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Mike Gallagher. Every day, Mike visits with Mark Davis, morning host on 660 AM, The Answer in Dallas. Here’s today’s Eminem experience.
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Let’s do the time war again.
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I don’t know if I’ve ever asked showbiz Mike about this. Let us touch the ground. I love me some Rocky Horror. Put your hands on your hips. Do you… Okay, I figured.
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I love me some Rocky Horror.
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It’s campy, it’s wonderful, and it’s 50 years old. At least, I guess, at the movies. Because it was on Broadway first, and then it was a movie. Your… No, no, no, no.
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I don’t think it was on Broadway first.
SPEAKER 03 :
It was a play first. It was the Rocky Horror Show. And then they made a movie out of it, the Rocky Horror Picture Show. And there you go. Now, the reason I know the minutiae about this is on the 50th anniversary of this, I heard an interview with Tim Curry. Speaking of PBS, it’s funny. I think this was… Fresh Air, you know, one of those interviews. There you are listing him. There you are listing him. No, no, no. What can I do? What can I do? Defund NPR. By all means. Exactly. I’ll throw him a couple of bucks to keep Fresh Air on the air with Terry Gross.
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And remember, hold that thought, too, because I want to ask you about that, about something.
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Go ahead. But the thing about Rocky Horror. is I wondered if it was just even too campy even for you. You were 15-ish, maybe 16, 17, when it really took flight, when the phenomenon took flight. I was in my junior year at Maryland, and one of my stoned dorm mates came down the hall and went, dude, we’re doing the midnight show of Rocky Horror. Do you want to go? And I’d heard of it. I didn’t really know. I said, okay, so I went. midnight show. It’s a Saturday night. And there are people in costume, people holding rolls of toilet paper and pieces of toast. I was like, what do these people do? I was like, dude, it’s participatory, man. It’s like, you know, there’s lines and then you do stuff. So I walked in and I’m looking at Very Young Barry Bostwick and the first Susan Sarandon film. So that was pleasant at the time. So I was enjoying that. And then the next thing I see is Tim Curry in fishnet stockings and a corset and spike heels. How do you do? I see you’ve met my friend. Grateful hand, man. And I’m watching sweet transvestite. I turn to my buddy and I go, and pardon me for the actual quote. I said, what the hell is this? What am I doing here? And two hours later, I came out with the opinion then. It’s the opinion I hold now. It’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.
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Well, and I got one for you. I can do you one better because you’re going to get so mad at me. I’m trying out of deference to my dear friend, Mark Davis. We love to share stories about movies and TV shows and stuff. I’m trying to watch The Pit. I ain’t getting it. What? I’m not getting The Pit.
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What is the matter with you?
SPEAKER 04 :
All right, so I’m two-thirds in to episode one. It’s the same old, same old. The bustle of the ER and Noah Wiley is directing the interns. I knew the one medical intern was going to faint before she fainted. It’s so predictable. It’s so trite. Okay. Now, maybe it gets better. Maybe it gets deeper.
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It surely does. But having shown me the oddity of – and it’s all – it’s a human oddity.
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The mean supervisor who wants to cut the funding.
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But I could have gone, what’s your favorite TV show ever? What do you think is your – Sopranos. It’s a mafia guy. Yellowstone. It’s a guy out in Montana, and they’re trying to fight for the ranch. No, but I mean it’s – I can throw shade on anything. Okay.
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I’m an easy audience, though. I don’t mind that. Sometimes. But with The Pit, been there, done that.
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There’s nothing new about it. Except it’s only that it’s the best medical show ever. No stupid soap opera subplots. There is a soap opera subplot.
SPEAKER 04 :
Soap opera? What’s the soap opera? Well, the evil villainous, you know, stern woman administrator telling Noah you’ve got to do better with your numbers.
