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Mike Gallagher brings a critical lens to the topic of government waste and fraud, addressing alarming allegations about fiscal mismanagement. The conversation navigates through political controversies involving key figures like Chuck Schumer, tying their decisions to broader political movements. As developments continue in the media, the narrative shifts to public funding of broadcasting in the digital age, questioning its place in contemporary society.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here’s Mike Geller.
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Of all the things we have to worry about, why do we want to be mad at Canada? I don’t want to be mad at Canada. I know some wonderful people from Canada. I love Canada. I got nothing against Canada. I’ve been uncomfortable with all the talk about making Canada the 51st state. I think it’s being positioned by President Trump as part of a tariff sort of negotiation, and I trust his instincts, but frankly, we don’t want Canada to be the 51st state, do we? But we don’t have a grudge with the Canadian people, do we? How about the premier of Canada saying what he said yesterday? I saw this clip. I said to myself, this can’t be. Can you imagine Trump standing outside the White House and saying, you know what? I want to hurt the people of Canada. I want to inflict pain upon the people of Argentina. I mean, I know that’s what Trump critics think his policies invariably will do. But if he came out and said it, he just said, I want to hurt as many Canadians as I can, the worldwide outcry would be epic, right? So what does the world say about the premier of Ford, premier of Canada, Mr. Ford saying this.
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But I can assure you one thing. We’re going to make sure that we inflict as much pain as possible to the American people without inflicting pain on the Canadian population.
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That’s the premier of Canada, Ontario Premier Doug Ford. And I don’t know what he’s the premier of. I don’t know what kind of guy. I don’t know anything about Canada. I know their health care system is a disaster. I hear story after story of people waiting three years to get in for a kidney transplant. It’s a nightmare. I’ve been inundated with horror stories about the socialized medicine they have up in Canada. That’s really the only negative thing I know about Canada. I got nothing bad to say about Canada. But really? Ontario Premier Doug Ford? You want to inflict as much pain as possible on Americans because you’re mad at Trump? Look, even if we have a civil disagreement over Trump’s policies, which is plausible, we can all debate it. I don’t care. Now leaders in Canada are openly rooting to hurt us, the American people? Do I need to rethink my apathy about Canada? Do we have Canadians who can speak to this? Give me your reaction. And again, I don’t know. Is he the premier of Ontario or the premier of Canada? What is a premier? I don’t even know what the heck they do over there. Is he a potentate? Is he a poobah? Is he a king, premier, emperor? I don’t know. I don’t particularly care. Again, I don’t want to hate Canada. And I won’t make the mistake that he wants to make. I’m not going to inflict animosity against the Canadian people because of what one of their stupid politicians said. But what do you make of this? 800-655-MIKE. Ten minutes past the hour. It’s Friday. We made it through another work week. It’s March the 28th. I hope you’re well. I’m ecstatic. We’re sitting at over $123,000 of our Food for the Poor campaign. You knocked it out of the park. We more than tripled our goal. You always come through. Every time, every single time I come to you and ask you for your support to make the world a better place, hey, maybe even Food for the Poor helps people in Canada. But my goodness, Trump is breaking people all over the world. I mean, the guy owes the United States an apology. How in the world do you justify this? Tomorrow in America, we’re supposed to have some kind of day of rage. And Teslas are being targeted tomorrow during the day of rage. Well, people are filled with rage because of politicians like Chuck Schumer. I mean, Chuck Schumer doesn’t sound much better than Doug Ford, Premier of Canada. Anybody going to tell me, by the way? Okay, here we go. Thank you. Tracy to the rescue. Canada’s 13 provincial and territorial premiers are members of the Council of the Federation. So I guess he’s the poobah of Ontario. He’s the premier poobah of Ontario, not all of Canada. I mean, but our own politicians say things that aren’t much better. Chuck Schumer? I mean, his comment about inflicting… We want to target Republicans in order to harm Trump as much as possible? I mean, this is the kind of stuff that astounds me. So let’s start with Canada. Two minutes. I’m not going to spend a lot of time on it. I want you to tell me… what you think about this Canadian politician promising to inflict as much harm on the American people. Not the Trump administration, not government policies. We want to hurt as many Americans as we can, says Doug Ford. Give me your take on it. