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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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And where the Iranian… nuclear enrichment programs are and all of the problems that the world is facing are going to be eradicated if they don’t come to the bargaining table and back the heck off and we make sure somehow that President Trump is satisfied with the assessment that they will not be able to acquire nuclear weapons. They don’t do that, all bets are off. But as Caroline Leavitt announced yesterday, and you could tell she had a sense of urgency a little bit. Here’s cut number one. Here’s the White House press secretary, the extraordinary White House press secretary, I might add, making the announcement that President Trump is essentially giving Iran two weeks to make a deal.
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Regarding the ongoing situation in Iran, I know there has been a lot of speculation amongst all of you in the media regarding the president’s decision-making and whether or not the United States will be directly involved. In light of that news, I have a message directly from the president, and I quote, based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks. That’s a quote directly from the president for all of you today.
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Now, look, this is a time for serious, somber, sober realization that some terrible things might unfold in the world, right? Wouldn’t you want all of us Americans to be kind of rooting for peace? In other words, wouldn’t we collectively not wish for awful things to happen? And I get that people like Stephen Colbert hate Donald Trump. I understand it. I recognize it. Look, I don’t even oppose… You have a right to like or dislike any president, any senator, any politician you want. But at a serious crossroads like this, wouldn’t you expect… that the same people who always bag on Trump might just back off a little bit? Wouldn’t they, wouldn’t you consider, I mean, let me play the clip of Stephen Colbert mocking what you just heard. You’ve got the, and you could tell, you could hear it in her voice, the sense of urgency, the sense of purpose, the sense of, you know, a very distinctly different Caroline Leavitt, it seems to me. And look, these are serious times. This is very problematic. Iran, with a nuclear weapon, could wipe out an American city. Millions of us could perish in the blink of an eye. That’s not alarmism. And perhaps a little more realistically, Israel could be completely obliterated. The tiny nation of Israel could be eradicated. This is a very serious time. And this is how a late-night talk show host named Stephen Colbert, with I’m sure… I don’t know, a million, two million, whatever these late-night shows garner for ratings. But with online engagement and the broadcast version, a lot of people saw and heard this response to President Trump’s warning to Iran that you have two weeks.
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Yes, because two weeks’ notice is so important. Trump understands that starting a war in the Middle East is a lot like quitting your sales job at Best Buy. It’s just polite.
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That’s funny. I know that he’s, I’m sure, charged with trying to make the audience laugh and clap and all of that, but is this funny to them? Is nuclear armament on the part of a dangerous terrorist regime humorous to Stephen Colbert? Look, I know a little bit about his story. I mean, I think he lost… I think his parents or his brother, maybe he’s lost loved ones. I think it was a plane crash. Guys had lots of, I’m sure, personal tragedy and adversity. People are dying right now. People are getting blown up. Israel is being attacked. Israel is trying to take out Iran’s nuclear. Is this funny to people? I honest to gosh, I’m not trying to be Pollyanna here. But I wonder if there’s anything that could happen in the world that would change the tone and the tenor of the Stephen Colberts of the world, the Trump critics. Do you think, and let me just put it to you, do you believe, I think about 9-11. I was, you know, not far from where I’m seated right now in lower Manhattan. I am just a couple of blocks away right now from where the Twin Towers fell. I was in the Empire State Building that morning, and I remember how different New York City, the country, and the world became after the terrorists did the unthinkable. You know how there was a difference? People on the left, Democrats, were not tearing into George W. Bush. Do you remember? That kind of comedy that you just heard from Stephen Colbert didn’t happen in the weeks and months after September 11th, 2001. It didn’t happen. They didn’t do that. We were unified. We were Americans hoping for peace and trying to get through it together collectively. Well, if, God forbid… L.A. was decimated by a nuclear attack, would Stephen Colbert change his tune? Would the critics and the haters and the Monday morning quarterbacks back off? Or would