04-15-26 Part One - It's Tax Day!

Red Eye Radio

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, today is the deadline for filing your taxes for tax year 2025. The guys begin by discussing their specific tax details and how Social Security guidelines are specific for last year. Also The Department of the Treasury and the IRS issued proposed regulations that would provide rules and definitions related to the new excise tax under the One, Big, Beautiful Bill, paying interest on the national debt and where does you tax dollar actually go. Also the latest on the Eric Swalwell scandal and the business model of Zohran Mamdani's expensive grocery store. 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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0:00.0	Now it's Red Eye Radio.
0:09.8	Gary McNamara and Eric Hurley talk about everything from politics to social issues and news of the day.
0:16.9	Whether you're up late or you're just starting your day, welcome to the show from the Relief
0:22.1	Factor Studios. This is Red Eye Radio. All across America, we are Red Eye Radio. He is here,
0:29.8	Carlene, I'm Gary McNamara. Good morning. Happy Wednesday. Tax Day. It is tax day. Get it in.
0:38.9	Now, I did see, you keep seeing, the administration keeps promoting the fact that people on average are getting an 11% more back on their refund.
0:48.9	Yeah, you're right.
0:49.6	All right.
0:49.9	I had to pay 60% more.
0:55.3	Yeah, I paid a lot.
0:59.1	Now, the whole point is that's really meaningless.
1:02.5	Right.
1:03.6	Doesn't matter whether you get more in your refund back or you have to pay more
1:09.8	because my actual tax rate went down.
1:15.8	Yeah, mine stayed exactly the same as last year.
1:19.2	Well, you know, you know, it changed mine.
1:20.8	Huh.
1:21.7	Oh, being old.
1:23.0	Yeah.
1:23.5	Yeah.
1:24.3	Social security.
1:25.2	Yeah, that's right.
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