As tensions escalate between Israel and Iran, we explore the geopolitical strategies at play. Our discussion examines how media headlines shape public opinion and the role of narrative in politics. From Trump’s press challenges to the American stance on international conflicts, we dissect current events with engaging insights. Lastly, we shift gears to focus on giving back, spotlighting efforts to support children of prisoners—a testament to the power of community and compassion.
00:00:08 Waylon Jennings Birthday and Introduction
Let’s go to Lukenbach, Texas. Waylon and Willie and the boys. Waylon would have turned 87 on Sunday, passed way back in 2002. That’s our birthday for introduction to our Mark and Mike segment. Let us not waste time, my friend. Clock is running. Israel, Iran, go!
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I’m just exhausted from show prep. I’m too tired to do the show. I don’t know what we’re going to do. I’m just worn out. I mean, my goodness. Where do you want to start? I mean, yesterday, just yesterday alone between Israel, between the hearing with the three governors, which was, if you’re a Democrat, brutal. Alex Padilla. Let’s start with him. Let’s start with the theatrics of this clown.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 03 :
Was your social media feed filled with all these righteous indignation posts of all the Democrats? That this could happen to you?
SPEAKER 02 :
It’s all orchestrated. Of course it was. This was all planned. We’re going to send Alex Padilla in. He’s going to disrupt the news conference. He’s going to get arrested. And then everybody, three, two, one, go with your social media posts saying, look at these Gestapo tactics. Look at what Trump world will do to a senator who just wants to ask a question.
SPEAKER 03 :
If you look at the video, you see he’s the one doing most of the thrashing and the flailing. They’re not. They’re just kind of holding him back so he doesn’t storm Kristi Noem. I mean, and if you remember, it’s so simple. The media won’t connect these dots very transparently, but conservative media does. They were out in D.C., in the D.C. area playing baseball. And he rushed back to L.A. with the express purpose of the summer stock production of Pippin at the Rock Comedian Dinner Theater. It’s all theatrics. Look, and the level of propaganda surrounding it has reached an unprecedented level. Oh, Los Angeles Times, huge cover. First, they came for the immigrants. Then they took down our Latino senator. Hit the music, Eric. When last we checked with little-known Senator Alex Padilla, he was toiling in his office. But then we found him thrown to the ground. Handcuffs slapped on him. They took down our Latino senator. Not just our senator, our Latino senator.
SPEAKER 02 :
Exactly right. If Adam Schiff had shown up, you’re going to take down our gringo senator. I don’t know, whatever.
SPEAKER 03 :
My producer has a great theory about this. She said they’ve been waiting for days now for like a George Floyd moment in the L.A.
SPEAKER 02 :
riots.
SPEAKER 03 :
Something. And they didn’t get it. I mean, largely because the National Guard went in and helped restore order. So they didn’t get it. So they said, all right, well, we don’t have something with a citizen. Let’s do it ourselves. We’ll just concoct it ourselves. Now, let’s look at the courts. How about the Ninth Circuit late night? A lot of people went to bed thinking the Ninth Circuit, at least as a stay for now, Trump still has the legal authority, which of course he does. Of course he does. That would be like George Wallace. convinced the courts to allow the National Guard to leave because they’re not going to enforce desegregation efforts on the federal government level. We all know that Trump has the authority to do this. But Mark, the most depressing part of all of it is just witnessing the way the left is rooting against America. They’re cheering. I’m going to give you an example of a slew of headlines from a daily email I get from one of the liberal publications. I’m not even going to give them the mention because I don’t want to give them any clicks.
SPEAKER 02 :
I don’t want to know.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I’ll tell you off air. Yeah, I’ll text it because here’s their breakdown. Big major headline. Trump humiliated as Israel strikes Iran right after last ditch plea. What? Well, the Wall Street Journal is reporting, yes, Trump is humiliated. Somehow Trump gets humiliated because, according to the Wall Street Journal, President Trump Israel allegedly asked Israel Monday not to do this. Don’t strike. You know, there’s a better way to do this. We’re going to try to get this to it. But Israel decided, look, and now, incidentally, Trump’s all in. Fine. It’s great.
