02-09-26 Part One - The Culture Bowl

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This is Red Eye Radio. This is Red Eye Radio. All across America! We are Red Eye Radio. He is Eric Harley and I'm Gary McNamara. No! What? I didn't watch the Eddie Rabbit halftime show. I didn't either. I would have watched Eddie Rabbit on one. No, it was... I'm not going to watch anything on stolen land. Yeah. On a stage. Ah! For money. Okay. And by the way, what happened to the good money? By the way, our friend Steve Bird. Yeah. The comedian actor. Yeah. The director. Yeah. Great director. I cannot enjoy the Olympics knowing that in 222 BC, the Roman stole Milan from the Celtics. And then, because into a history lesson, well, that's not exact in current. They're going back to the North Island. I love it when people get serious, especially with a little stand-up comedian. Well, the... Wow. I mean, the...of course, I mean, this was the... This was the 20th year in a row that I did not watch a Super Bowl. Because I'm stupid. Yeah. Yeah. I just can't do it. And...I mean, just all day yesterday, the culture bowl... The culture bowl. The culture bowl. Sorry. I'm not going to like Kid Rock just because he claims to be a conservative and likes Trump. I'm still not going to sit through one of his concerts. I saw that written on social media yesterday. Look, I...you know, I'll say this. A couple of his songs, you know, Cowboy. It's like, all right, that's a song I could probably crank up. Is that the one he does? What's the one he does where he plays, Skinnerd? Oh, right where he talks about all his influences. I actually do like that song. Yeah, that one's... Yeah, that's also...that's more recent. I forget the name of it, but yeah, I know which one you're talking about. And it's... My daughter... My niece, who was best friends with her cousin, my daughter, they're the same age and they do so much together. They... Is she...my niece traveled up here and took my daughter to Kid Rock. And she goes, Dad, I'm going to Kid Rock tonight. I said, well, have fun. I don't know if you said that. It's like, I...it's...because music is subjective, you know? Yeah, we... She probably wouldn't have bought the tickets. But her cousin did. And her cousin did... To a large extent because of... I believe... And I'd have to talk to my niece about it, but his support for Trump. It's like, all right, you know, I'd get it. And they went to the show and then the next morning I texted her, I said, well, how was it? She goes, well, it was a very Kid Rocky. I was like, okay. There you go. You know, it's what you would expect from Kid Rock. And I was like, hmm. You and I always... You and I always talk about how the dumbest thing to ever talk about is what artist is better because it's completely and totally subjective. Yeah. You know, I mean, it's... I...you know, with the exception of Taylor Swift, they're clearly channelted. No, I'm joking. Look, she's doing something, right? She's made a billion dollars doing it. She dominates. It's not my thing. I'm not James Comey, where I'm going to post that I'm a Swiftie. I mean, it seems like I... Because... Remember that? It's like... I don't need to prove that I'm a bigger fan of any artist than you are. Than someone else's. That seems like a weird competition that people have, you know? Well, also, I'm not going to get into the arena of ideas discussing basically two pop stars and what they think are what they represent. I'm going to deal with the arena of ideas. Yeah. Now, for bad bunny... Come on, bad bunny. Sucks! We all know it. I mean... That does not mean that in any way that I'm an anti-Portarican because one of the most popular bands in the 70s and 80s in Puerto Rico was the prog rock band Saga that I'm an incredible huge fan of. Oh, okay. Yeah. So none of it is... Apparently, they were like a furniture commercial that they used one of the songs. Oh. And they became huge. Oh, wow. In Puerto Rico. Yeah. But it's just like... I just go into social media. It was the best show I've ever seen in my life. It was the bad bunny, the best show. Kid Rock, the best show I've ever seen. It's like... Oh, my gosh. Look. You know, I've seen some great shows, I guess, in my lifetime. And I don't go to live shows anymore because my gosh. Can you turn it down? And also... I just don't want to be standing up. I don't need to be standing up. I don't even know if they... A lot of the shows from our genres, you know, from back of the day. They don't even stand up anymore. The people don't even stand up. That's my beef. Yeah. Everybody's sitting down. No, no. My beef is... Especially a lot of the bands that I like that aren't really... They're not arenas. Right. They're still playing the clubs. But they play a club where you have to stand. Right. Yeah. There's no seating. It's not like a sheet or a roar. Right. Everybody stand up. And I'm just like... And I did go to one show of a local band that I like that does all original music. Yeah. And the last show I went to was like... They had a seating section that was an extra donation of like $10 if you want a seat. Yeah. If you want a seat. Right. And I wanted to scream out... But I'm old! Yeah. I should get it. I should get it by default. Right. I'm an old man. I should be able to sit. That's discriminatory. I just scream in a Tory. You know, I think of the Crossroads festivals that that clapped in, you know, every year's every, basically every three years. And they're legendary. I can watch them, you know, I can watch them. I just let it run endlessly on YouTube or somewhere. But thinking about a festival, which is really a three day event. And then they have the kind of the spin-offs that's part of the festival where there's there's artists, pretty big artists playing clubs, you know, in the town that they're in for that year. And that sounded great when I was 25. But standing up at a festival, and I went to a lot of festivals when I was young. But standing up, man, especially in the Texas heat, oh man, the Texas jams back in the day. It's like, okay, look, they would come out literally. They would come out with, it wasn't exactly a fire hose, but it was a, it was a big hose. And they would just water people down like every 30 minutes because of the heat. And then I think of myself, even if it's not hot, I just don't have the, I don't, I don't have the will to stand. I can. I