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Red Eye Radio

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Red Eye Radio is the pre-eminent syndicated overnight radio show hosted by radio vets Gary McNamara and Eric Harley airing Monday through Friday, Midnight to 5am Central. Targeted at long haul truckers, Red Eye Radio has broadened its mission to include virtually everyone living and working non-traditional hours. The audience includes shift workers, travelers, truck drivers and others who embrace the new 24/7 lifestyle, with many restaurants, retailers and other business establishments open round the clock. Red Eye Radio is the successor to Midnight Trucking Radio Network, a program whose roots go back 40 years. Each night the hosts of Red Eye Radio review the headlines, cover the issues that matter and keep listeners tuned-in with insight and perspective. Also on the agenda popular culture, family issues and detailed national weather forecasts.
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Episodes

02-17-26 Part One - Hilary, Obama, AOC & Aliens

In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, Hilary Clinton shows up at the Munich Security Conference (uninvited), poll taxes on the American voter, Senator John Thune says " we will have a vote" curbing Govt. shutdown and the first openly trans US lawmaker directed partner on how to abuse tots — before asking if pair could still go to heaven. Also Bill Maher is confused on carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, remembering the life of actor Robert DuVall who died Sunday at age...

Feb 17, 20261 hr 16 min

02-13-26 Part Two - A Major Resignation

In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, Marconi award winning radio host Dan Mandis fills in for the guys and we begin this hour with more about the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs, Kathy Ruemmler, announcing that she will resign following revelations of her links to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Ruemmler’s resignation comes after the DOJ’s latest release of investigative files about Epstein showed that she had received gifts from Epstein, offered him ...

Feb 14, 202638 min

02-13-26 Part One - Be Careful Little Eyes What You See

In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, Marconi award winning radio host Dan Mandis fills in for the guys tonight and we begin with the influence of social media on children and how platforms like TikTok are promoting the left's agenda on school age children. Also the corruption of Minnesota's AG Keith Ellison and the pushback of ICE in Minnesota. Now Gov. Tim Walz wants taxpayers to reimburse the state for damages. Also the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs, Kathy Ruemmler, h...

Feb 14, 20261 hr 16 min

02-12-26 Part Two - A Pause in El Paso

In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, a temporary flight restriction has now been lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration announced it would be halting all flights to and from El Paso and the neighboring Santa Teresa, New Mexico, for the next 10 days. Also one (or two) gloves found near Nancy Guthrie's home in Arizona as the search for her enters day 12 and seditious conspiracy in the case. For more talk on the issues that matter to you, listen on radio statio...

Feb 12, 202638 min

02-12-26 Part One - Dadgummit!

In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, Gary adopts a tried and true phrase that appropriately expresses his feelings on a wide variety of things, in this case Voter ID. "Dadgummit I have to show my ID for this?!" (you get the idea). Also 99.5% of Democrats vote against Voter ID on Wednesday, the constitutionality of Voter ID, a positive outlook in economic news and President Trump's real estate mindset on running the country. For more talk on the issues that matter to y...

Feb 12, 20261 hr 16 min

02-11-26 Part One - A Person of Interest

In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, the FBI has released surveillance video taken outside the home of Nancy Guthrie showing a masked individual who seemed to tamper with the front door camera early Sunday, Feb. 1. In addition, activity has been reported in the bitcoin account connected to the search for Nancy Guthrie, according to TMZ. Harvey Levin claimed that within the last 15 minutes, TMZ has seen activity in the account mentioned in the original alleged ransom n...

Feb 11, 20261 hr 16 min

02-11-26 Part Two - Heaven or Hell

In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, you know Democrats are out of ammo when they play the "God card". In a mostly soporific Tuesday House Homeland Committee hearing called amid the widespread public outcry over Customs and Border Protection agents’ killing of Alex Pretti, Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) managed to set the whole room astir. She asked acting ICE Chief Todd Lyons whether he’s religious, reacting with surprise when he responded that he is. “How do you think ...

Feb 11, 202638 min

02-10-26 Part Two - Politicizing the Half Time Show

In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, the demand to be properly entertained in the middle of a football game has brought us to where we are. The 60th Super Bowl produced a very bad bunny rabbit and prompted the first alternative at the expense of 5 million viewers taken away from NBC's coveted audience. Also discussion on musical taste and preference, the genius of guitarist Wolfgang Van Halen and Rick Beado's educational videos on YouTube. In the news more billionaire...

Feb 10, 202638 min

02-10-26 Part One - A Constitutional Check Up

In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, we begin the show by recognizing the utter lack of basic knowledge about the Constitution and the three branches of government, Specifically how one North Carolina Law enforcement officer was clueless under questioning about what branch of Government he served under. Also protesters have no clue what they stand for, audio from "The View" with a Democratic politician bringing God and religion into their perverted view on transgender...