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Welcome in. We’ve got a lot to cover today. Buckle up. I just got the daily report for our Food for the Poor campaign. Look, if the new kid on the block, Chris DeGaulle, beats us in the campaign, I’m in big trouble. I’m giving up. You can’t let that happen. If you like what we do, because we’re all doing this together, this Food for the Poor campaign, I’m going to give you the phone number that I didn’t give you a moment ago. I just need 400 people to pop in 100 bucks. Let’s get 100 people today to donate $100. Food for the Poor. This is what we do. We do this a few times a year. And here’s the phone number that I left out before. If you want to make a phone call, have your credit card standing by and call Food for the Poor. 844-860-HOPE. That’s 844-860-4673. Or you can go to mikeonline.com, click on that banner at the top of the page, or just text the keyword food to 800-655-MIKE, and we’ll send you back the link. And thank you, thank you, thank you for supporting our Food for the Poor campaign. Come on, let’s get there. Come on, 400 people. Wouldn’t it be amazing? How astounding would it be if I could touch the hearts of 400 people, maybe even you, Ed, in Naples? Instead of being grumpy at me, feed starving children. Clothe the naked. Feed the hungry. Partner with the Christian ministry. All I need is 400 people to donate 100 bucks, and we’re there. We’ve got our goal. Maybe we could do it today. Go to MikeOnline.com. Click on the banner or call 844-860-HOPE. Call 844-860-4673. However you reach out, I do hope you’ll join me as folks just like you all over America step up to help our friends at the Christian nonprofit international relief organization, Food for the Poor. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor studios, here’s Mike Geller.
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I’m looking through the take Tesla down, Tesla takedown day, the global day of action tomorrow. Resist! Resist! This is what the left is reduced to. Trying to destroy an American company. Look, this isn’t anything new for us. We watched what they did to MyPillow. MyPillow survived. Mike Lindell was on the show the other day saying, look, thanks to people who understand the importance of a boycott, you’ve got to buy. You’ve got to support companies that the left targets. You’ve got to support American institutions that Because the left is all about violence and destruction, and I don’t say that casually. I don’t say that haphazardly. If Chuck Schumer, if I told you the Senate minority leader is threatening Americans who don’t vote the way he wants them to vote, if you’re not a Democrat, you’ll face enormous consequences, Chuck Schumer said. And Russell Brand, who’s an actor and a comic, I don’t know much about him. He’s British, isn’t he, or Australian or something? He’s got a big following. He’s a big podcaster. And he played a clip of what Chuck Schumer actually said in an interview that should bring chills to every single American. who understands the power of persuasion and realizes we can all have political disagreements without trying to destroy each other. Tesla is a great company. Elon Musk, as evidenced by his sit-down with Brett Baier yesterday on Fox News and his team, oh yeah, real secretive, they’re on Fox News doing a whole thing about what Doge is trying to do. At some point, people who are threatening Americans have to be held accountable. I want to play this Russell Brand clip, including Russell Brand’s commentary to what he heard, what the world heard Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, actually say on national television.
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We are mobilizing in New York. We have people going to the Republican districts and going after these Republicans who are voting for this and forcing them to either change their vote or face the consequences. This is a long, relentless fight that we fight every day. And I am confident that we will bring Trump’s popularity, numbers, and strength down if we keep at it and keep at it and keep at it.
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We think about that. Did you see Bill Burr’s recent appearance on The View where he said we need to start tempering and calming down our political discourse, that we need to start looking for alliances, that we need to begin to. I mean, if you’re going to have a United States of America, then you have to reach out in the spirit of fraternity and national pride and love to people to have different views. different views from you. I mean, your country, from its very origin, after the rejection of British imperialism and over-taxation, was built on the idea that discourse and democracy and conversation and consent were the founding principles of your nation. So let me know in the comments and chat what you think about that now. Do you think that there’s a sort of hypocrisy going on? Do you think that when Republicans or people on the right are critical of left-wing figures, it’s amplified, and when the left do it, it is denied?
