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We have great conversations. We appreciate you being here. 86690redeye. You have been doing talk radio for three decades. 28 years. I may stick around. A few more years. But for those who are new, welcome and we appreciate it. We not to take every thing say seriously. We have a lot of fun in the mill of the night. If youre up for this reason you are either doing hard work, you cannot sleep, it is never a good reason. As our boss says, the thing good ever happens in the middle of the night. We try to make it better by having some fun. Hello to everyone who is out there this morning and thank you for being here. We do this periodically even for our regular audience because you people are always coming in and new people are always coming aboard and we like to explain what we are doing and with the coming andstration this is a great opportunity for us to do that. What we truly care about are the issues. We talked politics, we talk Everything Else and going on going on in the world, pop culture, you name it. What we really love talking about is getting down to the issues and breaking down the issues, so everyone can understand it and therefore, everyone feels they are included in the conversation. One of the things we came up with going back about seven or eight years ago and it went viral. We always try to simplify things because a lot of times, we in the media assume that everybody is paying attention to the issues like we are. Many are. To work apeople have job. So to give you an example, something we did years ago is we decided to simplify for everyone to their the national debt. Inn you hear is the billions the trillions, it is like, i do not know what is going on. Simplify it. We decided and i have updated it for right now. That is always increasing, just look at the clock and it is going very fast these days. We simple fight it so everyone can understand it. Like aional debt is person who is making 30,000. Youre making 30,000 and this year, you are going to spend 37,000. That is me. Next year you may make 31,000 and spent 39,000 a year. You have got almost 200,000 in unsecured Credit Card Debt and you have one to 2 million in bills that must be paid over the next 10 years. That is it. Now you understand the national debt. You can look at it and say, is sound finances there . Right. That is an example of one of the things we do. We like to simplify things. The thing that we like talking about the most even though we love talking politics, is when it comes to the issues, we love talking economics. Yes. Economics to us is something that gets perverted in the media, it gets perverted in people in conversations, we never how it gets perverted is we never complete the sentence. That is has always bothered you and i. When people talk about the and the democrats used to say, for example, that the minimum wage, if you increase the minimum wage, then there is going to be more money in peoples pockets and it helps the economy. You are covering half of the equation. Youre not completing the sentence. Youre not looking at the other end, the increase in costs. It is impossible in economics to have a better economy when you increase the cost of doing business without an increase in productivity or an increase in producing that product. We talk about economics, people will tell us, i do not agree with your opinion. When we said for years it is not our opinion. Economics is not what i think. It is not what eric thinks. It is not what you think it is going to be. It is not what president obama thinks it will be or president elect trump is thinks it is going to be. Economics is the masses and how they respond to incentive and disincentive. Trying to give everyone a baseline of what we are about and the things we like to discuss. The people come and go and there is a lot of a lot, of course, that is put into the personalities of the people whether it is a barack obama or a donald trump. The people, and go. The people are fallible. The ideas are true. Which ones work, which ones are better, which ones get us to a better place. The reason we look to talk about economics is because as an economy expands, then people ,ave more freedom in their life because everybody is benefiting. If it is truly expanding, everyone is benefiting. Lets make the whole talk on minimum wage irrelevant. By doing what, doing what we have always done as a nation. And that is manufacturing things which is taking things from the in thethat have no value ground and instantly above ground and processed, they have demand and a value in the marketplace and that is something we have been doing for a long time. Since this country started. We do it very well. Lets get back to doing that so that everybody is in a better aace and when you are in better place financially, when you have more spending power, more savings power, that allows you as an individual, you enter family to go out and make it her choices. Times hit, we hit a recession, you have money in the bank, it gives you some breathing room. If you have got better choices in your life in terms of where of car youhe kind drive, or whatever it might be that you choose to spend your money on. ,t puts you in a better place and allows you to truly enjoy freedom. Of the shower part is the fun part of the show. What we just said, we are doomed. Yeah. Take your thing we just said and throw it out. We always going to have fun. Rightth the hyperbole now, we decided after between election time when the election happened and now, we decided to have the most fun listening to the political hyperbole that has gone to, as seinfeld would say, the absolute bizarro world. On the world show today, we will tell you about the democrat that calls for the trump impeachment already and liberal covers. Not conservative peppers, preppers, because now it is time to buy guns. Because Donald Trumps president it is time to buy a gun. And schools that have a cease fight