From Elon Musk’s space endeavors to the NPR’s encounter with Congress, this episode is packed with crucial discussions. We analyze the impact of billionaires in politics, the prevalence of wokeness in cultural phenomena like the Snow White remake, and the role of social media in shaping public opinion. Tune in for a multifaceted exploration of the week’s most significant stories and their implications on our societal fabric.
Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. It’s Friday, March 28th. This week, the Trump administration admits a mistake. Rosie O’Donnell denies an election again. And all seven dwarves cannot save Snow White. Let’s begin with an important question. Is it time to get both sides of a divided America talking to one another again? I’m seeing some things being posted on social media that say things like, are we really angry at a pro-energy company? Are we really that mad? Is this anger real or not? And I don’t know the answer to that. I really wish I knew the answer. I wish I could get my brain around it. A lot of rage. A lot of people screaming. A lot of anger. Here’s a leftist post that was on X that caught my eye. She said, all right, I know this is dramatic, but I’m really upset about all the Teslas being torched and vandalized nationwide. This is the worst look for the left. Violent, angry, destructive. And all of this directed at a clean energy company. She wrote, I’m so disappointed. You know, the truth is the Democrats have kind of, they have an identity crisis right now. What are the Democrats? Are they sort of the angry pack of violent, destructive vandals who are laughing and joking about hurting Elon Musk and his company? Are they progressives who believe in open borders? are truly concerned about government efficiency? I don’t know. I know that Bill Maher is sort of a truth teller. Look, I think he’s an atheist or he’s certainly agnostic. My problem with Bill Maher is how He doesn’t understand or respect people’s faith. He’s anti-religion. In fact, I think he made a documentary once called, was it Religiosity, I think? Pretty sure that was the name of it. But look, he is a traditional, I think the way to describe him is a kind of traditional, old school, maybe even blue dog Democrat. He got invited to the White House and he said he’s going. And the left is losing its mind. They can’t believe Bill Maher has accepted an invitation to sit down with Donald Trump in the White House. But here’s what he said on his show this past weekend about the Democrats melting down and the identity crisis that the Democrats face themselves with right now.
SPEAKER 09 :
I just saw this really bad news for Democrats. 2030 reapportionment. There’s a group called the American Redistricting Project. And in five years, we will be redistricting. California is projected to lose three seats. New York, two. Also going to lose a seat. Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Illinois, all blue states. Who’s getting these? Texas, Florida, Idaho and Utah. I mean, this looks like game over, you know, and the reason why people are voting with their feet is. A lot of what your book is about, taxes and regulation. I certainly have been screaming about it forever. I did three years with a sign here that said, how long is it going to take me to get my solar hooked up? Three years talking about it on television in this state. You couldn’t do it. This state has almost 400,000 regulations. I just put in a new roof because the fire, I thought, oh, let’s get a roof that’s not going to burn up. Two inspections. Why are you inspecting my roof? It’s my roof. If it falls on me, that’s my problem. And we’re taxed more than any other state. People are leaving these kind of states for places where they’re not, they feel the heavy breath of government on them. It’s just, it’s not that hard for Democrats to understand this, but they seem to be incapable of doing anything about it.
SPEAKER 07 :
The big story from early this week centered on a Defense Department group text that inadvertently included the editor from The Atlantic magazine. The White House has acknowledged that it apparently happened the way it has been reported. But remember something. And Axios yesterday, I told you about their reporting on how the Democrats are in a deep, deep hole. They see the party right now, the top Democrat leaders see the party in a deep abyss. They’re in trouble. I mean, they range from this whack job, Jasmine Crockett, confirming that she doesn’t want to advance any legislation. She just wants to take down Trump. That’s her goal. And apparently they like that. To Chuck Schumer, who’s between a rock and a hard place, trying to be somewhat credible in voting for the continuing resolution and then facing the wrath of the Jasmine Crockett’s and the AOC’s of the world. They’re in a mess. They have dismal polling. They’re searching for a message. So naturally, they’re going to embrace this signal chat controversy with relish. They want a distraction. And unfortunately, for a day or two, they’ll have it. And then it’s going to blow over. Nothing negative happened. The mission in Yemen was completely unaffected. And Jeffrey Goldberg now from the Atlantic gets to spike the football and say, look at the gang that can’t shoot straight. Look at this bunch of, look at these bunch of hacks and bunch of pikers and bunch of amateurs. It’s amateur hour. Okay. All right. You got to own it. You got to own the mistake. And move on. Remember what Elon Musk said in the White House? And this to me is one of the most important messages that has emerged. And this is to me why Musk is so valuable in the Trump administration. We all know President Trump’s personality. He’s never going to acknowledge any mistakes. But the guy that he has tapped to get rid of the fraud, waste, and corruption in the federal government does say it’s important to acknowledge mistakes because he said so standing just a few feet from his boss.
