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We also turn our attention to the political landscape in New York City as it gears up for a significant election. The episode offers a critical look at the candidates vying for leadership, including a controversial socialist figure and the potential return of Andrew Cuomo. Join Mike Gallagher as he navigates these pivotal issues with his signature blend of insight and hyperbole, reflecting on both local and global electoral implications.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Here’s Mike.
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Well, when we went to bed last night, it looked like we were optimistically confident at a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. That is still in place, but it is certainly shaky, to say the least. As best as I can understand it, Iran sent a lone rocket towards Israel. Israel, of course, intercepted it, thankfully. But then Israel unleashed hell on Iran. And President Trump is not happy. He is headed to the NATO summit. You could tell he, well, I guess you could always understand how angry somebody is when they drop the F-bomb. All the things I’ve done in my career, I’ve never had to bleep a president. I mean, this is him intentionally talking to reporters moments ago as he boarded Marine One. But his characterization is perfect. It’s pitch perfect. This is what’s so hard about the Middle East. They’ve been fighting so long, and they’ve been fighting so hard and so blindly, they don’t know what they’re doing. They don’t know up from down. And he’s mad about it. He doesn’t understand it. Ceasefire was in place. A missile goes from, you know, Iran to Israel. Israel says, okay, here we go. And they unleash hell. And Trump hates it. So much so that he actually used the F word, which of course we will dutifully bleep here on the Mike Gallagher show.
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and the ceasefire agreement. Do you believe that Iran is still committed to the peace?
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Yeah, I do. They violated it, but Israel violated it, too. Are you questioning if Israel is committed to the peace? Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never seen before. The biggest load that we’ve seen. I’m not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, okay, now you have 12 hours, you don’t go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them. So I’m not happy with them. I’m not happy with Iran either. But I’m really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because of one rocket that didn’t land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn’t land. I’m not happy about that. You know what? We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing. Do you understand that?
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Ouch. Holy cow. Never heard him fired up like that. I mean, he gets, he’s pretty, you know, for all of the bluster and all of the bravado, he’s relatively measured. You know what I mean? He doesn’t really, and I don’t know that that isn’t measured either. He’s just saying, you know what? These guys have got to stop messing around. They’ve got to calm down, he said. And they’ve got to knock it off. And it sounds to me like he’s more frustrated with Israel than he is Iran. Do you get that take? It sounds to me like that’s the issue here, that Israel overreacted. And, of course, one wonders, well, what’s Iran doing? If there’s a ceasefire, then make sure that the ceasefire is in place and you honor the ceasefire. So, you know, let’s get your take on all of it. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. We’re in the Relief Factor studios. This is a fluid situation. This is a situation that is ever-evolving. This is a situation that is difficult and complicated. Look, I’m going to tell you something. There are going to be people that don’t like his use of The F word. And I get it. It’s not genteel. It’s not, you know, professional. It’s not presidential, perhaps. But people are saying to me already, that’s what I voted for. This is who I voted for. This is a guy who said, I’ve had it. I’m mad at both of them. They got to stop it. They got to grow up. honor the ceasefire, and let’s achieve peace in a region of the world where peace is very scarce. And I appreciate that sentiment. I really do. I understand that frustration. And he’s so right. They have been fighting for so long, they don’t know what they’re doing. And, all right, so a stupid missile, a stupid rocket… gets headed into Israel, Israel overreacts, and he’s mad at both of them. That’s what I voted for. And if anybody can untangle this, it’s this guy. I think he can. I believe in him. I trust Trump. I trust this guy. But let’s see what you think. I don’t think you should ever bet against this guy. Because he is pulling off, I saw an article this morning, oh, the stock market just refuses to collapse. The stock market just keeps getting better and better. We don’t know why. There’s a confidence in his leadership that is never reflected in the mainstream media. And there’s a confidence in his ability to sort this out. But maybe not. Maybe not. Look, there’s people going at it tooth and nail. Have you seen the battle between Mark Levin and Marjorie Taylor Greene? Holy cow. It’s ugly. It’s rough. There’s a lot of rough stuff going on right now. But during these difficult times, I turn my sights to you. I turn my lonely eyes to you. To quote Mrs. Robinson, 800-655-MIKE. 13 minutes past the hour. One number does it all. You can text us. You can call us. I want to put your voice front and center and get your take on everything that’s going through the the whole process right now of this ceasefire. And, of course, last night they were just rooting against America. There was a moment on CNN where Caitlin Collins was bagging on Trump, and then Anderson Cooper had to interrupt her and say, well, we have a ceasefire. And they didn’t know what to do. And they all look constipated. It was actually kind of fun to watch CNN last night because they look aggravated at the prospect of a ceasefire. They’re rooting for everything to fall apart. And that’s all right. Ignore them. Focus on the peacemakers. And focus on the chief peacemaker right now, Donald J. Trump. Let’s see if you have the same take as I do. 800-655-6453. PhD 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. You’ve seen the story recently about the study that shows that a lot of people that are getting this are going blind. You don’t want to do this. You want a program to lose weight that’s centered around science and nutrition, a proven roadmap that has helped over 8,000 clients lose weight and keep it off. Like me, I lost 53 pounds a few years ago, and I’ve kept it off. I know what to eat and when. I know how to quiet any of the cravings I might get and finally release that unhealthy belly fat that I carried along for so long. Make the phone call that can change your life in the way it changed mine. It’s called PhD Weight Loss. PhD Weight Loss, Dr. Ashley Lucas’ program is brilliant. And how do I know? Well, 53 pounds later, here I am. 864-644-1900 is their number. Call and schedule your consultation. You can do this program from anywhere in America. Call 864-644-1900, 864-644-1900, or visit MyPhDWeightLoss.com.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. Mike Gallagher. Broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide. And seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Here’s Mike.
