In a riveting conversation with Larry Elder, the episode unfurls intriguing insights into the true carbon footprint of electric vehicles, challenging the prevailing narrative. As the host navigates through complex topics such as Trump’s first 100 days, border security, and the societal shifts induced by the pandemic, listeners are invited to explore diverse perspectives and engage in thought-provoking dialogue. This episode is a must-listen for those seeking balanced, nuanced viewpoints on today’s pressing political and environmental issues.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. Mike Gallagher. Broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide. And seen on your trusted conservative TV network. Salem News Channel. Here’s Mike.
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Happy? Oh, I’m not happy. I’m ecstatic. Let me just quickly give you a tip of the hat. I am over the moon with yesterday’s visit to MyPillow in Minnesota. Can I just thank everybody who ordered a pillow, a pair of slippers, percale sheets? bath towels. Can I just tell you what the total number was? Dan, can you give me one more drum roll? Now, before we hit it, let me just first of all remind you that after all that my pillow has been put through and all that Mike Lindell has lost, do you know that we wanted to share some love, and we went and sat right in the middle of the entire factory. If you’re watching now on Salem News Channel, you see me sitting there with Mike Lindell in the factory, and the equipment was going on behind us and everything else. But I just wanted to have a big blowout sale day. I thought, let’s have my pillow day on the Mike Gallagher show, and let’s shoot for $100,000 in sales. Tracy told me I was nuts. She looked at me like I had an eyeball grown out of my forehead. She said, Mike, I know the show does well with my pillow. $100,000 in a day? I said, if we could shower my pillow with that kind of support and love and sell over $100,000 with our audience in one show, Do you know how uplifting and what a boost that will give to the morale of the hundreds of people who work there? Not to mention Mike himself. You ready for the number? So the goal was 100,000. Bear in mind, Tracy said I was crazy. Well, it turns out I wasn’t so crazy after all. Drum roll, please. The Mike Gallagher Show audience bought… $121,000 of merchandise yesterday. We had a $121,000 day. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You did more than you’ll ever know. I’m so overwhelmed by this audience. And every day that I get down, anytime I get a little grumpy or cranky about whatever it is that my dumb life brings to me, I then am reminded… as to how blessed I am and how fortunate I am to be surrounded by this kind of loving audience. Thank you for your support. 121,000 in sales. Unbelievable. All right, let’s buckle up. 100 days, right? This is the 100-day mark. Oh, and we’re going to take you to the White House in just a moment. Scott Besson. The Treasury Secretary, Caroline Leavitt, holding a press conference in the White House press briefing. We’ll take you there momentarily. And we’ll get some details over Trump’s first 100 days. There’s been economic success. There has been border success. And yet the left… led by clowns like J.B. Pritzker, want to pretend that the sky is falling, the world is coming apart, and it’s another disaster. They had the first 100-day report card written for Trump before he was inaugurated. Guarantee you. Guarantee you. And the poll numbers, oh, the polling is collapsing. The polling isn’t collapsing. He’s down a few points from his high watermark of only 52%. This is not a guy who’s got 90% approval rating, never has, never will. So he goes from 52 to what is it, 45, 46? Okay, he’s a few percentage points down. Ari Fleischer put it in perspective pretty well last night on Fox News.
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Donald Trump is still working with a lot that he can control and do well with. And you’re seeing it. The base will not crack. The base is solid for Donald Trump. And they understand that he’s got a lot of high hurdles because he’s put high hurdles in front of himself because he’s taking on consequential big issues that have been neglected for so long. But the average of all the polls, Laura, shows that Trump has a 45 percent job approval. That is not bad. In our modern polarized era, a 45% job approval is middling, but it is not the stuff of doom, gloom, negativity, or decline. It’s just the way modern politics is. And the key to it is the economy. And this is where I give Trump middle grades on what’s going on with tariffs. If tariffs turns into one win after another in the next 30, 60, 90 days, Donald Trump is going to be on one of the strongest upward trajectories we’ve ever seen. If he doesn’t get any deals done or if the economy flounders, then the tariffs were a roll of the dice. It’s going to come back to bite him. But that’s unknown. We don’t know it yet. But the point is he’s taking on big consequential things like Doge, as you pointed out, finally doing something about the size and the amount of spending the government does. He does things everybody else runs from. He runs to them.
