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all across america we are red eye radio he is eric carley and i'm gary mcnamara good morning hello thank you for uh being here this morning welcome to june oh that's wow man we're june already we're in june all right before we get to things uh you know like the uh commie nazi predators paradise sexting victim yeah yeah right just uh uh a a business comment all right a business how people do business and when they allow the when they should not allow the consumer to look behind the curtain yeah all right right happened to me over the weekend yeah okay uh and i posted on x Right. Oh, just so you know, since the mid-70s, I've been flying. And never. And, boy, are your arms tight. Well, exactly. And never, ever. My sister said, you know, good luck flying. I said, no, no, the plane is. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Thank you. I used it over the weekend. I went, boy, that's old and tired.

And for me, it's still funny.

I don't know why. but uh flying since the mid 70s never and since like 2000 uh i know that i because i really didn't keep track before but i've got uh a million miles uh in actual you know air miles flying so i you know i fly quite a bit uh but never had to stay in a hotel because of a delay or a cancellation two consecutive weekends in a row and this one in weather was the one you can't stop the weather right and and i know of this policy by american airlines because they really i from what i can see they started instituting it when u.s air you know when they merged and u.s air management took them over and so if you're ever traveling and your plane is on time and all of a sudden you see your plane's delayed an hour and then you look and you say okay i wonder why and you can on the app look at your plane coming in and you see that the plane coming in is not delayed it's on time right and you're like well but the plane coming in is coming in 10 minutes before my plane's supposed to take off yeah what's going on well what has happened there is that wasn't the original plane coming in to pick you up the plane that was coming in to pick you up they moved to another gate that was already delayed all right so that's from what i can see that's been their policy when that and then it just goes they just keep taking the plane that comes in if it matches it you know if it matches seat wise and everything else and starts filling in and pushing everybody back right uh and you know that's trying to tighten up that way by moving those

planes around and taking the the the longest delayed flight and accommodating that first

Right. Exactly. Now, you know, a good business model. Yeah. You know, because you're sure saying, OK, we don't want to cancel this one. Right. And so let's just move everybody back an hour. Now, where it doesn't work is because of the technology that people have on their phones. Uh huh. This scenario doesn't work. Right. So I'm supposed to come back Saturday afternoon. Right. Five o'clock. Yeah. I'll do the rough numbers. OK. and so we're sitting outside of our our gate and the plane is pulling up okay the plane is pulling up and it says you know dallas there yeah planes that's our plane right yeah that's the plane that's going to take us to dallas from buffalo all right next to us and the gates are very close is the charlotte flight that is five hours delayed already all right all right so everybody's sitting there near the gate waiting you know there you know there's it's mixed you know it's all mixed up dallas and and people

going to dallas people going to charlotte our plane is pulling up just as it gets to the gate the sign the the sign that says this plane's going to dallas changes to charlotte and everybody gets the notice that our flight to dallas is four hours delayed and then two minutes later six hours delayed and everybody's throwing a fit because they can see behind the curtain yeah and and then you get the notice that American Airlines, you know, wrote to us, you know, you get that notice said, sorry, your plane has maintenance issues. Our plane doesn't have maintenance issues. Their plane has maintenance issues. It was fine. Our plane's fine. It just came in. You said it was our plane. And I'm thinking to myself, I'm like, you know, it's fine until people can look behind the curtain and it happens in that scenario right in front of you. And then you do not have a pleasant customer service and i even put it on on on x i wrote about it on on x and again i wasn't upset about it i just i thought it was really interesting as a business model because i actually ended up staying an extra night and taking the early morning flight uh the next morning met some great people actually went to a restaurant that i hadn't been to in in uh in 30 years so it all it all worked out i just couldn't believe that they allowed all their customers to see behind the curtain and they didn't do something different like if they knew it was when the plane before the plane took off you know to come pick us up they should have delayed us then and move them over or done something like that but to allow the public to see exactly what was going on and imply that it was your plane that you have been you know people are following the plane coming in because that's if the plane's in the air and it's going to come in in 15 minutes you're relatively sure you're going to take off and then just sit there and change it as it's at the gate it's right there pulling up to the gate and then it just everybody just would like everybody's you know going like this like a dance or something trying to get through to the other gate to find out what's going on and the other people from charlotte yeah getting ready to board yeah and because the gates are right next to each other and so it's smaller airports are where you're going to have that problem you really don't know when it happens at a you know what's going on at a larger airport

