Join Mike Gallagher as he highlights the ongoing flood relief efforts in Texas, rallying his audience to contribute to those affected by the natural disaster. Alongside the discussion on this tragic event, Mike offers insights into the surprising economic growth driven by Trump’s policies, challenging mainstream media narratives. The episode also takes a lighter turn with discussions on pop culture and humor, showcasing the resilience and strength of conservative communities in navigating both crisis and comedy.
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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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I am so tired of going away and coming back to sheer insanity. I was off yesterday. Thanks to Joey for filling in. I was flying back from Seattle to Tampa. It’s not real easy to get from Seattle to Tampa for some reason, although thanks to Alaska Airlines, there is one nonstop, which is great. I just had to go during the day. It takes forever because you could lose the time, the three hours and all that stuff. I come back to work and I try to make sense out of the insane. It’s insane to say gun control would have prevented what happened in New York. We know it’s insane because of what the mayor of New York has suggested, that early investigations suggest that the gunman got parts for the weapon purchased by somebody else. What law is going to prevent that from happening? So I come back to that insanity. Then I come back to Sidney Sweeney. I admit I don’t know Sidney Sweeney. She’s an actress of some renown. She’s a beautiful young woman. Beautiful woman. I’m old enough to remember when beautiful people were models. I guess that’s a bad thing now? That’s Nazism, apparently. Now, evidently, if you’re beautiful and white, you can’t be in a jeans commercial. I have absolutely no idea what the controversy is. I asked Mark Davis this morning in Dallas, and Mark said, well, it’s because she’s white and she’s not obese. I said, Mark, there’s no way… There’s controversy because she’s white and not obese. What are you talking about? He says, that’s what it is. They’re calling it Nazi propaganda. What’s Nazi propaganda? Well, she’s white and she’s got blue eyes. What does that mean? I mean, and the reaction is real. You know, you’ve probably heard it by now. Here’s the ad itself. I have absolutely – I mean, let me – and admittedly, I’ve been traveling. I’m a little bleary-eyed. A lot of work this week. We had a magnificent visit to Relief Factor on Monday. We were in their beautiful studios, and I was learning about the longevity medical clinics that you’re going to be hearing about those. So many exciting things at Relief Factor, and there are – An actual blessing in my life. So it was wonderful to be able to spend some time in Seattle. They are in Kirkland there, right outside Seattle. So I’m seeing and hearing this spot with you maybe for the first time. Here is now the commercial that has the left up in arms.
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I’m not here to tell you to buy American Eagle jeans. And I definitely won’t say that they’re the most comfortable jeans I’ve ever worn. Or that they make your butt look amazing. Why would I need to do that? But if you said that you want to buy the jeans, I’m not going to stop you. But just so we’re clear, this is not me telling you to buy American Eagle jeans. You see what I did there, right?
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Okay. Okay. Got images of the Third Reich? Do you see Adolf Hitler in your mind? But here’s some of the reaction. Let me start with a Pilates teacher. Nothing screams white privilege more than a white liberal Pilates instructor, but this Pilates instructor knows exactly what she would do if anybody involved in the American Eagle ad featuring Sidney Sweeney ever showed up to her class.
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If anyone from American Eagle who was involved in the creation of Sidney Sweeney’s most recent advertisement booked into my Pilates class, I would give them the hardest exercise class that I was capable of doing on the lightest possible spring load with zero breath cues. And I would make it the toughest exercise class that they’d ever experienced in their lives.
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Well, that’ll show them. That’ll take care of that. So the anger is real. It’s not just her. I mean, it’s apparently all over social media. Here’s a TikToker.
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Should we be surprised that a company whose name is literally American Eagle is making fascist propaganda like this? Probably not. But it’s still really shocking. Like, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, white woman is talking about her good genes. Like, that is Nazi propaganda.