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Ari’s right. I’m going to ask you a question. Anybody who voted for Trump resent it, regret it now? 800-655-MIKE. Simple question. Not a trick question. Does anybody regret voting for him? If so, why? Let me know. I think it’s a fundamental question. The media narrative is that his popularity is cratering. The media narrative is that MAGA is turning on him. The media narrative is that everybody’s livid. All right, let me just ask you. Is there anybody within the sound of my voice… that regrets having voted for Donald Trump on November the 5th. 800-655-MIKE. Let’s put your voice front and center here on this Tuesday episode of The Mike Gallagher Show in the Relief Factor studio. It’s Tuesday, final Tuesday of the month. It’s already April the 29th, 2025. I am so glad you’re here. Thanks for tuning in. Make sure you’re following us on X. We’re streaming the Salem News Channel live right now on X at Gallagher Show. Follow me. I’ll follow you back. All things Team Gallagher, go to mikeonline.com to check out how you can get the podcast, how you can take us with you 24-7. And, of course, we absolutely appreciate you listening to this great radio station. If that’s how you’re engaging in the show today, I’ve just got a very simple question for you. Is there anybody listening or watching right now who regrets your vote for Donald Trump? Let’s go ahead and just do a kind of a lightning round of tons of callers. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. I hope you join us. Ph.D. weight loss has changed my life, and I’ve got a little secret for you. You know Big Pharma and semaglutide and the shots in the belly. You’ve seen the story recently about the study that shows that a lot of people that are getting this are going blind. You don’t want to do this. You want a program to lose weight that’s centered around science and nutrition, a proven roadmap that has helped over 8,000 clients lose weight and keep it off, like me. I lost 53 pounds a few years ago, and I’ve kept it off. I know what to eat and when. I know how to quiet any of the cravings I might get and release that fat. Finally released that unhealthy belly fat that I carried along for so long. Make the phone call that can change your life in the way it changed mine. It’s called PHD Weight Loss. PHD Weight Loss. Dr. Ashley Lucas’ program is brilliant. And how do I know? Well, 53 pounds later, here I am. 864-644-1900 is their number. Call and schedule your consultation. You can do this program from anywhere in America. Call 864-644-1900. 864-644-1900. or visit MyPhDWeightLoss.com. So, Larry Elder, it never fails. The bigger the buildup, there’s always a technical screw-up when I give the most flowery, gracious, humble introduction, but I think we got it all fixed. Do we have you now live? You sure do. You’re coming through loud and clear. There we go. We’re hearing you loud and clear. Sorry about that.
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Well, welcome back. How you been? I’ve been good, Mike G. I was just saying before I was so rudely interrupted, not only did you contribute to both my campaigns, you contribute substantially. It wasn’t just some nickel-to-dime thing you did. You whipped out a big, fat check, and I really do appreciate it, but I will never forget it.
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My love and support and affection for the great Aldersky is substantial because I know… What a class act and how great you would have been as governor of California. And you got real close. But we’re lucky to have you still on our team here at Salem. I want to get to your movie. I want to get to the first 100 days. But I just got to first remind everybody how much fun. Have you been to Alaska before? Is this your first time?
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I have. I’ve been there a couple of times. The first time I was there was in 19 in the early 1970s. I was a lawyer practicing and working on the Alaskan pipeline. I was sent there by my law firm.
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Nice. Well, we’re going to have a tremendous time. We’ve got hundreds of people already signed up. We’re going to have a blast. And this ship, I got to go last time with Seb Gorka. Dr. G is now otherwise engaged, so he’s not able to join us. But you and I are going to be the co-hosts, joined by the great Joe Piscopo and Jennifer Horn, Joey Hudson out of South Carolina. We’re going to have a ball. Nothing like it, August 16th through the 24th. We’ll see you on board the Eurodam, if not sooner. Larry, Speaker Mike Johnson, and incidentally, travelwithsalem.com if you want details on the cruise. Speaker Johnson just praised President Trump by saying he is the most consequential American leader of the 21st century, and that’s an understatement. I don’t know the truer words have ever been spoken to you.
