Join us as we delve into the world of political controversy and celebrity tours, featuring stories from Jon Voight’s extensive fan engagement, to the heated debate on ICE’s role and perception. We discuss recent political speeches and public reactions, contemplating the intricate relationship between fame, public perception, and political power plays. Discover how these elements may influence upcoming midterm elections and social discourse.
Have you ever run into somebody famous and they were a jerk?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, not particularly, but you know, the legendary stories that I’ve gotten from callers over the years, I think we’ve talked about this, apparently a real witch on wheels was the great Lucille Ball. She apparently was horrible to flight attendants and people that waited on her and waiters and waitresses. She was a… A horrible person, allegedly. And I hate that because I love her.
SPEAKER 02 :
I do, too. And listen, I probably need to see it, even though this guy exhausts me for most of his body of work, except one that you love and I think is okay. There’s an entire CNN documentary, so I guess it involves watching CNN or downloading it from them, about Chevy Chase, who is apparently just an insufferable idiot. And it’s kind of about that. He’s a jerk to the interviewer in the documentary. It’s like, what? I don’t know.
SPEAKER 03 :
Some of these folks, I think, how could it not go to their heads? You think about it. I mean, they’re on top of the world. They’re making a gazillion dollars. They’re famous. Everybody wants their autograph. And, you know, I told you about over Christmas, I saw Macaulay Culkin do a stand-up because of Home Alone tour. And he talks, reminisces about the movie. And, you know, what is he, 50 now, whatever, 45? And he talked about rules that he has for being famous. And he said, number one, leave me alone with my kids. Don’t bother me with my kids. Because he’s got little kids. And he said, number two, just don’t follow me into the bathroom.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s all I ask.
SPEAKER 02 :
It’s very simple.
SPEAKER 03 :
Leave me alone. Let me go to the bathroom by myself, and then I’ll talk to you when I come back. But it’s got to be tough. Look, I experienced this to some small degree on our cruises. Because when you’re on a cruise ship, you’ve got hundreds of people that are all there to be with you, and in this case, me and Scott Jennings. you got nowhere to go. I mean, it’s like you go down the hall to get, get, you know, the midnight buffet and you’re going to get stopped by seven people and they’re all wonderful. I mean, it’s all, but it makes me remember or think about what it is like to really be famous and what a, what a real, Bear, it must be. It must be a real burden. I mean, you can’t go anywhere.
SPEAKER 02 :
A couple of things. I remember there’s a story Deion Sanders once told that said, yeah, fame is great. Money is great. I’m not going to sneeze it either. But I’m out with my daughter at Toys R Us. He said, here are my choices, and all of them are bad. I’m going to get mobbed. I can either say, get away from me, in which case I’m a jerk. I can have security around me, in which case I’m a jerk. Or I can talk to everybody, in which case my daughter stands there for five hours. I have no. And so it’s not like violin music for the rich and famous. But think about that. But it does take me to two examples real quick of people who never seemed to tire of it, always had a great attitude about it. One of them was named Rush Limbaugh. Can you believe Rush has almost been gone for five years and would have been 75 just the other day? And the other, let’s talk about him for yet another day as Landman winds down. Billy Bob Thornton, I think we talked about that, didn’t we? We had this quote about people are always asking me, why are you just standing there with fans? It’s because without them, I’m nothing. So did you catch the most recent Landman?
SPEAKER 03 :
We did a tour a few years ago. We called them the Battleground Talkers Tour. And it was a pretty cool experience. And back then, it was Dennis Prager. God bless him. And incidentally, Dennis is back and making some news. He wrote a beautiful message to Candace Owens.
SPEAKER 02 :
Sure was. Huh? It sure was. Yeah. She didn’t like it. No.
SPEAKER 03 :
She said it was a little mean to me. He’s like, look, anti-Semitic is anti-Semitic. But she was a protege of his, I think, at some point. So it was a heartfelt, and it’s no secret now, Dennis is a quadriplegic. and is, you know, still writing and still doing stuff with PragerU.