don't have the will to stand for hours and hours and hours. And then wait for the next artist. It was, it was after I saw the, because I still have the DVD of, I think it's a 2004 Crossroads. It was at the Cotton Bowl, which is just great. Oh, I mean, it's just, and I mean, it's every type of guitar player. It's just not, it's, you know, it's, it's not, for example, all heavy metal or anything like that. No, no, it's, it's, it's somehow they all kind of connect to the blues in a way. If you look at all the guitars, there's, you know, but they, they all have to come from, you know, different genres. You know, I mean, it's, it's Robert Kray was always so much. I was watching. He's just so talented. But, you know, yeah, I didn't know he was part of the bus boys. Yeah. Remember the bus boys from, what was it? The Nick Nolte movie. Oh, yeah. I actually saw them live. They were really, really good. of growing up listening to top 40 radio as we did is they played all genres in music. And so what about 10 would be made up of it? you know, soul rock, a ballad or two, uh, even in the in the mid to late seventies, you know, Kenny Rogers and Alabama would blend in, you know, crossover country. Oh, I, I, I remember playing crossover country, you know, uh, back then. So, uh, so the, the, the John, John was a music that I appreciate as I get older, our lot wider. And I even, for example, I was never a big rush fan. Yeah. And even though I like a lot of progress, I was never big. And probably was get his voice. But as I got older, I appreciate the more and I'm going to see them in June. Yeah. You know, I know, and what sold me, I mean, I should have gone beforehand, because I've really been the last couple of albums. They've got some instrumentals on that I think are just absolutely. They're just mind blowing. They're just great. Yeah. Uh, but I never got a chance. And then just decided, let me see if I can get in early on my credit card. And I did. And I'm a huge fan of, of the drummer who was with Jeff Beck. So yeah. But you know, but the whole thing, you know, the, yeah, I mean, it was basically what we saw, you know, whether it was the Olympics or whether it was the, you know, you saw Michael Ruzioni went after the one, the one skier. And, um, yeah, look, all, all these things are basically privately funded. Yeah. Uh, for the, for the NFL, for example, and, and I don't know, I mean, I, I saw Fox News saying now with rumble, there were 25 million views. Now that might get the attention of the NFL. Remember what got the attention of the NFL was to drop off in TV viewership. It was all between eight and 10%. I think it was back in 2020. That got their attention. Yeah. And so they, they, they meled out, but, you know, after the Kaepernick thing and all that, I, I used to have season tickets to the NFL. I mean, not to Dallas, Kyle Boyzmann, when I lived in Buffalo, I'd build season tickets. Yeah. Uh, I used to buy paraphernalia when I, when I moved away, I would have the, the NFL Sunday, uh, you know, ticket, when they would come here to play Dallas, I would go to see the games there when I first moved here. After 2020, they sort of lost me. And why did they lose me? The NFL lose me. They lost me because they were promoting the identity politics, which is the racism of the left. Yeah. Right. And that's why, you know, when bad bunnies up there talking about love, they don't love identity politics is about judging people by groups and not individuals. Right. To me, that's how you get to racism. And you had that skier talk about, you know, uh, LGBTQ in the United States and all this and I was like, right. What the hell you're talking about? Right. You know, the, the left is LGBTQ groups are as misogynists as you can possibly get against women. Right. And so the NFL, I just, I, as I said, I watched one game last year of the bills. And that was when I get together with my buddies, my Buffalo buddies to go see them. And, uh, it's a work day. So I really, you know, I don't watch a lot of sports, but I've sports at the end. I used to watch NBA, the NBA. I haven't watched the game in, in years and after everything that they went through, I won't. Yeah. And, and so it's not just, you know, if, if you, you know, boycott or move somewhere else and they can see in the numbers and the NFL season, the numbers, they can react, the, the NBA did too. But for the most part, they still promote the liberal ideas and I just don't want anything to do with it. And so that was the beginning. And then not watching it for such a long time, I just sort of lost interest. You know, I used to take off. I used to take off the day after the Super Bowl. I wouldn't take the day off after the Super Bowl. No, I'm not. And now, and so they, uh, they lost me. And I don't go around screaming. I just, you know, now it just doesn't interest me as much as, as I get older, um, a lot of, a lot of people that I know that call themselves conservatives. Uh, you know, I don't buy, I don't buy anything that's, that's, uh, has an NFL insignia where they get money for it. Right. I just don't do it anymore. Right. And I don't scream about it. It's just, it happened when that happened, uh, back in 2020, they just lost me and didn't get me back. And I have other interest. The only thing I really watch, I watch a little bit of hockey, uh, and, uh, just, uh, and, um, and a little bit of golf, you know, just in golf, you don't find really any politics at all. It's a, right. It's a, okay, it's a guy hitting is the guy or gal hitting the ball. Right. And so, and the whole point is to, I mean, if you think about it, the whole point in golf is to be quiet, which is to say shut up, shut up and shut up and hit your eye. You know, it's, that's the thing about it is that it is really peaceful to watch. If you think about it, it's kind of, you know, those, you know, all those satisfying videos you watch on YouTube. It's like, and it's kind of like that. It's kind of calming. Yeah. Um, it, it's, and, and baseball because, you know, nothing happens, but it's, I, I didn't watch one minute of the Olympics over the weekend. Not one. No, I didn't. I just, well, it was like, and it's not, and it's not that I'm angry. I just, there's just other things to watch that interest me more now. Well, look, you know, back in the day, I mean, there was a great deal of pride. There wasn't all these other things you could watch or be doing, um, of course, but there was a great deal of pride by the athletes and playing for the United States. And it wasn't about them. They didn't make it, try and make it about them. And now I said this last week, but so I invest, let's say I invest time, then all the sudden, I'm watching, you know, these are athletes that are trained all their lives. And they all the sudden want to make it about them or their cause or, it's like, all right, that's not what I'm here for. I'm, I'm here for the competition. And if I don't trust that I'm going to get that, then you don't, you've lost me. And the Olympics have lost me. It's, it's, I just don't have that interest. 