03-03-26 Part One - Where There's Smoke There's Fire

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1:07Now 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. All across America, we are Red Eye Radio. He is Eric Hurley and I'm Gary McNamara. Good morning. Looking at all the different topics yesterday, we'll get to some of the Supreme Court stuff here in a little bit. I mean, some of the right up and because of everything going on in Iran, we haven't gotten to some of the Supreme Court stuff that they were looking at. And one is the law that if you want to get a handgun and you've got to go through the background check and the background check, you can't have smoked marijuana. If you're smoking

2:08marijuana, you can't get it. And this is a case where somebody was smoking marijuana. Also, there were some other drugs involved, but it's the marijuana is the actual issue. And so the Supreme Court's looking at it and just very briefly, we'll get to it a little bit later on, but it's just, there's just some humorous points to it because what they're looking at is both sides agree, both both both sides agree, debating before the Supreme Court, both sides agreed that if you're on pot, you should not be shooting a gun. All right. I mean, if you're if you're doing a few bongs, you probably shouldn't be shooting the handgun, but the same applies to alcohol. Yes, but the law going back to 2022, a precedent that was set and we'll get to the specific details here a little bit later on, but I just can't help it. I just I've been bursting to talk about this for the last couple of days. The law states that you have to look at

3:13what the founding fathers thought. It doesn't have to be parallel, but basically they're saying it has to be in the same spirit. And so part of the debate is that back then they were all a bunch of drunks and everybody could have a gun. Yeah. Yeah. No, they they party hard. I mean, on the regular. You know, it still it boggles my mind that people carried flasks. Number one, if you're a real drinker, that flask is probably too small. And number two, it's the fact that you just made it, you know, you make it portable, right? We go back to the law and order where they would either celebrate or ease the pain of celebrate winning a case or ease the pain of losing a case by pulling the the bourbon out of the desk, you know, at the at the prosecutor's office. What was the movie?

4:19Oh, it was primal fear, right? Yes. Where they go back to the judges quarters. Uh-huh. You know, and she pours everybody a drink. And I think it was Richard Gears character that says, no, thank you. And she drinks his. The judge drinks his. Oh, that's right. I forgot about that. I mean, it's and I'm thinking to myself, imagine, okay, now, step out of Hollywood and imagine your local news saying a judge during conference was doing shots with both the prosecution and the defense attorneys. And when the defense attorney declined to do a shot, the judge drank hers or his. And I mean, if you were to do that story on on local news, it would be a huge scandal. Well, well, some of the audio later on, but I just, I love this, this text here. Justice Gorsuch asked what it meant to be a habitual drunkard in the old days of America.

5:24Eight shots of whiskey a day only made you an occasional drunkard to be a habitual drunkard. You need to double that. James Madison reportedly drank a pint of whiskey every day. Remember the story on the queen before she passed away. She basically had nine drinks a day. And I think to myself, what queen, the queen of England, when we don't have any queens, when what which queen queen Elizabeth real? I had no idea. Yeah. Yeah. She drank. I never talked. Yeah, we talked about it one time on the air. She had nine drinks a day. And they counted them out. They said, here's what she had. And this was when she was still alive. She had, you know, I don't know, maybe a mimosa with breakfast or whatever than something at the midday. She had like nine drinks a day. And nobody really blinked. Now she wasn't sitting. She didn't

6:28get up and do nine shots. You know, I go, Hey, I was going on in the kingdom. It wasn't, you know, she was, it was throughout the day. To me, by the way, that would be worse. Because you're basically just keeping your senses dull enough throughout the day until you go to bed. And it's, I don't know what, you know, the, I don't know, socially acceptable level of alcohol is, but it seems like everybody with a podcast accept us is drinking whiskey on theirs. Well, look, if it was, let's say, just for an example, it was 120 years or 130 years ago. All right. I'm not going to be drinking like these people. I'm only, I'm only going to be drinking Coca-Cola. Yeah. Well, people that don't know Coca-Cola used to have cocaine in it. Okay, we'll hold on a second. All right. The president has, I don't know what, what did they say,

7:32several diet coaks throughout the day. Right. There are people that, you know, they call themselves diet coke fiends, you know, what, what about caffeine? You know, it's, it's a legal drug. In fact, that's the legal drug where people, people would fight you, keep in mind during COVID, the one thing they weren't going to shut down is the liquor stores. Yes. In fact, they expanded liquor laws in many states. They became necessary businesses. So if you think about the drugs that you, that you, you know, the legal drugs you take, you know, I don't, I don't want some beefies on caffeine either. You know, it's like, yeah, yeah, get the gun. I, you know, you want, you want somebody to sound like now. They may be a perfect sound mind. You know, but you could, you could make the case as the point on any socially acceptable drug.

