02-10-26 Part One - A Constitutional Check Up
76 min
•Feb 10, 20262 months agoSummary
Red Eye Radio hosts Gary McNamara and Eric Harley discuss constitutional literacy in America, highlighting a shocking video of a North Carolina sheriff unable to name the three branches of government. The episode emphasizes the separation of powers as fundamental to protecting rights and criticizes widespread public ignorance about basic civics, connecting this to broader political and cultural debates.
Insights
- Public ignorance of basic constitutional structure (three branches of government) is widespread and represents a critical vulnerability to democratic function and rights protection
- The separation of powers, not the Bill of Rights, is the foundational mechanism that prevents tyranny and protects individual liberties in a constitutional republic
- Political movements that lack understanding of constitutional fundamentals cannot meaningfully debate or critique government policy, making informed discourse impossible
- Identity politics and critical race theory represent a return to judging people by group characteristics rather than individual merit, contradicting constitutional principles
- Elected officials demonstrating constitutional ignorance pose a direct threat to institutional checks and balances, as they cannot fulfill their constitutional duties
Trends
Declining civic education and constitutional literacy among American public and elected officialsWeaponization of constitutional ambiguity by political movements seeking to dismantle separation of powersGrowing skepticism of institutional legitimacy driven by public inability to understand foundational governmental structuresIdentity politics as institutionalized racism replacing merit-based individual assessment in policy and cultureGenerational erosion of constitutional knowledge despite widespread access to information and educational resourcesLaw enforcement and judicial branch confusion about constitutional roles and jurisdictional boundariesPoliticization of basic civics education as left-right cultural battlegroundRansom kidnapping cases revealing communication gaps between federal and local law enforcement agencies
Topics
Constitutional literacy and civic education requirementsSeparation of powers doctrine and its role in protecting rightsThree branches of government structure and functionIdentity politics and institutional racismCritical race theory and merit-based assessmentVoter ID requirements and election securityTransgender policy and medical ethics for minorsLaw enforcement jurisdictional authorityFederal-local law enforcement coordinationRansom kidnapping investigation proceduresProof of life protocols in abduction casesNFL political activism and consumer boycottsTaxpayer funding for sports stadium constructionReligious arguments for progressive policy positionsMisogyny in radical gender ideology movements
Companies
NFL
Discussed regarding political activism, liberal leadership under Roger Goodell, and consumer boycotts by conservative...
Fox News
Referenced regarding British ownership and media coverage of royal events, criticized for promoting royalty obsession
Rasmussen Reports
Polling firm praised for methodology and data sharing with presidential administration on public opinion
JJ Keller and Associates
Safety consulting firm providing guidance on cruise control usage and motor carrier safety policies
People
Anthony Scalia
Late Supreme Court Justice cited for arguing separation of powers is more important than Bill of Rights
Alan Chessar
North Carolina Republican state representative who questioned sheriff about constitutional branch of government
Gary McFadden
Mecklenburg County Sheriff (Democrat) unable to identify three branches of government or his own jurisdiction
Barack Obama
Former president criticized for learning Constitution only to dismantle it; student loan records not disclosed
Andy Beshear
Kentucky governor criticized for using Christianity to justify opposition to anti-transgender legislation
Scott Rasmussen
Pollster and founder of Rasmussen Reports, praised for polling methodology and data analysis
Mark Mitchell
Data analyst recently met with president to share polling data on public opinion
James Carville
Democratic strategist cited for criticizing identity politics as divisive party practice
Tim Ryan
Ohio Democrat cited for opposing identity politics and calling for merit-based individual assessment
Elizabeth Smart
Kidnapping survivor featured in documentary discussing investigation procedures and proof of life protocols
Nancy Guthrie
Celebrity kidnapping victim whose case is discussed regarding ransom demands and proof of life issues
Savannah Guthrie
Daughter of Nancy Guthrie making public statements about mother's disappearance and ransom situation
Raleigh Gaines
Athlete who publicly identified radical transgender movement as misogynist, praised by hosts
Roger Goodell
NFL Commissioner criticized as liberal pushing political activism and international expansion agenda
Colin Kaepernick
Former NFL player referenced regarding 2016-2017 political activism and anthem protests
Quotes
"The separation of powers is that tugging and pulling where the founding fathers looked at other forms of government and said, the number one thing we have to do, if you want to keep the Bill of Rights, you don't keep the Bill of Rights. The separation of powers is gone."
Gary McNamara•Early segment
"If you can't name the three branches of government, if you can't start there with the basics, we're not saying pass a test. Name the three branches. The separation of powers is critical to all of it."
Gary McNamara•Mid-episode
"You are incorrect, sir. You fall under the executive."
Alan Chessar•Audio clip segment
"The most misogynist, the most misogynist thing in my lifetime has been the mainstream Democrat endorsement of the radical transgender movement."
Eric Harley•Late segment
"How do you protest? Yeah. Right. What do you, what is it? And you've been asking the question, I don't know, for years now, what do you think this country, what would your version of a constitution be?"
