02-12-26 Part One - Dadgummit!

Now, it's Red Eye Radio. Gary McNamara and Eric Harley talk about everything from politics to social issues and news of the day. Whether you're up late or you're just starting your day, welcome to the show from the Uniden America Studios. This is Red Eye Radio. all across America. We are Red Eye Radio. I'm Gary McNamara. He's Eric Harley. All right, before we go any further, I just want to play this audio from Representative Tim Burchette who had this statement to make and it just caught my attention. All right. And so all of this discussion on voter ID was worth it after I heard this. Okay. All right, here we go. Because he used a particular word I haven't used in a while. Here we go. United States citizens should be the people choosing our elected leaders, not illegal immigrants. Now, look, I'm not a drinker. Everybody knows that. But I know if I go to Weigel's in Knoxville, Tennessee, down on the corner of Emory Road and Tazewell Pike, and if I go in there to buy a six-pack or a can of Skull or a scratch-off, dadgummit, I got to produce an ID. There you go. Dadgummit. Dadgummit. Dad, I'm going to try to use that now instead of, because, you know, the other day I was, you know, just you get frustrated and, you know, just with the insanity out there. And it was a couple of HE double hockey sticks for me. And a couple big walls holding back water from flooding areas. And so maybe I'll just substitute dadgummit. All right. That works. It doesn't seem to have the impact, though. That's the only thing I'm worried about. Having eight grandkids, I have to use alternate curse words. One of those, like when I stub my toe or something, is Sons of Anarchy. Son of a Biscuit, I've used that before. Yeah. So, you know, you got to be careful around the kids, apparently. Now that the older ones are, you know, in college and everything, they curse more than I do. So what do I care about? I remember one basketball practice that I was in, and this goes back to an adult league that I played in a long time ago, but it was at the local church. Yeah. And I stole the ball. It was a practice, though, just a practice. I stole the ball, went in, missed the layup. Uncontested missed the layup. By the way, stealing the ball is okay in basketball, in church basketball. You have to go to confession afterward. Well, I almost had to go to confession anyway. So I missed it, and I was furious, and I was about to let a number of horrible words out of my mouth. Right. like democrats and and i came running i came running around looking the balls go and then it falls out somebody gets the rebound and i'm headed back and i went what son of a and all of a sudden i look and the priest had walked in the door yeah and i went son of a shucksville you know i just went into whatever came into my mind yeah and i'll never forget because he remembers it my my buddy uh john slayton who i played basketball with for the longest time he just fell down he fell down he must have laughed for a minute and a half he just thought it was the greatest thing yeah because he saw the whole thing he's standing at mid-court so i missed the layup i come running back around right and and just you know and did the dad gum it whatever because he had seen the priest walk in the door which was right next to the court yeah and the the the priest even burst out laughing Everybody did because they knew what was about to come out of my mouth. I, in school, in my senior year, got in trouble for screaming the following. I've got dandruff and some of it itches. Now, scream that really fast. I'm not, no, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not going to go. Yeah. Yeah. So, if you want the evidence of how radical the Democratic Party is, every single Democrat in the House voted against voter ID. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. By the way, remember, Trump and his party are the ones who are trying to end democracy. they're voting against voter id and they're also coming out saying that if ice shows up at voter polls as the president kind of floated that idea maybe ice agents should be at at the polling places on election day and they said no then people won't show up well who is it that won't show up i'm I'm not afraid of vice. I don't have any problem whatsoever. It would be people who are here illegally. They want fraud. Yeah. There is no other way to look at it except Democrats want fraud and they're blunt against it. I mean, this is absolutely, they're not trying to maneuver around it in any way. Right. They want, with what we've seen with the sanctuary cities, with what we've seen with the left wanting, probably furious now at so many Minnesota counties cooperating to get rid of criminal illegal immigrants. They want criminal illegal immigrants. Sanctuary cities is about criminals. Yeah. Yeah. And they wish to protect criminal illegal immigrants, and they want illegal immigrants to vote in national elections. Yep. There is no other way to look at it. Nope. Every single other thing that I am involved with, I've got to show ID. Yep. Yep. In fact, I remember around Christmas time, I went in and got a bottle of wine from the local supermarket, and I pulled out my ID, and I said, I just passed 21. And they looked at my ID. Why? Because they ID everyone. They don't even take, they know I'm not 18, obviously, but it doesn't matter. That's what they do. You cannot operate in society unless you have legit ID. Right. And to sit there and say that in federal elections, 100% of Democrats in Congress, 100%. That's almost half. Disagree with the vast majority of their own party. Yep. yeah i mean it's it's really amazing you know it was uh i think it was carl rove who wrote it i i don't have it here in front of me here but it just popped into my mind right now uh in the wall street journal an op-ed piece saying do democrats you know basically do they really want to win you know what's going on you know what's going it's like the the the best and I've seen this a lot. The best chance that the Republicans have to win in November is Democrats. Yeah. The thing that's giving them the best chance is Democrats cutting their own throat. By the way, we'll play some of the audio, but, you know, the back and forth between Bondi and even Lyons the other day. The administration basically, it's obvious, they're going in saying, look, we've seen what has happened already. You know, a line goes in there and, are you going to go to hell? You know, they're not serious about actually talking about the Democrats, talking about, you know, the issues. What