I look at those streets in New York on these hot days that cannot be good. I know we’re going to have my buddy Chad Hastie, a talk show host up at Lubbock, said, you know, soon we’re just going to have AI horses and nobody’s going to have to worry about this.
SPEAKER 01 :
Those are robots. Well, and I will tell you, final note on this, I will tell you that that industry, you’re going to put a lot of people out of work. Because they do. A lot of them are Irish immigrants that run those horse and buggy operations outside the plaza. Talk to them. Their families came over from Ireland. Their father did it. Sounds like a different question.
SPEAKER 02 :
Sounds like a different issue. Are you with me on banning all the THC garbage in Texas? No, no, you’re not.
SPEAKER 01 :
No, you’re a big weed head. I’m not a weed head. I just don’t want to.
SPEAKER 02 :
I know. Because the reason I ask is people go, oh, it’ll put business in. Guess what? If there’s a business that shouldn’t oughtn’t to exist, then go find something else to do.
SPEAKER 01 :
And maybe this horse-drawn carriage thing is one of them.
SPEAKER 02 :
And maybe the THC store is one of them.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, I’m not going to draw to compare horse-drawn carriages to potheads. No, I’m not.
SPEAKER 02 :
It’s the argument he uses. We’re going to put people. It’ll affect businesses. Well, maybe some businesses shouldn’t exist. Find something else to do.
SPEAKER 01 :
Tell that to the guy that’s trying to feed his wife and kids. I know, I know, I know. As you sit in your cushy studio and you say, I make a nice living. And you can go eat cake. You know, you know. But I don’t know. Real quick on the Howard Stern thing, because I’m fascinated by this. You’ve seen the report, right?
SPEAKER 02 :
Did you literally, three minutes ago, mock me for bringing up the horse thing and then tell me, well, I don’t really want to talk about the horse thing because I have important things that I want to talk about it on. Yeah, well, fair enough. Redistricting is one of them. And one of them was Howard flipping Stern as if anyone has cared about anything he has said for 15 years.
SPEAKER 01 :
Did you care about Stephen Colbert and what he said? The reason it’s an interesting issue is because Howard Stern is likely going the way of Stephen Colbert. And the connection is, go woke, you’re going to go broke. You go anti-Trump. It’s going to you’re going to pay a price. And the argument is being made in Hollywood and in New York that the reason Sirius is about to apparently end the incredible one hundred million dollar a year agreement with Howard Stern is that he and you won’t you don’t know this because you don’t listen. And I don’t listen very much. I don’t want Trump voters to listen to me. He said, I hate Trump voters. Now, what don’t you think that makes up his a big part of his audience? Yes, it’s stupid. It’s unbelievably stupid. But Stephen Colbert essentially did the same thing. In other words, instead of just doing what they do, instead of just doing a show, you’re discouraging people who don’t see the world they do politically from engaging in your show. You and I have spent decades together saying we want to garner the biggest audience we can. Right? Do you ever tell anybody, if you’re a Democrat, I don’t want you listening to the Mark Davis show? We tell you to call the show. Thank you. It is so antithetical to what you and I believe about, hey, debate and disagreement. But these guys say, we don’t want you. We don’t want you to watch our TV show, and we don’t want you to listen to our radio show. And they’re both paying, apparently, a price. And I think it’s a good issue.
SPEAKER 02 :
The difference, it’s kind of funny. The last 15 things Howard has said, I haven’t cared in forever. But the notion of whether Sirius XM is about to dump him, you bet, that is a major media story. I don’t think it’s going to happen. I think there’s a difference between Colbert and Stern. Colbert is nothing but liberal pablum as content all day, every day. But he shouldn’t be. But it shouldn’t be. You’re completely right. Stern, when asked about Trump, will talk about how he doesn’t really like him. And when talking politics, which he does too often but not that often, will talk about Trump voters and how I don’t want you to blah, blah, blah. It’s just him being a finger-wagging old scold. Most of Stern’s content is just normal Stern content, and his fan base will still be there, and he’s not going anywhere.
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, reportedly they’ve gone somewhere because reportedly he’s down to about 200,000 AQH a week. He’s down. They said there’s no way to justify paying 100 million. And do you know how many people he’s got, by the way, on his staff? This is crazy to me. Well, they’re all on the air, so count them. Yeah, no kidding. 95 people work on the Howard Stern Show. So that’s why it’s costing them so much money. I mean, it’s a hugely expensive thing. And look, I mean, if he is just Howard, and I admit, I’ve been a fan over the years. Over the years, he’s one of the best interviewers in radio history. Absolutely. He’s dirty and he’s filthy. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, very filthy and all that. So I don’t want anybody to start listening and thinking, Oh, boy. Yeah, I was listening yesterday. Oh, no, because now the guardrails are off because he’s on satellite. He can say anything he wants.
SPEAKER 02 :
But everybody said it would be nothing but F-bombs, and it really hasn’t been. I would suggest that the Stern show on satellite over the last 10 or 15 years has been less suggestive, less than it was on terrestrial radio in the 80s and 90s.
