02-09-26 Part Two - The Half Time Let Down

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Bad Bunny's performance had him wandering sugar cane fields in a padded shirt and bearing a football touring Puerto Rican cultural store friends and presiding over a presentation of rotating rumps. Wow, that's some writing skills right there. Rotating rumps. Yeah. Performing performing exclusively in Spanish. Bad Bunny sang lyrics that were alien to me as they were to the older relatives, a departure from last year's halftime show starring Kendrick Lamar, which featured indecipherable lyrics exclusively to those over age 40. Lady Gaga showed up at some point and some strings contributed to the mostly most musical interesting aside of the show. Ricky Martin popped out of the foliage with some bananas and then bad bunny bearing the Puerto Rican flag, let a revolution of sorts up a powerful. He then let a parade of flags listing off the countries of Latin and North America. His last act was to spike a football with the words we are all America written on the pigskin, seemingly a protest against US immigration enforcement and American exceptionalism. It was an odd show. It completely removed from the stadium audience by foliage and sets the gender bending bad bunny and LGBT fixtures lady Gaga and Ricky Martin had a more subtle subversive message than was expected. And so the show failed to entertain or in sense. It was a bland Disney jungle cruise of a show safe to say Prince retains the crown of the greatest performer and performance in Super Bowl history. Speaking of Prince, you know what I read over the weekend? His estate will not allow tribute bands. You can't do it because his former band, the new power generation, they're changing their name. Apparently they the rights ran out to their name and that was in the news. I was like, well, I don't know why they would want to continue, right? I mean, he was the act, but they're doing their own music. So they have to change their name and the estate has a rule. They go after any tribute bands. You can't be a tribute band, a Prince tribute act. They can't do it. You can do cover songs. You could play a one cover tune as a cover band, right? That's okay, but you can't be a tribute act. It's funny because the best thing I ever saw Prince do wasn't any of his own music. Remember that? What was it was some awards? Remember my guitar gently weeps? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he was fantastic. Right. He, Prince is an artist who never showed, in my opinion, his true greatness of his guitar skills. No, no, he didn't. When they were doing that, we are the world video. They were asking him to be in it, but he said, I want to play guitar in, and they were like, this isn't a guitar song. Okay, so no, I'm not going to do it. And I agree. I just, I think, you know, he had killer guitar work, just killer guitar work. I'm not saying it wasn't good, but mostly it was pop and it did the vast majority of his popular music, never showed any of his incredible guitar skills. Right. Yeah. I mean, you showed a little bit of it, but it didn't show a, what he, a guitar based instrumental album, or just one instrumental song that was that just featured his guitar work would have been unreal. Well, could you imagine? You know, we, we've always talked about Eric Clapton's guitar festival. Yeah. It prints was up there with Eric Clapton. And I always liked that guitar festival. I always loved Steve Vy with Billie Jean and a couple of other guys just playing an instrumental. It was something like get the hell out of here with the name of the song. And the guitar was get the hell out of here. Whatever the, it's something like I get the hell out of here. It was just awesome. But I you know, to see Prince with, you know, I can imagine him. Prince Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton, jamming together. Oh, yeah. And going back and forth. Yeah. That would have been crazy. Yeah. Tired of part of the noise. America's more divided than ever, but independent Americans is adding light to contrast all that. She independent Americans daily news with Army veterans Paul Reikoff pressing issues the day, the leaders who are shaping what America will be in the future. We're going to bring the righteous media five eyes independence integrity information inspiration and impact. Join the movement independent Americans from belief follow and listen on your favorite platform. Since the Prince one was like 2009 or something, I don't think I ever saw that one either. Yeah, I think I mean, I might have some seem like 30 seconds of it in a clip or something. But yeah. And then to cover the Olympics, I just love this. A hot mic caught NBC broadcaster and former professional snow, snowboarder Todd Richards sharing how unimpressed he was with the boring men's snowboarding big air finals on Saturday. Richards must have thought the broadcast cut to a commercial break or ended when he said that was boring. That was so boring Richards continued. The qualifier was way more exciting. Oh my gosh. Oops. Is this thing on? I love that. Oh my gosh. Oh, now you know, now you know, I really and you almost said snoreboarding. So yes, I did. They would have to change it. That would would have been a great line from them. They should