08-20-25 Part One - The Challenges Of The Economy

Red Eye Radio

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News, Government, News Commentary, Daily News

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 148 minutes

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In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley: Slow news day? Fox News' website has Star Wars star Mark Hamill considering leaving the country as a top story/ Former Trump advisor Steve Cortes says people are angry about the economy and the GOP now owns the unrest / NYC Mayor slams mayoral candidate Mamdani over wanting to legalize prostitution / Recent college grads are finding it hard to find jobs amid AI growth and Trump's tarifffs / Gavin Newsom's social media posts mimicking Trump are actually written by highly paid staffers / Ex-Obama aide says voters don't know what the Democrat party stands for. 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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0:20.1	Now, it's Red Eye Radio.
0:24.6	Gary McNamara and Eric Harley talk about everything from politics to social issues and news of the day.
0:32.4	Whether you're up late or you're just starting your day, welcome to the show from the Unidon, America Studios.
0:40.3	This is Red Eye Radio.
0:42.6	Hello and welcome.
0:43.8	He is Gary McAmera.
0:45.3	I'm Eric Harleyes.
0:46.7	We begin a Wednesday, Gary.
0:49.2	What's happening?
0:50.2	Well, comparatively, like for the last two weeks, yesterday was a slow news day.
0:56.9	You know how I know?
0:58.1	Just some of the headlines on the front page of Fox News.
1:01.7	All right?
1:02.3	Yeah, yeah.
1:03.2	And this wasn't about somebody who was threatening to leave, you know, some Hollywood star that was threatening to leave the United States because of Trump,
1:12.0	it's a story where Star Wars actor Mark Hamill reveals he thought about leaving the United States when Trump won re-election, but he didn't.
1:23.5	So the fact that he thought about it became a huge story, but his wife talked him out of it.
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