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Rather than seeing a celebration of international athletes in the opening ceremony, the Associated Press saw white people, the AP objected that countries like Sweden were overwhelmingly white and lacking the immigrant representation. Now as we all know, the Olympics is you win. Yeah, that's it. Right. And the matter. Right. There is no, well, the ethnic representation isn't there. It's who's the best. You got to make the team. You got to make, you've got to, they go through a lifetime of training. Yes. In order to make it. It's who's the best? Yes. And it doesn't matter whether you look at, if you want to look at American sports, national hockey league, excuse me, Canadian sports national hockey league, or the NBA or the NFL or Major League Baseball. Right. Right. Where you will see a number of different nationalities, which may be overrepresented, overrepresented as a percentage of the population, but they're there because they're really good. Right. I don't care. Right. Are they the best? Right. Are they winning on talent and skill and performance and winning? That's why people watch Competitive Sports. Tired of part of the noise. America's more divided than ever, but independent Americans is adding light to contrast all that heat. Independent Americans, daily news with Army veteran Paul Reikov. Pressing issues of 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 Believe. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. You're missing to Red Eye radio from the unit and America studios. We are one I radio. He's her. I'm Gary McNamara. Welcome. Good morning. Thanks so much for being here as always, but in the Olympics, as we see, it's the liberal media, the liberal media going to each and every athlete and, you know, asking that question as we've seen. Yeah. So what do you think? Now, if anybody, if you think of any profession out there, who you should question about whether they love America and whether they want to promote that they represent America, the people that you should really ask are people like us. Why? Well, they ski. And they do different things. As you can see, their answers are all generic. They have no idea what the hell they're talking about when they answer. Some of the things that might be we would just like a country that would just love, by the way, remember when you're jumping on the mainstream media, you are promoting the identity politics and the racism of identity politics, where they judge people by groups and not individuals and the misogyny of the radical transgender movement. Before you open your mouth, think athletes, but we're the ones. What's our job? We analyze, which means we criticize things going on in the government in our country. Yeah. For me now, almost the last 44 years, well, 37 in talk. For the last 37 years, I've been criticizing. Right? Yeah, I've been doing it for at least 30 minutes. We've been criticizing for decades. The government. Do I mean, do I, do I, do I hate promoting America? And we get challenged. Yes. Because the key difference is when you have a platform where you're standing up, you know, let's say you're in a place called Hollywood and you get up there and you get a trophy, you know, because a group of people thought you did a good job on that Frankenstein movie, which by the way is crap. It really is Netflix horrible. I don't know how it got a nomination. I saw it got a nomination. I was like, what are you kidding me? But let's say you get that award, you go up there and it probably will. I'm seriously, it's so stupid, but they go up there and then all of a sudden, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you know, and that was the brilliance of Alex life's and speech from the guitars from Rush at the induction of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but it's the, it's this stage you're on and everyone's going to applaud you, you know, because you want, so you must be important. And then there's no debate. There's nobody challenging you. Of course, on social media, you're getting just hammered. And that's, you know, that's the key difference. In what we do, it comes back at you. And when you're wrong, you know, like for instance, you know, I love, I love the fact I love watching Hogan's Heroes because Dean Martin did such a good job in that TV show. I'm anxiously awaiting as a model. As a model. As a model. As the one who drank a little too much. But no, I mean, if you, you know, when you, when you make a mistake or when you, you know, if you say something and all of a sudden it's just one of, you know, it's a hot button or whatever it is, then people will challenge you. You know, we get feedback. You get, you get that challenge. They don't ever get challenged except, you know, again, social media people will comment. They, and, and you don't learn, you don't learn your own convictions until you've had quite some time being in the arena of the back and forth. The challenge is where you learn to formulate the expressions of your convictions. Well, I remember when Obama, remember when he was first running, he went where the flag pin. Yeah. And it was like, you're applying to be the president, right? Of the United States. You got to wear the damn flag pin. Yeah. Where's your, where's your pledge pin, Mr? Yeah. No, yeah. It's like, if you don't want the where the ribbon, well, you don't want to wear the ribbon, the pledge pin, an animal, animal house. But the, the fact is you're, that's like you're applying for a job at a company to be president of that company. And they walk you through the company and they give you the hat. You say, no, I'm going to refuse to wear that hat. Right. Yeah. Well, when