SPEAKER 01 : 0:00

Hey, can I start with a little reminder of how grateful you and I are to get to do this together? Of course. I want to tell a personal story that I’ve meant to tell you, but we’ve had so much stuff happening every day. Since I got back from the cruise, I’ve been wanting to share a story with you about a guy who came up to me on the cruise ship. Now, a couple weeks ago, we were on the Patriots Alaska cruise. Larry Elder and I were the co-hosts. We were joined by Chris DeGaulle, who was a last-minute replacement because Joe Piscopo had some health issues and some family issues that he had to attend to. And so Chris parachuted in, did a fabulous job. Jennifer Horn, who’s a wonderful, wonderful lady, morning host at KRLA in Los Angeles and a dear friend of mine. And my buddy, of course, Joey Hudson, my son and daughter-in-law were able to come. So we just had an incredible time, hundreds of listeners. And one night, as is often the case, a couple came up to me. And they said how much they loved the show and they loved the Eminem experience. They sent their best to you. And this was kind of a New York sounding guy. Kind of, you know, looked like he was in his late 60s maybe. And I noticed as we’re talking, he had a gold chain around his neck under his shirt. And he turns to his wife as we’re talking and he says, Honey, help me get this off. Take this chain off. And she unclasps the gold chain around his neck and tethered to the chain, is a little sheriff’s deputy badge. He explained to me that he was a retired Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy. And on his gold chain that he wore around his neck for years, he told me, was a little 14-carat gold badge. sheriff’s deputy badge with a little diamond in it commemorating his retirement from the Los Angeles Sheriff Department. He took it off the chain and he handed it to him and he goes, I want you to have this. He said, I’m aware of the work that you do for law enforcement. I’m aware of your respect for law enforcement, the National Guard. And I looked at him and I said, no, I can’t. I can’t take this. Are you kidding me? He said, no, no. It would mean a lot to me for you to have that. And I went back to my stateroom that afternoon, and I… Look, I admit, I kid with you about, you know, a cruise, and you’re kind of trapped, and you’re cornered, and there’s nowhere to go.

SPEAKER 02 : 2:14

It’s hard to tell you can’t leave.

SPEAKER 01 : 2:16

Right. There’s no place to hide. And I thought, how… How blessed are we that we can make that kind of a connection? And he told me that. He said, look, you connect with me in a way. I feel like you’re family. I feel like you’re my friend. I feel like you’re my advocate because you advocate for law enforcement, and I want you to have this. And I’m going to treasure this for the rest of my life. Again, I just didn’t want to keep it. I thought, I cannot take this. I mean, it’s like a little 14-carat gold with a –

SPEAKER 02 : 2:42

It’s a weird situation because someone does something that is so kind, it’s almost by definition too kind. So you want to kind of give them a chance to rethink and say, this is really sweet of you, but why don’t you just keep it? It’s so special to you. But if they really want you to have it, you reach a point where it’s kind of rude to continue to resist. So you take it and embrace it and cherish it. And that’s wonderful.

SPEAKER 01 : 3:05

And be so, and have profound gratitude over what you and I get to do for a living. I want to figure out a way to memorialize it in like a shadow box or something. I’m going to try to take it, you know, because I want to keep that and I want to display it. Yeah, or put it on my desk or put it on a little frame or somehow, and maybe like in one of those floating shadow boxes somehow, because it’s tiny. It’s not very big, but to watch him, and I’m thinking, what’s he doing taking the chain off? And it was very spontaneous. Yeah, so it was really, really remarkable.

