do is they want to change the rules for the federal

child care and development fund. Now, this is usually reserved for married couples where both parents work. So they've got to send a child to daycare. That money would help them pay for that daycare, or parents attending school. Same thing. You're going to school. You try to better yourself. Let us help you pay for daycare. Single parents who have to go out and work. Let us help you pay for daycare with the subsidy. Well, now the Trump administration wants to give money from that same bucket of money.

There's not going to be any more taxpayer dollars associated with this. It's going to come from the same bucket of money that all of those other people get married couples with the state home parent

are going to get $9,000 per child if they are ultimately able to do this. A JD Vans who is apparently

according to the New York Times behind all of this, he wants to show some love for those couples with a state home parent. Our society has failed to recognize the obligation that one generation has to another is a core part of living in a society to begin with. So let me say very simply, I want more babies in the United States of America. I want more happy children in our country, and I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager

to raise them. And it is the task of our government to make it easier for young moms and dads to afford to have kids to bring them into the world and to welcome them as the blessings that we know

for Life, I love that he is pro family. I love that the Republican Party is coming out so strongly

“pro family, especially at a time when families and motherhood is being villainized as I spoke”

about in one of the previous hours. You know, somebody actually said to me on the text line, which is 615737-1986, guys said something about how he's got like 10 kids. 10 kids, no wonder you're up at like 1 o'clock in the morning or whatever it is where you are. And think about it. And he says, I've got 10 kids and people are overly hostile towards me for choosing to have a big family. I applaud big families. I love that. And so for JD Vans and what he was saying,

what they want to do, what they want to do to show their appreciation for those married couples

with kids is if one of those, uh, one of those parents is a stayed home mom or dad, then they want to give them that $9,000 per child. And as I said, this isn't a new fund created for married couples. This is going to come out of the same fund as before. So theoretically, this could take away from those already getting money, the both parents working couples and the single parent households, et cetera. And so that is where I'd be willing to bet the left is

going to start, you know, doing what they do, going crazy, trying to find federal judges to block at the whole thing. The money, according to the New York Times, would help offset the lost income

of the stay at home parent. Now, the $9,000 per child, basically if you've got a parent

making $40,000, $50,000 a year, and decides to stay home, well, that $9,000 per kid, if you only have one or two kids, that's not really going to make up for the amount of money that you're losing, but obviously it'll help. Isn't that good? And it doesn't sound like it has to be a reimbursement for child care specifically. It could be used for raising the children. And so right now, this, this program is supposed to be used for, again, single parents working parents who need

help paying for child care. This would actually go to the parents where one works and one stays home, simple. And it wouldn't, again, have to be just for child care reimbursement. It could be for anything.

“And that's why people are freaking out. You got some folks that are complaining that it'll”

favor married couples. Well, yeah, isn't that the point? My opinion is, and I don't want to, you know, make working parents feel bad, but it is, it is my opinion that state home moms are the best for the baby. And while they do understand that there are, there are families with different dynamics. I mean, there are some parents that are horrifying as we all know. But by and large, I think that a mother or father who stays home with a child is going to be better for the

child than the long run, just my opinion. But, you know, right now, we have all these programs that that favor single working parents, which is fine, but why shouldn't married couples also be eligible? Why not married couples who who make that sacrifice to have one parent stay home? Now again, as I said at the beginning of this segment, put aside the discussion that you shouldn't be having kids that you can't afford. That ship sadly has clearly sailed. And so right now in America,

we have all of these various programs to help needy families. And I do understand that. And so if we're going to help needy families, let's help all needy families, including the ones that make that sacrifice to have one of the parents stay home. But what the Trump administration is thinking of doing, according to the New York Times, is help couples who get married with the costs of having a parent stay home. It is a great idea. One of the things that JD Vance has been talking

about is the importance of family. Is they're trying to tear down this country, tear down our young people, tear down our military, and what's left over with the ashes of what they've torn down is socialism. Well, we've got a different approach, my friends. We want to invest in you, we want to fight for you, and we want to fight for your children's future. We're going to defeat

“socialism by giving you a stake in the American dream. And that's how we're going to win the future.”

