09-15-26 Part One - Hoping to SAVE the Mid Terms
Red Eye Radio
Gary McNamara hosts Red Eye Radio solo, discussing the SAVE Act's legal battle over voter verification ahead of the 2026 midterms, critiques
Key takeaways
- The Supreme Court is now involved in the debate over the federal voter verification database known as SAVE.
Main topics
- The SAVE Act and federal voter verification
- Supreme Court partisanship and judicial reform debates
Notable quotes
"We've got whiny, spoiled brat people."
Conclusion
The episode underscores the importance of factual accuracy, historical
Transcript preview
Speaker 5 (0:07) Now, it's Red Eye Radio. Gary McNamara and Eric Hurley 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 Relief Factor Studios, this is Red Eye Radio. Speaker 1 (0:26) All across America, we are Red Eye Radio. I am Gary McNamara. Eric has the morning off. It's me and you. Speaker 1 (0:36) Let's start the show where we started it yesterday. Just a little bit of a update. And if you didn't catch the beginning of yesterday's show, I was talking about on vacation that I love YouTube. And by the way, Speaker 7 (0:52) it may be exclusively YouTube between now and till after election day. Because any other streaming channel I go to. Speaker 3 (1:01) which I forgot where I was today. I was on some streaming channel today. Every single commercial was either Tallarico or Paxton here in Texas. Every single commercial, every single break. So if they had a four-minute break, everything would be a Tallarico. Or a Paxton Speaker 1 (1:32) commercial and then another Tallarico and then another Paxton. And I'm like, I can't do this. And I cannot do this until election day. And I love YouTube because I actually pay the money and I get no commercials. Unless the commercial is embedded inside the actual, you know, YouTube video that the content creator, you know. you know, for a second says, oh, okay, I want to sell this to you. But otherwise, YouTube puts no commercials in there. Speaker 3 (2:07) And so I watch a lot of YouTube. And last week I was saying I was doing a ton of recreational reading. Speaker 1 (2:12) And I like doing two or three things at once. So as I'm reading, I also have YouTube on. And all of a sudden, boom, I don't know what kicked off the algorithm, but it was something. I Speaker 7 (2:24) think the first one was on what life was like. in the United States before electricity. And it was just fascinating. And then they went into what life, Speaker 1 (2:39) and by the way, it was fascinating because they talked about, people don't understand, it was complete darkness and just how Speaker 3 (2:47) electricity changed everything in the culture. And then they got to fireplaces, Speaker 1 (2:53) which then, you know, turned into the, you know, the iron stoves that, you know, the iron would heat up and actually, you know, be much more efficient in heating a home. Speaker 1 (3:05) And they went all the way back. They went back to Native Americans and how they stayed warm in brutal cold. And so it went to, you Speaker 7 (3:17) know, and these were different videos. And I was fact-checking. Speaker 1 (3:22) I stopped my recreational reading and started fact-checking. I wonder if that's true. A lot of it I knew, but the things I hadn't heard about, I go, let me fact-check this. And the vast majority of it turned out to be true. You know, how we lived without technology. And so it was started with electricity and then fireplaces and then the standardization of standard oil, the standardization of kerosene, which then led to oil and, you know, the automobile and then electricity, which eventually led to. you know, Speaker 7 (4:02) Willis Carrier and the invention of air conditioning and how that changed everything. That changed the political power structure of the United States and how air conditioning that you would not have the population in the South if it wasn't for air conditioning. And then it went into plumbing and into modern sewage treatment and what it was like before the invention of the flush toilet. But the thing Speaker 3 (4:29) I wanted to bring up is I've always said, that, and I was, Speaker 1 (4:35) and this all, I started thinking about this when I was watching Pete Buttigieg the other day talking about that, you know, the Supreme Court is just so partisan and so broken that it needs to, it needs to expand and have six more justices. And Speaker 7 (4:50) there's no pushback. Speaker 7 (4:52) The people in the media are completely clueless because you could easily push back and go, explain, what do you mean? What is the ruling that made you believe Speaker 3 (5:00) that they should expand it? They don't do that. And they don't sit there and get in and go, do you know anything about the legal system? Do you know anything about what was it? Because if you look. at the Supreme Court, and you look at the Speaker 7 (5:14) people that aren't abiding by what the law is, the vast majority of the time, I'd probably say 