In this episode of The Mike Gallagher Show, listeners are taken on an encouraging journey of philanthropy as we celebrate the success of our Food for the Poor campaign. Our combined efforts have resulted in raising over $385,000, providing life-saving meals to more than 3,600 children in some of the poorest areas around the world. Join Mike as he acknowledges the remarkable generosity of his colleagues and audience, underscoring the triumph of good over evil. Additionally, Mike delves into the critical Wisconsin Supreme Court race and its implications for the future of the U.S. judicial system. He emphasizes the
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What country are you from? Okay, we don’t give a crap about your opinion and your reporting. Why don’t you go back to your country where you have a major migrant problem? No, no, no, you should care about your own borders. No, no, no, let me tell you something. Do you care about people from your country? What about all the women that are raped by migrants? No, do you care? Okay, you’re done.
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In the ReliefFactor.com studios, here’s Mike.
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I need some goodness right now. I need some happiness. I got to share with you some good news. I really do. You know that March was the food for the poor campaign, and I want to brag on my colleagues. I want to brag on you. a few times a year we come to you and say, hey, let’s make the world a little better. Let’s save some lives, okay? And so in March, we set out to raise $40,000 for our Food for the Poor Christian Ministry partner. They feed starving children in some of the poorest neighborhoods cities and communities and villages in the world. Beautiful Christian ministry. I’ve got a very special place in my heart for them. They built a house in honor of my late wife. And right now, there’s a family in Jamaica that live in the Denise Gallagher house. They’ve got a door, a roof over their heads, windows. I mean, and believe me, those are luxuries to some of these parts of the world. And I’m going to brag on my colleagues for just a minute because, you know, you know the network lineup. You know Larry Elder and Hugh Hewitt and Eric Metaxas and Chris Stegall. These are my friends. They’re my colleagues. And everybody hit it out of the park. Larry Elder, great job, raised $40,000. I think he was $39,000. Hugh Hewitt, great job. His new time slot, his audience donated $51,000. Fantastic. Metaxas, terrific job. He’s on a lot of our Christian teaching and talk stations around the country. His audience, $31,000. Chris DeGaulle, the new kid on the block, our new morning host on the Salem Radio Network and Salem News Channel, $107,000, which was great. Remember, the goal here, $40,000. So way to go, Chris, for your first donor campaign. Spectacular. The Mike Gallagher audience, the Mike Gallagher Show family, $123,656. Extraordinary. Yeah. on behalf of all the school children and families in one of the most impoverished areas of the world, we collectively, I want to share with you, that number, the total number for all the Salem shows, $385,000. That means that life-saving meals are going to be provided to to 3,655 kids. Wow. Thank you. That’s the good that prevails over evil. That’s the news you need on a day when you hear that there’s something called the Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act being debated in the state of California. That’s the news you need. There is good in the world that will always triumph over evil. And look, it comes down to elections. Everything boils down right now to who leads this country. We can debate and we can fuss and we can go back and forth. But we absolutely must, must, must get these elections right. Brad Schimel is on the ballot. Wisconsin Supreme Court. He was on Fox News Channel, I believe with Laura Ingram. And I want to play for you a little clip of his reminder about why tomorrow’s election in the state of Wisconsin is so significant, so epic, so crucial. Why does this race matter so much?
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Little did I know when I got into this race 16 months ago that we were going to be called the most important race in America in 2025. And little did I know that we’d shatter the record of 56 million spent two years ago on the last Supreme Court race. Now it’s expected to go over 100 million on a court race in Wisconsin. The reason why my opponent got caught by The New York Times a month and a half ago or so getting on a Zoom call with our state Democratic Party chair and billionaire leftist donor Reid Hoffman, promising that if. She got elected on the court. They would turn two Republican congressional seats into Democrat congressional seats. Now, just yesterday, the minority leader in our House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, got caught saying the quiet thing out loud also, repeating that same promise that we’ve got to get her on the court and then the court will take over the role of the legislature and gerrymander out two Republican congressmen.
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Wisconsin voters, you can’t stay home. Wisconsin voters, you can’t be on the sidelines for this one. Please, you must do your duty. You’ve got to vote. If you haven’t voted already, and Democrats, of course, master the science of early voting, we’ve got to get better at it. We’ve got to take every path possible. And we did in November. Look what happened. And look at the lightning speed with which the Trump administration and the Senate and the House are getting things done. I mean, he’s so right about Hakeem Jeffries. You’ve got to hear this. This is their plan. They want the courts to rule the country. That’s their only chance. They don’t believe in elected officials because they know that… given our own, if we’re left up to our own devices, and if the American people get their say, we’re going to have what we have right now. And they can’t believe it. Look at the CBS News poll that just came out. CBS News polls got Trump at a 50% approval rating. Now, the truth is, that’s like a 90% approval rating when you consider everything that Trump is up against. You got everybody, as usual, gunning for him, literally and figuratively. 50% approval rating says CBS. Overwhelming support for the mass deportation, according to AP and other polling places that are not friendly to conservatives. Everything’s going to take time. We’ve got to see how things all unfold, but right now, people like what they see. But if Democrats get their way, you’re going to have judges running the country. They want to gerrymander. They want to redraw districts. That’s why they want the radical liberal candidate in Wisconsin back. to win, and they want Brad Schimel to lose. You’ve got to vote for Brad Schimel. You’ve got to vote for election integrity. It’s on the line right now in Wisconsin. Here’s the clip from Hakeem Jeffries outlining what Democrats will do to Wisconsin if they win tomorrow and they get a majority, a liberal progressive majority Supreme Court in the great state of Wisconsin.
