Now, but is it possible, is it possible, is it possible though, Mike, that the legendary iconic Bob Dylan may have a theme for our times, that the times they are a-changin’? Get it? Do you feel like the times are a-changin’? See, see, see, see? Now, the reason for this, you know what? Yes, he is. The reason for this, he also turns 85 on Sunday. So I was going to do knock it on heaven door, lay, lay, lady, lay or something like that. But the times, I think, are a change in Senate. Republicans are in full revolt. They just can’t believe that things aren’t wholly going their way. One of the familiar narratives yesterday was that we’re putting the majority at risk. We’re putting the majority at risk. And my thought was we’re working toward a new majority. It is a new majority of real warriors. You’re either on board or you’re not. You’re for us or you’re against us. And we’re putting together a new majority where conservatives are no longer going to have to endure the annoyance of insufficient warriors. You’re Tom Tillis’s, you’re Bill Cassidy’s, et cetera, et cetera. So.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, they’re making the $1.8 billion slush fund the big reason for the revolt. They’re claiming that that’s it. And I am kind of intrigued by your sort of tacit approval of it. It’s more than tacit.
SPEAKER 01 :
It’s my thorough approval of it.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, but I would assert that you haven’t been real enthusiastic about it, nor have I, and maybe I’m reading too much into it.
SPEAKER 01 :
I wonder if this is a great time to bring it up.
SPEAKER 02 :
That’s my concern. I just wonder if the timing is not bad. However, I do believe that the John Thunes of the world are using it as the excuse to say, well, this is such a mess, we’re going to go home now, we’re going to take a vacation, and instead of passing all these important things that have to be passed with regards to border security and ICE and all that. You know, sometimes Trump just plows ahead, doesn’t care about optics, doesn’t care particularly about – I mean, he’s not a politician, and he doesn’t have a focus group advising him. Look, I’ll draw the line, and I’ll get started. I sure hope they don’t intend to compensate anybody who attacked cops. Or who was violent with cops. That would be a problem. The trouble is you’ve got a whole lot of people who act like nothing really bad happened on January 6th. And that’s a lot of people. And that’s not isolated. A lot of people. We could light up our phone line. Oh, it was all Antifa. Oh, there wasn’t any violence. Oh, and there was violence. Look at the body cam videos for crying out loud. A lot of people did really… bad, destructive things. They did attack cops. They did break windows. But having said that, there’s a whole lot of people that just walked in with an open door and they wound up having their lives ruined. There’s a lot of people. There’s a story on X that I posted. A guy that writes this long, he said, I walked through an open door. I yelled a little bit. He goes, I didn’t touch anybody. Didn’t do anything wrong other than be in the building. And then he left, and then the next day or whenever, they pre-dawn raid. There he was, stripped out in his underwear in the front yard in front of the neighbors, and he has spent thousands and thousands of dollars. He got pardoned eventually, but not before his entire life savings were wiped out. His wife was put on a no-fly list. They were debanked. I mean, his whole life was destroyed. Now, I always try to look at the other.
SPEAKER 01 :
And why? For those that are and and why? Because his crime is his person, not even really a crime, because his it was he was wrong place, wrong time, because he was even tangentially. in a location that needed to be weaponized, that needed to be stigmatized. They had to crank it up to 11, 12, and 13 because the Democrat Party had to portray January 6th as being worse than 9-11, worse than Pearl Harbor Day. So anybody even remotely, tangentially, peripherally attached to it had to be ratcheted up for maximum, maximum punishment and making their life and some degree of atonement, some degree of healing for them is what this fund is about. Didn’t mean to bog down.
SPEAKER 02 :
No, you’re right, and they have weaponized January 6th against us. That’s what they’ve done, and they think they’ve got us. And Thune and these guys, they just go right along happily, and they say, oh, yeah, I mean, these people tried to destroy democracy. And now we’re going to pay them with a $1.8 billion fund. Incidentally, nobody ever talks about the payout that the government gave to people like Peter Strzok. Remember him? Remember the guy that, you know, we have an insurance policy? And because his texts were leaked, he wound up getting rich by the government. We wrote checks to people like him. Nobody bats an eye. You know, so it’s not fair. But I will say this. I have the same feeling you have. We got a lot on our plate right now. We got to get this war in Iran over. We got to get the Strait of Hormuz open and we got to get the prices to come down or we are going to be doomed politically on November the 3rd.