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Well, in a first, perhaps, the President of the United States dropped the F-bomb on the lawn of the White House today. Earlier, he was boarding Marine One, and he had a little media scrum talking about Operation Midnight Hammer and the tenuous, somewhat shaky truce, if you will. There seems to be an effort at peace and a ceasefire between Israel and Iran until, evidently, Iran sent one missile Israel’s way. Israel intercepted it, and then they unleashed hell, and President Trump is very unhappy about all of it. He, in fact, got so… He’s so angry, he literally used the F word that we will dutifully bleep because of FCC regulations. But first, here’s the good part. Well, it’s all pretty good. Look, people heard him say what he said about the Middle East, and they instinctively said, that’s what I voted for. That’s what, not necessarily the curse word, but somebody who’s fed up with two sides who have been fighting so hard and for so long, they don’t even know which is up and which is down. Here was President Trump praising the pilots who participated in the enormously successful Operation Midnight Hammer, and then he goes on a rant about CNN and MSNBC.
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I think it’s been completely demolished. I think the reason we’re here is because those pilots, those P-2 pilots did an unbelievable job. And, you know, the fake news, like CNN in particular, they’re trying to, you know, they’re trying to say, well, I agree that it was destroyed, but maybe not that destroyed. You know what they’re doing? They’re really hurting great pilots that put their lives on the line. CNN is scum. And so is MSDNC. They’re all. And frankly, the networks aren’t much better. It’s all fake news. But they should not have done that. Those pilots hit their targets, those targets were obliterated, and the pilots should be given credit. They’re not after the pilots, they’re after me. They want to try and demean me. You don’t believe that Iran can rebuild its nuclear program? Iran will never rebuild its nuclear. From there? Absolutely not. That place is under rock. That place is demolished. The B-2 pilots did their job. They did it better than anybody could even imagine. They hit late in the evening. It was dark with no moon, and they hit that target with every one of those things, and that place is gone. But when I see CNN all night long, they’re trying to say, well, maybe it wasn’t really as demolished as we thought. It was demolished. You take a look at the pinpricks, and you see that place is gone. And I will say, I think CNN ought to apologize to the pilots of the B-2s I think that MSNBC ought to apologize. I think these guys really, these networks and these cable networks are real losers.
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Okay, so he’s aggravated with CNN and MSNBC, but he’s really upset and angry, actually, at Israel and Iran for evidently violating the ceasefire.
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Do you believe that Iran is still committed to peace?
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Yeah, I do. They violated, but Israel violated it, too. Are you questioning if Israel is committing a crime? Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never seen before. The biggest load that we’ve seen. I’m not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, OK, now you have 12 hours, you don’t go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them. So I’m not happy with them. I’m not happy with Iran either. But I’m really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because the one rocket that didn’t land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn’t land. I’m not happy about that. You know what? We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing. Do you understand that?
