09-16-26 Part One - The Dangers of Sanctuary Cities

Red Eye Radio

Red Eye Radio's episode begins with personal reflections on family caregiving, followed by a discussion on sanctuary cities, highlighting co

Key takeaways

• Sanctuary cities are criticized for prioritizing undocumented immigrants over public safety.

Main topics

• Sanctuary cities and public safety
• Immigration policy and national security

Notable quotes

"My dad is definitely my hero." – Eric Hurley on his father's resilience.

Conclusion

The episode concludes with a call for accountability in immigration po

Transcript preview

Speaker 8 (0:06) 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 4 (0:25) All across America, we are Red Eye Radio. I'm Gary McNamara. He is Eric Speaker 7 (0:32) Hurley. Hey, how are you, Gary? Well, thanks for being here. That sounded like bitter, didn't it? No, Speaker 1 (0:40) no, Speaker 7 (0:40) no. Here's Speaker 1 (0:41) the thing. My neighbor told me that President Trump renamed Tuesday America Day. And I took from that that it was a national holiday. Oh, okay. All right. Speaker 1 (0:58) My bad. How's Dan? He's the strongest guy I know personally. Speaker 3 (1:06) And I put him right up there with John McNamara. Speaker 1 (1:09) And Speaker 3 (1:09) I mean that. I'm very serious. He gets what you get sometimes, and that is, wait a minute, you're not that old. He's 93, and he is, so far, no cognitive issues. Speaker 3 (1:30) You know, obviously, physically, some things are going on, an incurable blood cancer that he's had since November of 22. Went to war first time when he was 18 and then went again when I was four years old. And, you know, he's the strongest guy I know, again, personally. I've never personally met John McNamara, so I would put them both at, they're just both incredible human beings after everything that they have. gone through their minds and everything else. You know, my dad, the seasoned investigator, your dad, the seasoned engineer. So they had those curious minds and they also wanted their kids to learn. And he's my hero. My dad is definitely my hero. But he is stable. He is back at home. He's got home nursing care. that are very capable. For everybody in the professional caretakers out there, you're amazing. I don't know what else to say because all of us non-professional caretakers, by the way, I am on my way to becoming an unregistered nurse. I'm working at it. I won't be fully registered ever. But I'm learning because the care requires your brother and your sister who have been amazing with your dad. Speaker 7 (3:04) Yeah, full-time caretakers of my father. They are Speaker 3 (3:06) full-time caretakers. And, you know. My sister and I trade off. She's out of town and can't or couldn't get back in time, which is why I was out yesterday. But we're still, as you know, it takes, I mean, your brother and your sister are, and your other sister are all working as a team along with your dad's doctors. And that's how it works. If you're lucky, by the way. to be able to keep your parents in their home, which is what everybody's wish really is. But when you look at the professional caretakers, it's just amazing and the technology that's out there. But dad, he is stable. The battle Speaker 1 (3:58) is getting tougher. But he's, you know, just got a... He's still got a sense of humor. I was helping him set reminders Speaker 3 (4:12) for, because he's got Alexa. He can tell Alexa, hey, Alexa, set a reminder for my new medication for 10, 15 p.m. Okay. And so he's got some temporary medications that he's treating an infection and pneumonia. Speaker 3 (4:32) And so I said, but each of them had their own little quirks about them. And he said, okay, help me organize this. He goes, what do you think? Should I take this one at this time? And I said, I think we've narrowed it down to this. There's three new medications. So two in the morning. And then all three of them at bedtime because one is only one time a day. And so I said, let me send you a text. And then now you can star with messages, at least on Android. You can put a star next to that to basically highlight that message so Dad, if he needs to, can go into his text messages from me. And there's a star next to it, which happens to look exactly like the Dallas Cowboys star. Speaker 1 (5:18) And when I pointed that out to him, he said, why would you do that to me? Speaker 4 (5:30) I plan on winning the battle. He Speaker 1 (5:37) says, that's kind of cruel. A little salt in the wound. He's just, you know, and he's so also so kind, but also on Speaker 3 (5:50) it, you know. And when a new nurse came in, when he was in the hospital, like, you know, they have what they call shifts, you know, and people working at different times of the day, which is weird. I don't know why anybody would work at night, but they do. And, you know, so they would come in and they would introduce themselves and. He would line up all of his, he knows exactly his last appointment, when his next appointment is. In fact, I'll be taking him to that appointment here in 12 