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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.

Location:

Arlington, TX

Description:

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.

Language:

English

Contact:

13725 Montfort Drive, Dallas, TX 75240 Studio - 866-90-REDEYE 972-991-9200


Episodes
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4-15-25 Part One - Tax Day 2025

4/15/2025
In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, welcome to tax day! Is the GOP serious about budget cuts? Trump announces funding freezes for Harvard University; lead singer of a band who performed at Coachella calls for "an army of Luigis" ; The cast of "The Breakfast Club" reunite for the film's 40th anniversary; To tip or not to tip; Department of Transportation has ended a grant to fund the high speed rail service between Dallas and Houston. 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

Duration:02:31:28

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4-15-25 Part Two - Sarah Palin's Second Chance

4/15/2025
In part two of Red Eye Radio with Eric Harley and Gary McNamara, what will happen now that federal funds have been pulled and Amtrak is out of the Dallas-Houston high speed rail line; Sarah Palin is back in a New York court for a retrial in her libel suit against the New York Times; An article in the City Journal titled "America Should Learn From Argentina’s Failed Tariff Experiment" 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

Duration:00:39:06

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4-14-25 Part One - A De-Classified CIA UFO File

4/14/2025
In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, a Canadian Weekly World News story went viral this weekend...an article about a de-classified CIA Cold War-era UFO file...from 2000; The White House was all over the place regarding where it's going on the tariffs; Detroit's big three carmakers will be hit hard by Trump's tariffs; Democrats' strategy to fight Trump tariffs; Where rock 'n roll music is today: Bill Maher panel discussion on his meeting with Trump; MSNBC guest says science is on the trans issue side; House Speaker Johnson is not in agreement of raising the top tax rate of those making one million dollars or more; Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's residence set on fire....no motive of the arsonist has been released; Minneapolis is looking to crack down on food delivery robots. 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

Duration:02:31:27

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4-14-25 Part Two - Polling On Prices And Tariffs

4/14/2025
In part two of Red Eye Radio with Eric Harley and Gary McNamara, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired back at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Sunday after he called him and other Trump appointees "Dumb Effing Individuals," A YouGov poll on prices and tariffs; 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

Duration:00:39:06

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4-11-25 Part One - Trump Shuffles Trade Team

4/11/2025
In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, trade advisor Peter Navarro has been demoted while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is now in charge of negotiating trade agreements; A.I. as a trade tool; Elon Musk says we can expect a savings of150 billion dollars from waste and fraud by 2026; The great mystery of why Kash Patel was removed as head of the ATF; Former Clinton pollster Doug Schoen says the current Democratic party exists only to oppose the Republican party; The House has passed a bill that requires proof of citizenship to vote. SCOTUS rules unanimously that illegal aliens are entitled to due process; Wisconsin democrats tell Kamala Harris no thank you; The left loses it when Michigan Governor Whitmer visited Trump in the oval office; 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

Duration:02:31:28

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4-11-25 Part Two - The Electability Of Kamala In California

4/11/2025
In part two of Red Eye Radio with Eric Harley and Gary McNamara, what do California Democrats want in a candidate that would cause excitement? The question is...where does the Trump administration go next on tariffs; Larry Kudlow says it is reassuring Scott Bessent is now leading the trade team in negotiations. 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

Duration:00:39:06

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4-10-25 Part One - Panic Over The Bond Market Chaos

4/10/2025
In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, the show starts off with one of Trump's most important executive orders to date: getting rid of low-pressure showers; Trump pauses tariffs for 90 days; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent denies bond market panic on Wednesday pushed Trump into backing down on tariffs. Bessent claims Trump had been considering the pause for the past couple of days; Let's check Babylon Bee headlines! House Republicans delayed the vote on the reconciliation budget bill; Trump has a timeline for Iran nuclear deal; A Gallup poll shows support for nuclear energy in the U.S.approaches record high; 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

Duration:02:31:21

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4-10-25 Part Two - The Potential Of A.I. With Less Regulations

4/10/2025
In part two of Red Eye Radio with Eric Harley and Gary McNamara, more on the 90 day pause on tariffs and what went into this move by Trump; California gas prices at 5 dollars per gallon leads the nation as the national average plummets; How A.I. can create effiency and productiviy in the supply chain. 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

Duration:00:39:06

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4-9-25 Part One - The Musk-Navarro Tariff Feud

4/9/2025
In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, Elon Musk calls Trump’s senior trade adviser Peter Navarro a moron as their tariff feud continued Tuesday; An economist has claimed the White House has made a basic mathematical error when calculating tariffs; The dire wolf, despite the headlines, is still extinct; Maine sues the Trump administration for freezing state funds; Trump's triple win at the Supreme Court; Trump allies push to end tariffs; A judge orders the White House to grant the Associated Press' access to Trump; A former fundraiser for the DNC criticizes Jake Tapper’s upcoming book as "a slap in the face" to those who were scolded for questioning Biden's fitness for office.; 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

Duration:02:31:30

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4-9-25 Part Two - Budget Resolution Bill Set To Pass?

