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McNamara. Gary. Well, from the news

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and now this is a personal. point

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of view, this may not be endorsed

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the sponsors of this show. Right.

2:08

I hate taxes. Yeah. All

2:11

right. Yeah. I'm

2:13

with you on that. I hate

2:15

taxes. And tax preparation, Eric hates

2:17

2023, Eric, as well. He's

2:20

screaming at him, why aren't you more

2:23

organized? Actually,

2:27

here's the thing. The process

2:30

has become so much easier. You

2:33

know, I mean, not as easy as when, you know, I was

2:36

broke and making almost nothing. But

2:42

it's so much with the software and

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everything else, if you're doing your own

2:46

tax prep, it is a

2:48

lot easier now. It's just you

2:51

really all you have to do is keep everything in

2:53

line. Now the good

2:55

news is so far for earnings

2:58

year 24, I am much

3:00

better organized. My wife pretty

3:03

much organizes everything and

3:05

then has to go back and figure out my mess and

3:08

organize it again. But

3:11

it took me several hours. I love the

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counter on the tax software.

3:18

Oh, we estimate this is going to take you an hour

3:20

and 57 minutes. When

3:23

it puts that up there, in

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the right hand corner, terrible

3:28

tax. Thank you for that. Thank you

3:30

for that. Thank you for that confidence. I

3:33

looked at it and started laughing. Are

3:38

you kidding me? Here's two

3:40

hours. Here's a question that I have. How

3:43

much does it I've never I'll have to ask my

3:45

father because he does it. And

3:47

by the way, dad's doing great. I went back just

3:49

for one day. It was a

3:51

wonderful visit. Thank you because I posted

3:53

pictures of both on

3:56

on X and on Facebook of my

3:58

father and I together. cake

4:00

by the way and yes you could be the

4:02

only one of the only pictures with you and

4:04

cake in it. For those

4:07

long-time listeners of the show you know you know how big

4:09

of a deal that is well as

4:12

we never get cake. Well the the

4:14

great thing was and and you'll appreciate

4:16

this they already

4:18

had cake like two weeks ago and

4:21

they celebrated they celebrated my sister's birthday

4:23

my brother's birthday and my father's birthday.

4:26

Yeah all right. But because I was

4:29

I was coming in and my father's birthday

4:31

was was Thursday last Thursday

4:33

so you know they'd celebrate like

4:35

two weeks you know before right and

4:38

they specifically got a cake because

4:40

I was in town. So the

4:42

cake was for my father

4:44

but it was also because I was

4:46

in town. All right that's

4:49

a good-looking cake. It was a good-looking

4:51

cake but it destroys

4:54

my it was it I will call it anybody

4:57

who's a type 2 diabetic understands this

4:59

when you're carb watching it

5:01

was a cheat day. Well

5:03

yes but you know what that's

5:06

and I heard a doctor tell me it should be

5:09

that way for everybody but now we've gotten into the

5:11

habit of you know you know

5:13

people keep you know when

5:15

we were kids that didn't happen it was like it was

5:18

birthdays and holidays and that

5:21

was pretty much it you didn't have cookies

5:23

laying around all the time and everything else

5:26

and a doctor told me yeah you should only

5:28

you know don't have a cheat day once a

5:30

week you should have your

5:32

cake on you know special occasions that's

5:34

what it should be about. Oh yeah and and my doctor

5:37

says the same thing I mean I don't feel guilty about

5:39

having a cheat day because because

5:41

of all the days I don't

5:43

cheat. Can I please

5:46

but please pass the gruel over

5:48

here? Is it low carb gruel?

5:50

Right. But but just thanks all

5:52

the nice comments that everybody sent

5:54

about my my dad I'll just

5:56

tell you this if my

5:58

dad is doing great and And the best

6:00

part is, because he

6:02

got a pacemaker in earlier

6:05

this year, or excuse me, late last year.

6:09

And his pulse was down to just 40

6:11

beats a minute. Now

6:13

it's 80. Yeah, wow. Well, you just

6:16

wonder if somebody, when they get into their 90s,

6:18

when they get into their 80s you wonder at

6:20

times. We talk about

6:22

Biden all the time. What's

6:24

your cognitive abilities and what is it? Is it

6:26

just old age? Is it

6:28

dementia? Whatever. I'll tell

6:30

you this, I had conversations with my father last week

6:33

where he was, and even when I was just in

6:35

town, where it was, you know, everything

6:37

was precise. And I went,

6:39

oh, okay. I

6:42

guess when you're pumping twice the

6:44

amount of blood through a body

6:46

that wasn't getting that blood

6:48

pumped through, it goes to

6:50

the brain cells. And he

6:52

just was, I mean, not that he wasn't

6:54

on before, but I was just

6:57

the way he is for 98

6:59

years old. I mean,

7:02

and he's got the walker and

7:04

everything else, but he's moving even better there. So

7:06

I think it's a godsend that he got the

7:08

pacemaker last year, but he's doing great. And he

7:10

wanted to thank everybody, all of our

7:13

listeners who have commented on

7:15

his birthday. He said, thank you, thank you, thank

7:17

you so much. My dad

7:19

is a very humble man and he doesn't

7:22

really, he never sought the spotlight. His

7:24

son did, but he does appreciate

7:28

when his son's listeners

7:30

compliment him. Yeah, there you

7:32

go. Love it. It's

7:35

a good day. But what an interesting weekend we had.

7:38

I mean, not a surprise. I mean, everybody

7:40

knew that it was coming, that Iran

7:42

was going to hit Israel

7:45

and it happened over the weekend. Yeah. It's

7:49

not often you see pretty

7:51

much international stories that kind of

7:55

plastered the news late Thursday and

7:57

early Friday that said, yeah, okay.

8:00

It's likely, it's coming. I

8:02

mean, it's almost like a game. It

8:05

was almost like, you know, because it was the

8:07

master's weekend. It was almost like

8:10

it was an event that had been

8:12

scheduled. Well, yeah,

8:14

Iran's gonna be attacking Israel and

8:17

probably using drones, and this is how it

8:19

will go down. I

8:23

don't know that I saw Jordan helping

8:25

to defend Israel, although they say we

8:27

were just defending our own airspace. But

8:30

I think that is a big deal in this

8:32

equation. You know,

8:34

Jordan is, I'll say, I saw the

8:36

media is now an ally of the

8:38

US. I'd say leans

8:41

more so toward the

8:43

ally side. Let's

8:46

be careful. The

8:49

word ally to me anymore is

8:51

one of those words. We know certain

8:53

allies, but yeah. Let's

8:56

just be careful, especially in the Middle East, who

8:59

we call an ally and who we don't.

9:01

Israel in the Middle East, most

9:04

definitely, in my opinion. The

9:06

radicals won't agree with me on that, but they are. Of

9:09

course. But yeah, it was,

9:12

I think that

9:14

kind of sends the message. And

9:16

Jordanian leadership can say what they want.

9:19

You know, if that's their position, no, no, no,

9:22

no, we're just defending our own airspace and our

9:24

own citizens. And yeah, but

9:26

you're doing it, you're

9:28

standing between Israel and Iran and

9:31

the world gets the message on that. And

9:33

there's no turning back on that. There is

9:35

no, you know, you can't play neutral

9:37

on that. Yeah,

9:39

it's what your actual behavior

9:41

is and how that behavior can be interpreted.

9:44

And I guess we can extrapolate

9:46

that out to this administration

9:49

also. Oh my gosh. We're

9:51

going to do that. Yeah. You

9:53

know, it's funny that I

9:56

was watching TV with my dad. On Saturday.

9:58

And I knew the attack. happen but you

10:01

know you're just getting so busy with stuff and everything else

10:04

and so turned on the TV

10:06

and NBC wasn't covering it and CBS wasn't and

10:12

then boom you went you know to

10:14

ABC and they're covering it I'm like wow and

10:16

it seemed to be extended coverage just wasn't a

10:18

break and I said are they doing this and

10:20

covering it it was it

10:22

was the the I think between the first

10:24

and second period of the hockey game so

10:26

there's like a 15-minute segment where they were doing

10:28

it and I went okay oh okay because I

10:30

didn't I didn't like the

10:32

the bent that they were throwing at

10:35

it to be you know to begin

10:37

with but then again when

10:39

I realized they were doing it in between

10:41

a hockey game I realized nobody was watching

10:43

it anyway so right yeah I don't even

10:45

know who was playing so don't get

10:48

on my

10:53

case if it was the team that you weren't even watching

10:55

it but no well

10:58

look America doesn't what I love

11:00

hockey but I have to

11:02

admit America doesn't unless you're playing the

11:05

Soviets and that that ain't happening again

11:07

I I

11:09

love watching hockey certainly

11:14

going to a game I love watching it

11:16

but I can I can watch

11:19

hockey on TV and not

11:21

get bored with it there there are other

11:23

sports that football's not you

11:25

know that's I mean football's its own thing I

11:27

think in America but I

11:30

love watching hockey it

11:32

but it's not as you make

11:34

the money it's not a huge

11:36

audience no no it's not and

11:38

and probably you know they they

11:40

it was ABC when I

11:44

can't remember one whatever network was carrying it they

11:48

can't get over a million or two viewers yeah

11:50

you know even if you if you look and

11:53

by the way not that they're in the playoffs and Buffalo

11:55

isn't mm-hmm look at the

11:57

you it's it's amazing when you and

12:00

I grew up in Buffalo, so people don't know that, but

12:02

I did. If you didn't know that most

12:04

people do, but if you didn't, I grew up in Buffalo.

12:06

So yeah, it's a hockey town. And if

12:08

you look at like the playoffs and like

12:10

you get to the Stanley cups or Stanley

12:12

cups, Stanley cup, and

12:15

you're looking at it's like, okay, Buffalo

12:17

was even beaten in watching it, some

12:20

of the host cities in

12:22

the past. So they,

12:24

even though they haven't been in the playoffs,

12:26

they have the longest record ever of not

12:28

being in the playoffs, yet they still will

12:31

watch playoff hockey. Even

12:33

to a greater extent than

12:35

some of the home teams audience

12:38

that is in the

12:41

finals. It's like being in sports

12:43

cars, you know, you know, you'll never have it,

12:45

but you'll look anyway. Yeah.

12:47

Yeah. So, but, uh, and, and

12:49

so I was just making a, uh, just,

12:51

I was actually making a comment hitting the mainstream media

12:54

is what it was about that nobody was watching it.

12:56

And I just were hockey and to make my stupid

12:58

point. Uh, but what would really

13:00

got me and we'll have the audio

13:02

John Kirby insisting that this was Trump's

13:04

fault because Trump got out of the

13:06

Iran deal and the Iran deal

13:09

enabling Iran by giving them

13:11

billions of dollars and

13:14

letting them develop, you know, uh, going

13:17

in with the nuclear deal that

13:19

Congress did not, Congress

13:21

did not authorize and

13:25

claiming that in Iran deal that

13:27

Trump did not want is

13:31

somehow to blame the Trump

13:33

is to blame for this isn't

13:36

going to cut it. What,

13:38

you know, everything they tried to blame Trump

13:40

for inflation, that didn't work the border that

13:42

didn't work. Now they're going to do it

13:45

for, uh, you know, uh, Iran, not going

13:47

to work. No, it's not going to work.

13:49

Because the appeasement is so obvious

13:51

to the American people of this administration.