You know, this is why I have to rely on my notifications coming from my app, my American Airlines app. I'm almost exclusively American Airlines. I can't remember the last time I flew. Same with me. If someone else books me, if it's a business trip, and somebody else in other company, not ours, books me, then sometimes, I can't remember the last time it was. Occasionally, it's another airline. but i mean it's been years but i rely on the american airlines app for updates because if i decide to bring my noise cancellation headphones that work really well i'm sitting at the gate and

don't hear the hey our gate has changed oh that's the other thing i don't know it's 2026 we we put a man on the moon yeah over a half a century ago uh-huh we've got a car in space

and traveling i mean elon musk did that but he launched a car into space right and and you have

all of these new modern airports with all the greatest technology oh yeah and you can't hear what the person is saying at the gate even if you don't have your headphones on in the majority of cases i you've got to walk right up to the desk and everybody's like what what what and then she has to scream it at you here's what's going on yeah no it's yeah and and i've complained about sports now the nhl fixed it up this year for the stanley for the stanley cup the national hockey league yeah they actually got the microphones with the reporters okay so you can hear it you can hear what the reporters are saying but still so many sports leagues it's like this is basic technology you get yeah that you want me to get on the billionaire's case yeah you're billionaires yeah yeah fix it right fix it and it's not it's not a billion dollar fix no it isn't it's it's

it's a very simple fix uh that back in the day you could fix from radio shack so it's funny you mention that because over the weekend i walk in and my wife is laughing and i look and it's brian regan on somebody's podcast it's a sports related podcast but she saw brian regan so she's watching it it's on youtube and he's doing the bit his bit he has a whole stand-up in fact it's a stand-up special named after the bit nunchucks and flamethrowers where he talks about and he starts out with you know in sports you hear the and the coach will say well yeah we probably should have been done better at that and blah blah blah blah blah right and and you understand everything the coach and he goes but imagine he goes then it went the police if it's a you know breaking news scenario and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah uh we believe the killers could be in that neighborhood yes and then you know blah blah blah blah blah yeah we believe nunchucks and flamethrowers well it's it is that very simple fix and and barbara was laughing because we've watched that bit a million times but he's going through that with somebody on a sports podcast recently and and it came up in the algorithm on on youtube and i just had to laugh but then there's the newark flight bound for spain oh a teenager decides to name his fitbit bomb as in b-o-m-b and get on a plane that way and of course they pick it up on the bluetooth and see it and they have to turn around mid-flight and go back to newark well they told everybody to shut

it off right shut off your bluetooth which means you're not nobody and the the the kid either didn't know or didn't shut you know didn't shut it off because he didn't shut it off and the bomb was

still there he just put bomb on don't go in there there's a bomb in there yeah and of course it was a fitbit you know stop naming your phones like people will name them or their their wi-fi they'll name them cia it's not the cia's wi-fi fbi dash two no it's not and quit doing that um it's and and of course i don't know if that what the teenager was thinking clearly teenagers aren't thinking um but you don't name your fitbit a bomb and then try and go through an airport or get on a plane and of course he did it she did it i don't know who it was female or male i don't know how the they identify but imagine the frustration they've got to go through all of that just because of you know somebody being stupid you know you know because i'm guessing A terrorist wouldn't name their Bluetooth bomb bomb. I'm guessing. I don't know exactly how it works, but probably not. So, yeah, it's so you ended up having to stay in a hotel again?

Yeah, stay in a hotel Saturday night through Sunday. The plane actually took off six hours later, but we didn't know when they delayed six hours. We were like, no, I'm going to wait until, you know, the flight's already taken off, you know, to pick us up the next morning. I'll just fly back. And I got back 9 o'clock, you know, yesterday morning. So everything. And then I was so tired. I went to sleep at 3 o'clock. I slept until I woke up. I'm still in a daze because, you know, just my sleep pattern was not consistent over the weekend. And it's like I'm wide awake, but it's like I got a little bit of the of the not time jet lag, but just the when I slept, you know, jet lag. But it was actually it was actually I've always had adventures and I really don't care. I just was more amazed at at the fact that American Airlines allowed you to look behind the curtain and everybody saw it. And then I viewed what they said as an attempt not to be clear, to imply that, you know, one plane had a maintenance problem, your plane coming in when it was the other plane. And everybody could see it because everybody's got the app. They're looking at it, but they didn't even need the app. They could just sit there and look the plane coming in.

Right.

And the plane was fine. And then it said, OK, well, it changed to Charlotte. And then you get the notification that, you know, your flight has been delayed because of your plane has maintenance issues. And everybody was like, no, that plane has maintenance issues. Our plane's right there. Right. That was funny. But the other thing about this, you know, when you think about we talk about the sound, you know, you can't hear the gate agents. And, you know, and just like, you know, and so many sports, you can't hear the reporters questions. You know, you've got these arenas now, all these different arenas that have sound that's perfect. You can go into a 20,000-seat arena, and it's as perfect as you can get. I mean, they've got sound figured out. This is not – this is not – somebody said the other day with the rocket blowing up on the pad, I saw this and go, look, you know, this isn't rocket – oh, no, actually it is. But, I mean, the sound thing's been figured out.

We know how to do sound. Yeah, a friend of mine does the Cowboys and the Dallas Stars.

Yeah. It's not that expensive.

You can understand what they're saying.