it, and then Obama came out and said, well, I've come to realize that wearing the, the flag can be a symbol of false patriotism because you have to talk about the things that are wrong in this country. Well, that's what we do each and every day here. So we do here. I'm doing it. Right. For the majority of my life, I've been doing this. Yeah. And I fly the flag all the time. I flew the flag when Obama was president. Yep. I flew the flag upside down when Biden was, no, I flew it. I didn't do that. I did not do that. It's just some people I know did some friends of mine did. They said, you're not doing it. No, I won't do that. I'm, I am what, when I fly the flag, I'm telling you what I think what does the flag represent to me? Why can I get on the air every single day and criticize the government and still proudly wave my flag, have my red, white and blue lights out, celebrate the fourth of July, honor those who died on Memorial Day, honor our veterans, flags are out all the time. Is it, is it the fact that I have fallen in to that sense of false patriotism that I can't explain it, that I'm just a Bubba going, oh, yeah, go USA, no matter what USA, USA, no, no, no, it's the constitution of the United States. Yep. Yep. It's, it's those that fought and it's not just the document, it is our ultimate law that lays out the rights of individuals, the limitations of government against individuals. Yep. When I criticize the government, I'll criticize individuals, I'll criticize policy and I'll criticize those who are attempting to destroy the freedoms that we have under the Bill of Rights in the Constitution, and I won't be generic about it and you won't be generic about it. We'll get to the minutia and explain why we believe were right and you're wrong. Yep. And you know, if you listen to the show, we've done it from everything from the electoral college to the Senate that the left one's gone, to the role of the Supreme Court of the United States to separation of powers. It's not some athlete going, uh, I don't like let me go down what I'm going to do today. I'm going to let gravity take me down the hill and because gravity takes me down the hill, I'm an expert on the constitutional issues. Yes. And so I can complain and say, I don't like that because that seems mean. Do you understand it? No, but my feelings are hurt. Let gravity take its, right. Let's gravity take its position in physics. We exactly. I go down a hill. I'm an expert on everything else. Right. I've done that. I've got the skin downhill. I've done it. I mean, I wasn't really honest. Geese for most of it. It's kind of more sliding down the hill, but you understand my being a little bit sarcastic. It takes a tremendous amount of effort and practice to do that, but that does not make you that does not make you, I'm going to judge you in the arena of ideas. You don't get a pass because you're an athlete. Well, just like I shouldn't get a pass because I'm such an incredible chasen over to all women out there and one of the best golfers ever, uh, to hold a golf club. Right. What is that you're drinking? Um, the new mushroom drink. No, micro, not macro dosing. Micro. Okay. But the stick to the micro dosing. Here for a long delusional, but it's no, it's the, uh, you know, growing up, thanks to the, uh, the opening of the ABC's wide world of sports over the weekend, you know, watching that every every weekend, most weekends. Oh, yeah. Um, I thought the whole point of skiing was crashing. I really did. I was like, oh, I, I, you must have gotten a high score for that one. Oh, you're not supposed to do that. Um, no, it's again, and there are people that express an aren't on the left is agenda and expressed very simple thoughts, compartmentalize it and express very simple thoughts quite often faith-based thoughts and are also athletes. And it's interesting after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, how much we saw of that and how people in that arena and the athletic arena professional and otherwise, uh, a good handful of them were coming out and saying, I just, you know, after this, I'm not, I can't support the left anymore. And you can tell, and we've talked about it, how there was that pressure, because, you know, the mob was always there, always present. It could affect your career. If you, if you make the wrong decision on what you're going to say about anything, well, you either have conviction or you don't. And if you have conviction on something, then the arena of public ideas, is not the field, not the ski slope or anything else is going to be where you are tested on your convictions. And it's a very, for us for you and I, it's a very simple process, because we can stand back and look at, you know, decades of doing this each and say, all right, you know, they're learning, there's a, there's a learning curve at the beginning, only because you got to learn what you have to learn is to express your convictions. And I don't do anything to, uh, try and be a hero or try and virtue signal. I believe in, in ideas, I believe in certain ideas, people come and go in terms of those who serve in office, but the ideas remain and I haven't changed my mind. I haven't changed my conviction on any major ideas that are the foundation of this nation. And either of I, and in the foundation of a society, you know, we talk about Europe and, and, and other parts of the world cracking down on free speech. Yeah. Because you won't talk like the agenda wants you to talk. Well, we, we have, but that's the, that's the other thing very, just very quickly, that's your thing, you and I, because we've done this for such a long time, really, really appreciate and honor the First Amendment. And we really do, we have the First Amendment here, and in other parts of the world, where we're, you know, they're, they're trying to, they just take the right to way. You don't have a right to free speech, they just take your right away, because you've got to talk like the agenda wants you to talk. This is where I, I do believe, uh, J.D. Vance and others, you know, have talked to other than, and, and communicated to other leaders of the world and said, you know, hey, we can't do this because of the basis of that is even though we're allies as nations. We have given countless lives in the name of free speech and freedom. And while you are ally, are punishing people for that, and that doesn't, that does not work. That has to change. And, you know, all of this is about, of course, our nation, but it's about a free society for everybody on this planet. And that's what you stand up for. This agenda garbage, these people are weak-minded. They're delusional. And they're convictions. I don't know what they are because then they don't express it well. We are Red Eye Radio. We'll be right back with more Red Eye Radio with Eric Curley and Gary McNamara. We are Red Eye Radio. He's our Curley and I'm hearing McNamara. All right. The best take on bad bunny. Yeah. This is the best take. And it, and it came from, uh, uh, uh, John Carney. I believe it's the same John Carney who writes for Breitbart. Okay. The economic guy. Uh, the half time show was a wonderful celebration of our victory in the Spanish American war and a fitting tribute to the Monroe Doctrine. Oh my gosh. Spanish American war in case people don't know is when we acquired Puerto Rico. