Join us as we explore the world of politics, broadcasting, and more. The conversation takes a lighter turn with discussions about the Philadelphia Eagles’ decision to skip the White House invitation and the upcoming National Religious Broadcasters Convention. Mike and Mark share personal anecdotes and plans, while humorously keeping their exclusive lunch plans under wraps. Tune in for an engaging mix of politics, culture, and industry insights.
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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 M&M experience.
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I am absolutely spent just trying to prepare the show. I am exhausted by Monday morning at 735. There’s like 11 things that happened since we were – well, we would have been together Friday morning. That’s right. Let’s start with me trying to stick to my rule of never – wallowing in the joy of a reprehensible person being fired for the job. I know. I don’t like it when people celebrate somebody’s career demise. But, but, but, Joy Reid is as odious as anybody out there on television. Yep.
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she is so grotesque she is and it turns out calling everybody a racist nazi every night evidently doesn’t doesn’t even work for msnbc i would love to think that at msnbc they had a meeting and said look we are the liberal trump hating network but but she’s too toxic even for us okay and maybe that is what happened But they still employ Rachel Maddow. They still employ Lawrence O’Donnell. Every other show has the same garbage. So I don’t think this is some epiphany from them. Have you seen who they’re going to replace her with?
SPEAKER 09 :
You think Simone Sanders is any better than Joy Reid?
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s kind of where I’m going.
SPEAKER 09 :
Or Michael Steele? Or the daughter of the disgraced Bob Menendez of New Jersey. That’s the trio that they’re going to replace her with. So, no, it has nothing. She’s just not good. I mean, she’s not very smart. I mean, and she has been in a… So, anyway, you got Joy. This is our weekend. Joy Reid is out. Dan Bongino is in. As FBI deputy director, if you told me a year ago, I’d wake up one morning and tell my buddy Mark Davis, well, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are going to run Trump’s FBI. Yep. I would have thought you were crazy. Yep. Now, you said something earlier that rings true. This is exactly what we voted for. Yeah. Byron York had a very wry observation this morning on social media, saying that Politico is writing how the selection of Dan Bongino is really, really leading the left to great despair over the weaponization of the FBI. Oh, really? And Byron asks, can anyone argue with a straight face that the FBI has not been highly politicized for years?
SPEAKER 08 :
Does a fish know he’s wet? So that led me to say that the FBI’s politicization has been so baked in for so long that if you have benefited from that politicization… To have that politicization removed looks like politicization, since everything’s relative, right? It’s like when Twitter went from being a conservative muzzle to free speech, it made it look like they went hardcore right-wing to some people who are hardcore left-wing. Everything’s relative.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, it’s all relative, and all I can think of is they made a big mistake when they raided Melania’s underwear drawer. Yes, yes, yes. Blank around and find out. And now we’re in the find out portion of when that happened. I’m not kidding you. This is Trump, as the kids say, he doesn’t have two craps to give. He doesn’t care about optics. He doesn’t care about any of it. He is like, you know what? I got four years. to turn this whole ship around. And he’s going to blow up every single sacred cow there is. Meanwhile, he fires the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. You know, not noticed on the mainstream media radar is the James O’Keefe video where O’Keefe released a video that purportedly showed a high-level Pentagon official discovering secret meetings to defy and potentially overthrow Trump if he issued orders deemed controversial by military leadership. Let’s just take stock here. All Trump did, what Trump did was he prevented a coup. And this guy, this chairman of the Joint Chiefs, is well-known to be woke, well-known all about diversity, equity, and inclusion. Which does not help us win wars. It does not help us win wars, has no place for that. And look, they all serve at the pleasure of the president. There’s nothing unusual about this. Imagine your employer saying to you, Mark, I want you to give me an email. Tell us five things you accomplished last week. And your head blows up. Exactly. Well, now in your case, yours might. Now, yours might. I mean, I don’t think they would do that with you, but they could with me. I don’t know. And I say, okay, well, here’s what I did. I achieved this, we got that. But instead, they’re losing their marbles. This is absolutely, and here’s the big mistake everybody makes on this whole purging of the federal workforce. They all apply it to Elon Musk. Elon Musk serves at the pleasure of the president. This is Trump’s doge. It’s not Elon Musk’s doge. This is a little game they’re playing in the media because they want to have a rift between Elon and Trump. It isn’t going to work. They don’t care. They don’t care. Let them do it. Let them bellyache. Let them whimper. Let them whine. Let them flip out. Let them refuse to go to the White House like the Philadelphia Eagles are doing.