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In Wisconsin, that’s a 50-50 race because we know Wisconsin’s a 50-50 state. And we have a strong Democratic candidate. Whoever wins is going to determine who has the majority in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Why is that important? Because… There are gerrymandered congressional lines right now in Wisconsin. Wisconsin’s a 50-50 state, as I mentioned, but there are six Republicans and only two Democrats out of an eight-person delegation because the lines are broken. And as soon as possible, we need to be able to revisit that and have fair lines. The only way for that to be even a significant possibility is is if you have an enlightened Supreme Court.
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An enlightened Supreme Court. Got it? You’ve got to be enlightened. If you’re a progressive, if you’re far left, you’re enlightened. And Brad Schimel is right. Hakeem Jeffries is not bright enough to keep from saying the quiet part out loud. We’ll get an enlightened Supreme Court We’re going to be able to gerrymander and redraw districts, and we’re going to get more Democrats in the House of Representatives, and then we’re going to get, hopefully, a House of Representatives that’s got a Democrat majority, and then we’ll tie Trump up by impeaching him on a weekly basis. We’ll do everything we can to hamstring the Trump administration. We’ll go back to impeaching every time the man sneezes. This is what they’re about. Right now you’ve got rogue judges like this Boasberg who winds up just magically, and don’t think the Republicans aren’t embarking on a huge investigative effort to find out how this happened. You’ve got hundreds and hundreds of federal judges, and somehow Boasberg has been assigned like four anti-Trump actions back to back to back to back. He’s a Trump-hating activist. He’s an activist judge who’s trying to thwart the Trump agenda. And this was the past for him. This is the result of the efforts of the past to put activist judges in the court system so they can stop any advancement of conservatism or even just common sense pragmatism in the federal government. So we got a lot on the line here. We’re going to spend a lot of time today on Wisconsin. In fact, we’re going to catch up with our newsman, Roger P. Shulman, to talk about why Wisconsin matters. You’ve got to show up. You cannot stay home tomorrow, Wisconsin. You’ve got to vote. We’ve got to win that. I know I saw over the weekend there was rainy, cold, miserable weather yesterday. and people were lined up in the rain to support Brad Schimel. Brad Schimel’s got to win tomorrow. Pray. And incidentally, if you’re not in Wisconsin, and if you haven’t been able to support his race any way you can nationally, you’ve got to pray. You’ve got to pray. You’ve got to pray. Don’t forget the power of prayer and our faith that we can get it right. Welcome in.
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I drove by a Tesla dealership Saturday to see the protesters. I took a picture of them, and I thought I’d post it, and I thought, nah, I don’t want to embarrass these people. It might be somebody’s neighbor or somebody’s co-worker. They were all a bunch of, well, just like me, they were white boomers. A bunch of white 50s and 60s and 70-year-old anti-Musk protesters. Some of the protests got a little boisterous around the country, a little more than others. I saw one, James Wood, the actor and prolific social media influencer now, big conservative, and he posted a video of a guy in a giant cyber truck. You know, those big boxy Cybertrucks from Tesla? You know, look, you’ve got to have the taste for that. I’m not exactly a fan, but hey… More power to you. To me, it looks like a giant mailbox on wheels. But anyway, some guy drove up to a group of protesters, and they all surrounded him and screamed at him, Shame on you, Nazi! And this lady, this 60-year-old lady leaned in, to this kind of burly guy driving the Cybertruck and she’s calling him a Nazi and he should be ashamed, blah, blah, blah. And she leaned onto the car and he said, get your hands off this car or I’ll break you in half. And she says, bring it on. I thought, what is wrong with this woman? What happens to these people? Look, you want to be mad at Elon? And incidentally, there’s all kinds of speculation that these are not even organic protests. These are all orchestrated and organized by these big money, far left groups. funded by the usual suspects. I don’t know. I don’t care. You want to stand outside a Tesla dealership and hold up a sandwich board? You knock yourself out. That’s the way you want to spend a Saturday? Do your thing. Of course, who am I? I went and drove by one. I took my Saturday to look at them. Here was Frank Pavone. No, let’s do Joe Rogan. I want to play the Joe Rogan analysis. Here’s a common sense guy, huge, you know, popular podcaster, one of the biggest podcasts on the planet. Here was Joe Rogan. sort of analyzing the people who thought it would be instructive and productive and helpful and beneficial to stand around and hold up signs that say things like, deport Elon Musk, Elon’s a Nazi, and all the rest of that. Here was Joe Rogan.
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They were giving out $1,000 for people to protest. I think it was Tesla. I’m not sure about that, but I think it was Tesla. So they had the rules of engagement. If someone comes after you, hit them in the body. Don’t pick up an object unless they pick up an object first. Are you organizing gangs? Are you guys paying money for people and then literally saying to them, here’s what happens if you engage in violence? Why is that even on the table? I thought you guys were peacefully protesting. Who’s going to get… How many pro-Tesla… The hooligans are out there beating people up for Tesla. Is it zero? I have not seen a bunch of pro-Tesla gang members out there. So what are you going to encounter with this anti-Tesla movement? The police? Who’s going to stop you from doing it? Who’s going to engage with you? You’re kind of talking in a way that at least… puts it on the table that violence might take place. And you’re paying people.
