Join us as we dive into the heated Confirmation Week on Capitol Hill where Pete Hegseth faced rigorous questioning, notably from Richard Blumenthal. Uncover the audacious tactics used to trip up the defense secretary nominee and hear about Hegseth’s impactful statements on personal growth and redemption. We also explore Tim Kaine’s inconsistent stances on personal indiscretions, drawing parallels with past political figures. Stay tuned for a look at the political shifts and the overarching optimism among conservatives as President-elect Trump prepares for inauguration, along with the implications of Biden’s recent executive orders impacting Florida Democrats.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor studios, here’s Mike Dillon.
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It’s confirmation week on Capitol Hill. Yesterday, Pete Hegseth did just fine. Joni Ernst has changed her tune. This combat veteran, who very much plugged into the confirmation process, announced she will vote for Pete Hegseth to be defense secretary. Look, it’s going to be fine. He did great. I don’t want to get bogged down on that because it just infuriates me to even think about Richard Blumenthal grilling a war hero. Stolen valor Blumenthal himself had the audacity to try to trick Hegseth into, you know, tripping up and not knowing the numbers of people who served in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines. It’s just ridiculous. Blumenthal is a scoundrel. He is a bad, bad guy. You lie about serving in the military. For me, as somebody who’s never served, it’s one of the worst things you could do. I can’t think of anything more egregious than lying about serving in combat in Vietnam. I think about every single Vietnam vet listening right now and how… disrespectful that is to you, to any man or woman who served in the armed forces. I think about my mom and dad, both buried under military tombstones. My dad was in the Navy. My mom served as a wave. That’s how they met, was in the military, both serving their country. My dad was on a PT boat in World War II. Look, I’m… disgusted by even the presence of Richard Blumenthal in the U.S. Senate. And he’s trying to trip up Hegseth by, how many people serve in the Marines? How many people? Oh, yeah, like a pop quiz, gotcha quiz. I hate it when people do that. I really do. It makes me crazy. I’ve got a friend who does that. as a point of reference as a, you know, part of his duties as a broadcaster. And it makes me cringe. It’s like, do you not know how you come off? Look how much smarter I am than you are. Let me tell about, you know, people tried to trip Trump up about the nuclear triad and give me, you know, and it’s so lazy and it’s childish and it’s juvenile. For Blumenthal, play the clip. I don’t even want to do it, but now that we’re talking about it, I might as well get it off my chest. Here was Blumenthal trying to trick Pete Hegseth in terms of the numbers of the ranks of how many people serve in the U.S. Armed Forces.
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How many men and women currently serve in the United States Army?
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Senator, the United States Army, 450,000 on active duty, sir.
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And how many in the Navy? In the Navy, it’s 425, sir. Well, it’s 337 this year. How many in the Marine Corps? 175,000, sir.
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172,300.
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Those numbers dwarf. Any experience you had by many multiples, I don’t believe that you… That makes me sick to my stomach.
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Oh, no, it wasn’t 175,000. It was 172,300. See how smart I am and how stupid you are? And it’s a lot of people, Mr. Hegseth. You’ve never… That dwarfs anything you ever did at Fox & Friends. What a jerk and a slimeball. Do you know the story of Richard Blumenthal getting caught by the New York Times repeatedly lying about serving his country in the United States military? How does that guy show his… Incidentally, for people who remember this more than I do, other than… I mean, that’s all I need to know about the guy. Did he ever apologize? Did he ever explain it? How do you explain lies? If I came on this show and told you that I was in the trenches of Vietnam, I was in the foxholes. I was dodging bullets and I was carrying out bodies. And I did that over and over again. And then somebody caught me as a bald-faced liar. And somehow, miraculously, I got to keep my job alive. What would I possibly say about that? Yeah, I was a little foolish. I shouldn’t have. That’s not a minor mistake. The New York Times caught Richard Blumenthal having repeatedly lied about serving in Vietnam. He’s like the guy from the Saturday Night Live skit, the liar character. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I served in Vietnam. Yeah, yeah, I’m a four-star general. Yeah, yeah. That’s Richard Blumenthal, a U.S. Senator, who thinks he’s all cute and clever in trying to trip Pete Hegseth into not knowing how many people serve in each division or each category of armed services. This guy’s gross. He’s disgusting. Tim Kaine, did you see him yesterday? Look, I’m glad that all these Democrat senators have clean slates in terms of their lives. Because they’re disgusting. Yeah, Pete Hegseth was divorced. Yeah, Pete Hegseth made mistakes. You know what Pete Hegseth said about his life? And I want to find this clip, Christian. I don’t know if we isolated this. But it’s one of the most important things that came out of yesterday’s Pete Hegseth confirmation hearing. He said, I found Jesus Christ. I found redemption. I’ve made mistakes. But with God’s grace, I’ve become a different person. I saw Chris Saliza, the guy that used to be on CNN, say, I’ve been on a faith journey this last year, and I was a little skeptical and dubious of what Pete Hegseth said. But then I realized, well, what if he’s speaking from the heart? We don’t know his soul. We don’t know what’s in his heart. What if it’s true? A lot of text messages coming in about Tim Kaine. I don’t even want to give it oxygen. We probably should. But here’s a text from Florida. I know that Pete had to maintain his cool, but when Tim Kaine mentioned his mother and his 7-year-old daughter Pete should have stood up to him and said, leave them the hell out of this conversation. That was Tim Kaine. These guys are so mean. There’s a cruelty to these guys. These Democrats are vicious. And they’re flailing. I mean, they’re deflated. They are completely deflated. Big story out of Florida, over at Axios. Biden’s Cuba bombshell shocks Florida Democrats. Biden’s last-minute executive order yesterday to undo sanctions on Cuba and delist the socialist nation as a terrorism sponsor is outraging already dispirited Florida Democrats. Representative Jared Moskowitz said, this is Joe Biden literally sinking the Democratic Party in the state of Florida big time. Just as we try to patch the hole in the boat, Biden punches another hole in it. Biden just waved the white flag of surrender. Well, what a shame. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch. Anyway, welcome in. We’ve got a lot to cover today. 800-655-MIKE. Maybe you’ve got some thoughts, some takeaways on yesterday’s Pete Hegseth hearing. I don’t really want to play the Tim Kaine exchange. Maybe we will. But I want to always get your reaction to everything. Feel free to join us. We have an open line. 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453. Welcome in.