Eric Harley•Mid-episode
Full Transcript
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 Unident America Studios, this is Red Eye Radio. Across America, we are Red Eye Radio. He is Eric Harley and I'm Gary McNamara. Hi. Thanks for being here. Yeah. Thanks a lot. All right. Let's get really to the one of the base narratives of our show. Yeah. And one of the base narratives of our show, we've talked about this many, many times before, is that we believe that there ought to be a polling test. Yeah. Before you go, before you go and vote or before you take a poll. Yeah. To find out before you take a poll and before you vote, we're kidding about the voting here. No. That if you have a clue about how this country is run, we've always been amazed that, you know, the left screaming fascism and Nazism and all this stuff and all the isms, all the isms. You break it down, you look at it, you say, no, actually this is in the constitution. This is actually what is in the constitution, which is we, the people through our elected representatives creating the law. So it's the opposite. And so we've often said there ought to be a test and the test should be really before any poll is done because what does a poll mean if the people are completely clueless? It may give you an indication of where they stand and where they vote, but it also shows you their complete ignorance. And one of the things we've often said is before anybody is pulled or should be able to vote getting there. They should be able to at least explain to you how our government is formed under the constitution. Yeah. What our government is about. So we've often said there ought to be a test just asking people, what are the three branches of government? We want to qualify you as a respondent. Our poster company would like to qualify you as a respondent and we'll start with this. Can you name the three branches of government? Right. Now we may have to change that after today's show to do you know how many branches of government they're all. And we'll let the audio kind of play that out because now I've got more questions as to the lengths of the ignorance of the American public. And it's seemingly endless. Yes. Not all. It doesn't include our audience. And it's important. Yeah. It's important that the general public and people in positions of power, you know, have a clue as to what differentiates us in the constitution from actually a communist or fascist state, right? Or what differentiates us from many other different constitutions. You know, I can still remember. And I don't, I can't tell you exactly when it was a few decades ago. When someone said, and it was, you know, I don't, I just can't remember who said it, but I went, what? I went, oh, they're right. And this is when somebody said, the Bill of Rights is not the most important part of the constitution. The Bill of Rights is not the most important part of the constitution of power. It's a separation of powers. It's the three branches of government. Yeah. Was it Scalia? Was that okay? Scalia? Well, it was Scalia. It was. It was. Thank you for reminding me. And people, people are like, what are you talking about? Nothing is what you don't have. The separation of powers is that tugging and pulling where the founding fathers looked at other forms of government and said, the number one thing we have to do, if you want to keep the Bill of Rights, you don't keep the Bill of Rights. The separation of powers is gone. Yeah. If power can be controlled in one section of the government and they can have all the power, well, then all your rights can be stripped away. By the way, I want to stop for those, uh, some that maybe have accidentally landed on our show that maybe learning something here with his segment, um, that we were referring to the late, uh, Supreme Court Justice Anthony and Scalia. Yes. And he served in the judicial branch. Yes. Exactly. Well, this came out yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. I almost, I almost texted you and I said, because I saw it right before I went to sleep. I had to go to sleep. Right before I went to sleep. And I said, my, my first thought was, well, I'm not even going to bring this up to Eric. I'm just going to play the audio. Yeah. Right. And, uh, and just, and, but we started talking about it and you were, you already had, had seen it. Yeah. I mean, that you had just because I can hear everybody out there going, Gary, this better damn deliver, whatever you're going to play. Oh, believe me, it does. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, believe me. There's a payoff. We would not have this type of leading. No. If it didn't pay off, there's a payoff here. So here we go. This is questioning back and forth. Yeah. North Carolina State representative Alan Chessar, a Republican. And in, uh, this has been in North Carolina, uh, Mecklenburg County Sheriff, Gary McFadden, a Democrat. Yeah. All right. All right. Here we go. All right. You see this and you're just like, we're doomed. All right. Here we go. All right. You made reference earlier that you're a constitutional office. Um, my colleague made reference that there are constitutional divisions amongst responsibilities between us and you, uh, what branch of government do you operate under? Mecklenburg County. What branch of government do you operate under, Sheriff? Constitution of the United States. Correct. That is what establishes the branches of government. I'm asking which branch you fall under. Mecklenburg County. We do this one Mecklenburg County Sheriff. We ask it to the people of Mecklenburg County. This was not where I was anticipating getting stuck. Um, uh, are you aware how many branches of government there are? No. Ouch. Okay. For the sake of debate, I will move on and say there are three branches of government, legislative executive judicial of those three. Which do you believe you fall under? I believe I fall under the last one. Would you say it to me? Judicial. Okay. You are incorrect, sir. You fall under the executive. Listen. Oh my god. I for our long term listeners, you know, every point that we've made leading up to this audio. See what we're talking about? You know, we've been on this. You know that we've been on this. And also you know that we've been saying for 20 years and beyond, we're doomed. This is somebody who is holding a share of you elected office to enforce the law. This is somebody who had to appeal to other people to vote for him. Again, now we've had Scott Rasmussen on. Great pollster. Very knowledgeable about that process. Rasmussen reports. We talk about Mark Mitchell all the time. And we end and quote him or then I think we played his audio. He's recently met with the president to kind of share some data with the president on what people are thinking. And so we have great respect for Rasmussen reports, Scott and I won't say the entire polling process because methodologies differ. But we have been saying for the longest time, you got to start and it's too expensive. We know why. But if you qualify, you're lucky to just get somebody to respond. You got to qualify because to me, it means nothing. If you can't name the three branches of government, if you can't start there with the basics, we're not we're not saying pass a test. Name the three branches. The separation of powers is critical to all of it. Julia was right. It's critical without it. Everything fails. And with people in office that don't even know what the three branches really doesn't couldn't tell you how many there are. You have to wonder because now I want to go to Capitol Hill. And