Yeah, it's not that expensive to do so, and it's just amazing that the whole thing, when you get to the gate, is communicating with the passengers so they don't get ticked off. Now, as I said, I don't get ticked off. Like I said, I put it on X, and then I said, look, I'm not that upset about it. It's just I can't believe that they had that in front of us like that. Yeah, right. to a couple of our listeners because it's so funny because when i when i wrote to american airlines and i did it publicly on on on x hey what's what's going on here they you know they wrote they wrote back well you know there's you know different things that uh uh happen in the infrastructure you know blah blah blah blah and they said we're so sorry for the confusion and a couple of our listeners said you know we're replying back he said he's gary's not confused on anything he's got it completely right he's not confused you know i'd love to but but i i i'm not one that really comply i understand you know this is really the first thing to happen things are going to happen when you when you fly as much as i do uh i've always been treated great by american airlines i know you all you have to do and i was landing i was thinking about it this morning as we were getting ready to land and i've got flight radar 24 on yeah and you see how many planes are going through it's amazing there aren't you know 12 24 hour delays on a regular basis when you actually know every airport when you actually know what the business is when you actually see it and all the variables that you don't have in regular business which is weather and maintenance and so many planes and so many people and just everything that goes along with it i think they've got a you know a very uh tough job and i think for the most part you know they do a great job i was more surprised that they let the public see behind the curtain yeah to that level that you knew if you're somebody in pr you're like we can't let the public know that this is happening we can't make it obvious or even imply that your plane has a maintenance problem when it's the other plane right that they're throwing you on right and because people don't understand it they don't they all they know is that was our plane coming in and you put us on the other plane that's six hours delayed i like it when they say the plane broke that doesn't what do you mean broke what we have maintenance issues but then they'll say it's for expediency's sake what they're saying is we can't use this plane right the plane broke what do you mean broke it's like you're not six years old they're just trying to get through it faster though but but all is okay because i'm here yeah alive alive yes we are Red Eye Radio. Brought to you by Hotshot Secret. Hi, I'm Jen Loomis, a transport safety expert at

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We are what I read to you. He is here, Carly, and I'm Gary McNamara. Well, the biggie over the weekend in domestic politics and the focus of most of the media was this. Here's an audio cut I want to play here. All right.

Let me ask you, do you have concerns with the weight of all these controversies that it may jeopardize Democratic hopes to get that Senate seat in Maine?

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All right, so here we go. Let's start with the audio cut from the whole Platner debacle in Maine. And this is former Republican Representative Patrick McHenry calling him out. And Fayez Shakir, part of the – this is on This Week at ABC, commenting back on it. This is how hilarious this whole thing has gotten. We haven't even gotten to the sexting yet. This is still on the – they're still arguing the Nazi tattoo. Here we go. All right.

But the issue in Maine, just like in Texas, is they have an unvetted candidate. And it turns out the guy with the Nazi tattoo turns out to be a pretty bad guy in Maine. A tattoo that was skull and crossbones, not a Nazi tattoo. Okay, we can quibble about whether or not how Nazi the Nazi tattoo was. He did have the tattoo removed.

We can quibble about how Nazi the Nazi tattoo is.

That seems like you go into the tattoo shop. Yeah, I want a Nazi tattoo. Well, how Nazi do you want it to be? it's well i and and you heard the pushback yeah it's going crossbones right which again it it's

uh the the death's head as they call it which was a symbol adopted by the uh the ss right yeah you know right the nazi ss so i mean if you're trying to quibble and that's why it was a perfect answer we can quibble how nazi the nazi the nazi is that's just that's one so

You want a full Nazi, right?

Okay. All right. That's going to cost you extra. Is he, since the, since the, the, the, the SS was the enforcement arm of the Nazi party. Right. Is he trying to make the case that they're not, they weren't technically the Nazi party because they were the enforcement arm of the Nazi, the Nazi party. And therefore it makes it acceptable. I have no idea what the hell, where the hell are going on.

It won't be long before they're saying, listen, it was a tattoo of a flag that had some stars and some stripes. But that doesn't mean it was an American flag. It had 50 stars and 13 stripes. Nobody cares about that part. Oh, my gosh. Just so.

The thing I love was still, as some Democrats start to peel off, you know, but still the Democrats, this is Ro Khanna. Here's what, I'm going to read what he said. I am proud, after all the blank hit the fan, I am proud of Graham for having the character to stand up against the war in Iran, against genocide, and against unfair and the lopsided economy. I am proud of him for having a vision of a new deal of our time, excited to campaign with him, Ro Khanna. And, I mean, he just got blasted saying, so you're saying that it doesn't matter if you're a communist or a Nazi or sexting other women on a pedophile paradise app. The character is simply that you hold some beliefs. Right. That's what he's saying. character what i'm telling you you're seeing more of him now as a representative of the democratic party he's an idiot i mean he's not he can't even pull out he just got blasted reading this one here the suggestion that taking political positions you support is a sign of real character has long been a rhetorical maneuver among people who don't actually care about character or integrity and think politics is everything i have followed this tactic since clinton uh you know where uh where it is nearly perfected by progressive apologists uh but it's uh become uh uh a uh a bipartisan effort in the the trump era i don't i don't know any republican this is jonah goldberg who at times is a never trumper so i don't ever i don't i don't ever believe any republican has taken it to this extent yeah you know yeah i and and said i you know that we're just going to ignore somebody who's a real nazi