95%, the ones who do not follow what the law is and wish to interpret the law is the left. And they admit it. And as you have seen with Justice Jackson, some of the opinions that she has had, even the liberal justices are like, this person's whacked. Speaker 7 (5:43) And but you do not have and we've talked about, you know, the you know, the the media today. And one thing that we talked about when Barry Weiss took over CBS, we said, are you going to have people that are engineers, people that actually know how to build things? Are you actually going to have lawyers that understand and aren't playing the political partisanship game that will play devil's advocate and say not even devil's advocate, but fact check? And we've always said that it's really amazing that you never see a president that is, you know, that sits down and says, I want to tell people what I believe about economics. You know more about how Eric and I believe on economics than you do any president. They're not, they never feel that they're forced to explain. They throw out a lot of, you know, meme kind of quotes or whatever, but they're never forced to explain, this is how I believe an economy runs. I find that reprehensible. But I don't think, I think the majority of people in the mainstream media, they're just not capable. They don't have the knowledge or experience. Speaker 7 (6:52) They don't understand so many of these particular concepts. And I was like, we get fact-checked way more often, even by people that agree with us. For example, when we were talking about the toilets yesterday, I called it a S-pipe. And somebody said, no, it's not an S-pipe, it's a J-pipe. And I burst out laughing when I saw that. I go, that's pretty funny. Actually, it's not. It's called a toilet has an S-curve inside the porcelain called an S-curve or a P-curve. That's inside the porcelain base of the toilet. So it actually isn't a pipe. And I said pipe, and I was wrong on that particular case. But they were talking about this in the fact that that was a huge invention because it kept gases from the sewer from coming back up. that could cause explosions inside of a house, not to mention the smell that it would bring in. And so you actually have a J-pipe is what you have under your sink. All right, so, but it was interesting that somebody brought that up to me yesterday. I'm like, man, we get fact-checked on everything. And it started when Eric and I, way a long time ago. over 21 years ago, started working together. And we were only on the probably less than two months, I'm going to say. And one of us said, you know, it's over. And of course, if you say it's over, of course, one of us, and I can't remember who said it, one of us is going to bring up the quote from Animal House. Over? Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Speaker 7 (8:32) And which, of course, is a line from Animal House. And we both laughed. And we were new, you know, even though Eric and I had worked together. Speaker 7 (8:44) No, we had not worked together. We were both new on the air, even though we had worked together. He had worked on the show, and people knew what his sarcasm was, and I had done local talk, and I figured people knew what my sarcasm was. They didn't, and people were furious. You guys are idiots. You don't even know that it was the Japanese that bombed Pearl Harbor. It was hilarious. I mean, we got... dozens and dozens, maybe a hundred. And it was pure sarcasm. Again, it was the quote from Animal House. So we had to explain it. We go, no, apparently you're saying we're idiots, yet you don't know probably one of the most well-known quotes that came from Animal House. And if you don't know the most important quotes from Animal House, we don't want to deal with you. Speaker 7 (9:38) So there you go. But, you know, it was just, it was, for me, it was wonderful because it was fascinating because it got into the history of electricity, the history of refrigeration, the history of air conditioning, the history of central heating, how architecture has changed, how people used outhouses, the whole thing of, you know, of outhouses, modern, you know, sewage treatment plants. Speaker 7 (10:06) The automobile, oil, just everything that has given us this lifestyle that we have today. And I really can relate to it because my father's 100 years old and a significant portion of the country when my father was born. In fact, my father would have been 20 years old and still a significant portion of the South still didn't have indoor toilets in rural areas. And in rural areas across the country, they didn't have it. And the point was... Speaker 7 (10:44) We've got whiny, spoiled brat people. My life is so hard. My life is so hard. My life is so hard. You know, you really are filled with gratitude if you understand history. If you know history. And so one of the things I said was, you know, we always talk about they need to teach history. And it's always sort of based on that people should know the