they keep doing it? If Stephen Colbert had a talk show during 9-11 and George Bush, a Republican, was the president, Would he have laid into and mocked George Bush the way he mocks Trump? Or is it just a Trump thing? In other words, is this all just Trump hatred or is it hatred for an ideology that is represented by the Republican Party? These are questions I don’t have any answers to. But maybe you do. So let’s try. 800-655-MIKE as we welcome you in. It’s Friday, June 20th, 2025 in the Relief Factor studios. I’d like to know if you think, if the unthinkable occurred, if you believe that the Stephen Colberts of the world would change their tune. Would they back off? Last night, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously in favor of President Trump and his ability to keep the National Guard in California. It was a devastating loss for Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom took to social media and acted like he won when he got completely demolished by a unanimous liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. They’re so deranged with Trump hatred, they can’t even acknowledge when Trump beats them in the courts. They pretend it didn’t happen. We’re living in such weird times, and we’re at a point where, again, right is left, up is down, good is portrayed as evil, evil portrayed as good. These people are out of their minds. And I wonder if anything could occur in your mind that could make them change. 800-655-MIKE. Tell me what you think. I really want your assessment about what… would happen to the Trump critics, will they… Let me put it this way. Will they ever root for America to succeed while Trump is president? Will they ever cheer on success and peace? Will they ever hope that America wins, even under the leadership of Donald Trump? Or… Will they always hope that America fails because he’s the president? I’d love to get your take on this. 800-655-MIKE. One number does it all. Call, text. We have an open line for you now. I hope you join us. 800-655-6453. 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 finally release 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.
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Mike Gallagher.
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Live look at Dallas, Texas. If you’re watching on Salem News Channel, we are making kind of our debut in the Salem News Channel state-of-the-art studios in lower Manhattan in New York City, where thus far I haven’t been. I just have to hide my Diet Coke bottle here. Boy, these cameras are unforgiving. But it’s, you know, so far nobody’s lit me on fire. I took the subway today. New York seems relatively peaceful. Not a lot of peace in terms of the commentariat. Big article at commentary.org. Israel and America are telling the mullahs of Iran, enough, enough. You can’t do this anymore. You’ve got to stop. And I just wish, let me clarify or specify. I wonder if there’s anything that could happen in the country or the world that would make the Trump hatred dissipate? Would anything unify the people who hate Trump? 800-655-MIKE. Denver’s in London, Ohio. Hey, Denver, how are you? Good, Mike. How are you doing? I’m all right. I’m just frustrated, and I’m wondering if you have an answer to my question. Is there anything that could happen to make them stop with the Trump hatred?
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Mike, you know, it’s Michael Colbert of our United States that live under the blanket of freedom that our president and our soldiers have provided. And I don’t think so. I think the left is so deranged that, you know, until they experience something like what’s going on in the Middle East, they’ll never know.
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I thought that too. You know, that’s a good point. I wonder if they’re just oblivious to what it feels like to wonder if a missile is going to wipe out your family. I wonder if they saw, I wonder if Stephen Colbert saw the effects of the October 7th Hamas massacre. I mean, I did. It changed me forever. I saw what evil looks like up close and personal. Maybe they’re just oblivious. Maybe it’s ignorance. But it seems worse than that. It seems deeper than that. It seems like a level of hatred that we’ve never experienced before. Robert in Delaware. Robert, welcome back. How are you?
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Good. Good. Good to talk to you, Mike. Thanks, Rob. Stephen Colbert has got to be the absolute worst. You’ve ever heard the old saying that birds of a feather flock together. You know, all of the late night jokes that tear our country apart and divide us. It’s it’s truly sad.
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But he’s not the only one. And, you know, it’s funny if we went through a contest to say, well, who’s the worst? I mean, where do you stop on a Navarro legislators the same way?
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OK, so we have Nancy Pelosi, which has made 40 million in the House. And then we have Chuck Schumer. I mean, we can go on.