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And, you know, you want to talk about what the pro-Tesla movement looks like? Buy Tesla. Buy a Tesla car. You ever driven one? Go test drive one. It’ll blow your mind. You’ll have more fun driving this Tesla than any other car you’ve ever driven. Buy stock. Buy stock. Buy Starlink. Get your connectivity service from Starlink. Support the company. Act like an adult. And look, let me take that back. It’s not childish to stand around and protest something you disagree with. You disagree with Doge, okay, knock yourself out. Protest peacefully, hold a sign, march around. I’m able, though, to make the connection between Tesla the product and Elon Musk the man. I do, however, want to share with you what Elon Musk said in Wisconsin over the weekend. And I’m all about Wisconsin. Tomorrow is an epic election. We all ought to be talking about it. Everybody in Wisconsin should be encouraging each other. You’ve got to vote in this election for Supreme Court justice. If the Democrats get a Supreme Court majority in Wisconsin, they’re going to gerrymander. and rig the districts in Wisconsin to try to deliver more Democrats on the ballot, or more Democrats in the House, and they’re aiming for a Democrat majority in the House of Representatives by fiat. And that way they can impeach and hold up everything Trump’s trying to do. And they’ll do that. They’ll do that. So we’re going to talk with our newsman, Roger P. Shulman, about what’s happening in Wisconsin, what’s on the ballot. But Elon Musk is all in with Wisconsin, too. And he explained with one of his Doge engineers the state of today’s Social Security Administration. And it’s a nightmare. You know, you’ve heard all the stories about 120-year-olds getting Social Security, millions of dead people. But the more important aspect of what they’re doing with Social Security is providing benefits to illegals. And that’s the eye-opener that I want to share with you. So welcome in, final day of March, March 31st, 2025, in the Relief Factor studios. It’s great to have you aboard. Our number is 800-655-MIKE. Thanks, incidentally, to all the nice comments about our new set here on Salem News Channel. If you haven’t noticed, guys have put a lot of work into all of this, and kudos to… Christian and Eric and Tracy. And, of course, special thank you to Robert and Joe and Zuli. Got big studios and windows. And I got to look over at the window when I talk to Roger Shulman a little later this hour. Be a first. But check it out, snc.tv. If you don’t watch the Salem News Channel and you haven’t seen us lately, tune in. I think you’ll like our new look. in the Mike Gallagher Show headquarters here in Tampa Bay. And speaking of our headquarters in Florida, I want to talk about my team here and the people I work with at Salem Tampa and the passing of one of our team members recently and how this team is honoring him. So that and a whole lot more. Welcome in. Again, our number is 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Happy Monday, and welcome in to The Mike Gallagher Show. Spring is here, and my pillow is ready to meet the moment with the Spring Sheet Sale. Got to be careful with the way I say that. The Spring Sheet Sale. Say that three times fast. You know the Giza Dream Sheets that I’ve been telling you about? These and the percale sheets, holy cow, check out this offer. Just in time for spring, you can get your very own set of Queen Giza Dream bed sheets from MyPillow. You’ll save 50% or more. You can get the queen size sheets. Queen-sized Giza Dream or percale bedsheets for as low as $29.98 with the promo code MikeG. That’s an extraordinary offer. And when you go to the website, check out the pillows, the slippers, the doggy beds, the loungewear. and more. MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. Click on that box, and then with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG, or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Sing along with me. For the best night’s sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. There’s a man who leads a life of danger.
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Elon Musk is living a life of danger. Everybody’s threatening him. They’re mad at him. They’re protesting. I asked Christian, can we play that video clip? I’ll post it on my X account in about two minutes, so follow me on X at Gallagher Show. You want to see these boomers circling a guy in a Cybertruck, and this little old lady, bring it on! He said, I’ll break you in half, lady. She says, bring it! Bring it! No, no, ma’am. Please don’t wish that. You’re going to get hurt. Somebody is going to get hurt. Time’s going to come when somebody is going to be hurt or worse as a result of these violent leftist protests. But I want you to see this. This is important. Elon went to Wisconsin. He’s supporting, of course, Brad Schimel. And he introduces… Doge engineers. This guy is one of these venture equity capital guys, a guy named Antonio Gracias, who explains what’s going on with the Social Security Administration and what they are uncovering through Doge. Check this out. I want to… And this is like four minutes, but I want you to hear the whole thing because it’s really, really important. Everybody needs to know what’s at stake. Look, in Wisconsin, they want the radical progressive woman to win the Supreme Court race so that Democrats can control the House of Representatives. And that’s the end game. With Social Security, check out the connection to illegals.
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Antonio is helping out with social security. So just trying to review social security where you may have heard that we found 20 million dead people mocked as alive in the social security database. This is so crazy. And then you’ll notice there’s a strange trend here. where how many social security numbers were issued?