There you go, JD Vance. It's going to be interesting, interesting to see how the Democrats play that. One of the things that has been mentioned before, too, on my morning show in Nashville,

Democrats over to the Republican Party. I love it. I'm here for it. And for the president, again,

“even though I do understand that there's a lot of folks out there, including, by the way,”

yours truly, who will say that you shouldn't have kids that you cannot afford, and it's not the government's role to subsidize families at the end of the day. If we're going to, and apparently we are, just go ahead and subsidize families in America, needy families here in America. If we're going to do that, we'll then let's go ahead and include the families who make the sacrifices to keep one of the parents at home to raise the kids. Danny is calling from Missouri,

Danny, or first up right here on Red Eye Radio. Go ahead.

Well, one of the things that I thought about, I actually called to talk about Iran, I don't think that most people know how much of a threat Iran still is, or was, but there were weeks, maybe months away from a nuclear weapon. I think that Trump thought that Iran was going to be just like Venezuela. It was all going to be just, you know, one in done, you know, two days, three days a week, but I think he underestimated the

of the people that are running that country. That's one thing. When you don't know who your enemy is

and how powerful they are, they may bite you. Well, I will say this and I appreciate the call

Danny. A couple of things. Number one, I wholeheartedly agree with you. I think that I don't know if it was Benjamin Netanyahu. I don't know if it was Pete Heggseth. I don't know who it was, but

“remember number one, you're right that I think that he thought that it would be as easy as”

a resting Maduro. That's also not forget that we had already attacked Iran one time before during Trump's second administration. And that was a phenomenal success. And so there was not one person who said that that was a terrible, a terrible, executed, a terribly executed attack. It was

an amazing attack. Did they call it? I think it was Operation Midnight Hammer, but I could be wrong

on that, but I think that you're right. I think that the president, I think he thought that we could bomb our way to getting Iran to acquiesce toward demands. And we dropped a lot of bombs. And it turns out that the thing we should have done first was really go after their economy because you're right, the resilience and the fanaticism of the Iranian leadership. I mean, we've killed them two or three layers deep in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. And we still haven't found our way to the rational,

the rational layer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. The ones who are running the country. So

“I think you're right. I think that the president thought that, yeah, absolutely. This was going to”

be easier. I do believe that he underestimated this, but I think that finally, though, we are on the right track. And again, I appreciate the call. More of your calls coming up next 86690 read. I 8669073339 got a lot more straight ahead. This morning's USDA Farm Report is brought to you by house products tested, trusted guarantee since 1920 to early for Christmas. That's not the case for Christmas tree growers like Western Washington State's John Tillman as they perform nearly year-round work

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Rod Eye Radio, 8690-red eye is the phone number 8669-073339 when to say hello to Dwayne in Saskatchewan, Canada.

“Dwayne, thanks for calling Rod Eye Radio. How are you?”

Fantastic yourself. I'm doing all right. Go ahead, sir. Thanks for calling in. Thank you for taking my call. Sometimes things that politicians and countries do have unintended consequences. And I just want to let Americans know that when these tariffs and things were put on, there certainly was some concern. But what we've discovered, you know, Trump thinks he's making

America great again. He's making Canada fantastic. We've never sold so much oil, hot air,

uranium, and all the other things that we have up here for sale. We've been able to, some of the provinces have been able to clear off their debts that's been building in terms of billions of dollars. We've got our medical care system because we have all of this taxes that people are

“paying. We've been able to enhance our universal Medicare career, to the things that we never thought”

we would be able to afford. We learned from lessons from the America in terms of what they're we're having problems with immigrants. And we discovered that we need immigrants here in Canada because we're becoming an aging population. And we've registered all over immigrants last year. We brought two million people into our country and a country of 42 million. And we're so glad to have them and they're happy to be here. And it's just working out wonderfully well.

