The conversation takes a lighter turn as we delve into the world of Broadway, reminiscing about various performances and their societal impacts. With personal anecdotes as a backdrop, listeners get a sneak peek into how political differences can affect friendships. Moreover, a lively debate ensues about Trump’s possible policy shifts on marijuana, touching on societal safety, medical arguments, and the evolving legal landscape. Lastly, the show dives into the humorous realm of synthetic protests and the role of AI in creativity, offering listeners a balanced mix of serious debate and entertaining narratives.
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SPEAKER 03 :
Out of all the Kennedy Center honorees, I could have played some George Strait. That would have been great. Could have played some Kiss, which I’m prone to do. Gloria Gaynor, I will survive. That’s good, too. But no, no, no, no. For the mic segment, I got to bust out with some Michael Crawford and that mind-numbing Phantom of the Opera. I’m kidding. I’m kidding. I’m kidding. I tease because I love. Is that you? You, of all people, should know Phantom of the Opera. How much bang? How much hype? Is it as great as everyone says it is?
SPEAKER 04 :
It depends on your point of view. I saw a post on X yesterday from Katie Pavlich, and she said, hot take, Les Miserables isn’t that good. And it’s like, this is like, it’s in the same, but it’s that same kind of genre. It’s like one of those classic Broadway musicals.
SPEAKER 03 :
Flamboyant, European, you know, through law, arduous, tranquilizer dart, you know, that kind of thing.
SPEAKER 04 :
Funny story about my dear, dear, dear friend. I don’t want to mention his name, but I worked with him for many years on the show. And we split up because of Trump. because let’s face it, we’ve all had friendships and people that we’ve split up because of Trump. But this is a guy who was so loyal to me for many years and one of my best buddies. And I worked with him from New York City on. But anyway, the funny story is he’s a huge guy. He’s a big, big guy. I’m going to say… 400, maybe 375. And his lovely wife, his precious wife, he’s been married for 100 years, they wound up, I think in London, seeing a production of Les Mis. And he said, here I am, all 375 pounds of me, squeezed in. In a European theater seat. In a European theater in the last row of the balcony. He goes, my head was hitting the ceiling of the theater. And he said it was the most miserable three and a half hours. He goes, it felt like 300 hours. Jean Valjean. It was Miserable, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
It was Miserable. He was very Miserable.
SPEAKER 04 :
But I often think of him, though, and I think about, doggone it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, when was this? When did the rift occur? Oh, John. Okay.
SPEAKER 1 :
2016, 2017.
SPEAKER 03 :
Have we revisited? Have we healed? We have.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, well, we have pleasantries over the years, maybe once or twice a year. But it’s not the same. Nothing like it was. Well, because he hates you.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t mean he hates you, but he’s no longer able to love you, no longer able to put you in his friend circle, not to channel somebody I don’t even know you’re talking about. But we’ve seen this dynamic happen all the time. I don’t want your dirty money from the other gentleman. Yeah. Trump hatred makes nice people mean.
SPEAKER 04 :
It makes nice people mean. It makes nice people mean. It makes smart people dumb. Well, let’s get mean and dumb here.
SPEAKER 03 :
Let’s get right into it.
SPEAKER 04 :
I barely teased this decision that Trump is going to make on easing federal restrictions around marijuana. I barely mentioned it to you yesterday. My text line, which I always like to remind everyone, is 800-655-MIKE. A lot of great instant feedback if you want to comment during the M&M experience. 800-655-6453. Barely mentioned it. I was called a commie rat bastard. I was called a monster.
SPEAKER 03 :
Here’s what we have to do. For momentarily agreeing with me that more intoxicants are bad? This is what earned you that? The pro-marijuana people, Mark, as you probably know. They need to twist one up because they are tense.
SPEAKER 04 :
They’re tense. And that’s part of what goes into this, though. We have to accept that we’ve got to realize this, that part of the challenge for President Trump and others who are dealing with this policy, and this is, look, here’s the context. Under the Controlled Substances Act, drugs are placed in a five-part schedule according to whether they have an accepted medical use or not. Drugs with no accepted medical use and a high risk of abuse, of course, are placed in Schedule 1. That’s where marijuana is right now. And you and I would say that’s where it belongs.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, okay, sit tight, because here I am, Mr. Legalize Nothing, but I’ve always carved out a willingness for valid, valid, so much of this medical marijuana is a scam. But is there such a thing as someone with a real problem that can really be helped with something that involves THC?
SPEAKER 01 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 03 :
So I want a doctor and a prescription and do it like you would anything else medicinal rather than having them go to some stupid corner store and load up on gummies.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, that’s the question. I mean, you know, Luke Niferatos over at The Daily Caller said, look at Pennsylvania. Consider the claim that marijuana has already been an accepted medical use treatment. Pennsylvania in 2022, 17 doctors issued more than 132,000 medical marijuana certifications. There you are. Almost a third of the state’s total that year. Does that seem medically or scientifically sound?