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I think that’s true. He’s the most incredible politician I have ever seen. When I briefly ran for president, as you know, Ron DeSantis ran as well. And he was criticized, DeSantis was, for not having the kind of people skills that Donald Trump had. And I came up to him and I said, I hope you’re not bothered by this because Donald Trump is box office. Donald Trump is Elvis. Donald Trump is Mount Rushmore. He is the most incredible, likable, relatable, honest, strong, fierce, confident politician I have ever seen. So please don’t compare yourself to him and come away thinking that you’re inferior. You’re not. At some point, Donald Trump is going to leave the stage and maybe then it’ll be your turn. But right now, it’s the man’s turn.
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I meant it when I said to that caller, we were kind of filling time and we were getting the technical stuff fixed. I took the caller and said, oh, he’s mean, he’s cruel, he doesn’t like it. And I wish his critics could spend a few minutes with him. Every single time I’ve ever spent time with him, I walk away saying, this is a guy that if people saw him in real life, maybe they wouldn’t have such blind hatred for him.
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You know, I heard that call and you’re absolutely right. He talked about how cruel Donald Trump is because women have been deported and they brought their children with them. Well, the women have made the decision to come here illegally. They made the decision to have a child and they made the decision not to bring the child with them or to bring the child with them. That’s up to them. But as you pointed out, How cruel is it to allow 15 million illegal aliens, some of whom were murderers, some of whom were in mental institutions, who’ve committed crimes here in America, not vetted, not vaccinated? How cruel is that to inflict that on the American people? That’s what Joe Biden did. And Tom Holman, the border czar, recently said, I’ve worked under six presidents. Biden is the only one who intentionally unsecured the border. Why aren’t more people concerned about that?
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Larry, tell us about your documentary, Electric Vehicles, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. It’s available now at salemnow.com. And I saw it and I was riveted by it because, look, my position has always been people want to buy an EV, buy an EV, just don’t mandate it. You can’t shove that down our throats. But what were your surprising takeaways? What did you learn as you dove into this subject? And why did you want to tackle this particular subject matter?
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Well, impactful pictures came to me and asked me what I thought were some issues that should be tackled that were tackled. And I mentioned that because I’m here in California. Governor Gavin Newsom has mandated by the year 2035 no more sale of new gas powered cars. Joe Biden made similar statements. And however you feel on the issue of climate change, whether you feel, as Joe Biden does, that climate change represents an existential threat, whether you feel it’s much ado about nothing or whether you’re sort of in the middle, that there is climate change, that man activity has had something to do with it. But we ought not force feed so-called renewables down people’s throats. However you feel about that is pretty irrelevant. My question is. Is an EV, all things considered, better for the planet than a gas-powered car? Before I started this, Michael, I’d never driven an EV. I just sort of assumed that EVs were better for the planet than gas-powered cars. And then I got into it and drove an EV for the first time. The technology is absolutely amazing. The self-driving stuff is amazing. I went to one of the biggest auto shows in the world and saw all the cutting-edge technology involved in an EV, and it was quite riveting. But then you look at the other things. It takes fossil fuel generated energy to manufacture the EV, to transport the EV, to get it to the dealership. It takes primarily fossil fuel manufactured energy to make the electricity to charge the EV. So you look at the overall carbon footprint, it’s probably not any smaller than a gas-powered car. Arguably, it might even be bigger. And then you get to the ugly part, which is the growing dependence on China for the computer chips that go into the car, and more importantly for the minerals, some called rare earth minerals, lithium, cobalt, and nickel that go into the battery. And China either manufactures this stuff or produces this stuff or mines this stuff in China or in places controlled by China, like the Republic of the Congo, where kids, children, boys and girls are using their bare hands to dig out this cobalt, which is toxic. I think if people knew that slave labor was being used, these kids are being paid a dollar or two a day to do this, they would rethink what they think about EVs. This is from just a humanitarian standpoint. And then you have the national security standpoint. We’re enriching China, making us more dependent upon China. Do you really want to do that? So if you look at all these things, the good, the bad and the ugly. I think you’re going to come away with saying things like, well, you know, maybe I should think this through just a little bit more. I don’t tell people what to think. I don’t put it down their throats. It’s up to you to decide. But make sure you know exactly what goes into manufacturing, transporting. The battery has to be disposed of. The battery has a shorter shelf life than a battery used in a gas-powered car. And because of the toxic minerals that are in it, if you bury the battery, it can leak and threaten the underground water storage. There are all sorts of things that I would urge people to take into consideration before they think about buying an EV.