SPEAKER 01 :
And I should say also we will make mistakes. We won’t be perfect, but when we make a mistake, we’ll fix it very quickly.
SPEAKER 07 :
And he also said it in the Oval Office. He’s repeated that on a number of occasions. We’re going to make mistakes. When we do, we’ve got to fix the mistake, the mistakes, and we’ve got to move on. That’s perfect. Don’t you welcome that? Don’t you think that’s a good response? When you move fast, you’re going to break some things. And the Trump administration is moving real, real fast. Celebrity and former talk show host Rosie O’Donnell left the United States over President Trump’s victory. She popped up, though, on a talk show in Ireland to deny the outcome of the 2024 election. Now, let me give you an example of another show business personality who evidently fled the United States after Trump got elected and now lives in Ireland. Here’s Rosie O’Donnell. Apparently, she can’t even help herself. Instead of just living out her retirement in Ireland or maybe becoming, you know… a talk show host in Ireland, she’s decided she’s going to make the rounds and do interviews with political talk shows in Ireland. And maybe she thinks these interviews won’t get back to the United States, but they have. And here’s what she said. You know, a lot of people did vote for him.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes. Do you accept their right to do that and their opinion of him?
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, I respect their right to do that. I question why the first time in American history a president has won every swing state. and is also best friends and his largest donor was a man who owns and runs the Internet. So I would hope that that would be investigated and that we would see whether or not it was an anomaly or something else that happened on election night in America when Kamala Harris was filling up stadiums with people who supported her. And Donald Trump was not able to do that. So it’s curious to me. And as an American and a believer in democracy, I would hope that we would be able to look at all of the reasons why this happened.
SPEAKER 07 :
OK, there you go. So Rosie’s an election denier of 2024. Hillary was an election denier of 2016. Democrats lined up en masse disputing the outcome of Trump’s 2016 victory, saying the Russians did it. I saw some clip over the weekend, some prominent Democrat saying that Russia clearly played a role in Trump’s election. So they do it, but of course when we do it, destroy people’s lives. De-platform them, get them fired, maybe put them in jail. But they do it all day long. You know, there’s an inclination to ignore what people like Rosie O’Donnell have to say. But I don’t want to ignore what they have to say because she represents views of a lot of people. There are plenty of people that love Rosie. People on the left who appreciate her. They love her, you know, her sharp elbows and her provocative comments. And there you go. There is… Somebody from Hollywood, front and center, claiming that the 2024 election was rigged. Is anybody going to call her out for being an election denier from the left? Highly unlikely. The head of NPR appeared before Congress this week. It did not go well. The CEOs of NPR and PBS… were called to Capitol Hill to try to explain their liberal bias. In case you haven’t noticed, there is a 100% confirmable liberal bias from the journalists who work at NPR. Shouldn’t shock you. It’s no different from the Washington Post or MSNBC, New York Times. We get it. We get it. Mainstream media is dominated by progressives and liberals. Talk radio is dominated by conservatives. You know, we all have our spaces. We all have our little territories. Some territories bigger than others. What shouldn’t happen is that taxpayers should fund any of it. You shouldn’t fund me, and you shouldn’t fund NPR. And when it comes to NPR, the CEO is a woman named Catherine Maher. Catherine Maher had a very, very bad day yesterday. No matter how bad your day is going, be grateful you’re not Catherine Maher. Because this is what she encountered when she was questioned by Congressman Brandon Gill from Texas.
SPEAKER 04 :
Ms. Maher, I want to start with you. Just generally, would you say you generally agree or disagree with the following statement? The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. I would not say I agree with that. You’re not. That’s good to hear. It’s interesting because a lot of your thinking, as expressed by your public statements, is deeply infused with economic and cultural Marxism. Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?