SPEAKER 01 :
That’s why the whole Cuba thing is something that resonates deeply with me. Fantastic. You know, Cuba Libre. Yay. Fantastic. Let’s do it right now. Can we focus, focus, focus, please? Can we get the war won ideally by Labor Day? And then we’ll work on, you know, indicting, you know, whatever members of the Castro family are still breathing here.
SPEAKER 02 :
Meanwhile, there’s a guy in San Diego, a 69-year-old man, Kerry Sharon, who had a Trump house. He had flags all over. He had Trump signs. He was all in. He was MAGA on steroids. He was beaten to death, brutally beaten, 69 years old. The assailant, 32-year-old Escondido resident Thomas Caleb Butler, was arrested on attempted murder charges, faces life in prison. There’s a picture, a graphic, gruesome picture. of the 69-year-old MAGA guy in the hospital. I mean, this guy was pummeled. He was just, every bone in his body was broken. And, you know, as I posted last night on X, when you keep calling us fascists, when you keep calling us, you know, Hitlers, when you keep calling us horrible things.
SPEAKER 01 :
Threats to democracy that America will cease to exist if our side racks up any more victories.
SPEAKER 02 :
So maybe you shouldn’t be surprised when somebody gets beaten to death by some lunatic who doesn’t like a Trump sign in somebody’s front yard. Now, if she was on the other foot, somebody had an Obama sign, somebody had a Biden shrine in their front yard, and they got beaten to death? Oh, my gosh. That’s all we’d be writing about. That’s all we’d be hearing about. That’s it. We know how that game is played, and it’s just kind of disgusting. By the way, let’s not get out of here without talking about Kyle Busch. My goodness. What happened?
SPEAKER 01 :
41 years. Nobody knows.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, he had, you know, reportedly he fell. He was fixing a smoke detector a couple weeks ago. He fell off a stool and he cut open his leg. His wife took him to the hospital. Being Kyle Busch, I mean, this guy, just a renegade and a beloved figure of NASCAR, he went back right into the car pretty soon. Then, like a few days ago, at the end of a race, he called for a doctor and it was reportedly a sinus infection. But they kept calling it a sinus cold. I’ve never heard of that. Have you ever heard of the phrase sinus cold?
SPEAKER 01 :
It seems like a confluence of sinus infection and head cold. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 02 :
Maybe. And he was asked about it. And he told a reporter the other day, yeah, because it’s in my head and you can still hear it. He said, and they alluded to it. And now they get him into the hospital. There’s a lot of speculation that he developed pneumonia and then that turned into sepsis because it’s kind of weird for a healthy 41-year-old guy to die of pneumonia. But there’s a great piece over at Red State by Jerry Wilson, why Kyle Busch’s death hurts so much. He wasn’t supposed to die. Always about respect. His death closes the door on the NASCAR so many knew and loved. Many will still watch the races, he writes at Red State. Not as many as before. Certainly not as many as in the days of packed houses at racetracks. But today, we lost NASCAR’s last genuine villain. Cruelly and prematurely, whether you loved him or loathed him, you always had to acknowledge him as someone who belonged in NASCAR’s history and lore. as an integral part of the sport we adored. That’s why Kyle Busch’s death hurts so much.
SPEAKER 01 :
The NASCAR bad blood is such fun because it is so good-natured at its root, whether it’s what people thought about Dale Jr., what people thought about Jeff Gordon, or what people thought about Kyle Busch. And there was a recent interview where someone is interviewing him, I believe, after a win. It’s like, why do these wins, why do these races mean so much to you? And his answer was, because you never know when it’s the last one. Well, that’s it. That took on a particular poignancy yesterday.
SPEAKER 02 :
You never know when the last one is, when he was asked why it never gets old. And so may his memory bless us with the important reminder that any day could be our last, Mark. And I love that message of just live your life like it’s your last day. Be kind. Do something good for somebody. I mean, we right now, we happen to be in the middle of something that this audience is doing really a lot of good with. We’ve got 424 kids going to these Christian summer camps. I’d like to get out of here today before I head off to vacation to hit 500 kids. It’s $200 to sponsor a child who’s a son or daughter of a prisoner, and you can send them to the Prison Fellowship Ministry summer camp called Angel Tree. If you go to mikeonline.com. Now, we’re at 424 right now. I’ve got an idea. I’m going to pull out, and I want to talk to the Dallas Fort Worth audience.