SPEAKER 08 :
They had not gotten to this. The Philadelphia Eagles sent a little informal poll around the room, and most of them came back with a hard no that they will not go to the White House as championship teams in various sports traditionally have done for decades.
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Another reason to hate the Eagles. As if I needed one.
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And so consistency check, it led me to post last night, shame on any team that does not accept the White House invitation. And I would say that even if I were fighting my way through a miserable Kamala Harris presidency.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I mean, look at the chiefs. The chiefs went to the Biden White House to be acknowledged. And I don’t think a lot of those guys like Joe Biden. A lot of them are pretty. They’re pretty MAGA. You know, that’s why I was really, really, really rooting for the chiefs. And I’m sad about it. But there’s just classless. It’s tacky. That’s who they are. They’re just they’re just they’re just a bunch of garbage people. And and again, let them let them bellyache. They don’t have to go. Who cares? Don’t don’t go. It gives President Trump more time to do something else.
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But decorum and manners and decency mean something, and this is a Super Bowl championship team. Well, it does to you and me.
SPEAKER 09 :
It should. It does to you and me. No, it doesn’t matter to a lot of people, unfortunately, on the left who are melting down in a magnificent way. Honest to goodness, when I was at the White House last week and talked to Gorka, and I’ve never seen him so happy. I talked to him again over the weekend. I mean, it really – we just have to remember – that all these things that are being rolled out are precisely what the American people expect, what we voted for, and what we’re going to witness.
SPEAKER 08 :
And they’re actually happening. That’s why there’s such shock. They’re actually happening throughout your entire life and mine. Republicans win. Yay. We’re looking for better results than if a Democrat had won. Absolutely. But we’re going to have usually 14 blue ribbon panels and 27 legislative committees, and your grandchildren will be grown before actual change happens. Now, we’re a month in, a month into Trump 2.0. Look at all the change. The change is real. It is blinding in its pace, and things are actually happening, and that is a historic moment. first. Oh, it’s huge.
SPEAKER 09 :
It’s huge. That’s why I’m excited about coming to the Metroplex. I’ll be on the plane later today. We’re headed to Dallas for the big National Religious Broadcasters Convention over at the Gaylord. We had a staffer over there, not part of my show, but a staffer who wrote to one of the Salem executives and said, gosh, it’s so expensive to eat here. Are there places off property that I can go get lunch? I can’t afford the meals here at the Gaylord.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know who’s upstairs right now? Literally, I went up and said hi at 6 o’clock this morning. Chris Stegall and his producer, Eddie. Fast Eddie. Fast Eddie, exactly. Who I talked to. I filled in for Stegall last week. And it was great to see these guys and their state of the game, Lord. And so I was giving them all kinds of restaurant recommendations in Grapevine and Southlake, just like delis and other sort of some medium-cost things and low-cost things and some other high-dollar things just for whatever they want to do. And he said, yeah, listen, the chicken fingers and a Coke for $30, that’s just not sustainable.
SPEAKER 06 :
Who said that? Chris? No, Eddie. Oh, Eddie, yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Eddie’s not happy. Well, it was kind of funny. Obviously, you just outed him because he’s the guy that was concerned about the prices at the hotel. Oh, that’s awesome. I wasn’t going to mention his name.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, both Chris and Eddie are going to come down and sit in with me at about 835 for a quick segment. So I will… Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, tell Eddie, remind Eddie that he is on a business trip and he’s allowed to expense his meals. He may not know how Salem works, but when they travel, when any of us travel, you’re allowed to turn. Now, where are we going? Mesa? I forget. What restaurant are we going to? We’re going. Dude. You want to be mobbed?