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I assume that in each of your weddings, you’ve pledged to be faithful to your wife. You’ve taken an oath to do that, haven’t you?
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Senator, as I’ve acknowledged to everyone in this committee, I’m not a perfect person. I’m not claiming to be.
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But now I just ask the simple question. You’ve taken an oath like you would take an oath to be Secretary of Defense in all of your weddings to be faithful to your wife. Is that correct?
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I have failed in things in my life, and thankfully I’m redeemed by my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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In fact, can you so casually cheat on a second wife and cheat on the mother of a child that had been born two months before, and you tell us you are completely cleared? How is that a complete clear?
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Senator, her child’s name is Gwendolyn Hope Hegseth, and she’s a child of God, and she’s seven years old.
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And you cheated on the mother of that child less than two months after that daughter was born, didn’t you?
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Those were false charges. It was fully investigated, and that was completely cleared.
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Now, if you’re not mad enough, let’s take you back to 2016, when Tim Kaine wanted to be a heartbeat from the presidency, when he was Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential running mate. And he was asked about Hillary’s maybe complicity? A lot of people say Hillary knew exactly what kind of an alley cat Bill Clinton is. You know, if you’re married to somebody like Bill Clinton, you know what he is. I mean, the guy was a womanizer his whole life. And, of course, you had the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and he was asked about that and asked about Hillary’s role. Listen to what Tim Kaine said in 2016 about dredging up past marital woes when it came to Hillary and Bill Clinton.
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Something about your past, and it talks a lot about something you said back in, I think, 2002 about former President Bill Clinton, that he should resign if the Lewinsky scandal turned out to be true. Do you still hold true to those words you said back then?
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I had some feelings of disappointment back then. But, you know, Nat’s now 20 years old. And when I’m talking to people on the campaign trail, they’re not asking me about old stories. They’re asking me about tomorrow. What are we going to do tomorrow to have an economy that works for people, to have a stronger security posture through stronger alliances? And I hear a lot, what are we going to do to make sure we have a community that respects all? So, you know, past controversies aren’t that important to me now.
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Past controversies aren’t that important to me now. Because you see, I’m a Democrat, and you’re asking me about Democrat past controversies. And fast forward to 2025, when I’m going to sit there smirking like the Joker. He looks like the Joker from Batman. He’s got that wicked grin on his face, that evil, maniacal grin, asking him about his daughter and the vows he took in his marriage just to embarrass him. Publicly, because Tim Kaine knows full well Pete Hegseth was divorced. My gosh. You know, there’s a part of me that says, I’ve got to stop focusing on these losers. And they are losers. I mean that not in a pejorative. They have technically lost. They’ve lost everything. They’ve lost the presidency, the House, the Senate. They are not in control. And they know it. And they’re sputtering and they’re flailing. They’re like the Wicked Witch after the bucket of water was thrown on her. So there’s a part of me that just wants to talk about positivity. All the money that’s pouring into Trump right now is astounding. The commemorative Diet Coke bottle that Trump was… You know who’s going to be sitting on the stage on the platform Monday at the inauguration? Elon, Bezos, Zuckerberg. They’re all going to be up there with him. They’re all making pilgrimages to Mar-a-Lago. It’s a new day, and the Democrats, like Tim Kaine, don’t know what to make of this. There’s a Trump effect. Look at the news out of the Middle East and the possibility of a hostage release. It’s the Trump effect. Look at Germany getting rid of their DEI woke policies. It’s the Trump effect. And Americans are excited and optimistic. So, look, I need to be more positive. I think it’s important to know what we’re up against. We’ve got to know just how diabolical people like Richard Blumenthal and Tim Kaine are. You know, they still have their positions of power. But overall, the whole tide has turned. There is a golden era that is about to start. And I’ve got to remember to stay upbeat and positive and optimistic. Let’s see if you agree or not. I also want to ask you about this. I’ve got to ask you about the Philly Eagles fan. This story kind of intrigues me. And I’ll give you an update on the bank story, too. 800-655-MIKE, one open line. There’s no better time than right now to call my friends at PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition to start your journey to a healthier you. As I hear from you about how PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition has changed your life, I know that each one of us has had our own reasons for starting. I started my journey because I gained enough weight and was ready to make a change. I sat down with Dr. Ashley Lucas, and like they say, the rest was history. I lost 53 pounds, and I’ve kept it off. We all have different reasons for starting. Call 864-644-1900, 864-644-1900, or just go to MyPhDWeightLoss.com, MyPhDWeightLoss.com.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here’s Mike Gellerin.