was the, oh, yeah, sir, are you, now, they didn't say this, but it's close to what they've been doing. Sir, you know you're drinking a glass of water. Yes, I am. Do you know who also drank a glass of water? I'm going to guess with your line of questioning, Hitler. Yes, Hitler did. Hitler drank water, too. And why is it that Hitler came to mind first, huh? Right. You bring up Hitler. You're the one that said Hitler first. And so everything that happened with – It's like – and this, to me, is a social media thing. The screaming goes on back and forth. It's humorous for a little bit. And then you're like, okay, what else is on? Right. I haven't watched that fourth episode in season two of Landman. Yeah, right. Or what people are saying. But this is something to me that's just, it's social media driven. I don't think the public's paying any attention to it at all. No, I don't think so. We've already talked about the Epstein file stuff. They're not. This is all inside Washington trying to get, you know, just what they believe is a little advantage here or there when it really doesn't matter. Right. And and so but it really is amazing that Democrats don't hide who they are anymore. And remember how many Americans I was looking at and they're, you know, some of the early numbers for the the Senate race in in Texas. And Jasmine Crockett is competitive with every single one of the Republican candidates. she's an absolute nutcase and i think she's polling 43 44 percent yeah in an hour in the in the poll that i saw the other day yeah that's only one poll and it could be huge by the time you know everything changes by the time you actually get to the uh uh you know to the uh to the election in in november but still democrats should be polling 20 percent oh So, yeah, if that, that's generous. Well, no, no, because about 20% of the country is, is. I met in Texas. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Yeah. Yeah, it's, it's just, you know, it's stupid. But we've been saying this now for years. Don't believe that one victory is done. It's over. And it's a reason to have a parade. Democrats are still winning elections. And you run like you're 40, 60 points behind. We used to say 20. You need to run like you're 40 or 60 points behind because with some Republicans they might be. Well, you see, you know, Beshear, gosh, thanks. Excuse me. Dad gum it. When you see, you know, Beshear in Kentucky, who's viewed as a moderate. Yeah. And his message to America and to the citizens of Kentucky is, my Christianity is what justifies the mutilation and sterilization of children. Yeah. Yeah. And he's a moderate. He's viewed as a moderate Democrat. Yes. Unreal. It really is unbelievable. There are no, as we've said before, there are no moderates. When 100% of the Democrats who voted yesterday voted against voter ID, they want fraud. Yeah. Yeah. What's his name? Running against the other Democrat in Texas, running against your congresswoman. Oh, Tallarico? Yeah. Tallarico. Tallarico. You know, the same thing. brings in Christianity when it comes to abortion. Exactly. It's like you're not going to. Are you kidding me? And all of a sudden his numbers drop. Yeah. Like, you're not going to be able to win that. Wrong state to do that, dude. Way to make her look like the moderate. Seriously. I think we said it. Didn't we say that yesterday? Yeah. Something like that makes me want to go to church. I mean, it's like, man, I'm really praying it doesn't go that way. There's absolutely no reason she should be polling that high in Texas. None. No. I mean, and her specifically, not just that she's a radical, but look at the history of things she's said. As your congresswoman. When does that end? This year? it's over this year right her term yeah oh yeah because she's running for senate she's right right but it's i mean it's it's it's at the end of this year yeah yeah the end of this term and she's she's been beyond radical this performative thing that she's been doing since day one is beyond laughable it's actually sad i see her ads i see digital ads everywhere she's spending money on digital i mean big time and it's all uh we must stop ice and uh impeach christy noem that's the whole thing and jasmine crockett fights for us i i did see somebody on social media calling Tallarico, the woke Opie. And this comment, woke Opie is a mediocre white man. Yeah. It's, you know, it's a, this entire thing is a soup show. It really is. I am hopeful. I was thinking about it the other day. I am hopeful. that if things can't turn with the economy and there's less and less hope in terms of affordability, by the way, they're working pretty hard on this whole affordability thing, trying to make buying a car more affordable, buying a home more affordable. The GOP is working, really bending over backwards on the whole affordability thing. This tells you that they know how critical this is. But if they're not able... I'm sorry, but I'll throw this in there. When the Rasmussen poll came out, Rasmussen, now, by the way, the president has rebounded over the last week, week and a half. And I wonder if that's because of immigration. He's down to a low of 41%. It's up to 45% now in Rasmussen. But in Rasmussen, when that came out, and Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen went to the White House in, it was either late November or early December, told the president, you got to do something. But in Rasmussen, which is the Republican pollster, showed that a plurality believe that Biden did a better job than Trump. You better start thinking. And there has been a change in the administration. Yeah, it's a problem. But when you talk about, and as we talked with the whole carbon dioxide thing, that should have been done day one. Yeah, exactly. We are Red Eye Radio. Brought to you by Hotshot Secret. Increasing your following distance, avoiding quick lane changes, and slowing down. There are also several things you should do to ensure that there is plenty of space between the side of your vehicle and other vehicles. Don't hug the center line and avoid traveling alongside other vehicles in strong winds. This tip was brought to you by J.J. Keller and Associates. Visit us at jjkeller.com. Lines open for your calls. 