The future is a recurring theme as Mark and Mike express their thoughts on the impact of driverless vehicles on jobs and society. They delve into the unpredictable real estate market, offering personal anecdotes that shed light on broader economic tendencies. To conclude, they shift to media coverage and the challenges of addressing complex legacies, like that of the Pope, with respect and nuance.
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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So Judy Garland, born 1922, she’s like 17. How old was Dorothy? What would you say when you’re watching Wizard of Oz, how old is Dorothy? Do you think 14? I would think so. Everybody always plays older sort of than they are. And so I think Shirley Temple at 11 or probably actually 10 when they’re filming that thing. Yeah. Would have still been too young, too cute, too dimply. It certainly worked out for her, you know, but it all worked. out for everybody. I think it worked out well.
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Things didn’t end too well for Judy Garland, tragically.
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She did not live to the ripe old age that Shirley Temple did, to be sure. Hey, can I start with something tiny and let’s build? Because I just want your take on this. I’m so sorry. It’s so weird. This is like the Tom Brady watch. where you had a $175,000 watch, right? Right. And it’s like, your money, God bless you, I’ll never say, you’ll never hear me say somebody has too much money. You’ll never hear me comment on what people do with their own money. But on that occasion, it’s like, dude, there’s some great $25,000 watches out there. I mean, is it just a bit? Here’s where I’m going. Heard about Kristi Noem getting robbed at the restaurant?
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Yeah, yeah. And she interviewed the guy, and then she talked to the guy that robbed her, right? What? What? Yeah, she sat down with the guy, because they arrested him, and then she put him on, I think, a TV set somewhere and interviewed him. Oh, my. Well, that’s more interesting than the point I was going to make.
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Haven’t you heard?
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But that was scarcely noticed. But I saw that on social media. What? And it said, Christine Noem talks to the guy who robbed her. And I thought, well, that’s a pretty, pardon my French, badass thing to do.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, it was caught on… For getting robbed. I haven’t…
SPEAKER 04 :
Maybe, maybe, am I hallucinating?
SPEAKER 03 :
No, I think you’re high for the second straight day. Could be. No, I was right yesterday. Actually, you kind of were. But no, my old thing, and again, what are you doing with $3,000 in your purse? That’s just, it’s just not smart. I mean, that’s all. What? What are you doing with $3,000 in your purse? Why not? I think she found out why not, didn’t she?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I guess. So we’re all supposed to not carry money now because we’re afraid we’re going to get robbed?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, this is from a guy who’s had the same $40 in his front wallet since November.
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I had a boss, a mentor, many, many years ago. There was a little book that I used to give to people for Christmas gifts called Life’s Little Instruction Book.
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Do you remember that book? I’ve heard of it.
SPEAKER 04 :
It was years ago, and it used to be really popular. It was called Life’s Little Instruction Book, and it had like tips – Like little weird things like when you rent a car, when you’re traveling, get a luxury car. Treat yourself. Absolutely. Because there were little things like that that you wouldn’t think of normally. And one of those little life’s lessons I learned from Greg Anderson, who was one of my first bosses and mentors. He was the best man at my wedding. I still stay in touch with him. He was one of my early advocates. And he gave me a lot of life lessons. And one of his lessons, you ready? Carry heavy. Carry heavy. Carry lots of cash in your pocket. Have money with you at all times. Now, admittedly, that was 30 years ago.
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And there’s a point in which there is wisdom. I think when traveling, especially maybe some remoter locations, good idea to have some cash on you because you never can be so sure of the credit card being accepted. So sure I can absolutely see the wisdom of that.
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By the way, do you have a stash at home, like in a safe? Oh, good Lord. Because I don’t, and I had a friend call me out on this a couple weeks ago.
SPEAKER 03 :
In this era where every other person is getting swatted or worse, no, I do not. No money in Mark’s home. No, absolutely not. Don’t look at the safe on the third floor behind the Monet picture. In my hovel, you will not find cash. You know what else you won’t find? Any credible evidence that Kristi Noem interviewed the person who stole her purse. What are you reading? I swear I saw that on X the other night. Okay, here’s the deal. Post it. Text me if you know what I’m talking about. I’m going to tell you what I just did. And doggone it, I know we’re going to be kneeling before our robot overlords within months. But I just did the quickest AI search possible. You use the grok? The grok thing on Twitter. You know what all it does is? It reads 5,000 websites and then writes you a little executive summary. Oh, it’s wonderful. In about a half a second. In two seconds, you get it. So here it is. So here you go. Posts on X from April 22nd, 2025. Mention Noam interviewing a homeless vagrant suspected of the theft. Right. These claims are unverified and appear to originate from unconfirmed social. Oh, OK.