SPEAKER 02 : 3:36

And I don’t think you did this to do this, what you’ve now done, but two things that you’ve done that are great. Number one, I’ll take 30 seconds and a quick addendum. When Lisa and I and our friends and her sister went to Toto and Men at Work and Christopher Cross at Toyota Music Factory, we learned that we are the official talk show of the Irving Police Department. I was like, what? Half the guys there is like, oh, it was… And they spoke well of not just of me, but of you and of this segment. So there’s that. Now, take your story and my little addendum to that. And appreciation for law enforcement. So this is where I’m going. Appreciation for these people. You and I, we do radio shows for a living. And we love what we do. And people hold what we do in high regard. We are incredibly blessed and incredibly flattered. I don’t think we’re going to get shot on the way to work. I don’t think… Well, I am in New York. I was going to say, good point. If you have another ATM story, you might take a bullet. But generally speaking, these people who could die every day when they put on the uniform, holding law enforcement in high regard and appreciating the men and women of law enforcement is one of the greatest things a citizen can do. Contrast that with what we have now with these governors… These mayors, Mike, these people say, we want you to rise up in opposition of people who wear the uniform of law enforcement or the uniform of the National Guard to assist law enforcement. These people who look to make your streets and your life safer, we hold them in abysmal regard. We’re going to throw things at them. We might dox them or threaten them or worse. That is one of the lowest instincts, and there is an entire political party in America guiding people toward those dark instincts.

SPEAKER 01 : 5:22

I’ve got an even darker instinct that I want to share, and I’m sure you’ve seen it of Tim Walz in just a moment. Just played it. But let’s stipulate that you’re, first of all, you’re completely correct. There is one Democrat who’s resisting the tide. Muriel Bowser is now welcoming the National Guard presence, in her word, indefinitely. Indefinitely. So, you know, a lot of people were hoping, well, maybe this will be just a short stroll here. No, no. She’s saying indefinitely the crime has plummeted in Washington, D.C., thanks to President Trump’s decision to send in the troops. And she’s a Democrat, and she’s telling Brandon Johnson, essentially, pardon my language early in the morning, but she’s telling Brandon Johnson to go to hell. She’s telling Brandon Johnson, you’re all wet. I don’t care what you guys are saying. Hey, J.B. Pritzker, you can strut around and you can – now look at what Trump has gotten them to do. First, he got them to – The superpower. Oh, here’s his weapon. He got them to defend illegals. I mean, they are on board with defending illegal immigrants. Then he got them to defend criminals and crime. Just ask J.B. Pritzker or Brandon Johnson or any of the rest of them. Then yesterday, the president shared dramatic video of a U.S. military strike that blew apart a Venezuelan drug boat in the southern Caribbean, killing nearly a dozen Tren de Aragua narco-terrorists. They’re the worst of the worst. We’ve got young people. Okay, now the Democrats.

SPEAKER 02 : 6:46

Right on cue.

SPEAKER 01 : 6:47

Now he got them defending the Venezuelan drug lords. They’re upset about that. I mean, it’s the trifecta. Holy crap. So this is what he gets them to do. And they’re not smart enough to get out of the way of themselves.

SPEAKER 02 : 7:02

No. And you know what would be smart? And this is funny because how do you, I happen to know, I still know a lot of people in D.C., the Muriel Bowser appreciation for, acceptance of, first tolerance of, and now outright appreciation for. Embracing, embracing. crazy popular in dc she has done herself a huge favor for every trump hating activist usually an old crusty boomer living in georgetown old white crusty boomer living in georgetown there are regular folks of various races just going to work in dc and appreciating safer streets so mike Here we are, the conservative media guys, we’re going to offer free advice to key Democrats on how to improve their poll numbers and improve their stature. To J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson in Chicago, go along with it. Welcome the National Guard and their political stock will rise. I want safer streets. I would love if they did that.

SPEAKER 01 : 8:04

I have no interest in helping them in any way, shape, or form, so I hope they keep going down this path. But the point is, just like Muriel Bowser’s position in D.C. is popular with constituents and residents, it would be equally as popular in Chicago. It would be equally popular in New York. It would be popular in Baltimore. Go down the list, but they cannot help themselves. They’ve got to oppose it because it’s Donald Trump.