13:53

Yeah. Yeah. It's, uh,

13:55

it's, it's ridiculous. Um,

13:59

if you're saying that. It's Trump's fault because

14:02

he delayed the actions of Iran

14:05

for several years and

14:08

their proxies. The fact of the matter is, is

14:10

that everything that's

14:12

on the table, and this is the thing, is

14:15

that the Wall Street Journal kind of pointing out in one

14:17

of their stories, you know, Biden

14:20

was trying to basically, and I'm paraphrasing from

14:22

their take on this, Biden trying to walk

14:24

the fence on the whole Middle East. You

14:27

don't want to become a wartime president in

14:29

the summer

14:32

of your reelection bid, but

14:36

it's looking more and more to be the

14:38

case. Well, the White House

14:40

has really ticked off this happened because Biden had to

14:42

come back from his weekend. You

14:45

know, when I saw that, he

14:47

left the, I thought, my gosh, he

14:51

didn't leave the beach for the botched

14:53

exit of Afghanistan. I know. And

14:58

he came back to the White House for this. Tells

15:03

you everything. Well, he eventually came back, but he wasn't

15:05

happy. Well, it was, again, it was the

15:07

Monday when he came back. So

15:09

he didn't come back from the vacation. Right. Yeah. And

15:12

then he turned around and went back on vacation. Well,

15:15

the fact that because they were

15:17

talking about that he would make a comment

15:20

on it and he made no comment over the weekend,

15:22

he wouldn't appear publicly on it. And he came back

15:24

Saturday, didn't he? Yeah. It's

15:26

a really amazing. My gosh, he broke up

15:28

his weekend. He didn't do that in the

15:30

botched exit of Afghanistan. It's,

15:33

this is, this

15:36

is so damaging in so many

15:38

ways. Cause

15:40

now the

15:43

radicals, I mean, look, you're not going to appease

15:45

the radicals anyway. We're talking about the

15:47

protesters here, state side. You're

15:49

not going to appease any of those people. We saw in

15:51

Chicago, they were cheering. Yeah.

15:56

Well, the one thing I did

15:58

see, they're seeing. It seems to

16:01

now be in the popular culture

16:03

where it's viral in social media

16:05

that, and you saw the memes all

16:07

over the place, that we're funding both

16:09

sides of this war. Yeah.

16:13

Well. That the United States is

16:15

enabling Iran to get the money and

16:18

then we're defending, then we're

16:21

giving defense systems and money

16:23

to Israel to fight

16:26

Iran and Iran's proxies

16:28

that this administration has

16:31

insured is well funded. And

16:33

oh, by the way, remember

16:35

last week we played that deputy assistant secretary?

16:40

I think he's doing a Mayorkas because

16:42

remember he was saying, no money is unfungible

16:44

and every single dollar that Iran gets goes

16:46

to their violent and

16:48

terrorist activities. Well, then John

16:51

Kennedy had them, the Senate had

16:53

them and he was stating, oh, no, no, no,

16:56

none of this money we've given them have gone,

16:58

has got to Iran at all. It's

17:00

only going to the charities. He said, well,

17:02

how do you know that? Is this, is,

17:04

is the state department or is it a

17:06

Treasury Department involved in where the money goes?

17:09

He goes, well, who is? He goes, no,

17:11

it's the, it's the, what is it? The,

17:13

the Qatar banks. Well,

17:16

who regulates the Qatar, Qatar

17:18

banks? Well the people that run the banks.

17:20

Well, then you have no idea. You're lying

17:22

to me. Right. And I

17:24

was like, I got to play the audio from the orchestra

17:26

last week. It was Jim Jordan. And

17:29

that's the problem. None of these people will answer

17:31

a question. They'll, they'll sit there and throw stuff

17:33

at you that makes you think they're going in

17:35

one direction and they're going in a completely different

17:37

direction. And that deputy secretary

17:40

from the Treasury Department was doing the same thing

17:42

last week. I got it wrong when I played

17:44

that audio cut. I don't think that's what he

17:46

meant, even though it seemed like that's what he

17:49

was saying, because that's what this

17:51

administration does. They never answer a damn

17:53

question. Right. And they

17:55

are all over the place. Yeah. It

17:57

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23:25

it is, America's anti-war activist cheer for

23:27

Iran. Yeah, that was in Chicago. Yeah. The

23:30

left-wing conference in Chicago, activists believe Iran

23:32

is part of the arc

23:35

of resistance because the enemies are Israel

23:37

and the USA. About

23:42

300 anti-war activists crowded into a

23:44

basement of a Teamsters Union headquarters

23:46

on Saturday to hear organizers from

23:48

all over the country describe their

23:50

plans to disrupt the Kratik National

23:52

Convention this August. We've

23:55

been saying this since they announced it was going

23:57

to be Chicago. Yeah. You especially, I don't know

23:59

why but when When that came out, me

24:01

sitting over here on this side and you over there

24:03

just going, I'll be out of

24:06

their freaking minds? What are they doing? Well, I

24:08

mean, it's been a nightmare. It's

24:10

because it's, this

24:13

is unknown. It's a given. You're

24:16

going to have radicals regardless

24:18

of where you go, but

24:21

in these major radical cities like

24:23

Chicago, you're going

24:25

to have even more radicals in that situation. Then

24:30

you get into the issues and it's

24:32

like, how radical will they be inside?

24:34

Forget about the protesters down the street

24:37

and now the protesters will be on the floor. The

24:41

radicals will be on stage during prime

24:43

time. Where do you go

24:46

in your prime time speech in

24:48

Chicago? I have no

24:50

idea. I have no idea,

24:52

but I can't wait. As

24:55

I said, though, these activists gathered to

24:57

describe their plans to disrupt the Democratic

24:59

National Convention this August, Joe

25:01

Biden's backing of Israel since Hamas'

25:04

October 7th attack has turned these

25:06

left wing radicals against their own

25:08

party. Well, his part time backing

25:10

of Israel. Yeah. Right. Because

25:13

at the same time he backs Israel, he

25:16

also backs Hamas. By

25:19

the way, this is what's going to kill this administration

25:21

because they're still trying to do it. That's

25:26

why I'll have to find the ... There

25:30

are a couple of op-ed pieces out there

25:32

saying, Biden

25:34

says don't, so they did. That

25:39

Biden is viewed as so weak and so

25:41

he's viewed as so weak. As I said,

25:43

I really saw over the weekend more

25:45

of those memes that are out

25:48

there. I'll have to

25:50

find one and get the exact verbiage

25:52

of it, but it was like we're

25:55

financing both sides of this. The

25:57

United States. The United States. is

26:00

financing both sides of this because we had the ability

26:02

to stop the financing of Iran and we

26:05

were doing it under Trump and Biden won't

26:07

do it and As

26:09

and we know we know how Biden

26:12

is attacking Israel saying for example It was

26:14

brought up when he said indiscriminate bombing that

26:16

was a lie from the president right back

26:18

the New York Post did a op-ed

26:20

piece about Biden can lie

26:22

about everything and the thing is the media won't

26:24

call him on it at all Remember when they

26:27

counted the number of lies of Trump and

26:29

then they stopped it with by and they

26:31

just said okay We're not gonna fact-check him

26:33

anymore, right? So the fact-checking bottom there Pinocchio's

26:36

after he got the bottomless Pinocchio's from

26:38

the Washington Post It was like well,

26:40

it's bottomless. It's everything why yeah, we're

26:43

not gonna we're not gonna revisit this and And

26:46

so that's one of that's one of the

26:48

biggest problems they you know The this administration

26:50

has right now as this thing heats up.

26:53

They're trying to support both sides Right, and

26:55

they can't do it. Right? It's

26:57

it's insane. Well and and your State

27:00

side you're not gonna you're not gonna appease the

27:02

radicals ever Here

27:04

it is Omar floresam a walkie-based

27:06

activist Said it's really

27:08

inspiring to see the people are just as

27:11

enthusiastic and maybe even more enthusiastic To

27:13

march on the DNC as

27:16

they are to march on the RNC we

27:18

can thank genocide Joe and our movement for

27:20

that Well

27:25

that but then a man stumbles to

27:27

the podium wiping sweat from his forehead

27:29

He grabs a microphone to announce that

27:31

the Islamic regime of Iran has launched

27:33

missiles and drones heading straight towards Israel

27:36

They believe that they will be in

27:38

Palestine. I don't call it Israeli

27:41

airspace between 2 and 4 a.m. Which

27:43

means about 2 to 4 hours from

27:45

now. He said in addition There

27:48

are reports of drones having

27:50

been fired on Israel from Yemen

27:52

and Iraq the crowd all

27:55

wearing black and 95 masks erupts

27:59

in a block Someone

28:04

in the back lowers their mask to

28:06

send a celebratory whistle soaring throughout the

28:08

room. Wow. By

28:14

the way, this is the Free Press

28:16

wrote this. Olivia

28:19

Reingold from the Free Press wrote this. The

28:22

crowd all wearing black and 95s. Wow.

28:29

The man at the podium

28:31

who heads the US Palestinian Community Network,

28:34

a purported community group, which on information

28:36

and belief is an affiliate of the

28:38

Popular Front of Liberation of Palestine, a

28:42

designated terror organization based in Gaza,

28:44

according to a lawsuit over the

28:46

alleged relations between US advocacy groups

28:49

in Hamas. This is when

28:51

this country and the world needs us because

28:53

the United States is going to

28:55

quote-unquote defend the criminal Israeli state,

28:59

said the head of the US Palestinian

29:01

Community, whose home was raided by the

29:04

FBI in 2010 as part of an

29:06

investigation concerning material

29:08

support for terrorism. We have

29:10

to assume that the United States is going to try

29:13

to retaliate against Iran, but again, after

29:15

they just, you know, they're cheering it and everything

29:17

else. But

29:21

there's a headline. American anti-war activists cheer for Iran's war.

29:23

Let's go to see what the White House has to

29:25

say. All right. This is John

29:27

Kirby over the weekend on Fox

29:29

News. It's just getting bizarre. It's

29:32

like we got a blade just like the

29:34

border. It's Trump's fault. Inflation is

29:36

Trump's fault. And now what's going

29:38

on here is Trump's fault. Yeah,

29:40

we're dealing with children here. Here we go. You

29:43

know the conversations about unfreezing assets,

29:45

about waivers on sanctions. Could

29:48

this administration have been tougher on Iran? Did it

29:50

sense an opening? It's hard to look at what

29:52

President Biden has done with respect to Iran

29:54

and say that he hasn't been tougher on

29:56

Iran, that we haven't put pressure on them,

29:59

that we haven't. additional 500 sanctions,

30:01

additional resources in the region. And let's

30:04

take a look at that ballistic missile.

30:06

Okay, so they launched more than

30:08

100 ballistic missiles. And how many got through? And

30:10

the reason they didn't get through was because

30:12

President Biden made sure that we prepositioned forces

30:14

in the region to help Israel shoot them

30:17

down. I wanna stop it there because that's

30:19

where he's admitting. Because you said

30:21

he was saying, they put this money to

30:23

ballistic missiles. And he's saying, yeah, but the ballistic

30:25

missiles couldn't come through, couldn't get through because

30:29

we have supported and helped

30:31

create and fund the iron dome. Yeah.

30:35

Do you realize what he's saying? He's saying

30:37

we're funding both ends of the war. And that's

30:39

a good thing. And that's a good policy for

30:41

the United States. It's nuts.

30:46

Cause that's the whole point where he said, let's look at

30:48

these ballistic missiles. They didn't get through. So

30:51

you're admitting that

30:54

the funding of Iran, that the money that they have,

30:56

I mean, that's what he's communicating to me when I

30:58

heard that. Well, hey, but even

31:01

if we are funding the missiles, it's no

31:03

big deal because we're also funding the other

31:05

side. So as long as we're funding both

31:07

sides, nobody wins. You know what I thought

31:09

though? I thought of the, I

31:12

thought of the star, remember the Star Trek episode

31:15

where they went to the planet

31:18

and there was a war and they were talking

31:20

to one side of the war. And what they

31:22

were doing is they were just putting people into

31:24

chambers and killing them. Yeah. That's

31:27

how they had a better war. They were just

31:29

killing people in chambers and then counting

31:31

it back and forth, but nobody was really

31:33

accomplishing anything of getting land or anything. They

31:35

were just like, and I was thinking when,

31:37

you know, none of them got through, I

31:39

went, okay, or we did a point where,

31:41

okay, artificial intelligence will

31:43

actually fight wars, but nobody will die,

31:46

but we'll keep fighting them. No, this

31:48

is exactly what the radicals were talking

31:50

about. When they were

31:52

screaming about Israel and they

31:55

said, look, they're using unequal force.