866-90-REDIY on Red Eye Radio. We are Rudeye Radio. He is Eric Carley and I'm Gary McNamara. Welcome and good morning. Thank you, as always, for being here. Download our Rudeye Radio app today and you can listen when and where you choose. Did I save that? Okay, I've got to go back and find it. I thought I saved it. I must not have saved it. The back and forth between. It was Scott Jennings. And this one Democrat strategist. It's violating the civil rights of blacks. How? How? How? Specifically how? Because they have to get ID. That's not violating anybody's rights. That ensuring that elections are you know this and then saying you know the polling shows that the majority of blacks favor voter ID Well, it's been shown time and time again after it's been put into effect as law. The voter turnout by blacks increased. Where where is this racist? it's not of course it's not i mean they're they just everything is still racism but i think the public there's a ton of things that i don't think the public is paying attention to and one of them is the epstein thing the public doesn't care they hear blah blah blah blah blah you know yesterday like i said there's some entertaining moments from pam bondy testifying before the house but the american public has really tuned tune that out well i think a lot of a lot of it has to do with the fact that they believe that they can't believe anything. Right. But these things like voter ID are very easy to understand. They do pay attention to stuff like that. Why would you be against it? Right. Hi, I'm Joe Salci. I host of the Stacking Benjamins podcast. Every week we talk personal finance trends. I think it's tough finding like a stock certificate from 1987 in grandpa's drawer. 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And he is Eric Carley and I'm Gary McNamara. Download our Red Eye Radio app today and you can listen when and where you choose. Now, if I get something wrong, when I find out that I'm wrong on it, I will be the first to admit it. Like your prediction that Buffalo was going to win the Super Bowl this year. I don't believe I ever had that prediction. You know why? Because they're never going to win the Super Bowl? No, because the team that won the Super Bowl, in the odds, there were 18 teams ahead of Seattle to win the Super Bowl, which shows you that all of the stuff you go through in sports discussions are useless. Yeah. True. No, but I had said 100% of the Democrats voted against voter ID. Henry Cuellar in Texas, the Democrat, voted for it. He's the only Democrat. So it was not 100%. It was over 99.5%. I guess that makes Henry Cuellar a racist. Him and Fetterman. Yeah. So, I want to play this. Here we go. Here we go. This is the audio cut from Scott Jennings and Democratic strategist Alencia Johnson. Here we go. He is actually championing a bill that actually would take voting rights away from a lot of black people in this country, all during Black History Month, and then called the president, first black president and the first lady monkeys and apes in this during this month. So this doesn't absolve Donald Trump of his racism. We all know exactly who he is. The reality is the conversation and the question should be, why do people continue to support him if they don't want us to believe they are okay with racism? Wait, what voting rights is he taking away from black voters? Oh, if we look at the Save Act. That's exactly what we're talking about. is actually going to continue to disenfranchise overwhelmingly a lot of people of color. There are so many civil rights organizations that have run the data. If we look at the way that it is going to disenfranchise black voters, it's the same reason why Chuck Schumer called it Jim Crow 2.0. This is the same president. If we want to continue... You haven't said hell yet. I am talking about it. It's the way that you're putting new poll taxes on this. When you're making people have... That's what we can call them now. It's kind of an idiom, right? If you want to say that people have to prove that they are citizens, that they have to prove with a voter ID, the reality is you're layering what is a constitutional right for the American people and making it harder for people to vote in this country, and it's going to disenfranchise black voters. Does it concern you that you're making all these claims? You've yet to lay out how it's hurting anyone, but 76% of black voters think we should show an ID to vote. 80% of Hispanic voters, 83% of the American people. Are you saying that black voters are too dumb to know what's good for them? I mean, it sounds pretty condescending to me. You get three quarters of black voters who want voter IDs. Now, you could hear them saying, that's not true, that's not true. You heard that. Yeah. And so let's go back to last week and CNN. Here we go with the CNN poll. Take a look here. Favorite photo ID to vote. Eighty five percent of white people favorite. Eighty two percent of Latino. Seventy six percent of black Americans favorite. There you go. Yeah. The infighting at CNN must be horrible. Our polls aren't correct. Well, well, thanks for admitting it. I mean, it's just, you know, this is one thing again where they they can't win but they keep talking like they're winning you know scott gave her every chance you know how how is it racist how is it racist how is it racist and she was scrambling because it's not racist requiring photo id on any level is not racist no it's not would the democrats then support okay let's abolish having to show the id any id at the airport we should abolish that because it's racist requiring id for anything commercially well As one of our great listeners said, to buy Sudafed, you've got to show an ID. But if it's unconstitutional, if the Democrats believe it's unconstitutional because it violates civil rights law to show ID to vote, then extrapolate that out. You shouldn't have to have an ID. There should be no form of ID. There should be no form of ID at all. No birth certificate. right no social security card oh wait how do we get the benefits everybody gets the benefits oh social security for all hey come on medicare for all that's how you solve it where have you have you been paying attention if we're gonna do medicare for all no that's it we do social security for all right social security for all or as they like to call it basic monthly income sorry andrew yang a thousand dollars is chump change we need a million dollars a month nobody cares about 38 trillion why why do you care about a million dollars a month this this is how stupid it is and how stupid it sounds when it's coming from the left and it's worse than child's play. You and I can sit here all day and argue like Democrats. The thing is, children ask questions. I happen to know this. I know a few children. They actually ask questions. The Democrats don't want to ask questions because they don't want to debate. Children might debate you. the Democrats