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Mike Gallagher Podcast
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"You couldn't watch that and walk away and say, yeah, that's a, that's a good bunch of people right there. This is the devil. This is the, you want to talk, listen, I appreciate the moral concerns you have about gambling and it's legitimate by the way, the bottom line. No, no, but it's true. You're right. And you're, and by the way, God bless you for standing up for a virtuous position like that. I don't want to minimize this. I really don't. I want to, I'm kind of bothered by me, my, my, by me, ribbing you about it. Cause you're, you are right. And there's nothing magical, but there's nothing wrong with standing up for some virtuous things. And there is something horribly wrong with standing for evil. And we are seeing people stand up for antisemitism, for, for Jew hating, for, for praising terrorists. And I'm telling you, this is the wake up call that America needs. We got to stand up and say, I'm sorry. And I don't like to talk this way. Go blank yourself, go blank yourselves. You Hamas loving savages. You're not, you're in America. You don't like it. Get the hell out of this country. I am so fed up once again, a bunch of anti-Western degenerates take sick, sick themselves. And by the way, not a lot of Jews at the Christmas tree lighting ceremony, if you know what I mean for a Jewish audience, the Christmas might not be where you'd go. If you're looking for a Jewish audience to harass, but these people I've had it. I am so fed up and the spirit of Elon and I love that the left hates him. I love because the things I think New York times had this big stoic poll about, oh, the support for the Palestinian side versus the strangely, the pro Hamas side comes from Democrats. It's very odd. The majority is I'm not kidding. It's like 59% of Democrats are on the side of the Palestinians. 80 something percent of Republicans are on the side of Israel. Go figure. I mean, go figure. So Mary frigging Christmas. It's a passionate segment and it's good. Here's 60 seconds. My advice for DeSantis tonight, relax, dude, relax. Just tell me about tonight. Tell me about, give me the Mark Davis 30 seconds on tonight because I don't understand it. Here's what I don't like. I don't like, I don't, I don't like giving, I don't like uh, uh, sexualizing or giving Newsome. I don't like, yeah, I don't like giving Newsome this favorable light. Hannity and Newsome have a weird friendship and this goes back years and somehow Sean likes Gavin Newsome. They are cordial, which I think, which I think there ought to be more of. There's only one reason Hannity wants this. It's because it is a curiosity and it will attract an audience. What's the point here? What are they trying to advance here? It's literal political theater. And I don't say that dismissively. It is the foremost conservative governor in America, Greg Abbott, a close second, so just to make him happy, up against the guy who all the Democrats wish was their presidential candidate. What's not to love? Here's what I don't, it'll be interesting. And if DeSantis just sticks to issues, he's very hyped up. I think DeSantis can be a little irascible as he's trying to catch Trump and he knows he has 40 point mountains to climb and Newsome will be just relaxed. And you know, et cetera, et cetera. All the conservatives will think DeSantis won, all the liberals will think that Newsome won. Objectively, I think DeSantis can do well and win some people over. DeSantis' best audience is conservatives who are watching Hannity anyway and wondering if maybe they need to pivot to him from Trump. There's some sliver of people thinking about that, probably not a big number, but so DeSantis can do himself some favors. I don't like anything about it. I think, listen, I'm going to- What's the biggest problem? What's the problem? The biggest problem is it could make DeSantis look bad and I don't want him to look bad. Oh, I'm more- Why would it make him look bad? Are you not- He may not do well against this guy. This guy is good, Mark. This Newsome is good. He is slick.And he's got, and he possesses, frankly, some characteristics that our guy, because I consider every Republican our guy. I mean it. I'm going to be with DeSantis if he's the nominee. I'm a Trump guy, as everybody knows, but I don't want to hurt DeSantis tonight. And this guy could make- He possesses characteristics- Oh, I don't believe that. Here's the killer. Here's the killer. And I'm sorry, you only have 30 seconds to mock me. This thing will happen tonight. My prediction is DeSantis will do absolutely fine. It's not like you'll be surprised if he does fine. You're just worried that he won't come off well. I think he'll come off just fine. And you and I will discuss it on Monday because I'm out tomorrow. Oh gosh. Where are you going? Again? With the days off. The last show of the year is December 20th. I got one more day. I got a log and it's tomorrow. Listen, I know I can relate. You don't lose it. What is it? Use it. Didn't you tell me, let's call HR about this, but didn't you tell me that any days we don't use just migrate to the following year, which I just don't believe. Do you know how they do? And do you know how many days I have unused? 28. I could take, I could take now off till groundhog day. To heck with those Iowa caucuses. Mike's on a cruise. Nothing's happening in 2024. All right. Happy Thursday. I love you too. Keep your thoughts about this and then we'll talk about it tomorrow. But let's on Monday, we'll talk about it and we will all be listening to you in the meantime. Mike Gallagher, Thursday show today, 10 soon as we're done on 6 60 AM. That's why Salem news channel is here. We have hosts worth watching, actually discussing the topics that matter. Andrew Wilkow, the next D'Souza, Brandon Tatum, and more open debate and free speech. You won't find anywhere else. We're not like the other guys. 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Mike Gallagher Podcast
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"Nikki Haley is our gal or Ron DeSantis is our guy, or we're going to love Chris. They might, I find it unlikely. If they don't, here we go again with Trump versus Biden. It's a repeat and they don't want to stop him. They want to stop what would occur, which is the most conservative president of our lifetime. If you take away all, as you said, the rhetorical excesses, you take away all the noise and the mean tweets, all that crap and all of the, what we have look at Roe V. Wade was overturned. That was monumental. It was something we've been asking for for decades. Border security, things that are normal things, the definition of family, gender, all those things down the line, all of those things will return under a Trump presidency and they know it. And it scares them to death because they're the party of lunacy. The left craves a country that wants other taxpayers to pay off their college loans. A country that doesn't know how many genders there are. A country that doesn't care who gets in through our borders. A country that doesn't care about an economy that's functioning. A country that doesn't care about manhood, womanhood, family, faith. They want a culture that doesn't care about those things. And at the moment they're on the verge of having one. And there's an overused term, a battle for the soul of America, but this is it. Well, we're experiencing a presidency that won't even condemn a US Congresswoman, a lunatic Congresswoman, an evil Congresswoman, this Pramila Jayapal from Washington state who called for balance when she's trying to make a moral equivocation between raping 14 year old children and Israel's bombardment of Gaza. She thinks they're one in the same rape. And incidentally, I saw a Muslim woman last night on social media flat out say that Allah supports rape when it's against the infidel. I mean, finally investigators are uncovering the brutality of the sexual violence. I mean, I'm getting flack from listeners, some listeners, not many, because we need clarity. But there are some people who are so squeamish, they don't want to hear what these monsters have done to these Jewish women of Israel from Hamas, because it's so grotesque and it's the stuff of nightmares, Marc. And yesterday the White House press secretary would not condemn Jayapal, who said over the weekend that there should be balance in calling out Hamas terrorists for using rape and sexual violence against Israeli women. Karine Jean-Pierre wouldn't condemn it. And you've been terrified of the squad. They don't know what to do about the squad. They know that they've got these millions of progressives, apparently, maybe it's thousands, I hope, who are willing to march into the fires of antisemitism and the hell pit of hatred and bigotry. And these are hateful, bigoted, awful people. There's a clarity right now, and clarity comes from a variety of different sources. Matt Gaetz isn't everybody's cup of tea. Matt Gaetz is a firebrand. He's here in Florida, of course, a U.S. Congress man who led to the ouster of Kevin McCarthy. So for that, a lot of people still have a bad taste in their mouth. Wasn't one of my favorite things, I'll admit. But he was on our friend Seb Gorka's show yesterday, and he said something that I have tried to shy away from, but I think we've got to face this head on, you know? And you've inspired me. With your clarity about what we're up against, I want to play for you what Congressman Matt Gaetz said on America First yesterday with Sebastian Gorka, because the inevitable question on all of our minds is, if they're going to call Trump a felon, a Nazi, a Hitler, if they want to bankrupt him, if they're going to try to destroy him, what's left for them to do? Matt Gaetz said the unspeakable out loud yesterday. Here it is. I think that they are a greenlighting assassination. When you hear people talk about Trump as Hitler or as some sort of authoritarian tyrant, they're trying to justify violence against him and violence against his supporters, and it is sickening and un-American. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms, but they're done having a debate with us about trade policy or foreign policy or economic policy. We're just all so evil to our core that we have to be vanquished from the debate. That's where you really start to see societies erode and fall apart. I want to engage our political opponents in the battle space of ideas, and yet they seem to be so eager to try to use these unprecedented tools for politics. We see that through the criminal justice process, through the efforts to try to remove Trump from the ballot so he's not even considered in some jurisdictions, and the American people aren't going to stand for it. Mark Davis, do you agree with Congressman Davis? I think that is wholly plausible. People driving around saying, wow, he's predicting somebody's going to try to kill Trump. Not necessarily. Saying that for some, why isn't he? All we're doing is giving these people benefit of the doubt of meaning what they say. Only takes one lunatic, and lunacy is a brand that is growing in great favor. Let's ramp it down from actual assassination attempts and go to the Democrat convention in Chicago. I'm surrounded by a lot of people who believe, just a lot of commentary things I'm seeing, who believe that the Democrats, we're going to have another riot-torn convention among the Democrats in Chicago in 1968, that between the rage of antisemitism and just the crazy quilt atmosphere that we have, that the Democrat convention in Chicago this year is going to be a riot-torn hellscape. I have no trouble believing that either. I have no trouble believing, because the left, you know what the left realized post-George Floyd, is that not only will street violence be forgiven, it will lead to not just the renaming of sports teams for no flippin reason, but it will lead to fawning and coddling and political victories. Violence and craziness of any order at any level is something they, that are arrows they now have in their quiver, and nothing's off the table. We cannot let them win electorally. We just can't. We can't. It's the only chance this country has, and we have to know it. We have to recognize that if you're not willing to condemn the violence of Hamas, if you're not willing to condemn what they've done, then you're willing to condone that kind of violence here in America. And there is a darkness right now in the land. Did you see the video of the house that exploded when the police were... Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington. That guy was shooting off flares inside the house. Never a good idea. But it was a guy who was about to get a warrant served on him, and I guess wanted no part of that. And that video, and that whole house blows up, and they're all... Well, you're talking about metaphors. I'm back to the Democrat Convention in Chicago. That's a metaphor. Having the Democrat Convention in that war-torn city right now with the rampant, rampant crime... What could possibly go wrong? Oh, that sounds like a great plan. And I'm going to tell you something. You and I differed on this to some extent because you seem completely mystified at the prospect of Biden being replaced on the ticket. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, stop it. Stop it. All I've done is I've asked you to tell me how in the world it happens. I mean, sure, it makes sense. Oh, okay. Because it always seems to me like you seem perplexed by it. Well, it's real simple. Tell me. He doesn't run. He doesn't run. He says, what? It might happen at the convention. I'm saying that at the convention, which has happened... Oh, my Lord, really? Oh, absolutely. He could emerge. There could emerge another candidate on the Democrat ticket at the convention that somebody other than Joe Biden. Absolutely. Are you kidding me? Listen, Democrats are ready to revolt. Mark, they know. They know what condition he's in. They're not that stupid. You're 100% right on all of that. I guess the only thing I would say is there's no way in the world this can wait until the summer. He's got to pull out in January, February, March. Let the Kamala Harris, let the Gavin Newsom, let the Michelle Obama, or whatever is going to happen, let it happen and breathe. You know what? Even as I say this, that is absolutely right. I'm using earth logic. You're 1000% right. I'm using earth logic of the way things usually have gone. Things are so crazy. Rather than have Biden sort of do the self-embarrassment and the self-sacrifice, stepping into the strike zone, taking one for the team, a la LBJ in March saying, I will not seek nor will I accept the nomination to be your president. I've been looking for Biden to do that. There's no indication that he would, but maybe he does wait to the convention where chaos can yield from that furnace some other candidate. And those states stand there. We know what the conventions are like and they do the roll call in this state. The state of Texas happily nominates, and I can see Gavin Newsom.I see Gavin Newsom is a reluctant, Oh, I don't want to knock me, knock me really white guy. And we're going to, and we're going to give Kamala Harris a woman of color. We're going to give her the shiv and we're going to sideline her. The Democrat party is going to do that to her. Kamala Harris couldn't win I'm telling you, you better buckle up. I already got my hotel reservations book for the convention next year. Cause I know how that works out. I can't wait for those shows. I'm in a, I'm in a fortress. I'm going to be hunkered down. I'm going to be in a bomb shelter. One of my favorite things. What about if there was a picture when they announced that it was going to be Chicago, Barack Obama, President Obama put up a picture of him and Michelle. It's kind of a very artsy picture. Looking across, you know, the Lake Michigan, whatever, right at the Chicago skyline. And somebody said, yep, that ought to be a safe distance. You can see the smoke in the distance. All right. Great job. Stay on your A-game. We need you, my friends. Happy Tuesday. Love you so much. Hey, what's wrong, Santa? Well, it's these elves. The new ones all feel entitled. They don't want to work their way up the ladder. In fact, they hardly want to work at all. Then there's those social justice elves. 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Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 11/14/23
"Lots of channels. Nothing to watch. Especially if you're searching for the truth. It's time to interrupt your regularly scheduled programs with something actually worth watching. Salem News Channel. Straightforward, unfiltered, with in -depth insight and analysis from the greatest collection of conservative minds. Like Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, Sebastian Gorka, and more. Find truth. Watch 24 -7 on SNC .TV and on Local Now, Channel 525. 738 on this Tuesday, the 14th day of November. Lots of Texas political news. But I did get a chance to spend a moment there in the opening half hour saying that I grow weary of the moral fog. In fact, on Twitter just a couple of moments ago, in these fractured times, I'm glad to give a Democrat some credit. Democrat Senator Chris Coons, who is right on Israel, was confronted by this stooge pro -Hamas activist on a train who badgered him. Why not a ceasefire? Why not a ceasefire? Sometimes moral clarity is something that needs to be delivered in a certain fashion. I'd like to think I have it intellectually and conceptually. My buddy Mike Gallagher joins us, who had an experience yesterday that will bring that kind of clarity in the harshest but necessary terms. I just can't wait to see how this day went. It had to be amazing and I'm just so glad you're here and the floor is yours. And tell everybody what you got a chance to do yesterday. Well, it was something that no one would want to see. It was pretty brutal. It was worse than I thought it was going to be. Israel put together a 45 -minute sort of a collection of video and audio and still photographs. They were videos from the terrorists' GoPros and their cell phones. There were closed -circuit videos and there were audio intercepts. They got audio recordings of the terrorists calling their families. The IDF was able to tap into some of these calls where they were calling their parents excitedly, saying, I just killed 10 Jews with my bare hands, Mom. Your son is a hero. Your son is a hero, Aloha Akbar. And they're all joyful and ecstatic. A couple of takeaways. When you watch the brutality of the violence that they inflicted on these innocent men, women, children, elderly people, there are a couple of things that really stand out. Number one, the ecstasy and the joy that the Hamas terrorists experienced as they were killing people, including little babies in little onesies and little daisy outfits and cute little kids covered in blood, slaughtered brutally. And they were absolutely euphoric, Mark. That's the only word to use. It was ecstatic for them. They had such a joy. And I kept telling myself, there's no way they think that Jews are human. There's no way that they regard them as human beings. You couldn't do that to another human being and have that kind of satisfaction. I mean, let's face it. When you think about crime in America or crimes of passion or murders or robberies or whatever, what have you, normal people don't have euphoria when they cut somebody's head off. They don't get joyful and they don't call their moms and brag about it and say, look what I did. Look what I did. So number one, that's one of the big takeaways. And the other thing I kept thinking about, and it was a somber mood. It was at the Israeli embassy. There were a number of some media people there, some pastors. It was a gathering from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews who we worked with closely right after the terror attack of October the 7th. About 60 people in the room, maybe 70. It was very somber. It was very well done. But as you can imagine, there were tears. There was crying. There was weeping. One pastor in front of me, in fact, he happens to be a pastor from Sarasota, not far from where I'm at right now. When it was over, he kind of flung himself down onto the ground and laid across the stage and was laying on his belly just heaving, just crying and sobbing. I mean, you're looking right at the face of the devil. You're looking at evil with this. And I kept thinking, Mark, how I wish the people marching at Columbia and Harvard and in Austin, how I wish they could see this video. From the river to the sea, you proud now? You proud now? I mean, you know, the one pastor, I spent some time, I pulled double duty after the show and then I did the screening at this