31:58

They use, they need to use the. same

32:00

amount of force that Hamas uses.

32:03

So it's going to come out that the

32:05

iron dome in the US helping

32:08

and the taxpayers doing that is

32:10

wrong because Israel needs to have

32:12

more people die. Right. In

32:14

order to make it, we need

32:16

DEI wars. Yes.

32:19

It's unfair. They

32:22

send over 130 drones. Well,

32:24

you can only have 130 different

32:27

opportunities to take it down or

32:29

maybe we'll cut that in half

32:31

since you're Israel. We need DEI

32:33

in wars. Yeah. Death,

32:35

equity and inclusiveness. That's right.

32:40

We're just trying to stand with both sides. But

32:42

when he said that, I was just like, what

32:45

you're saying is your fallback

32:47

position is, okay, well, even

32:49

if some of this money got to Iran, they

32:51

produce these ballistic missiles. And

32:54

so this money got there. But don't worry. We're

32:56

fighting both parts of this war. We're

32:58

helping to, we're helping and ensuring that

33:00

Iran has the funding, but also we're

33:02

funding Israel to, you know,

33:04

to defend themselves against

33:07

them. But Israel, you better not go, you better

33:09

not counter attack now. You

33:11

better not counter attack. I

33:14

mean, it's, this is the most bizarre, but let's finish it here

33:16

when he gets to blame Trump. Here

33:19

we go. So this Bonted ballistic missile program of

33:22

theirs didn't turn out to be so Bonted last night

33:24

support something that would have stopped that program or at

33:26

least contained it in some way. So

33:28

it's not launching in Israel and we aren't having to

33:30

get it involved defensively. Again, Shannon, just look at the

33:32

sanctions that we put in place against Iran. Look at

33:34

the resources we put in this into the region. It's

33:37

hard to take a look at what President Biden has done

33:39

and say that we've somehow gone soft on

33:41

Iran. It was the previous administration that decided

33:44

to get us out of the Iran deal.

33:46

And now Iran is so much dramatically closer

33:48

to a potential nuclear weapon capability than

33:50

they were before, before Mr.

33:53

Trump was elected. So it's Trump's

33:55

fault. Yeah. And

33:58

she hits him on the right body. the

34:00

talking point and the talking point is the

34:02

exact same phrase. It's just,

34:04

it's tough, you know, it's tough to say

34:07

that this president, how can you say this,

34:09

but that's where the gaslighting comes in. What

34:11

are you, an idiot? Right.

34:14

It's tough to say it. This, this president has

34:16

been so tough on Iran and the,

34:19

and I was looking at, was he,

34:21

was it, was it CBS

34:24

poll? October

34:26

2023, approval for Biden's handling of

34:28

Israeli Hamas. Let me

34:30

see, 44%. Okay.

34:34

I need to get, I need to get back to where it

34:36

was before. I lost

34:38

the, it was, hold on one second here.

34:40

We'll get it in a second. Here

34:43

it is. October of 2023, 44%

34:45

approval of Biden's handling of the

34:47

Israeli Hamas conflict, 39% in December,

34:52

38% in February, 33% now. It

34:56

keeps going down and down and down. And

34:59

because people know we're playing both sides

35:02

here. And it's, that everything

35:05

this administration does, it's,

35:07

you can't say it's just wrong. It's

35:10

insane. Well, look at the border. He

35:13

opens the border and then says, my hands are tied.

35:15

I can't close it. This

35:21

is like dealing with a teenager like a,

35:23

like a child. You

35:26

know, Kirby trying to make the point that

35:31

getting out of the Iran deal, which

35:34

of course depleted their funding. We'll

35:37

see, look, look at what's,

35:39

you know, this is, this is a result now

35:42

of that action and then don't

35:45

pay any attention to the last few

35:48

years where we helped

35:50

Iran get funding to the

35:52

tune of tens of billions

35:54

of dollars, well

35:57

over a hundred billion so far. Don't

36:02

pay any attention to that part of

36:04

it. I gotta find the Kennedy thing

36:06

where he interviewed the Deputy

36:08

Treasury Secretary last week, because that's

36:10

really interesting, because the fallback position

36:12

is now that, yes,

36:14

Iran will

36:16

take every dollar they get and put it into

36:19

violence and terrorism. None of it will go to the people.

36:22

But we have set up a system that

36:24

we have no control of in the United

36:26

States. The Qatar Bank executives can do whatever

36:28

they want with that money, but we trust

36:30

they're doing the right thing. Right.

36:34

And remember, at first they were

36:36

saying, no, we have oversight over

36:38

everything. And now they're saying, well,

36:40

no, we're just hoping that Qatar does the right

36:42

thing. So

36:44

Kennedy just said right to his fingers, you're lying. He didn't

36:47

come back and say, I'm not lying. How dare

36:49

you do that? You take that back. Right. You

36:52

can say that. It's like... Because this

36:54

is the game that they have to play.

36:57

For the longest time, on a

36:59

number of things, you could get away with this kind of garbage.

37:03

But everything right now is

37:06

so obvious, because it's reality

37:08

at the door. This

37:10

isn't... Remember with the Iran deal.

37:13

The Iran deal was what might happen

37:15

as a result of the Iran deal.

37:18

Well, now we've got Israel and Iran and

37:20

Iran's proxies going at it, and

37:22

everybody sees it. It's reality. It isn't

37:25

the what if anymore. And

37:27

this is the case for pretty

37:29

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40:55

everybody? Everybody have a good weekend? Happy

40:57

Monday. Thank you. I did watch

41:00

a lot of the Masters and it was... I

41:03

watched more of the Masters than probably anything else. All

41:07

right. Yeah, I really don't. I watched

41:09

a little bit of the golf lately

41:11

and it was Scotty Scheffler. It's getting

41:13

interesting because he's not one. He

41:15

won the Masters, of course, and he was the

41:18

favorite to win and he's

41:20

won three out of the last four tournaments

41:23

and the tournament he lost two weeks ago,

41:25

he lost by one stroke. So,

41:28

I mean, he's the... Right now he's

41:32

doing tiger-like things right now. This

41:35

last month, he is

41:37

by far the best golfer on the

41:40

planet. And I was

41:42

thinking yesterday that a

41:45

lot of people say, well, I'd love to play Augusta. I'd

41:48

love to go. I don't know if I'd love to play. Those

41:50

greens are too hard. You've

41:52

got to be so precise In

41:55

how you hit the ball, but it was really

41:57

cool. Really

42:00

cool. That was Verne Lundquist last

42:02

a. Timeout.

42:05

Covering the the Masters our he's

42:07

the one that dub back in

42:09

a that would have been on

42:11

the seventeenth hole for Jack Nicklaus

42:14

when Jack Nicklaus one at a

42:16

forty six where he went yes

42:18

Sir Edmund Yeah and then remember.

42:21

Member. The Tiger chip on

42:23

sixteen. That. Came out and just

42:25

kept rolling towards the whole and then

42:27

stopped dead. And you just the camera

42:30

was on of for like. Three. Or four

42:32

seconds. Yeah and then it fell on the whole

42:34

death. He did that one to him in his

42:36

i i can't remember the exact quote but he

42:38

was therefore of that when I guess Tiger Woods

42:40

said actually went there and and said goodbye to

42:43

one because he was and it was sad Was

42:45

sad because you can hear. Any

42:47

if anybody sought didn't Was he breaking up?

42:50

That. They were going to commercial and they

42:52

worried that he was done with the sixteen.

42:55

The Scotty Shuffler ah at had the you

42:57

know his group had finished and was going

42:59

to seventeen and they were talking to Verne

43:01

Lundquist. Ah, Jim Nantz and

43:03

to same thank you and everything else and he

43:06

was like well it's been an honor and I

43:08

wanna and I'm just paraphrasing here and then it

43:10

to stop is somewhat. he was breaking up and

43:12

he never finished a sense and the one commercial

43:15

yeah. So. But are all in all it

43:17

was a. It was fun to watch

43:19

it over the weekend. A I actually watch lot of

43:21

my brother and my dad and on Saturday. Yeah.

43:23

Was a quick trip. I flew in Friday night

43:25

was back Sunday morning was back in time by

43:27

a thirty more him. so. I.

43:29

Feel jet lagged and people's will say but

43:31

it's only an hour now. It's not that

43:34

it's because. Of.

43:37

The. Sleep shifted to like that over the

43:39

weekend. Yeah. The flight itself

43:41

and it's the prep and the back and

43:43

forth and everything else. and we did some

43:45

traveling by car and it was and and

43:47

hours from work on a on a family

43:49

members property in it it was like. Alright,

43:53

I'm. Feeling. That a little

43:55

bit. i did notice

43:57

by the way on the masters another storm

44:00

Amazon Prime

44:02

had certain things, certain

44:06

groups that they showed it was

44:10

just for short periods of

44:12

time. Like, okay, this

44:14

on round four, hole

44:18

16 on this

44:20

and I thought, well, that's interesting. So

44:24

is that kind of a side deal?

44:29

I don't know how that works because it's not

44:32

the full broadcast. And

44:34

there were three that I noticed that

44:37

were Sunday morning and I'm

44:39

assuming and they went live,

44:41

but I'm assuming that you could

44:43

go back and still watch it on Amazon Prime.

44:45

Although I didn't at that time, I had

44:48

seen it. It was midday Sunday and the first

44:50

one for that morning that they were going to

44:52

show that first segment had ended, but I didn't

44:54

check to see if it was still. Yeah.

44:57

Was it like a documentary or was it? No, no,

44:59

no, it was covered. Okay. Well, then

45:02

Augusta National has to approve that. Yeah, of course. And

45:04

CBS would too. Yeah, of course. But

45:08

is that the new side deal that streamers are

45:10

going to have? All right, we'll let you in

45:12

for a little bit of it. We'll

45:14

let you in here and

45:17

there. That's interesting. Well, ESPN

45:19

Plus had extra coverage, but

45:22

the Masters has an app and

45:24

I get it a couple of days before and

45:28

they have specific groups that are

45:30

out there. They

45:32

cover just certain holes. Right. That's

45:34

exactly what Amazon is doing. They'll say, okay, we're covering four

45:36

or five. They must have given the

45:39

permission, but the

45:42

Masters app is really

45:45

almost all included. I think on the

45:47

Masters app, you'll find what

45:49

you will find anywhere. Well, this could

45:51

be a deal, especially with Amazon because

45:53

Amazon will push other subscriptions. Right. Like,

45:57

hey, you could watch these shows, but it requires a lot

45:59

of money. requires you to get a

46:01

subscription to whatever, Paramount Plus. So

46:04

maybe it was, okay, you

46:06

can watch these, but

46:10

you have to get the app. You have to

46:13

get the Masters app or something, or maybe they

46:15

promote the Masters app in

46:18

return for that. So, I don't

46:20

know, but I didn't look. But I thought that's

46:23

probably the future anyway. You're

46:26

going to get as many players in terms of

46:28

TV money and sports in

46:30

general. It's kind of breaking up

46:32

all over the place. So you're trying to get as

46:34

much of that money as you can. All

46:38

right, so I saw this. And I

46:41

burst out laughing because I went, oh, this is

46:43

an editorial for the stupid. And

46:46

it was actually an op-ed piece.