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Okay, all right, good genes, J-E-A-N-S. But she also might have good genes because she’s a gorgeous woman. And how many times have you heard somebody say, you’ve got good genes? I was hanging out with Dr. Mixon Monday of Relief Factor. He’s 78 years old. You’d guess him, I’m not kidding you, you would guess that he’s 57. He’s got good genes. Now, if I said that to him, would somebody be offended and say I just expressed Nazi propaganda? The world is going nuts. These people on the left are kooks and screwballs and nuts. Give me a better explanation, and I will say this. Knowing full well that I’m not Tom Cruise, longtime listeners might remember me getting in trouble once, along with Chris Wallace. for observing that a woman entertainer was real heavy. And… A guy named Joe Concha called us out for being fat shamers and it turned into a whole thing and it was one of the worst, honestly, it was one of the most embarrassing moments of my life. I hated, only because I knew it got back to her because it made it to People Magazine and TMZ and all that. It was awful. It was awful. So I’m very sensitive to talking about anybody’s appearance because I don’t want Joe Concha to get offended again, of all people. Yeah, that Joe Concha. But the two people you just heard from, the TikToker who is mocking a beautiful, blonde, thin woman. Let me just put this delicately. She is definitely, that TikToker, if you’re watching on Salem News Channel, you know, you can confirm what I’m saying. Let’s just put it this way. She’s not a… blonde-haired, blue-eyed, thin model. The Pilates instructor, not likely that she would be considered a traditional model. Let’s put it that way. But then again, in this goofy world of the left, I guess the more unattractive you are, the better your chances of becoming a runway model. It really is as if Sidney Sweeney’s beauty is considered now, to leftists, Nazi propaganda. And I will say this again. I know I’m not handsome. I know I’m no Tom Cruise. I’m never going to claim to be a good-looking person. But why are all the people screaming the loudest so unattractive? I would love to see some good-looking TikTokers whining and moaning about the Sidney Sweeney has great genes ad. Oh, boy. All right. 800-655-MIKE. Dare we even spend a couple of minutes on this in the Relief Factor studios? I think we dare. I think we shall. 800-655-6453. Can you please make the case that this jeans ad is Nazi propaganda? Honestly, please. And do it with a straight face. I kept asking Mark today. He kept saying, Mike, it’s because she’s beautiful and white. And I kept saying, Mark, that can’t be the reason. But it appears to be. 800-655-6453. Call or text. One number does it all. Welcome in. 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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We’re not going to spend all day on this, I promise, but I do want to spend a couple of minutes on it because I just want an answer. What is it that they’re mad at now? And I’m getting to a point where we just have to acknowledge and understand and recognize these are not serious people. These aren’t serious people at all. You want to go back to the beginning? You want a classic MyPillow? How about $17.98 for a standard MyPillow? $17.98, and for a limited time, not only will they offer the standard MyPillow for only $17.98 with promo code MyG, they’re going to offer their entire classic collection at wholesale prices for Mike Gallagher audience members. Get queen-size MyPillows for just $22.98. Upgrade to a king-size for only $24.98. Get the body pillows. Want to sleep with a MyPillow a whole body length?
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It was definitely her mentioning the jeans, and as you said… It’s a play on words, but people can’t even appreciate that nowadays. And I think it’s because a lot of people have a false sense of their self-esteem is false. When I was young. Parents would pull out pictures of their children and show people, and others would comment about the children. Nowadays, someone shoves a picture in your face and says, look at my beautiful daughter. Look at my hands. And you don’t even get a chance to comment.
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I know. But wait a minute. Go back to what you said, though. But wait a minute. Go back to the play on words on jeans. I mean, I’ve talked about somebody who has good genes my whole life. Does that mean do they think that if I told you because I met you, let’s say I meet you in Columbus, Ohio, and you’re a beautiful woman, you got whatever. And I say, boy, you’ve got you must have great genes. Am I am I a Nazi for saying that?
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Well, but remember, our education system is broken. That’s true. Children don’t know history. They don’t know words. All they know is what they learn online. And from falsehoods.
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And that’s what they go with because they don’t have their own self-esteem. That’s right. And they also don’t have a sense of humor. Can I give a quick shout out to Charlie Kirk? Have you heard how Charlie Kirk is going to get skewered by South Park? And you know who’s happiest about that? Charlie Kirk. They’re going to do a takeoff. They’re going to do a play on South Park. Cartman is going to beat Charlie, I guess, and kind of memorialize those exchanges that Charlie has on college campuses. And I saw a post on social media, and I heard from friends of his and people he works with, he loves it. I mean, Charlie has officially, as I posted on X last night, Charlie has officially entered the zeitgeist. He’s now such a big part of our culture, South Park’s going to poke fun at him. And he doesn’t care. He thinks it’s hysterical. You know why? Because conservatives have a sense of humor. We can laugh at ourselves. We can laugh with one another. And we certainly can laugh at these lunatics on the left who need to get a grip. Frank in Spartanburg, South Carolina. We just got some great news about 98.9 WORD, the voice of the Carolinas. Frank, how are you? I’m doing well. Good. What’s up?
