Join Mike Gallagher as he sits down with iconic entertainer Joe Piscopo to celebrate the release of Piscopo’s new book, ‘Average Joe: Memoirs of a Blue-Collar Entertainer.’ Discover Joe’s compelling journey through the entertainment industry, from his tenure on Saturday Night Live to his love for Frank Sinatra. This episode not only uncovers Joe’s influential political transformation but also teases a captivating in-person event featuring Joe, Mike, and other beloved personalities. Don’t miss the stories, insights, and surprises in this star-studded conversation!
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Breaking now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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The Department of Homeland Security just told Fox News moments ago that four employees are being fired today for circumventing leadership and unilaterally making the egregious payment for hotels for migrants in New York City. This is after Elon Musk posted the other day that the Doge team discovered that FEMA sent $59 million last week to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants. Well, that’s not news to New Yorkers. Anybody that could walk down 8th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan has seen what the Rowe NYC Hotel has been turned into, a giant migrant shelter that taxpayers are paying for. I talked to a friend of mine last night who’s got a father in a real bad situation up in Canada. and he’s got health problems, and it’s a catch-22 because the health insurance is free in Canada, but he can’t afford to live where he’s living. He’s in a terrible place. He’s living in squalor. And these are good people. And I think about my friend’s father agonizing over in a terrible living situation while we, the taxpayer, have been on the hook for funding luxury hotel rooms in New York City. And it’s not just New York. It’s all over the country. I mean, these people are out of their minds. Can you tell me why in the world we would reward illegals? With free health care, free education for the children, free housing, in luxury hotels. And so, looks like Homeland Security, under the leadership of Kristi Noem, is going to do something about it. And they fired four employees who continued the payments to the luxury hotels in defiance of of Homeland Security leadership. 800-655-MIKE, 24 before the hour. The tweet, the post that J.D. Vance put up the other day is what has sent shockwaves through the beast. The beast is roaring its disapproval over these words. Let me read it to you. J.D. Vance wrote, If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal. Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power. Now, that’s, again, sending shockwaves throughout the Beltway. Oh, Washington, D.C., they’re losing their mind. They’re flipping their lids. Big debate about this last night on CNN. Here was Scott Jennings with Abby Phillips and Gretchen Carlson, of all people. I don’t know, Gretchen was evidently, you know, she’s the former Fox News host. who sued successfully Fox News for what she claimed was sexual harassment. And got a lot of money. I forget how many millions of dollars she got. But she used to host a daytime show. I think she was also on Fox and Friends first. Then she got a daytime show. Anyhow, now she pops up once in a while on CNN or MSNBC as the loyal opposition to MAGA and Trump and Trump supporters. So Gretchen has gone from center-right to hard-left. And she found herself in the unenviable position of debating the great Scott Jennings over this issue last night on CNN.
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It is the executive branch’s job to figure out how to spend money once it is appropriated by Congress. And sometimes they spend money that’s not been appropriated. But the correct political control is between the executive and the Congress, not some random federal judge.
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I want to return to that because that is also a major legal question. Do you really think that J.D. Vance’s tweet is only about these district judges? I think this is about no, this is a slippery slope because they’re going to move on to what the next ruling is. They’re setting the stage so that they can say that executive branch has control now over the judicial branch. They’re setting the stage. And for people who think for people who think that president trump has not planned all of this he pushes the envelope constantly there was january 6th he has a myriad of people out there that would support the executive branch being able to rule over the judicial branch because there have been no repercussions and when there are not consequences and when there are not repercussions you get away i get it you want you want
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individual federal judges who hate donald trump no i don’t to tie him up for four years no i don’t if you want a big policy questions decided let the supreme court do it but in the interim the executive has to be allowed to go the point is the delay is everything scott jennings argument is the point is the delay that’s all they’re trying to do they’re trying to handcuff trump for as long as they can that’s all it is that’s all it is And ultimately, the Supreme Court will prevail, but it might take a year or two or three. They’re trying to run out the clock. And I am really intrigued by Gretchen’s question, do you really think that’s what J.D. Vance meant? Again, I’ll read the post from J.D. Vance. If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that’s illegal. If a judge tried to tell an attorney general how to use their discretion, that’s illegal. Judges are not allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power. There are now judges like the one in Rhode Island, like the one in California. There are judges who are insanely overstepping the lower federal courts. Yesterday, a judge in Rhode Island. Rhode Island! I think this radio station or TV studio I’m sitting in is bigger than Rhode Island. Ruled that the Trump administration… violated a temporary restraining order and is now ordering the end of all the spending freezes initiated by the White House. A judge in Rhode Island is telling the executive branch what it can and cannot do with regards to the federal budget. All these crazy grants that were given out by USAID, to organizations promoting DEI and inclusion initiatives in foreign countries? A left-wing judge in a left-wing state just told American taxpayers they have to keep paying them and that the executive branch has no discretion in how federal bureaucracies operate. As Banshee puts it over at Red State… It’s hard to see this as anything other than a soft coup. This is a soft coup. This is an attempt, again, at lawfare. Get some wacko judge to try to thwart the president that they hate. Amazing. Amazing. Ed’s in Louisville, Kentucky, 18 minutes before the hour. Our number is 800-655-MIKE. How are you doing today, Ed?