yeah no i mean it's it and it seems like whatever comes out right now isn't you know because i thought over the weekend with the whole sexting thing i thought well i mean is is that going to be enough because if a nazi tattoo isn't enough then is sexting the other thing is well you know

uh with with some of the stuff he did he was in his 30s like he's young yeah right like oh my gosh

he couldn't control it he had no no control over his impulses you know i mean it's just well stupid

well and then and then the woman in the campaign that came forward with what you know what the wife had told them about what he had done and but what i loved is if a republican member of a campaign released this information about a republican would they would the democrats be destroying the messenger as they seem to be wanting to do now because that was that was the effort right you destroy them how dare you put something that's private out like that out right or would the messenger of that information be viewed as a courageous hero by Democrats for outing a Republican? We all know what would happen at that point. Yeah, of course. Yeah, I will say this. I do believe that the vast majority of Republicans and we here at Red Eye Radio, if there was a candidate who was a self-professed communist with a Nazi tattoo who believes that sports should be run by the government. We covered that last week. Yeah. Because billionaires have it.

uh and had been uh you know sexting a number of women while still married plus taking the selfies you see the one selfie stop look for anybody out there do not do the Geraldo Rivera yeah no okay

no do not keep your shirt on yes keep your put a shirt on right do not take selfies of you half naked you might put two shirts on you know it's not out of the norm for people to wear two t-shirts even a t-shirt under your t-shirt that's a good idea but that was the the one where you started

seeing well you know he's he he believes in the he believes in the issues and so he's he's got opinions that uh we believe he believes and so if he has issues that he believes that he believes that's where the character comes from not on issues of honesty integrity loyalty yeah non-nazism yeah it's like my god and and so you see now you did see over the weekend they're like well they're still on out he could resign and somebody could still come in what was it like by july or something right yeah they could still they could still replace him i don't know if he last because one of the one of the things that was brought up and there's so much truth to this is now what if the other women start coming these women start coming forward and doing interviews

well this is what i wondered because you know you got to compare it uh to swalwell right uh you got to compare it to all right what was it was there any behavior that went beyond the sexting was there any behavior uh that involved you know uh again swalwell territory kind of behavior and how willing is the party to defend him on something like that because his wife came out early to the campaign early in their marriage it is you know she discovered some of these things and i thought to myself well wait a minute that's more to the point isn't that when you're the most you know infatuated with each other and you're supposed to be dedicated your dedication to each other to the point that you recently decided to get married and follow through with that you got married and everything else i mean isn't that the whole point and then he's bragging about according to the allegations about all the women he's slaying according to the wall street journal while still married to his wife well if any of those come out to your point gary if any of those women come out it's only going to get worse between now and november yeah and it just depends on the nature of the allegations i guess who's not going to want that

interview because nobody want well a few are peeling off on the democrat side but most let's to be honest most democrats do not want him to run right they would rather have another candidate they just can't say it well it's they feel like they're right because the left of the the far left of the democratic party is so powerful in there they have to accept somebody who's a nazi

communist right no that's that's it's you've had every major democrat defend him on the whole tattoo thing but this just gets worse and worse and worse and we know we're starting june today and and the uh election day is november 3rd but that's a long time in american politics

you know it's interesting there'll be the whole sexting thing where it's like well he's a nazi he's a communist nazi and they've ignored that right but if it's just the sexting will that disqualify him you know what it reminds me of reminds me of the norm mcdonald the norm mcdonald bit on you know when he was talking about bill cosby and he goes yeah a lot of the hypocrisy yeah exactly people are saying that this hypocrisy is unacceptable with with bill cosby it's unacceptable this hypocrisy and hypocrisy and he goes well i i think the uh the biggest problem is probably not the hypocrisy but the rape yeah you know i mean it's and and Exactly. That reminds me of the, you know, I'm thinking about that over the weekend.

It's like he's making the point that, well, you know, well, okay, yeah, he's a bad guy in that regard, but at least he's not a hypocrite. Right. And this, but this is, it actually is right. It's the same mindset that builds that joke about Bill Cosby that also builds the defense for Plattner here. they'll go out of their way. Oh, but no, no, no, no. You know, that's back.

when he was angry that's back when he was in his 30s that's back when he was i mean well we how how how big you want to build the defense that's built out of nothing yeah we tore that one apart when

that first came out that that apparently the democrats are okay if he's an angry nazi but not a happy nazi because that was part and you you just wonder do do any of them think before they speak ever no no no well you got to realize i mean yeah he got the nazi tattoo and you know and all this but uh he was he was angry and so uh yeah and if you're angry uh you may be more susceptible to being a nazi but you can't be a content and happy nazi you get back to the what

you get back to the the thing of the the norm mcdonald joke yeah but he's against oligarchs he's got a nazi tattoo but yeah but he's against oligarchs

huh i mean which was as we pointed out created by the fall of the soviet union yes and and really came in because of putin wishing to get totalitarian control of russia exactly getting

the oligarchs by his side right yeah insane we are red eye radio we'll be right back with more red eye radio with eric harley and gary mcnamara

we are red eye radio uh he's eric harley and i'm gary mcnamara You know, one of the most interesting narratives I heard over the weekend, which I thought was just a great thing, you know, they said, you know, Susan Collins is the kind of Republican senator that every Democrat has just, you know, fawned over. yeah right you know votes for you know every uh you know radical supreme court justice whatever and it's like so she's the one that they decide to run a communist nazi pedophile paradise yeah sexter yeah against right it's just like it doesn't doesn't make any sense it's like you know you can't find some you think about it him talarico can't find they can't find normal people they really can't

