00:10:18 Media Recommendations and Sinatra Documentary
SPEAKER 02 :
You certainly know Mike Gallagher, whose show follows this one on Salem News Channel and Salem Radio Network. What you might not know outside the DFW market is Mike joins me on my happy little morning talk show at this exact time. And we call it Eminem. It’s Mike and Mark. I’ll give him top billing. And we talk about stuff. So I thought, look, if I’m doing Stegall Tuesdays and Wednesdays, why not do this for the country? So Mike is here. And I could not be happier. How are you doing, my friend?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I’m great because, you know, the other part, the fun part of this is that maybe, just maybe, we can preview our upcoming M&M Extra podcast, which is coming along. And for the benefit of people, for Chris DeGaulle fans who don’t know about M&M, you and I go back many years. And you and I have done this segment together on your show because you are the king, the dean of Texas talk show hosts. I mean, now, of course, you’ve become like the co-host of the Will Kane show on Fox News Channel. You’re the co-host of the Chris Cuomo show on News Nation. So you’re the go-to, and you’ve been at it 100 years. Everybody loves you. Everybody knows Mark Davis. So years ago, almost a decade ago, I think, you invited me to come visit with you at 735. We call it hashtag 735 and preview my show, which typically came on after you in Dallas. Well, something magical occurred over the years, and people love our interactions. They love the chemistry. They love it when you and I disagree, which is fun but rare. And it’s become known as the M&M experience. So you said, hey, if I’m going to do the Stegall Show this week for a couple days, why don’t we do an M&M version nationally?
SPEAKER 02 :
So here we are. That is it. People love this. We’re going to do some hot topics. I do have one thing from the popular culture for you, but we’ll do some hot breaking things in the news. And if you dig this for like 10 minutes right here, we’re going to at some point after midday in the afternoon, start dropping this in video and audio podcast form for the entire country and the world to consume more on that later. So this morning and for the last day or two, I’ve been looking at war support and how things are going. I was just talking to Colonel Kurt Schlichter, a friend to both of us. And he says he’s tired of the doomsayers, the sad sacks, the Debbie Downers. And we don’t all need to be rah-rah cheerleaders where nothing wrong is going on and there’s no cause for concern. Everything’s perfect here. But I kind of agree with him. And I wonder what your thoughts are about some, even supposedly under our big tent, who seem to be just doing a lot of complacency. Whether it’s midterms, whether it’s Iran, I don’t know.
SPEAKER 03 :
What’s your thought? Well, four dreaded words. Boots on the ground. That’s going to be the pivotal moment when the American people are going to either stay on board or they’re going to say, uh-uh, I’m out. I’m out. If we’ve got boots on the ground, if we’ve got troops, if we’re dropping in the Marines to extract uranium from Iran, I think the average American voter is going to say, that’s a bridge too far. From my perspective… I mean, first of all, it’s disgusting to watch how many people on the left and how the media and Democrats are actually rooting for Iran. They’re cheering for it. They’re actually hoping we fail because of their blind, rage-filled hatred of Donald Trump. So that’s disgusting. For 47 years, we’ve essentially been at war with Iran. So we know all the reasons that President Trump decided to do what we did. Having said that… The longer this takes, the harder it’s going to be for us to have any chance of winning. And you and I are always on the same page. We’ve got to win. Mark, we’ve got to win. I am up at night. I know the conventional wisdom is, hey, the party in control always loses in the midterms. We’ve got all these headwinds we’re up against. Mark, it will be a catastrophe if we lose the House and the Senate in November. We all know it, and we’ve got to do everything to prevent that from happening. And Iran, unfortunately, plays, I think, a pretty significant piece in all that.
SPEAKER 02 :
It does. As I’ve said, if we are still neck deep in something that looks like a war operation in August or September, this needs to go well, and it needs to go well compactly. So looking at the calendar, and I think you’re right about that boots on the ground trigger point. Can we have a couple of boots on a couple of square miles of ground for something that seems surgically precise in the month of April? Or will that instantly just shut a bunch of people down and go, this is not what Trump ran on. This is not what I voted for.
SPEAKER 03 :
It seems clear that control of the Strait of Hormuz is key. If we get control of the Strait of Hormuz and the oil gets flowing again, I mean, right now, officially today, it’s now official, gas nationally is averaging $4 a gallon. Now, look, still better than it was under Biden, but we have short memories. And we’re in the moment right now. So get the Strait of Hormuz under control. There’s all this talk about taking control of this island with the oil refineries on it and everything else. Marco Rubio, who I keep saying, keep an eye on this guy for 2028. I mean, don’t rule him out because he’s, you know, whatever you think of J.D. or Marco, he’s surging. Marco Rubio is surging and I think is a guy to watch very carefully for 2028. But he has indicated he thinks we’re looking at maybe two weeks, two or three more weeks. And then things decrease dramatically. I hope and pray that’s the case. I mean, here in Florida, again, another special election. A typically reliably Republican district. Yep. Democrat wins by 400 votes. And incidentally, all these special elections, have you noticed the margin of victory for the Democrats in all of these? It’s like 300 here. 800 votes there. 500 there. They’re all whisked. Is anybody connecting the dots here? Voter integrity, anyone?