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I’m doing good. Good. Thank you. My topic is all these people that are so upset that Elon Musk has their Social Security number. When you look at every single year, the IRS with unelected officials audits probably close to a million citizens. And obviously they’ve got everybody’s Social Security number, as does your bank. When you get a credit check, I’m sure you have to put your Social Security number in there. The point being, your Social Security number is really not that big a secret.
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Your Social Security number originates with the federal government. Donald Trump is the president. Elon Musk is the head of a giant arm of the Trump administration attempting to curb government waste. Why don’t Democrats want to curb Democrat waste? Well, it’s easy because it comes out of their pockets. I saw a video yesterday of Pocahontas being confronted by some social media warrior. I forget who it was. She actually elbowed him. He said, oh, you just assaulted me. But Pocahontas gave him a good sharp elbow to the ribs as she was trying to get to the car. But he was saying to her, why are you worth $20 million? You’ve been a public servant all your life. How are you worth all this money? And, of course, she wouldn’t answer. That’s what they’re upset about. The gravy train is about to leave the station. The gravy train is drying up. And the Democrats are the beneficiaries. And, look, let’s be fair. Guarantee there’s plenty of Republicans who’ve been benefiting, too. This doesn’t necessarily mean right versus left. John’s in Pittsburgh. Hey, John, how’s it going?
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I’m doing well, sir. Hey, I’ll tell you why the Democrats are so upset about the waste, fraud and abuse being exposed is because it’s going to hurt them financially.
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That’s right.
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Hey, Mike, do you really think do you really think that USAID is giving five hundred thousand dollars to I don’t know, asexual antelopes in Angola? Or do you think $450,000 of that is getting laundered and sent right back to the DNC?
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Of course it is. You follow the money. You know it as well as I do. Although I would say that asexual antelopes in Angola is a top priority. Please don’t mock that. Look, providing Sesame Street, Iraq is important. Did you hear Chris Coons defend that the other day? Do you have that still in the archives, Christian, from yesterday? I was waiting for what village idiot was going to come along and defend the American taxpayer funding Sesame Street for Iraqis. And he did it. It was Chris Coons. He gets the brownie. He gets the gold star. Because I was waiting. I thought, nobody can do this. It’s a little bit like my experiment yesterday. If you hate Trump, how are you reacting to watching a whole Super Bowl stadium full of people cheering the guy? It’s got to be hard on you. And I couldn’t get anybody to call. I mean, they called, but they were all kooks and wackos, whack jobs. So I was waiting for somebody to come along because the Sesame Street in Iraq example is the perfect example of government waste. USAID has evidently taken millions of taxpayer dollars to fund Sesame Street in Iraq. Who could possibly defend that? Well, the pride and joy of Delaware can. I give you Democrat Senator Chris Coons.
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Is funding Sesame Street a judicious use of soft power? Well, Michael, the way you put it is the way I hope folks considering your poll today will think about it. This isn’t just funding a kid show for children, millions of children in countries like Iraq. It’s a show that helps teach values, helps teach public health, helps prevent kids from dying from dysentery and disease, and helps push values like collaboration, peacefulness, cooperation in a society where the alternative is ISIS extremism.
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extremism and terrorism and to your point turn it off turn it off turn it off i can’t i can’t breathe i can’t that’s a u.s senator looks that guy in the eye michael smirconish over at cnn and says well now michael you have to understand sesame street teaches values uh it keeps kids from getting dysentery Elmo is going to teach kids how to stay healthy and survive ISIS. So that’s why we’ve got to devote millions of American taxpayer dollars to producing Sesame Street in Iraq. The Democrat Party is broken. That’s the kind of crap show they’ve become. The phrase useful idiots comes to mind. Thank you, Senator Chris Coons. Keep it up. You guys keep banging that drum because you’re not winning. You may think you are, but you’re not. 800-655-6453. We have a line open for you on this caller-driven episode of the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Joe Piscopo is truly an original, a legend, and nobody does Frank Sinatra better than this class act. He’s the morning host on AM 970, The Answer, but of course he has had a decades-long career, and this is a big day. In the world of Joe Piscopo, let’s welcome my dear friend and colleague from the Salem Media Group, the one and only Joe Piscopo. Joe, that was you on Huckabee, and I remember it. I watched it. I loved it. I get chills every time you do, as you call him, the old man, Frank Sinatra, singing New York, New York. How are you, Joe?
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Mike, I love you, man. Thank you so much. Thanks for jumping on our show this morning. You know, you’ve been a beacon for me on the radio, the way you are just so kind to everybody. You have a heart and a soul, yet your beliefs are right along my beliefs of believing in God and country. So thanks for leading the way. You’re a great influence. So I don’t want to go by without saying that first and foremost. You’re so kind.
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You’re always so kind and gracious and humble. And And yet you are truly, truly a beacon. And morning radio has been upended in New York with your great show. And this is a big day today because today is the day that Average Joe, the memoirs of a blue-collar entertainer, gets released to the public. You’re holding it right there in your hand. Incidentally, love that head shot. That head shot, that captures you, Joe. That’s perfect.