SPEAKER 03 :
Like anything else, exactly. You know, which is true. So even as I talk about let’s have it be something that a real doctor does with a real prescription, you go to your doctor and go, oh, I’ve got something, something I’ve got to do. I’ve got glaucoma today. And they’re like, well, here’s this. It like any prescription. Listen, do we have an abuse of prescription drugs problem in America? Are we over prescribed in almost every way? Yes. So why would these things be any different? But I I’m nonetheless willing to hold out some avenue for I don’t want to stand astride all of this and say absolutely no. You with your valid medical need cannot get anything with THC in it. I just am wide open awake to the degree to which much of this is a scam from people who just want to get high.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, let’s just stipulate the medical marijuana thing is basically a ruse. You know, you’ve got all these supposed medical dispensaries, and let me go in. And I compared it yesterday briefly to the people who bring their little chihuahuas on an airplane and claim they’re a comfort animal. They’re a service dog. Oh, yeah, they’re a service dog. Mookie, the little schnauzer, is my service animal. Service animals are like for blind people who need a German shepherd to walk down the street. And they’re blind. They got the dog in one hand. They got the cane in the other. But that’s been abused. Well, that’s what they’re doing now with medical marijuana. Everything falls under. I’m tense. I have anxiety.
SPEAKER 03 :
I’m stressed. Exactly. Who doesn’t have anxiety? Correct.
SPEAKER 04 :
Exactly. But you might have less anxiety if you get high. And the argument is, okay, if your choice to get less anxiety is to smoke marijuana, why shouldn’t you be allowed to do so, Mark? That’s the argument. What do you say to that? Well, because a lot of people…
SPEAKER 03 :
Why not give people a right to do that? Because it’s an intoxicant that makes us less safe, it makes us less productive, and there is no way in which society is made better by the legalization of more intoxicants.
SPEAKER 04 :
Period. Anytime you make an intoxicant or a mind-altering substance legal or more accessible, you’re making a mistake. I agree with completely what you’re saying, but let’s – but, Mark – you’re spitting in the wind here. I mean, go walk down the street in some big cities. You’ve got medical marijuana dispensaries on every corner. We talk about the, you get high from the secondhand smoke of marijuana walking in New York City these days. The cow’s out of the barn. And guess what? I think Trump’s going to do it. I believe that Trump, that’s what’s fascinating to me.
SPEAKER 03 :
If it is a nuanced shade of difference between recognizing it as, I mean, because he’s not going to nationally legalized weed, but if it’s a shading… It’s the Schedule 1 thing.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s easing the federal restrictions somewhat, and I don’t think that we’re going to get anywhere to oppose it, and I believe it’s going to happen, Mark.
SPEAKER 03 :
I will tell you one thing. There are those who say, and I think I’m probably one of these people saying it too, does it really matter? What’s a federal drug? I think the only federal drug law should be don’t bring it into the country. Once you’re inside the country, I think 1,000% Of these weed laws ought to be state by state, meaning if a state is stupid enough to have legal weed, knock yourself out.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, you know, this article in The Daily Caller, which, believe me, it is very much like how you and I feel in our hearts. In fact, the headline is, Trump flirts with disaster as he mulls over going soft on pot. But there’s a line in the article that this guy unwittingly wrote. probably telegraphs what Trump’s going to do. The president has promised to make life better for everyday Americans. I can promise you that our text lines and our call lines and our audience is filled with people who say, my life would be made better if federal restrictions on marijuana would be eased.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I would say, well, that’s you. Society is not made better. Society is not made better. Aren’t we society, Mark? No, society is broadly some individual saying, I feel better if I can get a prescription bottle full of joints. Yeah, guess what? It ain’t always about you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Big guest today on the show who is definitely somebody who is not somebody I’d agree with, but I hear he’s a pretty good sport about coming into conservative media. He’s the founder of the original paid protesting firm. You know, all these no kings and all these various anti-Trump protests in Dallas and all over the country, they all have one thing in common, right? They all look the same.
SPEAKER 03 :
They’re all right out of central California. Similar placards. Well, they look like you and me.
SPEAKER 04 :
They’re all boomers. They’re all white boomers. They’re all white people in their 60s and 70s. So what do they have in common? Well, perhaps it’s because they came from crowds on demand. Crowds on Demand.
SPEAKER 03 :
I heard about this. If you want to protest, if you’re looking to make a protest, who are you going to call? You call Crowds on Demand.
SPEAKER 04 :
And Adam Swart is the founder. And he’s going to come on the show today.