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It’s like everything you do. It’s a real balanced, reasonable approach to what has been a one-sided conversation. And look, again, the movie’s available now at SalemNow.com. You go to SalemNow.com to watch it. And, you know, I just had a brainstorm. We ought to screen Electric Vehicles, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly starring Larry Elder on the cruise ship. You know, they got a movie theater on the ship. What do you think?
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That’s a wonderful idea. And by the way, the reviews have been extraordinary. I got a review by the Daily Signal. I got a review by a guy named Paul Bond. He used to be with Newsweek and Hollywood Reporter, some other reviews. And if you go on IMDb, it has a higher ranking right now than Casablanca. Now, apparently, there’s a smaller sample size of reviews, but right now it has a higher IMDb rating than Casablanca, one of America’s most beloved movies.
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So I’m pretty proud of that. Move over, Humphrey Vogart. Larry Elder is here. Larry’s in town. I can’t wait to see you in August for the big cruise. I know, look, and I’m getting a ton of text messages. You’re so beloved and so popular. In fact, I just talked to Carolyn Cassidy, our general manager here in Tampa and Columbus. They had a big event the other night, I guess Friday in Columbus, big sold-out event in person where hundreds of people came out to see you. So we’re going to have hundreds of people on the cruise ship, my friend, in August. I can’t wait to see you then.
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Sounds great. It was a fantastic event I just now had in Columbus. I’m looking forward to seeing you on the cruise. Are you going to break out a song for us?
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We’ve got to break out Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat. I mean, come on, it’s a cruise. So I’ve got to sing Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat from Guys and Dolls, right? That’s a tradition.
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That’s right. And Joe Piscopo and I are going to probably do a duet. I’m probably going to break out my Louis Armstrong. You’ve got to do it.
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I love it. We’re going to have a great time. We’ll see you then. Keep fighting the good fight, my friend. Great having you on the show. Thank you, sir. The great Larry Elder. That’s going to be a great time. Travelwithsalem.com. Let’s look at the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency, since that seems to be the benchmark. We’ll go back over some of the winners, like a roaring economy, a stronger border. Trump’s team, incidentally, planning for impeachment. Did you hear about the guy? Have you ever heard? Of the Michigan Democrat who wants to impeach Donald Trump? Never heard of the guy. It’s like right out of Saturday Night Live. Get ready for that and more coming up. Portions of our show brought to you by MyPillow and Big Deal. Two sales in one. First, they’re having a closeout sale on the percale bedsheets. Any size, any color, $25. You can get Queens, Kings, Split Kings, California Kings, any size, any color, $25. It’s a crazy sale from MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. The second sale, Mike Lindell has introduced a brand new energy drink called Rev7. It’s a premium energy drink that’s good for you. It tastes great, gives you energy all day. I sampled it yesterday for the first time. It is delicious. No sugar, no caffeine. Rev7 is so special because it’s powered with a premium nootropic that helps fuel your mind. MyPillow is so confident you’re going to love Rev7 that for a limited time you can try their introductory three-pack absolutely free. Now, these offers aren’t going to last long. So go to MyPillow.com, use the promo code MikeG, MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG, or call 800-928-6034, 800-928-6034. Sing along with me.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Here’s Mike.