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Can I tell you what happened? So you go – a shout-out to Becky and to the whole team over at the Forefront Books and Simon & Schuster, Mike. So this headshot has got to be behind the Count Basie Theater in Jersey. And I think a guy, his name was, and I didn’t know, I said, who took that headshot? They said, we love that headshot. I got a thousand others. They said, we want that headshot. So I had to track down Danny Rodriguez. He took the headshot. And I remembered, and they used it from behind an alleyway in Red Bank, New Jersey. Well, it captures, it captures.
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It really captures your story. I mean, here you are, and obviously everybody knows you from TV and movies and Johnny Dangerously and all this great work you’ve done over the years, and now you’re waking up millions in the morning, and you are, as you’ve described yourself, you’re part of the blue collar of show business. Look, I would make a political comparison to the 45th and 47th president. You’re a populist entertainer.
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Yeah. You know what? Thank you. It’s so weird because I just went into the business to work, just to work. And the book is like the book is like a survival story of how to hang in there, you know, because there’s ups and downs, ins and outs, goods and bads. But you got to stay with it. And you have to. The trick is to reinvent yourself, to just keep going. And you’re right. And Donald Donald Trump has done that every step of the way, especially the last two years. And if you don’t reinvent also another hero of mine, you know, Frank Sinatra. When in 1951, after he had a great run on Columbia Records, on all the radio, on all the international stardom that he got with what I call the Columbia years from 1939 right to 50, then all of a sudden he hit a big bump, Frank Sinatra did. And everything stopped. Mike, everything stopped. His voice kind of glitched a little bit. And they were so unforgiving, to be kind, to Frank Sinatra. And he went, I’m staying with it. I’m going to go with it. I want to do this film. He does From Here to Eternity and the rest is history. But you got it. It’s a survival story, you know, because in the entertainment business, Mike. I’m telling you, they’ll throw you by the wayside, brother. And they don’t care, and they’ll move right on, you know?
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And your story, even with Saturday Night Live, is so riveting. A lot of people don’t realize that you really helped save the show from cancellation. You were one of the actors hired to replace one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live. And you were on there for, I think, four or five years. But the behind-the-scenes that I happen to know about is what I think people find so fascinating because really thanks to your – that show was on the verge – SNL was about to be canceled, right, Joe?
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yeah man uh lee said all right again thank you for bringing that up mike what i wrote about first is the comedy club first i talk about heritage i talk about my italian american heritage and how great it is to be an american and how proud i am and you can see me on the wide shot that you have those that’s my grandfather behind me my great uncle behind me that be below here is the manifest that is from the the freighter the multi the german freighter that my grandfather came to america on you know So so I appreciate I wrote that and I went to the comedy clubs. But making the transition to Saturday Night Live, don’t they were for some reason, Lorne and company, Lorne Michaels and company left and they had to bring in a whole new staff. So they hired a great gal by the name of Jean Domanian, who was Lorne’s right hand at the time. And she had to rebuild the show. And then we had the task of replacing Gilda Radner and John Belushi and Danny Aykroyd. Oh, it’s heavy. Oh, wow. Mike, it was impossible. No, it was a no-win situation. Didn’t work out great for the first 10 shows, but you’re absolutely right. Talk about reinventing yourself, hanging in, staying with it, you know? And by the grace of God, it worked out. When Eddie came on and Dick Ebersole came in, and no disrespect to anybody else, but it’s just work. But we glitched for a bit there. You’re absolutely right. That was not easy, I tell you.
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And you produced some memorable moments. I mean, I still see you and… and Eddie Murphy, Ebony, and Ivory together. I mean, just some great, great, great moments. The great Joe Piscopo is with us. His book is on sale today, Average Joe, and I cannot wait to get my hands on it. This is a book that really has been years and years in the making, and I’m so honored to get to announce it to the world today that it’s on sale today wherever books are sold, Average Joe by Joe Piscopo. And Joe, you and I both will remember to our dying days The moment in the hallway at AM 970, The Answer, when Donald Trump came down the escalator and we sort of whispered almost like we were in a secret club together, hey, this guy’s the real deal. The American people are going to go for this guy. And you and I were one of the only two – people were mocking us. I never forget being up on a panel with – Hey, I don’t mind name-dropping Eric Metaxas, and he browbeat me in front of the crowd. Oh, there’s Donald Trump. Are you kidding me? He’s a clown. And now Eric, of course, like so many others, is a huge Trump supporter because Trump won people like Eric and Ted Cruz and others over. Joe, you saw it coming.
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Yeah, well, we did it. Thank you. And just we talked about this on my morning show. And thank you for gracing the airwaves with us this morning, Mike Gallagher. You know, I love you. My mother always loved you, you know, but Mike, I went to Mike and I were talking about to your audience kind enough to watch and listen is that we talked when you were at the Empire State Building as we chatted this morning and I met Mike Gallagher. I said, I know the Democrat blue dog, but a Democrat, a diehard Democrat. And I talked to Mike Gallagher, walked out of that studio at the Empire State Building with the great Gallagher. And I said, this is a nice guy. I mean he’s got all the outlook. He believes in God and country. He’s got a conservative view. And I tell you, it started to turn my political outlook. So I thank you for that. And then me meeting Ronald – it was Mike Gallagher and Ronald Reagan that really kind of changed my whole political outset. I’m telling you something. So I – but I appreciate it more than anything else, and I appreciate you always – Of being there. But I wanted to say, too, and I got not to not to lose track of what we’re talking about. We chose the Mike Gallagher show to make the national break of the of the book.