46:48

And it was done by, let

46:51

me see, it was done by Robert Pozen,

46:54

who is the senior lecturer at MIT

46:56

Sloan School of Management and

46:58

former chairman of MFS

47:01

Investment Management and

47:04

also SP Kafari,

47:06

who is a professor

47:09

of accounting and finance at MIT Sloan. So

47:11

you sit there and think, okay, this is

47:13

going to be quite technical, right? I mean,

47:15

this is the economist, you know, getting into

47:17

the economic speak and all that stuff. And

47:20

so after about a minute, they lose you. After

47:23

about 10 seconds, they lose you. And it's not the case.

47:26

But they're like, what economists miss about

47:28

inflation? By the way, they

47:30

don't miss it. They ignore it. Many

47:32

economists and political commentators wonder why U.S.

47:35

consumers continue to feel they are suffering

47:37

from inflation, although the annual rate of

47:39

inflation dropped sharply during 2023 and is

47:41

still well below its peak in the

47:44

summer of 2022. The

47:47

answer is that consumers have a broader

47:49

time horizon. Listen how they explain this.

47:52

They are looking at the rate of price

47:54

increases over the past three years, from

47:56

January of 2021 to January of 2024. consumer

48:00

price index for all items rose by 17.96%.

48:05

A concrete example, you

48:07

paid $10 for a tuna sandwich

48:10

at the start of 2021. By

48:13

the start of 2024, that same tuna

48:15

sandwich will cost you $11.80. That

48:20

certainly feels like a severe inflation.

48:23

It wouldn't be much comfort if an

48:25

economist told you you should feel good because

48:27

the price of the

48:29

tuna sandwich only rose by 3.11%

48:31

in the last year. Moreover,

48:37

in 2021, no one was asking

48:39

for a tip since a pandemic has

48:41

become common for payment screens that take

48:43

out places to prompt customers for

48:46

a gratuity as much as 25%. You

48:49

can say no, but at the risk of a

48:51

scowl from the cashier. Scientists

48:54

might argue that consumers should be satisfied

48:56

that their wages rose over those three

48:58

years, but the rise in total wages

49:01

have not kept up with inflation. Further

49:05

at the beginning of the pandemic, many

49:07

consumers of moderate or

49:09

low income received some type of government

49:11

grant, such as refundable tax credits for

49:14

children or unemployment checks that

49:16

exceeded their prior take-home pay. These

49:18

grants declined in 2022 and ran out in 2023. In

49:24

short, prices are up, wages aren't

49:26

keeping pace, and the tuna sandwich that used

49:28

to cost $10 now costs $13, including a

49:30

small tip. No

49:34

wonder consumers feel as if they're battling price

49:36

inflation. No, they're

49:38

not ignoring it. They're

49:44

not missing anything. No, they're

49:47

deliberately going around it. It's propaganda. And the

49:49

other thing that they miss here, though, is

49:51

too, you have to look when you talk

49:53

about inflation, you've got

49:56

to talk about As

49:58

was brought up last week. That really

50:00

cool down The talk of the wonderful you

50:03

know and when it looked at the inflation

50:05

numbers and said now the real problem here

50:07

is a super core inflation. And

50:11

super corn place or of things to have

50:13

to buy. Find a thanks to have to

50:15

buy and the average grocery list or through

50:17

the roof. And so far this year said

50:19

an annualized rate of eight percent, right? And

50:23

who and when you look at the average

50:25

grocery list of the average person pre pandemic

50:28

to now. Up. Over thirty seven

50:30

percent on this. Forty percent. It's

50:32

increase the. Other things of people

50:34

actually by let's stop be stupid. That's

50:36

why said in a okay is this

50:38

op ed piece for stupid stupid out

50:40

there were stupid. Were.

50:43

Because this isn't Economists aren't missing

50:45

it. they're ignoring. well in and

50:47

there's you know, There's

50:50

the thing, too, is that. The.

50:52

Economists. Have

50:54

never connected with the consumer generally

50:56

speaking, The. General

50:59

this they consumer is not

51:01

missing it at all. They're.

51:05

Not missing and they can't ignore it.

51:07

They're living it every single day. So

51:09

these economists said go out of their

51:11

way. And avoid. My.

51:15

Fine. You're proving the

51:17

old adage: that. Economists have nothing.

51:20

You can sit and try and break something down,

51:22

but the fact of matter is is that the

51:24

American people pay for this. Every

51:27

report the comes out. Is

51:30

looking backward? And

51:32

the American people look at that Gov. Yeah, we

51:34

already know. We. Already know

51:36

about March. Where. The know

51:38

about April. So.

51:41

You. Know this entire. Breakdown.

51:44

thing of it is. Is

51:47

really stupid because that they don't do as

51:49

they don't take down the things. You

51:51

know quite frankly, the way we did with and

51:53

we say okay. We. Can't

51:56

tell you what the future is gonna be. We

51:58

can tell you what's happening right now. And

52:00

what that typically means for the future. You.

52:03

Look at wholesale inflation, my sweet. And.

52:06

Like. Map sorry. Year

52:08

over year, it looks like

52:10

inflation. Generally speaking, inflation. On.

52:13

The big picture is gonna be around this year

52:15

and it's gonna be consistent with the first quarter

52:17

of this year. Now

52:19

I hope that's not the case. But.

52:22

Have the tells us that it is gonna be the

52:24

case. By

52:27

the way, these kind of his these professors

52:29

the right is just the fact they when

52:31

they say what economists met everything they said

52:34

is correct or as of but it almost

52:36

as if it was written. at least my

52:38

pin was like okay let's right one for

52:40

stupid out there. But yeah let's let's economists

52:42

off the hook because you can't miss aren't

52:45

missing? Why are the economists missing this? You're

52:47

not missing it Now They know it's their

52:49

right. But. They're not economists

52:51

by their political activists friend pushing

52:54

an agenda in a like Paul

52:56

Paul Krugman last weekend. Or.

52:58

I'm fine. All my friends are fine.

53:01

When. You're worth millions of dollars. And.

53:06

You're an elitist. We know. Why are

53:09

people happy? Why are people happy with

53:11

the fact that they're working full time

53:13

and they have a part time job?

53:15

To my. Oh, they should be

53:17

happy that they're working. Yeah, but they can't keep up.

53:21

I'm. Doing fine. I'm okay. I'm

53:23

okay. My friends are okay.

53:25

Why are you okay? And

53:28

what's wrong with you? That's and and

53:31

that's it. They. Choose to

53:33

wear blinders. They don't care about

53:35

looking at what people are going for. You don't even

53:37

have to care about the people that are going through

53:39

it with which they don't. But.

53:42

For families every single that you can look

53:44

at the numbers and say this is what

53:46

they're dealing with. That

53:48

super core inflation is important. What?

53:51

What is happening right now with the cost

53:53

of pretty much everything. Ah, Yesterday

53:56

put node order and for groceries and it

53:58

was like my gosh. It's

54:01

everything is insane you know and

54:03

I thought to myself okay, I'm

54:05

looking at you know. Are.

54:07

Buying some meat, Or two pounds

54:10

of hamburger. And. I thought to

54:12

myself. Oh right. so. Ten.

54:15

Dollars and eighty five cents as the going price.

54:19

I remember her. And. I

54:21

thought to myself okay don't do that because

54:23

he get back in the way back was

54:25

in. I remember when they. Did. Have

54:27

sales of ninety nine cents a pound. Yeah,

54:30

nick of stock up. That was a pretty good price

54:32

even then. But. Now.

54:35

For. A pound well over five dollars. closer

54:37

to six. For. Pound.

54:40

A pound of meat. About.

54:44

Anybody are old enough to remember I'm I'm

54:46

guessing it's still out there. The hamburger helper.

54:49

It here. The help was. Helping.

54:51

You stretch the dollar. The filler. Hamburger

54:54

filler. That's what it was about. And

54:56

that's exactly what what families did. You.

54:59

Know my A Growing up my parents did it.

55:01

Ah, My dad was military and

55:03

and it was one income. We.

55:06

Had five kids and so. That's.

55:09

That's what you did. It's been done. You

55:12

know, for. A long, long time

55:14

for generations. You used

55:16

it's what's funny to. His.

55:19

You look at a lot of the the

55:21

the foods that become kind of. I'm. At.

55:24

A Know. I have. An

55:26

end it comes from. Basically.

55:30

Ah, the poor and middle class

55:32

and what what they eat? Oh

55:35

you're eating the chicken wings. Really?

55:38

That's. Interesting, how do they taste?

55:41

And then all of a sudden,

55:43

you know, for a dozen chicken

55:45

wings ads thirty five bucks ha

55:47

oppose its offensive part of a

55:49

second. You know,

55:51

N N and I remember.

55:53

I remember. Ten.

55:56

Were. You want to haunt. You. Really wanna know

55:58

how old I am and. I

56:01

remember chicken wings specials at

56:03

bars. Ten wings for a

56:05

buck? Yeah, right?

56:07

That's how old I hate. That

56:11

exactly, and I'm still alive, right?

56:15

You. Know, I'm I'm I'm surprised.

56:17

Pig snout or something else and

56:19

gums a onwards. Really, you're eating

56:22

the nose of the pig. Okay,

56:24

How does it taste arm those but

56:27

those are the things in i look

56:29

at. had a because. In.

56:31

Cutting corners are filling gaps.

56:34

In a family's budget. In.

56:36

The that's one of the things you have to do. You.

56:39

Have to learn how to get creative in your

56:41

cooking. You have to learn how to get creative

56:43

in your budgeting. You. Have to

56:45

do all of those things. and right

56:48

now it's only getting worse. Prices.

56:50

Aren't going down there still going up

56:52

at a healthy pace? And

56:55

I don't know where that ends. I don't

56:57

know. I don't know how

56:59

you is it. This is gonna be by the

57:01

way if Trump wins and the Glp, when's the

57:03

house in the senate? They're.

57:05

Going to have an uphill battle because.

57:08

Joe Biden broke the daylights out of

57:10

everything. Were looting eight. Inflation? if is

57:12

what will inflation be of? Trump comes

57:15

in with his promise like. Ten.

57:17

Percent across the board. and ah, Tariffs

57:19

on every product coming into the United

57:22

States. And what? As you say, Forty

57:24

fifty sixty percent on everything from China.