I want to start and we'll start with the left. I'm just choosing one randomly. We'll start with the Democrats and go through there and let's see how much they actually know about the Constitution. Didn't know. I will say this. Not all of them in elected office are completely ignorant. In fact, they will learn enough about the Constitution to know how to try and dismantle it because they're ultimate goal. I believe that was the practice of former president Barack Obama when he was president. We've never seen his grades when he went to school. I remember they were still paying off student loans when they moved into the White House. We were told. But he certainly didn't put them out there for everybody to see, but he. I believe people like him learned enough about just enough about the Constitution in order to try and dismantle it. And that's of course what they try and do, but it becomes extremely dangerous. When on any level of government, you have this kind of ignorance because it really is willful ignorance, you have to go out of your way to not know these things. And if you're running for office, let's say you didn't learn it or whatever. And then you in your younger years, you decide, well, I'm going to, I'm going to run, but I better know some things because things are going to be thrown at me. This is this should start. This should be the one that even gets you. I mean, when you're filling out the form, I'm going to, you know, I'm going to run for share of whatever I'm going to run for this office. Well, take this test first because we need to know that you're not completely off the charts, ignorant. Well, you know, the, the, the, the left and the whole America sucks movement, which I find really incredible because you have these people that say America sucks and don't even know why it sucks. Right. They can't even, they can't even tell you, you know, what is it? You, you believe the constitution is flawed. What is it? Right. And you know, everybody that I have talked to one to one, including liberals, when they've asked me, and these are people that I've known for ages. And so they know that I'll explain stuff to them. And it isn't immediately tribal. And they'll say, why can't we have the popular voter? You know, why, why does the Senate, you know, exist? What's going on? And when I explain it to them, they go, oh, yeah, you're right. Yeah. Yeah. You know, where you say, well, no, every state has a Senate. They have, you know, two representatives to the Senate because there needs to be, that's why you have the by camera legislature. You have the house and then you have the Senate. Right. And the house is there to represent the apportionment of people in states. And the Senate is there to represent the state. It gives a state at least in part of the three branches of government representation. And the founding fathers did that because they knew that if the Senate didn't exist, that if you look at it right now, it would be California, New York, Florida, and Texas, basically controlling, throwing Illinois in there, basically controlling everything. Right. Yeah. And, and you would have no right. And if you don't have, when you teach people, you know, well, how do we become a country? We became a country because what taxation without representation, you had no representation. If states don't believe they don't have representation in the government, auto, excuse me, we talked about Canada yesterday. Yeah. And the article that said, hmm, we should make Canada the 51st state, but split it up in tech Alberta first. Exactly. And then I told you about these, these people I know in the music business up in Canada that I've communicated with, and probably for 10 years on a bunch of different things, musically speaking, not politics. We're living because of the secessionist movement in Alberta to get out. And as we brought to you yesterday, they feel they're not represented that they're being controlled by all the other provinces. And they don't like it. Right. Right. We don't have control of our own destiny. We have no representation in our own destiny. Now you can still have representation and not still get what you want all the time. But the fact is it's the representation that you have the opportunity to get it that keeps civil wars from happening. Once you explain it to people, they're like, oh yeah. Yeah. But the fact is we've got a ton of people, you know, the whole no kings crap. Yeah. Well, you're completely and totally ignorant or willfully ignorant. Yes. Well, because you're showing up at a protest and the people leading those protests are flying on private jets to get there. What the hell are you doing? What are you protesting? What are you? You don't even know what you're against and who you're for. If you don't even know how the country is run, how can you say it sucks? When you have no clue, the basis of the ultimate law of this country versus other countries and you have no clue how the damn thing runs, how can you protest? Yeah. Right. What do you, what is it? And you've been asking the question, I don't know, for years now, what do you think this country, what would your version of a constitution be? What is it? You think it should be and they can't answer that. They don't know because they don't know because they don't have convictions because all they do is carry around their protest sign, which is a dry erase board and will tell you what we're against, you know, the next thing that comes up will be against that too. Well, that's called from the movie PCU from 1994, cause heads. Exactly. They have a different cause every week. Yep. They're going to be a hero. 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You've got, you caught the news all the time. We all knew at that time at seven years old and I remember as a child going to sleep at night thinking, wow, we could be destroyed. We could blow up the entire world. You know, that was what we were going through with that time. And so my father wanted us to know the difference between the Soviet Union and us. I learned the three branches of government when I was seven years old and not even in school. Right. It was a very serious situation and he wanted you to know what was going on like any good parent and what and what we're about as a nation. Tired of partisan noise. America is 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. Following 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. On our website, redeyeradioshow.com, chill info with stations, podcasts and more red. I radio. And he is here. Curly and I'm gerrymacked. I'm a download our redeye radio app today. And you can listen at your convenience. That's right. Like right now to redeye radio. Yeah. It's true. So yeah, it's, you know, I just, I just find it, you know, the sheriff who didn't know with three branches of government are and didn't know what branch he was a part of. And couldn't even tell you how many there were. I just, I find it just so interesting because it's something that I knew at seven years of age. And my father explained was basically the, you know, the, the separation of powers as the difference between our constitutional republic and what was the Soviet Union at the time of one party system. And it was easy for me to understand. And then he broke down the legislature. He did this in a matter of five minutes. Yeah. And it had a huge impact on me because obviously even as a seven year old, I would have rather had a democratic process where I had a say in the house. Because that probably was my next question. How come we don't practice that