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So thank you. Well, that means that means more to you, more to me than you’ll ever know. And I’m so honored. And I hope I know our audience will. We’ll love the book. Go to Amazon. Get it. Go to Barnes and wherever you’ve got to go to get the book. Average Joe. And in the minute or so we have left, Joe, this summer, we’ve managed to talk you into joining us for the second annual Patriots Alaska Cruise. Now, obviously, you sing. I can hit a few notes. There’s a rumor that maybe we’re – and Larry Elder and I, along with you, Joe, and Jennifer Horn from L.A., who we love, is there any truth to the rumor that we might be able to do a buddy song together on the ship? For our passengers?
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You know, worth the price of admission alone. It’s just you and I singing on stage. Mike Gallagher is Broadway caliber. This guy on stage is everything. Oh, yeah.
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I’m community theater caliber. I’m dinner theater caliber. I’m the La Comedia Dinner Club in Ohio. That’s what I am.
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When you looked at me in the hallway, you said he would win. And I look back and said, we were right. And I’m telling you, we’re right about you and I doing a duet on the Patriots cruise. It’s called TravelWithSalem.com. Come on with us. And Larry and Jen, it’s going to be a pleasure.
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We’re going to have a blast. And to whale watch. And you want to be on a dog sled. So that will be worth the price of admission. TravelWithSalem.com. Or you can just text the keyword Alaska. August 16th through the 23rd. Joe, congratulations on the book. Continued success, my friend. I love you. You keep fighting the good fight, Joe.
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Thank you, Mike. Proud to be with you. Proud to be your friend. God bless you, my brother.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor studios, here’s Mike Deller.
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My producer just came across a clip of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggesting that the Biden administration should ignore court rulings protecting the unborn. that that should be the strategy of the Biden administration. I’m telling you what, everything is sort of upside down, and it is a golden age. It’s a golden age for U.S. steel, aluminum, according to Peter Navarro. We ought to get him back on the show one of these days. Tracy got the second New York Post cover framed for me. Now I have in my studio two historic history-making covers. From one of my favorite newspapers, the New York Post. The first one, from the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump shot, it says in big, bold, white letters. Bloodied but unbowed, ex-president survives assassination bid. And the picture of Trump with his fist in the air against that blue background with the American flag behind him. And then the second New York Post cover that we had framed. Golden Age of America, the inauguration special, and what an honor it was to be in Washington, D.C., for the 47th president of the United States and his inauguration. And the Democrats are left sort of flailing. I read with great amusement at an article by Mara Gay of the New York Times saying, And she sat down with Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer has now introduced a snitch line, a portal. He wants whistleblowers to come forward to try to go after Elon and Doge. There’s one nickname for one of the young whiz kids of the Elon Musk team. And I don’t know if I can say the nickname on air. It’s big something, and it’s pretty crude, and I’m always mindful of trying to be a G-rated show, or at least PG, maybe PG-13. Does the team think I can say it? I mean, Christian naturally says yes, because Christian always wants to get me in trouble. Eric’s a little more cautious. Can I say it, Eric? Eric? Tracy says, I can. Tracy likes it. Thumbs up from Tracy. Eric is a no. Teresa, do you know who we’re talking about? What’s a metaphor? Yeah, maybe. Big cojones? I guess I’ll say that. Big cojones is a little bit less… blunt than his nickname and i saw over the daily beast this morning oh the 19 year old big cojones is getting a big government position well they all have a big government position they’re sleeping on the floor they’re working 24 7 uncovering unbelievable layers of waste and fraud and taxpayer money abuse why wouldn’t democrats want that why wouldn’t they expect that Greg Gutfeld, who I’ve, you know, Greg’s an acquired taste over at Fox News. I like him a lot now. He’s really hit his stride. One of the hosts of The Five. He’s got his own show that gets, apparently, record ratings. I don’t, that show’s not exactly my cup of tea. But it works. Good for them. He’s always got Tyrus on and that… Cat Timf, those are his two go-tos. And then he has like a rotating cast of third and fourth guests. But Greg is often so spot on, so on point. And yesterday on The Five, with Jessica Tarloff scowling, Greg just eviscerated the wasteful spending in the federal government, and the way the Democrats are outraged at trying to curb it. Why would Democrats mind or object or hate on Elon and Doge and Trump for saving the taxpayers a lot of money? Here was a great, great analysis from Greg Gutfeld on Fox News.