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Yikes. Ouch. Been fighting so long and so hard. that they do not know what they’re doing. And he’s mad. I mean, we’re close. And believe me, even a shaky ceasefire, even a tenuous, tension-filled ceasefire is better than where we were. And it doesn’t help that his critics are on his back actually rooting for America to fail. So that’s sort of the latest breaking news on a big breaking news day. There’s also a big, big election in New York City. And what New Yorkers are being asked to consider is pretty bleak. Pretty bleak. A radical… Foreign socialist who’s only been an American citizen for a few years, a former rap artist who has captivated the likes of AOC and Letitia James and all the rest of the zanies in New York. His name is Mamdani, Zoran Mamdani. And polls are suggesting that he is going to win the New York City, not the mayoral race, but the primary race. for the Democrat side of the aisle. And if that happens, the conventional wisdom is the Democrat is going to win. It’s New York. Now, Curtis Lewa is a law and order guy. He’s a Republican who has made a lifetime out of fighting the bad guys. And there are a lot of bad guys in New York. I took the subway three times. Ask me how many people I watched jump the turnstile. You know, you’ve got to pay to ride the subway, like you’ve got to pay to ride a bus. Oh, no, no, no, but Mamdami wants all public transportation free. Nobody has to pay to take anything in New York, in this guy’s world. This guy is such a lunatic, he actually believes that the police should be removed from high-crime neighborhoods of New York City, replaced with social workers. He wants city-run grocery stores because, you know, the government runs things so well, so efficiently. Why not a grocery store? This guy is pro-intifada. I mean, every radical box that you could check, Mamdami favors. And it’s, I’ll be honest with you, it’s really scary to think that this guy could possibly win. That is absolutely terrifying. That is absolutely terrifying. horrifying to think that New York could become London. I’ve got a friend who lives in London, and he and his wife have to leave because London has become, in their words, a cesspool. And they’ve got, I guess, a similar kind of mayor in London. I keep telling myself there is no way the voters of New York could be this stupid. And look, they can’t really be blamed for having to make a bad choice, because Andrew Cuomo was run out of the governor’s office in disgrace, right? A scandal-played governor. But at least he’s not… a completely unhinged wolf in sheep’s clothing who has captured hearts and minds because he’s charismatic and appealing to young people and he smiles a lot and says all free stuff. We’re going to give you free stuff. We’re going to get rid of the police. We’re going to have free bus rides and subway rides. No wonder people are jumping the turnstiles. And every time they do it, four times I saw it in just one short, kind of a long weekend when I was in New York. Four different people, all well-dressed. These weren’t homeless people. These were like well-dressed people who could, what is it, guys, to take a subway?
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$2.90.
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And you could say, well, it’s $2.90. Well, no, you’re stealing. You’re robbing the city. You might as well get in a cab, have the taxi driver take you from 8th Avenue over to 10th Avenue, and then get out and not pay for it. Why not? Why not? You’re entitled to it. It’s New York. Jump the turnstiles. Nobody’s going to stop you. And I hate saying this. I posted it earlier this morning. If New Yorkers are gullible enough to vote for this guy… They’re going to deserve every bit of the misery they get. And I hate that for them. There’s a lot of wonderful people who live in New York. I’ve lived my whole life wanting to work and live in New York. I got to do it. I love the city in many ways. But I’m embarrassed that this guy’s even in contention. Can you believe that that’s even a possibility? And I know that they’re… liberal i know they’re leftists in new york i get it but they can’t be this dumb 800-655 mike 17 past the hour in the relief factor studios welcome aboard we got a lot of breaking news today to cover on this tuesday we’re glad you’re here 800-655-6453 hope you join us people are changing portions of our show brought to you by MyPillow and Big Deal. Two sales in one. First, they’re having a closeout sale on the percale bedsheets. Any size, any color, $25. You can get Queens, Kings, Split Kings, California Kings, any size, any color, $25. It’s a crazy sale from MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. The second sale, Mike Lindell has introduced a brand new energy drink called Rev7. It’s a premium energy drink that’s good for you. It tastes great, gives you energy all day. I sampled it yesterday for the first time. It is delicious. No sugar, no caffeine. Rev7 is so special because it’s powered with a premium nootropic that helps fuel your mind. MyPillow is so confident you’re going to love Rev7 that for a limited time you can try their introductory three-pack absolutely free. Now, these offers aren’t going to last long. So go to MyPillow.com, use the 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.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Here’s Mike.
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Well, we went to bed last night thinking there was a ceasefire. There still is, technically. Evidently, Iran launched a missile towards Israel, which was intercepted or didn’t go anywhere. Then Israel responded militarily. President Trump not too happy about all that. He heads off to NATO, the NATO summit, with hopes of keeping this ceasefire intact. The New York Times ran a headline in the middle of the night, both Israel and Iran have confirmed the ceasefire. But, you know, from a practical point of view, it doesn’t sound like they’re applying it. It’s like everything else in the Middle East with military escalation and conflict. It’s a mess. They don’t know what they’re doing, to paraphrase President Trump. In fact, he made a lot of headlines. You better buckle up because you’re going to be hearing a lot of bleeps on the evening news. President Trump had a profane way of describing Trump. the way these two sides have been fighting for so long and so hard. But look, a lot of people last night and still today have egg on their face. There’s kind of a World War V going on between people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mark Levin and Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson. We’ve got prominent people… who are really at each other’s throats. At one point, Mark Levin said of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, nice of you to come crawling out from under your rock once in a while. And she’s insulting him, and he’s insulting her. Look, that’s not helpful. I think everybody ought to just calm down a little bit. Trust the president. You know, it’s notable to me that the people that are fighting amongst themselves all say they support Donald Trump. So trust him. I don’t think he wants this kind of infighting. I don’t know. Maybe he does. I know there are bosses who like dissent, and he’s been described that way. I’ve worked for brilliant people who like fighting among the ranks. Because the boss thinks that conflict and agitation brings out the best scenario, the best-cased scenario. It brings out, you know… clarity, and often that’s the path to take. And maybe Trump’s like that. Maybe he doesn’t mind. I mean, I’m reading this back and forth on X between Mark Levin and Marjorie Taylor Greene. It looks like something out of a movie. It’s like the War of the Roses. And, you know, Mark is still getting after Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson is claiming he doesn’t know who Laura Loomer is. Laura Loomer is on his back. I mean, there’s just a lot of drama right now. And here is some drama that I enjoyed. I admit I kind of liked watching CNN last night after the ceasefire was announced because they all looked uncomfortable. They all looked like they were ready to, like, throw up. And Caitlin Collins is here in the United States. Anderson Cooper is over in Israel. Caitlin Collins starts bagging on Trump. Oh, you know, it’s not going to work. Doubts about it and all that. There’s not going to be any kind of ceasefire. Ceasefire, shmeeshfire. There’s no ceasefire. And then Anderson Cooper, I mean, this is embarrassing. You can’t make this stuff up. Caitlin Collins had just questioned Trump’s ceasefire deal. And mid-sentence, practically, Anderson Cooper cuts in with breaking news. You want to check this out, because this was classic.