SPEAKER 10 :
I believe that I tweeted that, and as I’ve said earlier, I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the last half decade.
SPEAKER 04 :
It has evolved. Why did you tweet that?
SPEAKER 10 :
I don’t recall the exact context, sir, so I wouldn’t be able to say.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy?
SPEAKER 10 :
I don’t believe that, sir.
SPEAKER 04 :
You tweeted that in reference to a book you were reading at the time, apparently, The Case for Reparations. I don’t think I’ve ever read that book, sir. You tweeted about it. You said you took a day off to fully read the case for reparations. You put that on Twitter in January of 2020.
SPEAKER 10 :
I apologize. I don’t recall that I did. Okay. I have no doubt that your tweet there is correct, but I don’t recall that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. Do you believe that white people inherently feel superior to other races? I do not. You don’t? You tweeted something to that effect. You said, I grew up feeling superior. Ha, how white of me. Why did you tweet that?
SPEAKER 10 :
I think I was probably reflecting on what it was to be to grow up in an environment where I had lots of advantages.
SPEAKER 04 :
It sounds like you’re saying that white people feel superior.
SPEAKER 10 :
I don’t believe that anybody feels that way, sir. I was just reflecting on my own experience. Do you think that white people should pay reparations?
SPEAKER 04 :
I have never said that, sir. Yes, you did. You said it in January of 2020. You tweeted, yes, the North, yes, all of us, yes, America, yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt, yes, reparations, yes, on this day.
SPEAKER 10 :
I don’t believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir.
SPEAKER 04 :
What kind of reparations was it a reference to?
SPEAKER 10 :
I think it was just a reference to the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted. Okay. How much reparations have you personally paid?
SPEAKER 10 :
Sir, I don’t believe that I’ve ever paid reparations.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. It’s just for everybody else.
SPEAKER 10 :
I’m not asking anyone.
SPEAKER 04 :
Seems to be what you’re suggesting.
SPEAKER 10 :
Do you believe that looting is morally wrong? I believe that looting is illegal and I refer to it as counterproductive. I think it should be prosecuted.
SPEAKER 04 :
Do you believe it’s morally wrong though? Of course. Of course. Then why did you refer to it as counterproductive? It’s a very different, very different way to describe it.
SPEAKER 10 :
It is both morally wrong and counterproductive as well as being illegal.
SPEAKER 04 :
You tweeted, it’s hard to be mad about protests in reference to the BLM protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression. You didn’t condemn the looting. You said that it was counterproductive. NPR also promoted a book called In Defense of Looting. Do you think that that’s an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars?
SPEAKER 10 :
I’m unfamiliar with that book, sir, and I don’t believe that was at my time at NPR.
SPEAKER 04 :
You tweeted that you read that book.
SPEAKER 10 :
I don’t believe that I did read that book, sir.
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, it was brutal. That went on. He just had all the receipts. He went down the list of all the things she has said. When you go on social media and you write in your own words how you feel, well, guess what? That comes back to you. And are you ready for this? This is going to blow your mind. Tracy looked up the board members for the Signal Foundation. I think it’s the same signal. Pretty sure it’s the same signal. You know who’s one of the board members of Signal? This app that has caused all the hullabaloo? That same woman, Catherine Mayer. 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 sheets. 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. This is the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. Democrats do not know what to do about their plummeting popularity. Their latest strategy? Complain about the oligarchy. But I hate it when they don’t listen to any of the substance of what Trump is doing. And what this administration is doing. And what Elon Musk is doing. I mention Charlie Kirk a lot. I want to play this clip from Charlie Kirk. This is, again, I don’t know why, I’ve just seen a lot of his videos lately. Check out his explanation about what Elon Musk is doing with Doge.