57:26

You do that. They're going to skyrocket

57:28

people made here. But when prices skyrocket,

57:30

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1:00:15

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1:00:18

Harley and Gary McNamara nightly

1:00:20

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1:00:27

redeye radio he's Eric Harley and I'm

1:00:29

Gary McNamara welcome and good morning. Alright

1:00:31

who said this? Alright you ready? Alright

1:00:34

here we go. If we

1:00:36

want to save our country we should follow the advice

1:00:41

good liberals have given us for

1:00:44

decades and learn from other countries

1:00:46

especially those beacons and progressivism like

1:00:48

Canada, England and Scandinavia and I

1:00:51

agree we should as long as we're honest about

1:00:53

the lessons we're learning and as long as we're

1:00:55

up to date on the current data such as

1:00:57

the unemployment rate in the US

1:00:59

is 3.8% and in

1:01:02

Canada it's 6.1% and

1:01:04

of the 15 North American cities with the worst

1:01:07

air pollution 14 are in

1:01:09

Canada. I'm not studying

1:01:11

these facts because I have it out

1:01:13

for Canada. I love Canada and its

1:01:15

people and always have but I hate

1:01:17

zombie lies. That's when things

1:01:19

change but what people say about

1:01:21

them doesn't. Yes for

1:01:23

decades places like Vancouver and Amsterdam

1:01:26

and Stockholm seemed great

1:01:28

because everything was free and all the

1:01:30

energy we needed was produced by riding

1:01:32

your bike to your job at the

1:01:35

windmill. Canada was where

1:01:37

all the treasured goals of liberalism

1:01:39

work perfectly. It was like NPR

1:01:41

come to life. A

1:01:43

giant idealized blue state with

1:01:45

single-payer health care gun control

1:01:48

and abortion on polite demand on

1:01:50

polite demand excuse me. Canada

1:01:53

was where every woke white college

1:01:55

kid wearing pajama pants outdoor who

1:01:57

had it up to here with

1:01:59

America's racist patriarchy dreamt of

1:02:01

living someday. I

1:02:03

mean, besides Gaza, he

1:02:06

continued, there's only one problem with

1:02:08

thinking everything's better in Canada. It's

1:02:10

not last year, Canada

1:02:12

added 1.3 million people, which is a

1:02:15

lot in one year, the equivalent of

1:02:17

the U S adding 11 million

1:02:19

migrants in one year. And

1:02:21

now they're experiencing a housing crisis even

1:02:23

worse than ours. And

1:02:26

because of the mortgage debt, Canada

1:02:28

has the highest debt to GP

1:02:30

ratio, GDP ratio of any G

1:02:32

seven nation. I don't know

1:02:34

what that means, but it sounds bad. So

1:02:37

does their vaunted healthcare system, which

1:02:39

ranks dead last among high income

1:02:41

countries and access to primary healthcare

1:02:43

and the ability to see a

1:02:46

doctor in a day or two,

1:02:48

and it's not for

1:02:50

the lack of spending of the 30

1:02:52

countries with universal coverage, Canada

1:02:54

spends over 13% of

1:02:56

its economy on it, which is a lot

1:02:59

of money for free healthcare. And

1:03:01

again, honestly, Canada, I'm not saying any of

1:03:03

this because I enjoy it. I don't, but

1:03:06

I need to cite you as a cautionary

1:03:08

tale to help my country.

1:03:11

And the moral of the tale is

1:03:13

the more you move too far left.

1:03:15

And when you do, you wind up

1:03:17

pushing the people in the

1:03:20

middle to the right. Sweden

1:03:23

opens has opened its borders to

1:03:25

over a million and a half

1:03:27

immigrants since 2010 and now 20%

1:03:29

of its citizens are foreign born

1:03:31

and its education system is tanking

1:03:34

and it has Europe's highest rate

1:03:36

of gangland killings. And one

1:03:38

result is that the far right parties and the

1:03:40

government are now there are

1:03:42

now there for the first time to

1:03:44

which liberals say blaming immigrants for the

1:03:46

rising crime rate is racist. Yeah,

1:03:49

but is it true? Of

1:03:52

course it's true. It's not a

1:03:54

coincidence. The quality of life went

1:03:56

down after the Somali gangs started

1:03:59

a drug. turf war using

1:04:01

hand grenades. Calling

1:04:03

it racist doesn't solve the problem. It

1:04:05

hands future elections to someone who will

1:04:08

solve the problem, who will, I promise,

1:04:10

you're not going to like. Bill

1:04:15

Maher. Last

1:04:18

Friday. Once

1:04:20

again, reality's setting it. And

1:04:23

what he is saying is exactly what we

1:04:26

have said all along. And

1:04:28

apparently he's coming to the realization because

1:04:31

as far as I know, I don't

1:04:33

remember him coming out against Canada's healthcare

1:04:35

system back when we were talking

1:04:37

about our healthcare system. No. I

1:04:40

don't ever remember that from him. I don't ever remember

1:04:42

that. But it's the

1:04:44

fact that you can't deny when reality,

1:04:47

and reality, we said before, it doesn't

1:04:49

matter. Remember when we would

1:04:51

talk healthcare, nationalized healthcare, and people would say, well,

1:04:53

Canada's doing it wrong, we would do it right.

1:04:56

Yeah. And God, this sounds like the

1:04:58

Cold War. Well, communism actually

1:05:00

is wonderful. It's just the way

1:05:02

people are implementing it doesn't work.

1:05:04

Right. If we have different

1:05:07

people on that same horrible idea, it'll

1:05:09

be better. Right. We're a

1:05:11

larger nation, so it won't be as bad.

1:05:14

Or no, here's the logic. We're

1:05:18

a larger nation, so it will

1:05:21

implode faster. The

1:05:23

costs will be greater. Well, as

1:05:26

I know I've always said, when

1:05:29

we say you can manipulate an

1:05:32

economy, but you can't change economics.

1:05:35

You cannot change the way that

1:05:37

people react to incentive and disincentive.

1:05:41

And so when that argument came up, well, Canada

1:05:43

does it wrong, or this country does it wrong,

1:05:45

we would do it right. Economics

1:05:50

doesn't care the title

1:05:52

of your country, the name of your country. Economics,

1:05:55

it doesn't matter. To

1:05:58

economics, it doesn't matter. So,

1:06:00

well, we were in the United States, we do

1:06:02

it right. That means nothing. Yeah.

1:06:06

In the real world, that means nothing. Goes

1:06:08

nowhere. And

1:06:10

it's, again, you know,

1:06:12

the, this idea of

1:06:15

that pendulum. We've

1:06:19

been saying it for years. Eventually, the pendulum

1:06:21

has to go back in the other direction.

1:06:23

But part of the pendulum wants to go

1:06:25

keep going much further

1:06:27

and much faster to the

1:06:29

left. And that's always going

1:06:31

to be the case. Oh, and then

1:06:34

he railed on, because I actually saw it,

1:06:36

he railed, but he got into some

1:06:39

nasty words. Remember

1:06:42

the teacher, the transgender teacher?

1:06:45

Yeah. With huge fake breasts?

1:06:51

And Bill Murrayman said, and the people are saying,

1:06:53

well, what's wrong with it? What's wrong with it?

1:06:55

Well, what's wrong with it? People should be able

1:06:57

to accept it. He goes, children! You're

1:07:00

doing this to children! Yeah. He's

1:07:02

like, oh, okay. Okay.

1:07:06

He was sort of, I'll give him

1:07:08

credit, he was sort

1:07:10

of defending DeSantis at

1:07:13

times with the whole Disney thing. Yeah.

1:07:17

Yeah. Because

1:07:21

remember he said, was

1:07:23

that when he was said DeSantis Reeds? Yeah.

1:07:28

Yeah. That, which was actually pretty

1:07:30

early on. Yeah. Yeah.

1:07:32

Yeah. The left hates this guy.

1:07:34

The left media hates this guy because this guy Reeds. Or

1:07:38

they fear this guy, I think is what he said. Because

1:07:41

this guy Reeds and comparing him to Trump

1:07:44

or Bush or anybody else in the past. And

1:07:48

these are the, you know, these

1:07:50

are the points made over and over again where

1:07:56

we looked at it and said, look, first

1:07:59

of all, you go. to war with parents, you're not

1:08:01

going to win. Sorry, you're

1:08:04

not going to win this. And

1:08:06

then beyond that, society in general, looking

1:08:11

at this kind of being paraded in front

1:08:13

of children over and over

1:08:15

again, and then them fighting for it, the

1:08:18

radicals fighting for it as if it's a

1:08:20

new civil rights era. You're

1:08:24

not going to win that with our society. You're

1:08:27

just not. But

1:08:30

the radicals in this radical

1:08:32

behavior goes all the way up to

1:08:34

this White House. And

1:08:36

when you see,

1:08:39

for example, the never Trumpers, let's

1:08:46

look over the last four or five years. We're going to look

1:08:48

at the never Trumpers. They're really not

1:08:51

talking where Trump stands on the issues, for

1:08:53

the most part. No. No. No,

1:08:56

they're not. Because we've said it before, I kidded

1:08:58

a guy, a buddy of mine. Jerry

1:09:00

was on a boat with a friend of his. And

1:09:04

this is somewhere,

1:09:06

I don't know where the body of water they were

1:09:08

on outside of Tampa. And so they were

1:09:10

driving on the boat. And he said,

1:09:12

look, and he had a video of the

1:09:15

boat. And the guy had Trump stickers on

1:09:17

the back, or

1:09:20

not Trump stickers, flags flying. And

1:09:22

he said, look at this guy. And he sent

1:09:24

a paper to one of his friends, put a

1:09:26

picture. He goes, look what's in his hand. And

1:09:28

he had like, it was like right

1:09:31

beer. Oh, you know, like

1:09:33

right one beer. And he had a MAGA hat on. And

1:09:35

I said, well, and I just

1:09:38

said, well, I'm right wing. Trump

1:09:40

is pretty moderate. So does the

1:09:42

beer just teasing him? And I put the smile face

1:09:44

on it. Still waiting

1:09:46

for the response back. But

1:09:49

when I say that, that's just the truth

1:09:52

about Trump. He's a moderate. And it's funny

1:09:54

because we had this discussion. When

1:09:56

I was, I saw a bunch of people I hadn't seen

1:09:58

in a long time. when

1:10:01

I was in Buffalo, like five, six

1:10:03

different guys. And it got to talking

1:10:05

about, they know me and my

1:10:07

talk radio career in Buffalo and everything else.

1:10:09

And so we got into

1:10:11

this about

1:10:13

just discussion and tribalism. And even though

1:10:16

every single one of them was for

1:10:18

Trump, every single one, they know Trump's

1:10:20

flaws. Yeah,

1:10:22

and we said this a long time ago. You

1:10:25

don't want to promote it if you're out there because

1:10:27

you want to push it in a campaign, but

1:10:29

they know it. Everybody knows

1:10:32

what Trump's flaws are. Yeah,

1:10:35

you know, it's like we haven't had maybe a

1:10:37

year ago was the last call where we had

1:10:40

somebody call up or message us or

1:10:42

whatever and say, because when

1:10:44

we had said something about some

1:10:47

lie that Trump had said, and we said, that's stupid.

1:10:49

Why are you lying about that? And a woman

1:10:52

was furious. She called. That was the woman that called

1:10:55

and said, Trump has never lied once. And

1:10:57

it was like, wow. Wow.

1:11:01

Stop it. The thing is, is that

1:11:03

but you don't have to even get into the

1:11:05

weeds on it because, as you mentioned, it's it's

1:11:08

already priced in for this election

1:11:10

cycle. It's definitely priced in. Oh, that's all that's

1:11:12

all completely priced in. But the fact is, what

1:11:14

I'm saying is the the

1:11:16

the the left is saying

1:11:19

that all Trump people are just basically

1:11:21

a cult that they don't think for themselves.

1:11:23

And that's my point. Yes, they do. They

1:11:25

know. Right. They know they people

1:11:28

can pick off laws in everybody. Except

1:11:31

for you. Yeah, that

1:11:33

hasn't happened yet. No, nobody's ever picked out

1:11:35

a flaw on you. Yeah. Me. Yes. You

1:11:38

know. And so.

1:11:40

Yeah, by the way, don't ask my wife

1:11:43

any questions, period. She's not taking questions right

1:11:45

now. But

1:11:49

that's the whole point that the left is trying to

1:11:51

say that any Trump supporter is not a critical thinker.

1:11:54

They're just these, you know, these

1:11:56

clones out there or these drones or,

1:11:59

you know, like drone bees,

1:12:02

the worker bees, I question nothing, that's

1:12:04

ridiculous. Well, but it goes back to

1:12:06

what you said early on, but

1:12:09

that's how they think. Yeah,

1:12:11

you're right. Because they just kind of boom

1:12:14

and then they cling on. Look, might

1:12:16

there be some that are just fiercely loyal and

1:12:18

it doesn't matter what happens and then they want

1:12:21

to ignore it? Well, yeah, that lady that called

1:12:23

us is one example. They

1:12:25

just don't want to get

1:12:27

into the weeds on the discussion.