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Now, we’re hearing incredibly optimistic views coming out of the White House as far as how long this can hold and what this is going to look like. That obviously still remains to be seen on the implementation side of this and waiting to see if the firing does stop and if Iran and Israel do both agree to this. Because, you know, speaking of the fluidity of the situation, it was just 24 hours ago that President Trump himself was suggesting a reelection. regime change in Iran was a possibility. And obviously, right before that, having the United States strike Iran. And so, yes, there have been a lot of phone calls going back and forth. In part, this has to do with Iran’s limited response earlier, where they fired on a U.S. base in Qatar. But there were no casualties. We know that they did give a heads up that they were going to be firing on U.S. bases without exactly specifying. specifying which ones. But that is the question here, is if the United States felt that it did not need to respond to the Iranian retaliation, did that create the space for this? That is what we’ve been hearing from administration officials. And so the question is whether or not this still holds for the next few hours.
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Caitlin, I’ve just been given word that Iran, according to a diplomat who briefed CNN, Iran has agreed to the ceasefire. So this is significant. I just want to try to learn some more information as soon as we get it about that. But if that is the case, that’s incredibly significant because that is we were waiting. We had not heard from Iran. We had not heard from from Israel. All we were going on so far has been the president’s social media post, which was some two hours ago. Iran has agreed to this.
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Oops! 9-1-1? I’d like to report a murder. A narrative just got killed in real time. Poor Caitlin Collins looks like she’s ready to start crying. She just does look on her face like… I mean, I can almost hear the producer in Anderson Cooper’s IFB. I could just hear them in his earpiece. Stop her! Stop her! Cease fire! Cease fire! There’s a cease fire! Tell her! Stop her! Oh, that was good. Now, she referenced Trump floating the idea of regime change with the Iranians. He’s on the plane heading over to the NATO summit. Thanks to technology, we already get video clips when he holds little impromptu press conferences on board Air Force One, and he was asked about regime change moments ago.
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Do you want to see regime change in Iran? If there was, there was. But no, I don’t want it. I’d like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible. Regime change takes chaos. And ideally, we don’t want to see so much chaos. So we’ll see how it does. You know, the Iranians are very good traders, very good business people. And they got a lot of oil. They should be fine. They should be able to rebuild and do a good job. They’re never going to have nuclear, but other than that, they should do a great job.
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Now, he seems a little less angry than he was when he was getting ready to board Marine One this morning. to get over to Air Force One for the flight over to the NATO summit, he let loose. And boy, did he ever. Don’t worry, we’ll bleep the F-bomb, but he lets loose with an F-bomb, sort of, I think, summarizing his frustration with both Israel and Iran.
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Do you believe that Iran is still committed to the sea?
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Yeah, I do. They violated it, but Israel violated it, too. Okay. Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never seen before. The biggest load that we’ve seen. I’m not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, OK, now you have 12 hours, you don’t go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them. So I’m not happy with them. Ouch!
