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all across america we are red eye radio he is eric harley and i'm gary mcnamara welcome to the show we are at a friday by the way a potpourri of audio cuts coming up but you know i just saw this and and uh it goes back to uh this this story goes back a couple of months ago but there was a uh more research that was recently done i think it was nate silver who did it and and talked about how many well is liberalism a mental illness and he he did the uh he was one of them that did the study on the fact that like 45 percent of liberals believe that mental health challenges are an extremely important part of their identity and it's way over it is the majority it's like seven in ten young people do three in four gen z women and gen z liberals believe mental health challenges are an important part of their identity around three and four millennial men and millennial liberals believe mental health challenges are an important part of their identity now this is really interesting because very few people have done we know what the polling says or the research says of what they say yeah but is it true are they actually mentally ill skeptic research center i just happened to find this as i was drifting along the internet from a couple of months ago from the skeptic research center that's skeptical about anything out there out there yeah identifying as mentally ill without symptoms of mental illness a growing generational divide our latest polling suggested a large proportion of americans with no or only mild mental health symptoms nevertheless believe mental health challenges are an important part of my identity. He said here, we consider the identity symptom gap, and they go through the three and four Gen Z women and Gen Z liberals believe mental health challenges are an important part of their identity. Three and four millennial men and millennial liberals believe mental health challenges are an important part of my identity. the tendency to believe that mental illness is important to one's identity is driven more by age generation than by sex or political orientation women in each generation were more likely to believe that mental health challenges are an important part of my identity with one exception, millennials millennial men are the only group more likely to identify as mentally ill

than the women in their cohort, baby boomers and political conservatives were least likely to say being mentally ill is an important part of their identity. Large proportions of Americans with no or only mild mental health symptoms believe mental health challenges are an important part of my identity. mental health symptoms do not appear to be the driver of of identification of mental illness

isn't that amazing so clinically there's no evidence they're just identifying

they're self-identifying as they're self-identifying mentally ill being mentally ill yeah wow you ready for this okay our 2024 survey also revealed that identification with mental health challenges was associated with being politically uninformed in a cynical direction For example, those who said being mentally ill was important to their identity also tended to overestimate the national poverty rate as well as the pace of climate change.

Primarily, this suggested to us that identification as mentally ill might be in part a response to the cultural trends towards political polarization and cynicism. Our 2024 survey revealed something else that had gone previously undiscovered. Many of those identifying with mental health challenge had no or few mental health symptoms. That is a correlation between identification with mental health challenges. An actual validated measure of depression was low. This provided a clear indication that people, particularly young people's identification as mentally ill, might be driven by something other than an actual increase in mental illness.

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and listen on your favorite platform yeah you know what i believe it is i believe it is the ultimate in the brainwashing of the left that you're a victim of everything well no i was

going to say, if you're in your own mind creating something or identifying as someone with a mental illness when clinically there is no presentation, then the only reason you would do that is because you're trying to look like a victim. Are you wearing it on your sleeve and telling everybody about your condition, whatever they're claiming the condition is that falls within mental illness? You know, it's dangerous because you take that to the next level and with mental illness in the clinical setting, there's a conversation with your care provider, your doctor. And if you're not really experiencing those symptoms, but you're telling your doctor that you are because you want to take this to the next level, I guess, it can be dangerous based on what medications they provide to you. you know this is i've been i've thought for the longest time um and and i want to be very careful here because mental illness is a very serious situation when it's real but how do you separate the group out there that's not experiencing the level of mental illness that requires treatment they're just identifying it as from the actual people that are experiencing mental illness and have true manifestations symptoms you know i i remember this goes back

uh probably about 15 years ago a friend of mine still a friend of mine today and i've never got into the conversation with her but she was always taking adderall because she had adhd yeah about a year after she told me about that for some reason it came up and i said where are you are you taking adderall you know are you still taking adderall and it was she was just telling me she's feeling great and everything else i said well is your how's your adhd and and she said well i don't take adderall anymore cool why not she goes it was just an excuse well as she advanced in business yeah she goes it's just an excuse right and i never got into the details with her on it what do you mean it was just an excuse what

did you come because i'd be fascinated to find out why you thought it and now why you think this was just an excuse i was using not to do the right things in life is what the point that she was making to me and i've one of these days i gotta i don't get to see her that much but i'm gonna have to have a discussion with her and go you know when you told me that just out of curiosity what what

happened there did you find that out through therapy or did was that your own self-assessment

did you just come to a day oh i it was it was her own no it was her own self-assessment yeah she wasn't seeing anybody i know that it was her own self-assessment of herself saying i don't need this and yeah and i just i find but you know i go you and i go back to the the the young girls at the white house the one time about climate change and they was at the biden white house or obama It must have been the Biden White House. Was it Biden or Obama? Well, it definitely wasn't the Trump White House. No. And they were being asked about, you know, how they see their future, you know, what they will do when they get out of college. And to a T, all these young women probably, what, 16, 17?