SPEAKER 02 :
It matters. It does matter. And you’ve got to show up. You’ve got to show up, and we’ve got to get the Save America Act passed, because I don’t know how much fraud there is. One fraudulent vote is too many. Is it a fraction of 1 percent? Is it 3 percent? Is it 10? Is it 2? There’s nothing wrong with focusing on that, I can’t believe. Mark, I cannot believe Congress is on spring break during all this.
SPEAKER 03 :
And there’s Lindsey at Disney World. I mean, Lindsey Graham goes to Disney World. And look, I get that this is not a Republican shutdown, but for crying out loud, can you read the room a little bit? You’re a public figure. I mean, I’m not sure people appreciate anybody at Dollywood. Or Space Mountain at the time. But can we go back to election integrity for a minute? Because this is really important, and this is a story that I think a lot of people are missing. All these special elections, none of them are blowouts. But it’s Democrat wins here. Democrat wins in… Oh, look, there’s a Texas Democrat victory. Oh, there’s a Georgia Democrat victory. Now there’s a Florida. And they’re all by, like, hundreds of votes. You know what their mantra was in 2020? There was no… No evidence of any widespread election fraud. Widespread. That’s the key. You don’t need widespread. If you win by 400, that’s not widespread. Joe Biden won by a razor-thin margin in 2020. People forget that. And that’s why the Save America Act matters, Mark. That’s why it’s got to get passed.
SPEAKER 02 :
In our remaining two or three minutes, a couple of quick culture bursts. You and I both share a great love for Taylor Sheridan from the Yellowstones, the 1883s, the 1923s. Here comes Rip and Beth May 15th. It’s the best. I don’t think we’ve talked about this. His latest thing on right now, have you spent one moment in the company of the Madison?
SPEAKER 03 :
Two episodes, and I can’t believe how awful I think it is.
SPEAKER 02 :
What is the matter with you? You like it? It is wrapped so tightly around my heart. Really? The themes are great. The themes? From the dysfunctional kids to devotion to, I don’t want to give too much away, there’s a huge spoiler in the first episode. episode. So it’s Kurt Russell, it’s Michelle Pfeiffer, both at the top of their game. I love this thing so much. So on the heels of Project Hail Mary, where you’re the only person who didn’t like it, you’re also left cold by the Madison?
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t know why. I mean, maybe it was the wrong movie. But then again, let’s go back to the movie that everybody thinks is the biggest hit movie in a thousand years, and that’s that stupid talking rock, that idiotic space movie that was one of the dumbest things I’ve ever suffered through. I thought, that’s two and a half hours of my life. I can never get back. And you know, I joked with you about Jim Henson’s Muppets. Apparently, the guy behind Rocky the Rock was like a Muppeteer. Not even a good one. Give me Oscar the Grouch. Give me Big Bird. That thing was so stupid. I thought this is the dumbest. And everybody was, oh, this is the greatest movie since Gone with the Wind. Oh, they didn’t use a green screen. Yeah, I could tell. I could see there wasn’t a green screen. They should have put in a couple of green screens.
SPEAKER 02 :
I can almost give you, I can give you some of the cheesiness about Project Hail Mary. But boy, were you in it. Cheesy. Because from the Madison, for what Taylor Sheridan’s writing, and just the where it all seems to be going. I’m three episodes in. I absolutely, there’s been some stuff he’s done, Lioness and the thing that Jeremy Renner’s in, that I don’t care about that much. But I just loved it.
SPEAKER 03 :
And he’s a national treasure. I mean, when the Beth and Rip series come, because trust me, everybody needs a Beth Dutton in their life. If I just had a Beth Dutton, oh, my gosh. Beth Dutton, I mean, you need to be taken to the – we’ve got to go to the train station. It is time to go to the train station.
SPEAKER 01 :
Time to go to the train station.
SPEAKER 03 :
To the train station? I love that. I love that series. I love his writing. So maybe I was just in a bad mood when I watched it.
SPEAKER 02 :
Maybe I’ll go back and give it another shot. We’ll see how that goes. We’ll revisit. Listen, and we’ll talk about various other things tomorrow in this spot. Thank you so much for making time. All right, 30 seconds.
SPEAKER 03 :
Can I give you a pop culture recommendation? because you and I love shows and TV. I stumbled across a special, I think it was on Amazon Prime last night, which of course now is where we’re seeing on Amazon Prime Video on Salem News Channel. I think it was Amazon Prime, but check that. But it’s a special, it’s a documentary about Frank Sinatra and Palm Springs, California. And Mark… It’s amazing. Watch it. It’s about his life in the 40s, the 50s, the 60s. Check it out. Frank Sinatra and his life, how he loved Palm Springs, the desert there, Palm Springs, California. And it’s as much about Frank’s life as it is his residence in Palm Springs.
SPEAKER 02 :
Check it out. I am fascinated, fascinated by old school show business. Love you. That’s Mike Gallagher on right after the Chris DeGaulle show.
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