Well, good. I'm glad. Hey, Duane. I'm glad that's all. Hey, Duane. I'm glad that's all working out for you. Is Canada, and I'm not asking this to be snarky. So just so you know, I'm not asking this to be snarky. Is Canada's government run health care? Is it, is it as bad as, is folks say? It's fantastic. I've had, unfortunately, 12 major operations in my life. And I've

never had to pay up any for them. You don't have to wait to get lined up for your operations.

The pharmacy companies keep saying how bad Canada is is. But let me tell you, there's very few medical programs anywhere in the world that work as well as ours. And people don't lay awake at night wondering if they get you when they're old or they have a being behind you going to afford all this because when you walk out of the hospital, they thank you very much for, and we thank the doctors and that's where it ends. There's not

a bit of God. I understand some people in the United States are paying $3,000, $4,000 a month for medical care. And I, oh, yeah. Let me, let me tell you something, Duane, if I may, Obamacare, really, in my opinion, destroyed our healthcare. It is absolutely unaffordable these days,

“if you have to buy it on the exchanges. It is interesting, though, Duane, and I'm not calling”

you a liar by any stretch of the imagination. I'm glad that you're recovering from your 12 operations, so on. But, but I hear from, well, Duane, hold on, man. I hear from so many Canadians, though that, tell me, just the opposite that your healthcare is actually a nightmare. So just in, in like 10 seconds, is there some controversy as to whether or not Canada's healthcare is great from within Canada itself? Is, is that a debate? There's one political party that tries to pretend

that's what's happening that is no good in the other party, which is in power. Most of the time, it just keeps it pertinent along. I just want to say one more thing, we had some problems with Alberta and Quebec. They were talking about wanting to break away from Canada. And once all this problems and concerns happened, and people saw what was happening in the United States, that issue has completely fallen flat on space. All right, very good. Thank you for the call, Duane,

from Saskatchewan, Canada. I very much appreciate it. Yeah, part of that conversation, obviously, would relate to the terra fore that right now is going on between President Trump, the United States, and Canada, let's just fully understand. And listen, I have, I myself have no beef with

and I've spoken to a lot of Canadians. Some do say, and you just heard Duane say, they love

“the healthcare system there. Others, not so much, but the protective tariffs that Canada”

implements on things like dairy have really, really angered Donald Trump. Maybe we'll talk about that as the evening progresses. , you're listening to Red Eye Radio, from the Relief Factor Studios. What I radio, 866, 90 Red Eye, 869, 0073339, if you would like to text in instead of call in, you can, 6157379986, I'm Dan Mandis filling in for Gary and Eric. So right before the break, the last caller that we took,

it was Duane from Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada, and he was bragging on Canada's healthcare system. So in the interest of equal time, we also have now Greg in Ontario, Canada. He says that Duane is lying when he says that the healthcare system in Canada is great.

“So Greg calling Ontario, Canada, go ahead. What has been your experience with Canada's health care?”

Yeah, hi Dan, pleasure to talk with you. Well, from what I heard coming from the gentleman from Saskatchewan, my jaw hit the ground because he might have been talking about the healthcare system that existed in this country. Maybe 30 years ago, I can tell you, from personal experience, it's nothing what he said. We have people in Osbro's on girdies dying. There was an eight-year-old child that went to emergency and Toronto last year with his parents and he died, we're waiting

to get into emergency. These are the stories he won't talk about or nobody wants to hear. And I myself personally have been in his country my whole life and I've watched his healthcare system absolutely just to grade into nothing to the point where I have gone to Michigan in Detroit

for medical care twice and I'm going to go go third time. Because the wait times here, if you need

something like say orthopedic surgery or any major surgery, really, you will wait eight or six to eight months if you're lucky to get an MRI and then you'll wait another year to see a specialist. Okay, and then from there, you might not even get the surgery that you need and there is Canadian's in this country across this whole country that are fleeing this country for medical care into the United States or into your minex trip will probably be into Europe. It's going to

cost me $100,000 to get something I've been trying to get done in this country for probably five or six years. It's absolutely nothing what you would, well, what it is, Dan, it's a social healthcare system. And this is what when I hear of what's going on in the United States and some DSA when they socialist these young people, you come to this country and you experience our healthcare. The last thing you're going to want in America is social healthcare. Okay, they've let

so many immigrants into this country, I know the true little government for the last 10 years, it's flooded this country and the healthcare system is absolutely overburdened. It's this grateful. So when you hear Canadians that are going on about what a great country we have and we got it all together and we have nothing. I'm telling you straight up, I've been I'm 66 years old and in the last 20 plus years, I almost feel like pack my bags in the even this place

because it is going downhill so fast. We have nothing going on in this country for ourselves or government's refuse refuse to do anything for the people in this country and these terrif so-called

