Join us in this episode as we dive into a whirlwind of topics that have been making headlines. From the perplexing details of the Epstein files to the Tate brothers’ return from Romania, we dissect the controversies and opinions swirling around these widely discussed stories. Our hosts navigate through the political landscape, examining Governor Ron DeSantis’ recent remarks that have stirred quite a debate. This discussion expands further into the realms of media influence, touching on the narratives pushed by popular figures and how they shape public perception. Discover insights and varied opinions on cultural dynamics, as we explore
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SPEAKER 01 :
Mike Gallagher. Every day Mike visits with Mark Davis. Morning host on 660 AM The Answer in Dallas. Here’s today’s Eminem experience.
SPEAKER 02 :
All right. So anyway, I’m in here. I’m in our studios. I zoom along and I’ve got a pretty good grasp of topics. You know, I’ve got a pretty good understanding of where I stand, how I feel. You know, you do too. You know how you feel like you get that, you have that confidence. Yeah. I’ve had a streak, and it’s been for a long time. Today I wake up totally mystified by about three things.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, tell me.
SPEAKER 02 :
First of all, the Epstein files. Okay, let’s go. There is World War III breaking out, DEFCON 1, MAGA’s revolting against Pam Bondi, Elon’s coming to Pam Bondi’s defense. So first of all, let me give you all three real quick, and then I want you to go back on them one by one. And I’m lost on that. I don’t even understand what the significance is. I can help you. This guy was a mover and shaker who hung out with everybody, including Donald Trump. Correct. So let’s just pump the brakes a little bit.
SPEAKER 03 :
Be careful what you wish for.
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Yeah, if you’re on the plane, I don’t know what that means that you’re raping kids. So I don’t know what that’s all about. So that’s point number one. Number two, the Tate brothers. The Tate brothers, they come home from Romania, allegedly with an assist from President Trump. Not sure if that’s true or not. I don’t think they’ve been convicted of anything. I think they were incarcerated. I know they’re world-class pigs. They’re a couple of misogynists, and they brag about dominating women and all this nasty stuff. Governor Ron DeSantis announces they’re not welcome in the state of Florida. Excuse me? I know. What does that mean, you’re not welcome? That’s the kind of thing that leftist, wacko, liberal Democrats do.
SPEAKER 03 :
If somebody said, New York, you’re not welcome in New York, your views aren’t New York values.
SPEAKER 02 :
Andrew Cuomo was talking about that. It was Andrew Cuomo. He said, if you’re pro-life… Your values don’t line up with New Yorkers, and you’re not welcome here. And I remember my head exploded. I thought, who the heck are you to tell anybody you disagree with they’re not welcome here? Well, I got to say it, and I love the governor of my state. I appreciate him. Who the heck is he to say they’re not welcome in the state?
SPEAKER 03 :
You are correct, sir. Okay. There’s number two.
SPEAKER 02 :
What’s number two? Number two, the Gene Hackman death and the wife and the dog. Guess what? You and I both assume carbon monoxide. Cops are saying, uh-uh.
SPEAKER 03 :
They’ve used the word suspicious, and I think there’s a family member, a daughter or something, saying, oh, totally carbon monoxide, totally carbon monoxide, as if to divert us from something. I don’t know. Let’s set that aside for two seconds, because the first two have something in common. Epstein, and let’s do the one that’s so easily dismissible, the Tate brothers, Andrew and Tristan. These are like, just bizarre. When you think about toxic masculinity, this really is that. And I don’t care. I don’t care about them. They’re kind of cartoon characters. It’s clickbait. It’s designed to attract attention to them. And I just assume not curry, that kind of thing. But it does. It’s a magnet for reaction. Is America too feminized and wimpified and softened? Yes. You don’t let the pendulum swing so far back that you go to this. So that’s just blah, blah, blah, blah. The first one, the Epstein thing.
SPEAKER 02 :
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Let’s not end there, though. Because here’s the thing. I’m with you. I didn’t care about them. I could give a wit about the Tate brothers and toxic. But I start caring when the governor says they’re not welcome here.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s dumb. Totally right.
SPEAKER 02 :
Is he currying favor with people? Why would he? Why would Ron DeSantis do that?
SPEAKER 03 :
Anytime you find somebody doing that, you’re right. It’s to curry favor with a certain constituency. If something or somebody is really unpopular and you want to hop on board the unpopularity train, it’s virtue signaling. It’s like, I am as offended by them. But you’re doubly, triply right. So be offended. Call them jerks, whatever you want to do. Don’t tell them you’re not welcome in the state.
SPEAKER 02 :
You’re the governor of the state. To say that, that’s a chilling effect. And you know what breaks my heart? Ron DeSantis doesn’t strike me as a guy who cares about virtue signaling.
SPEAKER 03 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 02 :
So maybe he is. I mean, you’ve got a very interesting drama. He wants his wife, of all people, to run for governor. You’ve got Byron Donalds, who’s fantastic.
SPEAKER 03 :
Already announced.
SPEAKER 02 :
And Trump has already endorsed him. Yep. And DeSantis is now dunking on Byron Donalds and saying he wants. What the heck is going on?
SPEAKER 03 :
Casey DeSantis ain’t going to run. I think that’s a bit. I don’t think so. She’s a neat lady, an accomplished woman, a smart woman. She’s wonderful. She ain’t Byron Donalds.
SPEAKER 02 :
That’s an easy primary. Somebody better tell Governor DeSantis that. All right, go back. So I didn’t mean to interrupt you, but I wanted to go back.
