Now, it's Red Eye Radio. Gary McNamara and Eric Harley talk about everything from politics to social issues and news of the day. Whether you're up late or you're just starting your day, welcome to the show from the Uniden America Studios. This is Red Eye Radio. all across America. We are Rudd Eye Radio. I'm Gary McNamara. He's Eric Carley. Hi. Hi. You want to hear from Jimmy Kimmel from last night? Okay, I guess. All right. Okay. Here we go. All right. Here we go. Almost every liberal I know suddenly really into Bad Bunny. I mean, people I've never heard say the words bad or bunny in their lives. Like, I can't wait for Bad Bunny. Oh. What's your... What's your favorite Bad Bunny song? I don't know, but I love them. Or the go-to, all of them. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Oh, wait a minute. That's right. That's what Michael Bolton said in Office Space. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All of them. Are you related to him? What song do you like? Oh, I don't know. All of them. All of them. When he sings, when a man loves a woman, it can't get better than that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Call me Mike. Now, some people were trying to bring Donald Trump into all of this yesterday. The president, you can't. Come on. He's a Village People fan. Clearly. Don't bring the president. The president's music is not like anything we really are into. No. You know, he, remember, he uses it at the beginning and end of his rallies. Right. And when he spins tunes at Mar-a-Lago, he spins the village people. Yeah. So let's just keep Trump out of this discussion to begin with. Yeah, I don't see him doing the Trump dance to Bad Bunny. Or Kid Rock. It's going to have to be the Village People. I am Kid Rock! God, I hate that song. I will say this, though. I was never a Kid Rock fan at all. Except when he did the song where he had mentioned Skinner and stuff like that in there. Yeah, yeah. Don't they sample? Doesn't he sample a little bit of it, I think? It's that and Werewolves of London mixed, kind of. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's the tune. Right. Yeah. That was okay. But when I watched, this goes way, way back. This was back probably to, I don't know, early 2000s when they did Behind the Music on him. And I realized what he had to go through to get where he was. I went, whoa. Yeah. Yeah. So. He started out playing Waffle House. When you see the backstories behind how people made it, I'm always fascinated by that. Well, I love a good success story. Quite frankly, it doesn't matter whether I like their music or not. I'm still, it boggles my mind that Taylor Swift is a billionaire, but it's not for me. It's none of my business. By the way, you and I are both fans of the Rick Beato podcast. Oh, yeah. Because he's just really, really good. B-E-A-T-O. Rick Beato. You've got to follow him on YouTube if you like music. But I like what he's been on over the last couple of months. Music sucks now compared to where it used to be. But then he explains why. Right. He goes through it. Right. He's a music professor. Right. And he's taught. He's produced. He's been in a band. He knows everything of how music is made. He teaches a lot. He's got courses. And so he can tell you why it is. All right, look, if you go back to whatever era, he doesn't go back to any hair bands very often. And there's probably a reason. But, you know, I mean, the closest thing he comes to is, I mean, he had Wolfgang Van Halen on. That was really good. That was really good. Wolf is unbelievably talented. He's just got it. And, you know, you could say it's in the blood. But honestly, you do have to also learn it. You know? But he seems to be somebody. I don't see any of Arnold Schwarzenegger's kids being Mr. Olympian. You know what I mean? But you still have to do the work. He also seems not to want to repeat what his father did wrong. Well, you know, it was interesting. He had one of his new prototypes of his guitar company. His dad started the Wolfgang, EVH Wolfgang thing. 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Follow and listen on your favorite platform. and he rick noticed there was no bar on a whammy bar you know which you can and his dad of course would do you know uh incredible things with a whammy bar he could make his guitar sound like a horse he used to do that quite a bit eddie van halen but he doesn't use one wolfgang doesn't use one and so you know it was like he's a completely different player you know he's a and he's he's his music is completely different you know it's just it's yeah it is it's it's very good it's actually it was a very good interview but um that's the thing that i like is sitting down and you can talk about it i don't have to be a fan i don't have to you know buy the music or listen to it on spotify or or whatever if i get a greater appreciation yeah you know for for the work that's put into it but but i do like how rick beato just actually when he said because i'll i'll see it come across on youtube yeah and it's like why today's music sucks and i burst out laughing yeah yeah but then i have to watch it because he just doesn't say i don't like where he'll explain why he'll talk about you know chord structure note structure how songs are written what they're about everything else he makes he always makes a strong case right really does right i may not agree with everything on it right but he makes a very very strong case and he actually knows music and researches music