SPEAKER 02 :
How much waiting is Israel supposed to do? Are they supposed to wait until Jerusalem is turned into, as I said, glowing green glass? Correct.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s exactly right. But that’s the first headline. Trump humiliated as Israel strikes Iran right after last-ditch plea. Trump plots major Elon Musk snub after their furious feud. These are all headlines.
SPEAKER 02 :
I know. That feud is over.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s done. Over and done. Here’s another one. All in order here. This is one email, one page. Judge absolutely tears apart Trump’s National Guard plot. Well, that didn’t age well because the Ninth Circuit came in. Yeah, his plot.
SPEAKER 02 :
His plot. To observe the rule of law, the evil plot to protect the people of Los Angeles. Keep Los Angeles safe?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, what a nefarious Dr. Evil up there in his lair with the skinless cat. All right, there’s more. I got more. Trump tells half a million people from these four countries to leave. How about another one? Trump world troublemaker spotted amid Ice Barbie’s security drama. That’s their clever nickname for Kristi Noem, Ice Barbie. I’m not done. Trump uses far right buzzword in wild immigration rant. I mean, and on.
SPEAKER 02 :
What’s the buzzword?
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t have a clue. Do you think I’m going to look? I’m just looking at headlines.
SPEAKER 02 :
How about this headline? All right. Buzzword like legal or law or borders. Military.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, yes. All right. And I got two more. All from the same way. All from the same email. Which you’re going to share with all of us because we’ve got to have this kind of fun, Dan. Melania. How about this?
SPEAKER 02 :
Melania.
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Melania shuns Trump’s attempt at shameless flattery at White House picnic. And finally, the best one of all, I don’t even, I have no idea. Big Bird goes down as House passes Doge cuts. You saw they defunded public broadcast. I mean, and I had that off of our lightning round list even. I forgot about that one. I mean, my gosh. And tomorrow, the big military parade.
SPEAKER 01 :
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SPEAKER 03 :
I know you and I know me. Oh, you want to touch this issue? I’ll touch it all day. There’s a drop. Go touch it. Go touch whether your audience wants us to be involved in this or not. Oh, you mean involved militarily? Go touch whether we should be involved in this war between Israel and Iran.
SPEAKER 02 :
It’s a Hard no. And you know what the difference is? Because like Ukraine, which is a European problem, this right now is an Israeli problem. And while Europe has failed to step up to handle the problem in its backyard, Israel is supremely ready to handle this. And, of course, they’re doing it with a good amount of material and money that we have given them because that’s what you do to help an ally. But in terms of American, you know, boots on the ground, no. And I don’t think Israel wants them. I don’t think they’re going to ask us for them. So, no. Consider it.
SPEAKER 03 :
And if they do?
SPEAKER 02 :
And if they ask?
SPEAKER 03 :
If they ask for our help militarily?
SPEAKER 02 :
Okay, but however, I’m going to duck the question, though, because I’m not.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, let’s understand something. Even though their Iranian guard and all the top generals were wiped out, apparently, with this, by the way, brilliant surgical strike. I mean, they took the one guy out in an apartment building with such precision that nobody else in the apartment building was harmed. Just him. Iran is paper.
SPEAKER 02 :
I mean, they’ve got missiles. I don’t want to take it lightly. Iraq wasn’t that big a military either with the scuds. But to answer your actual question, which I will now do, No, this is not an issue for American troops right now at all.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I tend to agree with you, but I also struggle with that because I know how Israel needs us and Israel relies on us.
SPEAKER 02 :
We have plenty in terms of cold, hard cash and cold, hard military material. They should be fine. Thank you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, I’m with you, although you have to understand, let’s recognize, let’s stipulate, the position you and I have is probably contrary to the official position of the United States of America.
SPEAKER 02 :
Because I have… Trump is… The official position of the United States of America is, we ain’t doing that unless there is a distinct American national security compelling interest, which in Ukraine there is not. In Israel versus Iran… There may be.
SPEAKER 03 :
Let me tell you why there may be, because Iran’s immediate response was they blamed Israel and the United States. And do you think there aren’t sleeper cells, Iranian sleeper cells in the United States right now? And with that in mind, anybody stupid enough to venture out among these idiotic, you know, Chrissy Walton inspired protests tomorrow? Better keep your head on a swivel.