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Let’s start with some really happy news. Yesterday was an extraordinary success. I made a call a few weeks ago to go to MyPillow in Minnesota and do a day where we celebrated this great company. And we had an insane goal of $100,000 in sales for one day. I told the team, I want to try to get our audience to buy at least $100,000 of MyPillow products in one day. And they looked at me like I was nuts. You can’t do that. They’re not going to do that. $100,000 in a day? I mean, our audience is pretty active and aggressive when it comes to great deals from MyPillow getting the best night’s sleep of their life. But come on, $100,000? Ready for the number? I got the final sales number earlier this morning. A little drum roll, please? In one day, the Mike Gallagher Show’s MyPillow celebration? $121,000 in a day. You bought $121,000 worth of pillows, slippers, sheets, doggy beds, bath towels, kitchen towels, aprons, and incidentally, those percale sheets, the $25 crazy wholesale price. Mike was so grateful and impressed with our efforts yesterday, they extended it for one more day. So today’s the actual final day, $25 for the percale sheets, any size, any color. They’re smooth, they’re durable, they’re silky soft. They’re like a five-star hotel sheets. So MyPillow.com, look for that Mike Gallagher special square. Click on the box, and don’t forget to enter the promo code MikeG so you’ll save big money. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG, or call 800-928-6034. And honestly, you continue to stun me with the way you step up. You should know that I have other talk show hosts ask me, what’s the secret? How do you get your audience to do what they do? And I’m not getting you to do anything. It’s who you are. It’s not me. It is the audience. This audience is as generous and loving and proactive as any audience of any platform anywhere. Incidentally, that was a record. That was the most sales, according to Mike, because I know who the host was and what his best day was. I kid you not. You want to talk about a God thing? I didn’t even expect to get, to be honest, I wasn’t sure we could even pull off $100,000. The record for one day, according to Mike, was 120. And that was at the height of when a whole lot of stuff was hitting the fan. So we did 121,000. It’s like God gives you just enough. Sometimes he answers prayers in a profound way. He really does. I remember when I wrote one of my two books, and the one time I said, I just want to be on the bottom of the New York Times bestseller list one time, one week. And God gave me exactly what I asked for. I was on the bottom of the New York Times bestseller list one week. Now I’m praying that I get the condo sold. There’s a couple. They’re very interested, supposedly, and they’re thinking about it. Hope they think faster because I’m getting nervous. And, you know, a lot of people are giving me advice about the upside-down St. Joseph statue. I decided I don’t want to talk about it publicly. I think you know what I probably did with regards to the statue. But we’ll see. I hope the couple that seems to like it, well, actually, the wife, I think, loved the place. So let’s just thank you. If you are so inclined, send a couple prayers our way that I get the condo sold. And I’m not going anywhere. I’m going to stay in the Tampa Bay area, but just making some changes, some life decisions, and some big things going on in my life personally that I’m excited about. But I’ve got to get the condos sold. And it’s a bad time, evidently. Everybody’s telling me, well, people are uncertain. People are worried about their 401K. People are nervous about the tariffs, you know, the 100 days. I don’t know. I don’t know. I’m just hoping this couple, my realtor keeps saying, well, they seem to like it. They went back a second time. And the wife especially really liked it. So we’ll see. How long do you got to think about it? They went back, what is it today, Tuesday? They went back, I think, Friday. Friday or Saturday. But see, I’m impulsive. If I see something I like, I’m all, which is why, you know, I’m not, you know, able to retire yesterday. Because I don’t have a bunch of money laying around. I got to work hard. And hopefully I’ll be working hard for years to come. And I love it because I get to come to work in a place like this. You know, I’ve tried to resist the first 100 days hype of the Trump administration only because it’s sort of arbitrary. It gives the media a narrative. I can pretty well promise you they wrote their assessment of Trump’s first 100 days 101 days ago. There’s a predetermined outcome here. Oh, there’s the economy and the tariffs and poor little children being deported. Incidentally, can we deal with this narrative that the Democrats and the Trump haters have come up with? that little children who are U.S. citizens, by virtue of the fact that they’re anchor babies, I guess they were born on American soil, so they’re technically U.S. citizens, but the parents are illegals, and the parents get caught in the