change it to snoreboarding. Barring. You caught that. I swear, I haven't had anything to drink. No, yeah, no, and you can't have mine. So I, you know, it's the thing about the Olympics is that everybody is, you know, anybody who watches it, I don't watch it anymore, but you want to see like some really great competition. You want to or a great demonstration of athletic ability and and while it's all at that next level, you know, with the Olympics, I mean, you want to see the real standouts. But so much so much of it is like watching watching a poker game, a real not one edited down for TV either. Just it's just it can get really, really boring. And our sensibilities changed after COVID. Something happened. We don't sit and watch anything like we used to in terms of the length of time. We still watch a lot of TV, but the thing is, as people aren't actually watching TV, what they found is you've got the TV on. You maybe, you may have Netflix or YouTube or whatever going and most people have their phone in their hand. And they're scrolling on something else and you've got to be very compelling to get their full attention to have them put their phone down. For me, it was very simple. I mean, I was watching the Olympics 60 70s and really about up to 84. And then when the pros came in, I was done. I just there there was just a certain greatness knowing that we were underdogs every year and still dominating because we were amateurs. And we knew that Soviet Union and East Germany and even other countries were cheating and we weren't cheating. Right. And there was just a there was a certain hatred for that happening, which is great for sports. I mean, it made it, it made a great. And now that everything is really everybody's a pro in so many of the sports. And like hockey, I can't get excited about hockey. Right. They're all star teams. It's not like, it's not like as I said last week, it's not like the USA hockey team of 1980. You know, they came together as a team. They were practicing. They had their basic team in August. They were practiced. They were had games August, September, October, November, December, January, all the way into February. All the way up to a couple days before the game when they played the Soviet Union and got killed, like 10 to three, but they played like 55 60. They played an entire season of hockey together as a team and then went and played. For example, when they beat Chekhov Savaki and beat the Soviet Union, those were again, those were teams that were solid for years. Yeah. You know, it's just all all stars. Yeah. Right. Okay. NHL closed down for two weeks. Pick your best players. You've made the team. That's a great point. It's like watching an all-star game. Yeah. Yeah. And it's just like, it's not for me. It's just, it's just not the same. And I have no interest. And you know, stuff like the lose. It's like, well, it's going down. It's gravity. And you mess up. You hit the side. I really don't know the difference in any of the, of the, at the end time. Yes. But you don't see it in action. It's not like even, I'll, I'd probably watch more of the Summer Olympics because if it's the track finals, I want to see the track finals. Yeah. Because you can see what happens. You can see when they move ahead. You can see, you know, the athletes in action. I have no idea in the lose and the Bob sled. What the difference of the teams are. All right. They beat them. How? Like, you know, what do they do different? Yeah. I can. Yeah. With you, the athletic ability, especially when it's when you, you've got like Usain Bolt, you know, and eventually you got so fast as sneakers just caught fire. Just flames everywhere. But that's, I mean, it's exceptional. It's like holy cow. That's fast. Or when you see the, like the US relay team. Right. When like, Secretariat did in 73 by 31 lanes. Right. And you see them to, you can, you can go wow. That's incredible. Right. It stands out. That's really incredible. Yeah. And even for example, the, the, the down hill, if I had been to turn the TV, the down hill was on it, probably watch a little bit of it. Yeah. Yeah. But I don't have cables. So I only get one channel. So odds are, it's not the sport I want to watch it again with. And, but if it's down hill, you know, I mean, tremendous amount. But even then when they win by a half a point, if you don't fall, I don't know what I don't know why, you know, I'm happy if the United States wins. But yeah, I really don't, I can't see why you're winning. Right. And it sports like loose. Yeah. Same thing. Yeah. It looks fun. Yeah, I just, I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to wait to go feet first. Yeah. That wouldn't be, I'd be too uncomfortable. Yeah. Yeah. Any more controversy on the ski jumping with the injection into the genitals to, whatever that reason was, I think that pretty much to make it where they were, the bigger suits, which gives them more lift. Or where does it give you more weight going downhill? I don't, you say, I don't, because, because now, well, I mean, I would say that your weight would change. If it was, if it was the ski jumping, I mean, sometimes when they really catch the arrow, good, and you can see it, when you can actually see almost the lift at times, if they hit it perfectly, that's, that's pretty