15 Burst results for "Alan Combs"
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"alan combs" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Congressman coachman, I want to ask you a personal question if I may as it relates to the way you do your job and the way you have to function in the halls of Congress. There are a lot of noise this week about Adam Schiff and swalwell and Ilhan Omar being removed from their from their committees and chairmanships and all that. I mean, listen, that's a lot of noise. I mean, the idea that they're sitting there screaming, oh, this is partisan politics, is almost laughable. Can I ask you on a personal level how awkward it is to walk down the halls with some of these political opponents that Republicans have is it difficult to do business with these folks who seem to be unwilling to work with Republicans in any way, shape, or form? What's that like day to day? I actually try to say hello to folks and be cordial and just like you would. You're walking, you're going to say hello to folks. Do they say hello back to do they say hello back to you? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, for the most part, yeah, there are some Democrats, not the ones you were just talking there, but there's some who particularly during COVID. I mean, it was so ridiculous. If you didn't have a mask on in the hall, they were like pointing like, I haven't had it. I haven't had a few of them swear at me. And I'm like, I would never do that to you, but it's kind of sad. I think the bigger problem is that today's left is different from the left of ten, 12, 15 years ago. Right. I always say, one of my good friends is Dennis kusinich and truly a friend. I mean, we've had copy together. We're talking texts. We'll call me, he's a good guy, but he's an old school liberal who believes in the First Amendment. He's a lefty. He believes all kinds of crazy lefty things. He thinks I'm a crazy conservative. But he believes in the First Amendment he believes in healthy debate. You get your best hold, make your best argument. He'll do the same. Let's see what happens at the end of the day. And then we can get a cup of coffee. That is not today's left. Today's says, if you don't agree with them, you're not allowed to talk. And if you try, if you try to speak, they're going to call you racist. The president of the United States is going to stand in front of independence hall and calls fascist. I mean, they're going to come after you. And the cancel culture mob jumps in as well. So that is not healthy. And that's what we got to stop. You're right about the different breed. There's a different way of doing things from the left. And I remember many appearances I had on Fox News channel over the years with the late Alan combs. Allen was willing to disagree and do it civilly. And today, in fairness, look at speaking of Fox News, Harold Ford, congressman Harold Ford, seems to be a pretty simple guy. Yeah. I like the guy. That's a great job. Yeah, it's the kind of guy you can hang out with even if you have some different politics. It just seemed like a good I've never really met with him, didn't really serve with him, but it seems like a great guy. Yeah, he really is indeed final question congressman and we greatly appreciate you taking time with our audience and our listeners and viewers appreciate you very much here on the sale of news channel and on radio stations all over the country. Let's talk about the role of oversight the role of investigations, you know, we got lots of drama with Hunter Biden, lots of scandal with the classified documents. The idea that the president's son Hunter Biden might have had access to classified documents, just curls your hair. I mean, you can not believe that of all people that shouldn't be near classified documents..
WGN Radio
"alan combs" Discussed on WGN Radio
"There and good evening. I am rich valdes valdes with an S average valdes on all of the social media. Our telephone number is 8 6 6 5 O 5 46 26. 866-505-4626. Now a couple of things I want to get into. If you, again, if you want to join us, give us a call. Matt rich valves with an S on all of the social media. If you want to chime in that way. I'm going to tell you a quick little story and we have a bunch of great guests I'm going to get into that in a moment. But I want to share a story. I visit a Cuban cafe every morning to get my coffee. I like the cafe con leche. It's espresso with the foamy milk. It's terrific. You know, like a cafe au lait, latte, depending on what language you're speaking. And the guy that makes it for me, he's terrific. I talked about him in the past. He is a Cuban refugees or citizen now, but he fled Cuba on a back of a jet ski on a 5 hour ride from Havana to Key West. Made it to the United States, became a citizen, you know, it's the short of it. And I'm there. And there are several people that come in and out of there. There's a lot of other customers and the conversations typically political. So I'm there today, and there's a gentleman there. He's his family's from Columbia. I think he might have even been born in Colombia. I'm not sure I think his family is born in Columbia. He might have been born here. Very nice guy. And he tells me, look, I'm a Democrat, but I'll vote for Republicans. I'll vote for Democrats, which I think is the majority of people across the country. Most will tell you that they don't care what party of politicians from. They'll vote for whoever they think has the best policies. And I think that's most people. Not necessarily maybe most people listening to this program or even talk radio or news junkies in general, but most people who are concerned with their job and things other than the news. Anyway, the long story short was we're talking in about all things political and we're talking about McConnell. And we're going to get into the McConnell winning his bid for minority leader yet again. And my thoughts were that nobody was going to stop McConnell. There was no way to stop him. He didn't, nobody has that level of gravitas. And he says, yeah, you're right, you know, nobody was going to stop him. Plus, if you needed help, we agreed that he could always rely on the Democrats to help him. You know, with any type of pressure because McConnell is very friendly with the Democrats. So the long and short of it was it started off with McConnell, but then we go into, you know, how toxic the nature of politics is today and how polarized it is. And I said, well, look, you know, many years ago, I used to watch a show on the Fox News channel called Hannity and combs. And it was a pretty cool show where Sean Hannity gave his conservative perspective and Alan combs gave the liberal perspective and they would argue. And you know, meet in the middle or just agree to disagree, but it was a fun program. And it was in the spirit of firing line started by Bill Buckley and championed by others after that. But the media always assumed this role where they had a vested interest in being down the middle. Presenting both sides. That tradition has been lost in the media. I can't remember the last time I've seen a show on any of the cable channels where it wasn't. A host that was leaning one way or the other, and then three guests that also leaned that way. And even when I go on TV with panels, it's typically people that may have a different view on something, but typically don't disagree drastically with me or even with it with the host of the show. I can't think of a show on CNN or MSNBC or any of the left leaning networks. Fox does occasionally bring in Donna brazile was one of their people. They tend to bring a little bit more diversity to their programming. But for the most part, you don't see this Democrat Republican or liberal conservative type of back and forth on any programming anymore. And I think the media dictates so much of what we believe and what we see every day in our lives. So we were talking about that. And the conversation went a little bit off the beaten path when the person says, what I don't like is when people allow religion to dictate their lives. Because when that happens, then they use politics as an end to their means. And I'm thinking to myself and then I think out loud and I ask him, what is the purpose of religion? What is the reason one would subscribe to a faith? If not, to dictate the way you live your life. And he looked at me a little puzzled, and he said, well, I just think it's a personal thing that you know people have, you know, so they could have a relationship with a higher power. And I said, what is the point of having this relationship with a higher power is that so we can have our religion or our faith as something we keep in our back pocket if we get a flat tire, we can drop to our knees and say a few hail marys and ask for a prayer when we need it or is it, is it an optional thing? I'm gonna live the way I feel is best, but you know when I feel like I don't have it under control, then maybe I'll turn to God. How is that? Because I can only go by the scriptures. I think if you pulled aside a rabbi, an imam, a priest, a pastor, I think all of them would in agreement tell you that the whole functionality, the entire existence of faith of religions, is so that you can live your life according to the tenets of that faith. It has no other purpose, but for that, and when I heard that it reminded me of the passage that I once read in either das kapital or the communist manifesto, where Karl Marx talks about the elimination of religion, the elimination of people believing in a higher power, because in an atheistic or a deist deistic, if you will, environment where people believe in a God or their agnostic, but they don't have any type of particular faith, it's much easier to get them to bow down to the altar of big government, if you will. My words not his, but same difference. So throughout the evening, I'm going to go back to that, and we're going to bring this up again in open phones. But I just thought it was remarkable. That we would reach a place in life where we think that religion exists for something other than dictating the way one would live. Or at least offering guidance and principles, and the example I made to him was I said, well, sir, what would be the purpose of the ten commandments, but to dictate how we live our lives? And I think the ten commandments are universal to most of the major faiths that are people espoused in the United States. Probably globally as well. And he just, you know, he did a lot of, well, he really didn't agree with me, and it wasn't really processing what I was saying. And I'm not beating the guy up. He was saying, I just think it's wrong. I think it's wrong when people try to live their lives according to a religion, that's when things go wrong. And I just thought, wow, that's just an interesting thing. This guy was a very articulate guy, an educated guy, he owned 5 or 6 rental properties was doing really well, financially. And it took, I was taken aback. So I look at that and I think that, to me, is exactly what we're seeing in Washington. That to me is exactly what we're seeing where the institutions that we look to for guidance, whether it's law enforcement, prosecutions, the Department of Justice, the FBI, you name it. When we see the type of