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I mean, and the other one was John K6 saying, what a great show. This is such a bad one. It was such a great show. What a great show. I'm so good. And Carrie Lake writes back to him. You really are a P word. Yeah. A whim. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, oh my gosh. That's, that's what I don't get the gushing over artists like that. Oh, it was the best ever. Like really, like, uh, Komi with Taylor Swift. Yeah. Right. Oh, we're all Swifties. We're all Swifties. Yeah. No, we're not. No, and you're weird. Out to the hour news is brought to you by How's products visit How's products.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 by you know, that America studios. This is Red Eye Radio. All across America, we are running radio. He is Eric Harley and I'm Gary McNamara. Before we go any further, what one example? Because we we had talked about the left and where they're going. Yeah. And the whole thing with the NFL Super Bowl halftime show. And how they've been leaning left as we know, especially leaning left, uh, since the column cavernick good days of Wow. Hmm. 2015, 2016, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. 10 over 10 years. It's 10. It's 10 years. Wow. But we we talk about the fact that even in the beginning of this year, when they were, you know, keeping the no racism thing and we we said, well, it's good. We've glad that the NFL family has recognized that the Democrats and their identity politics is racist. That's right. And it's good that they do that. It's good that the NFL is finally recognizing the the the the racism and the misogyny of the Democratic Party today. Right. Uh, but this is an example of the identity politics of the left. Ready for this? Here we go. I I saved this story from the other day. I went, cannot there's so much going on that I can't forget this one. Here's the headline white saviors use of whistles causes bitter internal rift inside the anti ice movement organizations across the country. Anti ice organizations across the country are telling predominantly white women activists to quit their white savior behavior during ice operations. Wow. They have a message for their mostly white, by the way, white women allies, quit blowing the whistle. The whistles. Fox News Digital has reviewed days of messages inside signal chat rooms that reveal a new internal feud that erupted inside the anti ice protest industry, pitting immigrant led organizations against predominantly white rapid response networks that have made whistle blowing a dramatic part of anti ice protest. In one dismissal, a rapid responder in Seattle reported back that immigrant networks are being weird. Groups across the country are telling mostly white rapid responders to back off a dynamic described by activists as white savior reminding them that they are not cameo actors in an action movie against ice. A Seattle based immigrant organization publicly rebuked the practice of whistles setting off a backlash inside the mostly white liberal activist rapid response circles. They they wrote a response why we don't want the use of whistles. We show up with Karen accountability, not noise and panic. Apparently the white women are causing panic. Oh, it's not about being the loudest, the bravest or the most visible person on the scene or confronting immigration agents. It is a commitment to non violence discipline and harm reduction centered on the well-being of the most vulnerable immigrant and refugee committees in Washington the post continued. The message amounted to a blunt directive put away the whistles. White people. Yeah, you know, I mean the the rejection of whistles triggered open hostility. We believe in whistles. People want whistles. Nothing nothing changes. No matter what you say one participant wrote in a group called Washington whistles. What are we without the whistles? Wow, it was bound to be a clash internally. You know, I was reading this. This I was laughing so hard to decide what my whistle. That was pretty interesting. It's and so white women stop with the whistles. Whistle free for months. The white whistle blowing has been a favorite tactic of the mostly white rapid responders in cities including Minneapolis, Chicago, New York and Seattle. Uh-huh. There you go. Put down the whistles. In Seattle, the white rapid responder dismiss the group's concerns as condescending arguing that while whistles might be traumatizing, they were surely no worse than being actually kidnapped. Hmm. Which of course is a lie. Yeah, I'm gonna say I don't think that's true. Oh, wow. Yeah, there's bound to be more internal clashing going on. Right. Well, because again, part of what the left is doing, part of who they are requires them to all compete to demonstrate, they want to demonstrate I'm more passionate about this than you are. Right. I'm going to be more of a hero. And and the entire movement of identity, politics and creating more victims, right? Over and over again, is that you create more and more subgroups, which means you're dividing people even within your own side. And that continues to go on because again, the virtue signaling competition is what's at play at all times. Whether it's somebody running for office or some of these radical protest groups, they're all vying to prove they are the biggest hero in the group. And there's going to be some clashing. And it's only going to get worse because