embassy. And then I was asked to do an afternoon show for WAVA, which is a huge Christian teaching and talk station. Over in Arlington, yeah. Yep, the Arlington. And so Don Crow has been out on a medical leave and they asked me to fill in for him. And I had with me Bishop Lanier, who is the chairman of the board of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, as a very profound speaker, very eloquent, very, you know, just a great orator and a great man of the cloth. And he said, look, I don't think we're going to change their minds. We need to change our minds. We need to change what we say from the pulpit. We've got to stop the equivocation. Well, it's two sides here. People are dying on both sides. That is both -sides -ism of the worst possible stripe. It really is, Mark. And I just want to reiterate that because I don't know that Israel, listen, if Israel was guilty of any of the stuff that I saw yesterday, that I experienced, and again, I'm not trying to be melodramatic. It's one of the most painful things I've ever, ever encountered. I mean, and I'll spare you gory details. You can imagine how bad it was. I mean, you already have seen some of it, you know, lining up on the streets and just shooting into cars of innocent passengers trying to drive down the street. But there was one scene in particular that got to me the most. I do want to share it with you. There was a father alone with his sons. The mother was gone, and it was in the kibbutz. They did a horrible massacre in this kibbutz, which is like a Jewish religious holy neighborhood, you know. But they're beautiful little homes. I mean, oh, their homes were so cute and decorated and, you know, plants on the porches and everything. And they were meticulously taken care of. So here's this father in the house, and it's all captured on the family's closed -circuit video. So they had like a ring system all throughout the house and outside, and it was all captured. So the father is with these two boys. I would guess the one little boy was about seven or eight. The other one was probably 11 or 12. And the little boys were in their underwear. And the shots ring out, and the father, they're all terrified, and the father desperately tries to protect his children. He scoops them both up, and they run into the backyard, and they go into a little shed that's in the backyard. It looked like a little gardening shed. And you see a Hamas terrorist come around the corner and casually pull the pit off of a grenade and throw the grenade in the shed. And it blows up, and the father immediately slumps out of the shed dead. You could tell he's instantly dead. But the two little boys are alive, and they come running out in their underwear. The one boy, you can see it looks like his eye is missing. He is terrified. The two little boys are crying, Daddy, Daddy, Mommy, Mommy. They go into the kitchen. Now the closed -circuit video picks them up in the kitchen where they're talking to each other. And they said to each other, and it's all translated, of course, and they said, Is this real? Is this real? I think we're going to die. Daddy died. Daddy died. Where's Mommy? Where's Mommy? And then the one little boy turns to his brother, his little brother, and says, Can you see out of that eye? He says, No, I can't. And he looks at him, and you can see that it looks like his whole side of his face was injured from the grenade. And he says, You can't? You can't? You can't see? He goes, No, I can't see anything out of my eye. And the little boys are crying, and they're calling for their Mommy. And then the closed -circuit shifts back to the backyard where a kibbutz security guard, actually two security guards, have escorted the mother to the property. She had been away. So they take her to the back of the shed where her dead husband is laying. She is now in anguish and screaming and collapsing and screaming, Where are my boys? Where are my boys? At the same time, the two boys, they run out of the house in the front, trying to escape. And Lord knows what fate they met. I don't have a whole lot of high hope that they made it. And I'd like to look into that. I'm going to follow up with my friends at the fellowship to see if those boys were reunited with their mother. But that's the human suffering that I wish people who seem to dehumanize Jews would see. It was eye -opening. I'm glad I did it. I'm honored that I did it. I'm glad you did, too. I'm so glad. But it was awful. And I wouldn't want anybody to see it. For people who – and sometimes you can hear people in your headphones and hear people driving around. And I want to give a voice to people saying we could show a horrible video of a Palestinian child to whom something terrible has happened, and that is undeniably true.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 11/10/23
"Turbulent times call for clear -headed insight that's hard to come by these days, especially on TV. That's where we come in. Salem News Channel has the greatest collection of conservative minds all in one place. People you know and trust, like Dennis Prager, Eric Metaxas, Charlie Kirk, and more. Unfiltered, unapologetic truth. Find what you're searching for at snc .tv and on Local Now Channel 525. Camelot, Camelot, I know it sounds a bit bizarre. Sounds a bit bizarre. Let's guess the birthday, Mr. Mike. Bizarre. Bizarre is the word of the year. Richard Burton, born this date 1925. You know how old he was when he died? He was a young guy, right? 58. Now proving that alcohol is not a preservative. Actually, that wasn't really what got him. He had a lot of health things. I'm not sure the alcohol helped. No, it probably did not. And you know what I watched the other day? You ever do cable laps, dish laps, and you just land on something and you go, oh, this will be worth five minutes, and an hour and a half later, you're still there? The that spectacle was Cleopatra. I mean, the very beginning sort of of their relationship, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. I don't know if the movie is that good in terms of, it looks kind of primitive in the early 60s special effects, but it was amazing for its day. And it was just incredible to watch their interplay. And so happy birthday there for Richard Burton, born this date 25. Keeping it in the show business realm and musicals, I saw last night online, a group of Broadway performers got together in tribute to the children who've been kidnapped and are held hostage in Gaza. And they performed Bring Him Home from the musical Les Miserables. And it's a beautiful ballad. And they changed the lyric to bring them home. Oh my gosh, Mike. And Mark, it's beautiful. I mean, it is absolutely magnificent. And you know, and it's, I brought a tear to my eye. I'm going to play it on the show today. I hope everybody will look it up because it's really a good moment. And here's the moment that I love. And now you're going to get, you're going to lose your mind because one of the most toxic, vicious, lefty entertainers on the planet is one of the performers. That would be Debra Messing from Will and Grace. Oh sure, the red haired lady. Yep. And boy, she just despises Trump and conservatives and everything else. This is a time of strange bedfellows and odd allegiances where a lot of hard, hard lefties realized that the antisemitism of note today is on their side. Let me let you finish though. But it's one of those triangulation moments. No, but that's my point. You made my point for me beautifully, better than I ever could. That's what I like about moments of unity, even in a time of darkness. And I mean, boy, we are in such a dark time right now. And what's so difficult is how people are delusional and not being able to see good versus evil and right versus wrong. And so you're right when there's a moment like this where people can get, and the person who retweeted the musical tribute that I saw an ex last night was Patricia Heaton from Everybody Loves Raymond. She's a conservative, she's not a lefty. And so, and she did a big shout out to these Broadway performers for this beautiful moment. Listen, it was put together by Seth Rudetsky. He's like a sassy Broadway guy who I've listened to for years on satellite radio. And believe me, he's no conservative. They hate Republicans, but you're so right. This isn't about that. And I'm just praying for some clarity, for some wisdom. I saw Hillary Clinton yesterday on The View.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/9/23
"Turbulent times call for clear -headed insight that's hard to come by these days, especially on TV. That's where we come in. Salem News Channel has the greatest collection of conservative minds all in one place. People you know and trust, like Dennis Prager, Eric Metaxas, Charlie Kirk, and more. Unfiltered, unapologetic truth. Find what you're searching for at snc .tv and on Local Now Channel 525. I don't think he was on the beach till the break of dawn. He might have been in the spin room till the break of dawn. Will Smith. There are two reasons to play Will Smith. Number one, go into Miami. And the other is Nikki Haley almost gave us a Will Smith moment last night. Keep my daughter's name out your voice or words to that effect. Wow. Let me just hand you the talking stick. You were the guy who was there. How did it go for you? Your coverage was great. Before, after, just spot on and wonderful. Thank you, Mark. And it was quite an experience starting with a Chris Christie by the pool spotting earlier in the afternoon at the hotel. It is true. I can confirm he was not in a bathing suit because I think the only thing more challenging than Mike Gallagher in a bathing suit would be Governor Christie. Neither of that would go over very well with anybody in the vicinity. But he was there with his wife and his kids and his friends. And he was jovial. And I'm kind of glad he didn't go, you know, full, you know, hardcore, full -blown anti -Trump last night. But the whole thing was always fun to witness and experience up close and personal. In the spin room, as you know, I mean, that's where they bring the candidates in after the debate. And true to form, Ron DeSantis spoke to no one. He went right to NBC and that was it. Chris Christie didn't go in. But we had a chance to interview the guy that brought the heat, Vivek Ramaswamy. We sat down with him in the spin room and I'll replay that interview on the show today. And, you know, interesting takeaway. You either loved it or you hated it. And I'm intrigued by every individual's reaction to Vivek Ramaswamy going after the RNC, going after Ronna McDaniel, who I also interviewed in the spin room, going after Nikki Haley. I mean, I have a hunch I know how you land on this. Well, let's go case by case. Going after the media culture, awesome. Making the comment from the stage in an oblique way where still people know what you're talking about and says, you know, I don't know if liberal networks are going to do the best job of covering Republican debates. There's certainly a spotty history of that in the past. That's fine. But hey, hey, you, Kristen Welker, I'm asking you, you know, about Russia collusion. Dude, dude, no, just no. If, if I know that the base like, awesome. Yeah, me too. There's a part of me that did that as well. But to me, it's a time now where if you're on a debate stage, here's your job, make more people want you to be president. And first of all, the Tucker Carlson base wasn't watching last night. There are people banging on us right now for talking about it. You ought to be talking about the Trump rally and we will. So I think that was largely a misfire, even though the material was good. Okay. Strongly disagree with you and let me tell you why the room erupted in cheers. That wasn't Tucker Carlson's base in that auditorium last night. The crowd loved it. They ate it up. And Mark, I got to warn you, my friend, and I love you. I love you like a brother. When you're defending Kristen Welker or NBC, you might be on the wrong side of it. Did, did they, did you expect them to bury the candidates with January 6th nonsense, questions bombarded from the left? I kind of did. They did not do it. No, no, no. By and large, they kind of did okay. Don't get, don't get me wrong. We're saying two different things here. First of all, I thought the debate overall was terrific. I thought they did a very good job. It was substantive. They, Hugh Hewitt, our colleague did a terrific job. Of course, he got his shipbuilding question in there. You knew that was coming. Ten minutes of shipbuilding. I was a little bit surprised. He didn't ask if Alger Hiss was really a spy or not. But, but, but listen, and Hugh was magnificent. He, I was so proud of him. And of course he's our friend and colleague, and I got to catch up with him before and after the debate, but the vague wasn't going after last night's debate. The vague was going after them for what NBC did to Trump all through the Russia collusion hoax. The vague was calling the mainstream media out for being the mainstream media and Don got it. Mark, you ought to salute that. You ought to cheer for that. And I do, and I, and sure, sure. Yay. Absolutely. I got a thing for our candidates playing hard and playing smart. The vague came off as an ass in that moment, an ass we like, our ass, if you'll excuse me. But, but it's just, just, just, it's, it's smacked of desperation. Him going after, him going after Ronna McDaniel is more fair game because it's about, and him going, and okay, then the third, third of the case by case is going after Nikki on Ukraine forever war is great. That thing about the daughter on TikTok, how dumb can a smart guy get? But the floor is yours. Tell me what you're doing. Let's rewind because first of all, you buried the lead. You and Ronna McDaniel agree that he went, he was an ass because that's apparently what she said. There were reports that people in the crowd heard her call him an a -hole from, from the, from the audience and was livid at him. Again, Mark, I love you, buddy, but you got to look in the mirror. You're on, you're siding with Ronna McDaniel on this. Can I roll the tape back 15 seconds where I said him going after Ronna McDaniel is completely fair game. But your reaction to him is exactly the same as Ronna McDaniel's. So you might want to check yourself. Ronna's reaction to him was because he came after her. The thing that she's most upset about, I'm not upset with him at all. You're wrong. Ronna McDaniel's reaction was about the daughter thing, the TikTok thing. Okay. Oh, do you think it was a really, do you think it was a good idea? Are you ready to go all in and go, you go Vivek. Are you, did you love the moment where he invoked Nikki Haley's adult daughter? Yeah, she's 25 years old. She's fair game. Did you think that was a good debate moment? Of course I do. Of course I do. Of course it was a good moment. He's calling out another candidate for saying you talk the talk with TikTok. He's desperate and he knows he's not going to be president. He just desperately wants the clicks and desperate. And I like the guy. I really do like the guy. It doesn't sound like it. This is intriguing to me. But you know what? Because it was a time for grownups. It was a time for grownups. Nikki Haley was quite the grownup in many ways. And DeSantis was a grownup in many ways. Chris Christie surprisingly looked like a grownup in moments when he wasn't back on track. Was she a grownup when she called him scum? No. You think Nikki was a grownup when she said you were just scum? No. Come on. I mean, no. She's establishment. And I got, I'm sorry. I'm at a point now where I'll, let's get it all out on the table. I got no use for her. I got no use for, at this point, DeSantis. I mean, I'm at a point right now where I like the disruption and I love Trump. And I love the fact that Vivek, listen, all the things we supposedly love about Trump, you seem to not like about Vivek. You think only Trump can be the disruptor? It's, you know, it's weird. Trump has a disruptor skill set that Vivek thinks he has and he doesn't. And you mentioned Nikki, you've touched on a perfect thing. So there's Nikki who said at one point to Vivek, you're just scum, which I totally understood, but it still was jarring. It's like, ooh, ooh, ma 'am, you didn't need to do that. But, and I instantly heard back and say, yeah, but if Trump did it, it wouldn't have been a problem. Pretty true because that's Trump all the dang time. And it's kind of baked in. I think he's a smart guy. I think he's compelling. I think he's absolutely a disruptor. And by the way, he evoked the scum comment. He got to her, which is the point of a debate. He did exactly, he got under her skin and he rattled her. And that's why, and listen, I mean, again, and maybe I'm partial. He came right over to our booth afterwards. We spoke afterwards for a few minutes. Well, that could be part of it. That's why you're done with, DeSantis was awesome last night. You just hate that he didn't come talk to you. No, I say I'm done with him. I do hate that because he disrespects you and my audience. He disrespects people who listen to my show. I'm going to be very blunt here. DeSantis has blown the Mike Gallagher show off for the entire campaign. And it's a mistake. Incidentally, last night, he also blew off Newsmax. He blew off Univision. He blew off town hall. He didn't have any use for anybody in that spin room instead of trying to win over hearts and minds. And incidentally, a major donor, this Bigelow guy for the DeSantis campaign, $20 million for DeSantis Super PAC, he says now he's probably out. He's going with Trump. That's a huge, huge blow to the DeSantis campaign. The dogs don't like the food. I don't know what, and you're right, DeSantis, like he always has done last night. He's great, but it may not have mattered one bit. May not matter one bit. And that's what you said before the debate. Will it matter one bit? And I don't know. I mean, but he was great. He said all the right things. He does all the right things. He's very controlled, very measured. I promise when I'm offended that he won't give an interview to this show. I'm teasing. I'm totally teasing. But no, I promise why I don't like it. It's my audience. He's disrespecting the audience. And it's also just objectively, we'd like all of our candidates to be really, really smart. Trump is a genius. Trump, not just because he'd go on with you, but he'd go on with a bunch of other hosts. He gets into the mix, takes calls, mixes things up, gets into the back and forth. He is so comfortable in his own skin. And that's what you kind of want for our standard bearer. And DeSantis is smart. He's capable. His answers are good on a debate stage, but he doesn't have that yet. That total comfort in his own skin. And newsflash in terms of accessibility, I probably could have Trump on any day that ends in Y on the Mike Gallagher Show. He's willing to come on. He gives interviews. I mean, I used to say he'd go on the Weather Channel if he was invited. He goes where the people are, you know? And he's a man. He really is a man of the people. And he's willing to go on Mark Davis Show. He will give interviews left and right, and DeSantis does not. Now, maybe that speaks to his team. I don't know. I don't know who makes these decisions. It could be one of his aides, but it's just dumb, and it just frustrates me. I was intrigued. I did have a good candid conversation with Ronna McDaniel. Boy, a lot of people calling her out. Charlie Kirk yesterday went scorched earth just saying she needs to be replaced. I don't know. Is that fair? I think she's over -criticized at times. But then there was Frank Luntz, pollster Frank Luntz, who's smart a lot of the times except when he's not. He said, boy, Ronna McDaniel is the GOP's secret weapon, a great speaker and a great strategist. I said, you got that right? It's a secret so deep, nobody can see it. And the last couple of election cycles, the last couple of election cycles do not speak to genius strategy, the RNC. So I don't know what we wanted to do, more of or less of. I don't know, but I don't know who'd be better. I mean, maybe, maybe a Harmeet Dillon should have won that post. I don't know. Well, you know, you could make a case if you look at Tuesday and here we go again with another rotten night for the Republican party. No way around this, Mark. And some people would say, hey, the blame goes there. Now, Ronna, I asked her about it in the interview. Again, we're going to play all these interviews today on the show coming up, but she told me, look, Virginia's a federal entity. We can't, there's only so much we can do in a state. She touted her own achievements, but I get that criticism. I understand it because Mark, like it or not, we got walloped Tuesday. Virginia, the whole legislature flipped.
