Join us on The Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast as we delve into the biggest stories making headlines. From the tragic shooting in Michigan to the ongoing government shutdown standoff, we unpack the intricate details and offer unique insights. We’ll explore how these events impact everyday Americans, the political implications, and what could happen next.
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Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. I’m Eric Hansen. It’s Friday, October 3rd, 2025. And this week, Hillary Clinton opens up about white Christians, the government shuts down over health care, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams drops out of the race for re-election. We begin in rural Michigan, the site of yet another deadly shooting.
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I don’t even know why I’m starting with this, but I feel like I have to, to once again explain the idiocy… Of the left. And not everything is left and right anymore. We just got to stop with the, it’s the left’s fault, it’s the right’s fault. There was this horrible shooting at a Mormon church in Michigan. Ex-Marine. Lunatic. American flags. Oh, he has a Trump sign in his front yard. Okay. He apparently hated Mormonism. So once again, innocent people of faith are slaughtered in a church on Sunday. You know what I care about? Are people in church able to protect and defend themselves? To me, that’s the only story that matters out of Michigan. Four killed. Four people killed. Guy, this… This degenerate coward slams his truck into the side of the wall, tries to put the building on fire, kills the bishop of the church, and they had to wait until the police got there before they finally took him out. He engaged in a shootout with the cops, and thankfully, and God bless law enforcement, but how long do you suppose that took? If half the congregation was armed and it’s rural Michigan, I think lots of people there carry. But what do you think the odds were that it was a gun-free zone? Time and… We are up against evil right now. We got people driving around with bumper stickers on their Subarus that say, make assassinations great again. Now, think about… How bold do you have to be to believe that that’s normal? After the whole world watched Charlie Kirk get assassinated in Utah, and they take the font and the red and white letters of MAGA, and they print up a bumper sticker that says, make assassinations great again, and slap it on the back of their car. Do you realize… How depraved you have to be to think that’s okay? Is that funny to you? And now they’re identifying the people that are doing it. Look, I know the doxing thing is uncomfortable and dangerous, and somebody’s going to get killed when somebody gets doxed. Doxed is when the personal information or details of somebody are made public. Apparently, the woman that had the Make Assassinations Great Again bumper sticker on her car in Maine, in the state of Maine, owns a restaurant, a diner somewhere. Well, guess what? Now, she’s going to get harassed and targeted and bombarded with people who can’t believe her idiocy.
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You may have heard that the government shut down this week. Democrats and Republicans clashed over health care spending and could not pass a spending bill. As I say, you may have heard about it. You may not have noticed it. Our guest host, Joey Hudson, explains.
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Did you wake up feeling just a bit different this morning? Did you feel like it? that our federal government is shut down? Is anything different for you this morning than maybe it was yester morning when you started your day? Well, as expected, the GOP and the Democrats last night could not come to terms on a continuing resolution to keep our government open, so the federal government is closed for business today. We’re going to jump in today and just talk about what that means for you, if anything. Again, do you feel any different? Have you noticed yet? We’re going to jump into that. Congress, of course, missed the midnight deadline last night. Of course, the blame game is fierce. Everybody’s pointing fingers from both sides. The president, of course, says it’s the Democrats. Chuck Schumer, representing the Democrats, says it’s the Republicans. Depending on who you’re talking about, it’s doomsday. The sky is falling. Others, like President Trump, says this is an opportunity. The president talked about how he can do some things now during a closed government that maybe he couldn’t do otherwise because there are going to be some federal employees that are going to lose their jobs, and they’re not going to be able to come back, and they’re not going to be able to collect back pay. President said yesterday in cut number one, he can do some things right now that he hasn’t been able to do before.