SPEAKER 01 :
You have our ear.
SPEAKER 02 :
Like it or not, whatever you think of the 41st president of the United States, George W. Bush was the 41st president of the United States. George H. H. W. Bush. No, George W. Bush, Portrait of My Father, by number 41. Well, he was talking about 41. That’s the name of his book. 41, that’s right. He was talking about his father, but it was written by his son, George W. Bush. I’ve got a copy of it right now. If you’re watching on the Twitter stream right now, you see my copy of the book.
SPEAKER 01 :
Fantastic book.
SPEAKER 02 :
It’s a great book. And look, George W. Bush was very kind to me. I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in his Dallas office well after he was out of office. You and I met with him in the Oval Office, so we have great fond feelings. Look what I have. I have a signed copy. I have his book. And look, if you’re watching on the camera, hi, Mike, best wishes, George Bush. Okay, now it’s signed. I think somebody who loves presidential memorabilia would love to have this book in their possession. And I’d like to auction it off to a bidder to go to our Prison Fellowship Angel Tree Summer Camp campaign. Mark, I’m going to have you – what do you think? Set the price, and let’s see if we can’t get somebody to bid on it right now, listening to the Eminem experience. Well, where do people call?
SPEAKER 01 :
And I would think – How many? It’s $200 to send a kid to camp, right?
SPEAKER 02 :
$200 to sponsor a child for a week. You know, $200 for one week to go to a summer camp.
SPEAKER 01 :
Let’s go five kids for a grand to start. Are you going to start a bidding war? No, no, no.
SPEAKER 02 :
I just want a good price.
SPEAKER 01 :
Bam, I want it.
SPEAKER 02 :
I want it, and we’ll send it to you. $1,000 for five kids? Sounds good to you. Sounds good to me. Is that your price? Nice round figure. Let’s do it. It’s got to be, because it’s going to be one of your fans who appreciates the legacy of having a- Somebody’s got a grand.
SPEAKER 01 :
And again, and it’s not even about Bush. This book, because everybody knows what I think about the entirety of the Bush family. They made me a little nutty, but their heart for service and this family and what they brought- to just the American scene is something that is a really important and uplifting part of history, and this book is fantastic.
SPEAKER 02 :
Okay, so if you want the book, and again, it is personally signed, and it’s cool because it’s signed like with, you can see it’s a Sharpie. You can tell it’s not one of those stamped signs. It’s High Mike, and it says, High Mike, best wishes, George Bush. He has personally signed it. It’s a book about his father, 41, A Portrait of My Father, by George W. Bush. If you are a historian, if you love presidential memorabilia, and you want to send five kids to a Christ-centered summer camp, children of prisoners, $1,000, call Tracy right now. She’s standing by at 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. That would be a great way to wrap up her.
SPEAKER 01 :
And let me let me know how that goes. And with that, and let’s tell everybody where we tell everybody Eminem extra podcast and you’re gone for a week and then I’m gone for a week. Oh, my gosh. Must be no podcast. We have left timeless nuggets of of special focus, special edition programming covering things political, societal, cultural. We’re not going to miss a day. During these two weeks. And I’ll be doing the Eminem Extra. We’ll just call it M. The day after the election on Wednesday. Obama lonesome. Talking about what happened in Cornyn v. Paxton. So the podcast is there even when we are not.
SPEAKER 02 :
And you saw the last poll that just came out. Paxton 56% Cornyn. 35%.
SPEAKER 01 :
Just stop it. Just stop it. That’s silly. Mark, he’s not going to win.
SPEAKER 02 :
He’s not going to win.
SPEAKER 01 :
Listen, I think that seems to be baked in. We’ll see what happens. I think he’s toast. But I don’t think it’s going to be 21 points.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, it might be 10. It might be 11. We shall see. All right, so again, 800-655-6453 if you want. First person in gets the book. $1,000 tax-deductible donation to send five kids to summer camp. I love you, Mark. Have a great vacation. Safe travels.
SPEAKER 01 :
I’ll see you.
SPEAKER 02 :
See you in a couple weeks. Yeah, I’m on the plane tonight, and going somewhere far, far away.
SPEAKER 01 :
And the podcast episode contains evidence of where Mike’s going, so another reason to listen to M&A. It’s a hint. It’s a hint. It’s a big hint. Mike’s with you on the radio, 10 o’clock, as soon as we’re done, right here on 660 AM, The Answer.
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