in the house? How come I don't have representation? What the hell's going on here? Dad let me introduce you to my lawyer. And but it made, it made sense to me. It had a huge impact on me at a very, very young age because people go through, I think ignorance is what causes panic and rage. Yeah. One of the things that causes panic and rage. And at that time during the cold war and after the Cuban missile crisis, you know, anti-communist rhetoric was huge. And so I wanted to know and my father explained to me, not in a way that I was not in a partisan way, but in a constitutional way. Yeah. Right. And so for me, it's something that was ingrained to me when I was in elementary school and defined whenever the poll comes out, it's usually like 50 to 60 or 50 to 70 percent of people cannot name the three branches of government. When you sit there and you say, well, we need to preface everything from now on. You know what the three branches of government are, because why argue about the United States of America when you don't even know how the hell it works? Well, excuse my language, but I mean, it's just something that is so mind boggling to me. You know, this is, and I mentioned earlier, you know, I believe people, including the former president Barack Obama learned just enough about the Constitution so that they can work to dismantle it and change it. And I think to myself, if you're on the left, if you really hate America, I mean, I don't get it at all. If you really do, wouldn't you want to learn everything about it in order to try and dismantle it? Wouldn't that be the play, right? Wouldn't you want to know to make the argument about what the weaknesses are? Yeah. Yeah. If you're looking to say, no, there's weaknesses in this country and what you find out the weaknesses are, the vast majority of the time, 99% of the time has got nothing to do with the Constitution. It may be some laws that exist out there or some legislation, but it's people. Yes. But it's not the Constitution. And this is the problem the left has. This is why they don't want people to be informed. Not only do they believe you're ignorant or stupid and that those are two different things, by the way, ignorant isn't necessarily stupid. Some stupid people are ignorant, but not all ignorant people are stupid. It's whether you know the facts or not. And then whether you have the ability to learn the facts. My mama said stupid is stupid does. I was crazy. And the problem that the left has with people learning is that the more you learn about the foundation of this country and how it's set up, the more you learn, oh my gosh, this is what I have in terms of my rights, but this is also what I have in terms of opportunity. And then they get into when we talk about like earnings because they, you know, eat the rich and, you know, which number one, you. And number two, I, it's this mindset that you have to create in those minds through indoctrination to be jealous and envious of the rich. But then all of a sudden, people start earning money. And then they say, wait a minute, why are, why am I, why am I paying so much in taxes? Why am I not getting a tax refund anymore? Why was, and then you start again, learning. And when you learn, you feel more empowered and then you want more liberty. And then all of a sudden things start changing in your life. And the left cannot have that. They need everybody fully indoctrinated. They need them to be willfully ignorant. Hey, look, something's happening on your phone. Don't pay attention to anything. And quite ironically, the phone, that little computer in your hand can also find the truth for you. If you want it, that's where willfully ignorant comes in because you have the ability to find it. You have the technology to find it and you still choose not to, not to find it, not to learn it. Well, I mean, there's just some basic things that I learned like, again, when I learned the three branches of government, as we got into the Vietnam war and it became unpopular. And I always go back to my 10th grade. There would have been in 70, I think, 7071. The 10th grade substitute teacher who came in and said there's no difference between communism and our form of government. I had been prepared for eight years as a child. I could argue that. Because one of the things that happened was once I understood our constitution and understood the difference between as a child, the United States and the former Soviet Union, a communist society, then I would look at dictatorships and fascist governments and royalty, princes and kings and all of that. And I was able to look at it even as a child and say, no, Pires is better. What else is out there? I was always searching, is this the best form? Is there something else that can beat it? But I did it based on the knowledge of what actually is, not some type of delusion in my mind. And I didn't let people's mistakes or people's immorality color what the truth is about what the constitution of the United States is because there's a government that I disagree with does not mean that I hate the constitution. It's because you have the left attempting to change the constitution, ignore the constitution or destroy the three branches of government as they're trying to do through the judicial branch as we've talked about for the long time because with the separation of powers and being a part of it also comes the responsibility to uphold your constitutional oath. And they say to hell with that and you realize, oh, okay, people have to actually in the three branches of government understand what their role is and not attempt to expand their role as we have seen from activist judges. But you're you're much more able to look at the world and understand in a real world narrative where you stand as a country. But you've got people. I mean, that's the thing. We always go back to the no Kings thing because it's all imagery not backed by any substance at all. No, zero. Well, it's it's, you know, for the most part, the same people that are at these no Kings rallies are the same people that will be at home holding their own royal wedding watching party when somebody gets married across the pond. Which has as somebody who was taught very early on, I've always laughed at America's and the media's obsession to wish to have any type of royalty at all. Right. No, right. Let the muts lead. Right. Now, look, Fox News, we know you're owned by a Brit. We know how that works. But calm down. And so I, you know, I again, seeing that it was I knew when I saw it, I went, okay, that's how I knew. And I said, that's this how we start the show because it's basically one of the things. If you've been a listener to the show, we've talked about this. Yes. Andlessly about the ignorance of the so much of the American public, the vast majority on the left. Yes. And it just gets to be, it's, it's just, it's frustrating because it's something that every should be ingrained into everybody's mind. Because how do you, you can't have a debate about the country. How do I have a debate with you if you don't even know how the country runs? Right. Right. You know, I heard, I know this is off the topic a little bit yesterday, but I heard, can't we even in this country agree on what the right super bowl act is? Am I, you know, my first thought was, no, not when the other side can't identify what a woman is. Right. When you can't identify what a woman is, we got a problem. Yeah. How do you argue? How do you debate with the other side? You know, you had, uh, uh, what's his name, uh, you know, Talariko the other day, you know, who's