mass deportation? What are you supposed to do with the four-year-old child? Even a four-year-old child who might be sick with cancer, which is heartbreaking. We don’t want to be cruel. There should be no cruelty here. You know what’s cruel? Dragging a child across the border illegally or coming to this country in order to give birth to a child in hopes that the child will become legal while you’ve broken the law in the first place. That’s cruel. That’s cruel. And incidentally, for the record, the administration insists these children who are going back to their native countries with their parents on these deportation flights, that’s because that’s what the mother requested. What mother wants to leave behind their two-, three-, four-, five-year-old child? So if the mother broke the law and immigrated here illegally and they are caught and they’re sent home, Are we supposed to separate the child from the mother? If that happened, you know what they’d be screaming. You know the left and the media would be screeching about families being ripped apart. So instead, the families are staying together and going back to the country where they came from. I don’t think normal people object to that. I don’t think normal people start screaming that Trump is Adolf Hitler because we’re doing that. Let me get Greg Gutfeld’s assessment of the first 100 days last night on Fox News Channel.
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It is only 100 days, and yet it feels like 1,000. It’s because Trump does easily 10 times what any previous president does. It’s like you went from a dial-up modem to 5G. It’s like I don’t have to sit in front of my laptop and wait for something to happen. He says it, and it happens. And you’re right. He he basically pointed to the what he called to the to the to the stands, the bleachers and said, I’m going to hit a home run. And he did that on illegal immigration. He didn’t just end it. I mean, he flattened it. And by doing that, he exposed that the Democrats have been lying all the time when they were saying their hands were tied. Well, it looks like their hands had blood had blood on them because they let a lot of criminals in that killed people. He also crushed the structural racism of DEI. He fulfilled his promise to get women out of sports. And that was quick. And now you have imposters like Slotkin going, well, it really wasn’t an important issue at all. Well, if it wasn’t that important, why were you so cowardly and not actually defending the women and the girls who are subject to that travesty? The only thing that’s kind of out there, there’s a couple of things. Tariffs. You can’t judge that in 100 days. But as predicted, the people that were screaming about the massive drop in the stock market are not saying a word about it returning to normal or near normal. And we also have to think about Doge. Are we even close to the goal necessary to prevent economic collapse? No. And everything we just talked about is pointless unless we solve that.
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He’s so right. Why isn’t the media talking about our secure, sealed border? something that Trump campaigned on for years, and he delivered on that promise. Is border security important to you? Did he not deliver in spades? Of course he did. They don’t want to report on that because they know that it upsets their narrative. It disrupts their orange man bad. Trump is Adolf Hitler narrative. It’s preposterous. Look, I’m going to ask you a simple question. Is there anybody listening to my voice right now or watching me on Salem News Channel that regrets their vote? If you voted for Donald Trump and you regret it, would you call? Is there any such person? I’d like to find out because that’s their narrative. In addition to Trump is Adolf Hitler and Orange Man bad and the country is, you know, on fire right now because of the first 100 days, they keep saying there’s so many of us who regret our vote for Donald Trump. Well, let me open up our phone lines to you. Is there anybody who regrets their vote for Donald Trump on November 5th, 2024? 800-655-MIKE. Let’s throw our lines wide open to you here on this Tuesday edition of the Mike Gallagher Show in the Relief Factor Studios. 800-655-6453. Call or text. One number does it all. Give me your reaction to the question, is there anybody, anybody… A part of this show right now who regrets having voted for Donald J. Trump to be the 47th president of the United States. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Join us.
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There are numerous statements you made over the summer of 20 scaring people to death about the possibility of opening schools. And I hear no remorse whatsoever about the generational damage that’s been done to these guys. I have two kids with learning differences. Do you know how hard it is for them to learn at home and not in a classroom that was designed for them? and for you to sit in front of Congress and the American people and say, oh, I wanted to open them the whole time.