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Let me tell you what happened here. We started at the top of the system. We started at the top of the system mapping the whole system of social security to understand where all the fraud was. And there’s a lot of great people there that showed us really a lot of waste. And so that came with a big list of stuff they’re working on. You’ve heard some of that already. But this is what jumped out at us. When we saw these numbers, we were like, what is this? In 21, you see 270,000 people goes all the way to 2.1 million in 24. These are non-citizens that are getting Social Security numbers. Yeah, this is a mind-blowing chart. Yeah, just literally blew us away. Like, we went there to find fraud, and we found this by accident. And this isn’t political, by the way. My parents are immigrants. Yeah, this country’s been great to us. My brother and sister are all born in Spain. I’m pro-legal immigration. This is not political. This is not political. This is about America and the future of America. And there are a lot of good people in the system that pointed this in this direction. I want to honor them right now that work in the government today who took risks to show us these numbers and tell us what’s going on. So I want to stop for a minute. I want to honor those people today. Very good people. Very good people. I have been from D.C. to social security offices to the border to track this down, and very good people have helped us along the way. I want to thank them. Yeah. This number, what this is, is when you come in the country, if you’re illegal, there’s a couple ways to come in. You come in through a port of entry, and you can tell them you’re afraid. They’ll give you an asylum case. You’ll get an interview. Then you get in. That’s one way to do it. Another way to do it is to just go to the border. Literally, this happened. I talked to Border Patrol myself. Elon was there, too. I went to Laredo, and I went to Brownsville. Elon went to Eagle Pass. You walk up to Border Patrol officer, and you tell him you want to come in. They have a couple of choices. They could charge you with a misdemeanor or a felony under 1325, or they can make an administrative offense, like a parking ticket, basically. They were told to do that, make an administrative offense on a last administration. And then you could walk across the border. They do what’s called a release from your own recognizance. and they give you an NTA, a notice to appear, which is to appear at a judge. The wait times on judges are like average six years. Look at GROC. You’ll see it on immigration judges. There’s only 700 of them. This is 5.5 million people. So what happens then? Once you’re in the country and you’ve got asylum, through one of these pathways, and we’ve mapped the whole thing out, you can apply for a work document. You file a 765. It’s the work form. You get this form called the 766 document. That’s the authorization. And then Social Security Administration automatically sends you in the mail your social security number. No interview. No ID.
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This is worth just reiterating. People sometimes think that under the Biden administration that he was simply asleep at the switch. He wasn’t asleep. They weren’t asleep at the switch. It was a massive, large-scale program to import as many illegals as possible, ultimately to change the entire voting map of the United States and disenfranchise the American people and make it a permanent, deep blue, one-party state from which there would be no escape.
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Look, if I hadn’t seen this myself, I’m not sure I’d have believed it. I went through it myself and mapped it. And Ilana’s right. This is true. The defaults in the system from Social Security to all of the benefit programs have been set to max inclusion, max pay for these people and minimum collection. That’s what’s happening. We found 1.3 million of them already on Medicaid as an example. We’ve gone through on every benefit program we went through, we found groups from this particular group of people, this 5.5 million people in those benefit programs. And then what was really, really disturbing us was why. We’re asking ourselves why. And so we actually just took a sample and looked at voter registration records. And we found people here registered to vote in this population, yes. And who did vote? And we found some by sampling that actually did vote. And we have referred them to prosecution at the Homeland Security Investigation Service. Already. Already. That is already happening.
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What I voted for. And that guy, this Antonio Gracias, he’s an equity venture capital guy. He doesn’t need this. Elon doesn’t need to do any of this. They’re doing it because they love the country. And they want to make it better. They want the country, as one person put it, to run like an Apple store. 800-655-MIKE. Why is Wisconsin so important? We’ll tell you next.
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I’m getting a lot of requests already on the MyPillow text line for that clip of Elon and Antonio Gracias. Christian Russell, our video producer, insists that’s not a real name. Tony, thank you. Well, thank you, Tony. Gracias, Antonio. for the great work, and we’ll send it out. We’ll come up with a keyword here in just a moment, and as soon as we do, we’ll share that video with you if you would like. There’s a lot going on. Incidentally, thanks to MyPillow for sponsoring the MyPillow text line. Mike Liddell has a big thank you for you waiting. Hey, spring has sprung. The grass has rizzed. I want you to get a good night’s sleep. I do is. That doesn’t make any sense, but huge allotment of the bed sheets. You know, I always brag about the Giza Dream sheets. These are smooth, comfortable, luxurious sheets. You know, they had a big order ready for the big box stores, and some of the big box stores did it again. They bailed on my pillow. Too hot to handle. So Mike Lindell, with no middleman now with the big box stores, is going to pass the savings on to you. You’re going to get wholesale prices on the famous Giza Dream bed sheets. These are like five-star hotel elegant luxury sheets. Giza Dream, the queen size, normally $139.98. Your wholesale price when you enter the promo code MikeG, just $69.99. King size, only $10 more, $79.99. You want to go a little less expensive, the percale queen size, normally $89.98. Your wholesale price, $29.98. These are incredible, crazy wholesale prices. You’ll get also huge savings on the pillows, on the slippers, the doggy beds, and so much more. Go to the MyPillow site, MyPillow.com. Find the Mike Gallagher Specials Square. Click on that box. And then when you place your order, enter the promo code MikeG. After you put in the promo code MikeG, you’ll see the huge savings. The discount comes right off in real time. So go to MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG, to get wholesale prices on the Giza Dream Sheets, the pillows, and more. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG, or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Sing along with me. For the best night’s sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. I want to talk about Wisconsin and why it matters, why it’s so important. And I want to bring in our newsman here in just a moment. But before we do that, let me play. Oh, I did a deep fake on you there, Christian. Sorry. Before we bring in Roger P. Shulman, let me share with you Frank Pavone. I think it’s Father Frank, right? Or is he still a priest? I think he is, or maybe he, I don’t know. But Frank Pavone is a social media influencer, and he explains the importance of tomorrow’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