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Just on the comment of, you know, the jeans and the Nazis, yeah, it’s a lot of play on words. But I think that us as Republicans need to stop denying our Nazism. I mean, we’re banning books. We’re banning education, everything that these kids need to prosper in the future. Us as Republicans are banning it. We’re trying to simplify the minds of our children.
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Can I ask you a simple question, Frank? Hey, Frank, let me ask you a question just out of curiosity. Because you sound like some of the leftists who are melding down and pretending that they’re upset about the Nazism. Did you think it would be clever to pretend that you were a Republican and pretend that we’re Nazis because you think we’re banning things that we’re not banning, that you’re lying about? Did you think that was clever? Did you put a lot of time into that, Frank?
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I want to be a part of the all-white community in Arkansas. Yes. Yes.
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Yes, that’s clever. You’re clever. You’re really clever, Frank. You’re clever. That’s very clever, Frank. That’s really, really clever. Did you put a lot of work and thought into this? You ought to go on the road with that, Frank, because you’re a funny, funny guy. I rest my case about the loony left. I’m telling you, they’re nuts. We’re partnering with our friends at the nonprofit relief agency, Food for the Poor, and rushing emergency relief kits to these flood-ravaged parts of the world. 128 people confirmed dead. Many, many more are still missing. As you know, President Trump and the First Lady visited the flood zone in Texas over the weekend. As you can hear, he was pretty emotional. You can hear in the sound of his voice about what he witnessed.
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They lost their child or two children and just hard to believe what I’ve never seen anything like it.
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A little narrow river that becomes a monster. Now, as the president observed. We’re all grieving. There’s been such a terrible loss of life. Entire communities are still being impacted. There are flooded out homes. There are closed businesses. And there are many still displaced, and they desperately need your help. Now, there is a Help Texas banner on my website, MikeOnline.com, where you can make a secure online donation. Please help us rush emergency relief kits to Texas. These kits contain tarps, Hygiene items, diapers, children’s activity materials, and other essentials needed to ease the crisis for these poor people. Food for the Poor, in coordination with a trusted partner in San Antonio, has responded to the central Texas flooding. Nobody responds like the Mike Gallagher audience. Right now, already $13,000 in the first day or two. of donations have come in. We have a sort of an unofficial goal of 40,000. In my heart of hearts, we’ll soar past that goal. Let’s support our fellow Americans. Let’s support the Texans who have been through so much. Please go to MikeOnline.com and click on the Help Texas banner. You can also phone in your donation. And a lot of people do that. Just call 844-860-HOPE. That’s 844-860-4673. Thank you for supporting these poor families who’ve been through so much. Let’s get emergency relief kits to as many people as we can, and let’s make sure that the Mike Gallagher Show once again is the torchbearer. the leader in sending as many materials as possible to these poor people. Again, you can go to MikeOnline.com and click on the Help Texas banner or call 844-860-HOPE, 844-860-4673. Tyler’s in Delaware. Tyler, welcome back.
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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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I’ve got bad news. If you don’t like Donald Trump, his economic policies are working. Uh-oh, the U.S. economy surged between April and June. Driven, and I’m just reading here from CBS, so, you know, hardly a conservative site, CBS reports that the surging economy has been driven by a large shift in imports tied to President Trump’s trade policies. Oh, you don’t say. So his trade policies are making our economy better? Hmm. Hmm. The country’s GDP increased at an annual rate of 3% in the second quarter, the Commerce Department just announced. That’s higher than the 2% pace the GDP was forecast to grow, according to economists polled by the financial data firm FactSet. I love this. Don’t you love it when the mainstream media, I told Tracy, I said, you know, when I get a conservative outlet like Town Hall or Red State, there’s a lot of great sites that kind of talk to us and don’t. you know, have the left-leaning bias. But don’t you love it when even a place like CBS has to write, and I quote, the number represents a surprising turnaround from the first three months of 2025. Yeah, you mean the first three months of the Trump presidency, when the guy was only in office for days? You mean the longer he’s in office, the better the economic news? What about Epstein? Oh, my gosh, Epstein. We got to talk about Epstein, right? Don’t forget the economy. People don’t care about their paycheck. People don’t care about the price of goods or the grocery prices or gas. No, no, no. They want to talk about Epstein. I know that, you know, we don’t, of course, for obvious reasons, because that’s what they want. And I… had my decision to stop getting distracted by the gossip and the hysteria of Epstein. That decision to move past that was reinforced by ABC World News Tonight last night. I swear to you, they did about a 10-minute story on Epstein. They haven’t spent that much time on a government policy or a Trump agenda item in the history of ABC. But the whole thing was all Epstein and Trump saying Mar-a-Lago and the spa workers. It was like you thought they uncovered Watergate 2.0 on ABC World News Tonight last night. Go back and look at it. It was unbelievable. They went on and on. They just droned on and on about Epstein. You know why? Ah, they got him now. The walls are closing in. This is the thing that’s going to do it. Yeah, right. Well, thankfully, you know better. Thankfully, you know that while the mainstream media is hyperventilating over Epstein, there’s a little small, little insignificant things happening like, oh, I don’t know, the GDP soaring, past experts’ expectations, the economy working. Tariffs working. Nothing but good, a lot of good news. The border is secure. We’re respecting law and order again. And the difference between our side and theirs? is that we don’t hate the country. Scott Jennings was on a podcast this week, the PBD podcast. I don’t think he’s with the guy that does it. Is that Patrick David, right? He wasn’t there, but I guess maybe it’s somebody who co-hosts or guest hosts for him. But Scott made an appearance yesterday and said something that was so profound. that I had to share this with you. And, of course, we’re thrilled to welcome CNN’s own Scott Jennings as one of our newest network team members. Scott heard on many of the same stations we’re heard on around the country. He’s doing a tremendous job. Listen to what Scott said about Democrats and their true feelings about America.