“words. I'll tell you, Dan, what Donald Trump did, I think, him 100%. Because he gave this”

country the biggest wake-up call of all time. We've been leaning on big brother here for pretty

much since World War II. We've done nothing for ourselves. We always thought the gravy train was

a huge trade deficit and this country is absolutely God with his pants down. We've had countries come here under the troodle government for the last 12 years and now we don't currently. We've had 10 or 12 countries not on our door pleading with us to give us to ship our natural

guys, look for financial gas or oil, critical minerals and every time our government says,

we have no business plan. Those people walk away in the last person that walked away, the president of Japan, after he left here in God tonight, he met with President Trump.

“I think it was in a week that the president was visiting the United States from Japan,”

walked away with the trillion, there are no states out of trillion dollar deal with the natural gas come out of Alaska, that new pipeline. We just throw everything away. It's then, if you ever listen to Canadian, and you're trying to pump this country up, also I hear from Canadians, it's like, we're the best country in the world. This is the bullet best place to be. I have long discussions with people and they say name-wide is the best.

There's nothing about this country that's the best. And they just, yeah. What I would say is I was on a cruise a couple of years ago and happened to get to know a bunch of Canadians, and they said the same thing as you, where it's just like it's a mess, and the government doesn't know what it's doing. They're letting in all of these, essentially these illegal aliens and these migrants and the healthcare, and they just, I mean, on and on.

So, I don't know if old Duane from Saskatchewan there, if he's sort of with that political

party that is more liberal in Canada, but for me, whatever, here's what I know about the tariffs

is, and I'm just going to talk about one, which is I think the most obvious bit of this is also emblematic of what President Trump has been angry with. I'm in Tennessee. We have a lot of dairy farmers in Tennessee, so I talk about this quite a bit, but in Canada, they only offer a certain amount of dairy into Canada from the United States before they implement these massive tariffs by 245 percent. So, that is just one example of many of how the President says there's a lot of unfair

tariffing going on within Canada, and President Trump wants a better relationship, or as the President would say, a fair relationship with Canada as it relates to the tariffs. One thing, though, Greg, you said, ridges real quickly. You said that you think about, you know, packing up and leaving this place, that's your exact quote. I wrote it down, where would you go? I mean, would you try to come to the United States? Would you try to go someplace else? Where would you go?

Well, I have a brother that lives in Florida, and we've talked extensively about this and seriously about this. He says, I got this sponsor, this sponsorship paper just says, let me know,

“and I said, send it to me, because they're going to be sitting on my table, and that's what I'm”

going to go. I'm going to go to Florida, and he's been down there for God 35 years. He was just smarter of us all, right? He's he reading that. But I just want to call him a quick and dairy if I could that. You're absolutely right. You're being on with those tariffs, and I'll tell you something what's going on in this country with the dairy. There's about 10,000 dairy farmers across this country. Most of them are in Quebec, and they absolutely support the liberal government.

So the liberal government, the NDP, these are the people that are ruining this country, all right? And so what they're what they're doing here, if you could believe this, and by that's absolutely true, they have quotas on everything in here, and they don't want to let it, they're afraid of competition. That's a problem with this country. They're afraid to compete. They're afraid to compete on anything.

“That's why we never get anywhere in this country. We never build anything. But what they're doing”

in this country, they're dumping down the drain. A billion dollars or a billion, sorry, a billion

leaders of milk, right down the drain every year, because they can't sell it out to a quota. Instead of giving it to the poor or charity or something, they'll dump it down the drain. And that's an absolute truth. And that's when you talk about, they don't want American dairy coming in. The problem with this country is everything is monopoly. We don't get the choices. We're told what we're going to have to buy and we're going to have to buy from.