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I want to give a shout out to all those in Wisconsin who are working to get out the vote for Judge Brad Schimel. This is a critically important, nationally important state Supreme Court race. April 1st, this Tuesday in Wisconsin, President Trump himself has gotten involved. I’m going to read you his endorsement of Brad Schimel in just a second. Hakeem Jeffries, a House minority leader said, in Congress was talking about how this race can impact the boundaries for U.S. representatives and therefore could even impact which way the House of Representatives goes in the midterm election. We’ve got abortion implications. Is abortion a right under the Wisconsin state constitution? It has implications for that. Voter ID laws. Let me read you what President Trump said. Elon Musk is there this weekend. To get out the vote, major articles have appeared in papers like the New York Times. President Trump said this just yesterday. In the great state of Wisconsin, a radical left Democrat, one who’s insistent on bringing hardened criminals that we remove to faraway places back into our country, allowing men into women’s sports, open borders and more. is running against a strong, common sense Republican, just call him Brad, for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. It is really big and important race. It could have much to do with the future of our country. Get out and vote now for the Republican candidate, Brad. Well, listen, we’ve been lending our voices for this ever since this race was first announced. Let’s get the Wisconsin Supreme Court back in conservative hands. It’s going to be an important element in making sure that the Trump agenda, which is the voters agenda,
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continues to move forward god bless wisconsin yeah god bless the voters there that we got to pray that people do not stay home if you stay home we’re going to lose if you go to the to the to the polls um brad shimmel will win let’s bring in roger p shulman our newsman for the mike gallagher show then join us to talk a little bit about breaking down this election hey before we start Roger, I just want to acknowledge what’s happening outside my studio. On March the 15th, one of our team members here at Salem Tampa passed away unexpectedly. And a lot of people who listen to us know the name Ken Zier. Ken was on air with you. He was a newsman. He was an engineer, a radio guy, had big market experience, and he and his family living in Florida. And he passed away unexpectedly on March the 15th. Today, thanks to the efforts of our team, people like Tammy and Zuli and Carolyn and Joe and everybody, they’re doing a celebration of life today at noon for Ken. And I’m sharing a picture right now, if you’re watching on Salem News Channel, of what that looks like. Beautiful. They’ve got all kinds of daisies and flowers and kind of a little bit of an Easter theme, which is fitting because we’ve got to remember what really is important when we leave this earth. Zuli and Tammy just did a beautiful tribute to Ken, beloved husband of Deborah, loving dad to Jillian and Brianna, and again, as they describe him on the prayer card, a radio icon. Roger, sometimes we take for granted the people we work with, but what a great team we have here at Salem Tampa. Aren’t we blessed?
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We are. We have some really wonderful people here. Ken was I was especially close to him because we both came in about five o’clock in the morning and we’d be kind of alone here in the building for the first couple hours and talk about things. We’re both old news guys and and grew up in Illinois, northern Illinois, and kind of had some of the same experiences. And not having him around has just been such a hole in my life and everybody’s life here at Salem Tampa. And it’s really been hard this past couple of weeks.
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Well, we are blessed to, you know, have people that have put together this celebration of life for him. And I just want to acknowledge the team. We have a wonderful team. It’s a big reason why I moved here a few years ago, because I knew how special the team was. You know, once headed by Barb Yoder, who I think hired many of the people who are in place now. And then, of course, the torch was passed to Carolyn Cassidy. She’s doing a great job. And I just want to thank everybody for their efforts. Ken is in heaven smiling and appreciative of the celebration of life. He was a little gruff, wasn’t he? I mean, he kind of could be a gruff exterior, but a big-hearted guy and a really, really neat guy.
SPEAKER 07 :
He was a dog lover like I am, and we had a lot in common. We’re both a couple of gruff old news guys, but that’s the way we are, and he was really a great guy.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, you guys are all one of a kind. I mean, there’s a gruff exterior there, you and our buddy Steve Hall here in Florida. There’s a lot of gruff news guys that are the best in the business. So rest in peace, Ken, and may God grant your family comfort and healing from your unexpected passing. We’re going to miss you very, very much. Wisconsin is so important. Let’s talk, Roger, about what the stakes are, why there’s been so much national emphasis on Wisconsin.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, it’s the most expensive judicial race in history. Over 90 million dollars has been spent on this. Basically, it’s so important because if the liberals maintain control, it could mean they could stop President Trump’s legislative agenda in its tracks because they could eliminate a couple of Republican congressional seats in the state of Wisconsin. And that would change the balance in the House, the National House. And this could be a disaster for President Trump. They could start the impeachment stuff again. They could block everything he wants to do. And it would just be a horrible situation. It’s typical. George Soros and the Democrats are pouring money into this because they saw that this was one of those kind of under-the-radar races that could have a major effect on the United States. And it’s absolutely true. It’s not just Wisconsin. Soros saw the opportunity, donated, and this could actually change the balance in the United States House of Representatives and start this impeachment stuff all over again that we had the last term that President Trump was in.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I appreciate so much the emphasis on Wisconsin and how important it is for everybody to get out and vote. And we’ll see. Look, turnout is everything, right, Roger? I mean, people tend to stay home in these off elections, these special elections or elections that aren’t even held in the general cycle. And that’s a problem.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s a real problem. And if you stay home in Wisconsin, I lived 40, what was it, 67 miles south of Madison growing up. And Wisconsin is a pretty normal state, except for Madison, where you’ve got the big Democratic, very, very liberal social people there. And if you stay home and you’re a Republican, you’re going to be in for some pretty bad stuff if the liberals maintain control.