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completely a shrug of the shoulder. Oh well, Chuck Schumer just threatened Americans who don’t vote Democrat. He’s one of the most powerful Democrats in America. And I can’t get over this. How this goes, this should be the lead story on every newscast everywhere. Every single American should be aware of this. And at some point, I don’t care how many years He’s been in public office. I don’t care how powerful or prominent he thinks he is. Where’s Pam Bondi? Where’s the Justice Department? How is that okay? Have you ever heard me say that I want people who I disagree with harmed? Have you ever heard… Any responsible pundit or broadcaster or talking head or writer, anybody with any credibility, have you ever heard them say, well, you’ve got to make sure that if they don’t vote Republican, they need to be hurt. They’ve got to face consequences. What consequences would Chuck Schumer want us to have? Honest question. Not even a complicated question. What do you mean, Senator Schumer? What consequences? You want us to lose our jobs? You want our families to be hurt? You want to hurt our pets? What do you want to do? What exactly do you mean by consequences? What consequences are you going to inflict upon the American people who don’t vote the way you do? This is one of the wildest chapters of all of this. You’re going to force us to change our vote? You’re going to force us or face the consequences? How are you going to force us? Is it going to be part of the Tesla takedown global day of action? You’re going to be outside a Tesla dealership tomorrow? Senator Schumer, you’re going to root against an American company that employs thousands of hardworking people? providing a great product to a whole bunch of people on the right and the left and in the middle and people who don’t even care. You want to take down Tesla, do you? Really? My gosh. 800-655-MIKE. 13 past the hour. Welcome in. We made it through another week. We’re in for a wild ride, aren’t we? Great to have you here, though, on the Mike Gallagher Show. And I promise, I’m going to play today every minute of the Elon Musk Doge team on Fox News last night with Brett Baier. Every American should see it and hear it. And by golly, you’re going to see and hear it on the Mike Gallagher Show. So I hope you stay with us. We’ve got a lot of territory to cover today. 800-655-MIKE. Let’s get your reaction to the way things are. I want to tell you a little bit about the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, how important it is. I want to talk a little bit about how important it is for you to get out and vote. Because there’s a lot of elections coming your way. The fight is not over. And by fight, I mean at the ballot box. That’s the responsible fight. Nothing else. 800-655-MIKE. Welcome in. Hope you join us. Ph.D. weight loss has changed my life, and I’ve got a little secret for you. You know Big Pharma and semaglutide and the shots in the belly. 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Oh, there it goes again, Christian. Oy vey. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? It’s Friday. Gosh, I need week after next I’m on vacation. Don’t ask. Don’t call. Don’t call me. I’ll call you. I’ll check in. Because I’m trying to avoid, ignore life’s grim reality. Father time keeps marching along. There’s a Broadway show that I fell in love with, a little show called A Little Musical. If you see this on tour, you go see Kimberly Akimbo. It’s one of the sweetest little shows I’ve ever seen. It’s the weirdest plot. It’s about a little girl who suffers from one of those aging conditions where she looks like she’s 60 when she’s 14, and her living her life with this kind of dysfunctional family. And there’s a number in it. There’s a song called Father Time. It will bring you to your knees when you think about your kids, your life, how fast it happens. I mean, I’m 65 coming up in a few days, and I’m not 65. It just hit me. How did I get here? And, you know, don’t worry, I plan to work for a long time. I want to work till they carry me out of here. But man, does it come fast. And that song. Again, I know theater is not everybody’s thing, but it’s just a great musical. And I think that on tour now is a wonderful actress named Carolee Carmelo. She plays the role, but Victoria Clark originated it on Broadway. And the whole show, I think, is just sweet and funny and brilliant. And that song, Father Time… I’d play it for you, but I’ll just start weeping. I’ll be heaving. So I don’t want to play it. But you can look it up. From the musical Kimberly Akimbo. And it’s a real haunting, pretty melody. And the actress who sings it, she’s Ali Mousy, I think is her last name. I think she was Glinda on Broadway in Wicked, but she’s a great actress. Anyway, check that out if you’re ever… I want to warn you, it’s melancholy. But it’s a beautiful summary of… You know, what life is about. Hey, we’re not here for a long time. Let’s all just hang on to each other. And let’s not wish harm on anybody else. Washington State text message, MyPillow text line, none of us would ever condone violence against anybody on the left. So why is it acceptable for them to wish violence on any of us? Unacceptable, Schumer. And he needs to be held accountable. Here’s Pennsylvania. Hey, Mike, if I could, I would buy 10 Teslas right now. Elon Musk is a hero. I’m praying for him. And Trump is administration. Guys, do you have the clip where I saw on social media, if you saw a 30-second clip of anything of Elon Musk, see this one? You know the one I mean? I’m sorry, I don’t have the number. We have this very fancy system here where I’m pulling back the curtain because I’m in a mood today. I text Christian the clips. I send him a message. On a message, I send him what clip number to play so you don’t hear me say, all right, Christian, let’s play clip number 1,647. To me, it sounds a little clunky and Our little trick is that I typically text Christian in advance so he knows what clip to play. If I’m in a weird place like I am right now, I don’t take the time to go through that. I’ve got to find the clip and then I’ve got to get my stubby fingers to text it to him. But Christian’s usually always two steps ahead of me. So Christian, hit it. This was the clip I saw last night on social media that said, if you hear 30 seconds of the Bret Baier, Elon Musk, Doge team interview, hear this. For you, what’s the most astonishing thing you’ve found out in this process?