don't want to debate you they just want to call it racist stamp it conversation over you don't get to say a thing why because they don't have a comeback for the truth because they can't debate the truth they've never been able to debate the truth they're even denying their own poll at CNN And poll after poll shows the majority of Americans know exactly a very simple concept and believe that you should have to show an ID to vote. That it's not extreme. It's not racist. It's part of the process. that when you're going through a very important process, you should have to prove who you are. And this is one of those things that we have said, the worst thing that really I've seen in politics, looking at it from somebody who has observed politics for such a long time, is trying to sell the public something that is self-evident in the public's mind and telling them that what they believe is completely wrong when the concept is very simple. Only American citizens should vote in federal elections. Yeah. It says otherwise you want fraud. You do not want an accurate representation of the people, which means you do not believe in, quote, democracy, end of quote. And I had to put democracy in quotes because what the Democrats actually believe democracy is, it is not. No. And by the way, I understand that we are a constitutional republic. My God, I've been saying this for 37 years now. We're just talking about under the general umbrella of a democracy is a constitutional republic. We know that everybody does not get to vote on everything. We do understand that we do have elected representatives. And everybody operates under the Constitution of the United States. I just wanted to clarify that. Some would like to not operate under the Constitution. It's a very basic understanding, yet the Democrats, all but one, voted against it. Which was what I think it was for the radical transgender movement, too. Maybe it was two or three. I remember we were at roughly 98%, 99%. of the Democrats in Congress that believe that children should be able to make the decision to mutilate their body. Yeah. And what you saw this, it's really been, we're only to Thursday, it's really been an incredible week as the Democrats, one of the biggest narratives for mutilating children's genitals and sterilization of children is the Bible. And it comes from the governor of Kentucky. It shows you how, and there's no other words to say it, how insane their opinions are and their narratives are. Right. They're absolutely insane, and every Democrat listening right now knows that. Yep. And so you have to ask yourself, why do they stick to their most evil perversions? This is what they're fighting for. Right. They're fighting for the ability to cheat. By the way, I don't know if we need to remind people, or maybe some people don't know it, but Henry Cuellar in Texas represents the Texas 28th. congressional district, which is a border district, Lareda, where he was born. And he understands, even as a Democrat, very simple. You show up, you should have ID. Very simple process. This equation is not tough. on other issues also very simple boys shouldn't be in girls locker rooms and playing on girls teams title nine was to protect women yeah democrats wanted gone they want the border gone they want the rules when it comes to voting gone and again they're the ones looking at president trump saying he's a threat to democracy and they're the ones voting all but one in the house for fraud for fraud when it comes to vote in elections now tell me who wants to who is working against who is the real threat to democracy yeah it's uh it it is fascinating to see just studying politics as long as I have. You know, talk radio, I've been 37 years, but I was in management of other radio stations over news departments, so I've been paying attention for, golly, over half a century. You don't see anything like this. You look in any modern politics, the positions that they take are just absolutely crazy. From open borders, to sanctuary cities, wanting to allow criminal illegal immigrants not caring about American citizen victims of violent crime you see Rand Paul take off at the one anchor only 14 percent are violent only 14 percent he just laid into it yeah like well the other ones have committed crimes by the way there's a lot committed crimes right it's anywhere between 40 and 60 percent of what they're saying he goes but if it's my child who's protected from a criminal legal immigrant, 14% means nothing to me. Right, right. They're arguing at the fringes is what Democrats are doing. Like they're trying to create some acceptable level. Yeah. As long as it's not a majority. What? We are Rudd Eye Radio. We'll be right back with more Red Eye Radio with Eric Carley and Gary McNamara. We are Red Eye Radio. He is Eric Carley and I'm Gary McNamara. All right. Part of the fireworks yesterday. This is Jamie Raskin and Attorney General Bondi going back and forth. You can let her filibuster all day long, but not on our watch. Not on our time. No way. And I told you about that, Attorney General, before you started. You don't tell me anything. Oh, I did tell you because we saw what you did in the Senate. You're a lawyer. Not even a lawyer. Maybe we'll be in order. I should get back at least 45 seconds. We will give you a few more seconds. I said that already. 45 seconds. So, again, I believe I know why they're doing it. And as we saw yesterday with the acting head of ICE, Mr. Lyons, who I don't think went in with an attitude to just attack. But when he realized, you know, when he realized where they were going, I think everybody now is testifying, you know, that works for the president or works under the president and the executive branch is just not going to take it anymore. They're just going to throw it out. You're not going to accomplish anything in these hearings whatsoever. And I think the Republicans have, look, we're not going to let them monologue for five minutes attacking us and give us no time. We're going to fight back. We're just going to make it a zoo. We're not going to give them five minutes to throw out insanity without us throwing it back. I'm not saying it's necessarily a good look. I don't think you accomplished anything by it, but it ends up being a draw. Yeah, I would say it's a wash. Top of the hour news is brought to you by Howe's Products. Visit Howe'sProducts.com. This is Red Eye Radio on Westwood One Now, it's Red Eye Radio. Gary McNamara and Eric Harley talk about everything from politics to social issues and news of the day. Whether you're up late or you're just starting