Feb 10, 20261 hr 16 min

02-09-26 Part One - The Culture Bowl

In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, if we had to choose between Bad Bunny or Kid Rock, we would choose Eddie Rabbitt. The Super Bowl 60 halftime show last night clearly left a lot to be desired. Also the liberal agenda behind the Olympics, white women whistle blowers, President Trump's childish racist post and the latest update on Nancy Guthrie's disappearance. For more talk on the issues that matter to you, listen on radio stations across America Monday-Friday 12am-...

Feb 09, 20261 hr 16 min

02-09-26 Part Two - The Half Time Let Down

In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, we comment on yet another Super Bowl Half Time Show disappointment. A bad "Bad Bunny" performance prompting Turning Point USA to offer viewers another entertainment option. It successfully took 25 million viewers away from the Super Bowl show to the Rumble platform. Also comments on the lackluster appeal of this year's Winter Olympics, our congrats to the Seattle Seahawks for winning Super Bowl 60 and speculation on Canada becoming...

Feb 09, 202638 min

02-06-26 Part One - Return Of The ShamWow! Guy

In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, the ShamWow! guy is running for Congress and has put out his first ad, a look at the polling of potential Democrat contenders for the 2028 Presidential race, the latest Rasmussen polling of President Trump, Senator Chuck Schumer is not radical enough for the left, cable news rankings are out with Fox News holding down the top 16 shows, Democrats are trying harder than Republicans to lose in November. For more talk on the issues tha...

Feb 06, 20261 hr 16 min

02-06-26 Part Two - It's A Big Sports Weekend

In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, it's a big sports weekend with the start of the Olympics and the Super Bowl, 40 percent of global cases of cancer can be prevented with three lifestyle changes, constitutional discussed include U.S. Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro saying don't bring a gun into Washington and Trump wanting to nationalize elections. For more talk on the issues that matter to you, listen on radio stations across America Monday-Friday 12am-5am CT (1am-6a...

Feb 06, 202638 min

02-05-26 Part One - A Desperate Search

In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, NBC "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie and her siblings made an emotional public plea on Instagram for their missing mother, Nancy Guthrie, urging anyone who may have abducted the 84-year-old to make contact as Arizona investigators say evidence suggests a crime and reports of a possible ransom demand have surfaced. President Trump also offered a major helping hand in the search for Nancy Guthrie on Wednesday night. Also the left tri...

Feb 05, 20261 hr 16 min

02-05-26 Part Two - No MAGA Mono Culture

In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, a NY Times article breaks down President Trump's numbers on the 2024 election and pollster opinion reveals no dependence on a MAGA mono culture. Most votes in his favor skewed independents and some liberals who were disenchanted with the Biden Administration and their lack of faith in the Democratic agenda. Also affordability remains the key concern for voters going into the mid-terms, audio from Bill Maher on last year's Oscars, S...

Feb 05, 202638 min

02-04-26 Part Two - The Eilish Backlash

In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, the Native American tribe that owns the land under Billie Eilish’s multimillion-dollar Los Angeles mansion said celebrities should “explicitly” reference the tribes if they want to use them to virtue-signal. The Tongva tribe confirmed the “Bad Guy” singer’s $3 million home does sit on its “ancestral land,” after the 24-year-old used her Grammys acceptance speech to rail against ICE and insist that “no one is illegal on stolen land....

Feb 04, 202638 min

02-04-26 Part One - This Land Is Our Land

In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, the Tongva tribe in Southern California responded to singer Billie Eilish's comments declaring "no one is illegal on stolen land" at the Grammy Awards Sunday night. Several commentators pointed out that Eilish herself owned a multimillion-dollar Los Angeles property on what is considered "stolen land" that was historically inhabited by the Tongva people, a Native American nation whose territory includes the greater Los Angeles Basi...

Feb 04, 20261 hr 16 min

02-03-26 Part One - Billie's Landslide

In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, lefty pop star Billie Eilish is facing calls to hand over her ritzy Los Angeles digs to a Native American tribe or illegal immigrant after she declared “No one is illegal on stolen land” at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony. The 24 year-old singer is being accused of virtue signaling for the anti-ICE remarks she made while accepting the award for Song of the Year Sunday night. Also Chuck Negron, a founding member of Three Dog ...

Feb 03, 20261 hr 16 min

02-03-26 Part Two - Our Embarrassingly Beautiful Bald Spot

In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, we discuss getting older, hair color and hair loss..as compared to the beautiful silver mane of Gavin Newsom. Also the cost of dealing with Iran and Turning Point USA offers an alternative Super Bowl half-time show. For more talk on the issues that matter to you, listen on radio stations across America Monday-Friday 12am-5am CT (1am-6am ET and 10pm-3am PT), download the RED EYE RADIO SHOW app, asking your smart speaker, or listenin...