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In the ReliefFactor.com studios, here’s Mike.
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Gosh, what a moment that was when the great Scott Jennings called out Randy Weingarten, the powerful teachers’ union head. Man, that was so good. And she just sat there and had to take it, pretending, oh, we wanted schools open. No, you didn’t. You’re lying. You’re lying. You were… viciously and aggressively fighting against schools being opened. The damage done to our kids. Are we ever going to make this mistake again with the kind of lockdown we had during COVID? I was thinking about this the other day. I can’t tell you how many offices I’ve been in in the last three or four years that are complete ghost towns. They’re empty. And it’s kind of… not only depressing, but it’s really shocking to realize that the pandemic did that. The pandemic created an attitude that people don’t have to go to work anymore. And people would give their left arm to work from home. Trust me, I see it with personal experience. We’ve got people, and I love them, if they’ve got a chance to work from home, that’s what they live for. They crave it. Well, who doesn’t want to work from home? I mean, you have to have a little bit of a different… And it’s a pain in the neck. You’ve got to drive in. You’ve got to shower, get dressed. You’ve got to commute. Oh, you get to stay home in your bunny rabbit slippers. Put your feet up. Watch a little TV. Just clock in on the computer. And I travel all over the country. And I’ve been to office after office. Yeah, I’ll say it. Radio station after radio station. Empty. And it’s because of what the pandemic did. It changed our… In the way that 9-11 changed air travel… with now going through all the hoops we’ve got to jump through to get on a plane, the pandemic changed the entire workforce in America. And I don’t know what happens to all that real estate. I think about all those buildings in cities like New York and Chicago and Los Angeles and Atlanta. They’re empty. They’re ghost towns because the workforce is home. And, you know, I get the counterargument to that. Well, maybe it’s not all that bad. Maybe it’s okay, well, you know, if you get your work done, you get your work done. If you can work from home and you get the job done, look to the example I used of my team. When my team works from home, they don’t miss a beat. Now, you know, my show is a little bit of not a great example because we’ve always been sort of spread out all over the country. You know, we’ve got Teresa’s in South Carolina and Tracy’s in Florida and Christian’s in New York. We’ve always had that sort of mindset. In fact, it’s kind of funny. You should see the box that I have next to me. I call it the Brady Bunch box. I can see everybody on the screen. so that we can all interact with each other. They see me, I see them, and it’s like the Brady Bunch box. Everybody is, we call it, it’s on, what do they call it, Google Meets, I guess. So maybe my show is an accurate representation of what it’s like to be in a building, in a company, where ordinarily people would all be together, working for a common goal of being productive and successful on behalf of your organization. And my gosh, before you know it, nobody’s coming into the office. And I think about all the people, and think what it does to different occupations and trades, like people who have diners or or or restaurants that cater to the workforce they’re done they’re finished they can’t they can’t survive how are they going to survive when there’s nobody coming to the office if they’re again all that real estate all that expensive real estate um and and you know It’s important. Somebody just texted me on the MyPillow text line. It wasn’t the pandemic that did this to America. It was our government’s reaction that changed everything. And it’s so true. It’s so true. Look, I struggle with this. Let me get Carl from Arizona in on this conversation who wants to weigh in on the work-from-home comment. Carl, is it a good thing or a bad thing that so many office buildings and companies are now virtually empty because of how many people are working from home, all because of the pandemic and our reaction to it?
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Well, it’s a bad thing, but I just wanted to make one correction about When you keep saying the pandemic caused it, it wasn’t really the pandemic. It was the reaction. It was what we did.
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I just said that right before. Did you hear me on hold? I just said that right before you came on. Yeah, yeah. No, you’re right. You’re right. I caught myself. And somebody texted from California and said the same thing. Because you’re right. It’s not the fault of the pandemic. It was the fault of our feckless government officials and how we reacted to it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 02 :
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