and says here's what's wrong with this here's what they don't do right you know here's what you don't get out of music of today that you know from the pop music yeah because he really i mean not that there isn't good music out there but then because i know because I listen to a lot of good music that exists right now, but it's not pop. It doesn't have a mass audience to it at all. Well, if you think about, you know, there's many different sides of music or, you know, effects of music. But there's storytelling, you know. Then there's also, you know, just putting a pop song together. you know just putting the you know to be catchy a catchy tune um and then there's the emotional part of it like you know whether it's a ballad or not all all these chord progressions and everything else and he'll break it down and say this is why this is interesting they did this here uh instead of just doing this and when he sits down with an artist and they talk about the making of it and it's usually stuff that i've heard you know for years i may not be into that artist as much uh like i was never the biggest pink floyd fan neither was but david gilmore just gets this gets the sound out of a guitar that that gilmore gets just like eddie van halen and and that And you love his politics Of course He and Mr Waters are right there They're just genius. But, no, but it's when you think about it. No, it's Roger Waters, right? Roger Waters is the. Oh, he's the. I mean, Gilmore, too, is also on the left. But the outspoken one is Roger Waters. Who's the anti-Semite? That'd be Waters. Yeah, Waters. Is that Waters? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's the one accused of being. And he's just, he's bat soup crazy in interviews when I see him. It's just like, whoa. And the ironic thing is I'll attend a Roger Waters concert when pigs play. So anyway, but no, when you break down, you know, the songs. And one thing I learned as a musician, when you're learning and other musicians talking about it. like if Eddie Van Halen could pick up, could, could pick up in the day, any guitar and make it sound like Eddie Van Halen. And Nuno Bettencourt was talking about this from extreme. He also plays with Rihanna. I think he played at the Superbowl with Rihanna. Right. And great, brilliant guitar player. And he said, you know, I picked up Eddie's guitar and it didn't sound like Eddie. You know, I couldn't make it sound like Eddie. It would sounded like me because, And that's the thing with Gilmore and each of the, you know, Clapton, you can go down the entire list of different musicians and also different instruments. I recognize it because I play guitar. I also play drums, though. And when you there's another channel, Drumeo, that is instructional, but they'll break down a song, the drums on. They did Alex Van Halen songs and Wolf played them. Wolf's also an excellent drummer. But when you talk about, again, the signature sound, it comes from the way that person plays and then those people together play, you know. But it's just if you ever want to see it when, you know, somebody just says, because usually you get it, today's music sucks. They're just an old codger. You don't understand. Yeah. And it's like, well, that's the difference in our generation because we were exposed to so much music. I started thinking, though, when you look back, because when I look back to, like, and I was listening a couple of weeks ago, stuff from 1970. Yeah. And I went, oh, my gosh. Yeah. That's 56 years ago. Right. That's like in 1970, listening to something from 1914. Right. Which shows you the advancement of music. Right. But that's one thing that is missing, though, because Beato, I think, talked about it. I saw him talking about it one time. The singer-songwriter is really gone. Yeah. Because you think about it, you know, and it was funny. I don't know if he mentioned it, but I heard it a couple of months ago. I hadn't heard it in ages. Harry Chapin. Yeah. He was a storyteller. No, I was thinking Harry Chapin when I said storytelling. I was thinking of him. He was a storyteller. It's like, it didn't even matter. You're listening to the story. Yeah. You know, Cats in the Cradle, you know, my son turned out just like me. Croce, Croce. I mean, that's, you know, there's. But even people like, you know, Carly Simon, whatever, even James Taylor. As much as not, I'd never bought any of their records, but I would listen to a song and there was a message and a story which was being told. Right. You don't get that a lot these days. No, you don't. and you know it's he also breaks down he'll say here's the top 10 on spotify and if there's something you know a lot of it is you know garbage but if it's a good song he'll say you know that's a good song you know that was done very well it sounds good you know he's he's not he's not thumbs down on everything new um again for me there has to be a because you go back to the pre pro tools thing in the digital age and i was as a voiceover artist i was working with the very first version of pro tools and i remember how great it was and how it's great today in producing music and everything else but putting everything together you know actually crafting it together from not just the group or the artist but also in the studio mixing it the mic the producer and the mixer sometimes they're separate people um doing what they do to get a certain sound out of a band I had a 45-minute long conversation one time with Butch Vig about Nirvana. And we were