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Jasmine, Jasmine, Jasmine Crockett. I mean, you go down the list and it’s the craziest time to witness a collective anti-American environment. That’s the thing you can’t lose. You can’t take your eye off the ball and forget that. They’re hating on America. They’re not hating on Trump. Now, you know, we said that all through both campaigns or all three campaigns. You know, they don’t want to stop Trump. They want to stop the movement he created. But the truth is, this is way deeper than just Trump derangement syndrome. It’s America derangement syndrome. They hate this country. I don’t know how else to describe it. Look at Jasmine Crockett, cut 10. Here she was, I guess she was on The View or one of the shows. This is cut 10. Here’s Jasmine Crockett after she called Trump supporters mentally ill. She’s complaining that the guy, Donald Trump, who was nearly assassinated at least twice… has security.
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Here’s the deal. I do this job and the fact that my safety is a part of doing this job is really bad in and of itself. But while we spend millions upon millions just so that this guy can go and golf or while they spent $45 million for his little birthday parade.
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Yeah, you can’t spend millions if he wants to play golf. We can’t spend that kind of money. She’s more worried about her personal safety than the president of the United States. And thankfully, and I hope and pray nobody will ever try to kill her the way they tried to kill Trump. It’s unreal. This hatred is out of control. 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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Why do I always rush right into the things I should stay away from? I don’t have to talk about everything on this show. I don’t. I don’t have to dive in. I don’t need to rush in. I can avoid certain things. But instead, I have this propensity to tackle difficult, thorny, complicated issues, like President Trump today calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate allegations that there was election fraud, widespread election fraud, if you will, in 2020. where he says that he really won by a landslide. Now, again, the smart Mike would probably avoid this because it’s just going to cause all kinds of headaches. We got, you know, he’s got a lot of decisions to make about Iran. This is a complicated issue. We’ve got crime, the border, the economy, and he now has called for a special prosecutor. after FBI Director Kash Patel revealed the other day that he shared alarming allegations about the 2020 election. There’s two things I should avoid today, and I’m going to probably cover them both. In fact, let’s cover them both now. What the heck? It’s Friday. We made it through another week. I took the subway today in New York City. Nobody lit me on fire or shot me or stabbed me. You know, I’m having a pretty good day. So I’m going to talk about the idea of a special prosecutor for election fraud allegations, and I’m going to talk about Juneteenth. That was yesterday. Because I don’t know where I land on either one of these, but I’ll speak from the heart and I’ll see where you are. Here’s Trump’s post on Truth Social moments ago. Zero border crossings for the month for Trump versus 60,000 for sleepy, crooked Joe Biden, a man who lost the 2020 presidential election. By a landslide, Biden was grossly incompetent and the 2020 election was a total fraud. The evidence is massive and overwhelming. A special prosecutor must be appointed. This cannot be allowed to happen again in the United States of America, he says. Let the work begin. What this crooked man and his corrupt cronies have done to our country in four years is grossly indescribable. Make America great again. Now, I’ve got a lot of people, a lot of friends, colleagues who say, can he let this go? Can he not leave this alone? Why must he continue to harp on 2020, they say? And while I respect that question, I have to say to them, if our elections aren’t pure and clean and fair, it’s going to happen again. Now, they argue, well, yeah, maybe, but look what happened in 2024. And let’s face it, they’re right. But if Kash Patel has unearthed substantive information that suggests that there was corruption and cheating all under the guise of COVID, and we know that’s probably how it happened, if it happened, well, then we ought to do something about it. instead of just hoping it goes away and fades away from our memory. And even if you hate the guy, don’t you think he’s right that we must never let this happen to America again? So here we go. Diving in. I’m on the high diving board, plunging in. And I’m going to open up the phone lines. 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453. Call, text, join us. Here on the Mike Gallagher Show. 800-655-MIKE. Should we expect, agree with… Hope for a special prosecutor to investigate what Trump believes was his widespread victory in 2020. Do you agree that it’s time for a broad, full-scale investigation? Or do you kind of wish he left it alone? 800-655-MIKE. We’re in the Relief Factor studios for a Friday. Your voice. Also, you’ve got to hear about the guy that fell in love with an AI bot. It’s made the rounds. It’s gone viral. We’ll share that with you as well. We’ll also get… An update from Roger P. Shulman in our newsroom about the attempt to create an alligator Alcatraz in Florida for illegals. We just got a lot to cover. 800-655-MIKE. Join us.