SPEAKER 02 :
Still talking, making videos, doing stuff. He’s all over the place.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, yeah. There was a hope that he could maybe somehow return to the show, but I don’t think that’s in the cards. It’s just a bridge too far. But in any event, a number of years ago, we would do these talkers tours, and Hewitt and Gallagher and Prager and Elder, we’d all get on Uncle Ed’s jet. You know, Ed Atzinger, the founder of Salem… has a big Gulfstream 4 or 5 or whatever they call it. I mean, it’s a pretty cool way to travel. And we would get on this plane and we would go from city to city and we would have these rallies and then we’d fly to the next city. And it was all battleground stops during the campaigns, during essential campaigns. Well, one year we brought actor John Voight with us. And John was my seatmate. So I got to know him a little bit. Awesome. Awesome is the right word to use for him, Mark. And at the time, you’ll remember this. You know these shows better than I do. He was part of a big hit TV show. What’s the show? HBO. He was a character that was a real big hit. And he was a popular character on that show. And We would go to… Ray Donovan. That’s it. Ray Donovan. That was the show. So he was in Ray Donovan. Big popular character on Ray Donovan. Well, so a lot of young people who are Ray Donovan fans who might not have known John’s work from… What was it, Midnight Cowboy back in the day in the 70s and all? But they love him for Ray Donovan. Well, we would pull up to – and the way it would work, the plane would land and we’d have these SUVs pick us up and they would take us to the hotel. Oh, I mean, it was – Mark, it was wild. But 12-1 in the morning, we’d be exhausted. we’d be pulling into this hotel somewhere, and there’d be a crowd outside the hotel entrance waiting for Jon Voight. And most of them are professional autograph seekers who sell the autographs that stars like Jon Voight sign for Ray Donovan. And so I’d already be kind of cynical and skeptical if I’m him. Do you know he didn’t care a lick? He stood there in the cold…
SPEAKER 01 :
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SPEAKER 03 :
For hours, signing every autograph, meeting with every fan. And I said to him, John, I said, you know, some of these folks are selling your autograph. He goes, I don’t care. He said, if they’re making the effort to wait for me at midnight. And he goes, if they’ve helped make me the career that I get to enjoy.
SPEAKER 02 :
Okay, that’s where I stop you. Have they? Because if it’s a sincere fan, you wait in the rain, or you have the capacity to, and that’s great, and that’s kindness. Some of these people may well have not given a flip about Jon Voight. They just wanted to make a couple of bucks off something autographed by him.
SPEAKER 03 :
Jon Voight’s defense of them was good enough for me. Who cares what you and I think about whether he was good enough for him? And I watched him. We would be bone weary, and he stood there, and he would talk to every single person, shake every hand. He’s a really, really good, good, decent man. So it’s a good story. All right. Not so good is Tim Waltz. Did you see him last night? Did you see Tim Waltz’s speech? What did he do? Tim Waltz. I am so fired up about this. I saw him before. I saw him. 8.30 he gave an address.
SPEAKER 02 :
A song before Congress and a hearing before Congress.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, no, no. It was a video address that he gave to the state of Minnesota and to the country. Now, first of all, it was a disaster. The audio people obviously were trained at the learning center in Minnesota because the audio didn’t work. It was double audio. The whole thing was a disaster. But he stood up before the state and he told people to get in ICE agents’ faces. He said, you’ve got to resist. Now, look at the timeline of this, Mark. This is so crucial. 2 p.m. yesterday, the Minneapolis police chief says, if the rhetoric keeps escalating, we’re going to head toward another tragedy. 8.30, Tim Walz gets up and gives what I really believe is an insurrection-type speech. You get in their faces. You take video, whip out your camera, disrupt, get in their way. And that was 8.30. 9 p.m., there’s an ambush of ICE officers, including an illegal from Venezuela, who’s beating them with a shovel. Yep. They shot him in the leg. Another shooting. Mark, we are in insurrection territory.
SPEAKER 02 :
I’m telling you right now. It’s an insurgency, an insurrection. It is an uprising.
SPEAKER 03 :
And it’s coming from the Democrat leadership of Minnesota. The Democrat governor, Tim Walz, is on record now pouring fuel on the fire, calling on radical leftists to resist and harass federal law enforcement. At no point, Mark, in the speech last night did Tim Walz say, now look, leave these men and women alone. You can peacefully protest. Be calm. At no time did he say don’t. He wants the harassment. I’m telling you, Mark, they want the violence. They want somebody killed, preferably ICE officers. And moments ago, President Trump has posted on Truth Social. If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the patriots of ICE who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the Insurrection Act, which many presidents have done before me and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great state. Mark, I think he’s got to do it. I think he has to do it.