SPEAKER 11 :
Let’s shift gears for just a moment. You are the veritable expert on all things Florida. There’s a couple of Tesla showrooms in the Tampa Bay area. There’s one in the city of Tampa, I think, and then one, a big, beautiful new one in St. Pete. I drove by the one in St. Pete, the protest Saturday. It looked like a bunch of boomers, a bunch of 50- and 60-year-old white folks out there with signs calling Elon a Nazi and all that, but no violence reported in the Tampa Bay area, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, there wasn’t any violence. It’s kind of funny. Those were the people who were urging everybody to buy a Tesla a few months ago. And now they’re out there trying to blow up Teslas and yell at drivers as they go by and call them Nazis. It’s quite an interesting shift.
SPEAKER 11 :
Really? Well, that’s the problem. I mean, when the people are vandalizing Teslas, you might be vandalizing a fellow lefty.
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly, because those are the people who are in the forefront of buying them. A number of Republicans bought them, too, because they’re rather fun cars to drive. I had the opportunity to drive one a couple of times, and it’s great fun. I mean, they’re great automobiles, as long as you don’t drive them into salt water. But other than that, they’re wonderful cars.
SPEAKER 11 :
Don’t drive it into salt water, and don’t make sure you have a charger. If you’re going to take a long trip, you better schedule some charging stations along the route. And hope that they’re working.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, hope that they’re working. Fingers crossed. And such a switch in philosophy. Quite humorous in one sense of the word.
SPEAKER 11 :
There really is a lot of humor there. If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. Roger P. Schulman, our newsman joining us. Thank you, sir. Great of you to check in. What a time to be alive. Just so much going on. 14 before the hour. Let’s dive in here to what’s… And incidentally, that clip that we played of Elon Musk We’ll make that available to you. If you want to text the keyword BENEFITS to 800-655-MIKE, we’ll send you that clip of Elon and Antonio Gracias. The name that Christian insists has to be a fake name, an alias. All I know is gracias for all the efforts of Doge. If you want to see that clip, a lot of you have requested it. Just text the keyword benefits to 800-655-MIKE, and we’ll send it back to you. Please never text and drive. Standard text messaging rates may apply. Text benefits to 800-655-6453. We’ll get it back to you pronto.
SPEAKER 10 :
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.
SPEAKER 12 :
I want to get to 90. Well, you’re 25 years away, coming up just in a few days. How bad was 65 for you? Be honest. Oh, it was meaningless. It didn’t matter? It was absolutely meaningless. I turned 65 in November of 2022. I wish I could be like you. 40 was meaningless. 50 was meaningless. 40, 50 didn’t mean anything.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, they’re numbers. No, no, to me.
SPEAKER 12 :
Especially if it’s you. No, no, no. But 65 is hitting me hard. I don’t know what the heck’s going on with me here. And we all had fun when the AARP mail started to arrive in our late 50s. Or when you get senior discounts. I take every single one of those senior discounts. Not me. Nope. Nope.
SPEAKER 11 :
I get offended. When they ask me, I say, how dare you? How dare you? And I’ll do it when I’m, I don’t know. I don’t know why I’m so bothered by this. It’s the weirdest thing. Meaningless.
SPEAKER 12 :
And 65 is the new 50. I mean, just come on. Look at Trump.
SPEAKER 11 :
Look at Trump.
SPEAKER 12 :
He’s old enough to serve a third term.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, let’s talk about that, because I’ve got to get this off my chest. Is this going to be the first time I make MAGA mad at me? This may be the first time since he came down the escalator that I know the emails are going to come in, I know people are going to get annoyed, but you know what I’m going to say, right? Just that it’s stupid? It’s just not my favorite thing. I don’t know. He’s got so much going on and there’s so much on the table. Why troll everybody?
SPEAKER 12 :
Why do this? Why fan these flames? Because it’s fun. It’s this and golf are his sports.
SPEAKER 11 :
I mean, it is. It is kind of a spectator sport, I guess. But I just wonder if he’s not doing enough great, great stuff substantively that he doesn’t need to do this. But maybe the distraction is the point. Is that why he does it?
SPEAKER 12 :
I think the first mistake we make is trying to analyze it with earth logic. I think he just loves watching people’s heads explode. And the point that I don’t want to read your mind, but I think we are of the same mind on this, that when so many wonderful things are going on, don’t do things that give the haters a reason to even poke at you. Just, you know.
SPEAKER 11 :
So we kind of agree.
SPEAKER 12 :
I just don’t think it matters. Yeah, sure.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, good.
SPEAKER 12 :
So direct all correspondence, MarkDavis at CaseGuide.com. You think it matters, and I don’t.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, I don’t know that it even matters. I mean, we’ve got bigger fish to fry, there’s no question. But I know in my gut why it bothers me. I’ll tell you why it kind of just bothers me a little bit. It’s not a big deal. You’re right. It’s not the end of the world. I want people who are on the fence to take him seriously. Yes. I want people – I’m thinking about the people who are sort of the undecideds, who will say, look, I don’t really love his tweets and his personality, but I love his policies. His policies are good for us. I want to reach those people. And then they turn around and they say, well, Mike – How do you reach me when he says, I’m going to run for president? Actually, this is his strategy. J.D. will run. J.D. will win. And then on day one, J.D.
SPEAKER 12 :
will resign so Trump can take them. I mean, it’s ridiculous. It’s funny because I don’t think I had actually heard what the plan was. Oh, yeah, that’s the plan. Okay, let’s go step by step through this. How does J.D.’ ‘s resignation make him president again? Who? Who? Because when J.D. steps down, Trump would have to be his VP running mate. Nope. No one ineligible to the presidency can be vice president.