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Mike Gallagher.
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A live look of New York City, lower Manhattan, where we are today. Broadcasting on the Salem News Channel Airwaves Studios. If you’re watching on SNC.TV, you’re seeing a beautiful shot of one of the most magnificent skylines ever. In the world. You know, there’s a part of me that dreads even going down this path. But look, President Trump’s making news here and suggesting that a special prosecutor is needed to investigate the 2020 election. Claiming that, you know, he won in a landslide. Says the evidence is overwhelming. My pillow text line… Absolutely blowing up with everybody seemingly agreeing. I don’t see anybody saying it’s a bad idea. Is it a bad idea to launch a full-scale investigation into the 2020 election? Earlier today, President Trump called on a special prosecutor to investigate. Let’s see what you think. 800-655-MIKE. We’ll start with Tish in Kentucky. Tish, thanks for joining us. Welcome. How are you?
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I’m fine. But actually, I’m in southern Illinois. I’m like five minutes from Paducah, Kentucky.
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Got it. Got it.
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Got that straight. Owens is.
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Gotcha. Well, we know.
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I don’t care if I was President Trump. If it had been 20 years, I would still have it investigated. Even if he couldn’t prosecute, maybe he could have it investigated for it to never happen again. He deserves to know.
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We all deserve to know. I mean, look, we deserve to know. Americans deserve to know. Look, people get into this whole thing where, oh, it’s a giant conspiracy theory. Biden got millions and millions more votes than Donald Trump in 2020. And I can promise you, nobody really believes that. Now, ultimately, it was really close. It came down to… really, in electoral count and even popular vote count, a sliver. And that’s why I always cringe when I heard, well, there was no evidence of widespread election fraud. If you just barely win an election, you don’t need widespread election fraud. You just need a little bit of election fraud to tip the scales. And, you know, if cheating took place, So that Biden, who never let, look, I just finished this book by, what’s his name, Chris Whipple. The whole strategy of keeping Biden in the basement in 2020 wasn’t just COVID. It was that they didn’t want to dare put him in front of the American people. They had him sequestered. They had him locked down. Trump was going to the opening of an envelope. Trump got COVID. Remember that? Right before the election? And you think about the parallels to getting COVID at his age, and reportedly he was pretty sick, and getting shot in Butler, Pennsylvania. Many of us believe that the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania helped secure his victory. A lot of people said he’s a fighter. And I know he symbolized being a fighter by that iconic moment when he stood up and thrust his fist in the air and said, fight, fight, fight. You want to know what a real fight is? To be apparently sick as a dog, running for president, and weeks before the election, you wind up getting hospitalized, and then you recover, and you climb a flight of steps to demonstrate you’re okay, and you go back to work. That’s a fighter. Well, America saw that, but evidently it wasn’t enough. We were good with a locked-down, miserable country And wanted Joe Biden. Have a real hard time accepting that. Now, maybe I’m wrong. I don’t know. Could be. Could be. And look, there’s a big part of me that understands if 2020 hadn’t happened the way it did, we wouldn’t be where we are now. But the fallacy of that argument is arguably things would be a heck of a lot better in 2025 than they are now. Tom in Connecticut, you’re on the Mike Gallagher Show. Hi, Tom.
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Hi, Mike Gallagher. Hello. I think absolutely it needs to be investigated, not because Republican or this or Democrat that, simply because there were crimes committed, fraud, or treason for that matter. and other crimes that we don’t even know about yet until they bring out the investigation in full. So primarily, yes, it needs to get done. There were crimes committed that need to be found out. So, yes, it does not happen again in America.