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So I walk into the studio and I see this breaking news. The U.S. is banning a popular red dye from foods. The FDA, the Food and Drug Administration, just issued an order that will ban red number three from food products and ingested drugs. Isn’t that an RFK thing? Isn’t that part of the Trump administration? How is all this great stuff happening, or at least changes are occurring, a few days before Trump becomes president again? This is all happening before he’s inaugurated. We’ll be in D.C. Monday, bundled up. It’s going to be cold, although, spoiler alert, I’ll be in a warm studio. Joey Hudson will be out in the stands at the Capitol interviewing and shivering and doing reports and shivering. Going to be high at 23, low in D.C. of 12. We’ll be going to the Balls Sunday night. It’s going to be cold Sunday night. I hope my travel party is going to be okay. I’ll be in a nice warm vehicle. I hope they can walk. It’s every man for himself. Look, it’s inauguration weekend. I can’t wait to bring you the show from D.C. on Monday. And I cannot get bogged down by the nonsense of yesterday’s Pete Hegseth hearing. He’s going to get confirmed. He’s going to be the Secretary of Defense. One of the obstacles was Joni Ernst. Scott Jennings summed it up pretty perfectly over at CNN. Never thought I’d see the day that I could turn to anybody on CNN for some content, but Scott Jennings is the gift that keeps on giving.
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Well, in short, I think Pete Hegseth kicked their asses today. I mean, it wasn’t even close. They didn’t lay a glove on Hegseth. No mistakes. Calm, cool, collected. I mean, before the thing even started, you had this like code pink, you know, protester freak show trying to disrupt the hearing. That’s the Democratic base, by the way, which probably explains why the Democrats on the committee acted in such a bizarre and unprofessional way. I was appalled. at some of the way these senators handle themselves and some of the lines of questioning. I mean, Tim Kaine sounded like a sex pervert in his questioning of Pete Hegseth. Blumenthal, who lied about his service in Vietnam, questioning Hegseth’s qualifications. You had Gillibrand, you had Warren, you had Hirono going on unhinged rants about things. Angus King obviously doesn’t understand what it’s like to fight terrorism, on and on and on. Hegseth was cool in the face of this unhinged questioning. They made him look good today. It would be difficult for a Republican to vote against Hegseth after the Democrats’ unseemly mudslinging today.
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You know the best part of Scott Jennings’ clips that I play for you? The look on the faces of the CNN hosts who have to sit there and take it. That was Dana Bash in that case. I hope you’re watching on the Salem News Channel. snc.tv. Download the app. We’re 24-7, and you can watch the show as well as listen to us on your favorite radio station throughout the country. Looks utterly constipated. It’s the only word to use, constipation. She looks like she’s having a very difficult time internally. Meanwhile, according to Axios today, President-elect Trump is being inundated with so much money from corporations and wealthy donors that his team expects to raise about $500 million by the summer, even though he can’t run again. The money’s just pouring in, they’re saying. We’re looking at a half billion dollars by June. And Trump’s donors include the, I mean, they’re going to the president-elect’s inauguration account, the MAGA Inc. Super PAC, a political nonprofit called Securing American Greatness, the Republican National Committee, and Trump’s Presidential Library Fund. Now, you know what this is going to help with? The midterms. The RNC is lining its coffers right now with people who are enthusiastically donating to the whole Trump presidency. Meanwhile, Speaker Mike Johnson yesterday reasserted power over some of these pesky, sharp-elbowed House members. Thomas Massey, out. You know, he was the only lone opponent to Speaker Mike Johnson yesterday. He had been on the powerful Rules Committee. No more. No more. Mike Johnson basically kicked him out. Chose Congresswoman Virginia Fox, Republican from North Carolina, to chair the Rules Committee. But the biggest changes came below the top level. Congressman Brian Jack, Republican from Georgia, will take a Rules seat. Being vacated by Guy Reschenthaler from Pennsylvania. Morgan Griffith, Republican for Virginia, will take the seat once occupied by Thomas Massey. So Mike Johnson is reclaiming power over the House floor. And finally, Speaker Johnson… declared that flags at the Capitol will fly at full staff Monday. I’ve come around on this issue. I’m going to be really honest with you. First of all, I didn’t care that much. I didn’t see the flags at half staff being disrespectful