Yeah.

Said, there is no hope for us. We're not ever going to be able to graduate from college. The world will be gone. Well, if you're that delusional, if you've been brainwashed to that extent, what other problems does it cause in you? If you truly believe, if you've been brainwashed to believe the world is going to end in five to ten years and adults, evil adults, because that is the height of evil, telling young people that there's no chance for them in life. and telling them lies who what who the hell does that what kind of an adult does that to a child but you and i always remember this was at the white house yeah and they were screaming and they were angry we're not going to be able to you know we're not going to be around in nine years right college doesn't matter the world's going to end what was it like in eight or nine years to the point they were trying to make, and they truly believed it. And so what other – let me put it this way. If I was that age and truly believed that, I'd be pretty depressed.

No, if you thought it was all going – if you truly believed it was all going to end.

If you think –

I don't think, because, you know, that's really what we, I mean, as humans, we look forward to what? The future. You're looking forward. That's the whole point. You're looking forward to something, great things, hopefully having a long and healthy life. And you've been convinced in your mind that the entire world is going to be gone.

And when you, you know, you and I always have said, you want to see the evil of Bernie Sanders when Bernie Sanders was telling young people they can't make it in life because of billionaires and people bought into it. How evil is that? What adult tells a child there is no hope in a country and in a world where hope and opportunity, if you prepare yourself, is beyond anything that 99.9% of humans that have ever existed could ever imagine, and it's turned around, you're not going to be able to make it because of billionaires. You're not in control of your own destiny. You are always going to be poor. You're always going to be a victim. Across the board, they're selling, my God, they're selling that you can't live a human life. Yeah. Yeah. I can't even describe, I'm trying to think of the right words that would fit this particular situation because it's reprehensible that adults would do that. But if you do that across the board, then can you create a paranoia, a completely, totally unreasonable paranoia? And I will say, yes, you can, because we see it every day out of the left.

Oh, I think we saw it, in fact, on full display during COVID. When you had children believing if you breathe on someone, they could die. If they breathe on you, you could die. And then as we're learning more about COVID, as we're going along through COVID and realizing...

Young people, out of any demographic, actually statistically were the safest. But it didn't matter. You created the zombie apocalypse, and they did it in order to gain control of people. Gain control of where you could go and when you could go. And when you do that, and climate change is right there. Same thing It's the ultimate apocalypse It's What you're taking out of the equation In the mind Especially in a mind That is forming Their adulthood They're trying to formulate their ideas Learn who they are What they're going to be Go out into the world And live their dream Whatever they're going to do You're telling them None of that is going to exist You're taking away all of their, you know, the Bernie thing. You've got no opportunity. It exists for only the rich, and you will never have opportunity. You're taking away everything positive out of the life, which can only create fear if they, and it is a learned behavior, if they believe that. And there's not someone to intervene, which is where the parents should come in, and tell them, no, everything's going to be okay. There's ups and downs in life, but you can get over any challenge because you've got a strong support system, including your family. And don't believe the garbage that you're hearing, especially on social media and in the press.

Look at some of these numbers. The highest rates of people that believe that mental health challenges are an important part of their identity. Gen Z women, 81% agreed with that statement. Gen Z liberals, 78% agreed with that statement. Millennial men, 77% agreed. Millennial liberals, 76% agreed. That's unbelievable when you look at that.

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We're running radio. He's your phone and I'm Gary McNamara. All right, it's a Friday show. We've got to clear the desk of all audio cuts we haven't played. You know, we talked about how Republicans can use everything from the president's speech last night on the vulnerabilities of the election system. You know, that, again, we're concerned about fraud to Democrats not caring about fraud using voter ID there. The fact that the Senate held hearings this week and Democrats, except for the ranking member for an opening statement and a couple of questions, and he walked out, no Democrat on the fraud, which a GAO now believes is $500 billion, over a half a trillion dollars of fraud, much of it coming from foreign countries. And a lot of it, identity fraud. And the Democrats don't care about it. one of the people that they brought up to to speak about it was nick shirley who's the one walked around with the camera and figured out and he was called every name in the book by democrats for attempting to expose taxpayer fraud here listen to this here we go this is