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They are shutting it down. We’re not shutting it down. We don’t want it to shut down because we have the greatest period of time ever. I told you we have 17 trillion dollars being invested. So the last person that wants to shut down is us. Now, with that being said, we can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible. that are bad for them and irreversible by them, like cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like. And you all know Russell Vogt. He’s become very popular recently because he can trim the budget to a level that you couldn’t do any other way. So they’re taking a risk by having a shutdown because of the shutdown, we can do things medically and other ways, including benefits. We can cut Large numbers of people. We don’t want to do that, but we don’t want fraud, waste and abuse. And, you know, we’re cutting that. But they want to have illegal aliens come into our country and get massive health care at the cost to everybody else. And we don’t have it. And that’s that’s I would say the number one reason that they want to strike is to get illegal immigrants health care. And, you know, Gavin Newsom wants that, too, in California. And it’s destroying California. We can’t have that. We’re not going to let it happen.
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I have a feeling that the president is going to take full advantage for however long this lasts. And it could be a day. It could be two days. It could be a week. It could be a month. And just a little later, we’re going to talk about shutdowns, sort of a history of previous shutdowns, how long they lasted and what effect they had on the economy. So how did we get here? Let’s do a quick review. How did we get to today? House Republicans passed a continuing resolution about two weeks ago. Now, of course, the continuing resolution was a temporary fix to keep the government open. They wanted to keep the government open until November 21st. The continuing resolution was necessary because of the 12 funding bills that is required by Congress to fund the government, not a single one had been approved. Not one out of 12. So they needed the CR, and it’s called a clean CR because nothing had been changed. They didn’t add anything. They didn’t take anything away. It was the bill that had been funding the government for the past year. But Senate Democrats, led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, blocked that bill. Because, as you heard the President say, they want to fund health care for illegals and some other things. They have some add-ons that they would like to see part of this continuing resolution. Schumer says that it’s the GOP fault. In cut number six, Schumer lays the blame at the president’s feet and the GOP.
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We see now Republicans are plunging America into a shutdown, rejecting bipartisan talks, pushing a partisan bill, and risking America’s health care, worst of all. A few moments ago, Republicans once again rejected Democrats’ proposals to avoid a shutdown, fix health care premiums, and spare Americans the calamity of skyrocketing through the roof health care costs.
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Risking America’s health care. Who’s he possibly talking about? It’s not going to affect my health care. It’s not going to affect your health care. What it is going to affect, though, is it’s going to keep a lot of illegal immigrants from getting health care. The one big beautiful bill back in the spring cut that out. The Democrats hated it then. Now they want to get it back in. They see their chance to try to embarrass the Republicans and try to hold this shutdown over the Republicans to get health care for illegals.
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The race for New York City mayor took a surprising turn this week. The current mayor, Eric Adams, dropped out of the race. This twist left Mike in a tough position.
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Now, I want to tackle something that is real painful for me. It’s painful because I treasure loyalty. I value loyalty. Years ago, when I started out in the syndication business, and we started out with a dozen radio stations in America, then we got to 50, then we got to 100. Now we’re, I think, close to 400 radio stations around the country that carry the Mike Gallagher show. And radio stations would, as the radio business goes, would add us. Sometimes they’d drop us. And it always got to me when a station would drop me because it always felt like the harder I worked for the station, the more apt I was to get dumped. South Bend, Indiana comes to mind. I’ll never forget that story. We were going to get canceled by the South Bend station. I said, look, don’t cancel. They were going to put on some sports show or something. I said, we love being in South Bend. Let me come out and pay a visit to the market and try to save this station. And they were nice about it. They said, sure, come on out. And I came to South Bend. We had a party. And it was a bar run by, like a sports bar, a restaurant run by cops. And we just had an informal, like a pop-up visit. At that restaurant. Hundreds of people showed up. And the station changed their mind. And they hung in with me. And I was so happy. Moral of the story, they wound up dumping me anyway. It never mattered. No