SPEAKER 05 :
I’m curious who you think Elon Musk has in his best interest. You. Really? You want to live in a country that has a balanced budget and the U.S. dollar reigns supreme? So let’s look at the incentive structure. Why would the world’s wealthiest man go do this? I think it’s because he is trying to get money for SpaceX, and he has proposed internally bills to get money for his corporation. So, so far, his net worth has gone down like $100 billion. So if his goal is to get wealthy, he’s not doing great. Number two, let’s talk about SpaceX. Right now, weather permitting and reactor permitting, those astronauts would otherwise die if it wasn’t for SpaceX. NASA does not have the ability to rescue our astronauts. So Elon is literally offering a service, pretty miraculous one, might I add, that our own government literally cannot even do. And God bless him for that. But he’s asking our government for more money for SpaceX. Well, he’s asking for contracts to go do necessary things for the space fight. But understand, the SpaceX example, NASA literally has stranded these poor astronauts right now in orbit. And if it wasn’t for Elon, they might remain there forever and die.
SPEAKER 07 :
How about that? Why is that such a terrible thing? Bernie Sanders is on the crusade about the oligarchs. That’s his big thing. The oligarchy! The oligarchy! We’ve got to stop the oligarchy! He got all upset because Jonathan Karl asked him about AOC. But somebody posted something on social media that made a lot of sense. Have you ever seen the list of billionaires who donate exclusively to Democrats? I mean, this is true good faith honesty here. Does Bernie Sanders have a solution to this? Or is it all just smoke and mirrors? You want to know the list of billionaires exclusively supporting Democrats? Reid Hoffman, Michael Bloomberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook, Tom Steyer, hedge fund billionaire Bill Gates, J.B. Pritzker, the Hyatt heir, Laureen Powell Jobs, the Apple heir. Mark Cuban, Donald Sussman, a hedge fund billionaire, Stephen Mandel, a hedge fund billionaire. I mean, the list is as long as your arm. Oprah, George Lucas, the movie guy, David Geffen, Warren Buffett. I mean, these are all billionaires, according to this list. who donate exclusively to Democrats. Hey, Bernie, do you have an oligarch problem on your side? Why are you so fixated on Elon? He’s one of many billionaires. And according to this list, the vast majority of billionaires on this list are donating to Democrats. Huh. Contradiction much? How much time do you spend on social media? How much is too much? We tried to tackle that topic this week. This is the perils of social media and the Internet. You know, one of my kids says, Dad, get off the Internet. Get off of it. And I understand the inclination to kind of cleanse your palate, get away from it all for a while. Incidentally, just FYI, in case you’ve seen an essay that was written about Barack Obama many years ago. questioning whether or not he’s a secret Muslim and all this nefarious stuff. It was attributed falsely to me. I didn’t write it. Somebody posted it on one of my social media accounts years ago. Then somebody else reposted it and claimed I wrote it. And I didn’t have anything to do with it. And I never even really looked at the merit of it. I mean, it’s all stuff about… stuff about whether Obama did stuff with the Muslim call to prayer and whether he’s a secret Muslim and whether he… You know, I don’t even know. I don’t take credit or criticize something that I’ve got nothing to do with. I just hate it that the Internet is forever and doesn’t go away. And there’s something about an essay about Barack Obama that has been falsely… attributed to me. So, Gloria, my answer to you directly is I have no idea whether it’s official or unofficial. I have no idea if there’s any merit to any of the claims. There’s a whole bunch of claims in that email. I kind of doubt it, but what I do know is I didn’t write it. I didn’t have anything to do with it. It was really funny. Last week, some guy with the big following posts And it got, you know, circulated again. And then people were bashing Mike Gallagher thinking it was the congressman. Well, this guy’s a rhino creep from Wisconsin anyway. He can’t believe anything he says. So then I had to kind of wade into that dialogue and say, wait a minute. I’m not the former congressman. And, you know, A, I’m not the ex-congressman. And B, I didn’t write the stupid thing. Oh, man, oh, man. Eric Hansen, why don’t you come over here for a minute? Let me get both you and… I know we’re training Alex today, so it might be a little awkward, but can you get a camera over there, swing one over to either you or Christian or somebody? Because I want to ask how you guys navigate social media. I want to know how you… Because knowing Eric, as I do for 25-plus years… you probably have a pretty good life-work. You’ve always had a pretty healthy life-work balance. Unlike me, where I’m sort of consumed by my work and by my job, and I’m looking at the Internet all the time, I find myself spending hours doing what one of my kids calls doom-scrolling.
SPEAKER 06 :
I do not doom-scroll.