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A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 11/8/23
"Live or Memorex, that is the great Minnie Riperton. You were 15, Mike. Remember that on the radio? I do remember that. Loving you. The Tweety Birds in the background made it an easy song to make fun of. It seemed like a very shallow lyric to me. Loving you is easy because you're beautiful. I know. Is that really where you want to... That's it? I mean, how shallow and superficial are you? What if you got like a big old mole on your cheek? Bad skin. Dermatological. Anyway, the great Minnie Riperton would have been 76 today. Famous, famous daughter, do you know? The gal from Saturday Night Live? Yes, the wonder, wonderful comic actress Maya Rudolph. Maya Rudolph. I was forgetting her first name. Bridesmaids, dude. Oh my gosh. If you're ever in a bad mood, you rent bridesmaids. Just watch Bridesmaids. That's a little crass, a little crude, especially the bridal shop suite. Oh, it's happening. It's happening. It's happening. Look away. Look away. In the middle of the street with a digestive issue. Oh my goodness. Hey, listen, I've got digestive issues this morning after. I didn't know what my expectations were. They were not high. It's Ohio and you figure, well, maybe they're not up for baby killing, but they were. And I think that the weed vote, the legal pot vote brought out all the young stupid people and that's how you get your abortion advocacy in Ohio. Listen, let me just let you talk because as pro -lifers, we've got a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do and that's why tonight's debate is part of the process. We're in the spin room right now and I'm just getting ready for interesting dueling events. You've got Trump down the street in Hialeah. You have five candidates on this stage tonight and I hope that they bring this up. I hope they bring up the abortion problem that the Republican Party has and that's all anybody's talking about. What do you want them to say? Well, we have to say something differently because every single election has gone down in flames since Roe v. Wade was overturned. And we got a battle going on within the party and I want to give you a little preview tonight because I got a chance to visit with Hugh Hewitt last night. He gave me some tips about what to look for as he's been here in preparation. He's one of the moderators. Salem Media Group, our parent company, is the official radio partner along with NBC, Rumble, and the Republican Jewish Coalition for tonight's third GOP presidential debate and five candidates are going to be on that stage. One thing I know for sure, they're going to have a decidedly somber tone tonight. They're going to be serious. We know with Hamas and the war in Israel and, frankly, with the shellacking that the GOP took last night, particularly in Virginia, Republicans have a ton of work to do. And the abortion problem has to be dealt with. There's no way around it. You can stomp your feet and you can say, I'm a proud pro -life American and I'm not going to bend or you're going to never win another election again. Abortion is winning for the Democrats, Mark. Now, those of you who say I'm pro -life and I'm not going to give an inch, I respect it. I admire it. I wish I wish the world worked that way. I'm sickened to say this. America's in love with abortion in this country. Find somebody in your life to love you the way Democrats love abortion. And increasingly, non -ideological folks in the squishy, mushy middle, they just flip a coin and go, all of the things being equal. I want abortion. Right. That's where we have a lot of work to do. And brow beating those people isn't going to work anymore, Mark, sitting around calling them baby killers, et cetera, et cetera. No, it just isn't going to work. Well, no, but it is what the procedure is. But I don't ever want to antagonize people. And I know you're right. In fact, let me let you finish, because I just want to see if you're wanting our Republican field to simply be demonstrably less pro -life to say, you know what, maybe we do need to allow more abortions in the following way, because I don't – No, I think I really do believe it comes down to the messaging. I don't know that Republicans – first of all, millions and millions of dollars of outside money were poured into Ohio last night by radical abortionists who convinced women that you're losing a fundamental right if you vote no on this horrific, radical – I mean, abortion now in Ohio is legal literally to the moment of conception. And in fact, parents now – Moment of birth. Moment of birth, I mean. And incidentally, parents don't even have a say in a minor child's decision to abort a baby. Now, you've got to give an okay to get a tattoo in Ohio. Yeah, exactly. Get a Tylenol in your high school. That's right. But not to get an abortion. But we lost. We got thumped on this. We got thumped on this. And we've gotten thumped on it every single time, Mark. It's not a close call. Something isn't working and Democrats are going to embrace this going into 2024. Does that mean you become decidedly pro -life? Well, I think for starters, you change the messaging as best you can. But I'm afraid that the answer you're not going to want to hear is, yeah, probably so. In 10 seconds, I think you meant decidedly pro -choice. No. Decidedly – do we become decidedly less pro -life? Yeah, less pro -life. Yeah. Do we become decidedly less pro -life? And that's the horrific reality of – how many times is it going to have to happen, Mark? How many times are we going to say, well, we're losing another election. We've lost every single election on the abortion issue since Roe v. Wade was overturned. And Mark, with all due respect, I love you. It's not just Democrats. It's not just squishy Republicans. It's women. It's women voters who believe they are – that somehow this right that is enshrined in the Constitution – oh, and oh, by the way, it's not – is being taken from them. And it's not – we just – we're not going to win by wagging our fingers at the people who don't see the world. You and I aren't where the country is on this, Mark. We're not. We are where conservatives are. And so the question becomes – and by the way, everything you've said is true and plausible and supportable. So, as we look at a presidential election and some folks on a debate stage tonight in a country where now it is left to the states, what Ohio did last night is precisely the way America goes in post -Roe v. Wade America. That's what we said we wanted. And we knew full well that there would be states that did things that we liked and states that did things that we didn't. How about if the candidates we have – and it's kind of interesting. I don't know how pro -life Chris Christie is. I know DeSantis is. I think Nikki Haley is. I sure know Tim Scott is. I think Vivek is. So should they express their – maybe satisfaction is the wrong word – their acceptance of post -Roe v. Wade America, where states are going to do what they wish to do and Ohio can do what they wish to do, but that they are going to continue to be a voice and use their presidential bully pulpit to say that protecting life is a better way, while saying that the states can do what they want to do? Well, I'm not going to be president of Ohio. I'm not going to be president of Nevada. I'm not going to be – etc. Go ahead. But that's happening. That's happening. Let me tell you. Well, let me break it to you. Roe v. Wade being overturned meant that states get to decide what to do. States are deciding what to do and they're pro -abortion. Yes. They are. Every single state. There's not a state that's deciding in favor of the pro -life movement. You know, you can say, well, we're the good conservatives in this. Except, except, except heartbeat bills, heartbeat bills, heartbeat bills in Florida, in Texas, in other states. So – Well, but that's not legislation that conflicts with what is perceived to be a woman's right to choose an abortion being taken from her. You're so right. I mean, Glenn Youngkin has floated the 15 -week idea. And let's talk about Glenn Youngkin, incidentally, because there were high hopes for Virginia. And hey, Virginia, we got our butts kicked. I mean, they flipped the legislature. They didn't even – in fact, that wasn't even on the radar. They were hoping – we were hoping that Glenn Youngkin would lead a flip of the Senate over there. They lost it all. They lost the whole state legislature. Guess what? Glenn Youngkin is no longer going to be considered a candidate for president. I've got a buddy here – Well, he never was. Well, but keep an eye on him. He's not – Not this year. I mean, does he have a future? Of course he does. Look at him at 2028. But I have a guy here, Alfredo Ortiz, who's a dear friend, the CEO of Job Creators Network, and he had a theory. In fact, he's going to be with me tomorrow here in Miami. They're sponsoring our broadcast from the post -debate spin room. Alfredo said, if Virginia has a huge night last night, Glenn Youngkin will throw his hat in the ring as the 11th -hour savior of the Republican Party. Wouldn't matter. There's no room. That would be – It's too late. That would be – It's too late. It wouldn't matter. But anyway, he got shellacked. I mean, it was a bad night for him. It was a bad night for the GOP, and there's no way around it. Hey, Tate Reeves is still governor of Mississippi, yay. We kept one. We got that. We got that. We got some – and Joe Biden is still dropping like a rock in all the polls. And Trump is rocking and rolling and continues to lead in five swing states. So there's just data all over the place that are mixed as to what 2024 is going to look like. But you get an interesting view at five people who really want to catch Trump, and not a single one of them probably will. But it'll be fun to watch anyway. What do you think happens tonight? Yeah, it'll be kind of – What's the headline? What do you think? I'm going to keep an eye on Chris Christie because I'm just praying he starts screaming at his own audience and they start booing him. Exactly. And they start throwing orange peels and banana peels at him. I mean, that thing in Orlando, I played that clip. I'm sure you did, too. Sure. Oh, my. Have you ever seen a public – And what's the word again? I'm sorry. Your failure to embrace the truth is – Reprehensible. Thank you. I keep going deplorable, but that was Hillary, and we'd see how great that worked out for her. No, no. Reprehensible. Reprehensible. When you're talking to your own people – Yes. And calling them reprehensible – The people you're trying to get to vote for you, ideally. Not a good look. And I think – and interestingly, Hewitt and I last night, we had a great Salem party. And listen, we're very proud of this. I mean, say what you will about the meaninglessness. It's a big deal for us. Of course it is. For Salem to partner with NBC, and Hugh's going to be on that stage. Which means at least one conservative will be asking questions. Exactly. While Kristen Welker asks everybody about January 6th, at least Hugh will be there. And let me give you a scoop. Hugh is exhausted. Last night was the ninth rehearsal they had for this debate. I said nine? How do you rehearse? What do you do? You put staffers up at various lecterns and have ads just to kind of get through the drill? They put a couple hundred people in the audience. They test these guys because he – and he said Lester Holt and Kristen Welker have been just pros. He said Kristen's kind of the new kid on the block, but Lester's a veteran journalist. But they've got to be ready for everything. I mean, Hugh's ready for eruptions from the audience and how do you handle that and how do you interact. Anyway, they've had nine rehearsals for tonight's debate. And also, Hugh gave me a scoop. He said, watch DeSantis' performance. He has just hired fairly recently one of the best debate preparers in the business. I don't – I forgot the guy's name. I'll try to get it. I think it's Brad. I could not care less. Well, I know. But it's – Binders don't matter. Prep doesn't matter. DeSantis is DeSantis and he's wonderful. He's not Trump. DeSantis' worst problem is that Trump exists. I'll never forget the caller or the person who tweeted or something said that the only problem with DeSantis is he was not the best president of my lifetime. And Trump was. Trump exists. There's nothing the matter with DeSantis. There's nothing wrong with Nikki Haley except she's the queen of forever war. You heard Nikki Haley the other day saying the people who will abandon Ukraine are the people who will give up on Israel. Shut up, man. That's not smart. That's not a smart thing. But I can't wait. I know it may not matter at all. It's half the interest if Trump were there. Trump will be there down the road in Hialeah, you said, right? Heavily Cuban -American population there. That's going to be fun. And he's loved in Hialeah. Well, we'll be in the Spin Room tonight beginning about 6 p .m. Central Time. We'll have pre -debate coverage. Let's watch you. Let's watch you. Tell everybody how to watch you. Well, listen to us on the radio. I'm pretty sure we'll be on AM 660 The Answer tonight. As the radio partners, we're going to be here at 6 p .m. prior to the debate. The debate will be aired live and then I'll be in the Spin Room post -debate, hopefully talking to all the candidates or many of them in the Spin Room here. And you could also watch us on Salem News Channel pre - and post -debate. So it's going to be a big night, you know? And we're ready to go. And then I'll be back tomorrow here in Miami with you to wrap everything up. Is that room? Because it's funny, we've all done conventions, like convention coverage and the entire week of doing broadcasting from a convention. And the morning after the convention is like done, you and I still have shows to do. But all you can hear is the pipes and the drapes and just the clang, clang. I will not be here. As the trucks are off. But what in the world is that room, that beautiful room you're in? I won't know. It's beautiful now. It'll be rock and roll and post -debate. What's that thing? Are you just going to be run over by workers and forklifts tomorrow? I won't know because I'm not going to be here. I'll be at Salem, Miami. I'm going to be a few miles away at a nice comfy radio studio. There you go. We'll be at the Salem Radio Miami studio. Excellent. That's a very smart decision. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend. Here we go. We're ready for you. It's a big day and night of Mike. Can't wait for his show. The next up, the first thing you need to consume is Mike's own radio program. And that's at 10. Soon as we're done. On 660 AM. The answer. Hurry into the Ram Black Friday sales event for great deals on the trucks that give you all the power you need and all the luxury you could ask for. Now get 10 % below MSRP for an average of 6 ,305 under MSRP on the purchase of a 2023 Ram 1500 Big Horn Crew cab. Not compatible with lease offers or with any other consumer incentive offers. 6 ,305 average based on 10 % below average MSRP from all 2023 Ram 1500 Big Horn Crew cab models in dealer stock. Residency restrictions apply. Take retail delivery from dealer stock by 113023. Ram is a registered trademark.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 11/7/23
"The United States Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Earn great pay with outstanding federal benefits and up to $20 ,000 in recruitment incentives. Learn more online at cbp .gov slash careers slash USBP. No more annoying figure politically, but there's Barbra Streisand news that has nothing to do with her weird politics. Did you catch this yesterday? Barbra Streisand. Go ahead. I know the news. Well, I think I know the news that she's being interviewed by Howard Stern. Oh, Lord. OK, well, that'll be something. No, this is a much tinier thing that nonetheless I got it kind of a kick out of. If you ask here, hang on a sec. Let's see if they fix this. Hang on a sec. If it wasn't it wasn't it was Siri. Who is married to James Brolin? Hang on. My phone's not on anyway. It pronounced her name wrong. It gave it a soft S. It would say James Brolin is married to Barbra Streisand. Get it? Streisand. Streisand. Right. Exactly. It's not. Her point was it's not a Z. It's an S. It needs to be Streisand. So guess what she did? She sued them. Much, much simpler. She called Tim Cook. Oh, well, yeah. And he fixed it. You know, there was a there was a have you ever studied the Streisand effect? You know what the Streisand effect is? It's fascinating. And this is something that has become kind of part of the it's sort of the lexicon. The Streisand effect means she was once livid that somebody took pictures of her Malibu estate. And of course, she lives in a palatial mansion right on the water. You know, she's got more money than Fort Knox. Incidentally, speaking of people with more money than Fort Knox, can I share what it's like to rub elbows to somebody with a lot of money? By all means. Don't worry. It's like me. Focus, focus, focus. I'll go back. If Streisand is going to be interviewed by Stern, she has a memoir coming out called My Name is Barbara, I believe. So I think that's why she'll be interviewed all over the place, probably. And that's an interview I'd listen to because, you know, he's a master interviewer. He is an absolute master into the guy is brilliant at that. I mean, if he could lose all the filthy stuff that he does in the you know, the idiocy and lose the covid idiocy. He's gone hard left. independent The fiercely rule breaker, bold Howard Stern is dead, but he remains a very good interviewer. A hundred million dollars a year might do that to you or whatever he gets. He gets some crazy amount of money. And as I was rubbing shoulders with, I'm just going to say, somebody we all know who's got a very familiar face, I rubbed elbows with them at the Job Creators Network event. And this particular person was, I was told, lived in Palm Beach, which I didn't know. And I've known this person for a while. I'm not going to mention the name because I don't want to embarrass anybody. But I said to this person, I'll have this figured out by 830. I said, well, you probably know now if you think about it, if you do the math, I told you who was there. But anyway, I said to this particular person who I love, I said, hey, I didn't know you lived here in Palm Beach. The answer was, well, I don't actually live here. I do have a home here. And I thought, now that's money. Just one of many. That's money. And Palm Beach. Listen, it ain't a double wide. I mean, there's nothing in Palm Beach under about 10 mil. Anyway, so the Streisand effect is that Barbara Streisand sued somebody because she was upset that the pictures they took of her estate weren't authorized, because she's a notorious control freak, and she didn't want people to know where she lived. She sued based on the pretense of security measures, right? Okay. I understand that wish, but go ahead, all right, go ahead. Here's the Streisand effect. So the Streisand effect is the lawsuit had the opposite effect of what she intended, because after she sued, then it was very public where she lives, then the whole world knew. And so there's something in the legal jargon now that has become known as the Streisand effect that sometimes litigation, you know, emphasizes or puts an unwanted spotlight on something you're trying to quelch, to quelch, to quelch. So anyway, that's that. But I would love it. I am. I'm going to try to listen to the stern Streisand interview. I can't wait. And speaking of South Florida, aren't you packing for South Florida as we speak? Indeed. On the stage, DeSantis, Haley, Scott, Ramaswamy, Christie, oh my gosh, poor Chris Christie. I know. Gosh. I played that clip yesterday. Me too. Do you feel sorry for him a little bit? No, I do not, because he is an absolute virulent idiot. This is a willful thing that he's doing. It is a, as I said on Twitter, if he's just on a speaking tour and trying out some Trump hatred as a thought experiment to see how it works and what is still Trump's GOP, whatever, free country, free speech. But in an attempt to supposedly win votes in a campaign for president, it is an act of stunning malice, stunning idiocy. He is a self -absorbed fool and I have zero, zero empathy for that. I can't see him. I can't even picture him without the image of like a pro wrestling mask on his head. He's like a wrestler now. He's become to me a cartoon caricature. Do you hear what he said? Your aversion to the truth is not deplorable. Your aversion to the truth, as if I'm the sole arbiter of truth, is reprehensible. And then he said, you know, your cat calls, you're booing. That doesn't make anything better. That doesn't solve problems. But in an indirect way, yes, it does, because it is a crowd showing disapproval for him in their approval of Trump, who will make multiple things better if he were president again. Well, he's clearly rattled at this stage of the game. He's not liking any of this. He really is very unhappy with the – and what did you think was going to happen? What did you think was going to happen? What in the world did he think was going to be the end result of his vicious attacks on Trump? Look at what's happening to Trump right now. I was reading an article. I just talked about this, what he stands to lose in this New York civil fraud trial. He's at the risk of losing his entire New York empire that his whole life, his whole career was built on. This vicious Soros attorney general, who's trolling him regularly on social media, who's taunting him, who's strutting around like a peacock, bragging about how they've got him, and incidentally, that's how she campaigned. She said – she campaigned on it. I'm going to take him down. I'm going to get him. We're going to get Trump. That was her campaign promise and she thinks she's got him down. She's got this – they got this whack job judge. The judge literally said in the courtroom yesterday, I don't want to hear what you have to say. Also said, control your client or I will. Or I will. But I don't want to hear what you have to say. Well, then what's he on the stand for? You got him on the witness stand ostensibly to hear what he has to say. But they don't want to hear what he has to say. Of course, that was a revealing moment. This is so reprehensible and – but here's the thing, Letitia James could lose by winning. If Trump does lose his business empire, and he could, I mean they – and what he stands – I mean, for example, permanent disbarment of Trump being able to serve as officers or directors in any business headquartered, registered or licensed in New York, Mark, that's the goal here is to crush him financially. Of course it is. Financially, politically, reputationally, and in the midst of us talking about this courtroom appearance. And of course I've become fairly intrigued and amused by the various courtroom sketch artists. I mean, are they doing him a favor or not a favor? But I take you to a larger issue for just a moment because I don't know what your thought is on this. It was a bit of a debate yesterday. Speaking of things that are an outrage, it is an outrage that we didn't get to see this for ourselves, that we have to rely on reporters and courtroom sketch artists. Every courtroom in America contains the public's business being done. There should be cameras in every courtroom. Are you with me? A hundred percent. If we could see what is actually happening in this particular trial, it would only elevate his standing.