cool. But, right. Yeah. I always want to, how do you start that? What's, what's day one? That's horrible. There's no way it's not horrible. I don't know for sure. For sure. And I've never witnessed it. But it is probably like the one time that I wrote a bowl. Okay. It was, you get up from the ground going, why, why, why you go off world would I do that? You go off at three foot, ski lift. I mean, or ski jump. I mean, yeah, I did actually see something in, a documentary on the training of how they, you know, how they train, you know, to land and in all of that. Yeah. And they do stretch slower. It wouldn't matter how slow you started with me. It's always going in the crash. Well, yeah. I just want a good helmet and lots of padding. Even even 10 feet. It's like, yeah, that's, yeah, that's way too much. I'm going to get hurt doing this. Right. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. That's one thing I've realized too about, you know, because I, I was a runner for years. I'm very slow runner. But I could, for short spirts, I was fairly fast. I was, well, let's put it this way. I was impressed without how fast I was. But I didn't sprint. I didn't, you know, I basically just went jogging for exercise. Right. And then it occurred to me the other day, I can never get in trouble. Because I'm really too old to run from the cops. I mean, there just won't be any running to it. The cops were walking after him, after the suspect, you know, so I don't have, I don't have it. You could do that Olympic. You could get a walk. Yeah, walking the fast walking. Fast walking. Yeah. Is that, is that, that like the most they train in walls, uncomfortable, uncomfortable sport to watch? It's just this the way their body is. It's almost as, yeah, want to break into a run. It's almost like that alien in the in the Charlie Sheen movie with the, uh, remember global warming wherever that was called. Yeah. Kimmer with that movie was called when the alien was walking then started running away. Yeah. Yeah. I can't think of the name of them. That was when the aliens were putting, you know, heating up the atmosphere, global warming was from the aliens. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's, it's weird to watch. Yeah. Yeah. Just take up running. It looks normal. This looks weird. We are run I radio brought to you by FPPF fuel power max. The IFTA tax program redistributes tax revenue to states based on your actual miles run. That's the truly cheapest fuel can only be found if you subtract federal and state taxes and state surcharges from the pump price to compare. The strategy means that you buy without regard for whether you are paying more at the pump in taxes. IFTA also considers state surcharges, which complicates the fuel buying strategy. 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There was an op-ed piece that I read over the weekend in real clear politics that talked about the fact that Trump should invite Canada to become part of the United States. Now, not the 51st state, but stark peeling off the provinces. We'll get to that coming up. It's really, it's actually really interesting, especially since I've been paying attention to some Canadian musicians and those in the music industry that are furious over the separatist movement in Alberta to join the United States. So we would definitely welcome Alberta. So we'll get to that here in a little bit, but Trump predicted on Sunday that the Dow Jones industrial average will reach 100,000 by the time he leaves the White House. He said, I have been right about everything and I believe that we will reach 100,000. Now, if he does, that's 2029. I think I can retire and if it reaches 100,000, I'm buying a beach house. It reaches 100,000. I might kiss him on the face. Observing and analyzing the insanity, Eric Ernie and Gary McNamara, I'm going to have a nightly on Red Eye Radio. And he's our currently and I'm Gary McNamara, download our Red Eye Radio app today and you can listen to when and where you choose. You know, so busy talking about the culture war Superbowl. Because that's what it was, especially this weekend. We forgot to say congrats to the Seahawks for winning the actual game. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And congrats to the coach and a number of the players that I saw all thanking God. And we hope the Marxist government now, the slowly increasing Marxist government of Seattle appreciates the word of God being promoted so heavily. And also to the New England Patriots football team, you guys were in the Superbowl. I don't know why you didn't show up, but you were supposed to be there. So I'm not going to comment as anybody out there might think it's just my bitterness as a bills fan. Oh, it's definitely my bitterness that Jerry Jones had played here. So no, oh, all right. I've got to mention the last, in fact, the last time I watched the Superbowl, Jerry Jones had his own hair. I got to mention this. What? Jerry Jones cameo in Landman season two that I watch. Oh, is he in it? Yes. Oh, thanks a lot. No, I'm definitely not watching. And he's, he's, I'm just going to say, I don't want to give anything away. He's talking to a guy from an, uh, who owns an oil company who is sick. I don't want to give this okay. All right. Okay. And he apparently like knows him. They're, they're