SPEAKER 01 :
I just like to see some accountability for people who say, we don’t want you at our table. Okay, goodbye. I know. Stephen Colbert. F-A-F-O. See you later. F-A-F-O. All right.
SPEAKER 02 :
Can I do 60 seconds on famous people and money? Famous people and money. A famous actor, we all know the Cincinnati beatdown and that woman who was very nearly beaten to death. Her name is apparently – we don’t know her whole name. Her name is apparently Holly. Holly. A famous actor has written her a note and has and has donated some money to her rehab GoFundMe or something like that. Have you heard about this? No. The famous actor says, listen, I have Ohio roots. I played a Cleveland Indians pitcher in a famous movie and I want to give you some money for your recovery. Now, do you know who I’m talking about? Sheen. Charlie Sheen, exactly, who was a wild thing in a major league in 1989. And there’s stories everywhere. Charlie Sheen contributes to this woman. I hesitate to do this because it’s weird. I don’t know. It’s lovely. How much do you think he gave her?
SPEAKER 1 :
$10,000.
SPEAKER 02 :
$1,000. Well, there you go. I mean, it’s $1,000. Well, it’s the groceries. It’s the paid part of the mortgage. But it’s like, oh.
SPEAKER 01 :
All right. Let me talk about this redistricting because I’m so fascinated by the pushback from the Democrats that their narrative is there should be no gerrymandering at all. And what really annoys me is not the Democrats claiming that hypocrisy, but some of the Republicans. And let me give you an example. Ari Fleischer, he posted yesterday, I want to win five more seats in the House, but mid-census change in Texas is not the way to do it. Even politics must have rules. Gerrymandering should be done once every 10 years by all states. Now, I saw Jessica Tarloff argue the other day that… This is the Democrat argument. Well, here’s the argument that when this came up for a vote recently in the last few years, every single Democrat voted to end gerrymandering once and for all. And the Republicans voted to continue it. Well, do you want to know why, Ari Fleischer? Do you want to know why we should do what we’re doing right now? Democrats already have the advantage through gerrymandering. They’ve already achieved the advantage. Of course, they don’t want any more. They’ve got it done. This is corrective. We’re clawing back some votes, some representation that Texas deserves. Do you think there’s any conservatives in Massachusetts?
SPEAKER 02 :
I would think a few, yes.
SPEAKER 01 :
Think there’s any Republicans in Massachusetts? Do you know what percentage of Massachusetts Trump took?
SPEAKER 1 :
40%.
SPEAKER 01 :
Do you know how many elected members of Congress they have in Massachusetts for the Republican Party?
SPEAKER 02 :
Zero.
SPEAKER 01 :
Zero! There is not a single member of the House or Senate that’s a Democrat in the state of Massachusetts because of the gerrymandering they’ve done. So this is ridiculous. Go lock them up. Go get them, Greg Abbott. Hey, go, Dan, I saw him last night. Paxton, go send the FBI, slap them in handcuffs, and drag their sorry butts back to Texas and do their job.
SPEAKER 02 :
You know it’s not going to happen. Well, what’s going to happen? I think that the blather and the posturing in the political theater, and it’s good blathering, and it’s good posturing, and it’s good political theater, will result in enough Democrats going, I better show up, that they do, and the quorum will be achieved. It only takes 12 or 13 of them.
SPEAKER 01 :
And a few of them have already come home, right? Correct, yeah. I think a few of them are four or five of them have returned. I think a few more. And good. But I saw some Democrats say, we’re going to we’re going to fight this out until the end. What’s the end? When the when the earth flames out, when Texas stops existing, what’s the end? What do you mean when we’re all dead? What do you mean? You’re going to say crazy questions. Stop these crazy questions.
SPEAKER 02 :
I’m not thinking about that.
SPEAKER 01 :
Their courage, their warriors, their warriors, their truth tellers.
SPEAKER 02 :
We are stepping into the fight by leaving the state.
SPEAKER 01 :
What are you going to do? What a time to be alive. And there’s Trump. I tell you, Tracy came running into the studio yesterday. She said, Mike, Trump’s up on the roof. I said, what do you mean he’s on the roof?
SPEAKER 02 :
I got to write a parody song for this one. Oh, I played it.
SPEAKER 01 :
I played it. I played the drifters version in the middle of the show. But I need to rewrite it.
SPEAKER 02 :
Like Trump went down to Georgia. I need to do another one.
SPEAKER 01 :
Trump up on the roof. But you know who else is up on the roof? Batman. He’s our Batman. Batman’s up on the roof. Batman’s on the roof looking out over the country, taking care of the United States.
SPEAKER 02 :
But is he Christian Bale or is he Michael Keaton?
SPEAKER 01 :
I think he’s Christian Bale. Maybe he’s Val Kilmer. Oh, no. Or Clooney.
SPEAKER 02 :
The worst Batman ever. I love you. Happy Wednesday.
SPEAKER 01 :
I love you.
SPEAKER 02 :
That is Mike Gallagher ready to go on his Wednesday program, which starts as soon as we’re done, 10 o’clock, right here on 660 AME. For full shows live and on demand, it’s Salem News Channel.