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All across America, we are Red Eye Radio. He is Eric Carley, and I'm Gary McNamara. Oh, I mentioned traveling over the weekend. I saw Dad. Dad wanted me to make sure I said hi to everybody. Oh, good. You say hi to all your listeners for me. Yeah, good. I said, yeah, I would definitely talk about you. It was actually a pretty good two days when I was there. I talked to him like four different times.

Yeah.

And, you know, we talked about a bunch of things, including the hybrid vehicle. Oh, yeah, yeah. That my rent-a-car, which is a hybrid vehicle. Okay. And we were talking about it.

talking about the unnecessary redundancy yeah you know it's like it's like i just don't i don't understand that i just don't understand it so he had some he had some very good cognitive moments over the weekend which is a blessing it's always a joy yeah because you know when you when you have that when you have some you know a form of uh dementia whatever it's uh you never know right you know you just never know sometimes there are bad weeks but it was really good he was happy he was you know very inquisitive about a bunch of things so um you you take those moments and you savor those moments certainly uh now let's get to uh by the way you're gonna love this i don't even know who wrote over the weekend i got i think i saw it in the middle of trying to figure out what i was doing with my you know getting a plane yesterday but somebody wrote it on uh on x uh about you know about freedom 250 and who the artists they should bring in and it was like of course you know nugent of course it's america's 250 birthday dog dog doggy dog but but uh nugent kid rock and then this is my favorite i'm like wow mega death oh yeah no hold on yeah yes mega death yes yeah uh and then i started thinking what's the other guy that what's the other guy the i can't think of a moment that looks like he's he would probably be the most radical leftist in the world and he's a you know christian and all that what's Zach uh not Zach DeLaRocca Wild yeah Zach Wild from Ozzy yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I mean I bring born again it's it's like you probably could bring in because because I'm reading here uh funny guy too very funny well I'm bringing here that because you think about you you might have more success with a with a heavy metal concert because I'm reading here from Yeah, conservative columnist Matt Walsh. I'm actually pretty PO'd how badly they bungled America 250. By the way, he's wrong there. It's not America 250. It's Freedom 250. There are two separate groups. America 250 was formed by Congress and actually has bipartisan members of Congress that are in it. Freedom 250 is run by a board of different private sector people. But Trump and J.D. Vance are part of that board. But he wrote, I'm actually pretty PO'd how badly they bungled America 250. It should be Freedom 250. First, they tried to invite Milli Vanilli and a bunch of other absurdly washed up geriatric one hit wonders.

Then when it didn't work out, they decided to convert the event into a Trump rally where Trump will talk about himself for 90 minutes. This should have been a massive, raucous celebration of the country in its 250-year history. Now it will be a political rally identical to the tens of other millions ones that we have seen. Of course, he's exaggerating there. But Byron York sort of said what we said last week. This is what you should do. Because he responds to Matt Walsh and he says, sadly true. He goes, but stick with the great American state fair concept. Make it a sprawling display of local economies and cultures of each of the 50 states. de-celebratize the events don't try to book stars republicans have always lost at that game at the moment show business appears to be largely made up of a entertainers and business people who hate trump and entertainers and business people who are scared of being accused of not hating trump why waste time with them make music a big part of the events by showcasing u.s military bands there are tons of military bands and by the way military bands are already on the docket we went through the freedom 250 thing there's a ton of them out there yeah he said make you know make the music uh by showcasing the u.s military bands there are so many of them out there and they are bands and orchestras and they are very very good make the fourth of july a traditional fourth of july with the exception of a turbo turbocharged america 250 firework show no starring role for trump he'll be the president of the united states watching over the events with pride if anyone calls it hokey fine old-fashioned hokey patriotism is good in fact i think it's an expectation of people across the board and across demographics for it to be hokey no oh I don't because I don't think I don't think the military bands are that's great no yes I like

hokey no i don't think military bands are hokey right on the not on the fourth of july that's

what you want not an independence day well it's because it is in terms of the artists that are playing and they're all talented it's not about them it's about the music that's being played and why yeah because girl you know it's true by millie vanilli may scream liberty and independence to some i don't know who those some would be but it i'm just leaving the possibility out there uh you know look i'd love to see megadeth nugent and and all of them call a five-finger death punch let's just get let's get this grinding thing going and loud uh iron maiden get everybody on board uh no it's the thing is is that then it becomes about the artists and that's not that's only a thing with the left and it shouldn't be an attempt by the right because it shouldn't be the point the point shouldn't be celebrities on stage right it's not to celebrate celebrities no offense to any of the celebrities but this isn't about you when i think back of 250

When I think about what was on television, there's only one image I get of the bicentennial in 1976. Back in 76. Back in 76. The Boston Pops Orchestra and Arthur Fielder and Stars and Stripes for America.