SPEAKER 08 :
No. There will be no mention made of that. We have a very special group of listeners that you have been kind enough to gather. And then we will be doing that tomorrow at noon, which is awesome. And then we’ll talk about it afterward.
SPEAKER 06 :
Wait a minute. You’re not mentioning the restaurant? No. Dude, are you crazy? Why? Why not? Do you want to be mobbed in the parking lot? Sure, why not? What the heck? Why not? We’ll say hi to people.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, Lord.
SPEAKER 09 :
We’re meeting in secret? This is a secret society? Now, wait a minute. Go back. Let me remind everybody. We did a big… You came up with a great idea. You offered eight people to join us for an in-person M&M experience for lunch. For a donation to Food for the Poor. Exactly. $1,000, which is great. Just a quick, cool $8,000, which will feed a lot of kids, save a lot of lives. I agreed to meet you with these eight wonderful people for lunch tomorrow after I get off the air. Are you going to tell me where to go? I texted it to you.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know where to go. They know where to go. I’m not going to have our time with these generous people splintered out because 50 other folks decided, Mark, Mark, Mark.
SPEAKER 09 :
You are seriously keeping this a secret?
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100%.
SPEAKER 09 :
Is there a secret handshake at the door?
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s a password. Is there a password? The people who show up, they knock three times and say, the coyote howls at midnight.
SPEAKER 09 :
I got a password. Mark is a kook. There’s my password. Mark is a kook. All right. Should I wear glasses? Should I wear dark glasses? Should I wear a trench coat? Oh, no. I want to know. Come on. Where are we going? You’re not going to say? No. Ronda, what’s wrong with this guy?
SPEAKER 08 :
We’ll tell everybody on Wednesday. It’ll be great.
SPEAKER 09 :
On Wednesday. It’s going to be a lot of fun.
SPEAKER 08 :
Have you met people? You’re the guy who’s on a cruise and is mobbed by people because it’s the magic of you. I love it. And by the way, you’re why this is necessary because I can walk around and nobody cares. Are you kidding me? You come rolling in, and it’s the Beatles on Ed Sullivan’s.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, please. You’re the legend around here. You’re the legend. I think you need to give people an opportunity to wave at you. Do we have a round? You were really big about having a round table.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, because if you’ve got 10 total people, the long table doesn’t work. Because if you’re at one end, you hardly feel like you’re there.
SPEAKER 09 :
So did you guys set up a round table? Absolutely. At what restaurant?
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Look at the time.
SPEAKER 09 :
Where are we going? I can’t believe. I’m going to tell anybody. You text me. And if you want to know, 800-655-MIKE. Let me look at my text. I may or may not send it out. I think this is crazy. I don’t know. Okay. It’s going to be fun.
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s like role reversal Monday. Because we love the public. Please look what we do.
SPEAKER 09 :
Look, the rumor that Mike Gallagher never leaves his stateroom on those cruises is just simply not true. It’s a vicious rumor. I love to get out and greet and meet and kiss babies. I am a man of the people. Now, Mark, on the other hand, you’ve got to do the secret handshake.
SPEAKER 08 :
If the idea is for me to be in a room of 500 people and shake every hand, I’ll be in a room of 500 people and shake every hand. If the idea is to take eight people at something that is specifically supposed to be for them… I’ll be darned if I’m going to send up a smoke signal that goes, Well, I can happily report that people are completely agreeing with you on the text line.
SPEAKER 09 :
Here’s Dallas. Oh, my goodness, Mike. People pay big bucks to be there with you and Mark. It is an exclusive event. Although Carlotta in Garland says, no, no, mention the name of the restaurant we want to be there.
SPEAKER 08 :
We’ll tell you all about it on Wednesday.
SPEAKER 09 :
All right, Wednesday it is, and I’ll see you tomorrow morning in person.
SPEAKER 07 :
Safe travels. All right, love you. So are we going to be looking at you at the Gaylord from your broadcast operation?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I’m going to be broadcasting from the Perch. We’re going to be on the stage there on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday for the big NRP. Can’t wait. See you soon. Safe travels, man. Thank you. That is Mike.
SPEAKER 08 :
He joins us tomorrow every day, 10 a.m. as soon as we’re done, right here on 660 AM.
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