by exposing the fraud i actually also exposed the politicians and median and media who worked for years to cover it up governor tim waltz labeled my work as white supremacy and called me a far write delusional conspiracy theorists. Meanwhile, he dropped

out of re-election and he even said he has ended his political career now the highest government funded daycare in minnesota has pleaded guilty to daycare fraud and the largest autism bust in america history has been exposed where is tim waltz in the media now it just so happens that over 80 of the fraud committed in minnesota is by the somali population there you go because that's

what they hit on right yeah had to be white supremacy yep it's not we don't know we care about the fraud yep just amazing just amazing what a great opportunity for republicans i hope they don't blow it

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And we are Red Eye Radio. He's Eric Carley and I'm Gary McNamara. Hello. Hi. All right. More just audio cuts because it's a Friday and we're mailing it in. Yeah. No, I thought this was great because this all fits with the whole discussion we've had on fraud and the opportunity that it brings Republicans this week. If you just tuned in right now, we're talking about the president's speech last night. The president did not say last night that he won the 2020 election. What he talked about was the vulnerability of our election system and foreign actors, including China, who want to get involved with it. And with AI, we need to pay attention to this. Of course, he promoted the SAVE Act, which he should. As we know, the vast majority of the country, including the vast majority, landslide numbers of Democrats, won voter ID. The Democratic Party does not. Why? Fraud. Then you had the fraud hearings this week where the representative from the GAO came out and said they believe $500, a half a trillion dollars has been stolen for fraud. and a lot of it with again fake id and uh no democrat not one democrat except the ranking uh chairman the the democrat showed up gave an opening remarks asked a couple questions then he left it was all republicans asking the question democrats don't care about taxpayer fraud because why wouldn't you be there right and then senator ashley moody uh who's talking uh to uh oh i forgot his name now uh nick shirley who discovered the fraud in minnesota and also was doing it in california yeah i mean he's had a tremendous amount of success he's a kid right he's a kid with a camera and here it is here's ashley moody talking about what tim waltz said and gavin newsom said about him here we go okay let's try that again here goes tim waltz governor

of minnesota do you remember when he wanted to be our vice president was bragging that all of these types of new small businesses were reasons why he should be trusted with leading and now we're determining what all these small businesses like the leering center were he used this as a reason that he gave the american people of why he should leave so why are we surprised that immediately he's defensive and comes after a young kid that's trying to point out on behalf of his generation where this money is really going and this fraud. And look at what the leader of California said. Did he really say in response to you uncovering just astronomical fraud and waste that, and I want to quote this because I am appalled by it, did he really say slow surely

is the fraud yes he did

yeah now one of the reasons they didn't show is they can't defend their position because why wouldn't you show right because they're on record for attacking the people who

are uncovering fraud if you could demonstrate that surely is the fraud right you'd be there You'd be there and want to show the world that he's a fraud instead of giving him more time with the GOP. Right? Yep.

It's just amazing.

They knew they were defeated. They're cowards.

All right, I want to play Marco Rubio here. He was at the Conference of Resurgence.

political terrorism and a couple of things he talked about was political terrorism and communism

let's play what he had to say this is a distinctive and unique evil it has always been driven by a hatred above all else a hatred for civilization itself it is a revolt of the worst against the best a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good it is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things, and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can. This is what radical leftism is. It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time. They can call themselves anti-capitalist or anti-imperialist or communist or anarchist or Marxist, but the fundamental character is always the same. It's always the same. It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice, liberation, an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built, to wreck what is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world. Through violence and through terror, they once again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us. the old dogma was wrong the old dogma was wrong none of this is driven by idealism it is not utopian in fact it is the opposite one of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism for example is that it sounds good in theory but it never works in practice that's actually not true communism does not sound good in theory the world it envisions for all of us is small flat gray leveled of all exception drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul the world that envisions is a world without courage a world without creativity or ambition a world without heroes or glory or great causes to strive towards without a world without miracles without myths without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things and the world communism envisions is a world without God. For these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement of our civilization, for them, it's an unbearable humiliation, a reminder of what they cannot do, and a reminder of what they cannot be. So they choose instead to destroy. They attack pipelines. They attack railroads. They attack power grids and laboratories. The physical, embodied symbols of power and invention and achievement. This is the nature of the terrorism we face today. They despise the West because the West is great.

There you go. It's true. Yep.