loyalty. There was no loyalty. And they were such nice people. Of course, they had bosses, too. I’ll never forget that. Bob and Sally had a dinner at the general manager’s house. I mean, they were all nice people. But they had a boss. And I suspect whoever the parent company was didn’t like me. Okay. You know, people don’t like me. I get it. But I always remember feeling burned because I was so loyal to them. We flew to South Bend. We did it all on our dime. It was our effort. We tried so hard, did commercials for them, did whatever they wanted. And they wound up dumping us anyhow. There is no loyalty anymore, and I treasure loyalty. So me… believing that my friend Curtis Sliwa should drop out of the mayor’s race in New York City, rips me apart. Curtis is a force of nature. The founder of the Guardian Angels, survivor of an assassination attempt by the mob. There is no figure in America, in my view, that is as compelling and tough… and street smart, and loving. This guy’s got a big heart. He and his wife, they’ve got an apartment full of cats and dogs. They rescue animals. But he’s tough as nails. And in a perfect world, he’d be a great mayor for New York City. Statistically, he cannot win. Unless Andrew Cuomo drops out, I guess. Yes. It doesn’t appear Cuomo’s going anywhere. But over the weekend, Eric Adams made a big announcement. Here’s his departing message. The current mayor of New York City, who was kicked out, you know, cast out of the Democrat club because he agreed with Trump largely on immigration and the deportation efforts underway, and they turned on him. Here he is announcing officially an end to his re-election campaign.
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It has been my honor to be your mayor. My story is your story. I lived the struggle, but I never stopped loving this city. That is why I ran for mayor, to turn my pain into purpose. And I will keep fighting for the city, no matter what, from City Hall or beyond, because I am a New Yorker, and fighting for our city is just what I do. Thank you. And God bless New York.
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Well, God bless you, Eric Adams, because you did something really noble. Because you gave New Yorkers a fighting chance to avoid the communists. Because now it’s down to the communists, Zoran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Lewa. Now, a lot of good people, people that I admire… A lot of good people. Sid Rosenberg, I was on a panel with him a couple weeks ago in New York. He’s all in for Curtis. Dov Hyken, all in for Curtis. I’m all in for Curtis. Until you look at all of the polling and all the numbers and all the statistical reality of a liberal city like New York City, and you know Curtis likely cannot win. Under any scenario. I was looking at polling data this morning. That in a head-to-head race, if there’s two people in the race, Zoran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo, it’s a dead heat. It’s neck and neck. Not so much with Zoran the commie and our friend Curtis Lewa. Now, I want to talk about this on a personal note. I hate this so much because of how much I love Curtis Lewa. I feel like I’m absolutely abandoning my friend. I feel like I’m being disloyal, and I feel rotten about expressing this belief that Curtis needs to withdraw. There’s always MyPillow Christmas gifts under the tree in anything Gallagher family related. You’ve helped MyPillow and their employees in these tough times. Mike knows it, and he always wants to give back with deals on his most popular products. The MyPillow six-piece bath towel sets are back in stock. Now, this is a proprietary technology that makes the towels amazingly absorbent. I first heard about the towels from Peg and Joey. They said, you can’t believe it. These towels actually work. Now, they’re regularly $69.98, two bath towels, two hand towels, two washcloths, $69.98, but for a limited time. When you enter the promo code MikeG at the Mike Gallagher Specials Square, just $39.98. A six-piece towel set that you will just be amazed at the absorbency. So go to MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. Click on that box, and with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG for this special offer and many, many more. The towels, the sheets, the pillows, the doggy beds, the slippers. Oh, boy, the slippers. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG, or call 800-928-6034, 800-928-6034, like we love to sing. For the best night’s sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com.
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This is the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. I’m Eric Hansen. We are all familiar with a particular condition afflicting leftists known as Trump derangement syndrome. Well, Rosie O’Donnell says even her therapist recognizes that she may have a problem.
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Because to me, Nicole Wallace’s response is even more glorious than Rosie’s rant. Rosie is gone. I mean, she’s unhinged. She’s completely unmoored. She’s off the rails. She moved to Ireland to escape the Trump presidency. And then, of course, every day she’s popping up on some podcast or gives some interview railing against Trump and Republicans. So, look, she’s a lost cause. But Nicole Wallace is still here, at least as of now. Listen to how she agrees with Rosie over her experience with her own therapist.