friends. All right. It's oil business, you know, actually for worth because they're much more focused on, on for worth. Yeah. And, and Midland, but so many, you watch it and you're just, you know, I live in Taren County, which is where for worth is, and I'm in for worth more than I am or ever am Dallas. And it's just like, wow, I know that place. I know that place. I know that place. I know that place. I know that place. I know that place. But Jerry Jones, this, it's, it's, he really, he really does well. But he, I think he's really part of the script is him talking about the fact. And this is really going to disappoint Cowboys fans because he's talking about how he got into the football team. So all of his family can always work together. And that's what's happening. As you know, his son's going to take over when he's gone. Yeah. His son's going to take over and still be the general manager. And I'm sitting there watching it, dying laughing, thinking to myself, Cowboy fans got to be going nuts. You're going, he's even saying it on, he's saying it. He's not land man. Right. It's always going to be in the, the family's going to be running the football side of it. Forever. Yep. And that's one thing that people don't know if you don't live here. That because you know, Jerry Jones is so public, but people don't understand from other cities. How furious Cowboy fans are of the fact that they can never get a new football administration in there because it's the family that wants to control not just the business side of it, but the football side of it completely. Yeah. Right. And so I'm watching Landman, dying laughing. Well, I mean, it's, I don't know, maybe that was the goal, right? Maybe that was the goal to look, let him, let him be Jerry Jones. By the way, watching Landman, just remember, it's all stolen land man. Yeah. All right. I saw this speaking of land. I saw this and went, oh, come on, this is just stupid. Then I read it. Okay. And hypothetically, this is quite interesting. The guy's name is John Dominguez. He's a, he's an investment banker in Arlington, Virginia. And he wrote this op-ed piece in real clear politics, real clear world, doc, part of real clear politics, a plan for Canada to join the United States. Now, you and I've talked about this before and went, no, why? Because if Canada became the 51st state, they would be bigger than California. And it would be a complete liberal state. Right. Yeah. So you don't want it. So when I went, okay, I'm starting to read this going, I don't know. Any pointed out the fact that, uh, look, he's, you know, the prime minister, Karne is shopping his country to China and Qatar. He goes, and Americans should revisit the idea that the founding fathers first proposed, and that's welcoming Canada into the union, which George Washington did back in 1775, in an open letter to Canada. And later, the articles and confederation followed up with the standing invitation for Canadians to join the union. So you look at that and still it doesn't change my mind because it's like, no, they'd be a huge liberal state. Yeah. Then he writes and he says, as we approach America's 250th birthday, realizing that, that unfinished vision has become an imperative, not a curiosity, bringing Canada into the union would add trillions of dollars in productive capacity, secure America's northern frontier and strengthen its strategic posture. What better legacy for Trump, a real estate developer turned president than acquiring land for this country. However, and this is the important part here, which is when the hypothetical got really interesting. However, integrating Canada as one state would be unwise. Trump's talk of the 51st state may entertain some, but it misses the point. Instead, Canada should be integrated into America, one province at a time, beginning with the province of Alberta. Yeah. That caught my attention. I said, I'm willing to spend more of my time seen where he goes with this hypothetical. Yeah, definitely. And he says Alberta's vast energy and mineral wealth would immediately strengthen the US economy. True. Alberta has a world's third largest oil reserve and is estimated to have 166 billion barrels of oil yet untapped to put this in perspective at the current price of $60 a barrel. The economics of Alberta is a blue chip investment for America. Presently though, even with free trade, the US cannot access Albertan oil because of Canadian regulations, which Alberta has long opposed, but as powerless to resist, for example, several pipeline projects have been canceled or delayed by Canada's federal government because progressive voters in Ontario and Quebec did not like them. These decisions denied the citizens of Alberta, high wage jobs, and much needed exports. The first step for President Trump should be formally invite Alberta. If it votes by referendum to become a US territory, Canada would not be able to easily block such a referendum due to its existing laws. He highlights and references a Canadian parliament clarity act that exists out there. He said Washington should move swiftly to admit Alberta as a US territory with the defined pathway to full statehood. For those curious about Alberta's interest in joining the land of the free, you should instead ask what would hold them back? Alberta's grievances