running against, uh, you see, she's in the lead now. Yeah. I knew who's going to hurt him when he came out and said, well, no, no, the Bible approves abortion. And then you had the Democrat Kentucky governor, Beshear, who's supposed to be some kind of moderate, was trying to use Christianity to defend his perverted evil view of the radical transgender movement and surgeries. Yeah. Yeah. You know, on children, right? And try to frame it in a way that is based on Christianity. Right. These people are evil perverts who don't even want to know the truth. And he's viewed as a moderate. And after that statement, he's it, that statement that he said, if he truly believes that, he's an evil pervert and incredibly evil, trying to justify the Christianity somehow gives you the authority. Yeah. To, to mutilate children. Yeah. I mean, how do you deal with where do you start? So yeah, I can understand why there's a sensitivity on the, on the right towards, okay, what's your real motivation here? Because you kept lying to us over and over again. Oh, we'd never be for that. We'd never be for that. And then all of a sudden, you've got the entirety of the Democratic Party who believes men should compete against women in sports cannot tell you the definition of a woman and believes you should do mutilation on children. Yeah. And as we said, it was, it took the Republicans and the pounding of Republicans and conservatives. And finally, it even went beyond that to stop it. It's going to be the civil courts. Yeah. The loss that has begun for, for, for negligence and, and that has begun. And so if anybody on the left wonders the communication problem we have, there it is. That's it. There is no middle ground on those issues. And the other place there's no middle ground is there identity politics. And I still am furious at the Republicans for not talking like we do. And pounding on these evil perverts on the, the radical transgender movement, but also identity politics. They should call out Democrats every day because Democrats called themselves out. Yeah. James Carville did it. Tim, what's his name? I think it was named out from Ohio did it. And he called out, you know, when, when, way back then said identity politics is a problem, which is racism. You're judging people by groups and not individuals. Oh, yeah, running for, he was running against a nasty for speaker. We are Rudi radio. We'll be right back with more Rudi radio with Eric Curley and Gary McNamara. Yeah. So, it's, it's important to bring that up because really that the whole three branches of government is something that you've been a long time and even a short time listener to show. Yeah. You know, that we've talked about as a standard of knowledge that people should have before they start criticizing the government. Yeah, you should understand what your government is about. This is an art. Well, even if you, again, if you're radical, I don't know, I don't think like a radical, but I would think that if you're a radical trying to change it and dismantle the constitution, you should know it first. Let me say constitution, not government. Yeah. And, and it's, it's remarkable. But this is what happens through indoctrination for generations and generations and generations. You make sure they get out into the world with very little knowledge. Out to the hour news is brought to you by How's product. Visit HowProducts.com. This is Rudi Radio on Westwood One. We're into the thick of the season now and so does Carl's reward shaker with even bigger rewards and offers. A half and half scarfers shaking decisively for once. They backed the super boost. Next to them, the pro-trap which regained. Oh, they've shaken up a free bet after that free lunch. Play Carl's free reward shaker to win bigger guaranteed daily rewards and offers this season. Carl, we're here for it. 18 plus UK Max, one rewarder offer per player per day. 8 am to 8 pm. Reward restrictions and season season plan. Gambleware.org. All across America, we are ready. He is here, Carl and I'm hearing Mac. Hello. Hello. All right. I want to play this one because this was the other thing yesterday just in general because we started out with the three branches of government and got to the point of, you know, where's the debate? How can you debate with people who don't even know what the government's about? And then we talked about the thing I heard yesterday, which was like, can't we even agree on a half time show? Well, besides the politics of it, nobody agrees on music. So no, you can't. But one of the reasons is, first thought that hit my mind was, well, wait a minute, you can't tell me what a woman is. You believe men should be competing against women. You believe in identity politics, which is judging people by the group that they're in. We talked about that story yesterday, which was unbelievable that now the anti ice people are getting angry at the white whistlers. Yeah. The vast majority of white women in their cars blowing the whistles. We don't need you blowing the whistles. And then it came up, well, maybe instead of blowing the whistles, we should just be carrying the whistles, but have the whistles in a bunch of different rainbow colors. I mean, it's it, but they had it. They kept pounding. It's the white, you know, it's the what virtue signaling these are white people wanting to virtue signal. They're blowing up inside of their own organizations. Yeah. Yeah, because they they work on identity politics, which is racism. So they've got racism. They've got the damn misogyny of the radical transgender movement, the women hatred movement. They wish to defund the police. They want open borders. They the public is 83% in favor of voter ID. So there's no fraud at, you know, in our elections and they're fighting all of these things. Yep. And then this talking about as they called it gender affirming care as we call it mutilating and sterilizing children, here's governor Beshear, who's viewed as a moderate. And we told you there are no moderates anymore than Democratic. No, not one. But here we go. Listen to this. I believe this is on the view. Here we go. But we rarely talk about the why. People want to know what drives us, especially in a world with social media where everyone's looking for the next authentic thing. For me, that's my faith. Most of the decisions I make are based on that golden rule that says we love our neighbors ourselves. And that parable, the good Samaritan that says everyone is our neighbor. And so when I've taken actions like vetoing the nastiest piece of anti LGBTQ legislation that ever came through my state, I described it in those terms. I said my faith teaches me that all children are children of God. What an evil pervert. I don't know. I don't like to go over the top with language like that, but I don't know how else to describe someone, especially now that you have organizations coming out medical organizations. No, sorry, we can't be doing this. No, the evidence is right there. No, this is ridiculous. Right. No, because this is what this is again, they're renewing a trend that they've tried multiple times before. No, this is what God wants. Right. Because that has to be the next logical step, right? When everybody can look at it for the perversion that it is. Well, we're going to have to start appealing to them on a basic level. And I don't know, bring a Bible. God wants the sterilization and mutilating of children. We're doing this because of God. This is our Christianity. What the hell Christian faith? I guess that works. Actually using hell there. What the hell Christian