to Donald Trump in any way, shape, or form. But I’ve come around. I’ve been talking to some friends about it. Many of you have emailed and texted and called the show, and you said, look, that gives the Democrats what they want. These lunatics who are in mourning over January 20th and the inauguration of President Trump, they want to say, see, look at that. We’re all mourning. We’ve got the flags at half staff. And so Trump, he didn’t like it. And he complained about the symbol saying it cast a shadow over Inauguration Day. He posted on Truth Social, nobody wants to see this. And I think he’s right. Initially, I thought, gosh, is this petty? Is this mean-spirited? It’s about the image that we’re projecting throughout the country and to the world. And as usual, Trump is right. And we shouldn’t be having the flags. We’re not in mourning. We’re in jubilation right now. This country… is celebrating. Now, obviously not everybody. It’s a whole lot of people who are outright miserable with the outcome of the election. So be it. Elections have consequences. You win some, you lose some. You lost this one. You lost badly. Trump won pretty handily, as we know. Republican governors in Florida… Alabama, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Tennessee, Texas have also ordered the flags raised on Monday. Guarantee you they won’t be raised in the blue states. There’s not a Democrat governor alive who would dare make that move. But I am continually and I just have to remind myself how positive things are right now. Things are changing. There’s, you know, Axios is reporting there’s a big breakthrough in the hostage negotiations in the Middle East. It’s a Trump effect. Millions and millions of dollars pouring into Republicans. It’s the Trump effect. Even the red dye, evidently. How they do that now. Now Biden, for his part, he’s trying to come up with as many executive orders as he can cram down everybody’s throat in the final days. It’s all right. Trump’s going to overturn all of it. He’s got a lot of work to do. He’s got a big mess to clean up. Biden’s giving his farewell address tonight. You going to watch it? Personally, I’m planning to memorize the zip codes of every county in the Western Hemisphere. That’s my plan tonight. I’m going to read War and Peace. I’m going to immerse myself. I finished Landman. Got to find a new series to watch. I couldn’t even do that to myself. The team will give me the clips. What’s he going to say? What’s Biden going to say? He’s going to pretend that he was successful and is a popular president. And let’s be real. He’s going to go down in history as one of the most unpopular presidents in the history of America. They kicked him out. They threw him down the steps. They forced him to swallow the concept of Kamala Harris, who again… was a disaster. The Democrats are in a disaster mode. How about Florida? The Democrats in Florida are now freaking out because of one of Biden’s executive orders playing nicey-nicey with Cuba. And that has just infuriated the Democrats. He de-escalated Cuba’s status as a terrorist-sponsored nation as an 11th-hour executive order. Jared Moskowitz said, oh, great, thanks, thanks. You’ve completely deflated us. It’s a slap in the face to Florida Democrats. And, you know, we’re trying to patch the hole in the ship, and you’re sinking the ship, Joe Biden. That’s a fellow Democrat, Jared Moskowitz. So I like the way things are going, don’t you? 800-655-MIKE. Welcome aboard. It’s Wednesday. We’ve got a few days to go before the national nightmare comes to an end. We’re in the Relief Factor studios, and I hope you join us. I want to see what you think about it. And we can spend some time talking about Hegseth and the confirmation hearing yesterday. Was Scott Jennings right? Was Scott Jennings correct when he said that Pete Hegseth kicked their butts? Or did you see it differently? I mean, I know that the loony left was cheering on Tim Kaine. Did somebody tell me that somebody around here defended Pocahontas? That’s not possible. I don’t want to believe that. Somebody texted me and said that a friend of mine actually defended Elizabeth Warren and her bizarre questioning of Pete Hegsack. That can’t be. That’s just not possible. I refuse to believe it. I refuse to believe that. How do you defend Tim Kaine? How do you defend Richard Blumenthal, Mr. Stolen Valor himself? That was probably the most egregious moment of the day. Might share that with you as well. Georgia sends a text. Honor has been paid to Jimmy Carter. Monday, it’s time for our flags to fly high. I agree. Flags are flying high. The sun is shining brightly. It’s a golden era. It begins Monday with the inauguration of the 47th president of the United States. Doesn’t it feel great?
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You say it’s easy, just a natural thing.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here’s Mike Gellerin.