4/9/2025
In part two of Red Eye Radio with Eric Harley and Gary McNamara, will the House be able to pass a budget resolution bill? Speaker of the House Johnson comments; Senator Ted Cruz says the reciprocal lowering of tariffs at home and abroad would be a huge win for Trump; Current mortgage rates head upward after dramatic drop. 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

Duration:00:39:07

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4-8-25 Part One - An Exit Strategy For Trump On Tariffs

4/8/2025
In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, A Wall Street Journal article titled "A Win Win Exit Strategy For Trump On Tariffs" written by Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore; Prime Minister Netanyahu visited the White House and said Israel will work to even out the trade imbalance; The truth behind the CNBC story that Trump would put a 90 day pause on the tariffs; The Supreme Court 5-4 ruling allows the Alien Enemies Act to continue; ESPN's Stephan A. Smith says he has no desire to run for President; House Speaker Johnson says there won't be proxy voting; A study finds liberals show less empathy to pollical opponents than conservatives do; 55 percent of leftists say Trump's murder would be justified; Trump wants House Republicans to adopt the Senate’s new budget framework, and Speaker Mike Johnson says time is not on our side. 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

Duration:02:31:26

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4-8-25 Part Two - AOC Battles Inequality By Flying First Class

4/8/2025
In part two of Red Eye Radio with Eric Harley and Gary McNamara, a Politco headline reads "An anti-Trump Republican for governor tries to defy gravity in New Jersey’s primary"; Senator Rand Paul says tariffs are a tax and a terrible idea; AOC flew first class to a Bernie Sanders event titled "Fighting Oligarchy"; Border Czar Homan is not happy with the pace of deportations and the lack of border funding. 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

Duration:00:39:07

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4-7-25 Part One - Trump's Tariff End Game

4/7/2025
In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, an update on weekend developments with the Trump tariffs; On Air Force One Trump said tariffs will remain until there is even trade with every country; If stocks continue to tumble, at what point will Congress intervene? Elon Musk appears to have split with Trump on tariffs; There is now a legal challenge to Trump's China tariffs; The weekend "hands off" protests; Manufacturers say there are currently more job openings than workers; Something stinks in Congress; CNN's Scott Jennings comments on all the tell all Biden books that are coming out; Oliver Stone hates what Democrats did with Russiagate; Mark Cubin chimes in on the transgender issue. 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

Duration:02:31:26

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4-7-25 Part Two - Anti-Trump Puppets

4/7/2025
In part two of Red Eye Radio with Eric Harley and Gary McNamara, Jay North, who played Dennis The Menace, has died; Elon Musk goes after the puppet masters of this weekend's hands-off protesters; Trump keeps changing what the goal is with his tariffs; Warnings of economic troubles ahead. 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

Duration:00:39:06

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04-04-25 Part One - There's A New Tariff In Town

4/4/2025
In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, possible negotiations in the President's "non-negotionable" tariffs as the world responds to the possibility of higher prices and the markets tumble. Also colleges are not dropping DEI courses, Neil Young fears he'll be banned from the U.S, a survey of trans bathrooms, a few headlines from the Babylon Bee, audio from Steve Forbes on the possibility of massive tax increases and much more, 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

Duration:02:31:11

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04-04-25 Part Two - The Fear of Neil Young

4/4/2025
In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, the crossroads of politics and rock-n-roll. Neil Young fears the Trump administration won't allow him back in the US. A "wave" of other artists have the same concerns. Also the various countries involved in assembling cars, national security counsel firings and much more. 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

Duration:00:39:03

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04-03-25 Part One - Livation Thursday

4/3/2025
In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, we all may need a "livation" after Liberation Day arrived as President Trump issued reciprocal tariffs with every country across the board. Also the effects on the economy and the markets, Elon Musk leaving DOGE by the end of May, Trump's new strategy on affordable housing, audio from Amy Koblachar on judges defying Trump's orders, remembering the Joplin, MO tornado and much more. 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

Duration:02:31:02

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04-03-25 Part Two - The Economic Impact of Tariffs

4/3/2025
In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, as the tariffs are imposed Trump's tariffs won't be used as an international bargaining chip. Also the economic impact for investors, Canada already vows to fight the tariffs. Also some international companies begin to build in America creating jobs and offering competitive marketplace, plus much more. 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

Duration:00:39:03

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04-02-25 Part Two - Remembering Val Kilmer

4/2/2025
In part two of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, we remember the life and movie legacy of actor Val Kilmer who died today of pneumonia at 65. Also Gary reveals the history behind his name. 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

Duration:00:39:03

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04-02-25 Part One - Liberation Day

4/2/2025
In part one of Red Eye Radio with Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, we start by remembering the life of actor Val Kilmer who has died at the age of 65. Also President Trump launches Liberation Day with reciprocal tariffs across the board, Florida and Wisconsin races and the outcome's effect on the mid-terms, a discussion on voter confidence, San Francisco launches a new law under Governor Gavin Newsome that issues speeding tickets based on income. Also Hunter Biden no longer able to practice law, audio from Karoline Leavitt fields question from Mark Halperin and much more. 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

Duration:02:31:14