8:37And really, what are we talking? We're talking alcohol, caffeine, you know, and now we has become socially acceptable. I guess my, my question would be that this happened to me about a year ago. I've got bad tendonitis in my right ankle. And I eventually have to do something about it because it's getting, it's getting worse and worse but this goes back about a year ago. I remember I had a couple of glasses of wine. It was really hurting and I didn't have the wine for that. It was just somewhere and I had a couple of glasses of wine. I was at home. I want to make it clear. I was not, I was not drinking wild driving. And, and it really lessened the pain. Yeah. And that has always sat in my mind. Not that I'm going to use that as a, but I don't know because one of the, one of the things would either I get it operated on, which again, they look at whether that would be successful or not. But one of the things that's been, they've talked to me about is doing steroids in it.

9:41Mm hmm. Right. I'll put in steroids in it to, to do it. But my question would be if you go all the way back to the founding fathers, did they drink? Was drinking actually more medicinal because remember, none of the medicine that we have today, did they have back then? None of it. Right. Right. And so was alcohol used more medicinally, especially as you got older and at aches and pains because there was nothing else to take for it. And I'm saying that as, that's a legitimate question. If you're looking at the Supreme, this, you know, the Supreme Court looking at it yesterday, and this is all about, you know, the, the, should the law be that you can't use it, not while you're holding a gun. But if you are a marijuana user, should you be denied having a gun from the federal government? Right. And it looks like, you know, because we all know

10:43many states of legalized pot. So it's legal in your state, but the federal government says, no, if you smoke pot at all, you can't have a gun. Right. And they say the justices are, it seems they're very skeptical on that law. And again, based on what they were doing in the founding fathers time, you know, with, with, with, without call. Well, if you think about it, and, and when that several years ago, that Queen Elizabeth story came out, and again, it's anywhere, and the reports are anywhere from four to nine per day, depending, I guess, depending on the day. And then people, they, the people that were on her staff came back and said, no, no, no, no, no, she doesn't do that every day. And then they said, in 20, I don't know, in their later years, a few years before she died, she was told by her doctors, you got to quit the alcohol all together because of your health and the whole thing. I mean, she lived to a very old age. Yeah. So we've got to go back and do that study on this alcohol good for you or bad for you again. Right. I mean, they keep going

11:48back and forth. I know why wine is great for your heart. Wine is bad for your heart. Wine is good for you. Wine is bad for you. Alcohol moderate alcohol is good for you. Any alcohol is bad for you. And it's all over the place. But in the socially acceptable part of this discussion, that's what you look at and say, okay, it's not socially acceptable to be drunk and to be driving. It's socially acceptable to have a beer with dinner, to have a glass of wine or to with dinner. And it's funny because somebody on YouTube, we saw and she cooks these recipes. She goes, I'm going to say the rest of this for when I have my wine later. I told my wife, I said, the word my is key there. My wine. That means she's probably drinking wine most days. You know, my wine. They kind of take possession of it. That's her time. Which is fine. It's socially acceptable

12:52as long as you're doing it legally and not doing it to the point. Are you talking about using the proper pronouns or alcohol? Well, when you, no, I'm talking about claiming the alcohol as yours and saying, don't anybody touch my wine. And where's my bourbon? I've always been this way. It's always let me drink your alcohol. Exactly. And for free. Yeah, anybody got a box of wine. But it's, you know, it's, it is a very, and I think you and I, I'm pretty sure we had this discussion years ago. Because at the point where it was not legal, then you're breaking a law. You're committing a felony. You're breaking a law. And if you're breaking the law, then gun ownership, then, you know, is going to be guided based on the law breaking. I mean, if you've been caught with marijuana and the whole thing, now you go into a dispensary, right? And