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I’d like to start this hour on a spiritual note because it’s a time for reflection, prayer, optimism. I’ve got so many headlines to cover with you today. But I want to start with a real quick mention of my friend Mike Lindell and MyPillow. Because this is a guy who’s been absolutely put through the ringer. And you know it. You know what they’ve tried to do. The big box stores have canceled him. Although somebody has texted me from Albuquerque, New Mexico on the MyPillow text line with Walmart and the other big corporations now moving away from DEI. Does that mean that they’ll begin carrying the MyPillow line back in the stores again? Let’s go, Mike. Referring to Mike Lindell, not Mike Gallagher. Well, I don’t know. I think it was Mike Lindell. And Mike is, of course, a man of faith and prayer. He’s a recovering addict. He does an awful lot of things that you’ll never hear about behind the scenes. He’s a good man. 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And I used to scour newspapers and magazines. Denise would help give me topics. You had to look for topics. Oh my gosh, those days are so gone. I can’t keep up. Look at the headlines. The Trump inauguration hotel packages include helicopters and caviar. Keeping up with the Trumps and their billionaire buddies has hotels hawking next level access to those hoping for access. Oh, the prices are crazy. There’s a hotel I always stay in in Northern Virginia. Just across the bridge. I love this hotel. It’s very comfortable. I’m not going to mention the name. The room rate is usually $700 or $800 a night. You know what the room rate is this weekend and Sunday night? $4,000 for a regular hotel room. For a $700 a night room. The Marriott Bonvoy app never blew up quite like that one, huh? And the money is pouring into the RNC and the Trump coffers. They expect to have a half a billion dollars in the bank by June. Now, you know what happens when the RNC gets to beef up their finances? They give us a better chance during the midterms. And that’s coming. But let’s look at the headlines today. I want to do this more often. I could just go through a stack of headlines and get you react to one or any of them. And let’s do that right now. The Philadelphia Eagles fan who hurled a vulgar insult at a Green Bay Packers supporter fired from his job. Do you follow that story? Pete Hegseth’s chief Senate skeptic, Joni Ernst, changes her tune, says the Daily Beast. She’s going to vote for Hegseth. Nancy Mace challenges Jasmine Crockett to a fight. Now, Nancy Mace denied that later, but that’s what it sounded like to me. You’ve got that clip, Christian? This is pretty fascinating. This is saucy. Jasmine Crockett and Nancy Mace clearly have no love lost for each other. Check this out.
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somebody’s campaign coffers really are struggling right now so she gonna keep saying trans trans trans so that people will feel threatened and child listen i i want y’all to tell me whether or not call me a child i am no child i want to find out which of those emails i actually have ceilings You will not do that. I am not a child. I am not a child. I am not claiming my time. If you want to take it outside.
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Mr. Chairman, the committee is not.
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You want to take it outside.
SPEAKER 05 :
You hear her? You want to take it outside. Let’s do that. I’d pay to see that. Honest to goodness, I don’t mean to be to pick on one particular person, but is Jasmine Crockett really a member of the United States House of Representatives? I mean, she’s carrying on last night or yesterday like it’s 3 a.m. at a Waffle House. It’s hysterical. She’s trash. She’s just, I mean, some of these people, Tim Kaine yesterday, did you take a vow, Pete Hegseth? These are trashy people. They’re just, they’re garbage. Let’s look at some more headlines. Coca-Cola CEO James Quincy has gifted President-elect Donald Trump a one-of-a-kind commemorative bottle of Diet Coke. Trump has his own commemorative bottle now. I’ve got to get one of those. More headlines. A dozen Walgreens stores in San Francisco to close. They’re going to permanently shut the doors of 12 San Francisco Walgreens. Of course, the crime, the shoplifting. Woke prosecutors don’t want to prosecute shoplifters. Also, let me divert from the headlines for just a moment. Heard Chris Stegall, our new morning host on the Salem Radio Network, talk a little bit about Starbucks. Do you see what Starbucks came up with? Roger P. Shulman, our newsman here in Tampa Bay, was telling me about this yesterday. They had a policy that anybody who wants to come into Starbucks and camp out can do so. You know why? Because a black guy went into Starbucks in Philly, of all places, and wanted to use the bathroom. And they said, well, sorry, you’ve got to be a customer to use the restroom. Well, you know what that led to. DEFCON 1, racism, the black guy can’t use the bathroom. So Starbucks, being the woke company they are, with their $9 lattes, said, well, okay, anybody come on in. Just live here. And, of course, it turned into a hellscape. You had degenerates sleeping on the tables, people shooting up, people urinating in the corners. So Starbucks says, whoops, that didn’t work. So now Starbucks is saying, you can’t hang out here. You can’t use the restroom. You can’t just sit here unless you’re a customer. How dare you, Starbucks? How dare you? What’s wrong with you? Don’t you know how many people of color want to urinate in the corner of your store? You’re going to deprive them their ability to shoot up at the table over there by the window? How dare you? You can’t make this crap up. More headlines. DeSantis and Trump play golf. That’s right. Governor DeSantis and President-elect Trump played a round of golf yesterday at Mar-a-Lago. And DeSantis… has indicated he wants a special session called January 27th, the week after President Trump is sworn in, and calls on the legislature to appropriate funding for the detention, relocation, transportation, infrastructure, local law enforcement support, and everything else needed for Florida to carry out the mission of illegal immigration being stopped in our country. Now that’s how you do it. That’s how you do it. And finally, Trump himself apparently posting on Truth Social about the wildfires in California. Then I’m going to turn it over to you. I’m just in a mood today. I’m in a good mood. I feel great. We’re making our inauguration plans. Monday we’ll be broadcasting from our nation’s capital. You’ll hear it all here on the Mike Gallagher Show. Here’s what President Trump posted that just knocked it out of the park, as usual. He wrote, the actual irony. A homeowner consents to pay property taxes that will go to the fire department. The funds are diverted to illegal immigrants, since L.A. is a sanctuary city. An illegal immigrant comes and sets your house on fire, and the fire department doesn’t have the resources to put it out. The homeowner, Trump wrote, paid for their own destruction. On top of that, the government is so inept that the insurance companies won’t insure houses anymore, so the homeowner is left with nothing. You know, Trump is a guy who repeatedly warned us, warned everybody about the California wildfire dangers, and he was right all along. So that’s where we are. A few days before history is made and Trump is sworn in on the steps of the Capitol. January 20th, just a few days away. Welcome in. It’s a Wednesday episode of the Mike Gallagher Show in the Relief Factor Studios. And I want you to join us. 800-655-MIKE. Pick any one of those headlines. Any one of those stories I want you to dive into. You know, back in the day we used to call it Open Line Friday. But I do want to open up my lines because I want you to take a bite out of any of the things you just heard me mention on the Mike Gallagher Show. 800-655-MIKE. Call or text. One call does it all. One number does it all. 800-655-6453. Hope you join us.