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But that’s not soap opera-y. By soap opera, I mean— You mean like relationships. Yeah, love stories. I got it. So all I would do is I would ask you to invoke the three-episode rule. You ever heard about that? Yeah, yeah. It’s just wait for the three-episode rule. I will. And by the way— And if that’s the case, and The Pit is on HBO, new episodes every Thursday, Noah Wiley, young Dr. Carter from ER fame, now running a gritty Pittsburgh, hence the name, ER. It’s all a matter of taste. It’s all taste. I mean, it really is. It’ll be the second strangest thing you ever gave me, though. The first being Marvelous Mrs. Mason. Marvelous Mrs. Mason. Same with that. I had the same reaction there. It’s like you wrote it. It’s like you created it. It’s 60s. It’s New York. It’s showbiz.
SPEAKER 04 :
But I’m sensitive to not liking something you like because I know… Oh, don’t worry about that. Well, no, but let’s talk about that for a minute. I know the feeling when I love something… And I want people I care about to love it too. And they don’t. Then there’s like a disappointment there. No, it doesn’t bother me at all.
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Well, it bothers me because I want to like what you like.
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But I just, you know, I just didn’t. I’m not getting it. But anyway, all right, let’s talk a little bit about what I mentioned a moment ago about PBS and NPR. I tried yesterday to find a single caller. who could justify taxpayer money going to PBS or NPR.
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Can’t be done.
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Couldn’t find one. As Congress is going to debate whether to continue federal support of public media, new survey came out from Pew Research. Three out of four Americans do not support efforts to end funding. Now, 43% think Congress should keep federal dollars rolling into NPR and PBS. Only 24% of us say the time to end the funding has come. What? Mark, you’re a smart guy, except for your taste in TV shows. You gave me a devil’s advocate position for supporting the arts with Opry yesterday and all that, and I kind of get that, but I don’t understand. What’s the argument for funding PBS or NPR?
SPEAKER 03 :
What would the argument be? It is the dumbheaded, millimeter-deep logic of, I like those shows. I want them to exist. It can’t be that simple.
SPEAKER 04 :
Of course it can. That’s all it is? Yeah. Gosh, all right, well, then I like the Sopranos. I want them to fund reruns of the Sopranos. I mean, we wouldn’t expect a dime for the Mark Davis show from taxpayers or the Mike Gallagher show or Salem Media Group. We wouldn’t dare dream it. Why would anybody think your hard-earned taxpayer dollars should go to an entity that specializes in the history of the tsetse fly? Or worse, a leftist ideology that sort of masquerades as journalism. That’s not something – but most Americans support funding for PBS. I don’t get it, Mark. I don’t believe it. I either don’t believe it or I don’t – What did he say, 75?
SPEAKER 03 :
Did you say 75%?
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24% believe that the time to end funding has come.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right. A third are sure. There you go. So there are a third who don’t care. They’re ambivalent.
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Only 44% of Republicans want to remove federal funding. Less than half.
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Oh.
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44%.
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So I want to talk.
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I want to talk to a Republican who wants to continue federal funding. What would the reason be? I mean, really, I’m not trying to be a smarlic here. What’s the reason? Look, here’s the little scam about public broadcasting. You’re a lifelong broadcaster. You know it. You get it. We’re all in the advertising business. We do live reads. We do recorded spots. We do sponsorships. Well, they do too. They pretend they don’t. This old house, funded by the Home Depot.
SPEAKER 03 :
Depot, go get your… This is brought to you, this episode of whatever, this episode of Transgender Eskimos is brought to you with a grant from, a grant, a what?
SPEAKER 04 :
A grant. It’s advertising is what it is. And so they do it. But then they also sell the tote bags and people line up and support. By the way, let them do that. I don’t want it to go away. I know they can do good work. Just fund it yourself like we all have to do. So anyway, it just makes me crazy. All right, Elon and the Doge team on Brett Baer yesterday. Incredible. Mark, I mean, oh, it’s shadowy. We don’t know what they’re doing. These guys can’t, they fall all over themselves to try to show the American people what they’re about. It’s transparency on steroids. Thank you. I’m so sick of this shadowy, you know. Oligarchs, creepy behind the scenes. And do you know what a risk it was for them to do that yesterday? Because the lunatics.