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There is so much fraud. And you bring in Medicare and Medicaid. There are hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud. Imagine you had an icon on your computer screen and it was of the White House and you never double clicked on it. And it was just there. Musk finally double clicked on it. And we are seeing the files and we’re read. It’s read only. Nothing’s happening. We’re reading the files. And that is enough to scare the poop out of these Democrats. And it’s not about constitutionality. It’s about the fact that it’s a gravy train for them. The Treasury rubber-stamped these things. They went right through. There was no control. There was no stopgap. And this is becoming a revelation for people. When you’re a victim of fraud, there are three parties. There’s the victim, the perp, and the person you call to stop the fraud. So the Democrats, they aren’t the victim. They aren’t the people trying to stop it. Who are they? Just by simple logic, they are the perp. And they are embracing the character, saying, oh, my God, you’re going to have the Social Security numbers. You idiot. These guys run PayPal. Yeah. They have the Social Security numbers, you nutbag. They don’t even know. OK, either they’re so stupid that they don’t know how a business works, that everyone else gets this, that every business does an audit. It’s called zero-paced budgeting. That’s what you do. Every year you start at zero and try and figure out how to cut costs. But they act like it’s an act of terror because they’ve never run a damn business before. Coupled to that, it’s a gravy train. They’ve been incentivized to exaggerate certain kinds of programs. Why do victims of disaster not get funds but there is a trans opera in a foreign country? It’s because that incentivized and exaggerated funds that trickle down to people. So you’re looking at corruption. You’re looking at ignorance. And I’m there for it. And you know what? This isn’t going to go away. We double-clicked on the icon.
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I love that. We double-clicked on the icon. We’ve opened a Pandora’s box. We’ve discovered ways to save the taxpayers tons of money. And everybody ought to be in favor of that. How ridiculous that they’re screeching about the federal government having access to Social Security accounts. Where do you think the Social Security number came from in the first place? What are you talking about? Trump doesn’t have access to his Treasury Department? Are you out of your minds? Are you crazy? And, you know, Greg makes a terrific point about standard business practice is you cut costs. Look at the outrage over the penny. The Democrats are flipping out about Trump saying, I’m going to stop. I’m instructing the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies. It costs 3.69 cents for every penny produced. And so, you know, unlike the real world where you would want to cut costs, the Democrats want to spend more. They’ve truly, truly, they’ve got no plan, they’ve got no strategy, they’ve got no approach other than flailing about and shrieking and threatening Musk with violence and threatening more violence against Trump, threatening more Trump supporters. Because that’s what they’re left with. Whether it’s the pastor in Tennessee threatening violence against Elon Musk and Trump and Trump supporters. Maxine Waters talking like some crazed character from some B-movie. And I can’t wait to share with you this article by Mara Gay, who is a leftist opinion writer at the New York Times. Articles entitled, I’m Getting More and More Furious. Chuck Schumer is Changing Directions. And Mara Gay salutes Chuck Schumer’s welcome sign of life. Wait till you hear the way she characterizes her conversation today. With Chuck Schumer. She’s a member of the New York Times editorial board. And I want you to hear how the Democrats think they’ve got Trump now. They’ve got a new approach. It’s a whole new way of doing things. And a new welcome sign of life to them. I’ve got to share the contents of this article. In the meantime, I also want to talk to you. Welcome into the Mike Gallagher Show for a Tuesday afternoon. In the Relief Factor Studios, one phone call does it all. You can call or text 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Hope you join us.
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The Mike Gallagher Show.
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We will win. We will win. We won’t rest. We won’t rest. We won’t rest. We won’t rest. Thank you, everybody.
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In the ReliefFactor.com studios, here’s Mike.
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It’s like characters in a horror movie. Chuck Schumer and crazed Maxine Waters And lunatic Al Green with the gold cane. The gold cane just does it for me. I’m obsessed with that cane. He waves that thing around. Does he need the cane? Or is it just for effect? Hey, Houston, you’ve got to call me and tell me why Al Green, your real brilliant congressman, the guy that has already introduced articles of impeachment against President Trump, why he’s got that cane. Maybe he was injured. I think I need a nifty cane. I want to walk around with a cane with a big gold handle like he has. And I’ll just bring it into the show with me. Hey, you’re watching on the Salem News Channel. I’ll start waving it at you. When I get fired up, I’ll just wave that cane around. Look, it’s all fun and games until you hit Maxine in the head and knock her wig off. Then you’re going to have a real mess on your hands. You’ve got to be very careful with that gold cane. And it does. They’re like characters in a satirical, crazy, Wes Anderson, Fellini movie. We won’t stop. We won’t stop. He’s the one. Mara Gay says, Chuck’s getting mad. He’s getting mad. He’s getting angry. Hey, we’ve got big, big news. First of all, we’ve got two very distinct trips coming up later this year. We’re going to take you to Alaska, and I hope you can set sail with us. The Patriots Alaska Cruise 2.0. Larry Elder and I will be your co-hosts. The great Jersey Joe Piscopo and Jennifer Horn will be our special guests. We’ll entertain you on the ship, off the ship. We’ll sightsee. We’ll go whale watching. Joe wants to go dog sledding. I might have to join him for that. I might be up for a good old dog sled. I’ll dress up like Yukon Cornelius and scream mush, mush, mush, mush. Make it a point today to consider joining us for the summer vacation that you’ll never forget. August 16th through the 23rd, cabins are being booked fast. Staterooms are going quickly. When they’re gone, they’re gone. It costs, I think, $300 to secure your stateroom for the Patriots Alaska cruise. Again, August 16th through the 23rd. For all the details, visit TravelWithSalem.com. TravelWithSalem.com. That’s TravelWithSalem.com. It’ll be a summer vacation unlike anything you’ve ever seen. And then a very special trip in October. We’re going back to the Holy Land. We’ll be taking a group of listeners to Israel. We’re going to be commemorating the anniversary of… October 7th, we’ll be broadcasting from Jerusalem, and we’re going to have about 100 slots available. Those details aren’t yet quite out. Completed, but we’re close. We’re very close. We’ll be telling you all about it. So keep an eye. The great site to look at our trips, travelwithsalem.com. That’s travelwithsalem.com. You can see the itinerary. You can see the pricing. And again, $300 reserves your stateroom. And when they’re gone, they’re gone. They’re going fast. Travelwithsalem.com. Mike’s in Connecticut. Hey, Mike, thanks for your patience. Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show. Hello. Hello.