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I saw somebody posted already that they want that to be their ringtone. They don’t know what the blank they’re doing. They don’t know what the blank they’re doing. That would be the ringtone. I kind of like that ringtone. Might offend people who hear my phone go off. Somebody else posted, this is what I say when I’m trying to potty train two toddlers at the same time. They don’t know what the blank they’re doing. All right, let me just turn it over to you. 800-655-MIKE. We’ve got a lot to absorb today. There’s a lot of breaking news. Clearly, Trump wants peace in the Middle East. He’s working hard to try to achieve that lofty goal. He does not seem to want to disparage Iran too much. We’ve done the damage. We took out their nuclear ambitions. Israel, it sounds like he thinks Israel overreacted to one missile. And I just want everybody to take a big, deep breath here. I urge my fellow Americans who are on the side of President Trump to stop fighting with each other. There just seems to be so much personal animosity between some of these high-profile people. And look, I’m going to be honest, I like them all. I don’t know about you, but I like all of these folks. Levin and Tucker and Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon and Marjorie Taylor Greene. They are going at it like it is a showdown at the OK Corral. And that’s not good either. I don’t like any of that. But let me just get your take of where you think we are now. Where should we be? You know, and I don’t want to rehash the feud between Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mark Levin, but are you with Mark? Are you with her? Do you think we’ve got no business being in it in any way? There’s a poll that came out that says 90% of MAGA, 90% of Trump supporters are with Donald J. Trump. Do you buy that? 800-655-MIKE. 17 past the hour. We’re in the Relief Factor studios. Give me a reaction to all of it here on this Breaking News Tuesday. We’ve got a lot to track down together, don’t we? 800, also big primary day in New York City. God help New York if they put that lunatic socialist at the top of the Democrat ticket. If that guy becomes the mayor of New York… You can kiss it goodbye. That place is going to turn into a hellscape. Guarantee it. Guarantee it. But young people who want free stuff, they like the guy. No more fares for buses or subways. Homeless people camping out in the subway stations. Grocery stores run by the city and no police in rough neighborhoods. Oh, yeah, it’s going to go great. That’ll go real well with a good old Zoran if he gets elected. 800-655-6453. I hope you join us. Call or text. We want to put your voice front and center here on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Mike Gallagher.
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Charlie Kirk just posted something that is so accurate about the educated dummies in New York who are supporting this socialist. And this is he wrote a great book. I think it’s called Campus Battlefield. It’s a must read about the pitfalls of higher education. And Charlie points out, the Muslim socialist running for New York City mayor, Zorhan Mamdami, is so obviously a con man, the only people dumb enough to support him are college educated. And he cites a poll from Emerson College that shows how college educated New Yorkers are apparently supporting the guy. And Charlie points out, This poll is the single most damning indictment of higher education in America that I’ve seen. Charlie calls him Mohammed Mao. It’s just a great nickname for this guy. And the truth of the matter is that some of the dumbest people in the country are people with college degrees. A lot of the No Kings protesters, they’re all white boomers. And I guarantee every one of them has a degree. Maybe from an Ivy League college. They lack complete and total common sense. They’re entitled. They’re arrogant. They’re obnoxious. They think that college degree… gives them some sort of a lease on ultimate knowledge. And they’re clowns. Honestly, some of the dumbest people I know are some of the most highly educated. I know it’s a bias that I have because of my story. I mean, you know, 17, 18-year-old kid getting a job in radio, and I tried to go to school, tried to go to college. I broke my mother’s heart because I’d rather be at the radio station working. And she says, yeah, but you’ve got to go to physics class. You want to be a broadcaster, you’ve got to get a college degree. Well, Mom, I am a broadcaster. I’m 19 now. I’ve got a talk show. I’m working. If I go to school, I won’t be at the station to work. So my story, and you know me, I don’t think, believe me, there’s plenty of smart people who I admire and listen to with a college education. I am not disparaging a college education. But I also, frankly, like people like me who made it by working hard in the field we wanted to work in, and scrapping and fighting and climbing a ladder of our career path. And so it doesn’t surprise me, I guess, but Charlie’s right. If it’s true that college-educated New Yorkers, white college, incidentally, it’s white college-educated New Yorkers, black polling and Hispanic, Cuomo’s way ahead. But for white college-educated New Yorkers, this is the guy. God help New York. God help New York. I know we make fun. We beat them up. I would just be sick to see what’s going to happen. Yes, city-run grocery stores. John Katsimatidis, who owns the Gristiti supermarket chain, flat out said, look, this guy wins, we’re out. We will pull all of our Gristiti supermarkets out of New York City. We’ll go to Jersey. We’ll go to Connecticut. We’ll go somewhere else. Ron DeSantis joked this morning that if the guy were to win, that’s great for Florida because the housing market will boom in Florida. We’ll have condo prices. Look, maybe I’ll finally sell my condo. Because somebody in New York is going to say, uh-uh, I’d rather be on the water, put my feet up and, you know, enjoy the sunshine and the freedom of the state of Florida. The exodus from New York City, I think, will be profound. Now, then again, every time people think that happens, it doesn’t because, well, it’s New York. But maybe it just gets to be too much with this guy. We’ll see. I’m praying. And I’m real serious here. I am praying that even New Yorkers are rational enough to reject this level of radicalism. And I hope and pray that even Democrats who are terrified to walk in the streets… of New York City these days understand that a guy who promises to pull police out of high-crime neighborhoods and replace them with social workers is not going to be a good idea. What is a good idea is working with a CPA who can get you a financial plan and a tax savings strategy that works. Many thanks to Dean Owen. We’re going to start visiting with Dean regularly. We had so much breaking news. We were going to have him on the show today. We’re going to have him on later this week because I want you to meet him. He’s a real fascinating guy. First of all, great, strong opinions. He’s a patriot. He’s a veteran. He loves the Lord. He’s a great guy. He’s my CPA, and I wish I had met him years ago. I’d have a lot more money in the bank. Accounting Today has ranked M. Dean Owens’ CPA as one of the top accountants in America because he’s great at helping you reduce your tax burden and building a financial and tax plan aligned with your goals and values. So take control of your financial future. My CPA… can be your CPA, too. Call Dean Owen, 270-554-0720. Call 270-554-0720 or visit owencpa.com. Let someone who shares your faith and values help you secure the future you deserve. owencpa.com. Gary’s in Portland, Oregon. Hey, Gary, welcome. Thanks for your patience. How you doing?