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"alan combs" Discussed on ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"Let's go to oh, it's been a while. Jerry the liberal in Milwaukee. Jerry, what have you been up to? Are you a conservative yet? Not quite. We're working on you. You work a guy. By the way, Jerry, you know, I think the RNC is coming to town again. Are there? If they do, we're gonna have to have you on the show. Okay. All right, Jerry the liberal takes on stars. It'll be like better than Hannity and combs. What comes what about this the first? I like Alan combs. He was a good guy, even though he is a liberal. Like you. All right, Jerry, what did you come to complain about? Okay, this is where we're going to disagree. Okay, I don't know exactly why. Rated Donald Trump's house. I don't know. And I don't know exactly if it's right or wrong because I don't know the details. I'm trying to keep objective. This possible thing, there's things that Trump's benefit taking classified material out of The White House after he was president and no longer was able to access that. If that's true, that would probably be a reason. But I mean, there's a reason why a magistrate judge is buying a warrant. I mean, these are rubber stamps. And if the president, a former president did wrong, even former presidents aren't above the law. That's the real law. The rule of law in this country is more important than the rule of a person. That's why we say the rule law. If Trump had did wrong and it warns a warrant and a raid, then so be it. That's what happened. Yeah, but I don't think that's what happened here, Jerry, and I think we can both agree that this is an unprecedented moment, even that even The New York Times was unprecedented. Yeah, well, yeah, but you know, he's never been actually charged with a crime, but what we do know about Trump is that all of these allegations turned out to be trumped up by his political opponents. And that so here we are, and I'm with you. I agree, no president is above the law, and the FBI, if they needed to get documents, there is a way to do that, but I don't think that's what this was all about. And even there are some reports there is reporting out late last night that even the Justice Department was not aware of the extent of what the FBI was doing. I doubt I sincerely doubt that. I'm sure they weren't aware, but now people are realizing holy crap, the optics here are off the chain's horrible and you know that because even Democrats are saying uh oh, this is not going the way we thought it was going to go in the public and the public sphere. Well, what I would think would hope is people try to keep an open mind, don't come to a conclusion before they know all the facts and maybe maybe this is warranted. Maybe be, you know, because I don't know. You know, I don't like Trump. It's quite clear. I despise Donald Trump, but again, I try to be objective when it comes to him. And I don't just want to say he's guilty when I don't know the fact. And people shouldn't say he's innocent when they don't know all the facts. So far, and I don't know how many investigations there have been, but I would say he's probably what 20 and O he's won every single. I mean, the guys, you know, and it's not that he's Teflon. It's just that it turns out that everything was fake. So not everything. So far it is. They did meet with Russians in 2000. And they may have, but there was nothing criminal about that. There was nothing illegal about it. But they did meet. There was a meeting. Well, none of the Trump boys are earning, you know, multi-million dollar paychecks from Ukrainian gas companies. So there's that too. Jerry, Jerry caught a run, my friend. It's good hearing from you. We're going to convert him before it's all said and done..
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Jerry the Liberal: Former Presidents Are Not Above the Law
"The liberal in Milwaukee. Jerry, what have you been up to? Are you a conservative yet? Not quite. We're working on you. You work a guy. By the way, Jerry, you know, I think the RNC is coming to town again. Are there? If they do, we're gonna have to have you on the show. Okay. All right, Jerry the liberal takes on stars. It'll be like better than Hannity and combs. What comes what about this the first? I like Alan combs. He was a good guy, even though he is a liberal. Like you. All right, Jerry, what did you come to complain about? Okay, this is where we're going to disagree. Okay, I don't know exactly why. Rated Donald Trump's house. I don't know. And I don't know exactly if it's right or wrong because I don't know the details. I'm trying to keep objective. This possible thing, there's things that Trump's benefit taking classified material out of The White House after he was president and no longer was able to access that. If that's true, that would probably be a reason. But I mean, there's a reason why a magistrate judge is buying a warrant. I mean, these are rubber stamps. And if the president, a former president did wrong, even former presidents aren't above the law. That's the real law. The rule of law in this country is more important than the rule of a person. That's why we say the rule law. If Trump had did wrong and it warns a warrant and a raid, then so be it. That's what happened. Yeah, but I don't think that's what happened here, Jerry, and I think we can both agree that this is an unprecedented moment, even that even The New York Times was unprecedented. Yeah, well, yeah, but you know, he's never been actually charged with a crime, but what we do know about Trump is that all of these allegations turned out to be trumped up by his political opponents.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"alan combs" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Programming 24/7 and you can watch the show as you listen to us and incidentally next week when I'm in Germany on vacation, I'm going to be broadcasting you're going to see some Bavarian Alps, baby. Get ready because I'm going to be sending you videos and doing some hits from Munich. We're going to go to the passion. Oh, wow. I'm going to get emotional thinking about experiencing the passion play. Watching this beautiful production of the death and resurrection of our savior. I'm in such a prayerful, grateful mood right now and I'm going with some dear Friends next week to Germany, a bucket list trip to see the passion play in the tiny village of oberammergau. And I'm hearing from a lot of listeners incidentally who've already been you're sending me pictures and tips and we're getting great restaurant. We're going to take a Bavarian tour of a lot of the villages. We're going to go see all kinds of sites. We're going to see the castle of the big castle that Cinderella castle is modeled after. So be sure to watch on the Salem news channel next week. Carl Jackson will be in our relief factor dot com studios and I'll be doing some reporting some broadcasting from Germany, the Bavarian Alps Munich and oberammergau, I want to share that with you. I hope you don't mind, but I want to take you with me on this vacation that we're so excited about. Even the weather forecast that there's going to be some rain in the Munich area in oberammergau doesn't, even though the passion play I'm told is in this amphitheater, it's covered in its protected from the elements. So we'll still be able to see it, and I'm pretty excited because we're in the front row. Gallagher knows how to get some good seats for shows. All right, speaking of a show, pull up a chair, watch the Salem news channel app or mic online because here is speaker Pelosi reacting to the news that the Supreme Court has indeed overturned roe V wade evidently. I'm told, not one, but both of her earrings pop off because she got so worked up. Spring from their decision that they made today. There goes the one from the right. Such a contradiction. Yesterday, the states can not make laws governing. The constitution. Yep, they both went off. Today. Oh, no, no, they're just saying the exact reverse. That the states can overturn. A constitutional right for 50 years, a constitutional right. For women having the right to choose. Okay, so she does it. So the left one doesn't fall off. She takes it off because she probably recognized oops, my right earring popped off because I'm so worked up, but my so I'm going to look silly with just one earring, big gold earring in my left ear, so she tries to diplomatically just take that one out of her ear. I have to tell you, any time Nancy Pelosi gets so worked up that she's got earrings popping off her head. That's a good day for our side. 806 5 5 Mike. 806 5 5 6 four 5 three, the Supreme Court overturning roe V wade, the announcement coming right in the middle of the Mike Gallagher show. Let's do a round Robin. I want to get a bunch of voices from all over the America. We're going to put you on quickly. Let's do kind of what the late Alan combs used to call radio graffiti. You get to say, just get it out. Tell me what you're thinking, tell me what you're feeling because we're never going to forget where we were. When we heard the news that this unconstitutional unlawful, ungodly roe V wade has been overturned today's the day, giving your reaction right now. One 806 5 5 mic, 806 5 5 6 four 5 three. Mike Gallagher show is on rumble dot com. You'll find the show highlights interviews, plus you can watch the entire show live every weekday. Just go to rumble dot com and type the Mike alligator show in the search bar. Rock you like a hurricane. Here I am rock you like a hurricane it is close minor and Matthias yards and dust scorpions, Mike, the scorpions. We're getting ready, getting.