again, it's only going to grow further in that direction. There's no there's no turning this around. I like this here. Especially for white allies, they wrote, you notice how they're using the instead of just saying, hey, whoever's doing it, stop with the whistles. Yeah, they have to attach identity, politics, identity politics, too, they have to, but here's here's the beauty. This is the most beautiful part of it. This is one thing I love. Especially for white allies, they wrote, whistles can represent a subconscious desire for authority and control in moments of crisis. Of course, they're white people. But rapid response is not about assuming authority. See, these white people just want these white liberal women, because the majority are white liberal women, as we know, right? They want the authority. They want control. It's exactly what I'm saying. You know, what they're doing is in this competition to see this virtual or virtual virtue signaling competition, they're trying to be on top. That's the whole idea. They want to be the loudest, which is to be the leader. They want it, which is control. This is, this has been going on, you know, remember the whole I am Cecil. Oh, Cecil the lion. Yes. I am Cecil. No, you're not Cecil. You're a person. What was the next one after that? Oh, because they were using a lot for other things. Yeah, yeah. And then they would have me be like, I am. Right. I am Spartacus. Right. Yeah. Well, that wasn't from Cory Booker. That was from that thing you do. Right. That movie. Right. I'm confusing movies. Yeah. Well, it's, you know, it's, you know, and I understood it after the assassination immediately after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. There were people that were conservative that were posting I am Charlie Kirk, which was to say, I plan on carrying on his mission. But that's not what the left means by it at all. There's is a different type of virtue signaling in it, in it being a competition, in it being really a way to, to vie for power. They're, they're trying to be the leader of the group, the loudest. And then they accuse the white people the white, mostly women, liberal activists blowing the whistles about the disproportionate impact on black and brown communities that are already overexposed to chronic noise pollution, which a link to PTSD, anxiety, sleep disruption, and heart disease. Yeah. And I think they hate the fact that the white people come in and start blowing their whistles and saying, Hey, you haven't earned this virtue signaling. That's what I believe it is. No, I think it is too. I think you're right. Yeah. Because they're all about identity politics. Right. They judge people by groups and not individuals. Right. They're all a bunch of damn racist is what they are. And it was, and again, it was bound to because we have been saying, today you're the victim. Tomorrow, you're the oppressor. Yeah. It's happening. That this is more and more, we see this play out on the left because it can only go that way. This is what they've created through identity politics. It's the only way this can go. Because they cannot make these statements here without doing what? Without attaching identity to it. And I'm with you. I think it's, look, you white people showing up is laughable. You white women showing up. And we've seen it. How many times have we seen it? Where it's actually, we've talked about it on the air, talking to the, you know, the, the, the girls screaming in the black police officers face that you're a disgrace to your race because you're a police officer. Yeah. But I just, I love this last part. But in the trenches, the mostly white allies continue diminishing the guidance saying they were going, they're going to continue business as usual, blowing their whistles by midweek. Washington whistles made its stubborn position public posting a message on Instagram saying whistles work. There are called accords in a decision to care out loud. It declared lane claim to the moral high ground. This is all virtuous signaling here. Yeah. One user then asked maybe for more bright colored whistles that can work around the neck as a symbol of resistance that everyone can see as they go about their day. So we need rainbow colored whistles. Ah. Make a billion dollars off that. Yeah. I'd like to manufacture rainbow colored whistles. I started the weekend with that. Well, one of the stories I started the weekend was that, and I've been laughing ever since at everything this entire weekend. I'm like, oh my god. I'm going to have more coming up here. Yeah. It's been a crazy weekend. Really has. You know, man and more on the gothry kidnaping. Whoa. My god. It's that just I've never seen anything like this. No. In my life. No. From a number of different angles that we'll get to here. Yeah. Because it was just, well, well, every every story that comes out brings for me it dozens more questions. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I hope and pray she is brought home safe. And then the speculation from it's just from from all the experts can be 180 degrees. Right. They'll watch one thing and say this and the other expert will say, here's what I see. And I'm like, yeah, you don't know. I don't know what's going on. I have no idea. The one thing I do know what's going on is obviously they're looking at the fan. They're looking at somebody in the family. I think it's I think it's possible certainly. And I've never heard two deadlines. We're going to give you two deadlines. Here's one. Here's the other. Right. No, this is odd because as kidnappers, you want to do the deed and get out. Right. The longer you wait, the more likely you are to be caught. Right. None of it makes sense. Right. No, we'll get to that coming up. We are right. I radio. This morning's USDA Farm report is brought to you by House Products. Tested, trusted, guaranteed since 1920. 