toxico masculinity. Let me play this audio clip. From cnn too cut show you what happened yesterday, some of the lyrical hyperbole and rhetoric we have to deal with. They are in the process of ringing all types of people from all different backgrounds like we have the coalition, we reach out to all different parts kinds of people. Negroes being dragged out in front of tv what . Toone of our favorite things talk about is race. We love talking about race. Your member the former attorney general called america a nation of cowards. It is one of our favorite topics to talk about. We cant get folks on the left to have a conversation and we love doing that. Especially this week. You talk about judging someone by the content of their character. We believe in that. How many people on the left believe in that . How many of the surrogates for the politicians on the left believe it, how many politicians on the left believe that today, that you truly judge someone on the content of their character, not by the color of their skin. Conservative black . Something is wrong with you. What . Tim scott, south carolina. You are not really black then. Right there. Mediocre negroes, what does that mean . You do not think that the way we think all blacks should thing. What is that . Color of the skin dictates your opinion on an issue, is in that bigotry, isnt that the racism of today . We will talk about president obama commuting Chelsea Mannings sentence. Wow. He is not done. Theres only a couple more days t but who knows where it what he could get in between now and friday. One of the things we want to do and we have been doing all weeks we want to get to as many people as possible, including people watching on cspan for the first time. Watching cspan for the first time, watching us for the first time. If you want to get in on the discussion, here we are. Two days left for the Obama Presidency and then it is president elect trump and we will see what he is going to do. And the wall street journal saying it looks like it is he is going the tariff way but so is the republican congress. Do you guys did you hear what they are thinking about question mark we want to have exports where exports, there is no taxes on exports going out of the country. An increase tax but in Corporate Tax on imports which would be an import tax and they want to use that to pay for cuts but youre not paying for the trump tax cuts. All you are doing is taxing the american obligate another fashion or form. On tariffs, when donald trump talks about it and republicans are talking about an import tax, youre not punishing the companies, youre taxing the consumer. We will get to that in more all in the show. Your calls and comments 8002902227. 90redeye. Here it is. There is the phone number on the screen. Everybody has an idea of what we are about. Everybody in the hallway. We are on facebook, too. We are face booking live. Hi, facebook. Facebook, how are you . I think we look at it. Is that High Definition . I do not think there is anything that can make us look at her. I do not think that is possible. Do i lookike better that way . No makeup under High Definition ric, you looke terrible. Thanks. I appreciate that. For those someone asking a question on facebook. Last weektacted us and wants to do this, it is a one off. Maybe they will be back one day hopefully or maybe a lot of people who made the decision to broadcast our show on cspan will get fired in the morning. That is probably going to happen. Inauguration week so cspan is sampling talk shows from all over, both sides of the aisle. And so, we are glad they are here. We are honored to be on cspan tonight so thanks for the question, we appreciate it, facebook. I am going to like this call. Economics not an exact science, more like psychology rules of thought. You like that one . I like that one. L on facebook and thank you, cspan, for being here as we mention. We have been around for a while, gary and i have been doing the show for 12 years together. I have been doing the show for 20 years just celebrated 20 years sold doing this program and it is great to talk to americans all over. Occasionally we will have a guest but we believe the most interesting people to talk to our everyday americans, the people that are out there, our audience. They often make some such great points in brilliant ways because if you stop and i think this is what we learned as a nation collectively, on november 8, you stop and listen to everyday people every once in a while and maybe you learned something. For ae been doing that long time and we have learned something. Truck drivers, Police Officers, security guards, nurses, insomniacs, anyone up late for any reason. Before use stereotype us because we are conservative libertarian, both of us come from a bluecollar background. I was the united steelworkers, International Association of machinists and aerospace workers. Worked in a machine shop in a steel mill, ran laves and grinders. Eric worked in factories. I worked in banking for a while. We have done more than just radio in our lives. Yeah. I do not know if it is a good or bad thing, it is the way it is. That is our life experience. Brat, son of an engineer. That is how we grew up so we bring that experience to the table. And our listeners bring a number of experiences. My dad just turned 90 years old and still lectures me. So there you go. Is this not just riveting television . There is a reason that happens in the middle of the night. May be next year, eric will be at the golden globes. That is not going to happen. It is redeye radio. Are live across america and this is great, we are on cspan. For all five hours. For some five hours. For some reason, our headphones in stereo are in stereo. It seems like they sound better tonight. Maybe because cspan is here, my headphones sound better. It was announced cspan would be in the building. Our Corporate Office discovered we exist. We are just joking. It is really great