02-18-26 Part Two - The King of MAGA

Red Eye Radio

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🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, actor Kevin James is accused of being MAGA after punting political questions, though says he focuses on fun. The 'King of Queens' actor says he wants to focus on delivering 'a fun, heartfelt break from the craziness of the world'. Also the guys share their (non) college experiences, 88% of college students polled say yes about progressive views, the latest economic news and we remember and say goodbye to Dr. John McElligott, the co-founder of the St. Christopher's Truckers Relief Fund, who passed away Sunday. Visit www.truckersfund.org to learn more and donate to this great organization. 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 listening at RedEyeRadioShow.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.7	Thank you. available until the 13th July 26. Fees applied to delivery orders subject to availability. Now it's Red Eye Radio, Gary McNamara, and Eric Harley, talk about everything from politics to social issues and news of the day.
0:36.9	Whether you're up late or you're just
0:38.8	starting your day, welcome to the show from the United America Studios. This is Red Eye Radio.
0:49.0	All across America. He is Eric Carly and I'm Gary McNamara. Welcome. All right. So yesterday,
0:57.7	because, you know, celebrity is always in the news, but I did mention the whole thing where,
1:03.3	it was a couple days ago where actor Kevin James came out and said, well, I don't comment on politics
1:07.9	because there are, you know, a lot of experts out there. And I'm not one of them. Yeah. And I went, look, I like Kevin James a lot. I think it seems like a likable guy. Seems like a real likable guy. Very funny. Yes. And everything else. But as I said, and I said, I don't know if this is about it. You know, this is his case. on and I said, but that's used a lot of times when you just don't want to get involved in the arena of ideas.
1:32.0	And that's fine.
1:33.2	But don't make it sound like only the experts, that there's some kind of demographic out there of so-called experts that are walking around that you can't compete with when it comes to understanding
1:46.2	economic foreign relations and other political ideas, political and social ideas out there.
1:56.7	You can understand them. It's not that complicated. But then, yesterday, on social media, here's the story.
2:05.8	Kevin James accused of being MAGA after punting political questions, says he focuses on fun.
2:13.7	Silence is violence, Kevin.
2:15.7	So I'm thinking to myself, and I wanted to bring this up when we played
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