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So reckless, so careless at the minimum. But it's just because I don't believe in my heart of hearts that he's erased. In the do I? There's never been any evidence of this. This is one of those things that people will just latch on to. Yep. And you know it. Yep. And he did it on the day, the second day or maybe the third day of the Rasmussen polling, which is the Republican pollster, having his lowest approval numbers. Yeah. Right. And he's out there throwing out stuff that really makes no difference in whether his administration succeeds or not, which we want his administration to succeed. Promote the agenda, promote what you're doing, promote everything on your agenda and promote your party. I don't know what the attempt was here. No. And so at the minimum, his excuse, well, I didn't watch the entire thing. I gave it to staffer than they posted it. What are you talking about? You didn't look at the entire thing. Yeah. Yeah. That's again, that doesn't fly. No, it may be true, but then it's like if it were true, so incredibly careless and reckless. Exactly. Yeah. How are you letting anybody do that? We know that post it go out on social media. For him, they're approved before they're posted. They're approved before they're posted. And if you didn't watch the whole thing, it's on you. Catch Red Eye Radio Live every night on the Red Eye Radio app available in the app store. Red Eye Radio. And he is there. I'm gary Mac. You know, I got to go back and just check some of the headlines out to see if there's been any change in the kidnapping story. Right. Yeah. It's there are so many questions regarding the whole thing. I'm reading this here that former FBI assistant director Chris Swetcher questioned whether Nancy Guthrie's disappearance is truly a kidnapping during an appearance on Fox News. I'm very skeptical of this. Is this really happening? Does somebody really have her? And is she really alive? He pointed out to the lack of verified proof of life saying if this was a kidnapping, it would be a very simple matter to authenticate and provide proof of life. Adding that such proof has not been credibly authenticated at this point. He also raised concerns about the reported Bitcoin ransom, which he noted dramatically increased. Remember now it was a million not too long ago. All the sudden it's six million six. Yeah. I really think there's a third party here that's just playing with them. Opportunists who think they can exploit this situation unless none of that is true. Well, there was a guy who was apprehended who they say was not responsible for the kidnapping, but sent the family messages and was asking for Bitcoin. But that's not related to this. This new ransom story on the six million dollars in Bitcoin. Here's the thing that I mean, I guess some of the signs that I looked at when they after they did the second video, I mean, you just saw the experts parsing the words they're saying. Yeah, this looks like it was written by the FBI or and I don't know whether it was or not. But the way that it was said, you know, nobody was saying we want her home alive. Yeah. You know, you and I both noticed how even the sheriff when he said, well, we believe she's still out there. We went, I don't know what that means. You know, language is extremely important, but maybe that's the language that they wish to use. Right. For whatever reason. And I don't know what it is. Right. But the fact of there has been and and going in there, not securing that scene, that scene should be secure even now. Yeah, it should have been secure because you and I even asked a question, but they went in, okay, okay, remember, why is the media looking at these blood spatters? Well, because the police are gone. What are you talking about? Right. This soon they've got through though. And then they're back there at multiple times they've been back there. Right. And then, you know, the the the sisters car. Excuse me, the daughter's car. Yeah. The other daughter's car. Right. You know, you've heard they've they've looked at, you know, apparently this is what sources are saying. The brother-in-law, but then looking at the manhole or the septic tank cover, whatever that whatever that was and continuing going back, you would think that if the family thought that they were looking, why you spending time looking at other properties of the family, why aren't you looking to find out you don't hear any of that? Right. Yeah. It's, you know, it's so hard to know, but there are this whole thing is multi-directional. You know, it just doesn't. Why are they allowing? This why are they allowing drones to fly overhead? Right. Is everything that they're doing there? You know, when they allow the media to cover, right, they're looking at this manhole cover, they're looking there is is that to throw off the true kidnappers? So much of this doesn't make sense from initially the point and we had just briefly mentioned it on Thursday show. The two deadlines. Right. Because even then we knew there were two dead what do you mean two deadlines? Right. And that has never been explained. Right. The first one came and went. I'm proud of it. And then here we are today is the second one. But it's and they had talked about the second deadline before the first deadline was over. Right. It doesn't make any sense. Well, in the family making a video, we will pay. We're willing to pay. Well, again, where is where is the contact? Proof of life because you need to prove if there's going to be a ransom paid, you need to prove she's alive, which is very easy. Yeah. And you simply ask. And we've seen if she's alive, we want an answer to this question. Not that I expect to learn everything about the case. The thing is, is that there are so many things that just don't seem to fit. For example, if you were kidnapped, and I was attempting to deal with the kidnappers, I would say, all right, have Eric finish this sentence. We are doomed. Exactly. I mean, that's that's what you're looking for. Something that only, well, then again, our entire audience knows that. So that would you understand the point I was trying to make. Yeah. But you asked something that only you would know and the answer should be there like that. Then you know she's alive. Let's do the deal. That doesn't take this length of time. Right. Why did the first ransom note come solely in kidnappings. If you want the money, you keep the person alive, you prove they're alive, and you get it done ASAP, you don't give the FBI. Was it no? Nine days, 10 days was and it was Saturday. It was that Saturday. Yeah. Yeah. So nine days, you were missing overnight, Saturday night and Sunday morning. You don't give them nine days. No. Well, because the kidnapper then has the burden of making sure this person is alive for that period of time, and also not being able to run, you know, or be on the run because