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I got you. Thank you, Tom. Sorry, I pushed the button too quick. I appreciate you very much, Tom. That’s the point. He’s right. It must never happen again, if it happened the way President Trump is alleging. I mean, here’s a great text from Tampa, Florida. It’s quite staggering, actually. Biden’s campaign used in real time for cover that he was too old and feeble to be in the public during COVID to hide the fact that he was too old and feeble to actually be president. Look, this would, if you read these books, and there’s a lot of them being written, even the Jake Tapper book, And the Whipple book, I recommend that. I’m drawing a blank on the name. Tracy, can you put the name of that book? Oh, Uncharted. Thanks, Tracy. You’re one step ahead of me, as usual. Uncharted by Chris Whipple. It’s fascinating. And he’s not a conservative. He’s a Washington or New York journalist. who did a deep dive into the Biden and the Kamala and the Trump campaigns. And all of these narratives are emerging that they absolutely locked Biden down during the 2020 campaign because they were petrified that if the American people saw who he really is, there’s no way he could win. And incidentally, a word I use too much, but P.S., it worked. It worked. You know? He was in the White House, stumbling around, doing a lot of damage. And this would go down. Look, there’s not a scandal that could come close. If there was cheating, if the election was rigged, not even a scandal that comes close. Nothing comes close. Watergate, cakewalk. So, yeah, there’s a part of me that wishes Trump would let it go. There’s a part of me that just says, and you hear that from a lot of smart people, too, that say, don’t look, let 2022 go. Let’s worry about today. Let’s worry about moving forward. But consider this. If there was a concerted, orchestrated effort to rig the election, to cheat in 2020… That’s exactly what those scoundrels would want. Move on. Let it go. Don’t worry about it. And look, they never let January 6th go. They banged that drum for as long as humanly possible. If Trump didn’t get elected, they’d still be banging that drum. They’d still be screaming about January 6th to the mountaintop. We’re supposed to move on from 2020? You saw all the Trump rallies, the packed stadiums, the exuberance, the yard signs everywhere. You saw the nine people who’d show up for Biden in a parking lot while he was wearing nine masks and a couple of horns honking in the background limply, weakly. W-E-A-K, not by the week. So I don’t know. I mean, I kind of am torn. On the other hand, I think he’s right. I think he’s right.
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Recognize it?
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Of course. What is it, the 50th anniversary?
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50th anniversary of Jaws. Terrified me. Was 15-year-old Mike Gallagher in a theater seat? Oh, yeah. Scared me to death. Have you revisited?
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No, I haven’t seen it in years, but I remember… It’s ridiculous.
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It’s cheesy, right? Because, first of all, with computer-generated this and CGI that, the ability to have incredible reality just makes everything from the past look silly. But, of course, the acting is still great. Roy Scheider is still great. Richard Dreyfuss, the great Robert Shaw. Farewell and adieu, dear Spanish ladies. It’s a fantastic film. And the genius of it… is you didn’t see the shark for forever. You know why? Anticipation of the shark. Oh, because Bruce wasn’t working. Bruce was the shark and they were having huge technical problems.
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They had all kinds of technical problems. So Spielberg improvised and he said, well, look, we’ll just make it like the theater of the mind.
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We’ll make people worry about what’s out there. And man did it work. Speaking of old, speaking of old, let me give you something that does not hold up well. And it just it was on. I said, let me watch three minutes of this. Watch the entire two hours. Revisited the original Terminator. I’ll be back with Arnold and and Linda Hamilton. It’s iconic. It’s one of the great films of my lifetime. And it’s so cheesy. And the acting is so. So horrible. But it’s James Cameron’s first work. But you don’t care because it’s just such a part of your. But here’s the thing. Last thing on this. I’ve got a few things in the news to talk about. But, you know, the whole premise. First of all, you know, the whole premise of Terminator is it starts out. You’re in some distant future, some dystopian future with lasers. And you know what year that is? 2025. 2027. Wow. Exactly. It’ll be like Trump’s term now. It’s like, wait a minute, what? But the other thing, I forget what the other thing was. Oh, the very premise. How did things go so horribly wrong? How did the future become so terrible? Right. Computers. Yep. So Reese, you know, whoever the Michael Biehn character is describing this to Sarah Calder said, what happened is we made these machines and they got smarter than us and they started to take over and we didn’t want them to take over. And we were at war with the robots. It’s what’s happening. It’s AI. The movie is prescient. It’s exactly what we all feared.