SPEAKER 10 :
I don’t really like working. I’m going to need a priority parking space. I only work remotely. How are your safe spaces? Can I bring my dog to work? Will your company protect me against microaggressions? You’re triggering me. Is this interview almost over?
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SPEAKER 10 :
What’s your policy on paying employees to attend protests? I demand eight weeks of vacation. I need at least 12 weeks of paid vacation. I’m going to need a lot of mental health days. Do you have a game room? My pronouns are Zs and Zs.
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SPEAKER 04 :
The world wants to know what happened yesterday, Mike, when you went back to the bank and asked them why they asked you what the money was for when you wanted to pull some money out.
SPEAKER 05 :
Karen Gallagher put her curlers back in her hair and put on the fuzzy bathrobe and the bunny slippers and marched into the bank and said, I’d like to speak to the manager. You know, when you say that now, isn’t it funny how it just has an image to it? I’d like to speak to the manager.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s like, oh, yeah, you’re one of those. But you know what? Yes, but I’d like to speak to the manager personally. 20 years ago is here comes a troublemaker. We can blow off in five seconds. I want to speak to the manager now in the era of online reviews in every consumer interface that you have. Don’t you have just people begging you for good reviews? We have power in the consumer world like never before. So you carry that into the bank lobby. And what happened?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I mean, the lady was very nice about it. She said, she kind of politely explained that this is definitely their policy. This particular bank, she said, has had problems with money laundering. Now, she said, you know, you’ve probably seen the media accounts of the money laundering controversy we were in. And I actually hadn’t. I don’t know what she’s talking about.
SPEAKER 04 :
A particular bank that was a particular target of money launderers?
SPEAKER 05 :
A national chain. And she said, you know, we’ve been involved in AML. And I said, well, pardon me, what’s AML? She said, well, you’ve probably seen it in the news, anti-money laundering. Again, I don’t know what in the world. I said, well, okay, whatever. She said, all the banks are going to wind up doing this. She said, we could be fined if you’re engaged in… Now, let’s set the table here for people who don’t remember. I went in to get… a withdrawal from my checking account for $4,000 because it’s higher than the ATM limit. I would normally never go into the lobby. I’d use the ATM. But the ATM daily limit in this case is, I think, $2,500. And I wanted to put it over into another bank account.
SPEAKER 04 :
You got an ATM that’ll give you $2,500? I do. Mine’s like $4,000. Of course, I’m doing ATMs at convenience stores. Well, you could ask them to increase the limit. They’ll do it for you. When am I ever at an ATM? I don’t know. Anyway, what is this cash you speak of? I live at the ATM. Really?
SPEAKER 05 :
Really?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Are you a big cash-using guy? Because I’ve got the same, like, 80 bucks I had in my wallet two years ago.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I don’t know. I guess I am. I don’t know. Anyway, man. So anyway, I got $4,000 on as the teller the other day counted it out. She said, now, what exactly is this transaction for? And I was just dumbfounded. I thought you’re asking me how I’m spending my own money. And I didn’t say that to her. I was just and I’m not a confrontational guy, believe it or not. I said to her, I’m not. I mean, in real life, I’m Clark Kent. I’m Superman, maybe from, you know. You folded like a cheap suit yesterday or the day before when she asked you what the money was for. I told her what I was doing it for. I just, well, why not? I mean, I didn’t need to hide. But I was thrown by it. I thought, well, anyway, I went back yesterday to ask why. Why did she? And I said, look, I’ve got no complaint about this lady. She was very polite. I don’t want to get her in trouble. I’m just wondering what. So she went on to say the bank can be fined if it’s been determined that I was engaged in criminal activity and they didn’t do anything about it. Now, wait a minute. Let me finish. Let me finish. And part two, she could go to jail. She told me they could put her in jail if the bank is aware or sees that I was involved in criminal activity and they didn’t do anything about it.