talking, and I was trying to get my computer running again so I could just have him record, you know, hey, this is Butch Vig, and you're listening to the station I was working at. And had I been recording that conversation, it would have been a great podcast because we just, he just told me everything. He was telling me everything of how he was getting the sound, that sound for Nirvana. and that's a craft yeah i love the one where he uh produces the foo fighters album yeah it's the documentary on doing it in the garage right yeah and doing it uh not digital right right doing it analog right yeah but you know something about him his band is garbage it's a true story and accurate yes that's actually why they were in studio they were at the station uh she was on the air and and butch went down the hall with me to record what we call liners and uh the software that i used was the same software that he used but my my computer had crashed and we just had a long conversation together all right more billionaires moving out of california oh boy or at least purchasing very expensive property outside of california yeah yeah we'll tell you who that is Coming up next, we are Red Eye Radio. Brought to you by FPPF, Fuel Power Max. 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Brought to you by Shell Rotella with advanced synthetic technology is designed to help keep your rig running with more mileage and less maintenance. Lines open for your calls. 866-90-REDIY on Red Eye Radio. We are Runa Radio. He's Eric Carley and I'm Gary McNamara. Here it is. Wall Street Journal. Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla, are the latest California billionaires to buy a home in South Florida. $150 million home. Wow. And so the question is. So they're living in a tiny home. Wow. They just reminded me. I have to get the story. You know, the average home in Seattle is $907,000. There was a, wow. I forgot who did the, I got it in my pile here. And it was about, you know, yeah, the Superbowl, Seattle won the Superbowl, but your economy isn't great. And talked about how they went from being in 2017, the number one place to do business, where now I think they're like in the forties. of states that's where bezos was living till recently he moved to florida so zuckerberg's moving so the next thing is well is the company going to stay yeah right well or does he protect his own wealth his personal wealth by by making that his primary residence i don't know i think you have to if you're going to do it for yourself there has to be consideration i don't know if he will but there has to be consideration for your shareholders right about is it profitable to stay in a state like california i mean that's that's going on every day these corporations are looking at it and they do have a responsibility to the shareholders to determine whether staying there is better than leaving and again at some point you won be able to afford to stay whether it's yourself or a corporation. And I think that's what we're seeing more and more with these corporations and billionaires. And, you know, Florida's, you know, getting a boost in their economy. $150 million home. I don't know what that buys you in Florida, but I'm guessing it's a nice one. Yeah, it looks, I'm looking at it from, this has to be from Google. Yeah. Looks really nice. Yeah. See, another reason why I wouldn't want to be that rich. What? A home to me is not something that has 30-foot tall ceilings. Well, you know, there's this thing about cleaning that I have. You know, because I know at that level you've got, I don't know how many staffers full time. It's got to be, but I'm still the kind of guy that's walking around going, oh, no, I need to pick this up and clean this up. But I would hate that. I would hate having people all around me from the time that I woke up until the time I went to sleep. It would be, yeah, it would be like living in an office. Right. I don't want a staff. Right. You know what it would be like? Gary, you're a billionaire. Here's your staff. I don't want one. You're living in the world's biggest bed and breakfast. Like, I don't even like that idea of a bed and breakfast. No, give me a hotel. Thanks. Catch Red Eye Radio live every night on the Red Eye Radio app. Available in the App Store. Red Eye Radio. And he is Eric Cronin. I'm Gary McNamara. Download our Red Eye Radio app today. You choose when you can listen. And thank you. So, yeah, Zuckerberg moving. And so the scuttlebutt will be, hmm, what's going to happen now? Right. Is he going to move his corporate headquarters to Florida? Well, you know. Is the next question. Right. Is he trying to limit his personal liability with the possibility of the billionaire's tax coming in? Then again, it's only a $150 million home for him. And that could be a, you know, summer home. I would hate that. I would hate the lifestyle of having a staff and employees. Sir, your breakfast is ready. Get out of my house. Leave me alone. Let me have my coffee in peace. As soon as I wake up. Sir, here's 5,000 updates of what's going on in your company. I sell all my stock. I actually experienced that to a certain degree. I remember, here's your breakfast, sitting it down in front of me. And I said, listen, can you just leave me alone? She said, you're at the Waffle House. You're in our house. Mind your manners. But I don't like the idea. I couldn't do it. I don't like the idea of being famously wealthy. No. That is a new kind of danger, a new kind of altogether. Even