That's it. I worked on an Air Force Base in 76, Laughlin Air Force Base, and, you know, so it was everywhere, right? I mean, it was everywhere on base, but it was also in town in Del Rio. Laughlin is near Del Rio. And that's likely because in any military town, there's that relationship, right? Strong relationship, of course. And there has been for a long, long time. But, yeah, there was so much going on, but I knew what it was about. i was 10 years old but i knew what it was about i knew why we were doing it and there was no i didn't feel like i needed anything else uh i don't need like i don't need a concert let's say you know forget it's the 250 um just any given independence day i don't need a concert by by somebody and then fireworks i need i what i want to see is a celebration of people in the community coming together to celebrate independence uh in a park and you know what if there's music that's great but it's not about the artist and it never has been for me we uh my local town historically has had uh in the past they would have they would just hire some bands that might play some music and then they would have uh typically uh they would have the military style uh uh patriotic music that would start that was not played by a band it wasn't played live as we led up to uh usually a speech by the mayor and then all of a sudden you know the fireworks would start and everything else and everybody was there for the celebration of independence day and and not the celebration of what celebrity was going to be on stage that's that's never been attractive no to me regarding that particular holiday which i believe is a is is uh an important of course as as our nation is concerned uh the holiday because we're celebration celebrating independence it's it's not it's not that hard you know when you're when you're talking about putting putting it together you you start with why are we doing it what is the purpose what what what do we want people to come away with and and everybody and i don't care who it is and or how they vote or anything else and you know i'm not trying to do the both sides well no no it's about now there are plenty on the left remember they used to say it was a couple years ago f the fourth

and and the whole thing and they just didn't you know they're anti-american

American, all right, well, this isn't for them. They don't have to go. It's like the atheists who complain about Christmas decorations.

Well, they can go to the Plattner commie Nazi.

Exactly.

Independence Day.

They have their own celebration, I'm sure.

Excuse me. The commie Nazi Dependence Day. Yes. You're dependent on government. Right.

The anti-oligarch commie Nazi Dependence Day. Dependence Day, right. Yes. And so sign up and hand him your freedom card.

Yes, exactly. We're going to keep ours. Look, yeah, the star on Independence Day on the 4th of July is the United States. It is. Make it as patriotic. It's liberty. It's freedom. And make the, as you're making, because when I, every single year, and this has been going on, I mean, it's not just now. It's not like, oh, you're an old man. No, it's always been this way. Yeah. Whenever I've turned on the TV and they have the popular artists on, I turn off. All I care about is the fireworks and the patriotic music. I really do. I've got music I can listen to at any time the rest of the year. Right. And blast it, you know, on my Sonos sound system, my Bose sound system. I'm not an endorsement. Not a commercial. But, I mean, I can get the best sound anywhere and blast it in my own personal life. On that day, on that night, there's only two things I want. i want john philip susa music and i want fireworks yeah right i want patriotic songs and i want massive fireworks uh to go along with it and i've now included with the fireworks a drone show yes that's all that's all i want i don't need i don't need any artist i don't need anybody dancing on stage to some pop song i don't that that's not what i want to be clear the choreographed light

drones not the weaponized drones yeah yes exactly although i mean if they wanted to show some things demonstrations of the testing of those on a screen somewhere you know after the testing was done i'd probably watch but it's not it's not about making this you know the because the liberal activist media has has really made this a big deal about look at all these cancellations look at all these cancellations well look at the whole blue dot thing for those that don't know the blue dot thing is basically when you go online to a venue and you see all these blue dots these open seats unsold seats blue dot virus yeah they're calling it blue dot virus and so this whole blue dot thing has you know kind of taken off and you know it's you know even got a name which is kind of annoying when it gets a name it's gotten to that annoying part that it's got a name but you have artists canceling because nobody wants to see the artists outside of the 250 because it's not worth paying it's not and and part of it has to do with pricing what you can afford what you're going to spend your money on and the other part of it has to do with i can see any entertainer i want at any moment on my phone on my big screen anywhere i want i can listen to any music i don't have to go stand in a sweaty crowd i don't have to pay whatever i have no idea what a ticket costs to a concert to a good concert for a good artist you know who's not millie vanille millie vanille should be paying people to show up but it doesn't work that way but you you've got there is no millie

well there may be because i don't know it's two women now i yeah i guess what was two women back then uh the uh yeah kind of okay i know gender discrimination well we don't know how they

identified but oh that's true thank you so you bailed me out well so here you know the whole thing you let's they were i mean they were wearing leotards in the video so i don't know I don't know. I can't tell you. That's none of my business. Here's what I'll say. What I do know is true, girl, you know, this is true, is that there are people. This is so horrible. Sorry. This is there are people out there that that don't care about the artists and we're caring less about the artists. We're caring less about Hollywood. And the reason is, is because we have other options for entertainment. You know, it's amazing how many views that, you know, some guy fishing in Alaska will get. And CNN would kill to get that many in their audience. You know what I mean? And this is Mr. Beast, who, and I've never watched a Mr. Beast video. Neither have I. And he crushes it. He's number one on YouTube. It's amazing that he's probably got enough money to buy YouTube three or four times over. He's making that.