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The sheer amount of waste and fraud in the government. It is astonishing. It’s mind-blowing. We routinely encounter wastes of a billion dollars or more. Casually. You know, for example, the simple survey that was literally a 10-question survey that you could do with SurveyMonkey cost you about $10,000. The government was being charged almost a billion dollars for that. For just a survey? A billion dollars for a simple online survey, do you like the national park? And then there appeared to be no feedback loop for what would be done with that survey. So the survey would just go into nothing.
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So we, the taxpayers, paid a billion dollars for a survey that asked if you like national parks. And then they didn’t do anything with the results of the survey. This is what Doge and his team is uncovering. You okay with that? Hey, Democrats, you want your taxpayer money going to something like that? And instead, they’re raging against us. the people who don’t vote Democrat. You heard Chuck Schumer. Kevin’s in Houston. Kevin, welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show. Hello.
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Hi, Mike. Hi. Hey, about Chuck Schumer threatening Americans who don’t vote Democrat. This is the same Chuck Schumer who stood on the steps of the Supreme Court and terroristically threatened two sitting Supreme Court justices, one of them who got attacked and he never was held accountable. So I can guarantee you, he will not be held accountable for this or anything else he does.
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Well, let’s listen together to the moment that first made everybody just stunned. Here’s what he said on the steps of the Supreme Court. This is what you’re referring to.
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I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.
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You won’t know what hit you. And then all of a sudden, Amy Coney Barrett started voting with the liberals on the court. Hmm. I wonder if a mom, if a wife, a soccer mom with her minivan, wonder if she’s worried about what Schumer-inspired violence brought to her doorstep could entail. And this is not acceptable. If you disagree with anything I’m saying about Chuck Schumer’s comments, I hope you’ll call me because I’d love to put you to the top of the line. Our number is 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Spring is here, and my pillow is ready to meet the moment with the Spring Sheet Sale. Got to be careful with the way I say that. The Spring Sheet Sale. Say that three times fast. You know the Giza Dream Sheets that I’ve been telling you about? These and the percale sheets, holy cow, check out this offer. Just in time for spring, you can get your very own set of Queen Giza Dream bed sheets from MyPillow. You’ll save 50% or more. You can get the queen size. Queen-sized Giza Dream or percale bedsheets for as low as $29.98 with the promo code MikeG. That’s an extraordinary offer. And when you go to the website, check out the pillows, the slippers, the doggy beds, the loungewear. and more. MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. Click on that box, and then with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG, or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Sing along with me. For the best night’s sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Mike Gallagher. What an extraordinary hour, and I’m very happy to have been able to share this with you on this Friday, March the 28th. Let’s have one more segment, because we didn’t want you to miss anything, this extraordinary conversation between Brett Baer of Fox News, Elon Musk, and the Doge team.
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Is the battle between government of decades and decades of buildup and business, which you guys are, is that like a train hitting each other? I mean, it seems like it’s pretty disruptive.
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Well, this is a revolution. And I think it might be the biggest revolution in government since the original revolution. But at the end of the day, America is going to be in much better shape. America will be solvent. The critical programs that people depend upon will work. And it’s going to be a fantastic future. But are we going to get a lot of complaints along the way? Absolutely. One of the things I learned at PayPal was, you know who complains the loudest and with the most amount of fake righteous indignation? The fraudsters. It’s a tell. There’s some NGOs that are crazy, like the $2 billion to Stacey Abrams NGO that basically didn’t exist and suddenly gets $2 billion awarded from the federal government. She says, why? And there are many such cases like that.
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I think that most people, common sense-wise, would say the fraud’s got to end. They’re concerned about the 94-year-old mother who skips a check or somehow doesn’t get what she’s supposed to get.