SPEAKER 11 :
We’re talking logically here like it’s any of it’s normal. That’s the whole thing. I mean, like you said, earth logic. And I mean, look, I watched this report yesterday. And this is why people are scared. CBS Sunday morning did a whole thing about the Kennedy Center. And, you know, you and I both love the arts. I know. But again, to the undecideds, they see that. Look, I’m not. I’m with him on this. Don’t get me wrong. I’m just saying those are the kind of substantive things we ought to be debating, discussing, analyzing. You know, does it make sense for him to run the board at the Kennedy Center and yada yada?
SPEAKER 12 :
No one cares. No, maybe not. Maybe I care. When I say no, I know when I say no one, I mean only you. No, I’m teasing. I mean, there’s there’s some things that are so, so close to invisible on the public radar. Yeah, yeah, that’s true. But on the Kennedy Center thing, he also has a good point. So, you know, in the Smithsonian. Where this museum, this wonderful, this magnificent national jewel in the crown that is the Smithsonian Museum System, they absolutely have had a woke poison running through their history, their actual portrayals of history, for a really long time. So fixing that’s okay, too.
SPEAKER 11 :
Did I see a headline that we’re going to get rid of Meals on Wheels? Did you see that headline? I don’t know. I mean, but again, I’m torn because on the one hand, you think, oh, crap, you know, people who are incapacitated who get meals, that’s a federal program. But on the other hand, is that something that, you know, that philanthropy takes over? Shouldn’t that be in the private sector? Or should the government be involved in that?
SPEAKER 12 :
Or our friend the state. Right. Do I need to be paying money to feed people in Indiana? I’m going to go no.
SPEAKER 11 :
And certainly, are we going to pay to feed people in Ukraine? I’m going to go no. I mean, now when we go America first, though, then we start getting down into, we peel the layers and layers and layers of the onion. All right. So America first. Does that mean then we stop? Do we abdicate helping seniors and the disabled through a program like Meals on Wheels? And incidentally, I don’t even know that that’s true. I just saw the headline and I just did. I had enough this weekend. I wanted to watch basketball. I wanted to just detach. And I have a happy announcement to make. Two episodes into the pit and they got me. I’m in. I’m all in. Love it. Love it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Friendship survives.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, we can survive because you’re right. It’s a great show.
SPEAKER 12 :
And it took me a little, little young Dr. Carter, the fledgling in ER. Not only is he great. Listen, 10 episodes from now, you will say to me that if he doesn’t get an Emmy, they need to stop giving away Emmys. He’s that good in the entire cast.
SPEAKER 11 :
He’s great. But I will have to admit, though, I’m a little tired of the he-solves-every-problem formula. I mean, no matter what goes on, oh, Dr. Robbie will fix it.
SPEAKER 01 :
Dr. Robbie will answer.
SPEAKER 11 :
Answer this. Dr. Robbie will handle this. He’s like the you know, he’s the wise sage of the other. And then you get the villainous, the lady, the administrator keeps coming in and yelling at him because the rats are running around because of the homeless guy brought in the rats. And it’s a little trite, but I’m still enjoying it. You’re right.
SPEAKER 12 :
I mean, listen. And on a side note, on the world of streaming and the world of TV, we are really in a golden age. Lisa and I had a little, we floated something and we’re going to work on this. This is either fair or unfair, either true or not true.
SPEAKER 1 :
1923.
SPEAKER 12 :
You on board? Are you doing 1923? About to be after I get through the pit. I’m going to. I’m ready to tell you it’s better than Yellowstone. Because I love being from Yellowstone. As soon as I say that, I kind of stop myself. Because what it is, is it’s more ambitious. It is kind of like an epic movie in terms of quality of direction. Yellowstone is just a churn it out, really cool, pulpy, soap opera-y masterpiece. And I love it on its own terms. They really are, even though it’s a prequel of Yellowstone. It’s very different. But this particular season of this formative story, 1923, is a masterpiece.
SPEAKER 11 :
Can’t wait. Can’t wait. You mentioned I drove by the Tesla dealership. Tell everybody about that. That was fun. Well, I mean, it was interesting because they all looked like, well, you and me. I mean, it was a bunch of white boomers. With printed up signs that were very professionally done, which leads me to this headline over at Fox News this morning. Critics speculate that the Tesla protests are not a grassroots movement, but a carefully organized, orchestrated campaign.
SPEAKER 12 :
There was a weird moment in Southlake. There’s a Tesla dealership in Southlake where apparently they also had record sales. So, whoops. Kind of a boycott, the opposite of a boycott, where when somebody you like is being victimized, you actually give them your money. But something weird happened. Did you notice that the window was supposed to be like 9 a.m. to noon or 10 a.m. to noon or something? Right. In a real human protest, if it’s supposed to be 10 a.m. to noon, there are protesters, and then noon arrives, and everybody kind of stands around and lingers and has a cup of coffee, and then they filter slowly away. At noon, it was like the whistle blew at the plant. They dispersed. They were gone by 12.01. It looked very planned.
SPEAKER 11 :
I also saw a picture online. They were holding like scripts. They had talking points for their protests and they were all printed out like cue cards. I mean, it just doesn’t seem legitimate. I don’t know. But look, I took a picture of him. I started to post it online and send it to you. And I thought, nah, you know what? Let them do their thing. If they want to stand out there on a Saturday morning, I don’t care. Go buy a Tesla. Go do what you want to do. It’s a great car, incidentally, and it’s a great American company. And what Elon Musk is doing is nothing short of heroic. I hope you saw the clip from him in Wisconsin introducing one of his Doge engineers and what they’ve uncovered about Social Security. Now, we’re all worried and wringing our hands. Oh, are we going to lose our Social Security? Are we going to lose it? And believe me, as of next week, Social Security is very much on my mind. How bad it is. As I go to a faraway country to try to avoid what’s happening next week, this monumental achievement. And I’ll be, by the way, on vacation next week. So don’t call me. I’ll call you. And by that, I mean don’t call me.