hours. All of these things, and he knows everything, and he's got it in line. Other than moving a lot slower right now because of everything that's going on. He's all there. I'm grateful. In a weird way, I told my wife this tonight. In a weird way, I'm grateful to have this extra time with him. I know if you've never been in this situation, that might sound weird. I certainly wouldn't. not want it under these circumstances, but it is a very intimate setting when you're the non-professional caretaker and you can communicate with them and they trust you to do that. And there's that, I don't know how to explain it, but that relationship, that bond just grows even stronger. Speaker 7 (7:22) You know, I'm glad you said that because I wanted to say that and I didn't know. how to frame it think think about that i didn't know i didn't know i don't Speaker 3 (7:30) know Speaker 7 (7:30) how to frame it yeah well it is new territory right which is yeah appreciate the fact that he has his cognitive abilities i didn't know how to say that and then as i'm thinking it you went and and and and you said it and that's just because of the you know with with my with my dad basically 99 of my dad is not there And so I didn't know how to say that in the right context. And then you said it, which was great. Speaker 3 (7:55) Well, it came on, you know, with your dad, which is what happened with my mom's oldest sister, my Aunt June. It was a very rapid onset for your father, relatively speaking. Yeah, it Speaker 7 (8:07) was. For Speaker 3 (8:08) 99 % of his life, you know, his mind, that video that you made of him, it's just. Honestly, was that Speaker 1 (8:19) about four years ago? Speaker 3 (8:21) It was about four years ago. It was Speaker 7 (8:22) after Speaker 3 (8:22) COVID. I know that. And it's such a beautiful setting because he's sitting there and he's talking to you. And it's so it's such an intimate setting. And he's, you know, talking like real people talk, right? And also his engineering mind is going over all of these things. And he's very analytical. And my dad and I, I always say we have our own talk show inevitably when I see him in his living room. And we had it a couple of times, in fact, in the hospital in between, you know, all of his blood tests and care, of course. Speaker 3 (9:01) And then, you know, dad was saying, okay, I'm done with Cowboys new coach. I mean, that's all he said about the Cowboys thing, aside from the joke, the Speaker 1 (9:10) earlier joke. But, you know, it was, you know, it's, but it's when you have that. And I'm trying to document Speaker 3 (9:24) everything. Because like my maternal grandfather, well, actually, all my grandparents, you know, those generations. Speaker 3 (9:36) You have to have somebody tell you a story. And stories have been told since the beginning of time. And I think it's important to tell everybody's story along the way. We talked about this the last time I was on. What was that, two weeks ago? I don't know. I get a lot of time off, folks. That's just the way it is. I'm the new Howard Stern. But here's the thing. Speaker 3 (10:04) Maybe I shouldn't have said that. I don't care. But, no, we were talking about young people. We were talking about, you know, what they know, what they learn, and how we take things for granted and the technology that we have. And do they actually know how the real world works and how much do they know or care to know about how the real world works or how things work? Speaker 3 (10:33) And it's important, I think, to tell the stories of those who are the generations that have come ahead of us that are still those stories are still they'll always be relevant. And my father's story is just one of millions. You know, I when I started doing my ancestry thing, it wasn't like, you know. okay, this guy did this and this guy did that and there's some things that relate to American history and all that, but none of that really interested me. It was how they lived back then. Speaker 1 (11:12) Them as a person, I didn't know them. They may be related to me, but I didn't know them. It was about... how things worked, how life had to be conducted back then. That Speaker 3 (11:29) was the most interesting thing for my family tree. Yeah, I want to put the names up in place and so the family can see it, but it really was just a history lesson and not necessarily my family history or just my family history. It was an American history lesson and eventually then European and Scottish and then it all goes downhill from there. Speaker 1 (11:52) But then it's old crap. But it was, you know, I think about, I was talking to my dad's Speaker 3 (12:01) neighbor, next door neighbor, Dobie. I didn't know Dobie was 85. He looks 75. He's outside. It's 100 and something degrees. He's not wearing a shirt. Fit as a fiddle. 