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Right. And what we’re trying to say is actually that the 94-year-old grandmother is actually, as a result of Judge Doge’s work, going to get her check. She’s not going to be robbed by fraudsters like she’s getting robbed today. And the solvency of the federal government will ensure that she continues to receive those Social Security checks, that Medicare continues to work, without which we’re all doomed. The reason we’re doing this is because if we don’t do it, America is going to go insolvent. We’re going to go bankrupt. And nobody’s going to get anything.
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Why are you guys all doing it? I mean, you can pipe up, but you don’t have to be here, right? I mean, you don’t have to be doing this.
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I have four, blessed with four beautiful children, my wife and I. But we have a real fiscal crisis. And this is not sustainable. And what’s worse, back to my children and everyone else’s children, is we are burdening them with that debt. And it’s only going to grow.
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Steve, there’s not a lot of hierarchy here. You guys are kind of all approaching it in different ways. You know, silos, but with the same kind of goal. Right. I mean, this is really Silicon Valley private sector colliding with government.
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Yeah, exactly. And we’re headed in a bad path. But the chance of success exists. And just the one that just is in my head right now, which is a fairly mundane one, but I think is very illustrative, is credit cards. There are, in the federal government, around 4.6 million credit cards for around 2.3 to 2.4 million employees. This doesn’t make sense. And so one of the things all of the teams have worked on is we’ve worked with the agencies and said… Do you need all of these credit cards? Are they being used? Can you tell us physically where they are? I hope they’re getting frequent flyers. Actually, on a different note, the rewards program the federal government has is actually not very good. That’s a whole other… It’s a negotiation. Yeah, exactly. But so far, the teams have worked together, and they’ve reduced it from 4.6 million to 4.3 million. So… We’re taking it easy.
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But clearly there should not be more credit cards than there are people.
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Joe, middle-level employees, are they seeing a benefit to being empowered by taking out bureaucracy?
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Absolutely. I mean, I think what you’re seeing is taking the best of Silicon Valley in the business world and bringing it into the government. We’re bringing the best practices and the best methodologies. And people are inspired, especially on the retirement process, which I can speak to. They’ve been trying to modernize and get off of paper since early 2000s, very unsuccessfully. Every attempt has gone over budget and been canceled because it hasn’t been successful. And so, you know, I showed up and I feel like I’m here because it’s an interesting problem. We can use design to solve it and good engineering and really create a better experience for everybody.
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We’re talking about elementary financial controls that are necessary for any company to function. So, like, if the federal government… If a commercial company operated the way the federal government does, then it would immediately go bankrupt. It would be delisted. The officers would be arrested. The changes we’re putting in place will enable the federal government to pass an audit. It will enable taxpayers to know where the money is going and know that their hard-earned tax dollars are being spent well. The ways that the government has defrauded is that the computer systems don’t talk to each other. So if the computer systems don’t talk to each other, then you can… you can exploit that gap and exploit that gap to take advantage. For example, there were over $300 million of small business administration loans that has been given out to people under the age of 11.
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Well, actually, to add to this, $300 million under the age of 11 and over $300 million to over the age of 120.
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Definitely… Small business loans, correct? Yes. The oldest American is 114. So it’s safe to say if their age is 115 or above, they’re fake. Or they should be in the Guinness Book of World Records. And we should not be giving out loans to babies. So the… The youngest recipient of a small business administration loan is a nine-month-old, which is a very, very cautious baby we’re talking about here. So obviously it was just fraudulent. And they do terrible things. They actually will see that a kid’s been born. They will steal that kid’s social security number and then take out a loan and leave that kid with a bad credit rating. There was literally a baby. The terrible things are being done, is what we’re saying.
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We’re stopping these terrible things. And you can stop it? We are stopping it.
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The reason this is happening is because the two systems are not talking to each other. And so you don’t know at the Small Business Administration that you’re giving a loan to a nine-month-old, which happened in one case, because you’re not cross-referencing that with the Social Security Administration data that has birthdates. So that very, very simple fix… Yes. Eliminates tremendous fraud. And there are multiple systems across the government where the systems are not speaking with one another. And if you just solve that simple problem, you would solve a huge amount of fraud.