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You know what I watched last night? I watched the Bob Dylan biopic with Timothee Chalamet.
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And you know what?
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I’m not a big Dylan guy. Never have been. But I am now. In fact, actually, if Bob Dylan really sang the way Timothee Chalamet did, I’d like his music. Because he sings better. I mean, I think he hosted.
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He hosted or was the musical guest on SNL a few and did like some Dylan songs. Yeah, he sings. And was so true to them, and he’s an incredible actor.
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And incidentally, can we tip the hat to actors today? You know, we bag on Hollywood, but you think about it. Back in the day, if they did a movie like that, well, they would just dub in Bob Dylan’s voice. These actors today are expected to inhabit and absolutely own the part, and this kid sings like Bob Dylan.
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I’ve got to see it. I’ve heard it’s great. Oh, I loved it.
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It’s a really interesting… I mean, it was kind of a weird build-up. It kind of boils down to whether or not he’s going to sing the things that he became famous for, Blow Into the Wind and everything, at the Newport Folk Festival, or would he introduce the more guitar, electric guitar… Electric guitar.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which he did. Which he did. And changed everything.
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But the crowd, well, you know, this is stupid. This is idiotic. I don’t know how this ends because I’m at the part where he does that and he’s playing with the electric guitar in front of the Newport Folk Festival and the executives are screaming in the background. They’re mad at him. And the crowd is throwing objects at him because they hate it because it’s not Joan Baez, you know, and Peter Paul. But I don’t know how it ends because the flight finally landed that I was four hours late on.
SPEAKER 11 :
I was going to say, did you watch this on the plane at 11 o’clock last night?
SPEAKER 12 :
I was on the plane, and I decided not to watch it until it took off. It was so weird. Air travel today. We got on the plane. Pilots said, okay, we’re good to go. Now we’ve got a two-hour delay. You can get off the plane.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, no. I didn’t know that you had boarded, and then they yanked you off the plane. This is from trying to get from Tampa to LaGuardia. You were due to come out at 3 o’clock, right?
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Right. Three times they did that. Three times, everybody gets on the plane. Then he says, whoops, we’ve got a two-hour delay. You can get off the plane. Everybody gets off the plane. Then we’re getting ready to go. It’s going to be 5 o’clock. Get on the plane. Whoops, we’ve got another two hours. Get off the plane. It was unbelievable. And, you know, I’ve got to hand it to people. People were pretty calm and normal. And, you know, when these travel things happen, they happen. Nobody went nuts. You know, nothing you can do. By the way, I also want to add.
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It’s weather. How do you not know? I mean, I understand weather delays, but don’t you kind of know?
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What they were saying is storms were blowing up in LaGuardia, and we’re sitting on the runway in Tampa. Well, when LaGuardia does a ground stop, then it suspends stuff leaving Tampa, I guess. By the way, can we just take a moment and salute technology before we get into all the other, you know, the world coming to an end with World War III.
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AirPods.
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Are they not the best invention since the remote control for the TV?
SPEAKER 11 :
Especially on a plane because they’ve got cords all over the place. Everywhere. And I try to get up to go to the bathroom and I strangle myself. Everywhere.
SPEAKER 12 :
I’m listening to you this morning. I mean, I’m walking. I took the subway today. I’m in New York. It’s a crisp, cool morning here.
SPEAKER 11 :
Sure you did.
SPEAKER 12 :
I did. I took the subway. Are you insane?