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SPEAKER 04 :
The antithetics on the left are targeting Elon Musk. They’re targeting these Doge kids. They’re targeting the staffers, these engineers, these nerds, these self-proclaimed nerds who are getting in there and finding, they’re finding a billion here, a billion there without even blinking. Yeah. It’s real money. It’s real money. Half the calls into Social Security are fraudsters. And then the Bernie Sanders of the world and the Chuck Schumers of the world turn it into they’re going to end Social Security. No, they’re not. They want to end the fraud in Social Security.
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Don’t you, Chuck Schumer? We’re going to dismantle the Veterans Administration so veterans won’t get care. Of course they will. They’ll get more efficient care from a department that is running more efficiently.
SPEAKER 04 :
Mark, it makes me crazy. Well, I’m going to run. I’m doing something a little unusual, and I swear it’s not to get out of here early. I’m going to run a whole hour of Elon and the Doge team on the show today. I’m going to run the whole segment. I want to play all of it because people ought to hear that. Look, the good news is people are paying attention. I’m convinced of that. People are figuring all this out, and we’re in the golden era, Mark. Things are going great. I mean, and incidentally, a quick thank you, final day of the Food for the Poor campaign. Thanks to your help and lunch.
SPEAKER 03 :
Shall we wrap up strong?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I’m afraid to ask because I don’t want to get it. Now, it does feed starving children, but we’re ending right now. The goal, by the way, $40,000. How would you like to look at $123,122? I mean, it’s extraordinary. And thanks to you, because a big chunk of that is for the lunches we’re going to do. Very soon, within the next few weeks, we’ve got, I think Tracy told me, 16 people, if I’m not mistaken. Eight and eight, I think. So we have two lunches. Which makes two tables of ten. That’s right.
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Just like you like it.
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The round table will gather. The round table. So that’s very cool.
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So head into the weekend. You got anything? I got a dumb thing. Just a dumb, non-topical thing. Can you settle something in my house for me? Sure. Okay. Personal hygiene issue. Ready? Let’s talk about something very important. We all do it. No, don’t worry about it.
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We’re going from Rocky Horror to personal hygiene.
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Let’s wrap up. Okay, ready? Okay. I’m losing sleep over this. Okay. Let’s talk about brushing our teeth. We all do it. Okay. Remember when we were growing up, it was like you’ve got to brush three times a day. Correct. It’s kind of funny. I think it’s been relaxed to two, which makes me uncomfortable. I still like to give them a quick hit in the middle of the day. So here’s the thing. Let’s describe brushing the teeth. You start the faucet going, right? You soak the brush under before you put the toothpaste on. Correct. All good? So far so good? Yes. Brush your teeth. They say it should be two minutes. That’s forever.
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Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
It shouldn’t be 20 seconds. Two minutes, I think, is insane. So I’m logging a minute, minute and a half, something like that. Right. and you finish brushing your teeth okay toothbrush comes out of your mouth what do you mike gallagher then do in in with what the toothbrush or my mouth no what do you then right the toothbrush what do you then do i put the cap on the toothbrush because i got one of those sonic hair and then i and then i love this then i yep and then i i swish around some some water in my mouth i win I win, honey. I win. She says not to. You spit, right? Right. Of course. And then you rinse your mouth. What’s wrong with that? Apparently, we are denying ourselves the value. I didn’t mean to start another talk show. You’re not hearing this on NPR. The valuable. Exactly. The valuable fluoride. The fluoride you’re apparently supposed to not rinse. Oh, because you’re taking the fluoride benefits away from your teeth. Because there’s valuable stuff. It’s not about whether it’s in the water supply.