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His opposition, the reflexive nature of his opposition to hate and try to delegitimize him on everything he does, I think is terrible for America. I mean, they’re rooting. I mean, you wear that pin. They’re rooting against America on the tariffs all April. They were hoping it would fail. Imagine that. They’re hoping it would fail on Iran when we when we when we bomb the missile sites. What’s the first thing that happened? We got to impeach him. Oh, he didn’t do that much damage. The immediate delegitimization of this guy. Every time he does something, they root for America’s failure. So does he does he everything he does? No, no politician. I’m 100 percent all the time. But I’ll tell you this, I like it that he roots for America. And I hate it that they root against America just because he did it. And I think that’s why a lot of people are fine with it.
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Gosh, what common sense, what wisdom, how right he is. They cheer against America. And they’re literally cheering for evil. You know by now, and Joey Hudson filling in for me yesterday, and always thanks to Joey for guest hosting as I was traveling back from Seattle after our great visit Monday with our friends at Relief Factor. Joey talked about the shooting in New York City. One of the victims, besides an NYPD officer, was the CEO… a senior executive at Blackstone. She’d been there since 2014. Wesley Lepotner was beloved. A young wife, a young mother, a sister, a neighbor. And this monster shows up with some beef about the NFL from his high school football days. I mean, the guy was obviously mentally ill. goes strolling in with a long gun and slaughters four innocent people. Now, this may not surprise you. It should. It ought to shock you. It ought to sicken you. But this beautiful young woman who happened to be a senior executive at Blackstone, her murder was celebrated. Just like they celebrated the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, her murder was literally celebrated by people on the left. Let’s take a little sampling from TikTok. TikTok.
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They’re the reason why there’s a housing crisis. So, hey, you know what? Let’s get more against those Blackstone people. Let’s take them out.
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If you’re having a bad day, I just wanted to hop on to let you know that the CEO of Blackstone, a private equity real estate firm, was one of the victims in the recent shooting.
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There’s a lady with a glass of wine with the chyron.
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And I’m not saying she deserved it, but I’m saying God’s timing is always right.
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Blackstone CEO down, says the chyron with the girl dancing.
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Nothing beats a jet two holiday. And right now you can save 50 pounds.
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Let’s go. It’s CEO season again. Let’s hope it lasts till December like it did last year.
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Oh, my God, guys, another CEO was shot.