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So it was it was a social media.
SPEAKER 03 :
So you didn’t totally make it up.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, you talked about our overlords. One of the things I want to I want to cover on the show today and got good things planned. Stephen Moore is going to finally come join us. I love the guy. Appreciate him, and he’s been making the rounds, and we’re going to talk to him about tariffs, about the economy, about the uncertainty. I’ve got a property on the market, and in Florida, and I don’t want to get too much into the details of me selling this condo. Right. But I am, and for good reason, incidentally. A lot of good things happening in my life, and I’m just kind of preparing for the next chapter. And of all times, to put a condo on the market in Florida, this is not the time.
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Values are not popping?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, there’s just no buyers.
SPEAKER 03 :
There’s more inventory than buyers. Is it momentary? Is it a big dip that was going on, or is it just tariff paralysis?
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s uncertainty paralysis, I think. The realtors theorize it’s just people are not sure what’s going to happen next. They don’t want to part with their money, unless there’s a cash buyer, and there might be that comes along. But, look, I’ve got the St. Joseph statue buried upside down in a potted plant by the fur farm.
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Because you don’t have a yard there on the 30th floor.
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So far, it’s not working, but I’m going to tap him on the head. Can the statue get you an offer over market value?
SPEAKER 03 :
I’ll take that market.
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I’ll take that list. That listing price, I’ll be happy. But here’s what I wanted to ask you about. I saw a story in Axios today in Texas, and you probably know this story already. Are you ready for driverless trucks on the highways?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes. Well, I’m not ready for driverless anything. I’m still terrified by the fact that you got into a driverless cab. Greatest thing I’ve ever done in my life. I know, and I would probably do it just for the thrill. That would scare me more than going into space on the Blue Origin cab.
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And everybody who does those Waymo cars, and they’re expanding, they’ll come to Dallas-Fort Worth eventually, but they’re in Phoenix, they’re in Vegas, they’re in Los Angeles of all places. No! I did one in L.A. You did a driverless thing in L.A.? In Los Angeles.
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To get from where to where? From the airport to the hotel and back. And that thing got you off airport property without death. Flawless.
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Flawless.
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I know. For everybody new to the show.
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Well, Maria, first off, thank you for having me here. It’s always nice to answer the listeners’ questions.
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My fear of this is about 50% a bit. I’m just having some fun here. But the other 50% is the sincere knowledge that I will either die or the car that I’m in will kill someone. So it’s half real, half showbiz.
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Because it opens up. I mean, it goes. It’ll keep up with the flow of traffic. It’ll go 50, 60. Yeah, but that’s a little scary. You’re right. That’s when you start thinking. You kind of see your life flash before your eyes. Because you’re going to drive. He’s going to drive off the bridge. But it’s the coolest. Well, now… They’re rolling out driverless semi-tractor trailers. Now, but think about what this is going to look like in 30, 40, 50 years. Mark, we are phasing out people. Truck drivers, the prince of the road. You think about the backbone of the economy and men and women that are driving trucks.
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They’re going to get phased out.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. And it’s like taxi yellow cabs in New York versus Uber. There are very few yellow cabs anymore. Uber has decimated the yellow cab industry.
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I’m sure it’s been a big bite. And you’ve been in New York. You’re there every third weekend. It’s been a few months for me. Streets were still full. Filled with cabs. Filled with cabs. Not as many. It’s not like it was, though. I’m sure it’s not. It’s not like it was. Which leads me to my thought about the trucks. We extrapolate out and go, well, there’ll be no more human drivers. I don’t know. I mean, it’s going to take a while. It’ll take a while. Will it be like elevator operators where there’s simply no more need for humans to do that? Someday. Someday.
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We probably won’t be here to see it, but someday I’ll bet our kids or our grandkids are going to live in that kind of a world.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know what the futurists say, especially the people who are neck deep in AI stuff and the Google… Deep Mind or whatever that thing is called. They featured that guy on last week’s 60 Minutes. Pretty fascinating. And they all have a certain optimism. Elon Musk has the most optimistic view of all, and that is that the marketplace that sort of used my elevator operator thing, that job went away. No more buggy whip manufacturing. But we came up with other stuff for people to do. And I know truck drivers, hello, how many millions of those are there? But will there just be other things that humans will need to do in creating this tech world that we’ll be involved with? And that is their wish. That is their hope. And it certainly is mine, too.
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Let’s hope they leave talk show hosts alone.
SPEAKER 03 :
I hope they don’t come up with AI talk show. No AI ever born can have the ridiculous sandbox fun. Caller number three, I disagree with you. I’m sorry. I do. Hello. How would yesterday have been if it were like, hey, I would have been, Mike, I think you are mistaken in your thought that the five punted on the Pope.