13:56you're, well, you're consuming THC however you consume it. And the question really is for the court is should that consumption, not at the time of holding the gun or using the gun, but any level of consumption negate your right to own the gun. My answer would be no, it should not. And this gets back to, because then you talk about, well, what about responsible gun ownership and everything? Oh, there's a number of things on that list of responsible gun ownership that go into it, which include, you know, again, it has to include, in this case, for the fair comparison, the, the people that might have, you know, a glass of wine or a beer or a couple of shots on a Friday evening, but they're not doing it while they're at the range. They're not doing it while they're operating their gun. They shouldn't be. And I think that's what it comes down to,

15:03because if you look at it and say, well, yeah, but it's going to be in their system. Well, some people wake up hung over the next day too. You know, I go to a, it used to be annual, we're getting back to it this year, a reunion with men I've known since we were grade school children from Del Rio. And at that, there's, it wasn't, we never even had to say it. You know, there may be a beer too with dinner. Nobody really drinks heavily. I don't drink at all, but during the day, the following day, we target shoot, but there isn't, we're not cracking beers and, and grab in the guns. And nobody had to say that. Nobody had to say, hey, you leave that in the case. You leave that over there if you're going to be drinking or whatever we didn't have to say that. That was a given. It's, you know, it's about again, proper judgment. Well, it's, you know,

16:05and you mentioned, you know, going to the range. I know that if I'm going to the range in the morning, I, I just even want, I just don't want to have one. I don't, the way, the way I view it is I never want, I want to be comfortable totally as I'm shooting the gun. Yes. But I'm never comfortable ever in the process of, you know, transporting a gun, loading a gun, where you point a gun, there will always be a part of me, no matter how long I live, that I will never be comfortable because, and, and I guess that means there's a focus to be completely and totally aware, which is outside of anything else that I do in my life. It's one of, does that make sense? Yes. It's one of two areas where my OCD kicks it. The other one, the other one is travel. If I'm traveling, especially on business, I want to make sure I've got my equipment. I've got

17:05everything. But with that, I want to make sure that I'm doing everything because I'm, here's I look at it this way. Every time I go to the range, I'm still learning. I want to, I want to learn something about me. I want to learn something about my weapon. I want to learn something that will, that will help me, you know, and, and, and I like the idea of learning and I can't learn if my mind is, is foggy, if something is, you know, if I'm not, even if I'm just not feeling well, you know, that, that changes things. So, you know, I think it's a very interesting discussion at SCOTES. I'm interested to see how this case is going to come out. Well, some audio coming up a little bit later, because it's, it's humorous. Yeah. Yeah. We are run eye radio. Brought to you by Hot Shot Secret. Hi, I'm Jen Lumis, a Transport Safety Expert at JJ Keller. Compliance, Safety Accountability is the FMCSA Safety Compliance and Enforcement Program. Its goal is to hold motor carriers and drivers accountable for highway safety. CSA does this by assessing the safety

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19:08a lot of people talking about that the tapes came out of Bill and Hillary, you know, from the Epstein, the Epstein stuff. Yeah. That isn't the thing that from Hillary that I listened to yesterday. The one that got me, well, I mean, I listened to it, but I mean, the one that really got to me was this one going back to 2008. You ready? Okay. Here we go. And I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran. 2008. I say think about that. It really wasn't qualified. It was like, we're going to go, we're going to attack Iran if I become president. Think about that. And maybe that's why Obama won. No, I won't want any wars. And she's like, right. If I'm president, we're going to, and I forgot about, I completely forgot about that till I saw it yesterday on social media. You know, Obama's like, I'm going to go on a tour and say, I'm sorry. And then she's like, I'm going to kill everybody.

20:11Oh, she needed to have was Metallica's kill them all, you know, playing in the background and Bill, you know, popping up and down to it. That's right. And we're going to, and she also said back then, and people don't know this. We want Greenland and we want Canada's our 51st day. Coming up on the bottom of the hour, the challenges and the politics of Iran.