SPEAKER 03 :
Pretend to be liberal crowds? I mean, can I gin up a crowd for a pro-life march? Will he do that for me? Oh, I think he would. I’ll ask him that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you for adding my question. I’ll ask him. But here’s the point, and this is the first thing I’m going to ask him. You understand your very existence as an entity confirms our suspicions that these protests are not organic. AstroTurf.
SPEAKER 03 :
Fake grassroots. They’re fake.
SPEAKER 04 :
They’re plastic. They’re contrived. This guy sells… I don’t even know how it works. He’s very transparent about it. He says, look, you want a crowd to get media attention? I’ll get you one. I’ll get you one.
SPEAKER 03 :
He’s hiring actors. And I’ll give you a quote.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I’ll give you a quote. Here’s what you can buy. You can go to the website, crowdsondemand.com. Maybe you and I ought to have a, I think we ought to hire a pro Mike and Mark. 10,000 people. We’ve got 10,000 people screaming M&M, M&M, M&M. We could hand out M&Ms with our picture on it. Exactly. I mean, it could be a great, great event. So anyway, we’ll have to see what Adam Sworn has to say.
SPEAKER 03 :
Do you know what it would cost to get 100 people at a courthouse for something? I’ll find out. Thank you. Why don’t you do the interview? I’m writing down all your questions. I love this.
SPEAKER 04 :
Mike Gallagher, guest interview AI. Look, I’m telling you what, Mark. You want to know what I’m enamored with? You want to know my latest obsession? Chat GPT, baby.
SPEAKER 03 :
Chat GPT.
SPEAKER 04 :
Just don’t marry it. I gave a speech. I had to give a speech.
SPEAKER 03 :
Breaking my heart again.
SPEAKER 04 :
I gave it the parameters. And you know what? It was a good speech. Well, of course it was good, but it wasn’t you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, it was.
SPEAKER 04 :
You said, make it sound like me. It was in my voice, and you know what it did? Can you send it to me? Here’s what’s crazy. I say, right at 10 minutes, I had to do a thing at an event in the Carolinas, 10 minutes. I thought, let me do 10 minutes, chat GPT. Put it from the voice of conservative radio and talk show host Mike Gallagher. Make it humorous. Make it typical Mike style. Make it humorous. Oh, my gosh. And it was funny. And it’s real humor. Look, humor’s hard. A comedy in front of a group?
SPEAKER 01 :
I know.
SPEAKER 04 :
At the Kiwanis Club?
SPEAKER 03 :
But you’re funny. You’re funny. You want to get 100 people at the Kiwanis Club?
SPEAKER 04 :
You want to get people at the Kiwanis Club to laugh? It’s tough. So listen, wait a minute. Let me finish. Let me finish. So here’s what it put. And the speech spit it out in about three seconds. I know. Do you know it ended with one of my catchphrases? It said, I’m Mike Gallagher. Fight the good fight. And I’m like, holy cow.
SPEAKER 03 :
How did it know that I say that? But it did. Here’s my challenge. Obviously, this thing you printed it out at some point. Can you send it to me? I will not. I will not. That’s proprietary information. I understand. No, because you’ll post it. That’s fiduciary. No. Listen. That’s proprietary. Okay. But I swear to you and to this audience that I will read it. And if the thing is great, I will admit that it’s great.
SPEAKER 04 :
Nope. Nope. Because, listen, it’s not all chat GPT. I did go in and make a bunch of edits. I mean, I did insert lines and everything. If it was like a consultant.
SPEAKER 03 :
But why not embrace this technology, Mark? Well, because here’s one reason. Chat GPT dietary advice sends man to the hospital with dangerous chemical poisoning. It’s not like he was going to write a… I thought I could have nine Big Macs and four Whoppers. I’ll have it print out something for me and somewhere halfway through it’ll say, this is the point where I tell you that Obama was a great president. Whoa, how’d that get in there? Mark, I’m all kidding aside.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m going to tell you something in closing. I’m going to say this in closing. We are on the cusp of something really epic and astounding.
SPEAKER 03 :
And it has elements that are great and elements that are terrible. Well, what’s terrible? What’s not terrible? Oh, no. I’m just saying. I’m not saying that you don’t have a speech that’s so necessarily terrible. But my heart breaks a little bit that it… A brain is a muscle. Creativity is like a muscle. It will atrophy when the robots are writing things for us.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, my brain had to give Chad GPT the robot a few parameters, so it’s still working a little bit. And then I get up and look into the teleprompter. And I read the speech that he gave me.
SPEAKER 03 :
I know. I hear you. God bless America. Well, hang on a second and say, well, Mike, it has been great to be with you today. We look forward to hearing your show at 10 as soon as we are finished here on KRLD. Whoa, wait a minute. That’s not right.
SPEAKER 04 :
But my parameters are, I mean, the humorous, happy, conservative warrior. By Mark Hayes, you hear the one about the guy that walked into the bar. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Tip your waitresses. I’ll be here all week.
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