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Are you surprised? One of the key tricks that the fraudsters pull is that they will use the fact that someone is marked as live, just that social security number is marked as live in social security, and then get disability and unemployment insurance. for a dead person because the databases don’t talk to each other all they got was from social security is like is this person alive yes they’re not they’re not alive it’s falsely marked person’s falsely marked as alive social security uh but they didn’t but but that was a fraudster can now get unemployment and disability from a dead person This is happening all the time at scale.
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Are you surprised at some of the legal efforts and some of the judges that have weighed in? There’s about eight or ten now of these cases that are at least temporary holds. They’re being challenged by the DOJ. Are you surprised by that pushback?
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Well, the D.C. circuit is notorious for having a very far-left bias. And when you look at the people close to some of these judges, where are they working? Oh, they’re working at these NGOs. Oh, they’re the ones getting this money. Does that seem like a system that lacks corruption? It sounds like corruption to me.
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Last thing, do you guys all see this as a patriotic duty? Is that really what this is about?
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It’s essential. I do, 100%. I was running five businesses in Houston, and I left that. I left great people to do this. And my wonderful wife said, go for it. And here I am. But I feel like this is me giving back to the country.
SPEAKER 07 :
If we don’t do this, we’re sunk. Unless this exercise is successful, the ship of America will sink. That’s why we’re doing it.
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That’ll do it for a Friday, and what a week, huh? Have a great weekend. We’ll be back here again Monday. Hope you will be, too. Thanks to the team for another job well done. Have a great day. Be safe. Keep fighting the good fight. I’m Mike Gallagher. God bless America.
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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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Yesterday, heart guitarist Nancy Wilson says, it’s more embarrassing to be an American now than during the Vietnam War. Now, this was news to me that it was embarrassing to be an American during the Vietnam War. You could feel however you wanted to feel. Did even the hippies, maybe some did, Say they were. ashamed to be an american they just said we shouldn’t be over there you know fighting and dying a half a world away a point that seems to have some logic these days so i i don’t know and so my first thought was okay free speech absolutely and i will never be necessarily one of the shut up and sing people everybody can weigh in however they want i did however suggest that maybe people might want to rethink their thoughts about the 14th of june at texas trust cu theater in Grand Prairie, or maybe they will not see you in the form of Anne and Nancy Wilson. They might want to adjust their concert plans accordingly.
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Well, I mean, I’m with you. I think all voices should have a seat at the table, and they do, but I don’t want to pay for it. And that takes me to the wild testimony yesterday from the head of NPR and PBS. Wowza. Wowza, wowza, wowza. I mean, some of these folks, your guy there locally, the Brandon Gil. Brandon Gil, just here.
SPEAKER 14 :
I’ll play this in the next hour. It is two and a half hours of takedown. And it’s surgically precise. He doesn’t bludgeon her. He’s not mean to her. He asks her questions. You know, do you believe X, Y, Z? Oh, I don’t really think so. Well, then why did you tweet this in 2020? Brings the receipts. It was awesome.
SPEAKER 13 :
I mean, it was point by point where she first she refuted what he was saying. And he says, well, wait a minute. This is what you said when you tweeted this out. Well, I didn’t say that. Well, this is what you said when you tweeted this out. It’s unbelievable. And look, I know they do good work over there. But when you’ve got I think they said 87 members of their newsroom and not a single registered Republican.
SPEAKER 14 :
Not one show devoted to the conservative viewpoint. They got they got podcasts. They got documentaries. You know, they’re a huge empire. And, you know, yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I mean, look, Representative Fallin went through it all. I mean, they they they branded NPR, branded the Hunter Biden laptop story a waste of time. Let’s check this out. Fallin was asking the NPR CEO, how many how many times did you interview Adam Schiff about the Russia collusion hoax? Excellent. She said, I don’t know. Fallon had the receipts 25 times, 25. Then he said, how many times did NPR interview Chairman Comer about the Biden impeachment inquiry and the Biden family’s illegitimate business dealings? I don’t know, she said. Zero times. Zero times. Look, there’s no question. We don’t even have to play this game. We know NPR is a biased organization. We know PBS is a biased organization. I’m not against biased organizations. Some would call you and me biased. They better. well that’s proudly partisan we’re not doing our job if we’re not however we don’t expect the taxpayers to fund us we’re not we don’t have our handout and we don’t expect any portion of what we do funded by taxpayers so that’s the problem and last night president trump uh he he went off on on truth social and he said defund npr and pbs now he He clearly saw this testimony, and as I thought he would. I mean, I watched it. I thought, oh, my gosh. This isn’t going to go over well with the boss. He saw it, and he said he went through the roof. And he’s right. And I would love for your – you’ve got a lot of – look, Dallas has a great local PBS station, right? Isn’t it?