to have them in here in our cozy little studio here in texas. We broadcast from texas for those that are new to the show via cspan or radio and we hope you will check us out at any time you are up late on so many great stations across the country. Be part of the conversation. We believe that this whole thing is about discussing the ideas. We actually heard from a couple of folks who described themselves as liberals right after the election saying, again, their opinion, their party had gone too far into identity politics. Congressmant from tim ryan. That is something he believes. Joe manchin said the same thing. Thethers ours are saying same thing. I do not expect that party to change drastically. That is likely going to be their mo for quite some time. People are realizing that it is the ideas. Lets put some ideas to work and i think donald trump became president because a number of things, but people are trusting him next with the economy, they are trusting the republican congress, and we always say that it is a waitandsee approach. Election day is like draft day. It is exciting for a lot of people but what really matters longterm is that we implement these ideas as policy, the ones that work my and we get people to a better place so we will see if we can do that. Donald trump one crossed over in battleground states and that is something you had said. This was this was this groundswell of republicans. Keep in mind how the primary and the general election season went. This was to a large degree and we have heard from them, this week, people in the rust belt and blue states and blue enough iseven, said, enough and we will trust donald trump with this. People, by the way of all skin colors and backgrounds. So much of what the left is doing right now, the political operatives, they are in freak out mode and want you to believe racist andan is a that he is going to act as a dictator and Everything Else. It is all hyperbole. Much of it is made up, we believe. It is not founded on anything real. And again, we take the attitude of wait and see. It does not matter whether we vote for the person, that is the other thing, a lot of personalities, radio folks or pundits may endorse people, we endorse ideas. Show, gladp on the you brought that up about the election. We were not surprised by what happened in the election. We had said, we were questioned a month before, a gentleman called us and said you guys are going to be surprised at his trump will win and we said i would be surprised if trump did not win just based on the economic situation. You do not find in the history of this country a time when you badd you have had such a economy over eight years, it does not matter who is in power. The opposition always takes the executive branch after eight years. Maybe roosevelt would be the exception to the rule of that. Except roosevelt, if you look at situationhe economic the country itself, we said, no, trump should win. I found an article, i was going back doing some Research Going on my computer. It was an article i saved in april where that prediction was made saying if you look at the economic models, trump should win. Based on history. We had said that and we never 99 ht into that line that chance that hillary is going to win. Whenever bought into that to begin with. We thought a lot of that was fake news. Right. We will get to that coming up and your calls and comments coming up next. We want to make an effort todays days before the inauguration to do that. Heres your forecast. A look at your forecast for redeye radio. Rain across northern california, wet weather for San Francisco. The high as 54. Rain and wind for coastal oregon and into washington state. In seattle, the highest 49. 40 six in portland today. Look for snow in the higher elevations. In minneapolis, we will be looking for sunshine with a high of 37 degrees. 39 in chicago. Snow in new england, we may see some high announce amounts into maine and new hampshire. In Central New York it will mix with ice at times but in new york city, 42 and overcast. Washington, d. C. , your High Temperature is 56 was mostly cloudy skies and beautiful weather in florida. Orlando, florida lauderdale, miami, 84 with plenty of sunshine. Down through corpus christi, texas, look for highs in the mid to upper 60s. That is your forecast. I am Bonnie Schneider. Thanks so much, bonnie. Is it summer yet . It has been here in texas. We have not had much of a winter at all. Not for me. I am done. Lets get the warm weather back. [inaudible] it thank you for everyone being here. We appreciated. Stephen, tim, mike and others. We are trying to address some of those on the air. We have those items coming up on the show. What a multimedia experience. For being thank you here, cspan. It will be an interesting week leading up to inauguration. I think the last couple of days will be very interesting. There was a president set in a recent interview. The president elect implied he would be a very active expresident. Which, by virtue of who he is politically we believe it is going to be true. That is part of the reason he is staying in washington. Cohost as soon as he is done he is going to continue his residential duties out in palm springs. I think he can break far. Cohost tiger woods said he wished he could golf as much as is 300sident, so it times, according to reports, it has been roughly 300 times that the president has played golf over eight years and identity math and that is roughly on the average once every 9. 7 days. Often do you . How i have been golfing since i was 13yearsold in now just with the show, the availability during the show because were off during the day it my sleep pattern affords me the time to do it. Maybe if you took the entire year, once every four weeks. I get up to the driving range a couple times. With the old bones, i dont know if i can really golf. The president is a little younger than i am. A couple years. He probably has a better trainer then you