SPEAKER 04 :
But who’s going to tell the truth about this? Let’s say that you are laundering money like Marty Bird in Ozark. That’s right. And simply said, well, I just want to put it from one account to the other. Okay, thank you, Mr. Gallagher. Boom. Let’s say you were a money launderer. What are you going to do?
SPEAKER 05 :
If there’s a red flag that they missed, they could get fined and incarcerated.
SPEAKER 04 :
And hawing and yammering and breaking out in a cold sweat. And, you know, I don’t know. What do you want to do that for?
SPEAKER 05 :
I have no idea at this point. What I said to her was it just seemed and I said, well, what did you do with the data? Well, because you’re obviously collecting data. She goes, she goes, she typed it in. She said, you said you. So what do you do with that? She goes, it doesn’t go anywhere. It lives on your account so that if there is any investigation, they can look at the records and say, this is what Mike Gallagher told us was the reason for the withdrawal. And I said, well, you know, this falls under the category for many people of this isn’t anybody’s business. And she said, but again, it’s because of the banking regulations and what we’re required to do. And then I told her, I said, well, I’d always heard that any transaction, $10,000 or more, you do notify the government. She goes, nope, no, we don’t. Only if it’s cash. She said, if it’s an online transaction, we don’t do anything with that. Because because that’s already that she goes, that’s there’s a paper trail. She goes, it’s all about a paper trail. So anyway, you know, I don’t care particularly. It’s just it’s just one more example, I guess, of sort of the big brother factor and the way people are, you know, intruding into our lives. And it’s just. That’s why a lot of people won’t go to the bank. I mean, a lot of people aren’t going to go through this.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, when you were talking about constantly being in the ATMs, getting out cash to stuff between your mattresses, I thought maybe you’re the trailblazer here. Because some of these stories spark a certain reaction in the social media world of where we’ve become too much toward the cashless society. Our money is all on paper, and that leaves us vulnerable, etc., etc., etc.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, you mentioned you use your ATM at convenience stores all the time. See, I’m really leery. I got burned once. I think I told you this story. I used the ATM at a convenience store, and that was in New York. It was a bodega in New York, and they had one of those skimmers, and I got burned on it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Where you use your card, and there’s something in the keypad where they can come back and gather that, and they have all your data, you know?
SPEAKER 05 :
They captured the data from the strip on the back of your card. And I talked to the bank. And the bank said, never swipe your card. Never swipe it. Because now the technology allows you to tap. You know, you can tap now.
SPEAKER 04 :
At an ATM? Oh, everywhere. Oh, you mean at various transactions. Okay, gotcha, gotcha. And the ATM. I’m a bean tapper. You tap. Don’t swipe.
SPEAKER 05 :
Because that eliminates – that’s why they’ve gone to these – Makes you skimmer-proof. Yeah. But I’m also, because of that, getting burned. It’s a terrible feeling to look. All of a sudden, my phone was beeping, and I’m looking. All these transactions were popping up after this was happened. So I’m a little leery about the – I do do a lot of cash transactions. Totally understand. Good for you. That’s great.
SPEAKER 04 :
60 seconds before we get to Hegseth. I need you to help me on this. You turn me on to this story, and then I turn it into the 8 o’clock hour yesterday. We all know who Ryan Caldwell is now. He’s the incredible a-hole there at the Eagles game. Boy, that narrows it down. Who berated and profanely attacked this woman in Packers regalia. And and it’s terrible. Called her just to call her an effing dumb. She were dumb. She was just just the worst. And then reactions started to pour in. And about half of my reaction was, you know, F.A.F.O. Too bad. Don’t act like that. And the consequence will not befall you, which is fair enough. And the other reaction was what? Because he called a woman a nasty name. His life is destroyed. His job is destroyed. I don’t think he’s been fired yet. I love that. He has been fired. He has been fired. Hospitality industry. He has been fired. And I just don’t know what I think about it. Hello. Can you hear me? He has been fired. I hear you. OK, so how do we so how do we how do you feel about that? There’s got to be a consequence for this. I get it. I’m Mr. Consequences, Mr. Accountability. But but there are other people in the reaction of the audience and online who said this is just too much. This is just what he did. Something. OK, what? So where are you?
SPEAKER 05 :
I’m so torn by this.
SPEAKER 04 :
Me too.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s definitely a product of this social media world we’re in where anything you do, and look, none of us want our worst moment captured on video.
SPEAKER 04 :
But you’re never going to do this. I’m never going to do this.
SPEAKER 05 :
But I might get aggravated or you might get aggravated or something happens or you’re having an argument. You and a bank could have. He might go off on a bank. Well, you never know. I mean, look, now it’s egregious to call a woman a dumb C word. But by the way, he is an Eagles fan.
SPEAKER 04 :
So there’s that. You know, I think people said is this is a Packers content creator guy and his fiance. What happened to me 30 minutes prior to this? Had they been? Did they play any part in escalating this? Not that that makes his tirade against her. OK.