SPEAKER 02 :
May I edit one part of your wonderful presentation? Sure. You said that you think the Democrats ultimately want an ICE agent shot? Yes. Because then sympathy will befall them. I think the Democrat Party, and I don’t mean if somebody individually is rooting for another death, although some might be, what they really want is another Rachel Goode. Because that’s something they can weaponize. That’s something they can opportunity. If an ICE agent goes down, it’s like, oh, suddenly there’s empathy for them. But if another idiot dies in the street for being an idiot, then that’s something they can really make hay out of.
SPEAKER 03 :
I had a back and forth with a lady named Dottie yesterday. She was emailing me and she said, these ICE people are horrible. They’re wearing masks. I said, ma’am, do you know why they’re wearing masks? I mean, the cartels are putting bounties out on their heads. Their families are being doxed. Their children are being threatened. Of course, they’re wearing masks. Do you not understand that? And but I’m thinking here’s Axios today. Big story. Support for ICE is plummeting. Support for the mass deportation is plummeting. And they act as if they don’t know that there were even more deportations under Obama or Under Clinton, under George W. Bush, there were statistically more deportations. And people are saying, well, what’s the difference? Well, there’s two things that are different. Number one, they didn’t meet resistance in the Obama administration from a bunch of lunatic agitators and protesters.
SPEAKER 02 :
It was great under Obama. Fox ran a piece. It was a CNN feature where they did a run. I played that. They did a ride-along with ICE during the Obama years. It was like, this is the greatest thing in the world.
SPEAKER 03 :
May of 2016, they did a ride-along a day with ICE. Look at these brave men and women. They’re out there rounding up illegals. That was great. And then a few months later, Trump gets elected. All of a sudden, ICE is the Gestapo. I mean, but Mark, do people… Honest question here. Are they deliberately being disingenuous? Of course. Do they not understand?
SPEAKER 01 :
So they don’t believe it.
SPEAKER 03 :
So they don’t believe really that that ICE is the Gestapo and that it’s a bad entity. No, they do not. You know, you think they’re just Dottie, little old lady Dottie.
SPEAKER 02 :
I’m sorry. It depends on in the public. There may be rank foolishness among elected officials. Well, there’s a lot of rank foolishness, but that’s willful. It’s intentional and it’s sinister.
SPEAKER 03 :
And you know what it’s going to lead to. If that’s true, if the public is being fooled, people like Dottie, we’re going to lose the midterms. Make no mistake, Democrats are seizing upon Minnesota as a prime campaign issue for the midterm elections. And we may pay a heavy price because if we lose the midterms, we are going to lose this country.
SPEAKER 02 :
One of two things is true, and this is going to be a lot of yours and my material for the months to come between now and November. One of two things is true. Either Democrats will be able to successfully weaponize this and make ICE seem like villains and make Trump seem like a villain for enforcing the law, or this will backfire. It’ll be defund the police on steroids. People will say, what? In fact, Jacob Fry yesterday was asked, do you want to abolish ICE? He said, no, I don’t want to abolish ICE.
SPEAKER 03 :
All of a sudden he’s backing up a little bit because he’s realizing they’re going too far. But I’m telling you, Mark, you should look at what Waltz did last night. I will absolutely do so. That imbecile has finally gone too far. And I think it’s going to be incumbent upon President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act. Let him do it. Let him do it. And let’s see where the chips fall.
SPEAKER 02 :
I did some video clips yesterday that I’m putting up on Mark Davis Show on Facebook, Mark Davis Show on Instagram, Mark Davis Show even on TikTok. I said three regimes in need of change. Venezuela, Iran, and Minneapolis.
SPEAKER 03 :
All righty, man. Spot on. I love you. Have a happy Thursday.
SPEAKER 02 :
Ready to go. Mike Gallagher at 10 o’clock. He’s going to rock right here on 660 AM The Answer. For full shows live and on demand, it’s Salem News Channel.
Join us as we delve into the world of political controversy and celebrity tours, featuring stories from Jon Voight’s extensive fan engagement, to the heated debate on ICE’s role and perception. We discuss recent political speeches and public reactions, contemplating the intricate relationship between fame, public perception, and political power plays. Discover how these elements may influence upcoming midterm elections and social discourse.