That kind of he's monetizing at that level. The point is nobody, even though he's kind of become his own celebrity, people don't care about the Hollywood celebrity, the artists out there. They can do their own shows occasionally, but the tour thing is is almost over. And if you're talking about big festivals, man, except for some of those that are still going well in Europe, they don't do like they used to do. They don't do as well as they used to. And, again, it could be, I think it's a combination of all the above, the economy and what people can afford, but also the value. Because if your pricing applies to professional sports and everything, we've talked about this recently, I look at the value of something. You know, everybody looks at the value. Well, it's not worth it. I can put it on my big screen. I can do this. Make this about the celebration of independence. make this about and keep the purpose in mind that should be your goal everything else is secondary and is not relevant make it something that's absolutely unique which should be united states

of america 250th birthday yes and everything focused on that everything focused on i don't at that i really don't care about pop music i don't care about my own music that day no i don't You know, I go, I put my flags out. I've got, I've got lights now that I can do. I've got an electric American flag. It's all I care about all day. It's all I think about is, is that. And I, you know, that's when I go and watch the, the, the, that segment on YouTube, the HBO, remember John Adams? Yeah. When they, when they all agree to the Declaration of Independence and like five minutes, I always play that. Yeah. We are run.

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Yeah, maybe at a No Kings rally.

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Right.

And so I'm not really sure what's in it. I saw a couple of articles written that U.S. military ships are moving ships through the Strait of Hormuz.

Yeah, and, you know, this is, with the president of Iran stepping down, and we'll see where that goes, I don't even know what that looks like, you know, following his departure. And by the way, the regime has to approve his resignation. if they disapprove i don't i don't know how it goes i don't know what happens um but something has told me in the last 10 days that you know one strong possibility in my mind that the fact that trump had been so silent on it yeah that it was completely unique And it could be on one side of the equation. He's got something that he thinks will help, you know, again, I don't know, kick the can down the road, be amenable to the American people, but domestically and politically be OK for now. and then they're considering all right we take this deal now and then after november 3rd we go back to work and we finish the job uh there was a story uh it was a story that came out uh on sunday that they've been working in iran the iranians have been working to uncover the rubble of where all the nuclear material is well the first thing i thought of when i read that story If it's accurate and true, if they've uncovered all of the nuclear material that was buried when we first bombed the nuclear sites in Iran, if that is true, thank you, Iran, because that means we only have to go in and either take it or take them out. We can go in and do further damage, assuming that we know what's still in place and how much is in place and where that is. But I think the delay from the president, I think, is more likely he wants to wait and see exactly what they're going to offer. With the president of Iran wanting to step down, he's basically saying he can't govern. That's what I don't know. Well, what do you mean by that? You can't govern because you don't have control. The regime has the control. You can't govern because you don't have the military and the equipment to do what you want to do. What does this all mean? If you're stepping down, it's a very odd time for him to step down.

It's a critical moment for Iran and for him to step down. It's not like the regime is asking him to step down. There's no word that the regime is asking him to step down. In fact, the word is just the opposite. The regime has to approve his resignation.

What I thought was interesting, and it seemed to be some agreement on it. I know Channel 14 in Israel had it. You know, what's holding up the deal, whatever the deal is, says cash remains the main obstacle, according to sources. And this is from Channel 14. Again, in Israel, the sides are very close to a deal, but it has not been finalized. The main dispute is Iran's frozen funds. Trump does not.

oppose iran's receiving money but he refuses to release large amounts of cash the u.s prefers a controlled mechanism such as restricted accounts or credits for humanitarian purchases iran is demanding immediate access to large sums of of cash uh the bottom line the key question is no longer whether iran will get money but how uh how it will get it or how much it will get and the fact is what would be the conditions of that and you know but that's one of the fears that we look at and say so eventually they'll get all their cash back and start all over again but they won't have the nuclear now it that it will be a difference in what it was a year ago as we know you know what what iran has but i also saw when the president said well iran guarantees you know you know the Iran will guarantee that their nuclear program will end. And I just, you know, when he said that, I thought of Tommy Boy. You know, and it's not, when Tommy Boy said, Guy puts a fancy guarantee in a box because he wants you to feel all warm and toasty.

Right, yeah.

He goes, but a guarantee is only as good as the person making it. Right, yeah. I know it's Tommy Boy, but I mean, that's always. It's a great analogy. I won't go into his other analysis of it, though, with the poop and everything.

Yeah.

Uh, but, but, uh, and, and so I don't care when I heard the president say that, I go, I don't care about a guarantee.

Yeah.