SPEAKER 05 :
Did she call him worse things? I don’t know. Did she say things? Were they going back and forth and he lost it? Look, but according to all the reports in the New York Post, BCT Partners, which is ironically a DEI-focused management consultant, firm in East Brunswick, New Jersey, announced the firing in a statement last night. They concluded their internal investigation and decided to part company with the employee. Now, here’s the Mark Davis litmus test. Hey, it’s free market, capitalism, business gets to fire whoever they want to fire. Absolutely true. I mean, look, let me put you on the spot. You’re running a company with 100 people, and you find out that one of your employees did this, is capable of doing this. Don’t you think you have the prerogative to say, sayonara?
SPEAKER 04 :
Of course I have the prerogative. There is no doubt that the company had the right to do this. Was it right to do this is the tougher question. And the litmus test that I apply to that is, if the company assesses that there is a net – damage to them by having this guy in their employ, reputational damage. You can’t send them on sales calls anymore. You’re getting horrible press for keeping this guy on the payroll. Then, okay, he’s got to go, and it becomes his problem. If it’s somewhat less than that, maybe there’s still a capacity in our society to dust ourselves off, have some apologies. You know who has apologized? The Eagles organization. They gave her like $1,000 of pay.
SPEAKER 05 :
Cows out of that bar with the Eagles fans. I mean, my God. Exactly.
SPEAKER 04 :
And the guy has been banned from. For life. For life.
SPEAKER 05 :
But look, but Mark, maybe the consequence is act a little better. You know, do better in public.
SPEAKER 01 :
Be more polite.
SPEAKER 05 :
A polite society can go a long way. You know, I’ve been thinking a lot. It was Rush Limbaugh’s birthday the other day. And, you know, one of the joys of my life was getting a job in New York and working down the hall from Rush. You know, it was a big, big kick for me because, I mean, without him, none of us are sitting here. I mean, he completely transformed the medium. And I was buddies with Johnny Donovan. Johnny was his longtime voice announcer. And Johnny was one of the legendary disc jockeys in New York City, one of the good guys back in the day. And Johnny had a rule. He said, look, if I was emperor of the world, here’s what I’d do. It would be a one kill rule. You’re allowed to kill one person in your lifetime. One person can be dead. If anything is done that offends you. But just one, just one. So that he goes, he goes, do you realize how polite society would be?
SPEAKER 04 :
Because nobody wants to make anybody mad. Because you don’t know whether the person that’s in front of you has gotten their kill yet.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s right. That’s exact. Johnny said one kill a lifetime. He goes, it’d be a complete. Anyway, we got inauguration coming. Pete Hegseth. How about three seconds?
SPEAKER 04 :
How great was Pete?
SPEAKER 05 :
I’m so proud. I’m so proud. Well, I knew he would be. Look, he’s a broadcaster. Incidentally, did you see they had to reveal what they paid him to do the weekends at Fox and Friends?
SPEAKER 04 :
Did you see what he was making? What was it? $2.4 million a year. To sit on the couch on a Saturday morning?
SPEAKER 05 :
On a Saturday morning. That’s a gig.
SPEAKER 04 :
I mean, good for him. What’s Jesse Waters making?
SPEAKER 05 :
I mean, well, Hannity’s up to $25, I think. So there’s big bucks over there. There’s gold in them Thar Hills. There’s gold in them cable channels. How about Stolen Valor Blumenthal? How many people in the army? How many people in the… And of course, Pete had almost all the numbers correct. But he was off a little bit. And then stolen Valor Blumenthal, a guy who got called out by the New York Times for lying about serving in Vietnam. He says, you’re not qualified to lead the armed forces because there’s so many people in the armed forces. It’s the size of the armed forces. Can you imagine the gall of that guy waking up saying, I’m the guy that lied about serving? Is there anything really worse, Mark, in your mind, really, in the scheme of things, than spitting in the face of every single man or woman who served this country by lying about your military service?
SPEAKER 01 :
Every time I see that guy…
SPEAKER 05 :
Every time I see him, my skin crawls. I think, is it just me? I mean, who the heck is he? How do you have the nerve to even appear at that hearing and grill a war hero like Pete Hegg says? So he’s going to get confirmed. Joni Ernst came around. She was the one holdout, I think. And she’s all on board. And we got our bags packed. Are you Friday show and then off you go? Yep, yep. And the low on Monday is 12 degrees above zero. The high is 23 degrees on Monday in Washington, D.C.
SPEAKER 04 :
Listen, 1984, Reagan’s second inaugural. They had to cancel the parade.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, I know. Do you remember one of the presidents died because he got pneumonia at the inauguration? William Henry Harrison, president number nine.
SPEAKER 04 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 05 :
So I hope Trump bundles up.
SPEAKER 04 :
Bundle up, Mr. President. Bundle up. You’re over.
SPEAKER 05 :
When the wind is free, I’ll take good care of you. I’ll be cheering him on from a warm, toasty studio in our nation’s capital. Joey Hudson’s outside, though, so we’ll give you the stories.
SPEAKER 02 :
Excellent, man. Happy Wednesday. Download the podcast and hear all of Mike and Mark’s conversations at MikeOnline.com for the M&M experience.