SPEAKER 12 :
Don’t call me at all.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, or wish me a happy 37th birthday. You can do that. But Social Security is desperately in need of an overhaul to reduce the fraud, waste, and abuse. I’ve got a five-minute clip I’m going to play on my show. I’m going to play the whole thing. It’s five minutes. I think Laura Ingraham retweeted it. Everybody should see it. What they’ve discovered, not only about the millions of dead people getting Social Security. Yep, 120-year-olds and stuff like that. But how about the illegals? How about all the illegals getting Social Security? And this is the plan, Mark. This has always been the plan. They’re on Medicaid. They’re on Social Security. They’re getting American benefits. And this guy lays out in this five-minute clip that I’ll play that everybody should watch, Mark. And I’ve posted it on my social media. I’ve got it online, too, as well. Good, good. The guy lays out, well, this is why they want to have an open border. Of course. Because you’ve got to get them in here first, and then you give them benefits, and you reward them with things like Social Security for Meemaw or the Abuela or whatever. And then before you know it, you’ve got people who are here illegally living off the dole. Legalized, naturalized, and energized to vote Democrat forever. And then you know what you do? That’s all they want is just don’t vote Democrat. That’s your only payback for us. So it’s a really, really fascinating thing. Meanwhile, speaking back to Trump for a minute, CBS poll, he’s at 50% overall approval rating. And considering what’s all going on, I think that’s a big win. It is remarkable. People are worried about the tariffs, and I get that. There’s going to be some short-term pain. And whether or not we have the stomach for this, but I heard our buddy Chris DeGaulle before you this morning go on a rant about how Republicans fail to lead when they’re in control. And he’s right about this. Every time we get the reins, it’s like we just all fall apart. We don’t know what to do. I mean, we’re happier. It feels like Republican leadership is more satisfied with the Democrats. We’re better out of power.
SPEAKER 12 :
Sometimes we’re better when we’re out of power, tapping on the windows, trying to get in.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right, and we’re complaining about not being able to do anything. Well, now we can, and now you’ve got to get it done, and you better get it done. You better figure out how to lower taxes. Speaking of taxes, by the way, do you want to know what DeSantis and the Florida legislature wants to do? They want to get rid of property taxes. Hello. Is Texas paying attention? Hello. Hello. Oh, my word. I mean, that’s real savings. And they’re talking like realistically that it could happen. I don’t know where the money comes from because I look at my property tax bill. Holy moly.
SPEAKER 12 :
Our buddy Don Huffines ran for governor on that whole point. I always asked him, how do you replace the money? And he said, I’m asking the wrong question. And by that, he means, if you’re going to get rid of property taxes, you don’t look for other places. You look for things to cut. You look for ways to save. You doge the living daylights out of your state so that you don’t need as much money to run.
SPEAKER 01 :
I love it.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think that works to a degree. But the other part, though, the other part is, this starts another talk show. Maybe we can do it tomorrow. They’re in Florida here in Texas. If we do away with it, hello, sales tax. Hello.
SPEAKER 11 :
They’ll have to make it up somewhere.
SPEAKER 12 :
Your refrigerator just got a little more expensive.
SPEAKER 11 :
But maybe that’s as it should be. Is that kind of a flat tax? No, no, no. Wait a minute. Consumption tax. Right, exactly. That’s more of a consumption tax, which I think makes sense. If you make more, you spend more. You buy more. You pay more. If you make less…
SPEAKER 12 :
Except it’s a little bit regressive. People who make a million dollars don’t buy 10 times as much stuff as people who make 100 grand. Somebody making 500 grand doesn’t buy 10 times as much stuff.
SPEAKER 11 :
I’m a mixed bag on the sales. I get it. I am, too. But we’ve got to overhaul the tax system. And you know what? Before he’s done in 2028 or 2032, depending on… But before he’s done, I think we’re going to see an effort to overhaul the tax system.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I hope we do.
SPEAKER 11 :
Get rid of the IRS. Abolish the IRS. That’ll be my protest. I’ll walk around and say, I’m not really 65 and I’m against the, I’ll abolish the IRS. You’ll deny it if anybody holds you to it. All right. Happy Monday. Happy Monday. Final day of March. Can you believe it?
SPEAKER 12 :
I know. Tomorrow, April fools. Who knows what we’ll do? Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
I hate pranks. I don’t do April Fool’s. I don’t either. Well, now the FCC is all hot and bothered about it. You’ve got to be careful about it. There’s FCC dictates about what you shouldn’t be able to do on April Fool’s Day to scare people, to fool people.
SPEAKER 12 :
What would be an example of something that will anger the FCC if you don’t?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I don’t know, like War of the Worlds stuff, I guess.
SPEAKER 12 :
Wacky DJ pranks and stuff like that? Yeah, I guess.
SPEAKER 11 :
I saw some memo the other day saying, be cautious. Don’t go overboard. All right, very good. My April Fool’s, I’m turning 65.
SPEAKER 12 :
Exactly, which is totally untrue.
SPEAKER 11 :
Total joke. Goodbye.
SPEAKER 10 :
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