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Speaking of the Pope, do you see the picture of him in the casket?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, stop it. I know. Do they not have any pancake makeup at the Vatican? How do you not put makeup on the poor guy? Hey, let’s do open casket and, you know, okay. What the heck?
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I mean, he’s the pope. Maybe there’s a papal rule against makeup. You’ve got to kind of let it go. I don’t know. That’s the strangest thing. And, of course, the laws of speculation was that he fell because the whole left side of his face is purple. And it’s, you know, a little morbid. I mean, look, I get excited enough about when I went to the Vatican, there’s somewhere, I forget which, maybe it’s, I can’t think of what cathedral, where the pope from like 200 years ago is still on display under glass. What? Like the full linen? Really? Whoa. The body is still there and he’s been preserved. And I just, I’ve got this kind of morbid fascination with stuff like that. So there’s the picture of the, and a lot of people on social media are like, this is disrespectful. We don’t need to see his corpse.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t think that it is. I mean, listen, is it disrespectful if you go to a viewing and, you know, there’s Uncle Fred, you know, laying out there?
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I always think it’s awkward.
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Well, I know.
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I just think you stand there and, oh, she looks like she’s sleeping. No, she doesn’t.
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Doesn’t he?
SPEAKER 04 :
look like himself well who is he supposed to look like did you have one other you know you would i interrupted you well i want to do a follow-up about because we were fascinated by the issue of why the five didn’t cover the pope’s passing at all on on monday’s show and i got some some some you know input and everything but i i also did it as a topic yesterday and a lot of people i think this is probably true it’s kind of a no-win topic on many levels if you criticize him because of his progressivism, then you risk alienating or offending a whole lot of Catholics who are mourning, who are understandably, you know, saddened about the passing of the pontiff. But if you don’t acknowledge, as you called it, the complicated legacy of the pope, then you’re not doing your job either. It’s a tough issue.
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It is tricky. So there is nothing special about me. Maybe a couple of things. But there’s truly nothing special about me. I have somehow effortlessly, and I do mean close to effortlessly. straddled that perfectly oh yeah i throw glory and honor to his service and the things that people loved about him you bet and and the annoyance of some of the south american leftist politics boom i just did it wow shocker and the notion that these quaffed millionaires at the five apparently lived in cowering fear of being criticized for bagging on the pope uh it’s like dude you know just and i love them love them love that show that that’s part of what was so weird is i think judge janine the only actual you know practicing catholic So maybe some reverence from her, some snark from Gutfeld and who knows what from Jesse would have been kind of interesting. And I think they somehow would have survived the day.
SPEAKER 04 :
There ought to be a book about the behind the scenes action at a show like The Five. Only after they’re all gone. Well, yeah, they’re not going to do it now. But you think about it, because remember you mentioned Juan Williams yesterday. And as I read about it, Greg Gutfeld was like, either he goes or I go. So Juan was out the door. Now you’ve got Jessica Tarloff. I was talking to Peg Hudson yesterday in South Carolina. I’m in the upstate for the next few days in the studios here, 98.9 WORD. And Peg said the same thing, unprompted. She said, I see Jessica, and I’m like, ugh, do I want to sit through the hour?
SPEAKER 03 :
suffering through jessica tarloff i don’t because because she has something she she doesn’t have harold ford jr who’s both likable and fairly reasonable a lot of the times the way democrats used to be jessica is wrong on virtually everything but she’s just a darling she’s just she has she has a likability i i can’t not like the woman and they clearly love her They do love her, but I wish I shared that. There’s goodwill and humor. But there’s a goodwill and humor in their interaction.
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I don’t know.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, you know.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s the strangest thing because I keep wanting to like her. Look, it’s how people feel about me.
SPEAKER 03 :
They want to like Gallagher, but they never can. There you go. They just never do.
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I love you every day. I love you, too. Happy Wednesday. Tuesday. Wednesday. If it’s Tuesday, if it’s Wednesday, it must be Greenville. Oh, boy. There you go. There’s a movie coming up by that time. Do you hear about Monday? We’re going to be at MyPillow’s headquarters. Did I tell you about that? that yet no all right coming up this coming monday tomorrow yeah but wait till you hear why we’re going to minnesota minnesota right shaska we’re going to be in the warehouse right in the world headquarters we are celebrating my pillow day on the mike gallagher show more to come on that is so cool happy wednesday happy well it is now look at that just more reasons to look forward to mike’s travels and michael join you and he’s from south carolina today and that will be today soon as we’re done at 10 on 6 60 a.m the answer
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