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Thanks, Mike. You know, I tell you, for the last four years, I thought our founding fathers messed something up when they wrote the Constitution. It’s like, how can these people that think they own the world, these long-term people in our government… just get away with what they’ve been doing and enriching themselves and destroying our fishing grounds with windmills and our forests with the solar panels. Like, how could they get away with that? And I was just so relieved when Trump won. You know, I had a dream the night before that he won, and I was so disappointed. It was just a dream in the morning, you know, and then he actually won, and I was so happy. But, um…
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It’s a new goal. It’s a golden age. There’s no question. There’s something very different right now about the spirit and the attitude of the American people. I played the clip for you yesterday from CBS, and they’re just astounded at the polling. I mean, things big and small. Even Jon Stewart agrees with Trump’s ban on paper straws. that we’re bringing back plastic straws again. Here was the president signing the executive order in the Oval Office.
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We’re going back to plastic straws. These things don’t work. I’ve had them many times, and on occasion they break, they explode. If something’s hot, they don’t last very long, like a matter of minutes, sometimes a matter of seconds. It’s a ridiculous situation. So we’re going back to plastic straws. I think it’s okay.
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And he gets out the famous pen and writes the famous signature on executive order, banning paper straws. My gosh. I mean, that’s why he’s got this level of approval. Here was a segment that I just could not believe my eyes or ears. CNN. Harry Enten. This is the numbers guy, the polling guy, the data guru over at CNN.
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And holy smokes, I mean, look at what the difference is between now versus eight years ago during the first Trump term, right? This is Trump’s net approval rating on February 10th. You go back to 2017, Trump was already underwater at minus five points on the net approval rating. That’s approval minus disapproval. What a difference eight years makes. He’s on the positive side of the ledger. plus four points. And again, it’s not just the CBS News poll. We’re talking about the Gallup poll. We’re talking about the Ipsos poll. We are talking about the Pew poll. All of these respective pollsters have Trump in a better position now than they did eight years ago. The bottom line is Americans are far more likely to say they like what they’re seeing now versus what they felt during Trump’s first term.
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OK, so how rare is this? Are you going to show us sort of where we’re at now and how rare it is that this? Yeah.
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So I want you to take a look at this plus size, this plus sign. Right. Compare that to the negative sign being on the plus size of the ledger. Right. And positive net approval territory, a positive net approval rating for Donald Trump. Again, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Entire first term, just 11 days, just 11 days, Donald Trump had a net positive approval rating. Compare that to the second term just so far, just so far. Every single day of Trump’s second term so far, he has been on the positive side of the ledger. 21 days, all three weeks, that’s already 10 more days than he was in his entire term. first term. So again, this is just another sign that Americans are far more likely to like what they’re seeing in his second term than they were during his first term.
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He also won the popular vote in his second term. So it stands to reason that there would be more people that would approve of some of what he’s doing. Is there something that Americans say about why it is that they that they like him now more than they did back in the first term?
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You know, I think one of the things that’s so important for politicians is for folks to believe what they’re saying and that they’re keeping their campaign promises. So I think this gives you a pretty gosh darn good idea of what may be going on. Trump’s doing what he promised to do. You go back to April of 2017. It was just 46 percent. of all Americans who said that Trump was doing what he promised to do. Compare that now to February of 2025. You know, there was a good show that was on during the 1990s called A Different World. That is what’s going on right now. We’re living in a different world. 70% of Americans say Trump is doing what he promised to do. Again, compare that to April of 2017, when it’s just 46%. When Americans are 24 points more likely to say that you’re doing what you promised to do, it’s no wonder that your net approval rating is much more likely to be on the positive side of the ledger than on the negative side. And so far, what we’re seeing again is Americans 21 days so far versus just 11 days during his entire first term that Trump has a positive net approval rating.
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Soak it up. Enjoy it. The golden age is here.
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Mike Gallagher. Every day, Mike visits with Mark Davis, morning host on 660 AM, The Answer in Dallas. Here’s today’s Eminem experience.
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And the rest. And the rest.