your day, welcome to the show from the Uniden America Studios. This is Red Eye Radio. All across America, we are Red Eye Radio. He is Eric Carley and I'm Gary McNamara. Good morning. All right. What? What do you got? Economic news. All right. A ton of economic news over the last couple of days coming out. Finally, a decent month. Yeah. On the employment. It's really interesting, though, because when I saw 130,000 jobs, I go back to 10 years ago, 15 years ago, and when the standard used to be for a good month, remember it was 250,000? Yep. That was the number. And now it's whatever the super low expectation is, if it's over it, it's an incredible month. But it was a better month than really any other month last year. now with with the revision one of the things that came out of this and you saw it a lot on social media what is the credibility of the of the labor department now to disseminate these numbers since last year uh where is it here uh just get it here that the number of where'd it go here i just had it here and it was oh here it is the january report also included the annual bureau of labor statistics benchmark revisions based on more complete data collected over the year so this is again the trump administration And remember, Trump was furious at the BLS. Well, since he has made the changes there, huge revision in the total non-farm employment over a year. More than a million fewer workers than previously thought. This means now the net change in total employment for all of last year, 181,000 jobs in the entire year, net increase. That's 15,000 a month. And so one of the questions, one of the things that you saw the left using was, well, who buys those numbers? They've revised all the numbers from last year, and any positive month that was out there, it was horrible. Those numbers you get, those are numbers you get before you go into a recession is going to be the argument for that. But let's look at the good news. 130,000 jobs, net increase in jobs. The fascinating thing is this is, I never thought, and this goes to Trump and Trump alone, 10.7% decrease in the federal workforce since he's been president. That's unbelievable. Yeah. If you would have ever told me that you could get an almost 11% decrease in federal employees in a year, I would have said not possible. I would have bet everything on quite the opposite. I would say, nope, 12% to 15% gain in the number of government employees. That's unbelievable. So that was good. What we see is still, though, what's driving all the private sector employment or the vast majority of it. I won't say all of it because manufacturing actually had a bump up. 5,000 new jobs. That now means roughly 67,000 loss in jobs over the last year in manufacturing. Had enough months. We'll see what the revisions are. But that's the whole point of the revisions from last year. the initial numbers that we got last year from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, completely off. Remember, Trump was screaming that the BLS was underselling what was going on. And now the Trump administration, with the numbers that they have put up, showed it was actually the opposite. It was way overinflated, the monthly reports, as to what job creation was in this country. Right. And the evidence comes from the Trump administration. But still. I'm going to remain hopeful because I don't want the Democrats winning in the midterms. I don't want them taking both the Senate and the House. I know now it seems as if the last week it's been, well, they probably won't take the Senate, but they could take the House because all they need is three. Yeah, right. To do it. interesting that a major complication in the data is the impact on illegal immigration the national foundation for american policy looked at the bls data and found a decline if you wonder why the unemployment rate went down found a decline of 534 000 foreign-born workers in the u.s since the peak in march of 2025 that's a reduction of about 1.4 million foreign-born workers than would be expected from previous government estimates. All right. Wow. And they believe that's one of the reasons for the increase in, especially in the medical professions. Right. Because there was a churn in there. Yeah. But the, you see, most of the job growth continues to be in health care and social assistance. That's 123,000 of the 136,000 new jobs are in the private services. One bright spot, 33,000 in construction, and they believe that construction is actually AI centers. That that's a significant portion of that. Yeah, a couple of things are going on here. I know in the healthcare industry, which includes pharmacies, pharmacies are now scrambling, like a lot of clinics, to fill positions. There have been so many shortages over the last 24 months especially. It's just hard to get, again, anything done. And with pharmacies, they had such a shortage. They were, like, decreasing the hours in terms of their business hours. Walmart changed their hours because you had so many people being basically being overworked because there was a shortage. They didn't have enough people to fill those jobs. Walmart just announced increase in pay for pharmacy workers, which tells you that's just one indication, you know, that, look, we've got a shortage here. We've got to do something about it. One of the things they did is, again, shorten the hours of business so they wouldn't have to work from whatever it was, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. in some cases. And then you're going to have to increase pay. You're going to have to incentivize. And that's something that the entire medical profession right now is trying to do. it's i had one doctor tell me recently that there is a pretty good practice of all right let's get you in and get you out in six minutes let's six minutes per patient and part of that is the shortage part of that is what's going on with the negotiations between insurance providers and healthcare providers. But you can't have a shortage. There are parts of the economy where you can't have a shortage and AI isn't going to fill certain gaps. One of them is healthcare. Yeah. That's a point I saw many of the economists bringing up yesterday. Yeah. So if you look at some of the jobs that have been lost, some of the big chunks that have gone away are in the tech industry. You know, the panic recently with software companies on the Dow of, you know, software, nobody needs a software company. We've got AI. If you've got, if you've integrated AI into your company, you can sit there and write your own software all day. And people are