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Visit CNN Underscored .com today to discover the perfect gift to make this holiday season truly special. Happy shopping. Hello, everybody, and welcome into the MMQB podcast. I am Matt Verteram alongside Gilberto Manzano, as is the case every single Wednesday. And Gilberto, look, first things first. Here's the good news. We still have our jobs. The bad news is some people with the Raiders do not. Now, maybe if you're a Raiders fan, maybe that's not bad news. Maybe that's great news. I don't know. I'm not I'm not part of Raider nation. I would imagine that the frustrations at an all time high. You have covered the Raiders in the past as a Team Beat guy. They are now looking at Antonio Pierce as their interim head coach because Josh McDaniels is gone. Dave Ziegler gone as the general manager. And so we'll see who takes over that post eventually. This is not exactly new to the Raiders. This has been a revolving door, whether it was Jack Del Rio at one point, a head coach, or it was John Gruden or it was Tony Soprano or it was, I mean, on and on and on and on, you know, Mike Mayock at GM. And you can just keep filling in the names. None of them lasted that long. And so now the Raiders mid -season firing, of course, because it's happened with Gruden under different circumstances. Gruden, essentially, they had to move off of immediately. McDaniels are moving off of because he just flat can't coach. What are your thoughts on the Raiders and what happened essentially at like midnight for most of the country, these two out the door? Yeah, you know, I'll start there. It was like, I think, 10 p .m. on the West Coast. So, you know, I was still up trying to enjoy the last couple hours of Halloween. And Matt, I was watching the original Friday the 13th. I was carving a pumpkin. I had like maybe, you know, 50, you know, chocolate bars. You know, I was stuffed and I saw this from Adam Schefter. And I'm like, oh, okay. I was a little surprised. Mark Davis actually did it 25 games into the hiring of Josh McDaniels, which I think we all could say, yeah, it was a bad hiring a year and a half ago. But shocking that Mark Davis actually did it before the second year was over. And this guy, what, a month ago told a fan at SoFi Stadium, smart enough, smart enough, you can't fire Josh McDaniels. And all of a sudden you're the one that got smart enough. OK, I don't know. I have a lot of emotions about that, you know, the way it played out. But, you know, I wanted to give you my reaction about how I caught this on Halloween Eve. And I'm sure people on the East Coast, you're two hours ahead of me, Matt. So I don't know if you caught it right away, but a lot of people were sleeping and they woke up. So you probably like at midnight, OK, what the heck happened here? But I'll start there. I was just shocked that Mark Davis did it, but it was a right call. I Yeah, figured you'd do it after the season. But it's funny because I was assigned the Monday night game. And so the Raiders are playing the Lions and I'm sitting there and I'm thinking, like, what can I write about this game? I mean, the Lions are just rolling up and down the field. But like I've written about the Lions. I've been in a few of their games this year in person. I was like, look, there's not I feel like we're not learning anything about the Lions. They're a good team. And the Raiders are sitting there in Grappola, throwing for like 40 yards through three quarters and just hideous football. Adams is frustrated. McDaniels is just looking at his face like he knows the end might be near. And I said to our editor, John Bloom, I said, you know. How about I just write a piece that I just say they should fire McDaniels and just bench Garoppolo and be done with this? And we then both kind of agreed like, well, that's all right. You know, it's early. We'll pass on it, whatever. And we ended up not writing anything about the game because the game is kind of just a non story. And I was joking with John this morning. My God, we should have wrote that piece would have been the most prescient people in the country. I didn't think it was going to happen the next day. But I mean, what a what a just absolute tire fire. Look, Josh McDaniels. Is a terrible head coach, and he showed that in Denver, like he not only was bad in Denver, he ran guys out the door. You know, Jay Cutler gone, Brandon Marshall gone. Josh McDaniels from afar has the syndrome of being the smartest guy in the room. And he's not the smartest guy in the room. Not saying he can't be a coordinator. Had plenty of success as a coordinator with Brady. And I don't know if he could be a coordinator without Tom Brady. He had plenty of success with him. Josh McDaniels was a disaster in Denver. He quit on the Colts before he even got started with the Colts. And now you look at this Raiders tenure. They never got any traction. They blew a million big leads last year. They went six and 11 after making the playoffs. I might add the year prior. Runs their car out of town, runs Darren Waller out of town. Hunter Renfro is barely playing. And now you're sitting here in the three and five, and they're not even as good as a three and five record would indicate. They have not played well all year long. I just think the Raiders going forward here. It now becomes a matter of. How do you fix the process of finding the right guys? Because Mark Davis has not found the right guys over and over and over like this starts with him. You could fire the coach in the GM all you want. Mark Davis has been a failure of an owner since he took over for the late great Al Davis, of course, his father. That's where this thing starts. Like, does he bring in an outside firm to do these hirings? Because I think that's where this has to go at this point. He has proven he cannot make these hirings with any kind of success rate. Yeah, man, you know, I'm concerned about, you know, Mark Davis just, you know, being kind of a you know, he cares about what the public perception is. OK, what are they saying out there? And that's why he went off on that fan. And so if I say I'm saying smart enough and I'm like, why do you care? Let the guy just say whatever he has to say. And then you're the one running the show here. You know, you're the one has to make the smart decision for the team. And yes, he did the right call. Let him go. Josh McDaniel's. But his two last hirings, he wanted a big name. He wanted a big name with John Gruden. You already went down that road. You give the guy a 10 year contract like, you know, I think you want to make you want to make a splash. You're going to Las Vegas like that didn't sit right with me. And obviously that that went sideways for different reasons. And the same thing with Josh McDaniel's. You're going to get headlines regardless. Like, yeah, you know what happened with the Colts briefly with the handshake. And then you bail out and then what happened in Denver? Like these are all red flags for the guy. And you still go because you want to try to copy the picture away. That's the biggest thing right there, man. You can't copy something and try to replicate it. And that's kind of the worst way to do it, too. So, you know, and I'll say this about Josh McDaniel's, because, you know, I guess my rule and I get why you want to write that piece. But and I get what you guys decide is a little too soon, because it did feel a little too soon. But it was a right situation because Josh McDaniel's background is offense. And that is a horrendous offense. I think he's put out there. And reason number two, man, it was his guys. He finally said, you know what, Derek Carr, different regime. Let me get Jimmy G and I don't know what the story is about Jimmy G's being the number one, two or three option. Who cares? You picked them. You brought them in with Dave Ziegler and all these Patriot guys came in. And you're still that bad. Josh Jacobs was a reigning champion a year ago, and he's rushing for like two point four yards per carrier, something pretty bad. So that's your background. And the other the third point, Matt, you always need a scapegoat. And the defense has been playing pretty well. Patrick Graham cannot take the fall when his defense is actually producing. It's your office, your guys. So see you later. Yeah, I mean. I'm to the point with the Raiders. I'm thirty five. I know you're essentially the same age as me. They've sucked my entire life, say, for like three or four years with Rich Cannon. OK, and that's not that sounds like I'm just like taking some cheap shot out. My point is you got to do something differently. I mean, it's some juncture. You know, the Raiders have this weird pride about like who they are. That was great in the 70s and 80s. You there don't should be no pride in who you are now. You've been a losing friend. You've you've been the Lions for 30 years. You've been the Browns. That's who you've been. I mean, everybody talks about the Raiders like this is some unbelievable gold standard of a franchise. Yeah, it wasn't the 70s and 80s. It's not anymore. It hasn't been for a long time. I mean, they have not won a playoff game since the twenty two season. Two thousand and two. You're talking over 20 years now. And most of those years have been non -competitive. And you're now looking at this thing going, all right, look, you need a quarterback, you need a coach, you need a GM. That is that is a lot in a division where you're looking up at Patrick Mahomes and in a conference where you're looking up at not only Mahomes, but at Burrow and Allen and Lawrence and potentially the ascension of Tua and all these other guys. Lamar, right? And all these guys. They have miles to go, which leads me to this. I don't know how you feel about this. We haven't talked about this for a show. At the end of this season, I would trade Devante Adams and I would trade Max Crosby for as much draft capital as I could possibly get, because by the time they're really good, Adams isn't going to be there anymore. And by the time they're really good, I don't know what you're getting out of Max Crosby. Like those guys both fetch first rounders plus right now, maybe even multiple first rounders. Like if I'm them and I'm the GM there, man, I know it's going to be a rough couple of years. I get it. I would trade both those guys for the highest possible value I could get. Yeah. And you know, the concerning part about Mark Davis being so quick with the firing. Like, does he want like a quick fix? Like you think this roster is ready to win now? Yeah, you got Devante, Max Crosby and Josh Jacobs, three guys that are pretty good at the position, but you need a full teardown. Go get the draft picks like you mentioned, Matt. And, you know, and actually do a hiring where you're not trying to copy the old silver and black way or copy the Patriot way. Like find your own identity. Mark Davis, like, like it's been many years now, over a decade, your dad hasn't been around and you know, you can't copy things that you can't go with for the big name. You don't want to try to keep up with your, your, your owner friends and say, look at who I got here. And look how much money I'm getting on Las Vegas. Like the other bad thing too, like seeing the, the, the allegiance state of being taken over by the opposing fans. Like you're, you're the Raiders. You have fans all over your Raider nation. So even that part is really bad for where Mark Davis is doing. So like you mentioned, you know, hire somebody from the outside to help you out because you haven't been doing it right. Credit for owning your mistake and eating the money from the Gruden contract and now with Josh McDaniels, but enough with the copying, the quick fix, like I'm with you a hundred percent tear down this roster. Like, like yesterday, what are the Broncos doing? Keeping all these players, like go get the draft picks and do a full rebuild. So a lot of heads crashing moves. It's weird. Like the dovetail on the Bronx, that's actually a perfect segue into this, this next topic we're going to have here last. I'll say on the Raiders by the way, and all these things enough with the Patriot way, you know what the Patriot way was? It was Belichick and Brady. That's the Patriot way. So unless you're, you're turning back time, 20 years, it's not going to work. The Broncos though, you know, we want to talk about the NFL trade deadline, which of course was on Tuesday, winners and losers go. You did a great piece, man. I'm breaking that all down. I encourage people to check that out. I agree with you. Just about everything you wrote. It was excellent. Um, I sat there and thought the same thing you just said about Denver. What is the point of keeping all these guys like, do they think because they beat the chiefs in that game, that they're a contending team now? I mean, I don't know if, let me save everybody to suspense and drama. I sat through every snap of that football game. If you told me the chiefs had money on Denver, I'd be like, that makes sense. I could see that that was the worst game I've seen them play in the Mahomes era. And I'm not trying to gain away from Denver, but I'm going to be honest. That was not because Denver was some juggernaut in that football game. The Broncos went an average of 33 yards per touchdown drive.
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A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/26/23
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"mark davis" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"The great Richard Roundtree, Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, Shaft in Africa. These were called the Blaxploitation films and it was weird because black people loved them. You know who else loved them? White people. It was the first black action hero. The great Richard Roundtree has passed at 81. I love these movies. I don't know if they were your jam because you were like 11. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I kind of remember. Wasn't there Cleopatra Jones? Cleopatra Jones, Pam Greer, Foxy Brown. Absolutely. And that's what makes Tarantino's Jackie Brown, which is an appreciation of that whole genre, quite the masterpiece. So I need to ask my buddy, are you better now? I know we all wanted Jim Jordan. How you feeling if it's Mike Johnson? You know, I'm really fixated on the exchange, the text exchange you and I had where I said most people don't care. And that seemed to shock you. You know, I wonder if people are talking about Mike Johnson over the breakfast table this morning. Who the heck is Mike Johnson? I know. Well, yeah, you know because you're a talk show host and you're paid to know. I know about the obscurity. But that's the disconnect because, you know, I saw you posted on X the other night. Well, you know, here's why I like Beau Schmiel from Wisconsin and I like Mike Johnson a little better than I'm thinking. Nobody cares about any of these people. Just get it done and get it over with. Weren't you? But there's a friend of mine who has a radio show who had quite the righteous conniption fit about 24 hours ago. And it was a high quality conniption fit and it was righteous and it was proper because we didn't get the speaker that you wanted or that I wanted. Are you telling me that speaker that the speakerships not important or that once it gets into folks whose names aren't quite so front of mind that everybody's eyes glaze over? I'm still ticked off. I'm in the middle of the conniption fit. It's this is a clown show and they they've embarrassed themselves. They've totally they've and they've hurt 2024. There's no question about it. Now, the question is how badly how much damage will be done? I'm going to count on the Mark Davis rule about short attention spans and hope that we get over this once we get, you know, Bill Schmiel of Albuquerque to be the speaker. He's about to be very, very he's 10 times more famous this morning than he was yesterday and soon to be even more so. And the other thing he's going to do is it is indeed I mean, who was even running that anybody really had ever heard of? I mean, I guess we had some Pete Sessions national familiarity just beyond the state of Texas. But yeah, it was a lot of folks other than Jim Jordan, who and everybody knew Scalia's, of course, but that seems like a hundred years ago now. And everybody knew Jim Jordan. But nobody knows Mike Johnson. That's right. They're about to. They're about to. But nobody cares. You're trying to make people care. And I'm telling you, I know people I know this audience and I think those people people's eyes are glazing over and they're saying, OK, great. So what is so what is if they don't have familiarity with all that with with Shreveport attorney and the other great thing, former talk show host. We like that anyway, though. But if they do this, Mike Johnson has a talk show in Louisiana. That's correct. Oh, OK. Well, there you go. I love it. What if he's a fisherman? I wonder what he does. What if he goes bowling on Saturday night? Nobody gives a rat's rear end about Mike Johnson. OK, specifically by name, perhaps not. But do we care about having a conservative fighter? Yes. We care about it not being an establishment toady. Are we pleased that it's not Tom Emmer? Yes. Then get over it and well, I'm not. Oh, this is going to be great. I got nothing to get. I got nothing to get over. It's not great that we're still figuring it out. They got to solve it. And when they solve it, we'll turn the page. It'll be fine. Well, of course it will. And that's what I'm saying, that nobody cares. It's not the end of the world. And nobody really cares about any talk show host's analysis of Bill Schmiel versus Mike Johnson. What got to you yesterday? What got to you yesterday? It was a reality. This is weird. This is kind of weird. I guarantee you people are agreeing with me on this. I mean, really, do you think people are sitting around agonizing over Mike Johnson? Not agonizing, but he happens to be the repository of conservative hopes for the House. Today? Exactly. He's number nine. He's about the ninth one on the list. I mean, they're all dropping like flies. This one appears that it's going to succeed. Oh, this one. You said that about Emmer. You said that about everybody else. I said he looked inevitable. Now, here's the thing. I said he looked inevitable as the designee.
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A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/25/23
"The great Richard Roundtree, Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, Shaft in Africa. These were called the Blaxploitation films and it was weird because black people loved them. You know who else loved them? White people. It was the first black action hero. The great Richard Roundtree has passed at 81. I love these movies. I don't know if they were your jam because you were like 11. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I kind of remember. Wasn't there Cleopatra Jones? Cleopatra Jones, Pam Greer, Foxy Brown. Absolutely. And that's what makes Tarantino's Jackie Brown, which is an appreciation of that whole genre, quite the masterpiece. So I need to ask my buddy, are you better now? I know we all wanted Jim Jordan. How you feeling if it's Mike Johnson? You know, I'm really fixated on the exchange, the text exchange you and I had where I said most people don't care. And that seemed to shock you. You know, I wonder if people are talking about Mike Johnson over the breakfast table this morning. Who the heck is Mike Johnson? I know. Well, yeah, you know because you're a talk show host and you're paid to know. I know about the obscurity. But that's the disconnect because, you know, I saw you posted on X the other night. Well, you know, here's why I like Beau Schmiel from Wisconsin and I like Mike Johnson a little better than I'm thinking. Nobody cares about any of these people. Just get it done and get it over with. Weren't you? But there's a friend of mine who has a radio show who had quite the righteous conniption fit about 24 hours ago. And it was a high quality conniption fit and it was righteous and it was proper because we didn't get the speaker that you wanted or that I wanted. Are you telling me that speaker that the speakerships not important or that once it gets into folks whose names aren't quite so front of mind that everybody's eyes glaze over? I'm still ticked off. I'm in the middle of the conniption fit. It's this is a clown show and they they've embarrassed themselves. They've totally they've and they've hurt 2024. There's no question about it. Now, the question is how badly how much damage will be done? I'm going to count on the Mark Davis rule about short attention spans and hope that we get over this once we get, you know, Bill Schmiel of Albuquerque to be the speaker. He's about to be very, very he's 10 times more famous this morning than he was yesterday and soon to be even more so. And the other thing he's going to do is it is indeed I mean, who was even running that anybody really had ever heard of? I mean, I guess we had some Pete Sessions national familiarity just beyond the state of Texas. But yeah, it was a lot of folks other than Jim Jordan, who and everybody knew Scalia's, of course, but that seems like a hundred years ago now. And everybody knew Jim Jordan. But nobody knows Mike Johnson. That's right. They're about to. They're about to. But nobody cares. You're trying to make people care. And I'm telling you, I know people I know this audience and I think those people people's eyes are glazing over and they're saying, OK, great. So what is so what is if they don't have familiarity with all that with with Shreveport attorney and the other great thing, former talk show host. We like that anyway, though. But if they do this, Mike Johnson has a talk show in Louisiana. That's correct. Oh, OK. Well, there you go. I love it. What if he's a fisherman? I wonder what he does. What if he goes bowling on Saturday night? Nobody gives a rat's rear end about Mike Johnson. OK, specifically by name, perhaps not. But do we care about having a conservative fighter? Yes. We care about it not being an establishment toady. Are we pleased that it's not Tom Emmer? Yes. Then get over it and well, I'm not. Oh, this is going to be great. I got nothing to get. I got nothing to get over. It's not great that we're still figuring it out. They got to solve it. And when they solve it, we'll turn the page. It'll be fine. Well, of course it will. And that's what I'm saying, that nobody cares. It's not the end of the world. And nobody really cares about any talk show host's analysis of Bill Schmiel versus Mike Johnson. What got to you yesterday? What got to you yesterday? It was a reality. This is weird. This is kind of weird. I guarantee you people are agreeing with me on this. I mean, really, do you think people are sitting around agonizing over Mike Johnson? Not agonizing, but he happens to be the repository of conservative hopes for the House. Today? Exactly. He's number nine. He's about the ninth one on the list. I mean, they're all dropping like flies. This one appears that it's going to succeed. Oh, this one. You said that about Emmer. You said that about everybody else. I said he looked inevitable. Now, here's the thing. I said he looked inevitable as the designee.
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A highlight from The Good the Bad the Ugly and Life After Death
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"mark davis" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Jeep Adventure Days is going on now. Hurry in for great deals on a great selection of Jeep brand vehicles. And right now during Jeep Adventure Days, get 15% below MSRP for an average of 10,440 under MSRP on the purchase of a 2023 Jeep Wrangler 4xe. Not compatible with lease offers or with any other consumer incentive offers. 10,440 average based on 15% below average MSRP from all 2023 Wrangler 4xe models in dealer stock. Residency restrictions apply. Take retail delivery from dealer stock by 1031. Jeep is a registered trademark. Hello, baby. Yeah, this is the Big Bopper speaking. Oh, you sweet swine. J.P. Richardson, Mike, the Big Bopper. Chantilly Lace was, I was born, but you are not in 1958. Oh, baby, you know what I like. I know what I like. The Big Bopper, of course, killed in the plane crash that took Buddy Holly, Richie Valens. Big Bopper would have been 93 today. And that was the actual day the music died, right? That is the reference that Don McLean makes in American Pie. A lot of people think he's referencing the killing of John Lennon, but he was really talking about the plane crash. It was written a decade before John Lennon got killed. It's stupid. Somebody said that a year ago, said that was a reference to the sassafation of John Lennon. Maybe it was the death of Stevie Ray Vaughan, maybe. I don't know, guys. Maybe Jimmy Buffett is involved somehow. Jeez. Well, listen, great job with Jake Elsie yesterday. I listened to it. In fact, I played it on my show after you conducted the interview. I'm gonna quote my dear friend, Mark Davis. Dude, dude. I mean, that's Jake Elsie's response. You gotta be kidding me. I wanna see if I can get this right. And I don't know the guy, you know him, you like him, you're friends, and I'm, you know, the friend of my friend is ostensibly my friend, but man, he has blown this big time. Let me see if I can get this straight. If five or six of his colleagues, only five or six had voted against Jim Jordan, he'd have been all in for Jim Jordan. But 19, I guess, is a bridge too far. Provides you cover. It means that your no vote is a statement you seek to make, but would not preclude his ascendance. But five or six isn't much of a statement. And incidentally, that was intriguing considering how he told you he didn't talk to anybody about how they were voting. So I don't even know how he knew that there would be either five or six versus 19, but let's move on. Then he said that he got 300 phone calls in his office.
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A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat -10/24/23
"Jeep Adventure Days is going on now. Hurry in for great deals on a great selection of Jeep brand vehicles. And right now during Jeep Adventure Days, get 15 % below MSRP for an average of 10 ,440 under MSRP on the purchase of a 2023 Jeep Wrangler 4xe. Not compatible with lease offers or with any other consumer incentive offers. 10 ,440 average based on 15 % below average MSRP from all 2023 Wrangler 4xe models in dealer stock. Residency restrictions apply. Take retail delivery from dealer stock by 1031. Jeep is a registered trademark. Hello, baby. Yeah, this is the Big Bopper speaking. Oh, you sweet swine. J .P. Richardson, Mike, the Big Bopper. Chantilly Lace was, I was born, but you are not in 1958. Oh, baby, you know what I like. I know what I like. The Big Bopper, of course, killed in the plane crash that took Buddy Holly, Richie Valens. Big Bopper would have been 93 today. And that was the actual day the music died, right? That is the reference that Don McLean makes in American Pie. A lot of people think he's referencing the killing of John Lennon, but he was really talking about the plane crash. It was written a decade before John Lennon got killed. It's stupid. Somebody said that a year ago, said that was a reference to the sassafation of John Lennon. Maybe it was the death of Stevie Ray Vaughan, maybe. I don't know, guys. Maybe Jimmy Buffett is involved somehow. Jeez. Well, listen, great job with Jake Elsie yesterday. I listened to it. In fact, I played it on my show after you conducted the interview. I'm gonna quote my dear friend, Mark Davis. Dude, dude. I mean, that's Jake Elsie's response. You gotta be kidding me. I wanna see if I can get this right. And I don't know the guy, you know him, you like him, you're friends, and I'm, you know, the friend of my friend is ostensibly my friend, but man, he has blown this big time. Let me see if I can get this straight. If five or six of his colleagues, only five or six had voted against Jim Jordan, he'd have been all in for Jim Jordan. But 19, I guess, is a bridge too far. Provides you cover. It means that your no vote is a statement you seek to make, but would not preclude his ascendance. But five or six isn't much of a statement. And incidentally, that was intriguing considering how he told you he didn't talk to anybody about how they were voting. So I don't even know how he knew that there would be either five or six versus 19, but let's move on. Then he said that he got 300 phone calls in his office.