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And if he’s not stopped now, we have lost our country. And I don’t know, Nicole, how it is that some people cannot see it. My therapist said, why are you so upset? And I said to her, why are you not?
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Yeah. Yeah, I have that conversation, too, because the gaslighting that I think you’re alluding to, if you’re a thoughtful, informed person, you do stop and say, well, maybe it is me.
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She’s admitting, I’ve had that experience too. Oh, have you talked to your therapist too, Nicole? About how deranged you are? Trump’s going to kill seniors? When the Medicaid cuts come? First of all, Rosie’s got Medicaid, I think mixed up with Medicare. But, I mean, poor Rosie. Poor Rosie. 800-655-MIKE. Here’s Frank in New Jersey. Welcome back, Frank. How’s it going?
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Hey, Mike. Hey. I love your show, and I love the idea of draining the swamp, too. But this idea of taking machete and just eliminating thousands of positions scares me a little bit. I think it’s got to be more targeted. Because if it’s done in kind of like a sweeping way, it worries me that it, I don’t know, like it can seem like mean-spirited and actually affect the midterms. And I worry, you know, and I just want to be sure like we don’t burn bridges. Before the next election.
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Look, you sound like a really great guy. The days of navel-gazing and kind of a little worried about unconventional ways of doing things, that’s out the window, Frank. This guy doesn’t get two rips about decorum. Trump doesn’t care about doing business as usual. Because what you’re saying is, and I’m not saying this to pick on you, you’re suggesting you’d prefer it was more business as usual. Days of business as usual are gone.
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Gone. Gone. I don’t think business as usual definitely eliminate positions. I was happy when I heard the Department of Education was being eliminated because I think that’s corrupt to the core. You bet. And I also believe we’ve got to get into the FBI, the stuff we found out. You bet.
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But, Frank, you said you want it more targeted. This is targeting the swamp. The federal government, they are the swamp. Right? Right.
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Yeah, that’s true, but there must be some people that are doing a good job.
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Well, sure, and I hate it for them. I really do. But look, there’s no—this happens all the time. Companies face layoffs. Companies face budget cuts. Countries should face budget cuts. Countries should have to face, you know, a repositioning or a restructuring, an adjustment. And this is what Trump is doing. Yeah.
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Hillary Clinton appeared on MSNBC this week and proved once again that she is utterly tone deaf and the worst kind of bigot.
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I got to get to this real quick. The day has just been so busy. You’d think that after all these years that Hillary Clinton might have been able to read the room. She would have learned that talent of reading the room. Last week on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Hillary delivered one of the most divisive and tone-deaf comments I’ve ever heard her mention. And especially at a time when the country is grieving still, mourning the loss of the assassination of my colleague, Charlie Kirk, whose faith was an important part of his life. His patriotism was an important part of his life as well. When Hillary talked about certain men, I want you to listen to this. Here’s Hillary.
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The idea that you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was dominated by, you know, let’s say it, white men of a certain persuasion, a certain religion, a certain point of view, a certain ideology. It’s just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for. And we were on the path toward that. I mean, imperfectly, lots of, you know, bumps along the way. But I agree with you. We were on the right trajectory.