though one of our listeners once thought that we were both billionaires. Right. Please, we're trillionaires. He was incorrect in that assessment. We're the world's first trillionaires. But I would say this, you know, with Facebook and the tech companies, the tech companies are all reevaluating. One of the things that's happened in the last week on the stock market is the realization that writing software, these companies that focus on software, software companies, are realizing the AI game. It really freaked them out for a couple of days. Oh, yeah. And it was like the AI game is changing everything. a couple of them pushed back and said, no, no, no, no, we'll still be, you know, part of it and the whole thing. But, you know, this is the I remember the Amazon, one of the Amazon. C-level positions, I he may be may have been the chief technical officer. I forget who it was, but he was on a call with employees and saying that. If if you are someone who codes now. that's going to be done in five years this goes back a couple of years and that is true ai will be doing a ton of that work and so if you're a tech company which facebook is uh along you know along with uh with uh all of their holdings the entire meta brand If you're looking to keep your place in that, you know, in that world, in that universe, then you're going to have to look at all expenses. And you're going to have to look at, again, where that takes you. Because if AI is going to come in and replace a lot of what you do and provide. then because i i still don't know what the effect of social media will be right i mean if ai is creating you know a different type of presence that gets your attention and then social media just becomes a thing of the past oh only old people are on social media ai is communicating with you in a different way they're actually seeing that a lot of people are having ai chats with themselves i mean them and the ai bot it's just they're just going back and forth and if that's the new thing where they don't have to worry about anybody else's opinion right and social media starts to the appeal of social media starts to die off and people just go you know basically become more secluded in in in the tech world i'm talking about the user the average user, then you have to reconsider what it's going to be like going forward because influencers won't be influencers at all. And you're really going to have to produce something extraordinary for people to get people's attention. That's just one thought behind, again, the future of any tech company like Meta, which is Facebook and Instagram and everything else. So I think they would have to consider what they're where they're going to be, what state they're going to stay in and and the regulations. By the way, the left is also part of, hey, we want to, you know, we need to break them up. I mean, some on the right have done it, too. But the left really wants to break up these big corporations, these big tech companies. You know, we need to break with. They have too much power and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So moving headquarters has to be a consideration. I don't know if it will happen, but that has to be right now being talked about. And looking at our very expensive West Coast update, California's already sky high gas prices. This is from the California. This is from Valero telling the California Globe. their high gas prices are expected to surge after Valero abruptly shuttered its refinery amid the spiraling oil crisis. A new report claims thermal imaging showed the facility went cold as the Crimson Pipeline, which transports crude oil from southern to northern California, was taken offline. California gas prices expected to soar. We're in an unprecedented oil crisis, said oil expert Mike Ariza, told the publication. Valero announced its plans last spring to pull the plug on its 145,000 barrel per day refinery by April, a move that is expected to send fuel prices, but they did it early. Yeah. They already pay the second highest gas prices in the nation, only behind Hawaii. In January, the average gas price, $4.23 per gallon. What did they expect was going to happen? Yep. What did they expect? Yep. That's the way it was always going to go down. It was always going to be that way. You know I look at things that are just sort of duh the headline right behind it not that we going to get into this one but it like Brandon Johnson admits Chicago saw a 30 percent drop in homicides after Trump crime crackdown began It like oh yeah don defund the police Right. Yeah. Don't say we don't want oil and we wish to defund oil and we want oil out of our state. Right. While your whole damn state runs on oil. Yeah. Right. Then this article, Seattle won the Super Bowl, but the economy has gone from boom to gloom. Here it is. More than 35% of office and retail space in downtown Seattle is vacant. The metro area as a whole is weak. Joblessness 5.1% last November. Regionals lost 12,900 jobs last year. The first annual decline since the recession in 2009. It has the highest inflation rate of any major metro region in the country with consumer prices soaring 29% from 2021 through 2025. Housing prices through the roof with the median, I said average before, the median price of a single family home, $907,000 in December. Wow. Wow. And as this is from National Review, they write, the explanation is clear. Seattle now pushes job creation, punishes job creation with a minimum wage of $21 an hour and a payroll tax on