doing it. People are doing it on a, I won't say amateur level, but individual level. and it's unbelievable what they're doing with AI in terms of software and writing code. Well, remember the big, basically the big blowout at Google? And they were going, oh my gosh, you know, the people at Google were, we can't believe this is happening, we can't believe this is happening. And I thought to myself, well, wouldn't there be an expectation of that happening when you're responsible in part for building out a model that was going to create a more efficient technology workforce, which means eliminate humans? Not completely, but a lot of them. You helped build all of that out. didn't you see that coming I guess is that is my question is the point and it was I think they were I think part of the problem was they didn't see it happening so quickly you know when they said a couple of years ago well look if you're in school learning to code right now you should probably choose something else because in five years well five years it didn't take five years it's it's rapidly increasing so technology is going to have these huge chunks where jobs just go away the other side of that will be the construction as you mentioned ai centers uh power plants whatever they're going to do to power these ai centers Right now, ERCOT, the Energy Reliance Coalition of Texas organization that basically kind of oversees, you know, the energy in Texas. Right now, one of the things they're working on is the power that's going to be needed to provide these AI plants. And how, you know, how is that going to happen? because it really has to be a public-private partnership. And I think it's going to be more and more private. Who was it? Was it Dow? I have to go back and look. That decided they were going to build their own power plant because they wanted to make sure that they had constant energy, but enough energy, not just a backup, but enough energy to power what they were going to do. And if you're going to have that growth, if you're going to have these massive AI plants, that's going to be part of it. So construction is going to be there. The question is, is there a generational gap in the U.S. with people going into construction because we relied quite heavily on immigrants to do that in the past? You know, the great debate is all the jobs are going to be gone. All the jobs aren't going to be gone. No. It's how many are going to be gone. And then I was reading the other day one economist talking about the fact that, look, there's going to be a ton of new jobs out there. It's just nobody's trained for them. It's a gap. It's a skills gap, an experience gap, and also an education gap. Because, again, you might, all right, you go to college for four years. And let's say you focus on something other than the arts. But you graduate with a technology degree. That technology degree may be a moot point by the time you graduate. Well, let me ask you this. Can the public school systems, and I mean across the board, from all the way to college, trade schools, whatever, can they evolve quick enough? Or do you see, and I'm asking this as a question, and I'm not asking a question to make a statement, but do you see companies, because these are very high-paid technical jobs, creating contracts with employees to train them, pay them, and get them into this? Do you see industry and industry groups getting together and saying we can do this better than the public school system that doesn't really seem to have an interest in in this? I think there's going to be I think it's going to be a lot like what you've seen during the push to raise minimum wage and and unionize fast food. A lot of those franchisees said, look, I can't sit here and wait for this debate and protest to be over. I've got to serve burgers. And so I've got to build kiosks. I've got to do as much automation as I can afford to do in order to streamline the process of my locations. and I think that's what you're going to see from the private sector. Look, until this gap is filled, we need the people now. We need something now. And I think there's going to be a combination of the AI implemented, whatever automation can be had immediately, and then on the back end of that, you're going to have to fill with humans, but that's going to take a minute. But I've seen so many now of the so-called, quote, experts out there because it's all the way from the jobs are all going to be gone to, no, maintenance itself is going to create tens of thousands of jobs just to maintain these things. Why? Because everything breaks. But if you look at the power, what are they talking about? I can't off the top of my head think about it. What are they talking about the power increase is going to be? over the next like 30 years i don't know but it's going to be massive isn't like 20 30 percent 40 percent it's more electricity we're going to need yes and so you look at the number of jobs but the jobs are going to be much more technical right and the demand is going to be there for those jobs and the service will the people be there for the service industry is also going to grow from that because when that demand comes, then you're going to have to build housing for those individuals. You're going to have to feed and clothe those individuals. 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We didn get a chance because of certain breaking news that we had But retail sales though the bad news retail sales were flat in december following a 0 percent increase in november on an annual basis sales rose 2.4 percent last year failing to keep up with inflation as a consumer price index was 2.7 uh consumer activity show uh slowed sharply for the december holiday shopping season Retail sales were flat on the month following a 0.6% increase in November, according to numbers adjusted for the season, but not inflation. Economists had expected for the Dow a 0.4% increase, excluding autos. Sales were unchanged against the estimate for a 0.3% increase. So what they're saying is everything was flat for the holiday season. We'll have more economic numbers coming up, other things that will impact what we see over the next year coming up next. You're listening to Red Eye Radio from the Uniden America studios. We are Red Eye Radio. He's Eric Carly and I'm Gary McNamara. Download our Red Eye Radio app today. Why? Because we told you. Yeah, yeah. Don't ask questions. Stop with all the questions. Just do it. Yeah. You know, as we talk about the economy and looking into the future, the one thing that I look at is one way or another, and you and I