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Another one. We got another one. Is it Christmas? Is it Christmas? The excited young lefty wants to know? Because this young mother and this young wife was murdered, and her crime deserved her execution. She was the CEO of a private equity firm. Gunned down? There are people, I’m afraid many people, who are so opposed to capitalism, so opposed to the healthcare industry, that they actually mock, joke, and laugh at the murder of a beloved woman like Wesley LaPottner. I’m sure they’re ecstatic over the murder of the off-duty NYPD officer who was working security. If they’re happy about Wesley LaPotner’s death, I’m sure they’re euphoric about the death of the NYPD officer. Look, it’s hard to disagree with the conclusion that that the left is an evil, violent, death cult. This is what leftists do best. They celebrate violence. They celebrate death. This is where we are. Now, you go ahead and vote for Mamdani. Because speaking of Zoran Mamdani, who, according to the polls, is going to become New York’s next mayor. Before this awful thing happened, somebody posted on social media a comment that said, I just saw an NYPD officer crying in his car. You know what Zoran Mamdani’s response was? And I confirmed it. This was from his own Twitter account. Nature is healing. Mamdani loathes police. He hates cops. And police officers are the only thing that stands between the monsters who would commit horrible acts of violence and their victims. And Mamdani would happily remove that protection. The guy’s a creep. The guy’s a foaming at the mouth, rabid socialist kook. And if New Yorkers are stupid enough to elect him, they’re going to deserve everything. And I do mean everything they get. That’s where I am right now. My heart breaks for the thousands of NYPD officers who are terrified at the prospect of this rabid, radical lunatic being elected mayor. Businesses are terrified. Citizens are terrified. Look, the voters can decide. And if they actually elect the guy? They’re going to deserve it all. They will deserve it all. 800-655-MIKE. We’re in the Relief Factor studios for a busy Wednesday. I hope you join me. Give me your reaction to all of it. Also, I got a play for you, Spartacus. Spartacus was on full display yesterday. He’s fired up because one of Trump’s appointees got confirmed to be a judge yesterday. Cory Booker from New Jersey. Senator Cory Booker is none too happy. That and a whole lot more coming up here on the Mike Gallagher Show. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. 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.
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Mike Gallagher.
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A lot of evil in the world. Florida writes on the MyPillow text line, Mike, how did the left switch from being anti-war flower children to violent pro-war maniacs? Wisconsin writes, there is a demonic presence over the left. And Minnesota, Mike, this is physically, this is making me rather physically ill. about the way the left is celebrating violence. Thank God our Lord is in charge. He reigns over all evil. We must pray for the hearts of men. How right you are, Minnesota. You know, we’re in the middle of trying to support the victims of the Texas flooding, partnering with a Christian ministry called Food for the Poor. And you’ve got us to almost $90,000 in donations. $50 sends an emergency relief kit to these victims of the Texas flooding, and they are still struggling, big time. They need our assistance. The need is still urgent and still real. In that spirit, I want to share with you something I saw that touched my heart the other day. There’s a 12-year-old girl who survived the flooding at Camp Mystic. Camp Mystic, as you know, is the camp that lost so many kids. by this flooding. And we need some goodness right now. With all this evil talk we’re doing right now, we need a little God in our lives and in our hearts. Check out this little girl on Fox & Friends, a 12-year-old survivor of the Camp Mystic flooding in Central Texas.
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I heard there was a giant flood, but we were washed in Jesus’ blood. And you don’t really care for my news, do ya? On July the 4th, 2025, the water rose and we went adrift. The baffled king composing hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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What a beautiful, beautiful little girl. And with that spirit in your heart, look, let’s get to 100,000 in donations. Can we do that? I’ll bet we could do it today. You know what I need to get to $100,000? If you look right now at the screen, if you go to MikeOnline.com and see the Food for the Poor Help Texas Flooding link, it shows $75,578 online. We have $15,000 in phone donations. They just haven’t been added to that online total yet. They will be. That means we’re at $90,000 online. All I need is 100 people to donate $100. I’ll bet in the next 10 minutes we can get 100 people to pop in $100 to send two emergency relief kits to… to the victims of that terrible, terrible flooding. These are fellow Americans who need our help. Won’t you please pop in $100? Go to MikeOnline.com right now. Please go, and 100 people donate $100. We will pass $100,000. That’s my personal goal for this campaign, and I think we can do it. I know we can do it. In fact, let’s get a little God in our lives right now. I am praying right now that 100 people in this audience will have their heart touched and will be willing to donate $100. We just need 100 people to pop in 100 bucks. Let’s see if we can do it by the end of this hour. MikeOnline.com. Will you do it? Will you help us get there? If we get to 90,000 online, we’ll be over 100. Please go to MikeOnline.com. Excuse me, 85,000. We’ll be at 100. MikeOnline.com. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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There we go. Dead air much? Oh, jeez. Technology, not my friend. But there’s a reason I’m doing this. This has kind of a late 60s feel, right? Because it’s a late 60s band. It has kind of a Gary Puckett and the Union Gap kind of thing going on there. Mamas and the Papas? Exactly. If I tell you that it’s a group called The Hassle, does that mean anything to you? Not a thing. Doesn’t ring any bells. That means that there’s something you have not watched yet. Okay. Okay. Know who this is on the vocal? No, I don’t. Maybe. That is roughly 20-year-old Billy Joel in the band that he put together. Yep, he was in a couple of bands. The Hassles was first. Then he and his drummer buddy performed a heavy metal hard rock duo called Attila, like The Hun. And they were dressed in fur and hanging around in a… freezer with meat. And they were a horrible band by his own admission. And then he found his own voice, found his own career. This Billy Joel documentary, this two-part thing, or it’s two parts, two hours, each on HBO called And So It Goes. Yep, I’ve seen that. Well, then you would have known that. What? Then you would have known.