Feb 03, 202638 min

02-02-26 Part One - The Grammys Were On?

In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, from Jelly Roll to Bad Bunny to Justin Bieber in his underwear, all of us here at Red Eye missed last night's Grammy Awards (sorry). Happy Groundhog Day! Turning to the news at hand, a 22-year-old woman who identified as a boy in her teen years won a $2 million decision in a landmark lawsuit against New York doctors accused of pushing a double mastectomy on her when she was a minor. Also Don Lemon arrested for "attending church" an...

Feb 02, 20261 hr 16 min

02-02-26 Part Two - Dems Win in Texas

In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, Democrats notched another special election upset Saturday after Taylor Rehmet won a Texas state Senate race in a district long dominated by Republicans. Rehmet, a labor union leader and Air Force veteran, defeated Republican Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist, in the Fort Worth-area district. Also how economics sway voter's decisions, bi-partisan agreement on the President's pick for the new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh and audio f...

Feb 02, 202638 min

01-30-26 Part One - Homan's Targeted Approach

In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, Minnesota Governor Walz says he will never run for political office again, Trump's first cabinet meeting of the year made no mention of immigration, the credibility and focus of Border Czar Tom Homan in Minneapolis, the Seattle CHOP verdict is in...the city must pay $30.5 million to family of slain teen, after years of warnings investigators say the deadly midair collision near DC a year ago was preventable. For more talk on the is...

Jan 30, 20261 hr 16 min

01-30-26 Part Two - Liberal Insanity In Arizona

In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, an Arizona Freedom Caucus member asks three different Democrat lobbyists whether illegal immigrants should be allowed to vote in Arizona elections...all three would not give a definitive “no," Border Czar Tom Homan holds a press conference in Minneapolis, Trump is expected to pick the next Fed Chair on Friday, a new super bowl Budweiser ad that hopes to win back male consumers. For more talk on the issues that matter to you, listen...

Jan 30, 202637 min

01-29-26 Part One - The Jury is Out

In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, Gary discusses being dismissed from jury duty prompting a discussion of local and federal judges and the recent history of rulings from the bench on immigration. Also the "permission structure" used in Minneapolis against ICE agents try to maintain law and order, the EU commission fines "X" 45 million euros over a Donald Duck parody, Alex Pretti not such a nice guy as a viral video shows him spitting at ICE agents and the 2nd Amend...

Jan 29, 20261 hr 16 min

01-29-26 Part Two - Springsteen Strikes Again

In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, Bruce Springsteen has released a new song dedicated to Minnesota’s largest city as a response to “the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis” and the recent killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in the city. The musician has been a critic of President Trump since before his first term. Also a Virginia healthcare worker has drawn intense criticism and legal scrutiny after posting videos ...

Jan 29, 202638 min

01-28-26 Part One - The Blue State Blues

In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, we start with a look at yesterday's census analysis that indicates Democratic strongholds New York and California are expected to lose a massive amount of DC voting power after 2030 as hundreds of thousands of residents flee high costs driven by decades of leftist policy-making. Also the greed and jealousy of the liberal left, the need for due process for ICE agents in Minnesota and remembering the great blizzard in Buffalo, NY of ...

Jan 28, 20261 hr 16 min

01-28-26 Part Two - Liar Liar (The Left is on Fire)

In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, we point out the absolute lies from the political left specifically calling MAGA supporters and the Trump administration Nazis and comparing President Trump's decisions of immigration to the holocaust. Also awaiting news from the Fed on interest rate changes (consumer confidence is the lowest since the pandemic), President Trump's mid-term stump in Iowa and integrating AI and the use of real-time video. For more talk on the issues ...

Jan 28, 202638 min

01-27-26 Part Two - The Deportation Dilemma

In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, even though the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling blocking certain tactics against anti-ICE agitators in Minnesota, the Trump Administration now faces a decision on focusing on deporting illegal immigrants and whether or not to retract ICE enforcement in Minnesota following the death of another protester over the weekend. Also the irresponsibility of Alex Pretti could have lead to his own demise, a breakd...

Jan 27, 202638 min

01-27-26 Part One - ICE In Dallas

In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, the guys return to the show steering around the icy Dallas roadways to discuss the latest headlines. A top immigration official is expected to leave Minneapolis in what may mark a shift in the White House's tone after the fatal shooting of a second protester by federal officers over the weekend. As Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino and some immigration agents depart, "border tsar" Tom Homan will begin leading on-the-ground eff...

Jan 27, 20261 hr 16 min
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