SPEAKER 14 :
KERA. And by the way, here’s the thing. They’re still going to be there locally.
SPEAKER 13 :
They’re not going anywhere.
SPEAKER 14 :
Let’s talk talk shows. Chris Boyd doing Think in the middle of the day. She is awesome. And Terry Gross, Fresh Air, one of the best interviews around this American life. One of the best podcasts and things that you can do. Before I found out Rick Steves was a communist. That’s an incredible travel show. But here’s the thing. People got money. Sheryl Crow’s got garage full of Teslas. She used to. They will absolutely be able to survive. I’ll send them $30 a year to keep the shows that I like.
SPEAKER 13 :
The system will work. Here’s what makes me crazy about these guys. There’s all this, and like I said, I would love to ask the pointy-headed intellectuals of Dallas-Fort Worth, why should taxpayers fund any portion at all of what they do? See, we’re lifelong broadcasters, so we know how this works. I’m a little unique in terms of what I focus on. I’m big on the business side of what I do. I look every morning at a spreadsheet. The first thing I do when I walk out the door, how’s my budget? What have I done in March? Am I hitting my numbers? Because I learned a long time ago from one of my earlier bosses and my mentors. Greg Anderson, frankly, who’s my dear, dear mentor and friend who’s retired and happy with his beautiful wife, Linda. Greg taught me, look, Mike, as a host, you hit your budget, ratings will come and go, but you hit your budget, you’ll be fine. And I learned that decades ago, and I’m almost obsessed about it. So I work hard. I started the Mike Gallagher Show nationally as an entrepreneur with my business partner, a great guy out of Pennsylvania, John Dame. We formed Dame Gallagher Networks, and we started this show before it got picked up by Salem. Anyway, I love the business side of things. I know how wrong it is for NPR or PBS to be funded by the taxpayer.
SPEAKER 14 :
taxpayers that’s all this is about mark that’s all this comes down to and i don’t think you could make a legitimate argument as to why taxpayers should fund one penny of npr but here’s a funny as as the artsy fartsy guy that you are and that i often am give me give you a little wrinkle because the reason and it’s very important that everybody knows that mike and i would be saying the exact same thing i hope we would i trust we would if npr were cranking out conservative stuff
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I’m saying that about us. I’m saying that about you and me, of course.
SPEAKER 14 :
There’s proof that you’re absolutely consistent on this and that NPR and PBS’s liberalism is the second most egregious thing. And it’s not even egregious at all. They got free speech, but it shouldn’t be taxpayer funded. Now, is there a sliver of room for public funding of like a symphony in a town? An opera company in a town No I’m going to say yes and here’s why If there is an argument for a sliver of a penny to something that a community simply would not have. If there’s a city where the marketplace just goes, we don’t like opera, then they won’t have an opera. And no 14-year-old girl or boy will see an opera in their town or a symphony in their town. A symphony.
SPEAKER 13 :
Bologna. Bologna. Bologna.
SPEAKER 14 :
Bologna. Bologna.
SPEAKER 13 :
Bologna. We’ve got too many problems in this country with crime, with infrastructure. We’ve got issues that are too pressing. Let me finish my point. We’ve got too many problems and too many people suffering where we’re devoting taxpayer money to an opera in a community that might not normally have an opera so a kid can go see an opera.
SPEAKER 01 :
Look, please, please, please let me, please let me.
SPEAKER 13 :
Please let me finish my point.
SPEAKER 01 :
Please.
SPEAKER 13 :
Then get a group of philanthropists and arts-loving people like you and me and put together fundraising and put together efforts that will raise the funds necessary to deliver an opera to a community that might be underserved. The taxpayer funding part is gone. And I’m a guy that loves the arts. I don’t want taxpayers. We’ve got too many pressing things we’ve got to pay for, Mark.
SPEAKER 14 :
I think what I want to do is let’s have 10 years of doge, you know, and get to where we’re not wasting as much. And maybe a sliver of a bank and put a symphony in an inner city so a kid can learn how to play the oboe.