I care about our verification. Right. Their guarantee means nothing. What the United States should be talking about is not that there's a guarantee from Iran that they'll do something. It's, I could care less about that. What I want is this is going to be the U S verification system and here's how we're going to get it to me. Anything but that is not acceptable.

OK, so here's here's the story from Fox News on the president of Iran stepping down that he has submitted a letter of resignation to the office of the Supreme Leader. Right. Citing a source again that much of what came out over the weekend is including whether or not they've that they've dug out all the rubble basically at those nuke sites of where the nuclear material is. Those are source stories as well. But Iran International reported Sunday that the letter stated that the president and his government had been excluded from major decision-making in Iran. Well, I thought to myself when I read that, they don't make, the regime makes the decision. The president follows the regime. so right if you i understand the idea of wanting to be at the table but right now the belief is

it's the the iran the iran revolutionary guard is in complete control well and that's part of this

story the report also said that the ensuing vacuum had allowed the hardline factions within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC, to take control of key affairs. So the question would be, who's he resigning to? Who is the regime? There has been no sighting of the Ayatollah. Yeah. None. We get statements. So if it's a hardline faction and somebody wrote the story, I don't know, about a month, maybe four or five, six weeks ago, about how the IRGC is right now more steadfast and hardline than the regime has ever been. And I'm thinking, well, if they're in here for their existence, you know, if this is, they believe, the last battle, then they would be. right? They're going to fight until the death. You've mentioned this, you know, a number of times. Look, if they think they're going to die one way or the other, they're going to go down

fighting. But who is the regime? By the way, is it the nuclear material or the missile? Or is it the, what I've seen is New York Post had, it's the 18 missile facilities that have, they've cleared the rubble out of to the entrances to get well but it's it's believed

that some of the material is in some of these sites okay and i don't know if that's the 60 percent sites or six there's 60 in one major site there's 40 that may be at one other site or multiple other sites so the point being and and also there was a story that Okay. Again, I don't put any credibility into any of these source stories, regardless of where they're written, whether it's the New York Post or Fox News on the right or CBS and ABC or CNN on the left. I'm not necessarily putting any credibility into them. You just have to look at all the possibilities of what may, and they did in the New York Post story. they had some satellite photos but i don't know what i'm looking at that could be arizona for all i know and and the whole the point is is that could be iraq it could be iraq you know it reminds me of when general powell was up there on capitol hill and they had all those satellite photos we don't know what we're looking at you know it's it's one thing for you to present them and it may be accurate and true what you're saying at the moment but it really tells us nothing but but But the point, you know, getting back to this with Iran, the question is, who is the regime? Who is the president resigning to and who really is in charge? Because if the IRGC is really taking the lead here and the new Ayatollah is on his deathbed or is already dead. then because if you think of that consideration that possibility if that were true then wouldn't there be a new ayatollah announced here's what i thought

you know knowing that the anointed well the the the same process that uh uh biden uh became the

democrat nominee right right well it could be kamala but we don't think so i'm sorry the kamala

became the nominee not biden i'm sorry right well that's another story that's still blowing up for democrats isn't that but we'll get to that later yeah uh but with the belief and this is a belief of the american government the hardliners now uh in the uh iranian revolutionary guard are the ones that are in power if the president of iran believes that does he want to cut and run because he believes there's never going to be a deal and the united states is about to take out more levels of the government and he doesn't want to be a part of that that's i'll tell you that was the first just a thought that i have no idea what that's the first thought that came to my mind based on

economics which is incentive to live well that was the first thought that came to my mind it was we think there may be a deal to be made here yet the irgc seems to be in control and then you know so i'm going to i'm going to the regime and i'm going to resign and and then i'm thinking what yeah but who is the regime and and who is i mean is the regime is the regime the irgc but they're the enforcement arm no doubt i mean there always have been this But the question is, who is actually at the helm? Who's making these decisions?

And you and I have always, you know, looked at this and said that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, do they really want the hardliners inside there, which I believe probably most are hardliners. yeah um but do they really do they i think there's a mindset in there we're dead either way so let's just stretch out the united states either way we're dead you know if if we actually get rid of all of our nuclear weapons if the the missiles are taken away from us and everything else and we're a paper tiger and the enforcement because that's what we talked about a guarantee is nothing if the enforcement level is unacceptable to them because they will not be able to project power if the money given to them is going to be so limited just for humanitarian purposes and monitored for the next couple of years by the trump administration and then forgotten by future democrat administrations i'm not kidding when i say that's not a joke yeah then are we dead not either way. Right. They may believe that. We are Red Eye Radio. Coming up, more with Gary

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Gary McNamara, and so the question when it comes to Iran is exactly what is the deal now and what's in the deal, and I don't think really anybody knows.

just speculating uh everything has changed so much over the last you know a couple of weeks uh you know the president initially said that uh the deal had to be unconditional surrender that was initially what was thrown out there and we know that that's not the case anymore where we are right now i really don't know i don't think any well i don't think we're going to know until we actually have it until there's a deal that where they say this is the deal and i think the

president of iran's resignation just complicates everything yeah i mean that if you want to talk about putting everything in the blender then and and just mixing it all up that creates a great uncertainty

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