SPEAKER 11 :
No, it’s fine. While the AirPods are in, you can hear my show while you’re being stabbed by a vagrant.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. I’m being lit on fire. I can hear you talk and do a musical birthday. It’s really a good way to go. And I do want to apologize as I listen to the app, as I always do. It must be so jarring for people to turn on the Mark Davis show and hear a 30 or 60 second commercial entirely in Spanish.
SPEAKER 11 :
I don’t know how that happens.
SPEAKER 12 :
They’re called programmatic ads, and we have no say in it, apparently. It’s the way they get inserted by a third-party provider. For the record, neither Mark or I or the station have anything to do with that. But it’s weird. Like, why would you even do it? Why don’t we just have something in Mandarin, you know? I know. I get there’s a lot of Hispanic people in the world. Farsi. Why not? What happened to diversity, right? I know. And people get mad at us. I get these text messages. Mike, do you know why I’m listening to Mark and Mike? Let’s start with Gavin Newsom. This is something that is such an intriguing habit that the Democrats have that just drive me crazy. They lose big time and make no mistake, when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rules in favor of Donald Trump. Unanimous. You know that’s pretty profound, right?
SPEAKER 11 :
This is about his ability to keep control of the National Guard in California.
SPEAKER 12 :
Correct. And they were unanimous. Did you see what Gavin Newsom posted about it? Now, is he just nuts? And I guess this is gaslighting. I guess that’s what this means. He posted at midnight last night, Donald Trump is not a king and not above the law. Tonight, the court rightly rejected Trump’s claim that he can do whatever he wants with the National Guard and not have to explain himself to a court. We will not let this authoritarian use of military soldiers against citizens go unchecked. Wait a minute. You lost.
SPEAKER 11 :
What do you mean the court? He went for a technicality, which is in there. The court said Trump absolutely gets to keep control of the National Guard. He was completely justified in calling him in. He totally, absolutely did properly notify the state through the proper authorities and channels. So win, win, and win. But in there, in the ruling, it said this doesn’t mean that Trump can do anything he wants at any time without telling the state. But on this, he’s on solid ground. So Newsom went into the technicality and said, oh, the court has ruled in my favor on this one little. Minuscule point.
SPEAKER 12 :
What a moron. And then the other thing I was thinking about, I think I texted this to you yesterday, and I’ve been giving this a lot of thought. I said, if we were half the men we used to be, we’d be willing to tackle the drama behind Juneteenth. And then I thought, why not? We are at least half the men we used to be. Why not tackle Juneteenth?
SPEAKER 11 :
Because I think I’m 110 percent of the man I used to be. You are 150. I’m 30. I don’t even. So between us, we’re two.
SPEAKER 12 :
But we almost one person.
SPEAKER 11 :
Here’s what Trump said.
SPEAKER 12 :
Here’s what he did last night. And many think he’s right. Too many non-working holidays in America. It’s costing our country billions of dollars to keep all of these businesses closed. The workers don’t want it either. I’m not sure that’s entirely true, but maybe. Soon we’ll end up having a holiday for everyone’s working day of the year. It must change if we’re going to make America great again. I forgot that Juneteenth is actually a federal holiday? Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
just from a couple years ago.
SPEAKER 12 :
Now look, there’s nothing wrong with celebrating and honoring the good news.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, it’s a remarkable holiday. It has huge significance. It’s an amazing… I enjoy the observance of it, but we have enough federal holidays. You know what my genius idea was? In order to prevent the optics of just getting rid of Juneteenth, it’s like throw people a bone, let’s also get rid of Labor Day, which is meaningless.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, speaking of holidays and the 4th of July, you see these dummies are going to do another No Kings on the 4th of July. Well,
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, that’ll work out well. Oh, no. Why do they want to beg? They got on TV. It was like a rock of crack. They paid attention to us. We’re just a bunch of old white leftist dorks, and we got on TV.