WGN Radio
"alan combs" Discussed on WGN Radio
"And you have deep affection for Alan combs And by the way he had deep affection for you You really should tell the story about the one day you were you were a little rough on him one night You probably remember the details better than me And I know he gave you a call after the show Because Alan thought he was friends with everybody He never took any of it personally He was woke I thought about this since you know this new it's not really a new phenomenon cancel culture woke culture We in talk radio have known about this for a long time because you have all these psychos and their underwear and their basement being paid millions of dollars to try and get all of us fired and canceled and silenced and all that crap We don't talk about it a lot but we do live under that constant barrage of attack And but Alan what I loved about him he had a great sense of humor He was the real deal He believed all that crap that he said and so it was natural for him and he didn't mind mixing it mixing it up at all but he was also a nice person I mean look I have friends that are liberals that are you know their politics they're out of their mind but I could put that I can compartmentalize that away and look at them as the person that they are and sometimes you can find common ground It's getting harder and harder these days I don't know It's like Trump has triggered half the country And they bubble and fizz like alka seltzer and water just at the name Donald Trump They freak out Looking back over 25 years who are among your more surprising guests or the good guests Some of the best things you've done I think was with Rush Limbaugh or Mark Levin the great one with all due respect to both of us I think Rush Limbaugh is the greatest of all time It's interesting I get asked this question and I really don't have a great answer You mentioned two great people right there Russia is dearly missed Love him to death He was the goat He was the greatest of all time And the great thing about Russia is he paved the way for all of us When he pays national syndication in daytime it was not something that had ever been done before successfully and when he started and he was looking at a forest think about this Billy Cunningham at the time You started radio 1983 I started it in 1987 So we've had parallel lives in many ways And when we started there were only about 200 talk stations around the country So the really wasn't many and then you go through this process rush becomes an instant phenomenon and then all these stations on a.m. in particular which was beginning to give way FM dominance he saves the a.m. band he brings people back to the a.m. band That was 8 of an FM talk radio all over the country And he had such a big part to play in it Mark is a constitutional genius He's one of my best Friends By the way if you're Friends with Mark Levin Billy Cunningham you never need to set an alarm clock ever in your life again Because at either 6 59 a.m. or 7 a.m. or 7 O 1 a.m. your phone is going to rank If you're trying to put mark and it's going to be marked in the first word you got to hear Did you read this crap Did you read that All right let's talk about when I do your invitation You called me and you go do I really sound like that And I said well it's not as good as my Levin And I used to do rush too On the Hannity it would be nothing without me Hannity dropped the golden EIP microphone With his big booming voice you know I mean with sick how lucky we've been both of us to do a job We both love and have some success at it And so anyway the long and short of it is my real answer my honest answer is I love all of it I have interviewed all the presidents all the vice presidents heads of state from Bebe Netanyahu to general our CC to Musharraf was that had a Pakistan I've done all of that I've been the Singapore Helsinki Vietnam doing following things I've been to every convention all throughout my career except obviously well even in the pandemic year 2020 but the whole package is great talking to the audience is great The discipline that I am still in my life between working out every day doing mixed martial arts go right into my daily prep reading everything that's in the news that day I just love that process I think I would do it if I didn't have a show And then I drive around in a car and start talking to myself You know Sean Hannity one that's going to be you and I together Babbling Well one substantive issue I've noticed that for a very long time the mainstream media covered in a sense for FDR Franklin Delano Roosevelt and we're not reporting the fact that the poor guy was in a wheelchair And it kept that from the American people And now we're watching the mental decline of the commander in chief he's the FDR of our time in relationship to what the media covers and doesn't cover about him And I'm not harsh on getting rid of Joe Biden because I look who's batting second and who's batting third and I want Joe Biden to complete his term Kamala Harris is sitting in the wings ready to take over under the Twenty-fifth Amendment and behind her is Nancy Pelosi And so I'm looking at this Are you amazed We don't have particularly we don't have good options Go ahead What was your question Are you amazed how the media does not cover the big elephant in the room which is the fact that Joe Biden is not the president and that Ron klain the chief of staff the Al Gore alkali is really the president of the United States and that Joe Biden is not doing anything Are you amazed at that It's beyond amazing to me You know when I first started pointing this out it was during the campaign You know there were little moments And then there were big moments Come on man Are you a junkie Are you a junkie Did you do cocaine I'm like where the hell is this coming from And then I'm not allowed to take questions because they might get mad at me I'm like okay who are they Who do they people You're the president We hold these truths self evident all men and women are created equal that they're endowed by the old you know the things You know the thing You know God the creator of everything And I'm like wow And I'd play it and actually meet the media started pushing back on me And then I said oh well how would this I just doubled down and I took the tape a day and I would show this.