faith? Are you talking about? By the way, I do love children. And it's why I'm against mutilating them. It's the adults that are doing this. Yeah. They're the ones in charge. This is the wrongdoing. This is the evil that's going on by these perverts. It's the adults making these decisions. And how dare you say we don't care about the children if we're against what the adults are doing to these children, parvert. Yeah, it's just, it's amazing. Get it? Where's the negotiate? Well, we need to sit down and rationally work this out. How? Little ground. We need, we need a new part. There needs to be a new party out there that can compromise on all these issues. Somebody tell me where the compromising is. Right. Right. I'm not going to be a racist. I'm not going to endorse any type of identity politics. I judge each and every person that I meet as a distinct individual with their own sentient mind. Right. I don't look and say, my God, you've got brown eyes and you're a woman. You're insane. Because somebody told me one time that all women with brown eyes are nuts. No, that's not what I said. No, keep getting it wrong. I didn't say you said it. But it was me that said it. And we both know. And I'm okay with that. But that's not what I said. What I said was all women with brown eyes are crazy. Oh, wait. No, what I said was. I get to see. But I mean, this is crazy. People seem to all have brown eyes. Not everybody would brown eyes. By the way, my oldest daughter has brown eyes. Everything I'm going to bring that up. Dad, what's? I'm watching you. I'm watching. See, I have to sit here with this kind of bigotry. Eric's day, judging people by their eye color. Ladies, it's too bad. I'm already taken. She's blue-eyed and beautiful and anything but crazy. She's crazy over me. But where's the compromising? There is no middle ground on this. There is none. There is no middle ground on this. And this, I will say this, the one thing about the Super Bowl. Look, and I understand people, you know, because we understand where the NFL is going all of us. We've seen it. We saw it from 2016, 2017, 2020. We've seen the fact that Roger Godell's a liberal and wishes to push it in that direction. Does he want to expand and make the NFL international? Yes. But is he, and to me, a wacky liberal, yes, he is by the things that they did, you know, way back then with, with Kaepernick and then in 2020 and, and, and everything else? But if they wish to do that, they can do that. Because the same conservatives that hate that are for taxpayer dollars to build their football factories. Yeah. Yep. And, and so, as I said, you know, before, well, just boycott this, well, you know, I got sick of what the NFL was doing. I don't buy anything from them anymore. Well, you know, that's, and that's the thing is that, you know, there, there's, there's the boycott movement. And then there's the action. And you lose me. I'm gone. And I don't need to make noise about it. I'm just not there. Right. Now, I understand why people do make noise about it. And if you fully believe in that and you believe, because if you believe people aren't aware of what's going on, then you want to get the word out. We, I get that. But this is the action part of it is walking away and, and not coming back. And for the NFL, I wasn't a season ticket holder. I wasn't a, someone who bought paraphernalia, my daughter, one time wanted the, the pink, the girls pink Cowboys jersey. She wanted that I bought it for. That's the only thing I believe that's the only thing I know. I've been given Dallas Cowboys shirts before or things like that. But otherwise, I, I'm not going to spend my money. More importantly, I'm not going to invest my time. When I know eventually this message is going to come back for the fans who love it. Great. Let them do that. Yeah. And look, I still want, I would love to see the bills win a Super Bowl, because I know what it would do to the community and the people that, you know, so many people that I know. And I was at one point very close to a significant number of people that work, you know, for the bills. I worked for the radio stations that carried the bills for a number of years. It doesn't mean, but when they, when they were going off the rails, we called them out on it. Right. And I just said, well, and, and I did, I was in, I had my paper route, my brother and I would take our paper route money to get end zone, three dollar and then four dollar end zone seats in the old war memorial stadium, which the old rock pile, as they called it, on Jefferson and best in Buffalo, which is where Robert Redford hit that home run that knocked out all the lights and the natural. That's where they filmed it. When I write, tell people they go, well, that stadium looked like it was from the early 1900s. I know it was, I think it was built in 39 maybe, but it's, it's gone now, but I paid my paper route money. And I ended up having season tickets. I had the NFL, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the Sunday ticket. I was one of their best customers. I'm not any longer. Right. Like I said, if my buddies all get together once a year, you know, to watch it, I'll be there and I'll, I'll cheer because it makes people feel good. I'm not going to attempt to enrich them and I have always been against even when I was, if I would have stayed because they were doing improvements on the old stadium when I left Buffalo, I probably would have been kicked out of town because I was starting right before I left and went to our great affiliate, Kexel in Portland. I was pounding, no, no tax payer dollars. Right. And it's amazing. The number of conservatives, no, it's worth it. It's people that call themselves conservatives, you know, but I just wish there was one, one thousands of the passion for the fiscal situation that we're in in this country and have fiscal sanity. Yeah. You know, that there was, you know, I'm not saying you're wrong for the opinion, depending on what your opinion was on that. I'm just saying I wish there was one one tenth of the passion from people that call themselves conservatives and Republicans for all the other major issues that will absolutely cripple society. And it's seemingly silent, the 38 trillion mark and how fast it's growing right now, the national debt, just not making, just not making the conversation. One, yeah, just one of the issues out there. And, and so I, I've still frustrated that the Republicans, they've done a pretty good job. I will say in the radical transgender movement, they should still hit the misogyny part of it. I can't tell you how happy I was when Raleigh Gaines came out and said, this is misogyny because you and I had been saying it for years. Yeah. The most misogynist, the most misogynist thing in my lifetime has been the mainstream Democrat endorsement of the radical transgender movement. Yeah. We, the most evil pervertedness of children, including governor Bashir now of Kentucky, is trying to justify the mutilization and sterilization of children, right? Reprehensible, absolutely as evil as you can get. Tell me where I'm wrong and tell me where I'm jumping the shark or over exaggerating any of it because I'm not well, but identity politics, the racism of identity politics, the Republicans have still failed to point out to Democrats and say, stop there are times or have been, you know, it was Tim Ryan who were trying to think of last hour. Right, right. You know, Tim Ryan, James Carville, a bunch of other Democrats have said we have to stop judging people by groups. We can't do this anymore. We can't continue. We