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Well, but you didn’t let me finish the last step because after I swish out and then I rinse out, then I immediately gargle with what I think is the best mouthwash on the market. Have you ever heard of smart mouth mouthwash? No. It, like, mixes two elements. I’m telling you, it works. I mean, no bad breath.
SPEAKER 03 :
What do you mean mixes two elements?
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s like you’ll see there’s two spigots for it. It’s the coolest thing ever, and it makes me feel like it’s doing something. Wait a minute, wait a minute. It’s mouthwash that requires assembly? It kind of does. When you buy it, you’ve got to kind of put it together, but it’s got two spigots. There’s a green liquid and a clear liquid. They merge together to activate…
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Is there smoke? Is there an industrial accident?
SPEAKER 04 :
Listen, they got me conned because I buy smart mouthwash.
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How much is it? How much is a bottle of this stuff?
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I don’t know, but I get the travel packets. I get the jug. It’s crazy. Unsolicited plug. You’ll see it in your pharmacy.
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Green and white bottle.
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Is there fluoride in it? How bad? I don’t know. But by the way, somebody just said, do you ask Mark, does he brush his tongue? Yeah, absolutely. Got it. Your tongue is a sponge. I’ve never done that in my life. I’ve never brushed my tongue in my life.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, dude, you got to start. I’m afraid to do that. Your teeth are solid. Your tongue is just a big. No, no, I’m not brushing my tongue.
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Your tongue is a sponge of impurity, which is a great thing. And in the final 30 seconds, the last inanity about personal hygiene. I remember years ago talking to my old radio partner in New York, Lionel, who pointed something out. When you have a clean towel and you take a shower every morning, right? When you go to work, take a shower, you use the towel. Yes. Do you use it again or do you throw it in the dirty hamper?
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I will ride a towel for three, four days.
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Well, that’s right. Why not? Because your body’s clean. It’s clean.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s right.
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But most people put it in the dirty clothes hamper. Why do you put it in the dirty clothes hamper when you’ve just cleaned a clean body?
SPEAKER 03 :
My bride who does not rinse after brushing because she wants to kiss. She’s not going to walk around with a toothpaste in her mouth. You spit out the excess toothpaste, but she lets it kind of the coating exist every day. As she’s the cleanest person in the history of humanity, she will not use a towel on two successive days. Because I think it’s water. It’s not like it gets moldy. She just wants a fresh towel every single day. So our laundry bill, our washing machine runs constantly.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, your kooky, idiosyncratic wife is the same as your kooky, idiosyncratic friend. Are you a one-day towel guy? Because, no, but now I’m no longer going to rinse after I brush. So thank you, Lisa.
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She’s right.
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No, I’m not going to rinse. I want the effects on the tooth. She’s right.
SPEAKER 03 :
I’m pro-rinsing. I’m against it. I want my mouth to feel clean. I want it to be like, hey, I just brushed. It’s fantastic. But I don’t want the bunch of toothpaste that’s still clean. No, no, no, no. We have settled. We’ve solved all of these problems today, Mike. Well, okay.
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And one of our lunch guests just said, come and join us. Please, no teeth talk at our lunch. So fair enough. We will accommodate.
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I think we took care of it.
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And we know all about, you know, Rocky Horror and how many times you use your towel. Look, again, and for your tote bag, please call 800-655-MIKE.
SPEAKER 03 :
We need M&M tote bags with us just growling at each other.
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You know what we got to do? You know we got to start giving away the M&M’s. Yeah, we do need merch. Remember those M&M’s?
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Somebody made those. They do. I know where to get them.
SPEAKER 04 :
I can get them tomorrow at Disney Springs. They personalize M&M’s. We ought to get our little faces and our, well, our fat faces.
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We couldn’t fit on the M&M’s. It’d have to be an M&M the size of a truck tire. Love you, man. Happy weekend. That’s Mike Gallagher. And the rest of whatever he has in his mind will roll out at 10 as soon as we’re done on 660 AM.
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