WGN Radio
"alan combs" Discussed on WGN Radio
"American several nights ago it was a remark that you're a good friend of mine Sean Hannity became the longest serving prime time news host in American history surpassing what Larry King had accomplished and joining you and I now is that same Sean Hannity Sean Hannity whenever I get with you we start laughing but we do again to the Bill Cunningham show Sean Hannity Bill Cunningham you are a great American God bless you God bless America and I need a full report what's going on in the great state of Ohio You know I tell people people are asking me well who are you supporting in Ohio I said I rely on one guy in the great state of Ohio Every election year because he knows exactly what's going on and he's never been wrong and that's Billy Cunningham and what's fascinating Remember back in 2004 we did this big tour of cities in Florida Ohio and Pennsylvania Okay And we knew that George W. Bush would win Ohio easily that year Remember 2008 And you and I were on stage We both looked at each other and said this is not good This is not going to happen No You can feel it when you're on the ground physically present and you're in course Manhattan Long Island and you kind of sense it You get your pizzas you talk to delivery guys You talk to the Uber drivers you run into people And it's in the ether right now in Ohio which is a critical state Endorsement of JD Vance by Donald Trump is probably going to be the deciding factor but there's you know we still got about a week ten days to go And we'll see what happens But I don't want you to get me sidetracked because I want to talk about you I want to get sidetracked because I've called you on two separate occasions to get your take on the Ohio candidates the primary And you gave me two separate answers I don't know if you remember that I do In fact I may give you another answer a few days from now And as you try to get me off topic I want to ask Sean Hannity why Sean Hannity happen Why 25 years Probably going to go 30 35 40 years Why did Sean Hannity happen You know through the grace of God I have no idea Bill Cunningham I've been in the studio with you and if people only knew now unlike you I do something that you shouldn't do in radio I eat the microphone meaning I put my face right on it Bill Cunningham stands as far back from that microphone Sean Hannity you're a great American God bless you God bless America I need a full report And you just bellowing out these top rated monologues and interviews and doing it better now than you've ever had and you've always been a goat in talk radio And I'll tell you I don't know why I was a little kid and I just was drawn to the radio And I'd listen Bill Cunningham day and night night and day drove my parents crazy late into the night the great pioneers of talk radio guys like Barry farber Barry gray later bob grant I listened to the guys in Boston Jerry Williams team burns David brudnoy all these guys all the 50,000 watt blowtorches the truth across America like the big one that you're on LW and the great city of Cincinnati And I got to tell you I just got into my system and then one day I read that there was an opportunity for me to get a show at a local radio station at a college at a college in California and I went down there and I went through the process and I got a one hour a week show when I was God awful at it but that light went on Bill Cunningham for the first time and like you I started it started coming out a lot different than my usual conversational tone and I just started well in a way and I haven't stopped since You have opportunity meeting talent In other words I'm sure there's many talented Americans who could do what we do as good or better but there's not the opportunity You've got to be the right place at the right time and when opportunity meets talent and then the talons given the opportunity to develop and much like when I started in radio back in 1983 if I was judged on my first few weeks of talk radio I would not be employed So when you started in Fox forget it in 1996 If somebody if that character would go to talk radio television prime time today that character would make it but you had what was it about what did roger ALC and you do you think Because I know you've discussed it before you passed on What did he see in you Very outlier ish There's no doubt about it I'm sure you read Malcolm gladwell outliers And that's been my whole career I mean we really hit the sweet spot both of us in terms of talk television and talk radio but I asked him years later because I would look back at these old tapes and my staff showed that first show last night I'm like oh I'm cringing inside I'm like oh I can't even stand to look at it I can't stand to hear it I'm like it's humiliating but people seem to get a kick out of it And I would ask them I'd say why didn't you fire me I said I was awful Because at that point I was a radio guy and he said man nobody was watching We went on many homes at the time and I knew I knew you would get it That was his answer And he turned out to be right and he gave me the time The one thing I can say is they let me be myself You and I had both of them blessed to work in environments where being ourselves not only allowed but it's encouraged and I don't think you can be good at this job unless you're authentic true self comes out of you at least the people that I know that have been successful They have to be themselves and the TV thing kind of came out of nowhere And if I'd say I did any one thing right though Cunningham is you're right I'd get these opportunities and I'll be honest every single opportunity I was scared to death that I just jumped I died I didn't know if there's any water in the pool but I'd go anyway As far as the wind beneath your wings at Fox looking back over these 25 years one of the characters you talked about was Alan combs and you had a love I won't say hey but you had a love and disagreement relationship with Alan combs and you mentioned in your show the other night how important he was for you in the development of Hannity and combs and how many people really recall I remember when he died a few couple three years ago that you and I spoke on and off the air.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"alan combs" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Nasty Mitchell's response. Well, I just wanted to get your thoughts on the whole Russia and Ukraine situation. You know, here's my first daughter. I'm not going nowhere to fight. None of these wars for these politicians. I'm staying at home and when the war comes dark and I will dig my boots in the ground and I will die for everything I love and I will not retreat. If this country is invited and everybody is saying, well, we got to evacuate. We got to leave. I will not. I will dig my boots in the Arkansas soil and I will fight for the people that I love for the land that I love in a way life that I love but I'm not going over she's to fight. I don't know what's going on to be honest, brother. I really don't. There's so much stuff and I don't think nobody knows what's going on fool. There's been so much political corruption in that area. You got Biden and his son making a ton of money off of and using our tax dollars to bribe their people. That's treasonous in my opinion. So you get Hunter Biden and his son using our tax dollars. Hey, if Ukrainian government, if you don't do this, we're taking your tax dollars. He shouldn't be given our tax dollars to that country anyway. We got veterans out here sleeping on the street and you're going to give our freaking tax dollars to these Ukrainians and I'd rather I don't know what's going on over there, but I'm not going over there fighting and God bless anybody that's over there is fighting and I hope that this just gets solved and I don't like war, you know what I mean? I don't want people dying and all that stuff. I don't want to be, but I don't know what's going on there. So much stuff that I think it's corrupted that we just don't know what's truly going on over there and I pray all those people are saying wow. I got to get your reaction one 806 5 5 mic. You think we should go? Into a war in order to help the people of Ukraine? Or is Bryce Mitchell Wright? I mean, those such powerful words and it ties into a poll that just came out, which I think will blow your mind, maybe it won't. Take a quick story many years ago, I was on a TV show on Fox News with Alan combs, Alan combs was a friend. Alan combs was a textbook liberal. Alan Holmes was a very nice man. I've never seen him get as angry as he got when I accused Democrats of lacking patriotism. I thought he was going to, I thought he was going to hit me. He was furious. And I was thinking about that exchange when I read about the results of a quinnipiac poll. Asking what would you do? What would an American do? If we were in the same position as the Ukrainians are right now. Now, as you'd expect, a majority of people said that we would stay and fight. What do you hear the way this breaks down though about who would leave the country? Americans were asked what they would do if they were in the same position as Ukrainians are, would you stay and fight? Or would you leave the country? Keep in mind, Biden offered zelensky, safe passage out of Ukraine, and he sort of shamed Biden by saying, I don't need a plane ticket. I need ammunition. I need help. I need to defend my country. I need to fight for my country. Well, when asked by party, Republicans and Democrats and independents, whether you'd stay and fight or leave. Vast majority Republicans 68% said they'd stay and fight. Majority of independence said they would stay and fight. 57%. Democrats by a majority said they would leave the country 52% of Democrats would flee America.