1:12:31

But the fact of the matter is most

1:12:33

people, and if you were to sit

1:12:35

and talk to her, if we

1:12:38

talk to her one-on-one, yeah,

1:12:40

well, you're right. And OK, yeah, and

1:12:42

we get that quite a bit. We've

1:12:44

seen that over the years. You

1:12:48

don't have to invest that much

1:12:50

into the person. The

1:12:53

question is always, are they qualified as

1:12:55

a public servant? Do you believe that

1:12:58

they will do what is necessary? They're

1:13:00

not going to do everything I want

1:13:03

them to do. I don't care who they are. And

1:13:07

that's what it comes down to, too. And

1:13:09

of course, with the middle, with

1:13:11

the independent voter, you've

1:13:14

got a tougher standard that

1:13:17

you've got to win them over, but

1:13:19

that's the case every election cycle. The

1:13:21

point I want to make is when you look at the people

1:13:24

that have changed, you see the change in Bill

1:13:27

Maher, change the change in Barry Weiss. You see

1:13:29

the former New York Times writer. You've seen the

1:13:31

change in Michael

1:13:34

Schellenberger, in Matt Taibbi.

1:13:38

And they are specific in their criticisms. You look at

1:13:40

a Bill Kristol. Yeah. You

1:13:43

look at the Never Trumpers out there. They

1:13:46

hate Trump. But

1:13:49

they're defending Biden, and he's indefensible

1:13:51

from anybody who's a former conservative.

1:13:53

You read these former liberals or

1:13:55

people that are still old-time

1:13:58

liberals in their criticism of Biden. Biden

1:14:00

and the left, it is specific

1:14:02

to the absolute

1:14:05

issue at hand. Yeah,

1:14:07

it is. And

1:14:11

that's because every issue right now

1:14:13

is reality. Nothing is in the

1:14:15

abstract. And

1:14:17

Trump on the issues, for the most part, is a moderate, which

1:14:20

people look at and they go, oh, okay. Well,

1:14:22

that at least makes sense. The

1:14:24

left is insane. It's

1:14:27

simple. If the media can't

1:14:29

figure it out, it's because they don't want to

1:14:31

figure it out. What's going on right now? 86690Redeye.

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Lines open for your calls. 86690Redeye

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1:15:06

Redeye Radio and he is here. Carly

1:15:08

and I'm Gary McNamara. Welcome and thanks

1:15:10

for being here this

1:15:13

morning. There's another headline. Major media

1:15:15

organizations urge Biden and Trump to

1:15:17

debate. See

1:15:21

the Wall Street Journal going after Trump as

1:15:24

a hypocrite for not debating in

1:15:26

the primary. He

1:15:29

didn't have a need to debate in the primary.

1:15:34

I mean, there

1:15:38

were a few polls that showed a

1:15:40

couple of the other candidates getting

1:15:43

a fairly decent bump, but nothing

1:15:45

that was really threatening at all

1:15:47

to him becoming the nominee from any of those

1:15:50

other candidates. Tell me why he would do it.

1:15:53

There's no need for him to do it. There

1:15:56

was no reason for him to do it at all. Let's

1:16:00

see if we can get some more of that coming up. This

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1:16:53

McNamara. Good morning. Thank you for being here. Thank

1:16:57

you. Thank you. Thank you. You know what was interesting

1:16:59

yesterday? New

1:17:02

Hampshire Governor Kristin Unu was

1:17:04

saying that basically on,

1:17:06

if someone would step on it, the

1:17:09

Trump trials would not have a major

1:17:11

political ramification because people see this as

1:17:13

a reality TV. Like, oh my gosh.

1:17:18

Okay. That's interesting. I know. That's

1:17:21

a different way of wording it than

1:17:23

I was wording it in my mind because

1:17:25

I was thinking kind of the same thing.

1:17:27

It's that it's become

1:17:29

a show of sorts. It

1:17:31

really has become the new

1:17:37

daytime television. If

1:17:40

anybody's following along, I mean, it

1:17:42

really is a reality show. But that's kind of

1:17:44

the way I saw it. I

1:17:46

thought, this is becoming a show and

1:17:48

here's the problem, is

1:17:51

that you don't have anybody really taking

1:17:54

it too seriously outside of the court

1:17:56

setting, outside of the actual

1:17:58

players that are in each case. You

1:18:02

know, the media, looking

1:18:04

at it, I think early

1:18:06

on they were hoping that

1:18:08

this would damage Trump. And

1:18:11

so far it hasn't. It's

1:18:15

interesting because explaining if people want to

1:18:17

know what's going on at federalist.com, they

1:18:19

did just a great wrap up on it.

1:18:22

So the saga began years ago when Stormy Daniels

1:18:24

claimed to have had an affair with Trump in

1:18:28

Trump denied the allegations. During

1:18:31

the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump's

1:18:33

former attorney Michael Cohen paid

1:18:35

Daniels $130,000 to

1:18:37

sign a non-disclosure agreement about

1:18:39

the alleged affair. The

1:18:42

money did not come from campaign funds. Cohen

1:18:45

who covered the payments up front

1:18:47

sought reimbursement from Trump. He

1:18:49

noted the invoice reimbursements as legal

1:18:52

services as opposed to

1:18:54

something more direct like quote

1:18:56

reimbursement for settlement payment regarding

1:18:59

extramarital sex. As

1:19:02

law experts John Yu and John Shue put

1:19:04

it, Bragg

1:19:08

has elevated a New York

1:19:10

state misdemeanor charge of

1:19:13

falsifying business records, which

1:19:16

isn't true in this case to begin with. But

1:19:19

even if it was, the statute

1:19:22

of limitations ran

1:19:26

out years ago on it, but

1:19:29

he's trying to elevate the misdemeanor charge,

1:19:31

which is bogus itself, into

1:19:36

a federal crime

1:19:39

by alleging he

1:19:41

did it to cover

1:19:43

up the federal crime of

1:19:45

hiding campaign expenditures. And

1:19:49

Trump did so in order to

1:19:52

influence the 2016 presidential election. Now

1:19:54

what's bogus about the entire thing is

1:19:57

Trump used his own money. He didn't use campaign funds.

1:20:04

Odds. As those claiming the settlement was

1:20:07

Stormy Daniels was a campaign related expense.

1:20:09

And. A violation of campaign finance laws. Don't

1:20:11

have any legals, you know? legal leg

1:20:13

to stand up. Ah,

1:20:17

This. Is particularly so given

1:20:19

the Justice Department tried to

1:20:21

make a similar legal claim

1:20:24

against former Democratic presidential candidate

1:20:26

John Edwards without success. I.

1:20:32

N As everybody knows, Prior

1:20:34

to brag bringing this up,

1:20:37

the Federal government looked into

1:20:39

Trump's so called campaign violations.

1:20:41

Both declined to pursue the

1:20:43

case. Why? Trump

1:20:45

used his own money. The News campaign money

1:20:47

right? And. Because

1:20:50

reimbursing someone. For.

1:20:52

Hush Money payment. Does

1:20:55

not fit the definition of any

1:20:57

kind campaign contribution. In fact, candidates

1:20:59

do not have to disclose expenses

1:21:01

that would have been at would

1:21:04

have been incurred even if no

1:21:06

campaign existed. It is highly likely

1:21:08

that Trump would have paid Daniels

1:21:11

Regulus just to avoid any marital

1:21:13

strife or embarrassment to himself or

1:21:15

his family. Road. John

1:21:17

you a professor of law at

1:21:19

the University of California at Berkeley,

1:21:21

and she will legal scholar and

1:21:24

commentator who served in the administration's

1:21:26

of the Bushes. Federal.

1:21:28

Campaign Last strictly prohibits candidates from

1:21:30

using any campaign funds for what

1:21:32

are considered personal expenses. Say you

1:21:35

buy a car and six months

1:21:37

later you you decide to run

1:21:39

for office. You can't use your

1:21:42

monthly car payments as a campaign

1:21:44

expense. Let's. Face

1:21:46

it, Biden's weaponized U.S. Department of

1:21:48

Justice would have been all over,

1:21:51

Trump had the former president run

1:21:53

afoul of that. Has

1:21:56

Donald Trump his campaign funds to enter into

1:21:58

a settlement? In the. Payment with

1:22:00

this woman. Ah,

1:22:03

And. If he

1:22:05

did, Of Sunni. Had Donald Trump

1:22:07

use campaign funds to enter into a settlement

1:22:10

into payment with this woman the D O

1:22:12

J would have gone am from and they

1:22:14

did not. The settlement is

1:22:16

described. Has been described as

1:22:19

hush money, but there's a long

1:22:21

list of famous leftists who have

1:22:23

contributed or semi have who have

1:22:26

demanded such nondisclosure agreements. Taylor Swift,

1:22:28

Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Tiger Woods,

1:22:35

And. As I say, of course, the

1:22:37

statute of limitations on the alleged

1:22:39

crimes has expired, but Bragg is

1:22:41

pushing New York's tolling provision that

1:22:44

stops o'clock on the suspect is

1:22:46

out of state. It's hard to

1:22:48

believe the legislature would have intended

1:22:50

that serving as President of the

1:22:52

United States towns has been out

1:22:54

of state. Said. David Shapiro,

1:22:56

financial crimes specialists and former A

1:22:58

B I agent told C B

1:23:00

S C B C News in

1:23:03

Canada. This.

1:23:06

Case going to have serious serious

1:23:08

problems. Mark Bedrock, a Criminal Defense

1:23:10

attorney and former New York City

1:23:12

prosecutor, told Cbc News before the

1:23:14

Grand jury came back more than

1:23:16

a year ago with his indictment

1:23:18

against Trump. He said brags decision

1:23:20

to pursue formal charges is Danny.

1:23:24

They. Shoot Down brags assertion that

1:23:26

had Trump campaign disclose the in

1:23:28

time payment before the election, it

1:23:31

would have affected the outcome Trump

1:23:33

last New York by twenty points.

1:23:38

So. Would have lost by more votes than.

1:23:41

Besides, a payment would not have been

1:23:44

required to be reported until months after

1:23:46

the election. Again,

1:23:51

imagine that a district attorney

1:23:53

decided to charge secretary of

1:23:55

state tony blinken and hunter

1:23:57

biden for an illegal undisclosed

1:23:59

in time campaign contribution when

1:24:01

they lied in October of 2020

1:24:04

to conceal the abandoned

1:24:06

laptop that it actually

1:24:08

belonged to Hunter. But

1:24:13

the problem is they're saying to Manhattan grand jury, if you

1:24:15

get all Democrats on it, that's

1:24:17

the problem. We stated this a couple

1:24:19

of times last week. The problem is

1:24:22

you have rogue prosecutors, rogue judges, and

1:24:24

rogue juries, and all of them, all

1:24:26

of it is on the left, and all of

1:24:28

it, when you see

1:24:30

it out there, so much of it

1:24:33

is against Trump. Well, and

1:24:35

there's the thing is that you come up in this

1:24:37

case, you come up with something that where

1:24:39

it doesn't apply in terms of breaking

1:24:41

the law, but you state that it

1:24:43

does, and then

1:24:45

tell the jury all you have to do is come

1:24:47

up with the conclusion that

1:24:50

it did do what I say

1:24:52

it did, and I'm

1:24:54

saying it broke the law. Well, okay.

1:24:57

Yep. Looks like law breaking

1:24:59

to me, even though it doesn't apply. He

1:25:02

did all the things that Bragg said he did,

1:25:06

but it wasn't breaking the law. But Bragg says

1:25:08

it's breaking the law. Doesn't

1:25:11

matter. Get

1:25:13

it. That's

1:25:16

all you need. A friendly jury.