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You said you’ve seen it? Well, I’ve seen the documentary. I don’t know some obscure song that I barely recognize.
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It’s the first 30 minutes of the documentary. Are you paying attention?
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What is that song?
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Yes. It’s not 30 minutes of the documentary. He talked about forming the hassles, being in the band. Do you remember the picture? Okay, all right.
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Yeah, I remember that.
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I just don’t remember the song. I mean, excuse me. Holy cow.
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I haven’t finished it. I agree.
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His first his first marriage to Elizabeth, who was his wife and manager for like the 10 years of his rocket ride to ascendancy. And then he just kind of got too big and there’s lots of drinking and she had to go. And I guess he’s about to meet Christie Brinkley at the beginning of part two. So that’s where things get interesting. But I can’t say enough good things about the Billy Joel. And so it goes documentary really other than Lennon and McCartney. I don’t know a songwriter. I mean, I know James Taylor, Carole King, blah, blah, blah. But I don’t know a songwriter that’s meant more to me or been more prolific. It’s an amazing story.
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Me too. And that’s why it’s such a great documentary. And incidentally, you skip past the part that Billy Joel slept with his best friend’s wife.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, that’s Elizabeth. That’s who Elizabeth is. Stole her absolutely. Right off. Poor guy. But who then forgave. Oh, yeah. So you’ve got that. And George Martin, who produced The Beatles, came to him and said, I think I’d like to produce you. Do you know how huge that is? And he said, nope. No, thank you. Because George Martin wanted to ditch his band and use studio musicians.
SPEAKER 03 :
But back to sleeping with the best friend’s wife and stealing the wife from his best friend of many years. But Billy Joel really owns that. I was really impressed by his humility and just how, you know, I was a louse, you know. Contrition. It was a terrible thing. Genuine guilt. Yeah. Getting boss over it. It’s quite a story and quite a journey, so I’m glad you finally saw it because I loved every bit of it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Speaking of journeys, give me 60 seconds on Seattle. I’ve never been. I know, does the sun ever shine? I know it’s great to be there in the summer because it’s not a million degrees, so tell me about it.
SPEAKER 03 :
The sun shone the whole time I was there. It was beautiful. The weather was astounding. The… Topography is gorgeous. Evergreens everywhere. I love the green, lush area of the country. Seattle is really one of our most treasured cities, overrun by zombies.
SPEAKER 04 :
Here we go.
SPEAKER 03 :
Of fentanyl, poor people on fentanyl, and homeless people on every corner, and needles, and the whole thing. It’s San Francisco in the Pacific Northwest. It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. And the whole community just accepts it. People who I know who live there live in fear. They say the crime is lurking around every corner. Man. And it’s just – and even – I had dinner the other night with a family friend, and she’s pretty left. I mean, she’s from Seattle, native Seattle, and she said, look, whatever these Democrat leaders are doing, it isn’t working. I went, oh, really?
SPEAKER 01 :
Really?
SPEAKER 03 :
Tell me more. To do tell. But they acknowledge it, and that’s what’s going on. Look, that’s the existential crisis they face in New York City. I mean, if this Mamdani guy gets in, and did you see the latest poll? He beats everybody combined. Mark, it’s not close.
SPEAKER 04 :
Beats Andrew Cuomo, beats…
SPEAKER 03 :
Combined. And I’m old enough to remember a guy named Mark Davis saying, oh, it’s just a flash in the pan. He can’t win.
SPEAKER 04 :
I didn’t say he can’t win. I said I was skeptical that maybe if there was reasonable candidacies of just sort of mainstream Democrats like Eric Adams and even Andrew Cuomo. Or Curtis Lewa. A Republican option. Listen, you’re not going to hear me say that the horrible shooting is great for Curtis’s campaign, but maybe it’s an eye-opener where people can realize the ill-wisdom of electing somebody who hates the police and who hates guns.