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What happened to Professor and Marianne? Professor and Marianne. Don Wells and Russell Johnson got screwed in season number one. Why? They weren’t characters? No, they were totally there. I guess they were. Sherwood Schwartz, the genius who gave us Gilligan’s Island and Brady Bunch, by the way. Um, I guess they thought it scanned better than the professor. There was like a lot of syllables or something. So in season one, it was a movie star and the rest like, whoa, right? What? So out of all those, one of the best casts, one of the best concepts, one of the goofiest and most wonderful, wonderful shows that stands the test of time. One cast member alive birthday today. Who is it? Tina Louise. Bingo. How old? 109. Nope. She’s 93. Is she really? I wasn’t that far off. I saw a recent interview with her and got her marbles, still kind of with it, kind of feisty. It was very cool. It’s funny. When you say 109, there is a member of that cast who right now would be 125. Who? The Skipper. Nope. Alan Hale. Nope.
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Gilligan? Nope. I don’t know. Lovey.
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Oh, Jim Backus. No, Lovey. Jim Backus, born 1913. Lovey, the great Natalie… What was Natalie’s last name? Born 1900. Natalie Hayward, or was it? Natalie…
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See, listen, you wouldn’t get this information anywhere else except for the M&M experience.
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That is exactly right.
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You want to know how old Lovey and Honeydubby or whatever his name was, the hubby was. Natalie Schaefer.
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Natalie Schaefer. I should be flawed. Yeah, of course. Of course. We all know Natalie Schaefer. By the way, and it’s funny, I’m sorry, with all these Twitter accounts and stuff, with regard to Gilligan’s Island, somebody put up a wonderful, beautiful picture of Lovey. Who was a beautiful woman in her own right. And the point of the tweet was, you know, because everybody talks about Ginger Marian, Ginger Marian. And the point of the tweet was, you know, you did have a third option on that island. Exactly right. All right. So happy Tuesday. Happy Tuesday.
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Well, let’s talk about options. I’ve been exploring my options, career options after yesterday’s show.
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No, no, no. What happened? No.
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Let me tell you what happened. And incidentally, I got an email this morning right before I walked into the studio. Hi, Mike. We found your profile. We think you might be interested in the following job opportunity. Creative Director, location Chicago. You might also like these positions. Associate Director, Public Sector Growth Campaigns, Rolling Meadows, Illinois. After what happened yesterday on the air, I absolutely am ready to take it to… What did you do? What did listeners do? What happened? I wanted to talk to somebody who doesn’t like Trump. Okay. I wanted to ask somebody who doesn’t like his agenda, doesn’t like him, a Kamala supporter, how does it feel to see a stadium full of people cheering him wildly? What does that do to you? Psychologically. Psychologically, your heart. And I thought this is going to be easy, right, Mark? It was like the bus pulled up from the asylum and the people got off the bus and they all started to call the Mike Gallagher show. You couldn’t understand half of them. They were talking in gibberish. One guy, you could not understand. And a lot of them weren’t even talking into the mouthpiece of the phone. I could not find a single rational Trump opponent who would call the show, and I tried for 45 minutes. Look, by the end of the hour, I was staring into the abyss. I thought, my dream job of driving the monorail at Disney World awaits me. I’m going to leave. I’m going to apply. I would be so good at that. I put the little cap on in the front of the train. Hi, everybody. I used to be Mike Gallagher. Welcome to the world’s happiest place.
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I used to be Mike Gallagher.
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i mean yeah i mean i don’t i’m out i’m out how hard can this be as you ask this question it turns out there were two bad things that could happen one nobody responded or two people responded boy did they did oh they responded the phones blew up and it was like caller after call and i and people were like bagging on theresa my poor call screener saying do you vet any of these calls i said yes i said the criteria is i mean i dare you to do it with your audience i think i just i dare
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I think it just got one unsolicited, which is, you know, fine. But but but you were asking. What did they say? What did they say? It was it was a lady who thought it was just awesome that judges are interrupting some of the Trump agenda items. And we want to talk about that.
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We want to talk about that. I want to get to that. But what I would love for you to do. And incidentally, do you realize in the history of the Eminem experience, we’ve never taken a call? Oh, nor will we. You don’t want to? What’s your show?
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Why not?
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More and more you and me, dude. Wouldn’t it be fun to hear from somebody who can say, well, this is what I was feeling.
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I love the public, but no. You don’t love them that much. And I’m half kidding, but only half.
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I know you are. But it would be kind of, I would love to find somebody. I want to talk to one of the, I mean, what did they say? You know, I mean, the first thing they did was they lied about it. Oh, you got booed. They just, that was gaslighting 101.
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I heard that too. And I also, there was an adjunct to that, that when the famous footage of when they showed Trump saluting for the national anthem and the cheers went up, that that was an applause track played from the stadium sound system.
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And you know why? No, no, not even the stadium sound system. You know why that conspiracy theory came about? Because it was a Fox broadcast. Did you notice how they were promoting Fox News Channel all throughout the Super Bowl? Did you catch that? Sure. And they never normally do that much. They really wanted to go all out and promote the Fox News Channel brand with that massive audience. So people, conspiracy kooks, the nuts, said, oh, Fox News? Okay, Fox. They were piping in the cheers. I mean, and I just wondered, I think I got a couple of emails about it from Trump haters who said, everybody’s been brainwashed. We’re the smart ones. And all of you people are dummies. That’s their mindset.