1:25:21

That's all you've ever needed, or

1:25:25

one shadow

1:25:27

of a doubt. That's

1:25:30

the way it works, but politically, if

1:25:33

Bragg is willing to do this, if we've

1:25:35

seen this, now, how

1:25:38

many cases that

1:25:40

are brought where it doesn't apply the way they say

1:25:42

it does? It

1:25:45

doesn't matter. The civil case in

1:25:47

New York, Georgia, the

1:25:50

Fannie Willis case, doesn't

1:25:52

matter. We'll just say it does. And

1:25:56

you tell people, well, it applies here, and

1:25:59

well, they did what they... you know, what

1:26:01

the prosecutor said they did, and the prosecutor

1:26:03

says it's against the law. So yeah, that's

1:26:05

fine. I'll go along with

1:26:07

it. If you've got that many people in

1:26:10

the justice system in

1:26:13

general, there's no doubt

1:26:15

you can find a friendly jury. What

1:26:18

I wonder is, and because I don't

1:26:20

know the legal process in New York,

1:26:22

why isn't this is such a bogus

1:26:24

indictment? Why is the judge allowing it

1:26:26

to go any further? Even

1:26:29

the same, I would say the same in

1:26:32

Georgia. Have you noticed, you

1:26:34

and I, remember the day that he

1:26:37

went in for the arraignment on this

1:26:40

and all the analysis on it? You

1:26:42

couldn't find any legal person that looked at

1:26:44

that and said, oh, Bragg's got a great

1:26:47

case here. Everybody said, oh my God,

1:26:49

this is so incredibly weak. Well everybody was scrambling,

1:26:51

remember, to find the crime? The

1:26:54

liberal media was scrambling to find the crime.

1:26:56

And even when you look at the Georgia

1:26:59

case for the RICO, when you explain what

1:27:01

RICO is, there's

1:27:05

nobody that's stating, well no, the RICO

1:27:08

charges that the Trump campaign

1:27:10

is a criminal enterprise. Now you'll get

1:27:12

somebody left just to call it a

1:27:14

criminal enterprise because any campaign that wants

1:27:17

to put Trump in office automatically is

1:27:19

a criminal enterprise, right? But

1:27:21

it's not. The

1:27:23

reality is it's not. And

1:27:25

so that's what you're dealing with right now. Well

1:27:28

if they say it is, it is. Well the law doesn't say

1:27:30

it is. But

1:27:33

the Bragg law, I mean the RICO case is

1:27:35

a horrible case because that falls

1:27:37

apart when you realize, well you need to

1:27:39

have a criminal enterprise and they're trying to

1:27:41

make that the Trump campaign was a criminal

1:27:43

enterprise. Well it's not. It's

1:27:47

like a union isn't a criminal enterprise. And just

1:27:49

because they keep repeating that it is doesn't make

1:27:51

it so. Well when you see the corruption in

1:27:53

unions over the years, did

1:27:55

the government ever state that unions then automatically

1:27:57

become a criminal enterprise because you had presidents

1:28:00

of unions using

1:28:03

the pension funds in an

1:28:06

illegal way. Did that make the

1:28:08

entire union a criminal? No, it made the

1:28:10

people inside the union because the union has

1:28:12

other purposes. Yep, just

1:28:14

like a campaign. And once you

1:28:17

make the argument, I haven't heard any

1:28:19

legal expert on that case or the Bragg

1:28:21

case make the point of why it's legit.

1:28:23

Not one, have you? No. Not one? No.

1:28:26

There is no debate on the other side that,

1:28:28

no, we have a legal point here. Yeah, yeah,

1:28:30

that's that's the tell. You

1:28:32

would have every liberal media outlet

1:28:34

would have multiple legal experts explaining

1:28:37

why it applies. So all you

1:28:39

get is from the left and

1:28:42

notices, I mean, it's obvious to see, you know,

1:28:44

whether we're stepping up Stephanopoulos's questions, question

1:28:46

of Sununu yesterday, none of us on

1:28:49

the specifics. It's, well, if Trump is

1:28:51

found guilty, would you still support him?

1:28:53

Right. They already jumped to that point.

1:28:55

Right. Without ever examining whether

1:28:57

the case is legitimate or not.

1:28:59

The only one that has to

1:29:01

prove himself is Trump. To

1:29:04

them, they don't ask

1:29:06

that a prosecutor or a judge, you

1:29:09

know, prove themselves that they're actually, you

1:29:12

know, prosecuting a law being

1:29:14

broken or whether

1:29:17

they're even following the law. No,

1:29:19

that's assumed that the justice

1:29:22

system is perfect and Trump is the only one

1:29:24

that has to prove his innocence. Well, no, that's

1:29:26

it. That's how you start with the, you know,

1:29:28

when you get a friendly jury. Well,

1:29:30

I mean, come on, prosecution

1:29:32

wouldn't bring this case if it weren't a

1:29:35

crime. Yeah, they would. Of course they

1:29:37

would. That's

1:29:40

why when Sununu

1:29:42

said, told Stephanopoulos, no, because

1:29:44

this is like reality TV. That's

1:29:48

why the polls are up there. Remember, what was

1:29:50

it? If he's the

1:29:52

last poll showed if he was he had

1:29:54

he had more of a chance. Trump had

1:29:57

a better chance of winning the election against

1:29:59

Biden. was convicted in the classified

1:30:01

documents case. Right, he actually gained a few

1:30:03

points. Why?

1:30:07

People aren't stupid. Nope.

1:30:10

People can smell when they sit

1:30:12

there and go, there's a two-tier system of

1:30:14

justice here. The

1:30:16

left can do whatever they want and

1:30:18

they make up crimes and Trump, if you ever

1:30:21

want to get the perfect example, Trump is the

1:30:23

person to give you that perfect example of it.

1:30:26

You could find other cases, but people

1:30:28

wouldn't care. Well, this average citizen was

1:30:30

screwed over, yeah, whatever, you know, but

1:30:32

when it's Trump, people start paying attention. And

1:30:36

that's one of the things when I talk to a bunch of

1:30:38

Trump supporters over the weekend, it's a

1:30:40

two-tier system of justice. The system is crumbling.

1:30:44

And they'll use it here, they'll use

1:30:46

it everywhere because that's it. If they

1:30:48

get a successful conviction on even just

1:30:50

one of these, then

1:30:53

it will be nonstop and there will

1:30:55

be no end. There

1:30:59

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1:31:31

All right, I get worse. I

1:31:33

did see this. I think I, is

1:31:36

it prime? Who's showing civil

1:31:38

war? Because all of a sudden that got the

1:31:40

buzz over the weekend. I'm

1:31:43

reading here an editorial, just the headline,

1:31:45

civil war really isn't about the second

1:31:47

American civil war, about a second civil

1:31:50

American war. I've seen that movie.

1:31:52

I've seen the previews of it. Yes,

1:31:55

it's prime. I'm trying to think. Okay,

1:32:00

still Eric Erland's

1:32:03

new film Civil War isn't

1:32:05

actually about a second American Civil

1:32:07

War But rather using this

1:32:10

familiar setting and proximity To

1:32:12

paint a grim portrait and the dangers

1:32:14

of atrocities of war this this

1:32:16

film could take place anywhere Setting in

1:32:18

the United States just makes it Hit

1:32:21

that much closer to home So

1:32:23

yeah Yeah,

1:32:26

and where did I see where's it

1:32:28

being shown I Think it

1:32:30

did it was in the box office

1:32:32

was it for a minute, but I don't know if it

1:32:34

still is And

1:32:38

I just saw the headline right now and I

1:32:40

just went oh I saw the trailer of it

1:32:42

and that's and so I'm like Okay. All right.

1:32:44

Yeah number one of the box office for this

1:32:46

fast weekend. So okay Yeah

1:32:51

25.7 million Wow Okay,

1:32:54

there it is. All right. All right, so Twenty

1:32:56

twenty five point seven million on how many

1:32:58

screens that doesn't seem like a number one

1:33:01

to me All

1:33:05

right, I just happened to

1:33:07

see the trailer over the weekend I went yeah,

1:33:10

okay Yeah, you know what it reminded me

1:33:12

of hmm red dawn Yeah,

1:33:17

I you know, it's what's interesting is in

1:33:19

reading about it over the past few weeks

1:33:22

I thought to myself Okay, this could go either

1:33:24

way This could be set up

1:33:27

to be you know Depict

1:33:29

that you know as a nation We've

1:33:31

never been as divided and we're heading

1:33:34

to our next Civil War because politically

1:33:36

blah blah blah blah blah Based

1:33:39

on you know the players in the

1:33:41

movie. So I Don't know

1:33:44

I guess I'll wait and see I'll

1:33:47

definitely wait for it to To

1:33:50

be available on streaming budget

1:33:53

was 50 million. All right box

1:33:56

office so far 25.7

1:33:58

press see if they They don't say

1:34:00

how many. The

1:34:03

release. Okay. Uh,

1:34:05

they don't say how many just say the film

1:34:07

was previously scheduled released on April 26th. It

1:34:10

was released on April 12th in the United States and

1:34:14

in the United Kingdom. Okay.

1:34:16

So maybe there's a wider opening with more. Okay.

1:34:19

There it is. United States and Canada, the

1:34:21

film was projected to gross 18 to 24 million

1:34:23

from 3,838 theaters. Hmm.

1:34:28

The widest ever R rated

1:34:30

release by an independent studio in

1:34:33

its opening weekend. All

1:34:35

right. The film made 10.8 million on the first day, uh,

1:34:38

including 2.9 million from Thursday night

1:34:40

previews. It went

1:34:42

on to debut to 25.7

1:34:44

million, uh, topping

1:34:49

hereditary as the biggest opening weekend

1:34:52

in a 24 is history. That's the movie

1:34:54

production firm. Right. As well as the

1:34:56

studio's first film to top the box

1:34:59

office. Okay.

1:35:03

But for that many theaters, that doesn't

1:35:05

sound like a huge, it, it,

1:35:08

it being number one with 25.7. No,

1:35:13

no. Uh, okay. Yeah, it

1:35:15

did it top. Yeah. It's not the box office. Yeah.

1:35:17

Yeah. Yeah.

1:35:20

Usually that's like, you know,

1:35:22

60, 80 million at least. Yeah.

1:35:26

Is there nothing else showing at the theaters? You

1:35:28

know, I'm just asking the question because that seems

1:35:30

like a really low number. If you were to

1:35:32

say opening day, like, like 25.7 million for one

1:35:34

of the, uh, comic

1:35:38

book superhero movies on

1:35:41

opening day, it was like, okay.

1:35:43

Yeah. Yeah. It's going to do, you know,

1:35:45

50, 60 million for

1:35:47

the weekend or whatever. But, uh, 25.7 seems low

1:35:49

to me. I

1:35:51

don't know, especially with inflation. Oh

1:35:54

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radio station affiliates. All right. I did see

1:36:44

the New York Post film critic on

1:36:46

the new movie, Civil War. And,

1:36:49

and this is, this

1:36:52

is, this may be the best

1:36:54

one sentence review of it because I burst

1:36:56

out laughing. I went, oh, okay. Well, then

1:36:59

nobody's going to take it seriously because that's

1:37:01

the question. Well, is civil war coming out

1:37:03

right now? Is it indicative of what's going

1:37:05

to happen to the United States? Is

1:37:08

that what we're dealing with? Cause you and I have been in

1:37:10

talk radio for so long. Uh,

1:37:13

every year there's some new

1:37:15

secessionist movement and everybody is

1:37:18

sure when we get the calls, no, it's over.

1:37:20

The civil war is happening. Right?