can't continue to be the party that divides one another against each other based on, you know, our natural characteristics. Right. You know, we can't, we cannot do that anymore. And nope, they want to do it. They wish to practice institutionalized back in 2020 when they said, well, institutionalized racism exists. You're right. And the Democrats own it. Yep. Identity politics of judging people by groups and not individuals. Critical race theory is identity politics. It's racism. Right. It's saying that all whites are culturally racist to the point that it's in their DNA. Their forced society must be set up that all whites are racist. Right. It's ridiculous. And we all know it. Well, you know, it's, we had the story on the white whistlers yesterday. Yeah. Within the group. They're having problems. The anti ice people are upset at the white whistlers. Right. That's going to be my band name. The white whistlers. It won't be a capella. It's just whistling, which will not be annoying at all trash metal whistling only death whistling metal. Well, if I hear the whistle band, I may want to say you may be wishing for death if you're listening to that. And so it's, but this is where they are. It was always going to go full circle because you may be the hero today. Tomorrow, you're the oppressor. Yeah. Sorry, white whistlers. You're out. Just the way it works. White whistlers mother is off her rocker. Yeah. Exactly. We are run I radio this morning's USDA farm report is brought to you by house products. It trusted guaranteed since 1920, the early February free use to Florida agricultural areas. How soon before indications appear of damage to impacted crops, Anthony, a bit of USDA's national agricultural statistic service says for citrus. We will collect data near the end of March, first part of April that we will use in our next citrus forecast that goes out on April 9. So we'll have people actually in the field. 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It's like nobody's talking about the game. And I did see something the other day which I think probably is true. The NFL has gotten everything they possibly can out of a football fan. Out of an American football fan. They've saturated the American market. Sure. Football is the culture, is the sports culture of the United States. Right. It is. Now the stuff surrounding it, the actual game of football is the stuff surrounding it may not be, but the game of football is. But it was just like that was you go through social media. It's like, okay. No, everything is about that, Bunny or Kid Rock. Every story is like on that. The one I love that summed it up completely goes this sums up completely the debate. And it shows Ralphie in the big bunny suit. I'm a Christmas story. And then the next picture is him with his glasses on shooting the rifle shooting the BB gun. That's because this is the debate. That's perfect. Oh my gosh, that's genius. But I love that. But I saw the big bunny I burst into hysteria. And then when I saw the next picture which was, okay, this is what we're comparing it to. The pink bunny is a liberal side and Ralphie shooting the BB gun. That's shooting gun is the right side. I love it. You're listening to Red Eye Radio from the unit in America Studios. We are Red Eye Radio. He is here. Crowley and I'm hearing McNamara Dunlund, our Red Eye Radio app today. Listen when you choose. And thank you to our show. Yes. All right. The whole Nancy Guthrie abduction kidnapping or maybe not that one exit FBI top official is casting doubt on the whole kidnapping theory now. Everything that happened yesterday. None of this has made sense. You know, the two deadlines, for example, right. That never made sense. The fact that if there's kidnappers out there, it has taken you, you want to get the thing done quickly. You don't want to the more, the more time that goes by, the more likely you're going to be caught. Right. So why has there been no proof of life? Right. And contacts with, you know, I mean, the authorities yesterday were saying we haven't had any new contact at all. And of course, that would be the case because you're going to contact the, if the family's responsible for paying, if this were a ransom situation, which I think the doubt is growing. That it is a ransom situation. You're going to contact the family directly. But then it gets into the, all right. The timeline, the first of all, the two deadlines, the timeline, the timeline is still the same, except some changes to where she was supposed to be on that Sunday. Actually was at a friend's house to watch a televised church service. And it's the church that her daughter Savannah in New York City goes to, they watch it together, she watches it together with a friend typically. And the friend alerted the family that she didn't show up on that Sunday. She wasn't going to church in a church. She was going over to a friend's house as they always did to watch that service that her daughter attends in New York. Again, then the question would become, all right, if it's not, if it's not a ransom situation, did the person responsible for taking her, set it up at first to be a ransom situation in order to buy some time. Because if it's a disappearance, then you're going to put a ton of resources into it, which they have. But another thing that came out in the story, and again, it's kind of hard to know, these things are so fluid. And only time will tell the true story when I watched the Elizabeth Smart documentary recently. And she's in it talking about it. And then I go back and remember how, and they show the clips from the press events that they had during that time. And it was a totally different mindset at that time and everybody was thinking, well, no, maybe the dad was involved and maybe the uncle was involved. And there were a ton of questions. It just didn't, things did not add up. And it turned out to be a very bizarre situation that Elizabeth Smart was able to live through thank God. And today is out there talking about it. But the issue would be, again, there was a story that were local authorities and the feds. There seemed to be lack of cooperation who knows how much of that, if any of it is true. That there wasn't a constant communication. They didn't act as soon as they should have acted again. Well, you have to be criticism. Yeah, you have to start the local officials were late to accept the help of the F. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm alluding to. And so this is the problem again when you get into a situation that's going to be very public because of Nancy's daughter, Savannah. It's, and then that community is obviously very concerned. Is it somebody that didn't live in that community or is it somebody that lived there that's responsible here and ultimately the great concern by everybody for the safe return of Nancy. And, and, and I don't know. To me, it's, this is where so much of my respect for law enforcement comes in because if they believe roughly 2.30 a.m. is when she left that house. And then she wasn't noticed to be gone until later that morning close to noon. So that's several hours of travel time. I mean, the point being the needle in the haystack effect here. Even with all the cameras that you have everywhere at stores at people's houses. And even at her own house, which apparently was disabled. But with everything you have, you still have this massive, massive, massive job of finding one person. And who knows, you know, now how many square miles? And I guess the cameras weren't set up to go to a cloud. Right. Because if there was no, if