have always said this, economics will decide where the tariff situation goes. Yeah. We saw this beginning of last year when the president did the liberation tariffs and had a reverse and really lower them because of what it was doing to the bond market. Right. We know that when they did that, what is it, a couple months ago, took the tariffs off 200 different items, so many of them groceries, that they understood the fact of, you know, what's going on. As we've always stated, it's just an economic fact. You cannot increase the cost of doing business and make an overall economy better. It's impossible. That's basic economics. And the vote yesterday, by the way, in the House with a handful of Republicans basically voting against the terrorists, it's not going to go anywhere. It's not going to go anywhere in the Senate. But what you and I looked at is what you just mentioned. That day when it was actually had been, from what we're told, an all-nighter when eight GOP senators were at the White House. I think a couple of them were on the phone with the president saying the bond market, we cannot, this cannot sustain. And he clearly listened to them because later that morning, the next morning, he made that announcement. And we don't believe that the president wants to trash the economy. And we have seen in areas, even with tariffs, where the president has backed away. The 200-plus food tariffs that were exempted, they released that. They put the release on the White House page and the whole thing and put that out there to promote that. that because, again, this word affordability has been the GOP calling card now for a while. Well, since the November elections and when Ramaswamy made the video after listening to an episode of Red Eye Radio, it was clearly going to be the push and still is the push. Now, the question is what is to be done about it? And the president did put out yesterday on True Social. Anybody who any GOP or who's going to vote, whether it's in the Senate or House against tariffs, is going to pay in the fall at the midterm. And, you know, that kind of thing. There are a couple of things to watch. And I just I guess I've resigned to the idea that SCOTUS isn't going to make a decision. I think they're going to do what Andrew McCarthy said. They're going to wait until the very last so they can get out of D.C. But Republicans are scared to death. No, they are. The GOP is, you're going exactly where I was going, and that is the difference between the vote on Capitol Hill and then going to the White House as a group saying, hey, we've got to change this because this is crushing us. They've done it once before, and they were successful to a certain extent. I don't know what SCOTUS is going to do on tariffs. I don't have any confidence it's going to move the needle much one way or the other. The only thing that couldn't move the needle is those GOPers, and it has to be a group of them. It's probably going to have to be more than eight like it was last time. They're going to have to be cast the president's here. Right, but I don't know. You said there's no chance in the Senate. I don't know if that's the case. for the for that bill that they passed in the house for the for the uh canadian canadian tariffs yeah you've got there might be yeah there might be you know you now you've got you'd have to be able to get to 60 i don't know if that's possible you gotta get well you gotta get to a veto proof but you could get you could get you could get close right uh on it but but it's not even about that it's about being on the record the reason yeah that johnson the speaker and the reason Republicans did not want that bill to pass because if you believe tariffs were working, you'd say, you guys want to vote on tariffs? Let's do it. It's the most successful thing ever. Republicans don't want any vote on tariffs because they don't want to be on the record. They would rather be in the Oval Office with the president behind closed doors saying, hey, we can't do this in public, but this is what's going on. Exactly what they did when the bond markets were crashing and and you can't you because you can't risk that it's not just about the midterm it really is about the long-term effect because the long-term effect goes then beyond november if you if if the thought is the house goes to to the democrats and all of a sudden the democrats are controlling the purse which isn't going to mean much if they don't have the senate but the president also isn't going to have anything he can get done it's going to be tough for him to get it done if they keep a slim margin. I think it is about the midterm. I think everything's everything first is about the midterm. Everything's about the midterm. That wasn't my point. My point was it goes far beyond that. It's not just about the midterm. There's a lot more at stake here if you don't fix this now, because this goes on to 28 and beyond, which means you give momentum to the Democrats like never before. You can't have that in the economy is the one thing that can do that. Well, if you don't win the midterm, everything, the whole agenda is, is gone. So of course I agree with you that it extrapolates that out, but it's all based on what happens in the midterm. But the Republicans are scared to death. And that's why they didn't, they wanted to do whatever they could not to have it where Congress could bring up a terror vote at any time. And they did immediately. And they came out, what was it? 219-211 to drop the tariffs on Canada that the president has put in. But part of me, by what the president, I don't think the president himself, now I'm taking liberties here, I don't think the president himself will reverse tariffs because he's too invested in it. I think his heels are too far dug in. But I think he might come out as being upset, but when he came out the other day and talked about Norway, I didn't like the way she was talking, so we upped the tariffs. I didn't like her attitude. That's not an emergency. You're sending a signal to the Supreme Court, all right, this really isn't an emergency. I'm admitting it's not an emergency. I just didn't like her attitude. And so I decided to put the tariffs up. I don't believe that the president, in most of what I have seen in the tariffs, has that the Constitution is behind him on it. by the basic reading is, well, you can actually, because that was one of the things that came up. You mean the president can stop trade, but he can't put on tariffs? Yeah, by how the Constitution is written. Yeah, you can sanction it. I didn't write it. I'm just telling you