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"mark davis" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Jake Elsie, who truly a man of when I say a man of his word, there are those who say, what about the word to be a conservative, blah, blah, blah. He said, I told Jim Jordan that I would not do media interviews until his fate was known, either yea or nay. Well, over the weekend, the Jim Jordan speaker bid vanished. And so now Jake can speak and at 805 he will do so publicly for the first time. Well, that's very big. And with your permission, I'll play it on my show later today as well, because I think people want to know because Jim Jordan vanished largely because of folks like Jake Elsie. And they blocked him and they voted against him. And I think America has a right to know why. I think Republicans have a right to know why. I am getting texts and emails from people who are abandoning the Republican Party. This couldn't come at a worse time. The Republicans are hemorrhaging support right now. I don't often agree with Jake Tapper, but Jake Tapper sat down with Congressman Mike Turner from Ohio over the weekend and said, I hope you don't take this personally. Do you guys have any idea how clownish you look? And I mean, well, they do. Optics are reality and appearances are reality. I know, I know, I know. Yet I'm a little weary. It's kind of funny. It's like role reversal Monday. I feel like you when you sometimes tell me, hey, that's what Democrats want us to say. That's what they want us to believe. And you can like or not like the original Matt Gates motivations, whatever they were. But I know what some of them were. And that is that Kevin McCarthy broke his word on some things that were sufficiently important procedurally to get spending under control that they said, we are out on Kevin McCarthy. If he had kept his word, he'd still be speaker. Now, the next box in the flowchart is, does that mean you get rid of him? And has that worked out? Well, I guess the short answer is not really. But there is a reason for this chaos and there is an ultimate guiding beacon or there should be. And that's to get procedures in the House where we can finally get spending under control and do other conservative things as well. So this little, oh, that's the Keystone Cops, it's a circular firing squad. A little bit of that is a Democrat talking point. Well, the bigger problem, I think that maybe we're sort of dancing around is this is a showdown between establishment Republicans who have led us down and America First fighters who many of us want and expect to govern. That's the showdown. I mean, the names you listed, I think, with all due respect, are reliably establishment Republicans. They're not the Byron Donalds. You like Byron Donalds as speaker? I do. I don't think he has a chance of winning. I don't think we're going to have a speaker who's only been around for about 10 minutes. So wait a minute. So I'm going to make sure I get this right. You think the only person that has a chance of winning is a moderate? Oh, I have, no, good Lord, no. My favoritism that I have shown for Mike Johnson and Kevin Hearn are that these are rock solid conservatives who absolutely don't hate Trump and don't hate MAGA and don't, and I think would serve as speaker in much the same way that Jim Jordan would have. I'm uncomfortable with this conversation because you and I are dear friends, so don't take this personally. I feel like I'm Jake Tapper and you're Mike Turner, so I'll be Jake Tapper. Is Jake Elsie a solid conservative? Okay, short answer is yes, which is why this is a head scratcher. Nobody's scratching their head about Kay. Kay Granger is a center-right moderate Republican, always has been, and I believe that her motivation is she is also the queen of all things appropriations, which is a good thing in a community that loves the military, and it has served her district well, obviously. Has she said that? She said what? Has she said that's why she opposed Jim Jordan? Not so much. That's my thought. I mean, it's like, all right, okay, so let's just look at it, just looking at the track record. How about Tom Emmer? I mean, is he establishment? Kevin Hearn, Mike Johnson. Okay, depends on what you mean by establishment. I think the short answer with Emmer is yes. Once you are so tightly wound into that leadership, that sort of leadership hierarchy, which means that the king of the establishment was Kevin McCarthy, and you and I are the guys who kind of wish Kevin McCarthy was still there. So that's what makes the labels a little tricky, but Emmer has been the head of the NRCC. He's in the top echelons of House leadership. So if that's the definition of establishment, then yeah, Emmer's establishment. Well, I mean, what we have is we've got a reality. We've got Biden getting ready to start World War III. The timing of this is so frustrating, and I got a great text message just now from Dallas that sums it all up. Our side features a bunch of grandstanding individuals without a common purpose, while the Democrats are always unified. They're a pack of hyenas with the goal of destroying, but you've got to give them credit. They're always unified, and Mark, we never are. And that's really, really – I'm disgusted with this, and I've got to tell you, I'm so grateful that you have the kind of reputation that you have that a Jake Elsie has chosen your show that's going to make all kinds of news, because I think Americans are expecting some kind of explanation as to why you would shoot down – I mean, what Republican in America doesn't like seeing a Jim Jordan for a Kevin McCarthy, even if you didn't like the Matt Gaetz and the eight Republicans? And I get it. I understand that. Timing isn't great. I wasn't a fan of that. But it got done, because they did it because they could. They did it because they could, and now here we are. So now we've got to govern. Now we've got to figure out – and Jim Jordan was a perfectly good alternative to Kevin McCarthy, so America wants to know why Jake Elsie voted no, and good for you and good on you, and it's a great reflection on your stature as the best in Texas to find out what he's thinking, because I really am going to be tuning in with very, very – I have a prediction. I have a broad, crazy, vague prediction. And that is that Jake will share what his misgivings were, and they will be the kind of thing that will make people go, okay, I can see that. However, it will not rise – No, they can see it – Well, give me one. What hypothetically? In a vacuum. Which one? In a vacuum. Give me a hypothetical. What misgivings? Jim Jordan? I think that some of it is going to involve military appropriations. I think some of it is going to involve some concessions that he might have made along the way in his own speaker's race. Some of it is going to be very nuts and bolts and very policy wonky, and they'll be in the vacuum the kind of thing that will make people go, okay, I see your point, but wait for it, wait for it. Will it rise to the level where they say, okay, now I see why you oppose Jim Jordan? That's going to be a no. The overall thought will be, okay, I see your point, but you should have voted for him anyway. My fear – my real fear here is this really is between establishments and moderates and fighters. I mean, this Tom Emmer, here's what I know about him. I mean, I know that he told anyone who would listen he wouldn't support Trump in 2024. He's got a Liberty score of about 69 percent. He voted to pass the $1.5 trillion omnibus. He's a rubber stamp for Ukraine. He's voted in favor of every single Ukraine spending bill. Tom Emmer, uh-uh, that's a hard pass. That's my thought as well. You know, seven of the nine voted – did not vote to certify the election. They are official election deniers. Election deniers, yeah. I'm a fan of the election deniers. Well, I tell you what, I'm also a fan of clarity, and boy, do we need it. I saw a post over the weekend – we'll end with this. I love this comment on Twitter, on X, I should say, and I don't even know who this is. But a great summary. You know one thing I love about X, like Twitter, and I'm more engaged with it now than ever before, so please follow me, at Radio Talker Mike. Follow Mark, at Mark Davis, because I like the Elon Musk-branded social media platform more than ever, and here's what – and the beauty of it, it's like talk radio. Great points can be made by somebody who would normally not have a platform. So they call a show and be compelling and all kinds of clarity. Check this one out. One black guy dies in America. The world breaks out into mass protests. Cities burn to the ground, and anyone in the public eye desperately bends the knee for a cheap photo op in faux solidarity. Fourteen hundred Jews are slaughtered, and the exact same people are out on the streets calling for the annihilation of Israel and the Jewish people. Meanwhile, the celebrities, politicians, and sportsmen who can't wait to jump on every other tragedy remain silent. Isn't that profound? Absolutely perfect.And walk around the office on eggshells and have my words policed by HR. Words like grandfather, peanut gallery, long time no see, no can do. When I grow up, I want to be obsessed with emotional safety and do workplace sensitivity training all day long. When I grow up, I want to climb the corporate ladder just by following the crowd. I want to be a conformist. I want to weaponize my pronouns. What are pronouns? It's time to grow up and get back to work. Introducing the number one Woke-free job board in America, RedBalloon.Work.
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"The United States Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Border Patrol agents enjoy great pay, outstanding federal benefits, and up to $20,000 in recruitment incentives. If you are looking for a way to serve something greater than yourself, consider the U.S. Border Patrol. Learn more online at cbp.gov slash careers slash USBP. That's cbp.gov slash careers slash USBP. Hey, like a surgeon, I've gotten for the very first time. There is no denying the genius, in terms of the skill necessary to do this parody stuff at this level. Are you really going to say there's no denying the genius of feared Al Yankovic? There is no denying the genius if we define the term as skill and wit and intelligence, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I mean, and then and then to do it for decades and thrill millions and make zillions of dollars. Me personally beats me to a pulp. And I love Weird Al. I've heard him interviewed. It's just it's like opera, huge talent, but not my cup of tea. The parody thing, it's incredibly clever. Every song that he does, another one rides the bus. You know, I lost on Jeopardy. I get it and ha ha. But after like 15, 20 seconds, I am out. What about you? Tomorrow on the Mike on the David show tomorrow on the Mark Davis show, the genius of Carrot Top explained in 30 seconds. Go tell me how genius Carrot Top is, Mark. What is wrong with you? That I cannot do. Listen, you're getting ramped up for your your big Jake Elsey interview, which I'm looking forward to. I cannot wait to hear what this guy has to say. And I really do hope you'll include and I know you will the question. Do you guys realize how much damage you're doing to the party and to the country right now? Do you know it? Do you get it? Do you understand how angry people are with this? And they're getting angrier by the day. What do we have now? Nine candidates for speaker. Are you serious? I mean, my gosh. Who wouldn't want Jim Jordan? OK. Well, then who wouldn't want Byron Donalds? OK. Who wouldn't want one of these fighting champions for the America first movement with the speaker's gavel? And yet these guys think this is a game of poker or something. I don't know what what in the heck is going on, Mark? It will be better for the obstructionists if we wind up with a satisfying conservative speaker. And my favorites are Mike Johnson and Kevin Hearn with a little added asterisk of love for my friend Pete Sessions. But if we really do end up with an energetic conservative speaker, then the question, as you properly say, is, well, what exactly was the matter with Jim Jordan? So that'll be my first question. What was the matter with Jim Jordan? That's exactly right. It makes no sense at all. I don't know if this is a giant temper tantrum. Some of the some of the members are floating, Lee Zeldin as a speaker. I've heard Newt even mentioned. I mean, they're not serious right now. So we got our nine. We've got our nine. And we'll see how it all. Do you have any with before the interview? I guess I guess you're going to find out in a half hour, right? Because he has not stated officially his opposition to Jim Jordan on the record. Is this going to be the is the Mark Davis show going to be the first opportunity that Jake Elsie has to explain why he has opposed Jim Jordan or is he is he explaining somewhere else? No, he in a in a meeting with Jordan himself in which they hashed out their differences and clearly did not get past them, did not resolve them.
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A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/23/23
"The United States Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Border Patrol agents enjoy great pay, outstanding federal benefits, and up to $20 ,000 in recruitment incentives. If you are looking for a way to serve something greater than yourself, consider the U .S. Border Patrol. Learn more online at cbp .gov slash careers slash USBP. That's cbp .gov slash careers slash USBP. Hey, like a surgeon, I've gotten for the very first time. There is no denying the genius, in terms of the skill necessary to do this parody stuff at this level. Are you really going to say there's no denying the genius of feared Al Yankovic? There is no denying the genius if we define the term as skill and wit and intelligence, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I mean, and then and then to do it for decades and thrill millions and make zillions of dollars. Me personally beats me to a pulp. And I love Weird Al. I've heard him interviewed. It's just it's like opera, huge talent, but not my cup of tea. The parody thing, it's incredibly clever. Every song that he does, another one rides the bus. You know, I lost on Jeopardy. I get it and ha ha. But after like 15, 20 seconds, I am out. What about you? Tomorrow on the Mike on the David show tomorrow on the Mark Davis show, the genius of Carrot Top explained in 30 seconds. Go tell me how genius Carrot Top is, Mark. What is wrong with you? That I cannot do. Listen, you're getting ramped up for your your big Jake Elsey interview, which I'm looking forward to. I cannot wait to hear what this guy has to say. And I really do hope you'll include and I know you will the question. Do you guys realize how much damage you're doing to the party and to the country right now? Do you know it? Do you get it? Do you understand how angry people are with this? And they're getting angrier by the day. What do we have now? Nine candidates for speaker. Are you serious? I mean, my gosh. Who wouldn't want Jim Jordan? OK. Well, then who wouldn't want Byron Donalds? OK. Who wouldn't want one of these fighting champions for the America first movement with the speaker's gavel? And yet these guys think this is a game of poker or something. I don't know what what in the heck is going on, Mark? It will be better for the obstructionists if we wind up with a satisfying conservative speaker. And my favorites are Mike Johnson and Kevin Hearn with a little added asterisk of love for my friend Pete Sessions. But if we really do end up with an energetic conservative speaker, then the question, as you properly say, is, well, what exactly was the matter with Jim Jordan? So that'll be my first question. What was the matter with Jim Jordan? That's exactly right. It makes no sense at all. I don't know if this is a giant temper tantrum. Some of the some of the members are floating, Lee Zeldin as a speaker. I've heard Newt even mentioned. I mean, they're not serious right now. So we got our nine. We've got our nine. And we'll see how it all. Do you have any with before the interview? I guess I guess you're going to find out in a half hour, right? Because he has not stated officially his opposition to Jim Jordan on the record. Is this going to be the is the Mark Davis show going to be the first opportunity that Jake Elsie has to explain why he has opposed Jim Jordan or is he is he explaining somewhere else? No, he in a in a meeting with Jordan himself in which they hashed out their differences and clearly did not get past them, did not resolve them.
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"mark davis" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Mike Gallagher. Everyday Mike visits with Mark Davis, morning host on 660 AM, The Answer in Dallas. Here's today's M &M Experience. Well I'm telling you, I think you're going to be right, in a majority of cases I believe you're going to be right. So press on. And I wouldn't even believe you on JLC because sometimes people can panic. Sometimes people, politicians know their base and so you think they're in favor of somebody like Donald Trump but they're really not. I know him and he's not. Well if you know him, why is he doing this? Listen, honestly, why is he doing this? Here's the bottom line. This is Revenge of the Nerds. This is their way to get back at MAGA and at the Trump world and they're able to say we're going to hold this up, we are not going to let a Trump supporter like Jim Jordan be Speaker of the House and now, and we can't stop Trump any other way, we got to try to, we got to sue him, we got to put him in prison, we got to, and remember something ladies and gentlemen and this is what is the moral of the story. I'm sorry, every one of these Republicans hates you and me. They hate us. They reject MAGA, they reject the American, there's no other explanation. Listen, you're one of the smartest guys I know, you're not able to answer Jake Elsie to me. I've asked you four times. Because he said, I'm not going to, I'll ask him when we have a speaker, what was the problem? What was the tactical strategic issue related problem? What was it? I don't know. We'll find out when he tells me. We'll find out what he tells me. We'll find out when he tells me. Come on. I can tell you, he hates the Trump supporters. He hates Jim Jordan, he hates fighters, he hates the America First movement. I think we run into a danger of painting with the broad brush because I have a feeling and listen, I don't know Kay as well as I know Jake and I don't know Tony Gonzalez at all or any of the other 18 or 19 folks who voted against Jordan. I think you're largely correct. I think you're probably true in the vast majority of cases. Well, I'd love to know what the exception is. I really would. In fact, I don't think that Kay is virulently anti-Trump, but with her, she's all about military appropriations that has been very kind to her, very kind to her district and that has helped her fend off her own primary challenges forever because she is just the queen of military appropriations and military preparedness. And I think she might have a concern that Jim Jordan is about to have a somewhat more isolationist foreign policy and might have a deleterious effect on Lockheed Martin. She is an establishment Republican that loathes what Trump has unleashed. I'm telling you, there is no other explanation. I'm not saying this to be critical of you, but you're twisting yourself in a pretzel trying to explain why they're doing the unexplainable. This is indefensible. They're not putting the country first. They're not putting the American people first. We got a war raging in Israel. I mean, my gosh, we got a president now who's taking taxpayer money and giving it to both teams, as he would put it. He's giving $100 million to Gaza. Let that sink in. Where do you think that $100 million is going to go? You think Hamas is going to buy cots and medical supplies and blankets? They're going to buy more bombs. They're going to spend more money to kill Jews. This is how goofy. This guy last night, did you see him on the plane say about the hospital strike that the Palestinians need to learn how to shoot straight? Mark, shoot. Oh, really? So they can kill more Jews because they're trying to kill the Jews with those missiles. He wants them to shoot straighter. This is the guy that's the commander in chief. My gosh, I mean, if you saw that, if that was your grandfather or your father and you saw him on TV, you'd call mom and you'd say, get the car keys and let's get him into a home. We got to get him into an assisted living facility because dad needs help. That's the president of the United States. He went over there. What did he do? What did he do when he went over there? Jordan completely shunned him. The Arabs completely turned their backs to him. He stumbled around. All he probably did was delay the ground offensive in Gaza. Precisely. There is an answer to that question. What did he do that was good? The answer is nothing. What did he do that was bad? He interrupted and interfered with the proper Israeli strategic response to the folks who were trying to wipe him off the map because he couldn't do that because Air Force ones, you know, out there on the tarmac. It's absolutely inconceivable. And let's go let's go down the rabbit hole a little farther. Yesterday, there was an insurrection. Nobody seemed to notice. I saw I saw the video. It was just chanting, seething, hoards, arrests, no, oh, violence. I mean, they were fighting with cops and they were swarming. What happens to them? Surely, surely, surely they will be locked under the D.C. jail without being charged for months. Of course they will. Because, you know, an insurrection is an insurrection. It can't just be Trump supporters.