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They think every lady on the phone is it wasn’t a thoughtful and God bless her. And I love her and I love all people. But it was like that all the people I said, 77 million people, ma’am, 77, because it was all Trump is the devil. Trump is gaslighting everybody. Trump is deceiving everybody. So 77 million people are stupider than you. It’s not a difference of opinion. It’s just that we’re not smart enough to be you. Oh, I didn’t say that. Don’t put words in my mouth.
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It’s the way they have to cope. And here’s the problem that Democrats have, which leads us to what they’re doing now with these activist judges trying to thwart Trump’s agenda. Democrats suffer from a complete lack of imagination. They can never pivot. They always go back to the same well over and over and over again. For example, the progressives have destroyed their party. They’ve just obliterated it. The lefties, the AOCs, the Ilhan Omars, all this radical crazy, these activist district attorneys, all of that comes from that playbook, and they’re not pivoting away from that. They’re not changing. Look, we better hold on to our hats and worry if they ever realize that they could pivot to the middle. No, absolutely not. If they pivoted to the center, more like John Fetterman. But they won’t do that, and that’s good for our side. They may never win another election. But here’s the other thing they keep going back to. Lawfare. Lawfare, lawfare, lawfare. It’s all they got, Mark. They tried it for four years with Trump. They did everything they could in their power to weaponize the court system. Well, they’re doing it again. Now they find activist judges, all Democrat appointees, who hate Trump.
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I think there’s a Republican in the woodpile in there somewhere, I believe.
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There’s one or two, but for the most part, these are Democrats. And look, we’ve learned by now, lots of Republicans in name only that hate Trump, right? And what they’re doing is they’re trying to subvert his agenda. I love what J.D. Vance put on social media. Imagine if some lone district judge somewhere tried to tell the military how to fight a war and subverted a military action. That’s the same thing. They’re just… And last night, for example, on CNN, the great Scott Jennings mixed it up with Gretchen Carlson, of all people. What happened to her? She’s… I know. I used to be on her show all the time.
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Former Miss America, former Channel 5, locally.
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I love her. I used to be on her show regularly. I was one of her regulars back in the day when she was a daytime Fox News host. And, you know, she famously, you know, she ran, you know what she did to Roger Ailes, right? What? Do you know the whole, do you remember that backstory? She felt the late Roger Ailes was sexually harassing her. So she went into his office with her iPhone running. She taped him and she secretly, covertly recorded him saying apparently inappropriate things. And when she plopped the iPhone down in front of the Fox News News Corp lawyers, they said, let’s get out the checkbook. She got a lot of money.
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I was going to say, when you said she went in and had a phone recorder going, the first thing I said is, did she catch him? What did he do? I mean, that might not be my favorite thing, but guess what? You can look it up. No, I don’t doubt. No, I’m just saying. If somebody…
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Well, anyway, she got a big settlement and now apparently she’s an occasional panelist on CNN and MSNBC. She’s gone far left. She wasn’t like that when I was back in the day. I remember working with her and I was a guest regularly and she was kind of a fairly right of center, you know, kind of Fox News talking head. Anyway, they mixed it up and Scott Jennings was saying, look, They’re using lawfare all over again. And here’s the thing. And Abby Phillips pushed back and said, well, that’s what the Supreme Court is for. And as Scott so rightly pointed out, yeah, but it’s the delay that matters. It’ll take a long time. That’s what they’re trying to do, Mark. They just want to delay it. The delay is the point. hobble him again for two three four years i don’t think it’s going to work this time i believe there’s as scott mentioned emergency injunctions that the court can step in because thankfully we have a majority constitutionalist court yes we do so they’re going to they’re going to adhere to the constitution what else we have judges what else we have is the court of public opinion did you watch the latest clip of harry enton
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On CNN, again, Scott Jennings, Harry Enten, both employed by CNN. All Scott Jennings does is get out there and say magnificent conservative things. All Harry Enten, their data guy, does is show more polls that show that America loves what’s going on. He said he’s had a positive rating every day. We got 70 percent who say that he is keeping his campaign promises compared to 46 in the opening days of the 2017 administration. And it’s like we have the approval for the moment. Cross your fingers. We have the strong approval of the public for him doing what he is doing.
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Did you notice the anchor that was on set with Harry Enten when he went on that whole spiel? Did you see her? She looks so constipated. She is so angry. She looks like she’s getting ready to break out into tears. And remember the big takeaway? He said 21 days of positivity numbers for him. He only had 14 total positive days in the first four-year term.
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We’re in uncharted territory.
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I mean, cope and seethe. Seethe and cope. So I’m loving it. Tracy went out and framed a New York Post for me. I got a New York Post cover framed in my studio, Trump shot, and the big iconic picture with the blue background and the American flag and the bloodstream. Fight, fight, fight. And now… We’ve got a second edition to it. I’m so proud of this. The Golden Age of America, the cover of the New York Post showing him being sworn in. And we’re going to put them side by side. It’s extraordinary. I hope we all are appreciating and relishing what a time it is to be alive. These times will never come again.
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Not just like this. I hope we can have 12 straight years of MAGA and more with two terms of J.D. Vance or whoever. But just like this. Just enjoy every day. I know I do, especially when we get to chat.
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I do, too, especially when we do the M&M Experience. I love you, too. See you tomorrow.
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