SPEAKER 07 :
But are you on there a lot?
SPEAKER 06 :
I don’t spend a ton of time on Facebook or Twitter. I’m sorry, X. X. Shows what I know.
SPEAKER 07 :
Don’t insult Mr. Musk.
SPEAKER 06 :
I know. Mr. Musk is doing a fine job. No, I don’t spend a ton of time on social media because it doesn’t seem to do me much good. I enjoy it a little bit if I have some time. I spend a lot of time on public transportation. And so if I have a minute, I might scroll through Twitter. I might look at something political. I might not. I might look at something else. I’m a sucker for YouTube, but I watch some of the nerdiest stuff on YouTube that you could possibly imagine. But that’s me.
SPEAKER 07 :
But that’s the thing. I mean, there’s a lot of really great stuff that I find, like the Charlie Kirk videos that are going viral. If I’m not on social media, I wouldn’t see it. But then you get into the hole, you go down the rabbit hole of all the ugliness and the viciousness and the vitriol and the acrimony, and you say… maybe I shouldn’t be doing this.
SPEAKER 06 :
I will tell you, I have three girls, as you know, and they’re of a different generation. I mean, they’re all like in their… Well, as of this year, by the end of this year, they’ll all be in their 20s.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 06 :
I know, which is… That’s another story for another time, but…
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, one story for another time is when I hired you, you only had two daughters. The third one wasn’t even born yet.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, I had one.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, you had one daughter when I hired you. Now you have three. You had one infant daughter. Now you have three grown 20-something-year-old daughters in the time you’ve been working with the Mike Gallagher.
SPEAKER 06 :
That is very true. Yep. Pretty astounding. They’re all grown up. But I’ll tell you, a lot of them don’t use social media. Really? A number of them. I know they all gave up the… Some of them have Instagram. I know my youngest daughter does not have Instagram. None of them have Facebook. They say Facebook is the thing that you use if you want to contact your parents because nobody uses it. Nobody uses Facebook anymore, really, unless you’re over a certain age. And they gave up the Snapchat. Snapchat was big when they were in high school. They all gave up Snapchat. And they used Twitter. Some of them used Twitter. I’m sorry, X for news, which is good and bad, I guess. But they’re very conscious, much more conscious, I think, than we are about the potential downside.
SPEAKER 07 :
How toxic it can get.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, and it gets toxic beyond politics, just personally for kids.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, just ugly stuff and angry. All right, thanks, Eric. I appreciate it. The new live-action version of Disney’s Snow White debuted in theaters over the weekend. Well, the audience reaction was most definitely grumpy. We’re kind of in a golden era. Whether we don’t like the wokeness, well, let’s look at what the wokeness did to Snow White. That movie had a $250 million budget. It opened with $43 million in domestic ticket sales, light years below, miles below what they wanted for it. And you got this star, Rachel Zegler. who’s going around, and she’s obviously a Trump hater, and she’s making all these obnoxious comments. I saw one clip. If I’ve got to stand around in an iconic Disney princess costume for hours on end, I’m going to get paid for every hour that that costume is being streamed online. I thought, oh, that’s lovely. That’s nice. Like, you didn’t make enough money to do the movie?
SPEAKER 08 :
And by the way, in the movies, they do refer to Snow White to the name actually having come from the creamy complexion of her skin.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. That’s where it was originally. Not anymore. No, it is now. Oh, no. She was born during a snowstorm. Of course, you can’t say skin is white as snow. No, no, no, no. And you can’t let the prince rescue her. Oh, no, no, no. That’s new.
SPEAKER 08 :
Not with that non-consensual kiss.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, no. And finally, you know what started all this, right? Dwarves. Dwarves.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s right. Peter Dinklage, who’s an actual little person. Okay. Ricky Gervais, who, again, I disagree with. Stone-cold atheist and also one of the funniest people in the world. said that there’s irony in Peter Dinklage complaining about little people being used in a film. Isn’t he kind of undercutting the actual work environment for people who have the exact same sort of challenge that he faces? He says, I got to tell you, I watched Peter Dinklage. He was not happy. In fact, I think he was grumpy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, ouch. Well, but here’s what I do know about Peter Dinklage’s outrage and what he said was it’s dehumanizing to cast little people as dwarves. That’s so silly. That’s so wrong. Well, here’s what I know. You know what it costs to have animated dwarves in the Snow White movie? You know what those animated figures got? Nothing. You know what seven little people actors would have gotten? A big fat paycheck. Of course. So he put seven people out of work. This is unbelievable to me. This is what wokeness does. It invades. It infects the brain.