SPEAKER 12 :
Pathetic. I don’t make it a habit of watching Stephen Colbert’s clips, but Tracy gave me a clip this morning of Colbert bagging on Trump’s announcement that, look, he’s going to, within two weeks, he’s going to. Why are you rooting against the country? You know, remember after 9-11, Democrats didn’t bag on Bush. Democrats lifted him up. President Bush was saluted for that inspirational bullhorn speech on the pile. And now the Stephen Colberts and all of them, the Democrats, are all lining up, rooting against him, and then therefore rooting for us to fail. And what are you going to do if, God forbid, Iran nukes Austin, Texas? Then you’re going to blast Trump? Trump didn’t start this war. Trump didn’t massacre people. It’s just so frustrating for me, Mark, to watch the way they just seem to want the entire country to go up in flames because of their Trump derangement.
SPEAKER 11 :
Trump hatred guides everything. It absolutely guides everything. So as this week winds down, do you find yourself… becoming slowly, grudgingly, I would say comfortable, nobody’s comfortable, confident about the notion of an American crew and an American bomber dropping a big American bomb on that Nordo nuclear enrichment.
SPEAKER 12 :
Did you see who the latest person was to come out against that? General Mike Flynn. Mike Flynn is now saying, bad idea. We should rethink this.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s kind of the Tucker wing of things. So, okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, we know how you feel about Tucker. Yes, you do. About 30 seconds, I’ll be called a bow tie sniffer. Exactly. In fact, I saw a poll this morning that said, all right, I don’t know if I can use it. I think I can use this word. The poll question one was a picture of Tucker Carlson. All right, let’s dive in. Is he a hero or a douchebag? That was the question. And B was kind of winning. B had a slight… And I didn’t even vote yet. Oh, I know. Well, you’d vote 20 times if you had the chance. But you know something? One of the posts I saw was a great answer. And you know what it was? It’s not a binary choice. He’s a smart and unique, funny guy, wonderful guy, but we all have quirks and traits and failings, and there are a lot of people who agree with him. I think Charlie Kirk is really against blowing up Fordo. I think Charlie, who I really admire deeply, if I’m reading, I haven’t heard all of his shows, but he’s saying right now, Trump is advocating for a negotiation. Blessed are the peacemakers. Well, Mark, shouldn’t we all want that?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, but my favorite thing is for the looming notion of rubble at Fordo hanging over the heads of the Iranian mullahs that they somehow decide to come to a bargaining table within this two-week period. I am not hopeful of that.
SPEAKER 12 :
But here’s what I’m also not hopeful of. We can end on this very negative, pessimistic note. And again, I hope I don’t go up in flames on the A train later today. Are we hoping that the mullahs will change their minds about death to America and death to the Jews?
SPEAKER 11 :
They won’t.
SPEAKER 12 :
Is that going to happen?
SPEAKER 11 :
No.
SPEAKER 12 :
So then guess what? Then you’ve got to take them out.
SPEAKER 11 :
Or neuter them so efficiently that they can have those views and stew in that hatred, but it just doesn’t matter because they won’t be able to do anything.
SPEAKER 12 :
Exactly. No, that’s true. Good point. All right.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, onward and upward. Happy Friday into the weekend. Are you going to catch any shows over the weekend?
SPEAKER 12 :
Do you know me? I do. What do you think? What’s on the slate? Cabaret tonight. I love Eva.
SPEAKER 11 :
Money makes the world go round. Oh, man.
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s a really dark, cool production. It’s one of my favorite shows. And then tomorrow night, were you a fan of Stranger Things? Oh, please. Of course. All right, well, there’s a Broadway production of Stranger Things.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s great. Did they need to do that?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, it’s not a musical, I don’t think, but it’s apparently really, really cool technically and a bunch of special effects.
SPEAKER 11 :
Report back on Monday.
SPEAKER 12 :
I’ll give you a full Broadway mic. We’ll check in Monday. Love you. Have a great weekend.
SPEAKER 11 :
Have a fantastic weekend. Your weekend begins with our Friday shows, and Mike’s ready to roll at 10 o’clock as soon as we’re done.
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