1:37:23

Yeah. It's we're on the

1:37:26

brink of civil war. You get that at every

1:37:28

turn. Right. You get that. We, you get a

1:37:30

lot when you're in talk radio, you hear people

1:37:33

saying it. I remember a couple of years ago,

1:37:35

Oh, one

1:37:37

of the guys, I think it was one of the

1:37:39

Texas secessionist movements. It was

1:37:41

like, you know, where it's going to happen this time.

1:37:43

Like, no, it's not. Yeah. No, I want to get

1:37:46

on and get my fair time. No, no, it's not

1:37:48

going to happen. Yeah. No, we're not.

1:37:50

The Texas is not succeeding. Even

1:37:53

to my, even to what my

1:37:55

pretend fantasy was of

1:37:58

Texas seceding from the union. And

1:38:00

then annexing Mexico and then

1:38:02

combining all of our energy resources together that

1:38:04

would be managed by the state of Texas

1:38:06

and we would change our name to Texaco.

1:38:09

Right. But apparently that's already

1:38:11

taken. But

1:38:16

the New York Post film critic wrote, listen

1:38:19

to this, the

1:38:21

Civil Wars, the movie, the

1:38:24

shtick is that it's

1:38:26

not specifically political. For

1:38:29

instance, as

1:38:31

the U.S. devolves into

1:38:34

enemy groups of secessionist

1:38:36

states, Texas

1:38:38

and California have banded together

1:38:41

to form the

1:38:43

Western forces. That

1:38:46

such an alliance could ever

1:38:49

occur. Yeah, it's not happening.

1:38:52

It's about as likely as

1:38:55

a sweet green restaurant, Kentucky

1:38:57

Fried Chicken combo restaurant. Yeah.

1:39:02

Sweet green, green for people that don't know, serve

1:39:05

salads. Yeah. Right. Oh

1:39:07

my gosh, I didn't know that. Well, then

1:39:10

it's a comedy. Look,

1:39:14

Texas and California, our

1:39:16

national guards become our army. You

1:39:20

know, from a Texas perspective, we'd

1:39:22

like our Kern County and our

1:39:25

Orange County back. But parts of

1:39:27

San Diego suburbs. Right.

1:39:29

We can make a deal. We'll

1:39:32

send you Austin. Yeah,

1:39:36

we're not going to get a Civil War. We're going

1:39:38

to trade. We're going to

1:39:40

trade. Yeah,

1:39:45

it's but

1:39:48

Hollywood often does this. And I

1:39:51

guess there's nothing wrong on the creative spectrum with

1:39:53

coming up with the what if, except

1:39:56

for this what if is, you know, if you're

1:39:58

talking about this kind of idea. then

1:40:01

it's been talked about to

1:40:05

the nth degree. There's really nothing

1:40:08

that hasn't been explored here. I

1:40:10

do believe though, if you

1:40:15

talk about a state seceding, if

1:40:18

you did a series, now it would have to

1:40:20

be accurate. No fantasy

1:40:22

like, you know, California and Texas

1:40:24

coming together. If

1:40:27

you did something and it

1:40:29

was accurate as to what would have to

1:40:32

happen, what the

1:40:34

process would actually be, I

1:40:37

think that would be fascinating. No, I think

1:40:39

so too, because I know what I would

1:40:41

do. And you and

1:40:43

I have not discussed this at all. We're

1:40:45

not sitting here as producers saying, okay,

1:40:47

we need to have a civil war

1:40:49

film about a future civil war in

1:40:52

the United States. People

1:40:54

would actually go, oh, wow, but

1:40:57

what causes civil

1:40:59

wars? What caused the

1:41:04

Revolutionary War, which was

1:41:07

a civil war in its own. We were part of England.

1:41:12

We felt we had no representation. And

1:41:16

so we'll look at that first one. That's

1:41:20

what gets you to civil wars when

1:41:23

you actually don't have representation

1:41:26

that could lead you there. And

1:41:28

when states actually secede. Right.

1:41:32

Now, what is the

1:41:34

process of states seceding

1:41:37

without the permission that they're never going

1:41:40

to get? And you know

1:41:42

why? No state will ever successfully

1:41:44

secede, which could cause a

1:41:48

civil war, could cause a war between

1:41:51

the union and that state. If

1:41:53

you just said we're out. Well, no, no, you got to take

1:41:55

the you got to take your share of the debt with you.

1:41:57

You don't just get to leave. Right. What's

1:42:00

your share of the debt? You've got to take that with you.

1:42:03

Right. And how do you negotiate that

1:42:05

one? And you've got to buy back

1:42:07

your national parks. Right. If you're going

1:42:09

to succeed, right, the national parks and

1:42:11

everything else, everything is so intertwined. But

1:42:14

what would cause, hypothetically,

1:42:16

we like to, we're not advocating the Civil

1:42:18

War, just a second. But

1:42:22

what would cause a civil war? What

1:42:26

things in history can we look at that say,

1:42:29

okay, this could cause a

1:42:31

civil war? Representation.

1:42:36

It's what, when you look at what liberals

1:42:38

wish to do, and

1:42:41

we know the electoral, the electoral college has

1:42:43

to go, right? Right. The Senate has to go.

1:42:45

These are all things being promoted by liberals

1:42:47

and Democrats. There's nobody on the right talking

1:42:50

about this. You know, when you talk about,

1:42:52

when you, when you talk about who's trying

1:42:54

to take this Constitution that we have here

1:42:56

and water it down to make

1:42:59

it something different, where we're not a

1:43:01

constitutional republic anymore, but where

1:43:04

they wish to lead us to is

1:43:06

more of a popular,

1:43:13

popular vote, hmm,

1:43:15

country across the board on the federal

1:43:17

level. Right. Well, then you concentrate power

1:43:20

in a few states. That's

1:43:23

where you get a civil war. The

1:43:25

Senate exists because

1:43:28

the founding fathers understood. And

1:43:30

the reason you have bicameral legislators,

1:43:32

legislatures in all modern Western democracies

1:43:35

is just because of that. Every

1:43:38

part of the country must feel that

1:43:40

they have some representation. The Senate gives

1:43:42

them that. The electoral, the electoral college

1:43:44

gives them that. It's that simple.

1:43:47

If you don't feel you have representation,

1:43:49

then why are you with a particular

1:43:52

country? Right. If what you

1:43:54

say doesn't matter, yet you can

1:43:56

be taxed. you

1:44:01

have no representation, that's what

1:44:03

leads you to a civil

1:44:06

war. If you want

1:44:08

to go as far and you know so you look

1:44:10

at those particular things and that will

1:44:15

cause anger. When you try to water down freedom

1:44:22

of speech and when you try to water down, because

1:44:25

we have this

1:44:28

country is an extremely diverse

1:44:30

country, you come in

1:44:32

and you try to change the First Amendment to

1:44:34

the United States. You're

1:44:39

gonna have protests if you do that. It may

1:44:41

not be civil war but that would be protests. You

1:44:44

could have the Second Amendment if you

1:44:46

attempted to get rid of the Second Amendment. That

1:44:49

would cause probably mass

1:44:52

riots. I

1:44:55

don't see that happening. I don't see you're

1:44:57

not going to be able to get, especially

1:44:59

where this country is going. We're giving total

1:45:01

hypotheticals but the real hypotheticals of when you

1:45:03

look at history what has caused it, it

1:45:06

is a lack of representation from certain parts

1:45:08

of the country. Yeah

1:45:10

and when you look at it, you

1:45:13

look at the reasons why some on the

1:45:15

right have talked about it and said okay

1:45:18

this state you know

1:45:20

should secede or this should happen

1:45:23

versus what the left cites as

1:45:26

the reason. We hate

1:45:28

Trump. And

1:45:34

when you walk through it, this is why on

1:45:36

the if you're gonna if you're talking about any

1:45:38

of the movements or conversations that people on the

1:45:40

right have had, then it's based

1:45:42

on all right the erosion

1:45:45

of the Constitution, what the left

1:45:47

wants to do and everything else. We

1:45:49

haven't reached the point where they've

1:45:52

successfully done away with the Senate. We

1:45:54

haven't reached the point where they've successfully done

1:45:56

away with the Supreme Court, not

1:45:59

that they don't want to. to, but all

1:46:02

those conversations, that's what

1:46:04

spurs on the, well, yeah, well, then

1:46:06

we need to just secede. Well,

1:46:09

and I will also say this

1:46:12

because we're in uncharted territory here,

1:46:16

but you and I have talked about the

1:46:19

fact of the federal

1:46:22

government not following

1:46:24

federal law and

1:46:27

in doing so, hurting states, and

1:46:29

we talk about the case that

1:46:32

will eventually get to the Supreme Court, the

1:46:34

state of Texas, where

1:46:37

the federal government is not

1:46:39

following federal law. They're

1:46:42

trying to find every exemption

1:46:44

to cause chaos at the

1:46:46

border that harms states. And

1:46:49

so you get to a point, as we said, this

1:46:52

is, that's a big issue and that's a big, will

1:46:54

be a big Supreme Court issue when it gets up

1:46:56

there. This

1:46:59

country was formed by the

1:47:01

states. It

1:47:05

wasn't a country that said, the 13 colonies

1:47:09

that said, just appeared as

1:47:12

an alien ship over the entire 13 colonies

1:47:15

and said, you are all

1:47:17

going to become a country. It was the 13 colonies

1:47:19

deciding to become a country

1:47:23

with the federal government with

1:47:25

very, very limited roles. Now

1:47:27

that has changed. The

1:47:30

federal government's now involved in

1:47:32

things they should have never been involved with.

1:47:34

And we see what happens, runaway debt that

1:47:36

we have and the insanity that's going to

1:47:38

happen to our fiscal system when the

1:47:41

blank hits the fan whenever down

1:47:43

the road, that's going to be a problem. States,

1:47:45

for example, can't do it. They can't borrow money

1:47:48

the same way, which is why it's

1:47:50

always preferred to spend money closer in

1:47:53

more local governments or state governments because they're more

1:47:55

responsible to the people and they can't go into

1:47:58

debt the same way as the federal government. government.

1:48:01

You want representation, especially when it comes

1:48:03

to many as close as you get,

1:48:05

you can get to the people because

1:48:07

there's more accountability at that point. Think

1:48:09

about property taxes when they go up

1:48:12

and people protesting property taxes. It gets

1:48:14

loud and it gets quick. And

1:48:17

so it gets

1:48:19

loud and very quickly when those kinds

1:48:21

of things happen when taxes

1:48:24

or whatever happens.

1:48:28

Nuclear power plant in

1:48:31

your backyard, the NIMBY effect, people

1:48:33

rally very quickly to things

1:48:36

like that that they view as harmful or

1:48:39

whatever, which is why we have stated even

1:48:41

though nuclear power should be part of the

1:48:43

mix. And

1:48:45

most people say they like it, not in my

1:48:47

backyard though. Your backyard, fine. And

1:48:51

so I look at

1:48:53

things like the, because a great

1:48:56

question with the federal government in Texas, and

1:49:00

this is the question that I would ask. I don't know if

1:49:02

it's been asked this way specifically,

1:49:06

how far can the federal

1:49:08

government go in a premeditated

1:49:11

and calculated way not to

1:49:13

follow federal law that

1:49:16

then inflicts harms on states? If

1:49:19

it inflicts harms on states, do

1:49:21

states have any recourse

1:49:24

to protect themselves in a system

1:49:27

of government where the states are

1:49:29

what created the federal government to

1:49:31

begin with? What

1:49:34

came first, the chicken or the egg? Right. And

1:49:37

we believe they have recourse. States have recourse.

1:49:39

Yes, I do. Yeah, I do. Especially

1:49:42

when the federal government in

1:49:45

a premeditated and calculated way

1:49:47

doesn't follow the current law,

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which then harm states. Right.

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And you know, there's, and that's what it comes down

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to on that case. And

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I can't wait to hear. all

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