SPEAKER 02 :
No, Kings. When serious things happen in a dangerous world. And I hate that all this is happening. I hope it all calms down and Iran learns its lesson. I know I’m dreaming. But there’s something about this event and the seriousness and the gravity of it that makes this entire thing tomorrow, this no king slumber party in the daytime, look so ridiculous, so irrelevant, so stupid.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I’m just… It’s so ridiculous. It’s embarrassing. What an embarrassment that people are going to march around with stupid… sandwich boards you know trumps of fascists and you know it it does sort of the the israel strike does sort of take the uh the wind out of their sails in a big way tomorrow it kind of puts it in proper yeah exactly but but you said something that made i went to bed last night thinking i feel passionately and strongly about all of our positions but i really wish the temperature would lower a little bit Let me give you an example. I watched Mike Johnson holding a media scrum after this Alex Padilla thing happened. And Johnson was, of course, saying the reasonable things. This was theatrics. He overreacted. Anybody who charges a cabinet secretary without any kind of identification is going to say. But there was a guy behind him. who was walking behind him i believe it was a member of the house of representatives i’m pretty sure it was a congress congressman and he was shrieking at johnson you’re a liar but the look of rage on his face it was like if he could have gotten within three feet of speaker johnson He would have throttled him.
SPEAKER 02 :
He would have had to be taken down. Nobody knows who he is. Nobody cares who he is. That’s right. And threatening. And guess what? We ain’t doing threatening behavior right now. Our guy took a bullet. That’s exactly right. A Bernie supporter tried to kill people at the baseball game. This is what you guys are doing. So excuse us if we’re on a little bit of heightened alert in this era of the violent left.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I’m going to end on a positive note because something pretty crazy has happened. We’re sending 842 children of prisoners here in America to summer camp. 8455. So, you know me, if I can get to 900 on a Friday, I’m going to call it a great day.
SPEAKER 02 :
842 kids. Let’s do it, kids. Let’s go.
SPEAKER 03 :
Go to mikeonline.com and click on that prison fellowship banner. These are Christian camps where the children of American prisoners get a week of sunshine and fun and canoeing and hiking and the gospel. That’s exactly right. The gospel. A lot of these kids accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior at these camps. A lot of these kids… And you could change these kids’ life. And a scholarship for a child, the cost to sponsor a child is $200. The other day I said, hey, could everybody just pop, if I could get 10 people to pop in $100.
SPEAKER 02 :
Right, if somebody said to go to allofgoodis20bucks, fine, go to mikeonline.com, interview with 20 bucks, just send a kid to camp.
SPEAKER 03 :
But I said if I could get 10 people to pop in $100, Mark, 97 people popped in $100. So it was unbelievable. That’s right. So MikeOnline.com. If I could hit the ground running at 10.05 when I start the Mike Gallagher Show here on 660 AM The Answer, and I can brag on the Mark Davis audience getting the most points.
SPEAKER 02 :
Love that.
SPEAKER 03 :
You love when you do that. And I will give you full credit. We’re at 840. And you can see the counter on the site there. So if you go to MikeOnline.com, click on the banner, you’ll see it says right now 842 out of 455.
SPEAKER 02 :
That’s cool.
SPEAKER 03 :
What’s double 455? Let’s see. 910, right? 910 would double our gold. All right. That’s going to be our goal. That’s going to be our goal.
SPEAKER 02 :
Easy world and everybody full of it and ridiculous things happening. Let’s bring some sanity, some clarity, some Christ into some kids’ lives. Let’s do it, do it, do it, do it.
SPEAKER 03 :
I love you so much. Thanks for letting me do that on your show. And please be careful this weekend. Everybody be safe. Pretty serious. Situational awareness. Look around. Make sure you’re aware. And if you’re constitutionally allowed to carry, carry.
SPEAKER 02 :
This could be a good time.
SPEAKER 03 :
Happy Friday.
SPEAKER 02 :
That is Mike Gallagher, MikeOnline.com. Click that button. Let’s do that for our buddy. Not for our buddy. Of course, we’re doing it for him because we love him. We’re doing it for these kids.
SPEAKER 01 :
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