Yep. Great speech. And, you know, this is, again, you have to be very clear when you're presenting whatever set of ideas you're trying to convey. This is something we've been talking about for a long, long time. Right now, the GOP is winning on a number of things. Fraud, taxpayer fraud. Fraud, voter fraud. Present it in a very clear and direct form. The evidence is there. And it works for you because the American people are already with you.

And you can't let this be daylight saving where you talk about it and then you let it drop. Because yesterday there was no talk about daylight saving again. It was just gone. It was like, wow, that disappeared quick, didn't it?

You know, it's because, and that's another thing too, is that the daylight saving thing, again, you know, both sides of the argument, you're, you're, you can see the point, but the bigger point is that's in fact, the reason why it's never going to get done. because you're just not going to you're not going to get that change when you have lobbyists that are going to say you know once you've changed it you've got to change it back and they're going to spell out the emergencies the media is going to be everywhere kids are going to be going to dark a school in in the dark and you know farmers are going to be suffering their business will suffer and everything else all of this stuff adds up to something that's not going to happen in other words you're spinning wheels and what

One of the things that we've said before is the Democrats will pound the same lie over and over again. Republicans bring it up a couple of times and they figure, oh, OK, the public understands it and they move on. You don't. I want to hear this like Senator Bernie Marano at the fraud hearing pounding on Democrats because these are easily these these are things that are not hard to understand. Right. Yeah. Very fraud is very simple to understand. Caring about fraud is very simple to understand. Here's Senator Moreno yesterday. Here we go.

I think preventing fraud in government should be completely nonpartisan. It's not a Democrat issue, a Republican issue. Yet almost the entirety of the Republican dais is filled with people sitting here listening to the entire hearing. And literally the entire Democrat dais is empty. I think that's, quite frankly, a disgrace. I think it's a disgrace to the people who pay taxes to know that there's an entire party that does not care whether taxpayer money is burnt.

I think so they get it they know what the messaging is pound on it now yeah create commercials on it now uh have a number of people have panel discussions on it bring you know bring it up wherever you can because this week I look back at this week and say this was fraud week this is where you had a number of instances ending with the president's election vulnerability speech last night, which is based on the vulnerabilities of the election system, just like voter ideas, and the American public understands what voter ideas, so does every Democrat. It's the Democrat Party that disagrees with the people that vote for them on something that is absolutely simple and basic to ensure that people have confidence in the election system. And the money part of it, I don't know. I don't know how Democrats believe. I don't know how they believe that going after a Nick Shirley or anyone else who is independently pointing out massive monetary taxpayer fraud that demonizing them is any type of sane political direction to go in and you had tim waltz and you have newsom that have gone after him as a white supremacist as you know slow surely whatever that means you know i'm not even newsom doesn't even know where to go so he throws out something going well no you're the one that's slow he discovered this right you don't even know what's going on in your own damn state with fraud right and he and he's a kid with the camera and can figure it out and you can't he's slow i mean it doesn't make it doesn't make any kind of sense except they believe that the people that vote for them also don't care about fraud yep now the polling show is different but the democrats believe that the people that vote for them are idiots and don't care about fraud in in where taxpayer money goes and that they don't care about fraud in elections that's what democrats believe and they don't care about foreign influence or technology or ai or hacking being used all that stuff that they talked about donald trump and all that was all a bunch of bs number one that was bs it wasn't true right but they claim that they cared about it they don't care about it and the republicans are the ones that need to market 24 7 on all these issues they don't care about election fraud they don't care

about american citizens who truly need that money they're not defending the american citizen and ensuring that Medicaid where it's really needed gets to where it's supposed to be and taxpayer dollars in grants and other funding that it really gets to the American citizens who really need it. They don't care. They don't care. They don't care about election fraud. They don't care about women in the locker room. You can go on. They don't care about transgenders. No. No. And you pound it. You put them on the defensive. Republicans stop being on the defensive. They should be out there in full force. Yeah. There should be another press conference this morning. On fraud across the board. On fraud across the board. Yep. We are Red Eye Radio. We'll be right back with more Red Eye Radio. with Eric Carley and Gary McNamara.

We are Red Eye Radio. he is eric carlney and i'm gary mcnamara uh all right so the this week was uh our uh uh well we finished 21 years and we're now into our 22nd year of doing the radio show together just some of the comments that we got all right you guys made a remark about a man sitting around in his pajama bottoms and there i was sitting in mine and hollered hey right at the computer hey i like being comfy when i'm home and that's from

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