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, Mike, good job. Welcome from the greatest, the most beautiful state in the Union. This is a biblical war, and a lot of people are reacting to it in a lot of biblical senses. This is David against the Philistines. It’s so Old Testament. that it’s really drawn a lot of people’s emotions out deeper than they normally are. And I think that’s what we’re seeing with a lot of these, you know, like Tucker and Cruz. It was wrong for Tucker to laugh at him, but it’s bringing a lot of people’s deepest beliefs out. because this is God against evil.
SPEAKER 08 :
This is what’s so important. Gary, I’m so glad you reminded me of the need to completely and consistently remind everyone we are in spiritual warfare right now. This is not just Democrats versus Republicans. When you’re seeing people march around with pro-Hamas signs, when people are praising evil, When people want to destroy police departments in cities like… This is evil. This is terrible, terrible. And the good thing is, we know how this ends. We really do, Gary. We’ve got to remember how the story ends. Let’s never forget that good always triumphs over evil. It may take a while, but good will prevail. So pray for New York today. Pray that they get it right. And again, I’m sorry that you’ve got to pray for Cuomo. But on the other hand… as bad as he is, as bad as his record has been, you can’t go with somebody worse like this Mamdani. We’ll know tomorrow. Great job to the team. Thank you, Tracy, Eric, Christian, Joey, Roger, everybody. Who did I leave out? Eric, have a great day. Be safe. Keep fighting the good fight. I’m Mike Gallagher. God bless America. walk into the studio and people are mad at you. Boy, what have you done?
SPEAKER 07 :
People are fired up. Oh, Lordy. Oh, for being real mellow, for being mellow and all THC’d up. Those are some testy kiddies, man, when you come after their THC.
SPEAKER 08 :
They’re not happy with you. Walk in, Mike, you’ve got to talk Mark off the ledge on this THC issue. He’s making a fool of himself. He’s going to lose his listeners. Why does he think he’s morally superior? I mean, look, don’t shoot the messenger.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s not about me. It’s not about my morals or my thoughts. Although, guess what? Without making it about me, is it a more moral and better society that doesn’t legalize more intoxicants? I’d say yes, it is. Is it a more moral society that prevents babies from being murdered? Do you think I’m being holier than thou or self-righteous when I talk about protecting the unborn? Give me a king-size break. Can I ask you something that’s not about taking a side on that? Because I don’t know if you want to. I don’t really want to. Okay. I know. I know my buddy. I know my buddy. Well, look, there’s a bigger issue in Texas. But here’s the thing, since this will be a whole lot of the rest of today’s show, as Lieutenant Governor Patrick is with us at 835 and Michael Quinn Sullivan, 905. You’re fresh back from New York. You’re fresh back from New York. I’ve been a few times. I don’t go as often as you, but we’ve been a few times. And it is just palpable and noticeable how much of the magnificent island of Manhattan now reeks of weed.
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s like you’re under a constant marijuana cloud on every corner. People smoking it just on the street corners. It smells like pot everywhere you go. And, of course, these cannabis stores are proliferating all over Manhattan. Mm-hmm. And it’s happening all over the country. I mean, I’m afraid the ship has sailed. I could be wrong. I don’t know if you can put the toothpaste back into the tube. But speaking of New York, there is a major, major epic thing that’s happening today.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. I wanted to read my mind. The election. The mayor of New York City is a big it’s a big job. It’s our biggest city. It’s who the who the mayor of New York City is kind of matters on a national scale for reasons I know we can examine. But tell everybody the big personalities involved in this.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, there’s only one that we need to be worried about and actually terrified about. His name is Zoran Mondami. He’s been an American citizen for only seven years. He’s a former rapper who had his rap career funded by his wealthy mama. This is a Muslim, defund the police, far-left activist. Socialist. Actual socialist. a literal socialist who is charming, you know, smiles big, bright smile. He’s captivated, you know, young people who love AOC and Bernie. He’s a stop the oligarchs kind of a guy. He’s also a guy who believes that the police need to be removed from, check this, high crime areas of New York City. That’s good. He wants the police taken out of the high crime neighborhoods and replaced with social workers. Mm-hmm. Honest to gosh, that’s a true position. He wants to open city-run grocery stores because government does things so well already. You know, you go to the DMV. I mean, you know just how perfect this is going to be. Take a number and get a ribeye over in aisle four run by the city of New York. This guy is a wolf in sheep’s clothing if there ever was one. The problem is… The choice in New York is just awful because it’s either him or Cuomo. Cuomo is back from the dead.