85 degrees. And he's asking me, you know, because I had brought dad home. And he asked me, hey, how's your dad? And we had a chat in his shaded yard. He's got great trees. And I said, you know, we were talking. I was talking about my dad's service, which he knew. But, you know, there were some questions he was asking. And then he was telling me about going to Vietnam when he was, I think he said 20. And he's 85 now. He's going to be 86 soon. And, you know, all of these stories, again, there's millions of them, of these individuals. And I'm thinking to myself, you know, what happens Speaker 1 (12:52) when they age out? What happens? Because AI Speaker 3 (12:57) is not going to do everything for you, folks. In fact, Speaker 1 (12:59) the stories, if you read the stories of just the last week and a half alone, you realize the confidence. that the AI companies themselves have in AI is waning right now. They've hit kind of a plateau as to what they believe people are going to want, need, or be able to do with AI. And Speaker 7 (13:23) that's been a big question that we've talked about in Speaker 1 (13:27) the past. Yes, Speaker 7 (13:27) and Speaker 1 (13:27) it still is a question. I don't know. I hope it improves people's lives. I think technology is great. We can't get there without the people. You know, we talked about how Mike Rowe talks about this Speaker 3 (13:39) and all the jobs that are going to be have to be hands on non tech jobs in order to make AI happen and grow and expand. Non tech or tech? Non tech jobs. Speaker 7 (13:53) OK. Speaker 3 (13:53) Yeah. A Speaker 7 (13:54) ton of tech jobs. No, no Speaker 3 (13:55) tech jobs, of course. But the non tech Speaker 1 (13:57) jobs in building the centers, all the data centers, the construction. all of the things that are going to have to be done by humans that won't be done by robots. Okay, you're Speaker 7 (14:11) talking computer tech, not Speaker 1 (14:13) engineering Speaker 7 (14:14) or civil technology. Right, right, right, right, yeah. Speaker 1 (14:17) And so, you know, Mike Rose talked about how these are going to be, they're still going to require a ton of humans, and we've talked about it. It always does. Speaker 3 (14:27) Going back to Obama saying, The problem is the reason we don't have enough jobs is because of ATMs. Speaker 7 (14:35) I mentioned that yesterday, by the way, and just said, I can't help it. But I'm like, what an idiot. What a moronic statement. And the reason I say that is because of the adoration towards him. Yeah. The, you know, the godlike status of people that the Democrats put forth for him. Remember the. the Denver rally with the Roman columns and then Grand Park in Chicago afterwards. And, oh, he's just so. And it's like, then he opened his mouth and it's like, the guy's completely clueless. Speaker 1 (15:02) He's absolutely clueless. But Speaker 4 (15:05) we've talked, but that's a great point because we've talked about the fact that every massive advancement and going from an agriculture economy to an industrial economy moved basically 97 % of the workforce to. a completely different profession over the period of less than 100 years. Yeah, Speaker 1 (15:22) you know. And Speaker 4 (15:23) so, and what did it do? There was creative destruction. All those agriculture jobs were gone, but every massive advancement in technology has made a ton more jobs than were lost. Speaker 1 (15:34) And Bernie is bringing up the 32-hour work week again. I know. Right, the other day. And I'm thinking to myself, I'm like, okay, I'll tell you what. I'll listen to that. I'm willing to listen to that idea, Bernie, if you'll do the Eric and Gary plan for members of Congress, Senate, and the House. Speaker 5 (15:56) You Speaker 1 (15:57) will work only one hour per week. Right. Only one. And everyone, you'll get nothing done. Uh-huh. We know. Speaker 7 (16:07) 40 Speaker 1 (16:08) trillion and growing. Speaker 7 (16:10) That's where we disagree with even a significant portion of the, I won't say conservative, but Republican movement that says. Populist, yeah. The populist, we Speaker 4 (16:21) need our Congress to do more. No. No. Speaker 1 (16:24) No. Speaker 4 (16:25) No. Speaker 1 (16:25) No. No. I'll listen to your 32-hour-a-week plan for the everyday person. Speaker 3 (16:33) The worker, you know, that's a communist term. It's all about the worker, Bernie, we know. And if I'll listen to your plan, I said listen, I didn't say agree. I'll listen to that if you guys on Capitol Hill will agree to work one hour a week. Speaker 3 (16:53) One. Wednesday, 11 a.m. to noon. Speaker 7 (16:57) So you only pass what's absolutely necessary. That's Speaker 3 (17:00) right. Exactly. Speaker 7 (17:02) I'm glad you're able to see your dad. Speaker 3 (17:04) Yeah, thank you for everybody. Everybody needs to know the RER crew. No one knows what RER means. It stands for Red Eye Radio. No one knows what Red Eye Radio means, quite frankly. But the Red Eye Radio crew is amazing. And you guys have... helped to carry me too many times. I owe you, but I'm never paying you back. It's not going to happen. We Speaker 7 (17:29) are Red Eye Speaker 1 (17:29) Radio. Brought to you by Hotshot Secret. Speaker 5 (17:32) Hi, I'm Jen Loomis, a transport safety expert at J.J. Keller. 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