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A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/19/23
"Mike Gallagher. Everyday Mike visits with Mark Davis, morning host on 660 AM, The Answer in Dallas. Here's today's M &M Experience. Well I'm telling you, I think you're going to be right, in a majority of cases I believe you're going to be right. So press on. And I wouldn't even believe you on JLC because sometimes people can panic. Sometimes people, politicians know their base and so you think they're in favor of somebody like Donald Trump but they're really not. I know him and he's not. Well if you know him, why is he doing this? Listen, honestly, why is he doing this? Here's the bottom line. This is Revenge of the Nerds. This is their way to get back at MAGA and at the Trump world and they're able to say we're going to hold this up, we are not going to let a Trump supporter like Jim Jordan be Speaker of the House and now, and we can't stop Trump any other way, we got to try to, we got to sue him, we got to put him in prison, we got to, and remember something ladies and gentlemen and this is what is the moral of the story. I'm sorry, every one of these Republicans hates you and me. They hate us. They reject MAGA, they reject the American, there's no other explanation. Listen, you're one of the smartest guys I know, you're not able to answer Jake Elsie to me. I've asked you four times. Because he said, I'm not going to, I'll ask him when we have a speaker, what was the problem? What was the tactical strategic issue related problem? What was it? I don't know. We'll find out when he tells me. We'll find out what he tells me. We'll find out when he tells me. Come on. I can tell you, he hates the Trump supporters. He hates Jim Jordan, he hates fighters, he hates the America First movement. I think we run into a danger of painting with the broad brush because I have a feeling and listen, I don't know Kay as well as I know Jake and I don't know Tony Gonzalez at all or any of the other 18 or 19 folks who voted against Jordan. I think you're largely correct. I think you're probably true in the vast majority of cases. Well, I'd love to know what the exception is. I really would. In fact, I don't think that Kay is virulently anti -Trump, but with her, she's all about military appropriations that has been very kind to her, very kind to her district and that has helped her fend off her own primary challenges forever because she is just the queen of military appropriations and military preparedness. And I think she might have a concern that Jim Jordan is about to have a somewhat more isolationist foreign policy and might have a deleterious effect on Lockheed Martin. She is an establishment Republican that loathes what Trump has unleashed. I'm telling you, there is no other explanation. I'm not saying this to be critical of you, but you're twisting yourself in a pretzel trying to explain why they're doing the unexplainable. This is indefensible. They're not putting the country first. They're not putting the American people first. We got a war raging in Israel. I mean, my gosh, we got a president now who's taking taxpayer money and giving it to both teams, as he would put it. He's giving $100 million to Gaza. Let that sink in. Where do you think that $100 million is going to go? You think Hamas is going to buy cots and medical supplies and blankets? They're going to buy more bombs. They're going to spend more money to kill Jews. This is how goofy. This guy last night, did you see him on the plane say about the hospital strike that the Palestinians need to learn how to shoot straight? Mark, shoot. Oh, really? So they can kill more Jews because they're trying to kill the Jews with those missiles. He wants them to shoot straighter. This is the guy that's the commander in chief. My gosh, I mean, if you saw that, if that was your grandfather or your father and you saw him on TV, you'd call mom and you'd say, get the car keys and let's get him into a home. We got to get him into an assisted living facility because dad needs help. That's the president of the United States. He went over there. What did he do? What did he do when he went over there? Jordan completely shunned him. The Arabs completely turned their backs to him. He stumbled around. All he probably did was delay the ground offensive in Gaza. Precisely. There is an answer to that question. What did he do that was good? The answer is nothing. What did he do that was bad? He interrupted and interfered with the proper Israeli strategic response to the folks who were trying to wipe him off the map because he couldn't do that because Air Force ones, you know, out there on the tarmac. It's absolutely inconceivable. And let's go let's go down the rabbit hole a little farther. Yesterday, there was an insurrection. Nobody seemed to notice. I saw I saw the video. It was just chanting, seething, hoards, arrests, no, oh, violence. I mean, they were fighting with cops and they were swarming. What happens to them? Surely, surely, surely they will be locked under the D .C. jail without being charged for months. Of course they will. Because, you know, an insurrection is an insurrection. It can't just be Trump supporters.
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"mark davis" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Oh no. See, Keith Olbermann had a meltdown. Salem. No, really? Salem. I mean, he might as well just say we're, we're, we did the witch hunt. We did the witch trials. It's the Salem witch trials. Not to be confused with the broadcasters. Now, you know, what's funny about CNN sniping at us, they, we partnered with CNN in 2016. And for those that don't know, the attack that's coming at Salem is that how in the world can you have a debate sponsor filled with unapologetic, MAGA points of view election deniers. Excuse me. NBC is also represented. Weren't they part of the years long Russia hoax. So excuse me. Of course they were. Maybe, maybe we're over the target. I don't know. All I know is you're taking on flack. Exactly right. Debate night. And I get a little rumble that maybe the man himself might appear in Miami. That's very preliminary. Don't tease me, bro. I know. Can you imagine him walking in? Be like, it'd be like a WWE event. They lower him in on a cable from the, from the ceiling with lights, you know, fireworks. Here's Donald J. Trump at the debate. Probably not going to happen, but you're right. A man can dream. I mean, 30 seconds. What, what might be the factor that leads them to do it is Israel because it is real, because we've always said that there's a reason why he has not been on that stage. It's because he benefited. He thinks it benefits him not to be there. He is undeniably right now. He may calculate that it benefits him to be there and say, you know what, here are all these people who are just kind of running for a job I once had. And this would not have happened if I still had that shot. He has such a powerful message, Mark. What this did not happen on his watch. I've got pictures. I got to travel to Israel in 2017, whenever it was and go to the Israeli embassy in Jerusalem, we were one of the first contingents to get to see it before even the ambassador himself showed up. He moved, he did so and, and listen, there's lots of downside to him being there. It becomes maybe, maybe it becomes a bloodbath and they're all going to turn against him, but he stands there and he smiles and he said, I kept Israel safe. That's what he's saying now on Truth Social. And it would be a powerful reminder, but it's a calculation. I don't know. I see both sides of it. I can understand why he wouldn't go and I can understand why he should go, but no matter what, we'll be there. We'll be doing. You know what? And you know what? Even if he's not there, he's there. Oh yeah. He'll be there. And you'll be there. You're doing shows from Miami and part of the Salem coverage. Pre-debate coverage. I'm anchoring our pre and our post-debate coverage on hundreds of stations. And I think I might have to get my buddy, Mark Davis, if he's available. Oh God. Fire up the camera and put on a sport coat and sit there and do a hit with me because, you know, hey, my day is not complete without my M &M experience. Yeah, the M &M nighttime version of post-debate where I roll into the office. Put your popcorn aside. Tell Lisa I'm going to go over to the office and do a hit. All right. We'll look forward to it. Happy Wednesday, my friend. Happy Wednesday. Looking forward to the Mike Gallagher Show today. Cover the cost of your insurance copay or eye exam. Plus they accept all major vision plans, including eye med. Valid prescription required. Valid at participating locations. Restrictions apply. Taxes extra. See store for details. Ends 12-31-23. Exams available at the Independent Doctors of Optometry at or next to Pearl Vision. Some doctors employed by Pearl Vision.
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A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/18/23
"Wendy's new Breakfast 2 for $3 Biggie Bundles let you create your own delicious combo. Choose from a sausage biscuit, egg and cheese biscuit, small seasoned potatoes, and a medium hot coffee. But it's obvious which combo's the best. Sausage biscuit and small seasoned potatoes. Well, maybe it's the fresh cracked egg and cheese biscuit with a medium hot coffee. Or two savory sausage biscuits. Uh, whichever you pick, you can't go wrong. Choose wisely. Choose Wendy's new 2 for $3 Biggie Bundles. Well, I'm gonna write a little letter, I'm gonna mail it to my local DJ. Before either of us were born. Yeah, it's a jumpin' little record, I want my jockey to play. Chuck Berry was a yes, yes, I'm sure. No, I wasn't. Rollover Beethoven is 1956, dude. Don't age me out. Did Chuck Berry remain a big deal after I was born? And even after you were born, yes. But this architect of rock and roll, the great Chuck Berry, who lived a long life, he would have been 97 today, only passed away about six years ago. So big happy birthday to Chuck Berry and Rhonda. So that's a nice shared birthday there. Happy birthday, Rhonda. Yeah, man. So there you go. And she looks great, don't we all? All of us skinny folks running around here just high -fiving each other with soda and all the good ways that you can take that weight off and keep it off. So happy birthday, Rhonda. Happy, happy, happy. Happy, happy, happy. I'm not so happy about Kate Grainger. I'm not so happy about Jake Elsie. I mean, you gotta explain this to me. I mean, I think I know the answer to it. Let me read a Bill Kristol tweet. This is what Bill Kristol wrote. Really? Really? Well, I think it applies. I think it applies to the Kate Graingers of the world, because I want to understand what they're thinking. I mean, Trey Gowdy last night said that people aren't mad. It's not against Jim Jordan. They are taking it out on Jim Jordan supporters. That's really what this is about. Bill Kristol posted something on X, formerly Twitter, yesterday that I thought was really notable. He wrote, I came to DC to work in the Reagan administration because, to oversimplify, it was pro -constitution, pro -U .S. global leadership, pro -military, pro -Israel, pro -democratic capitalism, and pro -American dream. And that's why I now support the Biden administration and Democrats.
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A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/17/23
"Well, because it's one of those things, I mean, think about this. It's just the kind of thing that sticks in your head. It wraps itself around your brain stem. That is the singing nun. And that was what the record said. The singing nun who has a birthday today. And she would have been, she would have been 90 passed away back in the 80s. But her name was Jean Paul Marie Deckers. She was Belgian and had a number one record there with Dominique in 1963. Boom. There you are. There you are. You know, my sister was a nun. Did you know that about me? I believe in working our way through your family. You have met that. What happened? Well, I don't want to talk about it. I don't have, I didn't have a great relationship with my sister. Well, okay. Sorry. Whoa. Whoa. So it didn't take? I mean, I don't know. Sorry. It's, it's, it's, it's a family thing, you know, and God rest her soul. She passed away and, uh, we were, uh, we difficult, it was difficult, but anyway, when I was a kid growing up and she went off to the convent and everything, when I was a boy, I remember romanticizing her being the nun because that was about the time that sound of music came out. And remember, remember Julie Andrews went off to the convent before she decided to, you know, sully herself with the captain or whatever he was, but the definitive nun imagery for me. And it had to be for you. I was about 10. You were about seven Sally fields, Sally fields, sister, betrayal, the fly, dude, stop it. She was cute. She was really, I always had a thing for Sally field. I did too. This was a gidget. I mean, I was a little, I mean, a little young for the whole gidget thing, but, but yeah, sister betrayal and the flying at some point, executive said, okay, we're going to have a sitcom and the comedy is going to be that she's a nun and she flies and there's something aerodynamic about the things coming off her hat there in the, in the, it's like, okay.
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A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/11/23
"Darryl Hall is 77 and doggone it, man. Hall and Oates, Mike, is one of those that kind of an Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, just where you just go, dude, that's two hours of songs that are the soundtrack of a generation. Darryl Hall is a genius. He is 77. And how are you, my friend? I'm back in the broadcast chair. How are you? Good indeed. I am back in the saddle. I'm able to stand upright today without much pain. So I'm taking some breath arrests. You know, this is probably shingles is like a two -week cycle, they said, so I'm in about five days. So I'll be okay. Have you got a flip -flop on that big elephant man foot that you sent me a picture of? How dare you? I have my my slippers. I am not an animal. I am a talk show host. I have my my slippers. I have my my pillow and my slippers on. That's right. That's right. Flip -flops I can wear. Sorry. Did I ever mention to you that you could wear your my slippers indoors or outdoors, perfect slippers if you have shingles on your foot. That's part of the ad campaign now. It is a great campaign. I'm Mike Lindell. Do you have shingles? I'm going to do with my all my reads today are going to be because, listen, hey, 50 percent off. The my slippers are back. They've got like a memory type of foam made in all moccasins or slip -on style, men's, women's, 50 percent off. Go to my pillow dot com. Look for the Mike Gallagher radio special square. Click on that box. And with anything you order, enter the promo code Mike G because like because like we love to say, the best night's sleep in the whole wide world is my pillow dot com. Promo code Mike G and the perfect shingles slippers. That's a logo for that. All right. Where do you want to start? I mean, let's I got to I got to ask, did you see the George Will column in the Washington Post? I haven't seen it, George. Well, I have. But just for the reason you slow down and look at a car accident, what is George up to now? Well, here's a car accident. He writes a column titled Tim Scott, please drop out and urge all the others to follow and unite behind Nikki Haley. Oh, all right. Tremendous. All right. Now, it gets even it gets even better. This is a disclaimer that is the most epic disclaimer in the history of disclaimers in the history of media. Headline. And I'm not kidding you now. You can look this up, Mark. Washington Post. George F. Will Dateline, Washington, D .C. October 10th. Tim Scott, please drop out. Urge others to follow and unite behind Haley Disclosure Disclosure. The columnist's wife, Mary Hill, an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Senator Tim Scott, disagrees with this column. That's the actual disclaimer on the column that his wife, who's an adviser to the man that George Will wants to drop out, disagrees with the column. That sounds like we're having some fun here. I don't know. That's usually disclaimers are meant to reveal something that would be a conflict. I mean, actually, it would call for a disclaimer if George Will or the wife were actually working for Tim Scott because his wife is working for Tim Scott. All right. Excuse me. Working for Nikki Haley, because it would look like they were just being shills for Nikki Haley. If George Will is asking Tim Scott to drop out and the and the columnist's wife works for Tim Scott and she disagrees with the column, it would be lovely. Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to be a fly on the wall of that dinner table. I can only imagine of there is math here. And for those I mean, we can scoff and we can go, ha ha, sure, nobody's going to drop out. The system's going to work. Trump will either dominate all the way through without breaking a sweat or not. But the math goes as follows. And it's been the it's all essentially the DeSantis curse. And by that, I mean the expectations were highest about him and the expectations were not met. The expectations were as soon as he announced in June that all of a sudden it's Trump DeSantis sort of neck and neck. And not only did that not happen, DeSantis is back there in Nikki Haley, Tim Scott territory, and they're all miles behind him. I don't know if those expectations were fair or not. I don't think they were. I didn't expect anybody to catch Trump in this calendar year. But if you generally take a look at Trump, who's at roughly 50 and everybody else who's at rough, if you put them all together and they're at 30 something or maybe 40, if everybody were to just get back and unite behind one person who's not Trump, then it would be kind of interesting.
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A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - October 9, 2023
"The United States Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Earn great pay with outstanding federal benefits and up to $20 ,000 in recruitment incentives. Learn more online at cbp .gov slash careers slash USBP. And these memories lose their meaning when I think of love as something you want to know about the United States Border Patrol. Imagine there's no heaven, imagine no posse, it is godlessness, it is communism, and god bless Lenin, incredible talent, and you know, but gee, anyway, Mike, doggone it, man, some You do this for a living, you just wonder, I just want to see how it all hit you and what your thoughts are, and actually though, seriously, since I have set the audience up for this, you can put it in wherever you want, because there is indeed something our listeners can do. Well, I hope if everybody just does one thing today, they'll support the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, we're partnering with them, if you just go to mikeonline .com, you can make a donation, they're on the ground there, rushing humanitarian aid and supplies to the desperate people of Israel, these poor Jewish people who have been targeted by these filthy animal terrorists. If you go to mikeonline .com, you'll see the Stand with Israel banner, I'm proudly wearing my American flag and my Israel flag lapel pin today. Please go to mikeonline .com to make a donation. You could also just text the keyword STAND to 800 -655 -MIKE, that's a way that we'll send you back a quick link where you can just do it right from your phone or your computer and make a donation. So if you do one thing today, because you're right, we feel helpless, I mean, I walk into the studio today, here's the text message waiting for me from Maine, the Antichrist is walking among us in the world, speeding things up, skipping from Halloween to Christmas with no Thanksgiving. So that's a nice way to start a Monday, you know, realizing that there's so much evil around us and of course, we got a lot of personal stuff going on, we're supposed to go to Israel in two weeks. So that, of course, we're monitoring the situation very carefully, very closely, the safety and security of our travelers, our listeners, ten amount, so we are keeping an eye on that.
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A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/06/23
"They say you got a boyfriend. You're out late every weekend. They're talking about you in the spring of the day. I'm going to guess REO Speedwagon's high infidelity big player for 20 -year -old Mike Gallagher driving around. Yeah, kind of. Don't tell her. All right. Are you more in the fading disco era there as the 70s turned into the 80s? I love the 70s music. I play 70s music as bumper music and I get a lot of great comments all the time. I think that's kind of in our wheelhouse. I have to ask you something culturally that's in the modern wheelhouse. Just a couple of minutes and we got to dive into speaker battle and Trump endorses Jordan and yada, yada, yada. Have you ever seen a little bit of a wall reversal or is it? Have you ever seen one episode of The Bachelor or Bachelorette ever? I have not. I have avoided it on purpose because it's just one of the most morally repugnant things in the history of television. I agree. It degrades all of marriage. You get a bunch in the case of The Bachelor, a bunch of women, hungry, desperate women all throwing themselves at this guy. That's a great healthy way to work toward a marital relationship. And then when you get to like the final four, they're all paring off and mugging down and more, way more, at least that's sort of in Bachelor when everybody's in their 20s and 30s. In progress right now, the golden bachelor dude is 72. Jerry Turner, a restaurateur from Indiana. And Lisa looked at me and she knows my feelings about it. And I just said, well, let's dip ourselves into this. And we have, this one is different. It's still horribly questionable, but these are people with some morals. These are people with a rudder, with a compass. And they start with like 22 women. All of their husbands have either died or there was a divorce back there somewhere. Jerry's wife passed away. So they're all looking for sort of a last shot at love. It is unbelievably compelling. It's still gonna be hugely problematic. All of these women are gonna go on dates and group dates and individual dates. And in one of them, he took this woman to a diner in a Corvette convertible. She had her hair done, but her hair's blown all over the place.
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"mark davis" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"I will have died and gone to heaven. And by the way, speaking of dying and go to heaven, I'm sitting here in a step. First of all, I'm annoyed at two things. Your Eric Johnson office won't call us back. I want to get him on. You gave me somebody's name. She won't give us the time of day. So obviously I got to throw around my clout and say I'm actual friends with Mark Davis. Let me see what I can do for you. Can you please throw a buddy a bone here and help me out? She won't give a — that woman doesn't even return any call, any text. It's like Mike Who? They have no — they could care less about this great story of a Democrat becoming a Republican. Putting it on a big time national talk show. What could be the problem with that? They're not interested. And number two, I think I gave myself another hernia. What did you do? What? I lifted a piece of furniture on my patio the other day. And I'm doggone it. Mark, if I've got another hernia, you think my tooth complaining was bad? That hernia, the last time I had that, that was awful. I don't wish — This is funny. I know I should. What actually is — what is an actual hernia? What is that? I know it's — Well, this is — I think it's inguinal, I think is the actual term. But here's the problem. I'm convinced that the surgeon that I had last time, I think he was a relative of Dr. Mengele. I don't think he's very good. I think he had complications. He was terrible. I'm sorry. I was responding to that. I was responding to the dictionary definition of hernia, a condition in which part of an organ is displaced and protrudes through the wall of a cavity containing it. Yikes. And it hurts. And you know why it hurts? I'm sorry. Sitting in a chair for hours a day talking and gesticulating and yelling. Sitting is the new smoking. You ever heard that? That it's just not healthy. For those of us who do this, you got to get up — you know what you need in that spacious compound of yours? You need a treadmill five steps away from where you are so that during breaks or during newscasts or something, get up and, you know, knock out 500 yards on the treadmill. Well, I do have one of those plates, you know, that — I bet Rhonda did that too with soda. You get one of those plates that you can get from Amazon where they vibrate. Yeah, you stand on it and you plug it in and it vibrates your body for like 20 minutes. That doesn't do doodly squat. I've got people who swear by it and say you will add — I don't believe that for a minute. It's like the jiggle belt. You go, ah, ah, ah. I'll do it. My hand will drop right to my shoes. It'll just drop right out. I got a plate too. It's got a burger on it.That's not soda approved unless you take the bun off. I love you too. Happy Thursday. Happy Thursday. You're here tomorrow, right? Absolutely, yes. Good deal. I'm out tomorrow. Well, I'm going to be here though. I'm traveling to a funeral but I'll be — and I'm going to a frigid Ohio. It's going to be 40 degrees. I got to try to get an overcoat somewhere. There are no overcoats in Florida. All right. Take good care of yourself. You belong to us. Mike Gallagher. Whatever you're saving up for, a CD from Sandy Spring Bank lets you grow your savings at a guaranteed rate. Right now, earn interest at 5.50% APY on an 8-month CD special or 5.00% APY on a 14-month CD special. Learn more at sandyspringbank.com slash cdspecials. Minimum opening deposit to earn the annual percentage yield is $500 for the 8-month CD special and $2,500 for the 14-month CD special. Member FDIC.