SPEAKER 03 :
As we mourn an NYPD officer who was working off duty and was killed. In fact, it was reported that his father was so stricken by the news of the death of his son that he had a stroke. The father had to be taken to the hospital. Lives are shattered. Families are ruined. Four people. And P.S., just a quick aside. Have you seen the leftists celebrating the murder of the Black Rock executive? It’s Mangione stuff, but now it’s like this is Luigi 2.0. I mean, after all, Black Rock. And this guy had nothing to do with Black Rock. It’s Black Stone. I’m sorry, Rock and Stone. Blackstone. Blackstone had nothing to do with what he was doing. He got off on the wrong floor. He was targeting the NFL. He was targeting the NFL because he apparently thought he had CTE from high school. What the heck’s the NFL got to do with it? He’s mentally ill, obviously. And here we go with the gun control crap. Eric Adams himself confirmed that somebody he knew evidently bought the gun for him. Mm-hmm. All right, well, riddle me this, Jessica Tarloff, since you’re making gun control an issue out of this. What gun law is going to prevent somebody who’s able to legally purchase a firearm and give it to the guy who shouldn’t have a firearm? It’s what I said after Sandy Hook. You know, they all kept saying over and over again after Connecticut that terrible massacre of all those beautiful little kids and those teachers. Gun control, gun control. What law are you going to enact that’s going to stop a deranged kid, a son, from murdering his mother, stealing her gun out of the gun safe, and going to Sandy Hook and massacring all those kids? I mean, I’m not saying that to be provocative. What law do you think would have done that? There is no law to do that other than total confiscation. Which is where they’re headed. Well, that’s what they want. That’s what they would love. They would love to see. Look, I saw Jessica Tarloff make that argument on The Five yesterday. She said, point blank, when we had the assault weapons ban, the shootings were decreased. She always takes numbers and cherry-picks polls. By the way, did you see Trump blast her the other day? Jessica personally? Yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
Or just what he had to say about that?
SPEAKER 03 :
On Truth Social. He was pretty scientific. He said, I can’t stand that Jessica Tarloff. He posted that on Truth Social. I mean, it’s like, oh, gosh. But look, it’s a product. Back to Mamdani, which is what made me think of this whole rant about guns and this terrible shooting in New York. Mm-hmm. One of his past social media posts was unearthed after this shooting. So we’ve got an NYPD officer. We have another security guard who was cowering behind a desk who got murdered. Two other people killed. One of Mamdami’s tweets said, somebody had posted, I just saw an NYPD officer crying in his car and with a smiley face emoji. You know what Mamdami himself responded with? Nature is healing. This guy loathes the police. In fact, it was revealed that the special elite unit that responded to this shooting on Park Avenue, he wants to disband. He wants to get rid. There will be such a mass exodus of NYPD cops if this guy wins. He’s going to turn it into the actual Gotham. From the right from Batman, it’s going to be Gotham. And it’s going to be a disaster. And guess what? If New Yorkers are stupid enough to vote for this guy, they deserve everything they get, Mark.
SPEAKER 04 :
Why do I want to believe? Why do I want to believe that they’re not? And I’m not going to sit here in July and talk about a November election and predict that Mamdani will lose because it looks like a… a steep hill for either Eric Adams or Curtis Lee with a Republican or Andrew Cuomo. But I’ll believe it when I see it. And I guess if I see it, I see it. And I’ll be sad and I’ll cry for America’s biggest and one of our greatest cities. But I somehow I’m going to cleave to some hope. That New Yorkers will, I don’t expect Curtis to win, that a reasonable Democrat. He could. I would love that. It’s not like it’s never happened before. Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg. But I’m going to pray for and hope for that great city to come to its senses and that maybe this tragedy has opened some eyes about the ill wisdom of electing somebody with views as poisonous as Mom Dunn.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, to answer your question, why do you think this way? Because you are using EarthLogic. And EarthLogic tells anyone that there’s no way New Yorkers, no matter how exciting they are about his funny TikTok, his cute TikTok videos, and how appealing he may be, they’ve got to look at policy. They’ve got to look at what he will do to a city that is already wracked. with homelessness, with crime, with a quality of life that is terrible.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know the appeal? And here’s a huge theme of Democrats Forever, free stuff paid for by other people. City-run grocery stores, free public transportation. Senator Ed Markey and a member of Congress in Massachusetts has something called the Right to Travel Act or the Right to whatever, where they say that public transportation is a public good and it should be free. What? So free buses and subways paid for by whom?
SPEAKER 03 :
Rush used to say it all the time. It’s hard to beat Santa Claus. It’s hard to defeat Santa Claus. It’s the crackpot.