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"alan combs" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"And your generosity. The Mike Gallagher show. We have too many people in positions of power whose foremost responsibility is to protect our freedoms, and yet they are the ones who are actually trying to take these rights away from us. This is the biggest threat to our country. It is coming from power, elite, here at home and their co-conspirators in the mainstream media and the security state who are working to undermine our freedoms from within. In the relief factor dot com studios, here's Mike. Tulsi Gabbard getting a lot of buzz at cpac as well. She's another one. We got to unpack Tulsi Gabbard for just a moment. And I hate to be, I hate to be the wet blanket being thrown over the enthusiasm for Tulsi Gabbard. My buddy Sebastian gorka tweeted out over the weekend and you know I love sheb. He said, maybe she should become a Republican. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Tulsi Gabbard is no Republican. And she needs to take a look at her Second Amendment track record. She ain't real fond of the guns, doctor gorka. So doctor G before we roll out the welcome mat for Tulsi gabber. You know what we need? We need Tulsi Gabbard to try to talk some sense into her fellow Democrats who've lost their minds. But she doesn't, she's not a Republican. She's not a concern. I mean, close. You want to go, you want to go down from the life issue, which to me is the most important of all. And I keep praying that this Supreme Court is going to have an opportunity to continue to save lives. It's already happening incidentally. There are lives being saved in Texas, Alabama states that are trying to clamp down on abortion on demand, lives are being saved. Babies are being born. Abortions are down, dramatically in many parts of the country. We got to keep that trend alive. That wouldn't be a lot. That wouldn't be a trend under Tulsi Gabbard, Republican. I like her. I do. I appreciate her willingness to stand up to the cancel culture. I appreciate her willingness to lash out at crazy Democrats. But she's a Democrat and she's a leftist. She's a liberal. And don't be fooled by the Tucker Carlson appearances in the sound bites. I don't know what her agenda is. I think she's probably a moderate Democrat. But even a moderate Democrat doesn't want to protect a human life in the womb. Even a moderate Democrat has no problem taking your guns. So don't get too swept away by the Tulsi Gabbard. Now listen, if you went to cpac and I'm interested, a lot of shows don't want to touch cpac. There's some institutional shows. Oh, no, they're GOP establishment. They're ruffled by cpac. They don't like all that boisterous rhetoric. They don't like the sharp elbows. They don't like Trump. Scarring at cpac. They don't like any of that. That's why you tune into this show. Because we do. We love it. And I'm glad Florida hosted it. And I'm happy to share a lot of the sites and sounds of cpac with you. So if you went to Orlando over the weekend, if you're in Orlando and you attend to give me a call and give me your takeaway. Tracy stockwell our screener went and Tracy said, listen, you go to, if you went to cpac, you walked away, convinced Trump's running. For president in 2024, he's going to run again. Now, things could happen over the next few years. Who knows? But he's running. Only question left is who's his running mate going to be? I hope it's not Tulsi Gabbard. Now, politically, you could argue, well, she'd win over a lot of Democrats. I don't think Democrats like her very much either. She's a little bit like the late great Alan combs from Fox News. The left hated him because he appeared on Fox News, the right hated him because he was a lefty. And he was a nice man. He was just generally wrong. Let's listen together to Tulsi gabbert and let me get your breakdown of.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"alan combs" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Well then do the Chinese notice this with regard to Taiwan, especially here's the complicating factors. It's all with Biden as president. That's the problem. That's a huge problem. So I think until people and I'm going to tackle it again today, but until people are prepared to give us at least the inkling of an answer, you just sit this one out. I mean, unless you're willing to say, what steps do you want to take? What does it look like? Okay, sanctions find sanction away. Knock yourself out. You know what I'm worried you know what border I'm worried about ours. You know what economy I'm worried about ours. You know whose sovereignty I'm worried about ours as I see Canada and that lunatic Trudeau now elbow his way into getting emergencies powers permanently to track down the truckers forever and track down anybody who dares dissent express any dissent or dissatisfaction, don't think progressives here aren't looking at Canada saying that's our model. Right there. That's what we want to do. They love the power. They crave it. They're sick. They're going to get wiped out November the 8th, but man, we got to make it to November the 8th Mark, and we got a freedom convoy rolling through starting tomorrow. We're going to be hearing from truckers on my show all through the show. People that are in the convoy calling in, so I need to ask, that's why I come to you and I mentioned in the first segment that I knew that you were your thumb on the pulse of this because yesterday when I was doing the Charlie Kirk show and I asked everybody about this, they were all very, very stoked about this. And it is people's convoy dot org or these are the folks that you're talking about. Is it the same ones? So there they are. And are they young? Are they getting ready to roll tomorrow I'm given to understand? They're meeting in barstow, California tomorrow. Okay. So there's no way this thing made. No way it's to The White House for State of the Union. That's not happening. Not that I know. But one of the truckers was quoted as saying, we're going to choke Washington. Okay. That's something that everybody just loves. Unless you live in McLean or trying to get to work down in Washington or when this convoy starts to roll. And when we're not watching traffic jams in Ottawa anymore, when it's affecting our cities and towns will be interesting to see if some of the love and enthusiasm for the convoy begins to wane a little bit. I don't know that I don't know that will happen. I do know that if they'll be savaged, absolutely savaged by the media culture, savaged by Biden and I can't wait to see that happen because I think it'll backfire because maybe it's convoys great idea. I love it, love it, love it. I'm going to just throw down here. I'm all for the convoy, and I love the show of volume and of unity. I'm not loving choking Washington, D.C.. I'm not like you said. I'm not loving tying up blocking bridges like they did in Ottawa. I'll admit it. I've got a little bit of a sense of dread about it. And I'm going to tell mauren Steele when I interviewed you know that. Dude, do that. Because if there's anything that somebody called me and it took me right to a conversation that you and I had. Somebody called and said, yeah, all you conservatives are really a hostile about what the Ottawa police are doing in the crackdowns. I thought you guys were the folks who back the blue. And I had to sort of explain that we absolutely back the blue that when the police are called upon to do something that tramples people's rights, we're not necessarily blaming individual cops, but the people who make those laws blah blah blah. We are also the people who are about being law abiding. There is a time for civil disobedience. And I'm not hostile to that here right now at all. But as soon as we get into massive bridge blockages or whatever, you're going to see some folks getting arrested and they will deserve it. And they're going to have and they're going to have to take it and we're going to have to figure out how to process that. And I've never said that the people in Ottawa didn't deserve to be arrested. They don't deserve to get beat up. Manhandled, they don't get deserved to get trampled by horses. But yeah, the civil disobedience often ends in an arrest, and that's part of the process. And certainly the great civil rights activists of our time and the freedom marchers. They expected to be arrested. But when they were marching across the Edmund Pettis bridge in Selma, Jim Crow was still alive and well. Isn't the thing? Okay, let me save for the 14th time. I love the convoy, cool idea. Isn't this a very summer of 2020 kind of thing? Isn't this all kind of going away for the most part? Is that my Texas bubble? Yeah, no, you can't, I mean, it's not summer of 2020 because the summer of 20 20 riders will riot. These people are wrong. No, no, no, I don't even be alone. I mean, with regard to be protesting COVID lockdowns. In fact, let's make it fall of 20 or early 21. As far as a time to get out there and really do something nervy and edgy and disobedient about COVID lockdowns, in the time to do that when the COVID lockdowns are at their peak rather than falling by the wayside even in blue states. I think the time to do it is when we see what's happening and what is unfolding in Canada and it could happen here with progressive legislators. It could absolutely happen here. They could give themselves all kinds of power that they don't have. We've already seen the unconstitutionality of all of this. And I think it's going to get worse. I mean, the closer we get to November the 8th Mark, the more panicked they're getting. Mike Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, just wrote an op-ed. He has an apocalyptic warning for his party. He said, absent an immediate course correction. This party is headed for a wipeout in November up and down the ballot. He wrote an editorial for Bloomberg opinion. He cites the Democrat research that says that