with Canada are plenty. And I mentioned it in the last segment. I've got probably five or six people that I'm acquainted with never met them, but they're in the music business. We relate to a bunch of stuff. We've communicated over the last really since Facebook, social media has been around. Right. And they're in the music business, the Canadian music business and talk music and everything else. And they went bonkers about a week and a half ago. And it really caught my attention because they never talk politics. Hardly, maybe you'll see a slap at Trump or something like that. But this was at Alberta and the Alberta separatists who are getting louder out there. People of Alberta that want to join the United States. And they were just livid about it. And so that also helped peak my interest of this article. But it said the grievances Canada are plenty. Alberta is Canada's wealthiest province. Yep. Much of its revenue is constitutionally mandated to be redistributed to other provinces with little political recourse at the same time. Alberta is deliberately underrepresented in Canada's parliament due to special laws that in trench, a portionment advantages to other provinces. You see where we're going here. Yeah. Alberta doesn't believe they have representation. Many people in Alberta believe they don't have the representation that they should have. And they are powerless to control their own destiny. The result is a persistent imbalance. Alberta votes one way gets governed another way. And there is no institutional mechanism to reconcile that divide. These political frustrations are compounded by regulatory ones. Alberta sits atop world class energy and mineral deposits. Yet faces an ever tightening regulatory apparatus hostile to development. Recent laws have only added new regulatory complexity that effectively makes any new energy investments. Unprofitable. For America, Alberta's value extends well beyond economics, energy security and critical mineral supply chains. Now sit at the center of national security planning, particularly as China consolidates 70% of global rare earth production. Alberta and broader Canada have large reserves of rare earth minerals, but is crippled by its own regulations. Alberta's resources workforce and industrial base would fold naturally into the US economy preserving American dominance across energy, defense and technology. It's an integrating now. Alberta would not merely add a resource rich jurisdiction to the American map. It would unplug the energy source of the Canadian Federation, knocking down the first domino that would bring the rest of Canada to America. Saskatchewan with a similar economy and political profile would likely follow soon after. However, it cannot be overstated that any serious American plan to annex Canada must recognize that Quebec is not part of the plot. Its identity is a French speaking nation with its own singular laws, culture, norms deserves respect and separation with that said once Alberta joins United States and Quebec exits the confederation, the backbone of Canada collapses. Smaller provinces would face a stark choice, cling to a diminished federal core or integrate into the American system that already anchors their trade and security at that point, accepting the life raft of America would merely be recognizing reality. US does not need to annex Canada in a single stroke, like allowing Lyon to power in a fat gazelle America should absorb Canada one bite at a time except the fact you don't want the liberal provinces. If each one becomes a state eventually, yeah, right. You would add exactly you would you would probably add two to one at least. Right. Yeah, to me, two to one liberal states and senators. Yeah, that's where I started on this whole thing. I mean, you know, it's an interesting take, but in the end, you have the same problem. But it's going to be more liberals on Capitol Hill and likely a dominance for a very, very long time by the left. So how about no. Yeah, it's not going to happen anyway, but you know, it's it's an interesting conversation. Hey, you know, we'll just they can become again, a territory and they can have one of their singers sing at the next Super Bowl. Okay. All right, we'll work that out. Why not? I don't think they're from there, but we'll take Trooper who sang this. You always hear them at hockey games, raise a little hell. All right. Yeah, we need some we need more football. Heavy metal, right? Yeah, the metal should be really is what football should be playing, right? Yeah, let's put some metal up there. We're right, I radio. We'll be right back with more red eye radio with Eric Corley and Gary McNamara. We're right, I radio. He's sure. Corley and I'm Gary McNamara. All right. Let me just fill this out here because it's like, um, and what? A couple of stories about the dead bird looking at the debt. Yeah, the debt hit 38 trillion in October. It will hit 39 trillion by March 6th, five months. So you're talking about over two trillion a year and it's increasing now. Yeah, it keeps increasing. Yeah. Well, I think the president had it wrong. It's not the, uh, the, uh, the, the, the Dow isn't going to hit 100,000. The debt's going to hit 100 trillion. By the time he's done at this rate. 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