Join hosts Mike Gallagher and Mark Davis as they delve into the chaotic aftermath of the recent Central Texas floods. They explore the political narratives emerging around Trump’s policies, discuss decisions about evacuations, and highlight the inevitable blame game that follows such disasters. With insights into how authorities respond to repeated weather warnings, they challenge listeners to consider the complexities of risk management and crisis response. In addition, the episode touches upon the pressing issue of identity theft, illustrated by a personal story of a compromised gift card. Throughout the conversation, Mike and Mark provide practical advice on avoiding
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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There will be an immediate declaration, a narrative emerging that Trump’s cuts with Doge and trying to improve efficiency and cut government fraud, waste, and abuse led to this. And the usual suspects lined up, Rosie O’Donnell, all the rest of them. By the way, poor Rosie. She left the country to get away from it all, and she can’t get away from it because she’s got her nose buried in social media and cutting videos denouncing Trump and Republicans and the country. Why don’t you go live your life, lady? You’re in another country now. But anyway, there was Rosie and everybody lining up. Millions will die. Millions will die. Here we go again. And the narrative out of Kerrville is just not true. They were overstaffed. There were notifications. The National Weather Service gave plenty of notice. But do you know how many times they get flood watches and warnings in Central Texas? Happens all the time. Happens all the time. And this was, unfortunately, a worst-case scenario.
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That’s what took me to the 2020 hindsight that I was talking about just before you and I spoke, is if there were a time machine possible to go back. I mean, during the… Leading into the evening hours, it was overnight, of course, July 3rd and 4th, where all this happened is in the wee hours of July 4th. Do you evacuate a camp with 800 kids in it? Because, hey, here comes another strong storm. And the short answer is no. Probably not. They didn’t know. Or if they had, people said, well, it would have seemed like an overreaction.
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But the finger pointing is inevitable and I get that and there’s going to be a lot of blame game stuff going on. Right now we need to try to help this community get through this devastation, this trauma, this terrible grief, and it’s just heartbreaking. So stay tuned. We’re going to reach out to Prison Fellowship later this morning, this afternoon, try to figure out what we can do maybe to help this community try to heal and recover.
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And look out for the scammers, because especially on places like Wild West environments like Facebook, They’ll be like, hey, if you want to help Central Texas, go find me. No, no, no. Every major newspaper, major TV stations, major radio stations have a number of valid places where you can go. In fact, some prison legislators, Jared Patterson and a couple of other folks, have set up specific, very valid places to send your charitable dollars.
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Prison fellowship is not a scammer. Prison fellowship is very legitimate. Prison fellowship is extremely credible, and that’s why I’m hoping that maybe we can, Put something together. Incidentally, a quick note about identity theft. And be aware of this kind of stuff. We got a wonderful guy here, just a sidebar here in Tampa Bay, Robert Haley, who’s our chief engineer here. And he did a big effort to build out a TV studio for us. We have new monitors and lighting and all kinds of cool stuff in our studio. And the company wanted to reward him. And they had me go out to a grocery store and get some gift cards to give him as a show of thanks. How nice. One of the cards was $500. He activates it. You know how gift cards are like sealed in a piece of cardboard? Right. He opens it up, peels it open, activates it, says $500. He and his wife go from their house to the vet to do some vet services and pay with the card. The card’s been completely wiped clean. There’s a bunch of Chinese… transactions. These are like from China for PayPal.
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And this is like a gift card and not like a Chili’s gift card or a Home Depot gift card. It’s a Visa gift card. A credit card looking type gift card.
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Sealed in an envelope, sealed in cardboard. And from the time he activated it to the time he went to the vet, which was a half hour, they had hacked into that card and wiped it out. And now we got a nightmare because, you know, try to deal with the Visa gift card company. It’s like a third party. partying. So just be aware, always have your eyes wide open, head on a swivel when it comes to identity theft. All right, let’s dive in. Let’s take two minutes to talk about Elon. Let’s do it. because we got and you and i are coming off of what a weekend i hope you i know you guys had a wonderful vacation i went back to charleston and just loved charleston and what a great american city and it’s hot as blazes but it was fun we had a great just had a nice relaxing relaxing and i got to watch a lot of tv i watched the big beautiful bill i was you know biting my nails down to the wire. What a long story that is. We get into the Thomas Massey’s of the world and it’s pushing back. But the big beautiful bill is now reality. It has evidently set Elon off into the stratosphere like one of his rockets. He has gone ballistic. And did you see Trump’s post about how sad he is that Elon has gone off the rails.
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He didn’t come out and flame at him or make up a nickname for him or savage him or dash him against the rocks. He’s just like, it’s kind of like a wayward child. Like, this is just sad that this has happened.
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He’s just disappointed. And I don’t know what’s going on with this guy. MAGA has embraced Elon. We celebrated him joining the Trump train. We defended him when the left tried to cancel him. And in a sense, you know where I’m going with this. When he goes after Trump, and he is brutally going after Trump. There’s no way around this. He’s coming after us. He’s coming after MAGA.
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But the child metaphor still works. Because he’s brilliant, but he’s a big, giant baby. And this is no more significant than when your 8-year-old is thrown a tantrum because he won’t eat his peas. I know it’s a bigger deal, and you are concerned about the third party.
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He is not an insignificant person, Mark. He’s a very significant guy with a lot of clout and a lot of power, and I think you minimize the ability for him to do damage at your own peril.
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I don’t want anything to throw shade at Republican and conservative unity. Here’s why the Elon third party will fail as much as almost. In 1992, there was huge dissatisfaction with both nominees, questions and dissatisfaction. People are mad at George Bush 41, and they didn’t quite know what to think about Clinton, so that’s how Perot gets 19%. None of that’s happening here. Democrats don’t know what to do, but Republicans are thrilled. We’ve rarely been happier. An Elon America Party candidate will be way too conservative for the left, and as far as conservatives go, we ain’t sure.
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shopping we’re not looking the number of conservatives who are are disheartened is extremely small there is nowhere to go at the starting gate for this stupid third party that’s earth logic you’re using earth logic and you’re not appreciating the fact that this would definitely hurt the republican party there’s no way around it it’s not a good thing but i don’t think it will And I and I and I look, I want you to be right. You don’t make don’t make it. But I know a lot of people said the same thing about Ross Perot and Ross Perot delivered Bill Clinton to this country. Correct. Period. And Elon Musk and Elon Musk could deliver a liberal Democrat for eight years in an extremely close election.
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Even every little bit of mischief. You’re right. I feel that’s right.
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And I’m not I’m not sure that a slam dunk is in the cards for the midterms. This could impact the midterms in a big way. And that’s apparently what he wants to do. He’s got some bizarre. He doesn’t really want to target the White House, but he wants to target two or three congressional seats.
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You’ve got to have candidates. You’ve got to have real people. You can’t beat something with nothing. This is a real person. You don’t fall in with Elon’s party.
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all right this is the same guy who told me biden isn’t going to step aside so it’s true i pray for them to come back together again and i saw one report over the weekend that they were going to meet at mar-a-lago i thought please lord let that be true Because this is not good, Mark. It’s not good on any level.
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And Elon has to understand that with the rockets and the Teslas and the AI, he’s a genius and has all that proper regard. But politically, Elon’s a big deal politically for one reason, and that reason is Donald Trump. And if he burns that bridge, his political clock burns with it, too.
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