SPEAKER 07 :
Andrew Cuomo, who was governor and that just imploded on him for covid mismanagement and a number of other things. That’s the choice. Isn’t his name big enough? Aren’t our memories short enough? And doesn’t he and his whole family name, with his dad Mario Cuomo, brother Chris doing yeoman’s work on a cable network that’s trying to be semi-even-handed, isn’t he a big enough deal that he’s going to cruise? Isn’t this his race to lose?
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s not what the polls are saying. I know, and I’m confused. The polls are saying Mamdami has surged ahead, that he’s captive. A lot of young people are voting crazily, and of course they are. You know, why wouldn’t they?
SPEAKER 07 :
Are they? Well, we’re going to see. Has a basic thing in American life changed? It’s an old James Carville quote. It says, yeah, there’s a name for a party that depends on the youth vote. Loser. Because the theory was that young people just don’t vote with much energy. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Speaking of guys with accents, I’m going to play, I think, the whole 13-minute rant from Dr. Phil about the state of today’s Democrat Party. Dr. Phil, of all people, just says, look, today’s party is unrecognizable. They are pro-Hamas. They’re anti-law enforcement. They’re pro-open borders. It’s unrecognizable. And Dr. Phil has a moment of sanity. Look, let’s just hope New Yorkers have a moment of clarity. I’m not a Cuomo fan for obvious reasons, but I’ll tell you something. If this guy somehow winds up as the mayor of New York City, I’m not kidding you, Mark. Kiss it goodbye. It would be awful. This guy, first of all, NBC of all places found what a fake he is. He talks like Middle Eastern. It’s unbelievable. What? Yep. Well, he’s a Muslim.
SPEAKER 07 :
So he goes into a mosque and all of a sudden, oh, I’m so glad to be here. What? Yes. Yes. Oh, yes. It’s like Obama at a black church.
SPEAKER 08 :
absolutely he’s got a bunch of fake accents oh my gosh oh no this guy but but more than that i mean it’s it’s not the muslim thing uh you know and of course his defenders say oh you know the the racist bigots don’t like has nothing to do with the fact he’s muslim has to do with all of his terrible destructive policies all you gotta know is he wants police removed from high crime neighborhoods all
SPEAKER 07 :
Listen, Bernie could be running for mayor of New York, a white man, and his ideas are just as bad, and we’d be just as upset about that. Last thing on this, because here’s another thing that is kind of important around the country, because here’s another thing that’s catching on, and I wish it would die. Ranked choice voting. I know.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, that’s a Lisa Murkowski trick. It’s insane.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s what she got done. For those that don’t, usually it’s like, for today’s election, for the Democrats, of course, you got Cuomo, you got this guy. The independent candidacy will be Eric Adams. Why did he…
SPEAKER 08 :
leave the why did he well they’re mad at him because he embraced law and order and the democrat establishment got mad at him and kicked basically kicked him out does he have a is he thus crippled running as an independent or does he have a chance no no i don’t think he has a chance at all and and i’m what i’m hopeful about and i’m probably this is wishful thinking curtis lewa on the republican side curtis if new yorkers get are fed up enough with crime and they are I mean, it’s it’s really bad. I mean, it’s I’ll tell you this. This just getting back last night by way of Orlando because of, again, a diverted plane because of a storm. And you should have seen that conversation. We landed Orlando. I’m literally in the first row of the plane right by the door.
SPEAKER 07 :
Of course you are.
SPEAKER 08 :
and we have to get diverted to Orlando because there’s a thunderstorm over Tampa. And I get that. That’s not their fault. All right, we’re going to run out of fuel, so we’ve got to divert to Orlando. I’m thinking, crap, here we go again. So they pull up to the gate, and the flight attendant is talking to the pilot, and the pilot’s saying, well, I don’t want them to get off here. We’re just going to fuel and go. We’re going to fuel and go. Well, they pull up to the gate. They open the door. The door is five feet from me. I have my carry-on bag because all I want to do is get off the plane, rent a car, and drive because it’s only an hour and ten minute drive. Well, pilot doesn’t want to let anybody off.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, man.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I’m thinking, no, no, no, no, no, no. And so then this sassy gate agent comes onto the plane.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, I love the sassy gate agent.