there was no subscription. Like my cameras, each and every night I watched the stray kitty cat go around my pool. Yeah. And it's in the cloud. So it doesn't matter whether you remove that camera or not. I catch what's going on. Yeah. As you, you know, come up to it. And so, you know, you, you know, we found out yesterday that the one sister had given the consent for her home to be searched in that septic tank and everything else. Right. Right. Because they were authorities were wondering if something had been flushed. Right. So which would end up in the septic. So, so what got them to that point of being at a different house. Right. Yeah. And I don't know what that I don't know. And what did they take, you know, from that house. Right. Because I don't expect authorities to give us an update on the actual investigation that they're going down a different road. Because they don't, the prosecution of any, any criminal here is, is going to be the key. And you're going to have to preserve everything. And you're not going to be very open about it until that case comes about. And then you can say, this is what we believe happened or somebody's arrested or anything like that. So we're not going to learn if they're going down a different avenue here. But it seems to be all over the place. I'm still very curious as to the language being used because Savannah said it again yesterday. We believe our mom is still out there. Right. And that has been said numerous times. And when it was said the first time, because I saw the media say, you know, well, Savannah came out and said that, you know, the mother is still alive. I said, no, she didn't. Right. She said, we believe our mom is still out there. In fact, many people with actual investigative police investigative experience, actually were questioning the language and saying, are they saying they want the body back for after the Saturday night message? Is that what they're communicating to them? Because the language was very precise. Because I would be saying, I believe my mom is still alive. Yeah. Right. Isn't that the words you would use? Or why not? Why wouldn't you use those words? Elizabeth Smart's dad talked about that in this new documentary. He believed all along. She was still alive. But the capter still had her. And it was not a ransom thing at all. There was no contact at all. It was a very horrible situation that Elizabeth was in. They were even approached on the street because her capter had put her in and the capter's wife in this, in these disguises. I don't know, think of like a none kind of looking disguise which also covered the face. And a detective approached them and said, I need to see this young girl's face to see if it's the young girl we're looking for. And the capter convinced the officer, no, because it's against our religion. And it didn't happen. It did happen with another officer later down the road, which is how she was found. Ultimately, it came home. But the father said the whole time he believed his daughter was still alive. And I don't know if that's what they were saying. It's hard to know because I'm guessing there has been almost zero sleep with all the family members going through this. It's hard to know. It's hard to read into what they're conveying in any of the videos. Because I don't know if they met. We believe she's still alive. And it's just something again, a hunch like Elizabeth Smart's father with nothing else to back it up. Authorities again are saying they've had no new contact, no new ransom, no nothing for them. They haven't seen anything new from many of the capters because that was another thing. Is that with some of the messages from the family over the last few days, it sounded like there had been new contact. Or there was a question based on those messages. Has there been new contact by the capters? And if so, what is that? And also, do you put it on social media or do you contact them? Do you set up a contact directly? We're going to set up a phone call. We're going to set up some kind of message that we can send directly to you. Or again, it could be the capter saying you're going to have to post it on Instagram. You're going to have to post it on something public because we're not going to be doing this person to person. But it gets very simple. There are a number of ways that you can prove and you can do it publicly. Or message, I well know, you probably wouldn't want to do it that way. But the family is asking for proof of life. They have not received any proof of life. Right. In what is it, 10 days now? Yeah. Right. They're not going to give you the money. You haven't given proof of life in nine days, which is why after she spoke yesterday, a lot of these investigative experts said, this might be over. Because if you haven't provided proof of life in nine days, and there's been no money transferred, they're not going to give you the money, unless they get that proof of life. Right. Which does clear up the other day, the Saturday message that said, we know you're still out there. We want to celebrate with you. And it was like, they're like, what is this message? It's confusing, but it's not supposed to make sense to us. Right. Yeah. I mean, I did. It's not stress. The stress of the family here is something unimaginable for everybody who's never been through it. Which is 99.9% of them. Yeah. I mean, Elizabeth's father reached out to them and sent them a message. I don't know if that was direct or through the mirror. Here's a question I have. Why was Savannah alone in the in the last video? I don't know. Could be a number of things. Again, with with lost sleep, it could be that they're just sleeping whenever they yeah, fall asleep. But that is a question. Yeah. That investigators are also asking because is it one of the members of the family? Yeah. And you just don't know. I would think if the family believed that it was another member of the family, I think things would go quiet from those family members, I would think. Because at that point, then you realize the investigation is likely going to go that way. And you don't want to do any talking. 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 is here. Crawling. I'm Gary McNamara. I've got to tell you in my entire life, I mean, just again, when you talk about celebrity kidnappings or somebody related to a celebrity, yeah, kidnapping, this is still the most bizarre thing I've ever seen. Yeah. I just haven't seen anything like this at all where you're under it and people don't even, they don't know anything. Yeah. And that's the one thing. The people that the criminals that committed wanted to be simple and quick and get it over with. And the fact of nine days without proof of life. And this is where it's like, where do you go from here? You haven't got proof of life. Odds are you're not going to get it. If you've got it nine days, both deadlines are coming on. And there's no money being transferred. This is Red Eye Radio on Westwood One. The Dan Bangeino Show. Dan, I missed you all. I've got so much content bottled up in my head. I got a lot of stuff. This is the kind of stuff. It's real. It may not hear this anywhere else. Hard truths. There's a lot of stuff to talk about. Anything that's going to open a lot of eyes and a lot of ignorantes are going to get shut down. And a bold perspective no one else can offer. They are freaking out. It's the comeback everyone's been waiting for. Lovers, haters, friends, supporters, detractors, you're all welcome. I want to hear it all. The Dan Bangeino Show. 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