Constitution of the United States. Because we find it incredible. These people say, this country sucks. Well. let's talk about why it sucks. Let's talk about the Constitution. I don't know anything about the Constitution. I can't even tell you what the three branches of government are. Well, then how do you know the country sucks? Because I don't have everything that I want. Oh. So that's how you judge it. But when you have no perspective about history, you just assume that these things just appear. Speaker 3 (11:42) And they appear in the same degree in any type of society. And again, as Speaker 1 (11:47) I said, maybe it was Christmas in July from Hallmark a couple of months ago. But I told Eric, I go, Dickens was right in A Christmas Carol. Absolutely right. Biggest two things you worry about, ignorance and want. Because that's what has created a significant portion of the entitlement society that we see today. Speaker 7 (12:16) And if you know history, and like I said, not just constitutional history, but actually the history. And I didn't learn it. I didn't know that in my history classes Speaker 1 (12:24) even. Speaker 7 (12:26) And Speaker 1 (12:26) I thought I had a pretty good education, except for college. When I actually had to pay for it, that's when it went downhill. But I never learned that stuff. Nobody ever taught, okay, now I will say this. I did in Boy Scouts learn a lot of it. Conservation of natural resources. I remember from one of my projects for my merit badges, I actually went to a sewage treatment plant. Because once I realized, and you actually learned about the history of plumbing, and once you realized what they had and how modern sewage treatment plants and water, you know, filtration plants, you know, to give you great drinking Speaker 7 (13:14) water, how that just changed society incredibly in an incredible way. Speaker 7 (13:23) And once you realize, you know, I was fascinated. What is the technology? Speaker 1 (13:27) How does it actually work? I remember that when I was a machinist, there was this one place. In fact, it's a place where I used to spin records. I know how old I am. Spun records there. And there was a guy there, a guy. And I was always, I was obsessed with talking to the guy. Why? He was an engineer at a sewage treatment plant. So I had all these questions. So what do you do with those settling tanks if there's a blockage? You send someone down there. I was, you know, Speaker 7 (14:02) fascinated with that because of how it changed all these things, how it changed society incredibly. And I didn't know. One thing I did know that I found out this weekend, I had no idea, no Speaker 1 (14:13) idea. And I did some research. I go, really? That the reason that the summer blockbuster, the summer blockbuster films, where did that come from? It came from one of the first commercial entities to have air conditioning was a movie theater. And so people would go to the movie theater. Because what was it, like 1962 or 65 or something? Only like 12 % of people had air conditioning. And it got up to like 50 % by 1980 or 85. And now it's like over 90 % of homes in the United States, residents in the United States, have air conditioning. So even back in the 40s and the 50s and the 60s. Speaker 7 (14:58) They advertised, we have air conditioning. But really in the 20s and 30s when nobody had it, that's when air conditioning started going Speaker 1 (15:07) into the theaters first after industry and whatever commercial entities needed it. And then as the technology got better, they were able to make, because the first air conditioners were huge, monstrous things for industry. And once the technology got better, one of the first places it got in was movie theaters. And then Hollywood went, hmm, okay, well, let's do the best movies over the summertime when the air conditioning's there. Draw people in. So, yeah, just fascinating. But I just, I look at it and go, people don't have gratitude. And I will say this, I go through life every single day with this incredible amount of gratitude Speaker 7 (15:44) based on knowing, number one, what they had 100 years ago, 150 years ago, and what we have now. And every day, just from this point, I go, thank God I was born now. Don't even talk about medicine, how medicine has changed. I learned that from reading the book on the Lewis and Clark expedition about the late 1700s. People were paranoid about dying. Young people were. You broke an arm, you got an infection, you could die from it. And we walk around that life is so hard today. Speaker 7 (16:20) Well, how do you get away with that? How do you justify that in your mind? Ignorance. You have no idea how people used to live. We got a good show ahead. Speaker 1 (16:31) Man, there's so many crazy things going on. Speaker 7 (16:35) Of course, we have a good time talking about it because it's insane, but it is still all serious. That all coming up, we are Red Eye Radio. 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