SPEAKER 13 :
And by the way, in the same subject, look at what’s going on with this Snow White thing. My Lord. This thing is getting, to quote Senator John Kennedy, this is less popular than chlamydia. I mean, this movie is tanking. Well, the producer, one of the producers of the film is a guy named Mark Platt. Now, Mark Platt is a big time, and I know about him because he produced Wicked. Boy, wouldn’t you like to have that investment? I mean, he produced the Broadway show. He produced the movies. He’s a big-time Hollywood producer. He’s got a couple of acting kids. Ben Platt, who I’ve seen in Dear Evan Hansen. He’s a talented kid. His brother is a guy named Jonah Platt.
SPEAKER 14 :
I think that’s another son.
SPEAKER 13 :
It is. It’s one of the sons of Mark Platt. Yeah, yeah, I’m sorry. I get kind of confusing, but he’s one of the sons of this big-time producer. So it’s been reported that the producer had to fly to L.A. to scold Rachel Ziegler, who’s playing Snow White, and say, pipe down on all your Trump-hating politics. Knock it off. You’re going to hurt the movie. So somebody heard about that and wrote directly to Jonah Platt, the producer’s son, and said, your dad flew, excuse me, it was from L.A. to New York. Your dad flew to New York City to reprimand a young actress? Any words on this, Jonah? Because that’s creepy as hell and uncalled for. People have the right to free speech. No. No? Shame on your father. Now, by the way, part of her free speech is it’s been revealed she’s been posting F.U. Trump. Great. that she literally says F you until she reposts something from Trump says F you. Well, Jonah Platt responded. The son of the Snow White producer gave a response.
SPEAKER 14 :
Everybody stop what you’re doing right now as Mike shares Jonah Platt’s response to the notion that the producer dad should not go, quote unquote, scold a young actress. The floor is yours.
SPEAKER 13 :
And I quote, quote, you really want to do this? Yeah. My dad, the producer of enormous piece of Disney IP with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, had to leave his family to fly across the country to reprimand his 20 year old employee for for dragging her personal politics into the middle of promoting the movie for which she signed a multi-million dollar contract to get paid and do publicity for. This is called adult responsibility and accountability. And her actions clearly hurt the film’s box office. Free speech does not mean you’re allowed to say whatever you want in your private employment without repercussions. Tens of thousands of people worked on that film, and she hijacked the conversation for her own immature desires at the risk of all the colleagues and crew and blue-collar workers who depend on that movie to be successful. Narcissism, he concludes, is not something to be coddled or encouraged. Thank you, Jonah Flatwood. That’s how it’s done.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s how you do it. Whoa. Literally 60 seconds. This is a total fail. I’m going to try it. The Mike Gallagher lightning round. You ready? It almost has to be yes or no. Should Jasmine Crockett censured?
SPEAKER 13 :
Maybe. Maybe. I can’t do it. Keep going.
SPEAKER 14 :
I tell you what, honestly, because I know. I don’t know. I mean, she’s repulsive. Yes, because she deserves it. But in a weird way, it almost aggrandizes her. She’d wear it like a badge of honor. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 13 :
There’s a part of me that just wants her to keep doing it because it just ruins their brand.
SPEAKER 14 :
The censure will only energize her further, which is why I’m going to come down with a yes on the censure. I think you helped me with this with Al Green shaking his big old cane at Trump. Of course he deserved to be censured. Well, that was different. I mean, of course it’s different.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, he disrupted a proceeding. She’s just an obnoxious, nasty lady. I mean, making fun of a guy with a disability? Are you kidding? But do you get censured for that? No, but disrupting an official proceeding? Of course you should.
SPEAKER 14 :
So there you go. So there’s no light here. We can never do the light.
SPEAKER 13 :
Clarity! Clarity! Why are you dressed up today? Why are you all dressed up? I’m going upstairs and doing the Stacey Washington show. Ah, good. Stacey on the right, Salem News Channel.
SPEAKER 14 :
I can’t go slumming in here like I usually do.
SPEAKER 13 :
I know. You got the ward. You got the costume on. You got the outfit.
SPEAKER 14 :
I’m going to talk radio.
SPEAKER 13 :
You and me both. We’ll break a leg with Stacey. Love you.
SPEAKER 14 :
See you tomorrow. Mike Gallagher there for us at 10 when we’re done on 660 AM. The answer.
SPEAKER 08 :
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SPEAKER 03 :
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