SPEAKER 08 :
I love this. And the sassy gate agent takes control and says, look, you want to get off? Make sure you get all your bags and get off. And I loved it. I wanted to give the guy a big hug because he overruled the pilot basically and said, yeah, we’re going to be here long enough. So you did that? I’m off the plane, rented a car, got to Tampa, was in bed by 1030. Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
I know this is weird because you should be able to get off a plane where you’re no longer a terrorist. But aren’t airlines, don’t airlines just have a horrible bugaboo? About people interrupting their flight, getting off where they’re not supposed to get off, getting on where you’re not supposed to get off. Anything you do that interrupts the exact letter of your reservation gives the airlines 14 heart attacks. Haven’t you found that to be true?
SPEAKER 08 :
Let me give you the airline rule. They can do whatever they really want to do.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, there you are.
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s like when they close the door when they’re leaving.
SPEAKER 07 :
I know.
SPEAKER 08 :
If you’re late, they can open the door again.
SPEAKER 07 :
I’m standing there, but you’ll be told they can’t. You come up to the gate. You’re running late. We’ve all done this. Can’t do it. Can’t open the door. They just closed the door. They’re still five minutes from backing out, but they just closed the door. You’re standing there. That’s right. I’m looking at the plane. Here’s my ticket. Let me on.
SPEAKER 08 :
They go, nope. They’ll tell you that it’s like some hermetically sealed thing from Harry Potter, that once the door is closed, you can’t break the seal.
SPEAKER 07 :
If they open it back again, the spirits of death will come in and wrap themselves around and kill the passenger.
SPEAKER 08 :
The dormitores or whatever they are that fly around will come down and suck out your soul. Oh, no. They can open the door if they want to. Of course they can. And incidentally, I’ve watched… And the reason I know it is because I’ve seen them do it. They’ll do it if they want to. So you know what they did yesterday? The Sassy Gate agent had no problem. But now there was a system, I will tell you. You just don’t walk off. You’ve got to go to… He took your driver’s license and checked me out of the flight in Orlando. So yeah, you just can’t leave. Because you’re right. Technically, you’re booked all the way to Tampa. You just can’t walk away. So anyway… But anyhow, got home, settled in, and just absorbing, praying for New York, and I’m praying for the Middle East. I’ve never had to dump, use my 10-second dump on a president of the United States before. This morning, President Trump… let it loose he is obviously ticked look dad is dad is home and he’s mad that’s it uh he daddy’s pissed and he is not thrilled with it it sounds like an errant rocket came out of iran didn’t go anywhere they intercepted it well that just ticked off israel and so they replied now unloaded They want to unleash holy hell now on Iran, and Trump is like, wait, wait, wait, wait, stop it, stop it, stop it. We’ve got to cease fire here. What are you doing? Cut it out, cut it out, cut it out. And you could tell in the comments that you played a few moments ago that President Trump alluded to the fact that it sounds like one errant missile maybe. Look, if Iran is going to break the cease fire, they’re not going to have one little dinky missile. I would think that. It’s going to be a barrage.
SPEAKER 07 :
I would.
SPEAKER 08 :
So something went wrong somewhere. Something happened. And now Israel is like, oh, no. No, you don’t. And here we go. And President Trump, he says it so perfectly because he’s right. They have been fighting for so long and for so hard. They don’t know what the blank they’re doing. And he’s right. And it’s got to stop. And so, look, this is definitely a shaky ceasefire, I would concede. But it’s also arguably Trump’s finest hour because, as you so perfectly put it, it’s a heck of a lot better than raging all-out war right now.
SPEAKER 07 :
But what’s better than a ceasefire?
SPEAKER 08 :
An unconditional surrender.
SPEAKER 07 :
Mark Levin is right. As lovely as a ceasefire is compared to missiles flying back and forth, peace is not what you get when everybody just stops firing off rockets. That’s not peace. Peace is what you get when the good guys finally win.
SPEAKER 08 :
Mark Levin has been getting a lot of flack for saying, I hate that phrase, ceasefire. But you’re right.
SPEAKER 07 :
I don’t hate it, but it’s unfortunate if we look at ceasefire and go, oh, good, we’re done here. That’s right.
SPEAKER 08 :
We’re not done. But speaking of Mark Levin, are you seeing the back and forth between him and Marjorie Taylor Greene? Holy moly. They are going at it. I mean, it is brutal. And Marjorie Taylor Greene, she’s just all in against him.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, our intervention and… Matt Walsh did not go full Tucker in his post, but overnight he said that Trump is better equipped to handle this than anybody else. It’s great that this has gone so… But now I want to pull completely back and just… I’m going to pull out of this completely and just pay attention to America’s own problems. Dude, a nuclear Iran is an American problem.
SPEAKER 08 :
problem that full-on interventionism lindsey graham style that’s not smart so equally unwise is sticking your head in the sand that’s right well axios has a headline trump’s swings on iran leave maga with whiplash oh we don’t know where to get baloney a poll came out last night 90 of maga supports what trump is doing for full shows live and on demand it’s salem news channel