You see, we're about to step away from full-on socialism or dictatorship. I'm telling you, when Trudel got in, I looked at this guy, especially with the trucker or a conboarder that we add here and there was Trudel. Yeah. Yeah, I said to myself, this is it. This is the end of my country. This is the end of the democracy that I remember growing up with, is a child and all the way up until about 15 years ago. And it's in the carney,

I will say this. I do have to correct you on one thing. It's not Florida. It's the free state of

“Florida. Whenever you talk about Florida, you've got to say the free state of Florida in front of the”

state's name. Oh, I get the free state of Florida, brother. There, there you go. And as as in a somebody from America, I would love if somebody with your ideals that came into our country because clearly you appreciate what our country has to offer. And Greg, thank you very much for calling from Ontario, Canada. My name is Dan Mendes in for Gary and Eric 86690. Red eye is the phone number 8669073339. If you can't call in, you can text in 6157379986. Got a lot more. Straight ahead.

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“Damn it is here in for gearing Eric on red eye radio. So why am I being called the socialist? I”

mean called the socialist because I was talking about the president and JD events their idea to give $9,000 per child to families who have a stay at home parent. Now, I get that there's a lot of people that say that that is socialism. I actually agree that it's not the government's job to subsidize families. I totally get that. My point is that if we're going to do it, then yeah, we might as well

help families to have a stay at home parent. Here's what I would like to do though. I put a poll up on

my ex feed at Dan Mandisho. I want you to go take it right now because I'm really curious as to where you stand on this. So follow me on ex at Dan Mandisho and here's the way that I worded the poll. The Trump administration may be giving $9,000 per child to couples with a stay at home parent. Do you like this idea? Answer number one. No, it's socialism. Yes, it's pro family is answer number two. So if you would, I would love if you follow me on ex at Dan Mandisho and to take the take the poll

because as I said, for the fourth time now because I'm not a socialist, but my whole point is this is not a new bucket of money that we are creating. This is coming from the same bucket of money. So

apparently as a government, we are okay with subsidizing families. Yes, we can always make the argument

to that as socialism. You could also say that it is, you know, just part of our government that is protecting those that need help. You know, protecting those of us who have the biggest challenges, but bottom line is we as a country apparently are okay with subsidizing families. I'm not necessarily, I'm all for social safety nets. I get that, but at the same time, don't have kids if you can't afford them. I totally understand that aspect of it as well.

So I would love it if you went and took the poll and again, follow me on the socials at Dan Mandisho and let me know what you think. There is something going on just really quickly. There is something going on just across the border from a Tucson, Arizona in No Gallus, Sanora, Mexico. This was, and it just very, very briefly before the hour ends, but the U.S. has put travel restrictions

this is just across from Tucson. So they're not saying exactly what is going on, but there is

some sort of a threat. And they're not saying what it is, but they are saying don't go out at night. I mean, that's part of what they're saying. They say due to threat information, U.S. government

“activities and travel to No Gallus have been restricted to essential movement during daylight hours”

only. That is from the U.S. consulate there in Mexico. So the authorities have told us there is

some sort of a threat. But again, they're not giving us any real details as to what it could be

“Sonora, by the way, traditionally has been called a reconsider travel area anyway. And No Gallus”

is an hour and 15 minutes south of Tucson. I've been to Tucson and it's not too far from the border.

So we have the possibilities of if you think about it, we have the possibilities of cartel violence,

“the kidnapping of American citizens. There's a lot of violence among civilians as well.”

But why would anybody go to No Gallus, Mexico anyway? We'll talk about that and hold out more straight ahead. My name is Damandis, this is Red Eye Radio. This is Red Eye Radio on Westwood 1. What a British lawyer is so cruel to her, a family name, a country, a family. And if you're the Duke of Hellstead, a little bit of an empire under the influence of the country. But even though it's now just the empire on the way,

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