voters perceive the Democrat party as being too focused on culture wars, do you think? From renaming schools to defunding the police and they're going to get wiped out. Now, look at totalitarian acts we're seeing right now. You follow this kid Madison Cawthorn in North Carolina? Yes. He was elected in 2020. He attended Trump's rally on January 6th. As a result, there's a group of citizens in North Carolina that are absolutely fighting to get him taken off the ballot. Haven't they failed? Wasn't the last thing I saw that maybe this will be a back and forth back and forth back and forth. Their point is that the North Carolina like election people are being asked to remove him from eligibility because he's an insurrectionist. It's the stupidest thing in the world. It's an idiotic, but last night he was on with Tucker and said, they're very close to succeeding. And this is a group of North Carolina voters. They're citing the Fourteenth Amendment. Of course, remember, Cawthorn, his office condemned the outcome of the election. He was one of those who was pushing to push. But he's no insurrectionist. My crying out loud. You're right. It's idiotic. And as Tucker said, I can not think of a clearer assault on democracy itself than preventing voters from voting for the candidate of their choice. But it's happening. At least the process. Now, I hope they get stopped and I hope he wins reelection in a landslide, but the process is unfolding. Well, listen, I don't care if somebody primaries them, maybe the Madison Cawthorn's not somebody's favorite. Exactly. But if voters of North Carolina want somebody else other than him to be their congressman, that's their choice. But don't tell exactly. Don't tell them they don't have that choice. Amen. But you've just stepped or sort of to another issue, which means I kind of hope that the truckers do too. That maybe if this convoy and I know I'm asking too much but maybe I'm getting greedy that I would love for this truckers convoy to just be a big roll on let's go Brandon festival of emotion against authoritarianism of every type, not just COVID, but bad border management, unconstitutional governance. I would love for it to be kind of broadly defined in all of it. In a final 60 seconds, can we do something we spend some time talking about some Fox News personalities that we've loved watching over the years. The passing of bob beckel at 73. He was, we make a list every once in a while, you and I do, of those Democrats, those people, we disagree with on everything. I never met beckel, maybe you did at Fox News at some point. I don't know. That's a guy who I could sit down and have a beer that's probably a bad idea because he's an addict. Wrote a book called, I should be dead. My life surviving politics, TV, and addiction. It's one of the best memoirs I've ever read. Bob beckel passed away at 73 yesterday. He was mondale's campaign manager. He was on crossfire and the 5. And I just loved watching him. He approached every he took life in large gulps, and was always a carrier of that good humor and that goodwill that is so lacking, especially on the left today, so rest in peace, bob beckel. I got to appear with him on a number of occasions. We're back when I was a Fox News contributor. He was a joy to work with. He reminds me of the late Alan combs in that regard. I didn't agree with the thing they said, but I loved him. Love them both. And like you said, I love the way you describe that. And incidentally, Neil cavuto, revealing that he almost died. He was in ICU for an extended period of time fighting through COVID, of course he has MS. He's a cancer survivor, lots of comorbidities, but you know, hey, controversially, he said that his doctors told him if it were for the vaccination, he wouldn't be here today. So there's that Neil cavuto though back. In fact, very hysterically red hate mail from people. Alive or dead, I'm just glad he's off TV right now. Awesome. And he read that hate mail. Maybe you and I don't think our ego can stand really hate me. Like a badge of honor. I love it. There you go. Happy Tuesday. Tuesday. Happy Tuesday. It is Mike Gallagher. He's right after we're done at ten. Right here on 6 60 a.m. ants..
WGN Radio
"alan combs" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Rush Limbaugh the greatest radio talk shows of all time tried a little bit in television didn't work out so well but Russia is still the greatest there ever was when it comes to talk radio Bill O'Reilly who was great in cable TV Did not really succeed in radio There's only one person in America that dominates nachos radio but also television and also authors of books That is my friend Sean Hannity and Sean Hannity Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham show and Sean how are you Bill Cunningham great American God bless you I need a full report because the country that I used to know as the United States of America the greatest country God gave man is in deep trouble today sir Well let's go back in time because I like to This is we're celebrating the 25 years of Fox and you were there from day one and I've seen some of the old videos of you 25 years ago And by the way I heard that I heard that chuckle Billy Cunningham believe me I've been getting I've been getting this chuckle all week All right let's talk about why did Sean Hannity happen Because I know a little better about your journey in the south through talk radio And we were together briefly in GST in Atlanta But talk about how you made your way what did roger ALC that many others didn't see Right place right time right talent How did that happen You know I don't know It's very outliers to be honest I mean it was a blessing the timing was great I used to ask roger because when you look at those old tapes I mean I look like 20 years old My hair was a lot blacker Billy Cunningham than it is today as you can see And I was a radio guy like you and my passion was radio That's all I really cared about And lo and behold I start doing all these TV shows out of Atlanta CNN was calling me like every other day to do their live audience show talk back live And then I kept getting called up to New York to do Geraldo and Sally Jesse and Phil Donahue and all these other shows And anyway one of those times roger ailes saw me and gave me an opportunity he was running on CNBC at the time And he gave me an opportunity on Saturday night to host a show talk live I hosted it then new Cambridge becomes speaker I'm still a local radio host in Atlanta And then newt stopped doing interviews and like February of 95 and I have been the emcee of the night when he became speaker And I call roger I said if you want I can get him for the full hour and I got another hour on that on CNBC on Saturday night It was a call in show And then he said after that appearance don't sign in another contract until you talk to me And that's how you and of course you're in New York City guy anyway but then did you begin with Alan combs into that come later No no we started with those Hannity and combs It was October 7th 1996 Alan such a great guy and by the I think some of the best exchanges ever in the history of television or Alan combs and Billy Cunningham Boy one time in particular you know the moment I'm talking about Yes You got him so riled up and so angry and poor Allen You guys were able to work it out I served as the chief justice Negotiated a peaceful settlement and you guys were back to being friends again A little story I don't know if I related this to you but I'm in line about a week later I have my two little grandkids are with me And they were like three and 5 and I'm in line to go in some little ride of kids land and my phone rings and it's an area of New York City and I normally wouldn't pick it up but honestly I thought it was you So I picked it up And he said Bill this is Alan combs and I said oh Allen How are you doing man He said not good He said I think you embarrassed me on my show and I feel like I'm out and apology You weren't respectful to me And I said look Alan it's your show and Sean show if I did anything to offend you I'm sorry And do you remember what exactly it was man out of context It was something that would communism something new in Marxism He was my correct identified as a communist in the beginning of his life When he and Marxist Yeah I mean listen he was hard for left but the thing about Alan he was a nice guy and he really believed it Yes And you know and he left this earth wave way too early and you know what We both felt pretty blessed with two radio guys Radio wanders if we will what most people in Cincinnati may not know are a lot of people and radio or the travelers of this fruited plane if you will And they're going all around the country from city to city and market to market And I did a little of that in my life from California to Alabama to Georgia One funny story for the people since then Annie that'll listen to the big one here today But that before I started in Atlanta they wanted to send in a host to kind of set set it up that anybody other than him would be satisfactory So they brought in Bill Cunningham and this is at the time when the Atlanta Braves were at their hottest point in life And Bill Cunningham comes in making fun of the city of Atlanta making fun of the phrase making fun of the hawks making fun of the falcons talking about how crappy the city is and you beat up the people on the air for a good two weeks and by the time I showed up they were like thank God we'll take the guy from New York over that Cincinnati guy any day That guy is out of here and that was a brilliant move by Randy Michaels who said look brilliant move That's Randy Michael's one O one You gotta be so bad that we bring in Sean Hannity and say thank God Hannity's here is that a Cunningham That was beautiful Thank God that other guy left what a relief this new guy is so much better He likes our.