SPEAKER 08 :
It makes smart people stupid.
SPEAKER 07 :
And nice people mean. Look, that’s the Mark Davis rule about Trump hatred. I think it could be applied to wokeism. It’s true. Wokeism takes smart people, makes them dumb, and nice people, and makes them mean. And makes funny people unfunny. And finally, if you’ve never visited a Bucky’s, it’s about time you got to know this American institution. I like Bucky’s. And I can’t get enough of Bucky’s. And so, again, this huge rest. If you don’t know what it is, it’s this gigantic rest. It’s usually on highways, on the side of highways. It’s this gigantic… I mean, there are gas pumps for as far as the eye can see. There are… It’s got miles of space inside. You walk in, and it’s fun, and it’s friendly. The guys are grilling up brisket, and in fact, they do these chants when they’re making the brisket in a Buc-ee’s. They’re doing all these chanting and everything. It’s the nuttiest thing you’ve ever seen. And I love it. I once spent, I think, an hour and a half in a Buc-ee’s just walking the aisles, buying swag. Oh, yeah, they have swag. The Buc-ee’s mascot, which is like a buck-toothed beaver, right, or something. Anyway, along comes this lady. I don’t know who she is. She’s a beautiful woman, and she does this post on social media in her car describing Buc-ee’s. And I had to share it with you. Buc-ee’s.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s less a gas station and more a theme park for people who think beef jerky is a food group. You don’t stop at Buc-ee’s. You disembark. The parking lot is larger than most airports with rows of pumps all full, like it’s Black Friday for unleaded. It’s where you’ll find lifted trucks, RVs the size of starter homes, and at least one guy filling up a five-gallon gas can who absolutely should not be operating machinery. Upon stepping inside, it appears as though Walmart had a baby with Bass Pro Shop and then raised it in a Texas roadhouse. And Buc-ee’s doesn’t sell snacks. They sell impulse control issues. You walk in for water and leave with a brisket sandwich, two pounds of fudge and a bag of beaver nuggets, which are basically diabetes and nugget form. I don’t know what’s in beaver nuggets, but I’m positive it’s illegal in seven states. They taste like caramel, childhood, and a root canal waiting to happen. They’re what you eat when you’ve completely given up on life but still want to enjoy it. And then there’s the bathrooms. These aren’t just bathrooms. They’re cleaner than most hospitals and twice as private. You walk in expecting gas station horror, a broken lock and a crackhead washing their socks in the sink, and instead you’re in a day spa for your own sake. The stalls have floor-to-ceiling doors. You could file your taxes in there. You could take a Zoom meeting. Hell, you could die in one of those stalls and the janitor would bless your body before they mopped around it. It’s the first bathroom in history where you can shit yourself and still feel respected. And just when you think you’re done, you walk out and realize Buc-ee’s has merch. Not just a t-shirt or a hat. Buc-ee’s has turned their beaver logo into a family crest. They sell pajamas, blankets, pet beds, and onesies for babies. Because nothing says we make bold choices in this family like dressing your infant as a gas station mascot. It’s not a pit stop. It’s rehab for people addicted to barbecue. You don’t just leave Buc-ee’s. You emerge slightly fatter, noticeably happier, and absolutely ready to do it all again.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s just one line after another, and I can relate to all of it. That wraps up the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast for a Friday, March 28, 2025. Be sure to subscribe to all our podcasts and follow us on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you like the show, be sure to share it with a friend. We’ll see you back here next week on the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast.
Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review for 03.28.25
From Elon Musk’s space endeavors to the NPR’s encounter with Congress, this episode is packed with crucial discussions. We analyze the impact of billionaires in politics, the prevalence of wokeness in cultural phenomena like the Snow White remake, and the role of social media in shaping public opinion. Tune in for a multifaceted exploration of the week’s most significant stories and their implications on our societal fabric.
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