she's not mobile. There are just too many things here that just don't add up. And you saw the sheriff and the pictures of him at a basketball game over the weekend. And then next thing, you know, the sheriff's vehicle was back at the house over the weekend and carried something out in a bad. We don't know, have no idea what that is. Oh, yeah. The stuff that was carried out, yeah, that, but why are cameras allowed to see that? Well, and again, by that, you, wouldn't it be the, wouldn't it be the protocol? Or why isn't it the protocol that you preserve the scene because you assume that it could well be a murder and you want to preserve all the evidence. So nobody gets to go in until you can, until you can do that, until you can rule that out and get her home safely. Nobody gets to be in that space except for investigators. Because that's the whole thing is, you know, I had a police officer friend of mine, a detective that told me one time, well, you go in and, you know, in a situation. And if there's a death and you know, there's a death, then you have to treat the scene as if it were a homicide, like somebody else responsible for their death, whether it's manslaughter or first degree murder or whatever or anything in between, you have to treat the scene as if it were a crime until you can rule that out. And I'm not sure why that didn't happen here. There just seemed to be too many gaps in the entire timeline. The fact that Savannah Guthrie called Mark Kelly. She called him Senator Kelly. First, she was on her way to the airport because her mom had gone missing, didn't show up for church and he was talking about that over the weekend. Yeah, she called me first and then I called local authorities because, you know, she knew me and knew that I lived near there and then I called local authorities. And I don't know, that could have been, you know, there's a lot of emotion going on and she's not sure and she doesn't want to make a big deal if it's just that she's, you know, with a friend or maybe in an ER somewhere and nothing bad has happened. I don't know. You know, your mind could be all over the place if something like that's happening. No, not placing any blame on Savannah Guthrie for doing that. But when you add that part to that one element to it, to everything else, it's just, it just seems like there's so many gaps in this case and it's entire case. And everything has happened. I'm really in the last 36 hours. You look and you say, well, you're looking at somebody in the family. Which would be normal. Right. Which is with Elizabeth Smart. Right. They looked at the dad. They looked at the dad's brother. They looked, you know, and because remember the dad in the Elizabeth Smart case, you know, he was distraught. But people were saying, well, he didn't shed any tears. We didn't see any tears running down his face. And, you know, the way that the mom and dad at that time were pleading, you know, for whoever took Elizabeth to bring her back and all of that. And they said, the story didn't, you know, add up. And it was an odd case. It was bizarre. And you can watch on Netflix, the Elizabeth Smart case. And Elizabeth Smart is on it. She's talking about it. But, but it's typical for them to look at family members. It is typical for them to start with family members because you have to start with a person who last saw her alive. And that was reportedly the son-in-law. So you start there and you have to work a while before you rule them out. You know, and things aren't going to look right. And, but you still can't prove that anything happened. And it just, but it just something is with the ransom here is what throws everything off from me. I remember John Walsh when he talked about, you know, what you do, what you just, your natural instincts, for example, when his son was kidnapped. And it's like, search me, do whatever. I didn't do it. Right. Because you want to rule me out of the spot. Right. Rule me out. Lie detector. Whatever you need. Do whatever you need. To my house, whatever you need my house. Search my car. Search everything here. In fact, I would almost be insistent on you check out everything. You look at my car. You look at this. There's so much that wasn't done up front that was done after there could be contamination of the crime site that you're thinking what the world's going on. Right. It was in fact, America's most wanted. It was Walsh that helped the ultimately, Elizabeth Smart's case because the parents had a lead on a name. The sister was in the room when Elizabeth Smart was taken. Her sister was. She recognized the voice. And then later she remembered who the voice, who the voice belonged to. And it was somebody who had worked at the house for a very short period of time, a contractor. And then they knew his name and they wanted to. There was a sketch artist and the whole thing involved. And they wanted to put that out there. But the police said no, because that might spook the captors. And if she's still alive, she could get hurt. And finally, they didn't, they went around the police and they just had a press conference. And America's most wanted broadcast to it. And ultimately that led to her them finding her. And this one seems, again, based on the ransom situation, there's just a lot of questions. We are Rudi Radio. Coming up more with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, it's Rudi Radio. We are Rudi Radio. He's our Kronin. I'm Gary McNamara. Ah, yes. We may have sports politics stories all week. You know, we just mentioned this last week a little bit, but more on it over the weekend as the media just faunting over the, the, the trans male who is competing against women, which means it's a woman competing against women. Yeah. Why is that a story? This is grud. It's not the media. This is groundbreaking. No, a biological woman who identifies as a man is competing against women at the Olympics. You mean a woman's competing against a woman? It's never been against an issue. Never, never once been an issue. Not even once, ever. Not an issue. And the IOC says, yes, this is okay. Because it's a woman because it's a woman. And the media is faunting over it like it's right groundbreaking. Ground breaking is a first. No. No. Oh my god. It was a fun weekend. This is RIDI radio on Westwood one. The Dan Bangeino show. Damn, I missed you all. 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