Bro History
"alan combs" Discussed on Bro History
"Presents the people who lie down and he resents himself like regrets that he had been so bad on that. Stop and i don't know if he ever really said he was sorry like came totally clean about it but i think he clearly made a decision that screw these neo. Cons man i think. Maybe his changed. My tacoma with ron paul. And wait that just you'd have to be a fool to believe in this stuff anymore. Come on and i think he really has gotten much much better on foreign policy. Since then and i think it's personal. I think he put faith in these guys. Okay you guys say you gotta do this fine and then it was a disaster you know and i think he you know g- carlson's certainly is a much more thoughtful person than o'reilly or hannity at all. So i think you know must have been sitting by himself eating dinner one night and thought man became believe with those guys are going through over there. You know what i mean. It matter dam in a way other than just cash in his checks and having tv persona and all of this stuff the way hannity is. But i gotta wonder about the people watch carlson and then watch hannity like. Can't they tell the difference in this sub. Yeah you know. I i don't know i don't i think they're just geared towards different demographic say i think that Tucker carlson hitch more of the the twenty five to fifty five demographic and enhance these really. Just for the boomers. Yeah i don't think you can really listen to sean hannity and take him seriously unless you are boomer con of what the of what they call them like you. I think maybe my mom's solicits the hannity. My mom's like my family's very conservative. I grew up with Sean hannity and alan colmes and it was very apparent that alan combs or michael. Alan colmes thing. Yeah on is very clear that they know he kind of looks like droopy from charlie brown like he just looked. He played the role of the week. Liberal sean hannity with the all american guy who was standing up for the soldiers in the troops But yo- kind of plays that role now fox news What's one williams E- kind of plays at role now is kind of like the real radical democrat. Yeah so i think all these news channels do that..
600 WREC
"alan combs" Discussed on 600 WREC
"Him in the trial record was a complete joke. Hearsay upon hearsay, and we've opened Pandora's box to future presidents. And if you use this model, I don't know how come Larrys. Doesn't get in page that the Republicans take over the house because she actually belled out. Rioters and one of the writers went back to the streets and broke somebody's head open. So we've opened Pandora's box here, and I'm sad for the country. OK, is it they're not gonna stop. This is right after the police precinct burned to the ground in the middle of writing, that's been there was breaking out over the country Minneapolis that early in the time. And raising money for people that go out. And, Yeah, then commit more crimes because we don't keep them in jail because bail fund that she was a part of all right. A lot of you want to weigh in. Let's make that happen. Let us say Mo, the liberal from Brooklyn. This is Moe Moe's been calling the show for years. Moe thinks on the most dangerous guy in America. Do you still believe that? You get more dangerous by the day, my friend if I was that dangerous than Donald Trump for the one the last election, and he'd be president right now, apparently, I'm not as all powerful as you would. You would suggest that I am? Well, Shawn. I'd picked the election on 10 30 on election night when I saw what was happening in Arizona and Nevada. And yet it wasn't much anybody could do you know, Donald put himself on the line. And you know, I don't know how many votes we want. Bite, but it was at least seven million. And you know the problem is and even you should be concerned about this and Democrats. You know, as long as I got the result they wanted, But when the laws the statutory language, Ah says the partisan observers should be able to watch the vote count start to finish and it doesn't happen. That should concern you. When a when a state constitution like Pennsylvania has very strict limits on male and voting, and then they don't they bypassed their own constitution. That should concern you. Same with Wisconsin State law. Go ahead, Sean Man, I was a poll watcher. I know what happens at the polls. I've been there. Voting should be much more acceptable toe Americans, all Americans, and I'm about voter. I d. Do you support voter? I d my No, I don't support voter idea. My mother wouldn't be able to vote. She's 98. She has no valid idea. She has no valid idea. Your mom when we get your mom valid idea, I promise. There's a way to do it in New York, where you are. That's fair. The easy even if she doesn't want a driver's license, And I'm sure you'd be in the loving son that you are. You would help your 98 year old. Wonderful, mom. I only talked to Chuck Schumer. He said he'd take care of it. If we needed it. We were more concerned about her. The last time she went the country they work in a letter back in because she only had a citizenship papers from 1948 with her maiden name. Yeah, we gotta We gotta get your get your poor mama the speed with some idea. I think you can't get into a Democratic national Venture without photo. I d Did you know that you can't get look showing? I work in secure places all the time? I know what the ideas he would be nice. So if we want integrity and confidence in election results, we should have voter. I d. We should have chain of custody. Very strict, rigorous standards. Um, I think I think mail in voting. If you're gonna do it, you gotta have voter. I d. We need real signature verification. And I think that's to protect the integrity on both sides so that people will have confidence in election results. And I think that would be a good thing for the country, don't you? Well, I agree that election should be above and well, you know, there's always been cheating, so famous story. Kennedy Nancy Pelosi complained bitterly that 2016 was stolen. Hilary said that Trump was an illegitimate president Stacey Abrams still hasn't conceded her race. I don't see anybody upset about them complaining. He too. Did you know what happened with Kennedy and West Virginia when he was running about Kennedy? Yeah. How about Kennedy in Illinois? Yeah, I know all about it. In West Virginia, His campaign manager sped through every small town in West Virginia. And gave the sheriff I've planned if we get them to vote for Kennedy, and they want I can't you approve of such things? Is that what you're saying? Mo from Brooklyn? What's that you approve of this? Well, I think elections could be run fairly and well, you can't. How do you then, If you want him fair, partisan observers should observe chain of custody should be respected. Signature verification on voter ID. It's pretty simple. It's not that it's not that rigorous, a standard gone. Everybody knows what happens at the polls. You know, relating why go in and tie the signing over 30 years? I look at my signature over all the years I've voted. They're all different. Swiveling. I'm never gonna I'm never going to change your mind. But I'm trying. I've been trying mo for years. All right. You give you the last word. The last square. I got to say the issue on his. I am so happy. That you've done so well. Over the years since we've been talking, and I'm really proud and happy Whenever I get a chance to call in and say, idea, you know, I can't hate MO further people in this audience. Mo has been calling me for years and we've been arguing for years, and I still think there's something about the quality of your voice that justice, sincerity that is infuriatingly nice. Uh, all right, Mo. God bless you, my friend. God bless your mom, too. Okay, let's say hi. Let's let's go to Texas. Maybe we could get some some reasonable viewpoints in Texas. Andrew, How are you? I'm good, Sean. Thank you for Thank you for everything you do for a country everyday man, and that previous collar just reminded me of your days with Alan Combs. It was It was pretty cool. Just just hear that being by the way, we're praying for our friends in Texas..