how it's written. Right. You can sanction it. Yeah, that's. You can say, no, we're not going to trade with this country, or we're cutting trade 50%. Right. But you just can't come out and say, I'm putting a 50% here. I don't like the way she's talking. I'm putting a tariff over here. He is cutting his own tariff throat by saying what he said. He's sending a clear message to the Supreme Court. Yeah, I'm telling you it's an emergency, but it's really not. I'm using it when I want to use it, when I disagree with, you know. If they drop the tariffs, if the Supreme Court comes in and says the tariffs need to go, Republicans will be way happier than Democrats. because Democrats really don't want to drop tariffs. Democrats have always been the tariff party. Well, my question would be, if that is to happen, because the president gets on something, stays on it, with tariffs, it's been there for the longest time. He digs his heels in. I wondered the other day if this is part of being a real estate developer. look we're not gonna nothing gets done until we finish this building or this project right he just stays on it stays on it when he gets on something the whole Canada thing but you know 51st state and then Greenland and it was the bond market in fact that there was a piece in the New York Post that there was a group of economists that said the bond market reversed Greenland too because when he went to NATO, it was a much different story, and they were clearly trying, and we said it then, clearly trying to put it behind them on the whole Greenland thing. But on tariffs, he's been on tariffs for the longest time. And now you have a situation, if SCOTUS comes back and says, nope, you can't do tariffs, my question would be, could we see this well okay we're going to just start we're going to start sanctions against certain countries we're going to just decide how much trade we're going to do with certain countries i think so yeah if he feels i believe if they feel like it's their only way to respond or or effectively do the same thing i think that's what you would look for You would look for sanctions. But if all the, because right now you can see even Pam Bondi is bringing up the stock market yesterday. Yeah. And by the way, this economy, if I'm talking about my own self-interest, I'm absolutely fine. My 401k is skyrocketing through the roof. Guess what? The study we brought you last week. How much do the average, what is it, the average or the median? Was it the average? that was the average of the median 990 bucks is what the average person has said for retirement so yeah i'm happy as heck stock market goes up my 401k is booming you know i'm i'm working past retirement i'm doing fine you know prices i don't need to buy that much it's just me and cat food hasn't gone up that much right but the rest of the country a little weight the republicans when they saw the raspison polling got to them when it went down to 41 this week when he went to the lowest figure he has seen as right in raspison which is a republican pollster and they've changed on a ton of different stuff but republicans did not want to vote on tariffs and think about it if tariffs were working if they believe if they believe tariffs were working they'd be saying let's have a vote on it all the time it's like they want to have a vote all the time on voter id because they know they've got that in the bag right the americans are overwhelmingly for voter id let's vote on it let's vote let's get these people on record the democrats want republicans on record so they can come out and say all the republicans are voting for tariffs, look at it. You can't still afford all these different products out there. Affordability is it, and it comes with prices. And we warned the president way back then, in the beginning, you got to watch it because if prices don't come down, which is what you promised, Your populist support, your liberal support, your independent support will crumble. Your base won't, but you can't win on your base alone. And that's exactly what seems to be happening right now. The only, the bright spot in this, I won't say the only bright spot, because a lot of bright spots. I have no idea how AI could improve productivity and efficiency, which would help the economy. And this is on the president completely, total compliment, getting rid of the EPA and their authority on climate. Right. Absolutely wonderful things. Well, the reversal on greenhouse gases was huge. But the president, the biggest bright spot he has is Democrats are still going more nuts than they were before. Yes. Yeah. No, they're because they believe it's again, they believe it's a winning game. They believe that's why things are working for them. Their radical agenda, they believe, is working for them. And it's not. And that could be, again, what keeps them from taking the House. Look, best case scenario for Republicans, it's still a slim margin win in the House. And so you still have a lot, even if you win at the midterm, the House and the Senate. There's still a ton of work to be done. And for your legacy to carry on 28 and beyond is crucial. The momentum has to stay with you. So we'll see what happens. We are Red Eye Radio. Coming up, more with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley. It's Red Eye Radio. We are Red Eye Radio, he's Eric Harley, and I'm Gary McNamara. You know, the one thing I was wondering when we talk about, you know, where the economy and affordability and prices, you know, may be going and how they'll affect the election. What if the Supreme Court came back and said all the tariffs are gone? What would happen to the stock market? You know, I do wonder. I don't know what they priced in or what the big question mark for them is. For me, the question mark is, as I mentioned, okay, so if the court comes back and says, no, executive branch can't do this, that's up to Congress to do that. I don't know if there would be a pop or if they would be waiting for the response by the administration to impose sanctions on countries and just say, well, we're just going to stop trade with certain countries or certain trade with certain countries. So, I mean, I think there's a big question mark. Because right now they're riding on the stock market. Yeah. Bondi was, you know, she was bringing that up. Oh, it's going to $100,000, he said, the other day. But she was bringing up $50,000. And you're talking about this. The economy's doing great. Right. Right. And it's like, so the stock market is their barometer right now. 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