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Yeah, there were a lot of bumps there, Hillary, a lot of bumps on the way. And the American people last November resoundingly said, we don’t want to be on this path. It’s the wrong path. But think about this for a minute. Let’s just pause here and think about what she said. White men of a certain religion. We all know who she’s referring to. She’s referring to people like me, many of you. And again, at a moment when we need to be talking about unity, at a moment when we’re mourning the death of one of the most prominent Christian conservative voices in our time, and she decides to fan the flames. She wants to divide people, suggesting that white Christian men, and that’s what she’s talking about, white Christian men are somehow damaging our country. The backlash came pretty quickly. Social media responded. One person wrote, Two weeks after Charlie Kirk is assassinated, Hillary Clinton reminds everyone that white Christian men are dangerous. These people have no intention of turning down the temperature. No, they’re not. They don’t want unity. They don’t want Republicans and Democrats to work together for the betterment of our country. They like the division. That’s why Chuck Schumer has us in a shutdown right now. Another wrote, this constant drumbeat against white Christian men is dehumanizing and dangerous. And they’re right. This kind of rhetoric from Hillary and anybody else is reckless anytime, but particularly right now. when you have probably some troubled young man out there thinking about how the assassin was able to take Charlie Kirk out and how there’s some white Christian man he’d like to do the same to. And Hillary seems to be encouraging him to do so. It’s hypocritical. And it’s just downright dangerous for Hillary and others to talk like this, to have that perspective. That Christian white men is the problem of our country? Christian white men were the foundation of our country, our founding fathers. And let’s be honest, Hillary, she has a long history of this, let’s just call it elitist contempt. Remember the basket of deplorables comment that she made? Now, years later, she’s painting millions of Americans, hardworking fathers, veterans, churchgoers, small business owners, as somehow the villains in her worldview. That’s why Hillary Clinton never made it to the Oval Office. And I don’t know why these networks keep putting her on. That’s the reason Hillary Clinton should not have even been on MSNBC. Surely they have standards, too, right?
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And finally, if you’ve ever been uncomfortable in your hotel room, Mike has some advice for you.
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Today is one of those days. I mean, I didn’t even get to the story of the Ohio Republican who’s introducing a new bill that would allow the utility companies to control your thermostat. Uh-uh. Hell no. Pardon my French. Can you imagine the power company getting to turn your thermostat up and down as a Republican? Golly. And I’m sure I saw the story. We won’t have time to get to it today. But I did catch how the caveat is, well, you get to opt into it. Oh, yeah, great. Great idea, Ohio congressman, whoever you are, Ohio Republican, knock it off. Government’s got enough control of our lives. We don’t need the government to say, oh, it’s a little hot out today, so we’re going to make sure your thermostat goes to 79 degrees. Are you crazy? I always hate it when I go to a hotel somewhere and the hotel thermostat, all this green crap they do, all this green deal garbage they do. They’ve got these sensors in the thermostat where if there’s no movement, then the AC goes out. Well, guess what? When you go to bed, you’re not walking around in the room, so the AC goes out because it’s not detecting any movement. So it’s 80 degrees and you’re sitting there in a pile of sweat because the AC got shut down because you’re not moving. What do I got to do? Like home alone with the kid with the fake people that he put in the window spinning around? What should I do? Take a blanket and hang it from the ceiling fan so that it’s spinning around and it keeps the AC going? Incidentally, do you know there’s a hack for AC units in hotels? And you can bring it down to as cold as you want it to go. And if you Google it, you can find it online. It’s a secret hack. I probably shouldn’t talk about it because the hotels are going to get wise. And then they’re going to try to counter the hack. You push like fan and up and down, the up and down arrow and then another button. Because they have a lock on the AC on most thermostats where you can’t take it below like sometimes it’s usually 65. But sometimes it’s 68. I like it at 62 degrees. It’s a meat locker when I sleep. But a lot of hotels, well, now I found the hack. And every hotel I go to now, it works on almost every thermostat. Look it up. It’s on YouTube. It’s the AC Hotel Hack. And you do a little code, and it puts it into VIP mode, and you can lower it to as cold as you want it to be. You can take it down to 58 degrees if you want. You see? See what you get when you tune into The Mike Gallagher Show? Helpful hints to hack the hotel AC.
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And that wraps up The Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast for Friday, October 3rd, 2025. Be sure to subscribe to all the podcasts and follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you like the show, be sure to share it with a friend. I’m Eric Hansen. We’ll see you back here next week on The Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast.