SPEAKER 03 :
Epstein is just so weird. He’s a creep. He’s a pervert. So that’s going to attract lascivious attention. And he didn’t kill himself. And he sure as heck didn’t kill himself either. And so it’s like maybe the files will elicit.
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attention to who might have offed him, who’s so powerful as to have wanted him killed in prison. You think of a bunch of people on a plane to an island. It’s like a bad movie script. So there’s just an enormous amount of prurient interest paid to this. There is a certain—and excuse me, Lord, and excuse me, Mike—there’s a certain Tucker Carlson bug-eyed attention to both the Tate brothers’ story and the Epstein story.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Is there something of some interest there? Sure. But I’ve been telling people for weeks and weeks and weeks, there’s not doodly squat that’s come out of these stupid Epstein files other than a list of people who might have been on a plane with him at some point, which is not significant in the least.
SPEAKER 02 :
I totally agree, except for your cheap shot against my man Tucker.
SPEAKER 03 :
Your boy gets crazier by the day.
SPEAKER 02 :
You leave him alone. Look, did you see Adam Kinzinger, what he said about Tucker Carlson? He was going to kill him. No, no, no. Dan Crenshaw. I get them mixed up. Excuse me. They’re sometimes interchangeable. I mean, what’s happened to Dan Crenshaw?
SPEAKER 03 :
Why don’t you call Crenshaw what your boy calls him? I don’t like that phrase. I patch McCain.
SPEAKER 02 :
I’m sorry. I don’t like that. That’s your boy. That’s your boy. Well, he’s edgy. He’s got some sharp elbows.
SPEAKER 03 :
And he’s great. 80% of Tucker Carlson is genius, sharp-edged conservative commentary.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, it’s weird, though, that Crenshaw… On tape, absolutely said, I’ll kill him if I ever see him, and I’m not kidding. And then he denied it. Marjorie Taylor Greene called him out on social media, and he goes, LOL, I didn’t say that. No, I didn’t. Well, yeah, you did. It was on tape. What the heck’s wrong with him?
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Okay, Hackman. First of all, an entire day yesterday, there’s a clip I’m going to play. Have you seen him on Larry King Live? I did. Talking about how much he loved Reagan. I mean, he said, I’m a Democrat, but what a great American.
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He loved what Reagan felt about America. He just loved it. I love that. It was amazing.
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Loved Gene Hackman. What a career. People were just burying me in movies. Not that I’d forgotten, but there’s just so many. It’s like, what about this? What about this? But what in the world happened in that house, Mike?
SPEAKER 02 :
I mean, so here’s the clues we have. There were apparently scattered pills found around her body. In a different part of the house. A different room. The dog was found closed in a closet, dead.
SPEAKER 03 :
But there are two living dogs walking around the house.
SPEAKER 02 :
Right. Gene Hackman was found fallen on the, and it looked like he abruptly fell. His sunglasses were by his body. So here’s what, I mean, we shouldn’t do this. This is gross. But what the heck? It’s a Friday. And, you know, I mean, I’m sorry for what happened. I mean, but here’s the theory that I saw on social media. He fell and died. He’s 95, you know, and so she finds him and can’t live without him. Oh, Lord. Kills herself, takes an overdose of pills, and somehow, I don’t know how the dog wound up in the closet. The dog’s going, leave me out of this. Please, I got nothing to do with this. I just want to be a dog. So I don’t know, Mark. I mean, it’s the strangest thing I’ve ever heard. And what a life, what a career. What role did he ever play that you didn’t love him in?
SPEAKER 03 :
No, he made great movies, classics, and made mediocre movies pretty darn good. And if you can do that. He was 16 and lied about his age to join the Marines. I know.
SPEAKER 02 :
He was a stunt pilot. Somebody called on my show yesterday and said he had one of those World War II vintage planes, and he and Clint Robertson used to go up and do dogfights. Cliff. Or Cliff Robertson would do dogfights. Mm-hmm. How about that house? I’m always intrigued by how people live in their post-fame years. It was built in 2000 in Santa Fe, a big mansion, 8,000 square feet. And it was kind of almost futuristic looking in the middle of beautiful Santa Fe. I don’t know. The whole thing has just got some intrigue and sad for all of them and sad for the family.
SPEAKER 03 :
Are we ever going to know? We get to this, whether it’s some prison escapee or some crime mystery. Will we ever really know?
SPEAKER 02 :
They’ll find out. I’ve got to believe. Don’t you think the autopsy will release at least the toxicology?
SPEAKER 03 :
Carbon monoxide, carbon monoxide, carbon monoxide. Local sheriff said, no sign of a gas leak.
SPEAKER 02 :
That’s what I mean. Okay. That’s what I’m saying. Then what? Then what could it possibly have been? I don’t know. All I know is I got a couple shows to see this weekend. I’m going to get my theater fix. I’m going to see The Outsiders tonight, which is, remember the movie with Rob Lowe?
SPEAKER 03 :
From the S.E. Hinton novel?
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And apparently it’s a pretty good musical. And then tomorrow night, I can’t wait to see Death Becomes Her, which is another Broadway show of a movie.
SPEAKER 03 :
Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, where somebody got a hole blown out of her midsection.
SPEAKER 02 :
And a lot of people think it’s one of the most underrated films. fall-down funny movies of all time, and I hear it is a great Broadway musical, believe it or not.
SPEAKER 03 :
You’ll tell us. There we go.
SPEAKER 02 :
You’ll tell us. All right. Happy Friday. I love you. Have a great weekend. Mike’s in New York.
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