firms with payrolls over $8 million. In 2022, the state enacted a 7% capital gains tax, and Washington Democratic Governor Bob Ferguson just proposed a 9.9% income tax on millionaires. Seahawks players who each will collect 178,000 bonus for winning the Super Bowl would be affected directly It includes a jock tax that would sock both home team and visiting players based on their duty days spent in Washington State Wow Critics say a 9.9% rate would harm the competitiveness of Seattle-based teams since Washington would move from being one of nine states with no income tax to the one with the eighth highest rate on pro athletes in the nation. Wow. In 2017, CNBC ranked Washington as the nation's top state for business. Since then, it has fallen to 41st in business friendliness and 48th in the cost of doing business. we live in a day and age when you have Democrats, liberals, populists of the Republican Party that still continue to deny that increasing the cost of doing business is a negative. Yeah. They still, for some reason, believe you can increase the cost of doing business and make an economy better. They preach it consistently. And anybody with basic concepts of economics knows that isn't true. Well, it's, you know, and ultimately the goal, the agenda, the drive is to, is for the government to take more of that capital and to punish the business, to cripple business so that eventually the government can also take over the means of production, which is communism. You do it over and over under the guise that the people will benefit from it. And then this. Winter Olympic athletes fight against fossil fuel while using gear and travel reliant on petroleum. Two days before the opening of the Winter Games, Nikolai Schirmer, a Norwegian skier, handed the International Olympic Committee a petition signed by more than 21,000 people, many of them professional winter athletes, including some Olympians. The Ski Fossil Free petition is demanding that the committee develop a report on whether fossil fuel marketing is acceptable in organized winter sports. You know what these people need to do? Watch Landman. yeah talk to billy bob well you know by billy bob's he goes this isn't political it goes what we all learned is these people say get rid of oil you can't do it it's ridiculous it's insane to do it right you can't it's it's in everything and even he has a monologue and land man where he goes through talking to the one lawyer saying you know she's like oh wish everything could be windmills right what are you talking about exactly what in the world you're talking he goes just goes through it and he continues to talk about this goes this isn't political it's reality of what we use right and you can't it cannot be there's nothing that can replace it and if somebody's telling you they they you can replace it they're lying to you and then he goes through all the you know the different products and we've gone through with the hundreds and hundreds of probably what you probably 50 percent of everything that you use has petroleum in it right yeah in some manner or form well again more right and it's you know again uh pick a bad guy pick a bad industry whatever it is but when you do the math when you actually know how things work that's another thing in keeping people ignorant this is what indoctrination requires make sure they don't learn a thing because if they, heaven forbid, become petroleum engineers, oh, my gosh. I did see an interview. Every actor I've seen that's in Landman, they said, what was the one thing you learned? They said, we had no idea how this business ran. We had no idea how dangerous it is. We had no idea the work that goes in to ensuring that this nation runs. Well, you know, the one thing that Taylor Sheridan knows, he knows ranching, but also now as I think he's the primary owner. There was a group of investors that went in, but he's the owner of the four sixes ranch, which is multiple businesses, including oil. It's ranching. I think there's a couple of ranching farming oil. I don't know how big the oil business is on that ranch, but being raised on a ranch, he knows. And in Texas, he knows how important it is. He knows. And anybody who learns anything about it realizes, my gosh, we require this. We need this to sustain life. We are Red Eye Radio. Get in touch with Red Eye Radio. Toll free at 866-90-RED-EYE. We are running radio. He's our colleague. I'm Gary McNamara. Just got this response to that story we had about the Swedish skier who wants to have the skiing no fossil fuel thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He wrote to us, that athlete protesting fossil fuels when their entire Olympic journey was funded by their country's massive sovereign wealth fund from oil and gas profits. Right. You know, I mean, they they again, this is virtue signaling. And not thinking about the facts at all, not caring about the facts at all. I say you should give up your Olympic dream. if it's being funded by fossil fuels and you're against that then don't participate right yeah this is red eye radio on westwood one the dan bongino show damn i missed you all i've got so much content bottled up my head i got a lot of stuff this is the kind of stuff it's real may not hear this anywhere else hard truths there's a lot of stuff to talk about that you think is going to open a lot of eyes and a lot of ignorances 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 boncino show follow and listen on your favorite platform see you there