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"mark davis" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Oh, we got a big birthday before Fly Like an Eagle, before all of the huge hits, before Rockin' Me, before all of this. Steve Miller, it is Steve Miller's birthday. A little living in the USA. Well, we are all living in the USA. You know what they ought to do? They ought to let you take a day and you just get to be a DJ because you really are a DJ at heart. You love hitting the post. They ought to just say, they ought to let you turn, take a Friday like a holiday, maybe going into, I don't know, Memorial Day or something, and just have you do rock and roll. I'd love to hear you spin records. I mean, you could do it because you hit the post coming at you, guys and gals, cats and kittens. Playing the hits while you're spraying the pits. I'm Mark Davis on 660 AM ENSR. You know, it's funny. I started out in the world of college radio doing, well, not doing that, obviously. College radio in the 70s was like, okay, man, twist one up. We got some Phil Ochs album cuts coming your way for the next 27 minutes. I tried to spiff it up a little bit and do some sort of arcane 1970s deep tracks and had a good time. I've always said all the talk show hosts want to be DJs, all the DJs want to be talk show hosts. And I've never, I was lucky to always come from the talk radio world. My first gig in radio was a talk show, so I've never done music. My boss in South Carolina once said, you want to try, go over on our FM station on the oldest station and be a DJ one Saturday morning. Oh, yes. It was so bad. It was so off. I was like, ladies and gentlemen, Leonard Skinner coming at you. Lordy, I hope there are tapes. Lordy, I hope there are tapes. No, I burned them all. That was, that's what I learned years ago. Stay in your lane, Gallagher. Do what you do best. And one thing I think I do pretty well is hear the audience and boy, I'll tell you what, the temper tantrum over the, the ouster of Kevin McCarthy is continuing. You were a trailblazer. You were a trailblazer on this. Go tell, lay out, lay out the story for everybody. Go ahead. Well, it fascinates me because it's nonstop now. I mean, they're going, they're smearing Gates now, every chance they get, he needs to be out there. These are awful people. They're attacking Nancy Mace. Nancy Mace is peculiar, but I got to think about what she said last night on a CNN interview. She basically said, I've been elected to represent my constituents. I put up a poll yesterday. It's Derek's going to give me the update here in just a moment, but the last time I checked, I had over a thousand people, I think that participated in a poll, a poll that we have up at Mike online.com. Do you agree with the ouster of Kevin McCarthy? Yes or no? Simple question. There's no layers to it. Just yet. 79% voted. Yes. Mark, the dogs don't like the food. The dogs don't like what's going on right now in Washington, DC, and they ripped the bandaid off. These are not perfect vessels. I get it. I mean, I don't quite follow the law. I think Kevin McCarthy was solid, was doing a good job. I think Jim Jordan will be even stronger. I mean, okay, there's no chaos. You want to know chaos? Chaos is the border. Chaos is crime in the streets. Chaos is making taxpayers fork money over to Ukraine. You think that's a little chaos? Kevin McCarthy, I hate it for him. I like the guy and I supported him. But this is not the end of the world. And to hear some of our brethren on the airwaves, I mean, did you see Brian Kilmeade yesterday? Yes, mocking one of the aids for having prayed about it. What? He mocked the prayer and he was as big – listen, I like Brian. I've met him. I don't know him very well. I'm not trying to make this personal. Not a fan. What a jerk. He was a total jerk to this Tim Burchette from Tennessee who said, listen, we did pray about it. He said – and Brian Kilmeade on Fox News said, oh, you prayed about it and then you committed an insurrection – I think he said insurgency.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/05/23
"Oh, we got a big birthday before Fly Like an Eagle, before all of the huge hits, before Rockin' Me, before all of this. Steve Miller, it is Steve Miller's birthday. A little living in the USA. Well, we are all living in the USA. You know what they ought to do? They ought to let you take a day and you just get to be a DJ because you really are a DJ at heart. You love hitting the post. They ought to just say, they ought to let you turn, take a Friday like a holiday, maybe going into, I don't know, Memorial Day or something, and just have you do rock and roll. I'd love to hear you spin records. I mean, you could do it because you hit the post coming at you, guys and gals, cats and kittens. Playing the hits while you're spraying the pits. I'm Mark Davis on 660 AM ENSR. You know, it's funny. I started out in the world of college radio doing, well, not doing that, obviously. College radio in the 70s was like, okay, man, twist one up. We got some Phil Ochs album cuts coming your way for the next 27 minutes. I tried to spiff it up a little bit and do some sort of arcane 1970s deep tracks and had a good time. I've always said all the talk show hosts want to be DJs, all the DJs want to be talk show hosts. And I've never, I was lucky to always come from the talk radio world. My first gig in radio was a talk show, so I've never done music. My boss in South Carolina once said, you want to try, go over on our FM station on the oldest station and be a DJ one Saturday morning. Oh, yes. It was so bad. It was so off. I was like, ladies and gentlemen, Leonard Skinner coming at you. Lordy, I hope there are tapes. Lordy, I hope there are tapes. No, I burned them all. That was, that's what I learned years ago. Stay in your lane, Gallagher. Do what you do best. And one thing I think I do pretty well is hear the audience and boy, I'll tell you what, the temper tantrum over the, the ouster of Kevin McCarthy is continuing. You were a trailblazer. You were a trailblazer on this. Go tell, lay out, lay out the story for everybody. Go ahead. Well, it fascinates me because it's nonstop now. I mean, they're going, they're smearing Gates now, every chance they get, he needs to be out there. These are awful people. They're attacking Nancy Mace. Nancy Mace is peculiar, but I got to think about what she said last night on a CNN interview. She basically said, I've been elected to represent my constituents. I put up a poll yesterday. It's Derek's going to give me the update here in just a moment, but the last time I checked, I had over a thousand people, I think that participated in a poll, a poll that we have up at Mike online .com. Do you agree with the ouster of Kevin McCarthy? Yes or no? Simple question. There's no layers to it. Just yet. 79 % voted. Yes. Mark, the dogs don't like the food. The dogs don't like what's going on right now in Washington, DC, and they ripped the bandaid off. These are not perfect vessels. I get it. I mean, I don't quite follow the law. I think Kevin McCarthy was solid, was doing a good job. I think Jim Jordan will be even stronger. I mean, okay, there's no chaos. You want to know chaos? Chaos is the border. Chaos is crime in the streets. Chaos is making taxpayers fork money over to Ukraine. You think that's a little chaos? Kevin McCarthy, I hate it for him. I like the guy and I supported him. But this is not the end of the world. And to hear some of our brethren on the airwaves, I mean, did you see Brian Kilmeade yesterday? Yes, mocking one of the aids for having prayed about it. What? He mocked the prayer and he was as big – listen, I like Brian. I've met him. I don't know him very well. I'm not trying to make this personal. Not a fan. What a jerk. He was a total jerk to this Tim Burchette from Tennessee who said, listen, we did pray about it. He said – and Brian Kilmeade on Fox News said, oh, you prayed about it and then you committed an insurrection – I think he said insurgency.
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"mark davis" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Do you believe that life begins at conception? Look, if you wanna go there, 30 seconds, I believe life begins at the implantation of the new life in the uterine wall. That's when it begins to grow. You know how many women are late this month who had conception happen? That's not a Holocaust, okay? So I believe that implantation in the wall of the uterus when the baby, if left alone, will actually become a baby, that is where the protected life begins. Go ahead. And when I mentioned to you the tweet from Mike Cernovich about those of you who favor abortion, you know, restrictions, or abortion without restriction, without exception, and you took exception to that. You said, wait a minute, you said, who's saying without exception? The life of the mother. The life of the mother. So the argument is the Mark Davis- Not the health of the mother, the life of the mother. So what about rape and incest? Nope, it's all right. That is not the baby's fault. Rape and incest are terrible crimes. The pro-life logic is based on, is that unborn life sacred? If it is sacred, the circumstances of its creation do not matter. If rape and incest exceptions are okay, then early abortion is okay for any reason, because I got too many kids. I'm not in the mood to have a kid right now, blah, blah, blah. So that too is- As usual, and so, I mean, I think I'm hard- I think the point the caller was making was, there are people who will say the true pro-life position is life begins at conception, and anything beyond that is immoral. And that's the true pro-life position. I think what I'm- Your definition of what's sufficiently pro-life isn't the be-all, end-all of what's pro-life. That's the problem I had with how you framed it with Trump. It's the most protective standard we can have. Heartbeat, I mean, prior to heartbeat, a lot of people don't even know they're pregnant, right? So heartbeat is the first indication that there's a distinct life there, and that's really early. I know, ladies, I know, I get it. But you sort of disagree with the belief that life begins at conception, it sounds to me. I think that's glib. I think that the incredible God-made building blocks of life begin at conception. But when we talk about where does life begin in the abortion debate, it's about at what point should law protect it? At what point do we think a life has been lost? And conception is, there are a couple of things that need to happen between conception and implantation, because that is when you have the beginnings of a baby. As far as your concerns, and that's what's important. As far as science is concerned. As far as your concern. The beginnings of a life that, if left unmolested, will become a baby. That's where that scientifically begins. And if you leave it alone, it's gonna be a baby. I got it, but it's your standard. It's your standard and your belief. No, no, no, stop it. That's the meaning of words. Once again, we get to the meaning of words. Prior to implantation, 53 things can happen. Whoop, whoop, you can get flushed out with a normal lady process. But from implantation, that's the point. I can bring about 100 Catholic scholars who will tell you definitively that life begins at conception. No, no, no, stop it, stop it, because you're right, and here we go again. Stop it, because they are not wrong. I'm talking about policy in terms of morality and Catholicism where even birth control is bad, because you're jacking around with God's intended process, a view to which they're completely entitled. I'm not finding fault with that whatsoever. You found deep fault with President Trump for saying what he said, and you said he's not pro-life. And again, I'm gonna lovingly say that's absurd. This is a guy who, again, was the only, I don't remember the Bushes going to the March for Life. I don't remember any Republican president getting a conservative Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade as he promised. So I'm sorry, I didn't love the answer either. We're back to that again, and I'd hate to rehash the hash, but the bottom line is I think we all have a tendency to say, well, here's my standard, and I'm gonna now say this is the be-all, end-all. And for many people, there's just a disagreement there. There can be no disagreement that it's not a good look for the US military to say, can you help us find our F-35 fighter jet? Mark, Mark, what the heck? And apparently he, and you know, Tracy gets there, well, it's in the lake somewhere, so it wasn't in the lake. It was in a wooded area somewhere, and he jettisoned out into somebody's driveway? He's okay, thank heaven for that, but meanwhile, yeah. What the heck? I mean, what do you think happens in the Trump administration if, oh, I don't know, they lost an $80 million fighter jet? How does this happen? Don't they have, couldn't they get one of those Apple fobs, those little key fobs where you can locate, you know, your keys if you lose them? We found the Pennsylvania escapee in the woods. It took a while, but we did, but this is an entire plane. Right, they can't find a jet, but they can find video of Lauren Boebert in the movie theater, and by the way, speaking of Lauren Boebert, and that story, that crazy story, did you hear that was their first date? I did not. That was their first date. I'd hate to see what happens on the sixth date. She dressed for it. Well, she was ready, and what the, holy moly. That, and she broke up with him, thank goodness. He's a Democrat, evidently, who owns a bar that hosts drag shows, which is kind of an interesting choice for her in her dating selections. Well, look at the time.Yeah, you better want to interrupt me. I'm gonna back away and let, you can just have this one. You just go for two minutes. I got a show to do. Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. I'll tell you what, you can never accuse Republicans of not having colorful characters in our caucus. We are not dull, we are not boring. We are not dull, all right, happy Tuesday. I think we did pretty good today, I think this is better. I heard every word you said, and everyone a gem. More of Mike's words to come on his own show, coming up 10 o'clock, as soon as we're done. I love you, man. 6.60 AM, the answer. What makes Contour Next Diabetes Test Strips next level? A few reasons. They're the number one over-the-counter brand. Next, they give you highly accurate results in seconds. Next, they're more affordable than many insurance copays. Next, they're doctor recommended. All right, thanks, doc. And next, they work with all Contour Next meters. Next level diabetes testing, that's over-the-counter Contour Next Test Strips. Get ahead this fall and shop in-store or online at a retailer near you.
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"Is there a bluer state in America than Massachusetts? Probably not. The mayor of Woburn Mass is now urging lawmakers to reform their right to shelter law. You see, in good old Massachusetts, where I swear there's something in the drinking water there, in 1983, I mean, and my dad was born and raised in Norwood, Massachusetts. So God rest his soul, I still hear his Boston accent. So I have great affection for Massachusetts, but politically, wow, they're lost. They're gone. In 1983, Massachusetts officials became legally required to offer housing to any homeless family seeking shelter in the state. The taxpayer has to foot the bill for any homeless family that seeks shelter. And I guess you got to fill out the paperwork. Well, now, a mayor of a Massachusetts city is saying, this right to shelter law is putting immense strain on our area as thousands of migrant families have arrived. So we've got to reform the right to shelter law. Now they want to kick them out. I mean, I love- It's amazing how clarity arrives at people, isn't it? I love it when somebody's bluff is called. You want to be a sanctuary city? You want a right to shelter? Well, then own it. Take them in. My buddy up in Connecticut, Lee Elsie, made a video. I want to try to post it saying, hey, adopt an immigrant. Adopt an illegal. Bring them into your home. You'll have the best garden on the block. You'll have the cleanest sheets. Oh, I know. I know. Real red meat. Look at the time. I know. Look at the time. Give me the hook, Joe Biden. Play the music. Actually, I do need you for one more thing. If you're in Pennsylvania, when do you get on the SLA to go back to New York? Five minutes after the show is over. Then I got an event tonight in New York. On the way to the train station. On the way to the train station in Pennsylvania. Can you keep your eye out for Danilo Cavalcanti? Because nobody else can find him. Isn't this the crazy story? The two weeks, the little five-foot Brazilian guy crab walks up a wall through razor wire. And one of two things is true. Either he's a ninja and we're the total back of the blue shows. You and me love law enforcement. Why can't they find this guy? Have they just messed up or is he just crazy? And there's a report here in the local media. Somebody got, but a homeowner shot at him because he stole a gun. And then, oh yeah, no, this guy, listen, I'm going to, I'm going to keep my head down. That's always good. I'm going to be ducking in the Uber. Just please get me to the train on time. Get me to the train station. Because tonight I'm on a boat. We're going to take a cruise around the island of Manhattan. Yeah. AM 970, the answer in New York city, having a big client appreciation cruise. They do it every year. It's the coolest thing. Piscopo is going to be performing and yours truly is going to kick off the cruise by singing, sit down, you're rocking the boat from Guys and Dolls. Nicely, nicely, Johnson. That's right. Is that what a perfect way to start a riverboat cruise around the island of Manhattan. Absolutely fan. And I don't know, I'm going to go way out on a limb here. Piscopo may do some Sinatra. I don't know. Sinatra, drums. He's going to play the accordion. He's got the harmonica. I'm from Jersey. Are you from Jersey? You'll probably get a little bit of that. I talked to Joe on the show yesterday. I love that guy. For those who don't know, Piscopo is the Mark Davis of New York, if whatever that makes any sense. He does the local morning show on 9-7. The answer, which is what a thrill that is. It's great. After Saturday Night Live fame and final note about 9-11, because Joe Piscopo and I were talking about New York's experience on that horrible day 22 years ago. Did you see the vibrant rainbow that was formed over New York City yesterday, Mark? It just brought tears to my eyes and some pictures showed it kind of connected. It was like over the World Trade Center site and connected to the Empire State Building where I was that morning. And I'm just telling you, you see those pictures, it'll bring a tear to your eye. There is a covenant. There is a covenant. There is a God. And that was a signal. That was a sign. That was a message. God's with us even in our darkest hour. The United States Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Border Patrol agents enjoy great pay, outstanding federal benefits, and up to $20,000 in recruitment incentives. If you are looking for a way to serve something greater than yourself, consider the United States Border Patrol. Learn more online at CBP.gov slash careers slash USBP. That's CBP.gov slash careers slash USBP.
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"Of course, Lord knows all the first responders who died as they were trying to rescue people. And to pretend you were there when you weren't is absolutely an act of stolen valor. It's absolutely pretending you're in the military when you're not. It's a Richard Blumenthal style whopper. And it's disgusting. It's absolutely disgusting. And the American people better not forget. And we're back to square one. Is he the guy who they're going to put up in 2024? You know, I heard you talk about the impeachment debate with Kevin McCarthy. First of all, to remove Kevin McCarthy, because Matt Gaetz is threatening to do that and there's a lot of a rancor right now within the Republican caucus. They don't have the votes on the Democrat side to remove Kevin McCarthy. Democrats- And I love Matt for his votes. I mean, I love what he stands for. What, in a nutshell, is- what kind of a bug has he got in his bonnet about McCarthy now? Well, I mean, if you talk to real red meat, you know, MAGA conservatives, they're not big fans of Kevin McCarthy. I love them, too. What does the guy have to do? What does he have to do? What has he not done? I agree. I happen to agree with you. I think he's done a great job and I think he continues to do a good job. And he's not going to be removed. Again, Axios said a big piece about it in this morning's edition. Democrats aren't inclined to go along with that. They're not going to remove him as speaker. So it's a bit of a temper tantrum. But ultimately, I do hope that there are at least impeachment proceedings if for no other reason that there is a sense, as you always talk about, of accountability. There has to be some accountability. And when we see the disgraceful, corrupt way the Biden crime family has behaved, you can't look the other way. And if they did, they've done that to us. This is I'm sorry, this is tit for tat. They did it to us. They impeached Trump over a phone call. Joe Biden is way up into his eyeballs, way worse than anything Trump did. It's completely deserved. It is absolutely deserved. And yet, Mike Gallagher does weeks, weeks of impeachment drama. Help us win in twenty four or distract us from what our messaging should be. If it was two years ago, that's one thing. And everything you say about accountability is true. And I think that some folks said some pretty important things, because if you think these Jim Jordan and James Comer hearings have been valuable and they have their people, they can't get to sit down under oath with impeachment. You absolutely can. It seems like we will have a chance at getting to the bottom of the Biden crime family stuff. And that's all good, unless it just makes us look distracted and it takes oxygen out of the room that we should be using to help Trump or DeSantis or whoever win in twenty four. I don't know if impeachment helps us. Do you steadfastly believe that it does? I'm going to give you a Mark Davis response. You can do two things at once. You can walk and chew gum at the same time. I don't know that it's distraction. I think it's got to go. It's got to get baked into the cake because voters are going to make a very important decision in twenty twenty four. And ultimately, people have got to be too many people who are in who aren't in our world, who aren't in our orbit, who aren't listening to talk radio and watching Salem News Channel and paying attention to Newsmax and Fox News. They're just going about their lives and they don't even know a tenth of what Biden has been up to. That is a really good point, because look what we do for a living and look at the people listening right now. A lot of them are going, well, won't impeachment be just reams upon reams of stuff that I know already? Well, yep, for y'all and for us. But for millions of Americans, it'll be an eye opening moment. It says, wait a minute. He did what? Wait a minute. And it's not about the sins of the sun. Hunter is a troubled young man. I wish for him to have a healthy and prosperous life. Maybe some of it needs to be in prison. But but but Joe was complicit. The big guy, the slice for the big guy, the corruption goes right up the chain to him. And you're right, there are millions of Americans who don't even know that. And since he is going to be on the ballot, he just is. He might as well carry whatever everything he deserves to carry to November. Well, and final point here about what and this was covered last night, because we talked this was an event here in Philly about faith and about freedom and people of faith. And the question comes up with this illegal immigration crisis that these big blue cities are facing. Is it compassionate to kick them out? Is it compassionate to push them out? What's the Christian worldview? Pastor Jeffress handled it beautifully. He said, listen, the Bible is very clear about talking about citizens, loving strangers who are citizens. I mean, he's got some whole biblical scriptural explanation about how it's absolutely consistent to not encourage the lawlessness of illegal immigration. But look at what's happening in Massachusetts. This is so funny.