SPEAKER 04 :
Free stuff paid for by other people is the crackpot. And by the way, you’ll see a lot more of this because it’s all the Democrats have. Go ahead. I’m sorry.
SPEAKER 03 :
Help me understand the Sidney Sweeney story because I posted yesterday. Are they actually mad that a white woman posed for a jeans commercial?
SPEAKER 04 :
Her sins are she is white, she is beautiful, she knows she’s a woman, and she does not weigh 350 pounds. That can’t be it.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, no, that can’t be it.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s totally it. It’s totally it.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, no, there’s got to be more to it.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s a return to white supremacy.
SPEAKER 03 :
Why?
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s beauty.
SPEAKER 03 :
This is not the first white woman who’s posed for a jeans commercial. I know, but… No, no, there’s more. What are you missing? There’s a part of it. Is it an eagle and the eagle reminds them of Hitler? No. And the SS?
SPEAKER 04 :
It is her whiteness and a celebration of her beauty. No, it can’t be that. There’s no way. Tis the season, Mike, where what we must celebrate is obesity. And God bless people of color. God bless people of every race. But they’re like the only ones who can be lifted up and celebrated. And you’ll never hear me playing violin music for, you know, oh, we poor white people. But that’s a huge…
SPEAKER 03 :
No, you’re missing something. No, you are. You have to be. There’s no way. This country can’t be this crazy. I think it has something to do. Does it have something to do with her initials? I think it does. I’m telling you, Mark. No, no, no, no. There’s no way they’re upset that a non-obese, non-person of color is in a jeans commercial. There’s no way.
SPEAKER 04 :
Do you know who’s catching holy you-know-what lately? Lizzo, incredibly talented singer who now weighs two-something instead of four-something. It’s like, oh, you gave in. You gave in? You gave in. Yeah, she just added 20 years to her life. Exactly right. She decided to become healthy and not die. Die in five years.
SPEAKER 03 :
I’m telling you, the world has gone nuts. It has indeed so. You mentioned violin music. I hope you saw Cory Booker. Spartacus took to the floor yesterday. They’re livid about one of Trump’s lawyers getting appointed to the federal judiciary. And apparently some Democrats went along with that to Cory Booker’s chagrin. So he went off on this wild, his eyes is bulging, he’s screaming. Trump’s Hitler. And have you seen the meme, the social media popular post that shows Trump playing a flute and a violin when they’re screaming? Mark, you’ve got to see this. It’s so funny. It’s so good. I mean, guys, can you play this real quick? We’re running out of time. Can you play this for Mark? Now, you’ve got to hear Spartacus, Cory Booker, and then the way the social media geniuses have done this. Then they superimpose Trump, AI. He’s playing the flute on one side of the screen. and he’s playing the violin on the other. Hit it.
SPEAKER 17 :
There’s too much on the line right now in America. As people’s due process rights and freedom of speech rights and secret police are running around this country, picking people up off the streets who have a legal right to be here. There’s too much going on in this country.
SPEAKER 03 :
And mark the visual of Trump playing the violin and the whatever that music. What is that instrument? Is that a recorder?
SPEAKER 04 :
I thought it was the recorder.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, yeah. And you can see Trump is very intently playing these two instruments. And there’s Spartacus. It’s perfect. And final note.
SPEAKER 04 :
There are 500 Sidney Sweeney memes, real quick, about the people who are jumping to the Nazi imagery from her regime campaign. They have her starring in several movies. She stars as a Formula One star, and they’ve got her in a big helmet inside a car in her new film, Master Race. Oh, please. You had something real quick.
SPEAKER 03 :
Take us out. Well, no, real quick. Charlie Kirk, our colleague here at Salem, and our friend, has officially entered the Zeitgeist South Park. South Park. He’s going to spoof Charlie. They’re going to do a bit where, is it Cartman? Cartman. Cartman is going to be Charlie, and he’s going to debate college campus kids. It’s the coolest thing. And Charlie, you know who’s the happiest about it? Charlie. That’s right. He’s having a ball with it.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s a serious form of flattery, this sincere form of flattery. Because you know why? Because we conservatives, we actually have a sense of humor. Isn’t it something? Now that works out. We sleep better at night. We’re mentally healthier. Happy Wednesday. Welcome back. Fantastic. Mike Gallagher, ready to go. 10 o’clock soon as we’re done on 660 AM. The answer.
SPEAKER 11 :
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SPEAKER 04 :
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