Biz Talk Radio
"alan combs" Discussed on Biz Talk Radio
"Frank, you make a very valid point, and I always appreciate your insights. Thank you for the call T to Frank's point. Look hemorrhagic Kowski. She may be smoking hot. But she is not someone that I agree with on philosophical issues on conservative issues on a good number of many things. But she came out this week. And tweeted very clearly. If they could do this to the leader of the free world. They will do it to anyone. And that's the thing that old school liberals used to understand. Ivory proudly. I'm a member of the small community that is talk radio hosts in America. And one of the people that I didn't agree with much politically, but I lionized his defense of free speech. Was Alan Combs. Was no longer with us. He died a couple of years ago. But Alan Combs was one of these guys that he look he believed in gay marriage He believed in abortion of the Wa Zoo. He believed in tax hikes. He believed in all kinds of regulations on small businesses. He believed in gun control. He believed in all the stuff that I opposed. The one thing that we found common agreement on and actually we were kind of friends over this. Is that, he said the day that the government becomes powerful enough to shut down your voice. They can shut down anything. And then it's not an issue of whether what you believe is Jew or not. It's whether or not you parrot whatever they say friends. This is what we had in the Soviet Union. This is what you have in Cuba. This is what you have in Venezuela. This is what you have in China. This is not free and open society. This is not the protection of free speech. And you know who I blame? I don't blame AOC. And I don't blame Joe Biden and I know you blame Kamala Harris is big of a bimbo is she is sleeping away to the top and doing all the rest of it. I don't even care about all that. You had these lily livered Republicans. That had the ability to take the way the 2 30 protections from the big tech companies. You say No. You're acting like a publisher. You're deciding editorial. You're not just a neutral platform, You're actually allowing the message to be shaped as it goes out. Damn it! They should have done something about that. They should have said No. You're not going to act that way and get the protections under prop. Two. We're gonna take 2 30 away from you. And then you're gonna have to be judged like all other editorial outlets are They didn't do anything. He's cowardly, sad, stupid. Republicans sat by and watched to go by. And when Donald Trump has fought like the last jet I against the entire universe of evil. They were all too happy to let him be taken down. Just give up on the whole thing. 8883403373. Maybe you disagree. Coming right back. 883403373 more of your calls next. One more business content you need biz bade.
KUGN 590 AM
"alan combs" Discussed on KUGN 590 AM
"This is the watchdog on Wall Street. I I'll share a story I'll share but I will not mention Won't mention that you all but you know what will be a big game will figure that you'll figure it out. I won't take you long to figure it out. I used to be on a very Very big radio network. It no longer exists because the idiots that were running it Um, had Michael Savage. You had the late Jerry Doyle. You had somebody else on that network as well. I'm just not gonna neighbor. Hey. She's big on TV. No longer does a radio show, but she's big on TV. And you know, she's always got that crucifix hanging from her neck and Plays up this certain Or about herself. Um Right? Cannot again. I'm not telling again. You figure it out. I can't tell you how nasty Nasty and individual. This person is in real life. I'm not kidding. I'm not kid. I've never again It's stuff that I couldn't quite frankly. Get my arms around. Just how nasty people could be. I don't get it. I can't. I've always been fascinated. By this and I saw this. When I worked on Wall Street. Most certainly is the same thing in the media. Is it worth it? Is it really worth selling your soul? For wealth, fame and power. I know it's a It's a story. You know what one of you gets scary movies. All time. Great screamers, Rosemary's baby. These people what they will do. For wealth, fame and power and what they will justify In their minds. Anyway, anyway, to get back to Tidies piece here, Um Talks about how news companies now they Operate. Operate under the assumption That at least half Half of their potential audience. Not really listening. This leads to problems. And the easiest way the easiest way to keep your demographic to keep your people engaged is to feed it. Negative stories about others. That's how it's done. The financial incentives are there for them to to do it. Time he's left the center guy. He knows that they monetize Trump. Trump was big bucks. Huge box. You gotta understand how this works. They they figured it out how they go about making money and pitting people against one another. Damn example. Okay. I'll mention his name. Okay? I don't cause I don't think he's a bad guy. I just think he gets a little rambunctious. Remember we, Glenn back was on Fox. Was like one of their highest rated programs. You know what they couldn't sell ants. What was called empty calories. Gwen would go off the deep end. You have all this conspiracy stuff that was on there. I remember him bringing on guys that his narrative What he was talking about. The world is going to collapse. United States is collapsing. We're all going to die, and he would have these investment guy and rest of the guys on the show that I knew were con artists. I actually got in contact with people like, what are you doing? These guys? They're crooks that you're having on the program if they didn't care. They didn't do anything. About it. Anyway, we need right now. People we need right now. We needed a media. That's not aligned with either Party. Go back. I mean, I remember When I when I actually wanna watch Hannity's program. When I watched Andy's program when he had Alan Colmes on When it was Hannity. And comes the late Alan Colmes. Now, Alan Combs. Example, Alan Combs, and I do not see who did not see eye to eye. In regards to politics. But I can't tell you what A what? A How wonderful. The human being. He was. What a nice guy. He was. He was great. The tremendous guy. When she died. I You know people I mentioned this last week. On the show. I mentioned briefly last week on the show, and I know I've been talking about it. On the podcast, and he talks about the need to bring people together. There's no incentive for the people that are running the show to bring people together. That's why they did that double secret probation impeachment this past week. There's there's no reading for them. You know they're doing too well. They're getting too fat and happy and to wealthy doing things their way. And again, you got to take a look at the people that are doing this. That talk in this manner. You gotta save yourself. These are people that obviously had an ethical bypass at birth. Have encountered plenty of them on Wall Street, but they're everywhere. They're most certainly in politics there most certainly in the media Here's there's some Tips you can either listen to me or not. Listen to me. It is important in life. Collision. They said things that I want. You need to listen. Two people. Sit back. Listen to what they have to say Taking in. If you have someone that has a difference of opinion, then you that's OK if you could engage them and some sort of Socratic.