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"You and I have it when we talk about movies every once in a while. But it's been a while because to me, have you felt like it's been just a long, dry, boring stretch at the movies over the last couple of years? And it ain't just covid. It's just nothing is really all that exciting. The old popcorn munch and go to the movies and have a good time. Seemed like those days were just on hold, if not gone altogether. Then comes Indiana Jones. We both agree it's really good. I think you liked it. It's much more than I did, but it was thoroughly, thoroughly good. And now here comes some stuff. Here comes Oppenheimer in a weekend after next, which looks Christopher Nolan and just look about the guy. One of those big historical pictures about the guy whose technology and big brain gave us the atomic bomb. So there's some interesting history. We probably need to spend a couple of seconds on this stupid Barbie movie because it's controversial before it even comes out. But before we get to any of that opening day today, Mike, today. And I don't even know what opening day means anymore because there were three showings of it last night. And Lisa and I went and we let wash over us the two hours and forty five minutes. And I didn't look at my watch once. I'm going to throw down best movie of the year. And it's a guy that starts. Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning, a three hour movie, part one. And so part two of that, it is it is knock you out of your chair sensational. I can't tell you how great it was. And you've got to compartmentalize. I mean, you politically have to compartmentalize any time you're at the movies. Everybody you're seeing on screen hates everything you believe in. And if they shut up about it, I don't care. I'm prepared to compartmentalize with Tom Cruise. It's different because here is a guy who is a movie stars, movie star, his devotion to his craft. He does stuff in this movie. He's insane. First of all, it's his devotion to his craft is without peer, but he's also quite literally insane. This Scientology garbage has led him to do. And listen, if some jack wagon, mid-grade actor, a Kirstie Alley, God bless her, God rest her soul. I don't care. But but but but Tom is like an imperial Grand Poobah in the Church of Scientology. And he has done terrible things to people as a result of this. And so you've got to kind of put a pin in that, I guess, if you're going to enjoy this. But I sure did. It's absolutely incredible. What terrible things has he done to people because of his Scientology? Because in the upper muckety mucks of Scientology, the levels of abuse, the levels of life ruination that they visit upon people who dare to wander from the flock.Two words, Leo Remini's Scientology guy. Yeah, but what's Tom Cruise got to do with that? He is like VP of Scientology. There's this David Miscavige and Thomas has been his wife who's been missing for supposedly years. Tom knows where all the bodies are buried. He is a Scientology mafia kingpin. And you know, I'm living in Tampa Bay, right here in Clearwater. There's a lot of fascinating stories about Scientology around here. And I listen, you knock yourself out and criticizing them. Go ahead. That's Mark Davis. When I grow up, I want to work for a woke company like super woke. When I grow up, when I grow up, I want to be hired based on what I look like rather than my skills. I want to be judged by my political beliefs. I want to get promoted based on my chromosomes. When I grow up, I want to be offended by my coworkers and walk around the office on eggshells and have my words policed by HR. Words like grandfather, peanut gallery, long time no see, no can do. When I grow up, I want to be obsessed with emotional safety and do workplace sensitivity training all day long. When I grow up, I want to climb the corporate ladder just by following the crowd. I want to be a conformist. I want to weaponize my pronouns. What are pronouns? It's time to grow up and get back to work. Introducing the number one Woke Free Job Board in America, RedBalloon.Work.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
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"And so the left wants QAnon lore to be fused directly to normal mainstream conservative belief. So you take this movie with everything you've just said being 100 percent true. And then if they can make it kind of a QAnon dog whistle that the movie is intended to lure that underbelly of conservatism and that sliver of republicanism, it's so they can stigmatize that even more. So in this lovely movie, just finish, in this lovely movie that is incredibly compelling, that is about a heroic guy doing heroic things, they're able to throw in all of this backstory to smear people. Go ahead. Right. But I want to make sure everybody understands, and you ought to see the movie, there's nothing about that in the movie. Yeah, of course not. There's nothing about QAnon or drinking blood of children or any of that stuff. He said that they exist in South America, Central America. When that guy shows up to collect his son and daughter from what he thinks is a show business audition and realizes his kids are gone, they've been abducted, you feel his pain. You feel his panic. Oh, standing in the street. I mean, he's looking. He doesn't know where to go. It's soundoffreedommovie.com. Everybody should see this movie and just ignore the noise. This final point today, and let's get back to work today, you and me together with a good solid disagreement, because I've got to express mystification at something you seem mystified by. Yes, please. You keep talking, and incidentally, you were trying to remember what prompted me to say Biden won't be on the ballot. It was the Maureen Dowd column in the New York Times that went after him over failing to acknowledge his seventh grandchild. I would add Axios now has a new bit of reporting that he's apparently a real profane jerk in the Oval Office. He screams at people, get the F out of my office, what the F is wrong with you. They're turning on him, Mark. The mainstream media and reliable publications that have always given him cover are now turning on him, which led me to say he won't be on the ballot. But here's the mystery that I have about Mark Davis, my dear, dear friend, one of the smartest guys I know. What don't you understand about Biden's ability to say, ladies and gentlemen of America, I'm not I'm not going to do it. It has to start with him. Let's understand they're not going to remove him. Right. They're not going to they're not going to talk him. You actually think that in September, because he can't do it next year with primaries are already under way. He can do whatever he wants to do. No, I know. But if he's going to do you know how much that would just put the screws to every other? No, Democrat, except maybe Gavin Newsom has the ability to start from square one in the middle of the primary season. So you actually think and by the way, you may be right. You actually think I don't understand what you don't understand about this. Why is this so hard for you? Why is it hard for you for Biden? You don't think Biden's capable of saying, listen, 80 isn't what it used to be. I thought I had it in me. I don't have it in me. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not going to run. I do. Is anything's possible. I don't see it happen. It would be so otherworldly. It would not be. What is crazy about that? Did you see him on the beach over the weekend? The guy can't walk across the beach where I mean, he developed. Where will he? Because, listen, you and I agree, obviously, about his unfitness. What you're saying is that he will somehow become sufficiently self-aware that he will slap his head with his with his hand when you go, oh, I've been so wrong. You're right. I am unfit for office. You actually you actually think that's going to happen. And I do not. You don't think he's aware of the New York Times and Axios and the whole world coming at him? I don't know. He's aware of it. I don't know that he cares. Well, I don't know that he cares. Wow. I tell you, it's one of the great mysteries when it happens and it will happen. Then you'll say, well, you're right, Mike. I mean, it isn't going to be that hard. And then guess what? Then he drops out and then along comes Gavin Newsom or Pete Buttigieg or Kamala. Somebody is going to come along and they're going to be the nominee and it ain't going to be Biden. Trust me. So to be method to end to end with some math on a scale of 10, where 10 is metaphysical certitude, your level of belief that Biden will extract himself from this race is 10, not 11, 11. And I'm probably four. OK. All right. Where five is could happen. Maybe I get it. I just again, I'm just confused by how how epic you think it would have to be. It would be one of the most historically weird things in the history of this great nation. Oh, in the Trump era, you think there's anything weirder? I mean, for for for Biden, who today, if you asked him, if you asked him, what's your level of certainty that you're on the on the ballot? He'd say 100 percent. I don't know that. You're telling me you're telling me he'll go to zero at some point, probably this calendar year. OK. Well, maybe this calendar year, maybe early of 2024. I mean, listen, Mark Davis keeps saying it's real early. When we when I keep talking about DeSantis, when I keep saying DeSantis probably can't catch Trump, you keep saying, well, it's so early. It's so early. It's not till January. I'm right. You keep saying there's lots of time. Well, there's lots of time. There's lots of time. There is lots of time. Experiences are what people love most about travel. With Viator, you can browse and book tours and activities so incredible. You want to tell your friends. They offer everything from simple tours to extreme adventures in over one hundred and ninety countries. There's something for everyone. 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Mike Gallagher Podcast
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"No, you don't. No, you don't. All right, so read your I'd like to read. I don't have it in front of me. Do you have your tweet yesterday that you deleted, by the way? Because I misspelled his name on the hashtag, which means that people weren't going to see it. But when they did see it, because here's how Twitter works, people were reacting and people were engaging. And then you deleted it, so it shut down the whole dialog because of a typo. Okay, so here is my tweet. A revamped Tucker Carlson show with all of its everyone else lies only I tell you the truth vibe is soon to debut here on Twitter. Good for him. This is going to be great. I hope it succeeds and opens the door for others. So please tell me how I hate him. Why'd you have to take the pot shot at him? Why did you have to? Because that's part of this is weird. When talking about Trump, is it possible to say, love him, love the policies, but wow, what an ego, and it's all about him, and he loves his brand. But of course it is. And that doesn't annoy you, but for some reason, when I talk about Tucker Carlson, who is a force of nature and his Twitter show is going to be enormous. I'll watch it every night. It's going to be fantastic. But when I say that part of his vibe is, everybody else is lying to you only I can tell you the truth. In a way, rush did something fairly similar. The kind of the bombast that made it that you don't mind. That when people draw attention to that, but for some reason, this guy, you're just such a bow tie sniffer. You can't handle it when anybody throws what seems like a moment of shade at your boy. Dude. I want the record to show. Let the record show that Mark Davis is making fun of another host for believing that he's always right. Now that's rich. Now that's classic. I'm the only person who's right. 'cause you never think that way. You're never the only person who thinks you're right. No, no, no, no. But if I ever said that all the other shows suck, everyone else is lying to you. I'm the only repository for truth. When have I ever given off that? Tucker has said the mainstream media is corrupt. And he's right. That's what I'm saying, of course. He hasn't said that everybody else is lying. Do you know what I'm the only one here to make me play? You're not a chuck. Like I said, like I said in my soul, in my tweet, may I have some salt with your snark, mister Davis. Shame for shame. Shame on you. All right, love man. Happy but we're gonna break it all down tomorrow. Get popcorn out. I wear night a rare night of CNN viewing. Wow. Exactly. I don't know if I can find it on my DVR anymore..
Mike Gallagher Podcast
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"Believe is there is a growing suspicion that it's only going to be Donald Trump in 2024 and I think the media is going to do its part to lift that up into assist that outcome. And this proves it. Mark, there's no way CNN is inclined to give Trump any favors. There's no way. I don't care what you could say about well, Chris Cuomo was fired and going one over to news nations. No, you're not CNN is still CNN. You're a 100% CNN. There's CNN and they hate this guy and the contempt for Donald Trump is profound. There's no way. So what they're saying, I'm getting text messages affirming this. Trump is the only Republican is the argument I. You know me, I'm a Trump guy, so I'm not agreeing with it, but here's the argument. Trump's the only guy that can lose to China Joe and the Democrats know it. And that to me, this CNN town hall is pretty compelling evidence that that may be true. We also to understand. So in a weird reverse psychology moment, CNN, which is playing the long game to make sure that a Democrat wins in 24 will play nice with Trump will invite him. Will perhaps treat him with some grudging deference in order to make him the nominee so that Biden can beat him. That is CNN's theory, which is the only explanation that makes sense. Be careful what you wish for is all I would tell them. 505 hundredth time, I'll tell you, I don't know which is true. I don't know what Trump's electability is going to look like. Ten months from now, he may be just a juggernaut ready to go and come back and reclaim that presidency that he felt he was so, so unfairly denied,
Mike Gallagher Podcast
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"How long can this last? And maybe great news in the primaries. But how does it affect the general election? Because that's what we've got to do. I'm not pro or anti Trump. I'm not pro or anti desantis. I am pro winning. There's only one thing that guides me and that is how do we wrestle The White House from Democrats in 2020? I mean, this is third world country stuff. And the question becomes, are there enough of the Jason whitlocks in the marks and the mics and the people who are seeing this for what it is? And the truth of the matter is, Mark, I'm going to be very blunt here. And I'm sorry, I'm going to be a realist. I don't know that there are. I don't know. I don't know that there's enough people who are able to say, I just can't pull the lever for a convicted felon. And I don't know. I guess time will tell. One of two things is going to happen. There's either going to be enough pushback and it's going to boomerang enough. It's going to backfire strongly enough that Trump winds up being the 47th president of the United States or he's dead in the water. He's where they want him to be. He's the nominee against the Democrat in 2024. And he loses pretty appreciably. Maybe a landslide. And it's chickens me. I'm the same way you are. I am despondent over it. A lot could happen. I don't know. And you talk about the 4 million in fundraising. How about the free Trump t-shirts? How many thousands of t-shirts were sold Friday? And they're still for sale. Okay, you're going to have to get a different pick because they're apparently will be no mugshot. I don't know that that's true. Supposedly, because of their New York rule that they don't allow them to be public, but I don't know. I heard no handcuffs. Handcuffs know and I heard mugshot. No. No, the only thing no, there's a mugshot. The reason you're hearing mugshot knows because you probably are citing the New York statute that supposedly protects the mug shots from being made public. So will that hinder your ability to put them on a T-shirt? I think this will be the most widely decimated mug shot in the history of mud shots. I would be shocked if we don't see the mugshot. We'll see. That's all they want. That's the trophy they want, Mark. Okay, all right, we're here with this. Okay, take this with the asterisk that you wish. Okay. NBC reports, Trump will not be handcuffed or have a mugshot. If NBC says the sky is blue and grass. I run outside and check. And she also shared the grand jury was convening for another month. And we won't have an indictment until June or whatever. Take that with a grain of salt, the size of an asteroid. So we're going to try to tackle all this today. We're going to be broadcasting, of course, from New York today and tomorrow. Tomorrow at 2 p.m. eastern 1 p.m. central, I'll be anchoring our special Salem news channel coverage of the Trump indictment, so we'll get your fire up your video platforms and the over the top platform that is just defined Salem news channel wherever Roku, Apple, you can go to mic online dot com to download all of that information on the Salem news channel. And final conversation starter. Mark, what do you know about chat GPT? The AI chat. A good bit. I've asked it to do some things and the results have been interesting. It is a essentially a language bot that will write things. It'll have conversations with you. You don't write a blog. It's a friend of mine. Tell me about it this weekend. And this is all new to me. You can give this AI device, which was millions of people have used it since it launched in November. It can answer questions. And why haven't you told me about this? Because this is all new to me. Because I cared for about three minutes, I asked it how many genders are there? And I care about the issue writ large, like how much will that affect academia, how much will affect journalism, et cetera, et cetera. That's right. You go ahead and you go ahead and then I'll million Microsoft has spent billions of dollars on it. It was added to Bing last month. Here's what a friend of mine told me, a friend of mine is she's in this personal training world where she's a trainer. She and her husband are both exercise buffs, obviously none of it has rubbed off on me. And she has to write a blog. And she said, I can give it keywords. And it will write me a thousand word blog that is perfect. It's an essay. How about college kids? You just give it keywords and it writes it for you. It's artificial intelligence. It's AI, Italy has become the first western country to ban it. Italy has now banned chat GPT over privacy concerns. I mean, Mark, we're going down some really scary roads here with the technology is millions of miles beyond the FX beyond the morals and beyond our ability to understand it. Have you heard about have you heard about The New York Times reporter who got involved in a conversation with an AI bot and the AI bot? The reporter said, what would you like to do? And they said, well, I'm not a human, but if I were. I would kill people. I would destroy. I would send out malware. All it's doing is just borrowing from the human universe of language to say things and it's possible for us to attach too much meaning to that. But it's also possible for us to undersell it. When I argued with it about gender, it started to say, oh, gender is kind of a social construct. I said, no, it's not what you have just said there is no scientific basis whatsoever. And I just got it in a tailspin like talking to any other Democrat. The other thing I did and you should do this because I think it will probably know you. I said write a column about Donald Trump in the style of Mark Davis. What did it do? And cranked out something that was pretty okay. It didn't sound like me necessarily how many words were about 400 to a short. But the one thing that it did, it went in there and said, because it very wisely said that any assessment of Trump has to wisely absorb his positives and his negatives. I said, okay, okay, okay. But then it got to a paragraph where it said, voters will simply have to admit that the negatives in some way sort of outweigh them or blah blah blah. So yes, yes, it was something we should all be. That's your free Trump T-shirt if you text the keywords free Trump to 806 5 5 6 four 5 three will send you back the link where you can order it in 1998 plus shipping. It'll have his mugshot incidentally. Obviously, it'll still say free Trump if it doesn't have the mud shot. We'll come up with another picture. And there's been a lot written about the free Trump and the mugshot picture and how it's going to be disseminated. People who love Trump and people who hate him want this because this is going to be an item that 50 years from now. That's right. We're going to be looking at the first indicted president. So if you text free Trump to 806 5 5 mic or go to Mike online dot com, you're going to order your free Trump T-shirt. We've already got tons of orders coming in pouring in some more. And some people didn't like it and said, I had a couple of people take me to task role. This is terrible. You're doing this. Come on, I mean, it is a little bit of a protest and a way and a way to capture a snapshot of history because this is history. So hey, you don't like it, sorry, but a lot of people love it. And I've already ordered mine, I ordered about ten. So she can't be, you get a discount. No, I don't know. But I will take selfies if you want to sell food. That's awesome. No problem. I'm happy to draw a crowd. And Mark well too, you're coming up a week or two in Grapevine Texas. We'll be taking a bunch of selfies with Mark and Mike. Get your tickets now. Stop it. Mark doesn't like to make eye contact. Don't make eye contact when we do the meet and greet. 6 68 on the answer dot com for tickets. Required for Mike's actual show, which was at ten right after we're done on 6 60 a.m. at the answer..