President Trump now says he wants nuclear reactors on the moon. Is this a good idea? Plus, Sirius XM may have be cutting ties with Howard Stern soon. One of the most legendary broadcasters of all time may be at the end of his road.
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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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You know how I warn you when I’m in a good mood? I better warn you when I’m in a bad mood. I’m a little cranky today, fired up, coming into the studio in kind of a bad mood. Let me tell you why. It has to do with the redistricting drama playing out in Texas. It’s going to happen also in other states as well. There’s going to be redistricting. There’s going to be so-called gerrymandering. You want to know why? Because we can. And you want to know why we should reject the stupid argument from stupid people that it’s time to end the gerrymandering? Because the Democrats have gerrymandered their way into where we are now, which is unfair representation. You don’t believe me? Start with Massachusetts. They don’t have a single Republican representing Republicans in Massachusetts. Trump took 40% of the vote in the state of Massachusetts. I know it’s a liberal state. If you’re going to tell me that you think it’s normal to not have any Republican representation in a state like Massachusetts, I’ll tell you you’re fully you-know-what. And so now the Democrats want to pretend, well, we don’t want to do any more gerrymandering. We voted against it last time. Yeah, it’s because you’ve already done the damage. That’s because you already own Illinois. and California, and Massachusetts, and New York. So I get that Democrats are going to Democrat. They’re hypocrites. They’re clowns. The ones that are in Texas who are hiding out in J.B. Pritzker’s Hyatt Hotel are cowards. We get that, all right? Perhaps they’re a lost cause. What are you going to do? You can’t make a leopard change their spots. You know who’s got me fired up today? are the Republicans who are pushing back against this. And the truth is, it’s all establishment Republicans who think that playing nice with the Democrats is the way that we’re going to get things done. And they’re pitifully out of touch. Ari Fleischer is a nice guy. I’ve met him before. I’ve interviewed him. Okay, nice man. Here’s what he posted yesterday on X. 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, don’t you know? Gerrymandering should be done once every ten years by all states. No state should gerrymander. It’s fair to everyone that way. Now, Ari Fleischer knows… how the Democrats have had their way with us over gerrymandering until now. So in other words, in Ari Fleischer’s Republican establishment world, in his country club Republican life, the Democrats could get away with murder all they wanted. Now they’ve got what they want. Now they’ve got the electoral advantage. How dare Republicans try to claw any votes back? Well, you know what? Go take a hike, establishment Republicans. Axios is writing a growing number of blue state House Republicans. at risk of being drawn out of their own seats, are speaking out against their party’s mid-decade redistricting efforts. There is nothing illegal about doing this mid-decade. You don’t have to wait for the census. You want to play by the rules? We’re playing by the rules. You can redistrict now. And guess what, Texas? You should. Because we can’t afford to lose the House next year. Guess what, Florida? You should. Guess what, Ohio? You should. Guess what, Massachusetts? Anywhere you can do it, do it. Because we’ve got to claw back accurate representation. I saw Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor of Texas last night, on with Sean Hannity, who pointed out something that is painfully obvious.
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Whatever it takes, we’re going to get it done. There’s nothing they can do to stop us. And I challenge them, come back and do the right thing. Don’t run and hide because you’ve lost touch with the voters. Their problem are not redistricting lines. Their problem, Sean, is they’ve lost the minds of their voters who are moving towards the Republican Party all over the country. We’re a red state. We deserve more representation.
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We’re a red state. We deserve more representation. That’s it in a nutshell. Hey, Massachusetts, any Republicans listening or watching me right now? How does it feel to know you don’t have a single elected representative in Congress? Not one. You’ve got two Democrat senators and seven Democrat congressmen. Not one Republican. You think that’s fair? Ari Fleischer? You think that’s okay? Blue state Republicans? Knock it off. Texas is fighting for fair representation. And I’m telling you, people like Ari Fleischer are the reason Republicans fail. I hate to be nasty about a guy who’s probably a perfectly nice man, but these weak-kneed Republicans who like to play—these are the Jeb Bush-style Republicans— This is the way we always used to do things. This is the Jeb Bush, John McCain faction of the Republican Party, and it is gone. Trump has transformed the Republican Party into a party that fights and a party that wins. Prove me wrong. 800-655-MIKE. Welcome in. It’s Wednesday, August the 6th, 2025. We’re here in the Relief Factor studios for another day of action and fun and frivolity. I want you to flood my phone lines. 800-655-MIKE. When the Democrats say, well, we a couple years ago, we voted against gerrymandering. Oh, yeah. After you’ve done all the damage all these years, after you have the unfair advantage, guess what? We get fair representation. And we get to fight. And we get to win. Elections have consequences. So knock it off, squish Republicans. Do the damn job that you were elected to do. Fight for us. Don’t play footsie with Hakeem Jeffries. 800-655-6453. 800-655-MIKE. Call or text. Let’s put your voice front and center here on the Mike Gallagher Show. 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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Just got a text on the MyPillow text line from Colorado. Mike, you stopped using the sound effect box. Let’s hear that again. I haven’t done that for a while. I love this little thing. I think the battery’s going dead. It’s this little sound machine that somebody ordered for. Did you order for that for me, Eric? I forget. What’s the one that… I got it from somebody. There’s all these different little sound effects. You push like, ooh, that’s a gunshot. That’s the one I like the best. That’s my favorite one. So it’s a little red box. We sent a bunch of them out to donors to our Food for the Poor campaign. I signed them. Yep, that’s the Democrats right now. They’re ordering quesadillas in Pritzker’s Hyatt Hotel. and root for room service, and they think they’re going to camp out there for the rest of their lives. And when Texas redistricts and we gain five more seats in the House of Representatives, the Republican victory in 2026 will likely be guaranteed. Oh, yeah, 25 minutes before the hour. I love this. I love this little box. The sound machine. The sound machine. There’s the sound of nervousness in Washington with the Department of Justice announcing that there is going to be a grand jury convened over the Russia hoax. I saw a lot of people reacted to Mark Warner, the Virginia Democrat, who posted yesterday, Tulsi Gabbard is a threat to our nation’s security. She should be fired immediately. And people picked up on that and said, oh, panic much? Panic much, Senator? What are you worried about? That sounds like absolute panic. And there’s a lot of people saying that, They should be sweating bullets over the Russia hoax investigation. I have a real strong belief, a funny feeling, if you will, that heads are going to roll over this Russia collusion hoax. You can’t interfere with an election. You can’t mislead the American people. with a fabricated claim that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians in order to rig the election. You can’t get away with that. And watching the pushback right now from Democrats who are nervous about it is hysterical. Listen to John Yoo, who was on Fox News Channel yesterday, laying out what this grand jury probe is likely going to lead to.
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This is extremely important because a grand jury getting involved is the first step to really finding out everything that happened in 2016, 2017 with the Russia hoax. In particular, how did the Clinton campaign basically trick or work with members of the intelligence services to launch this hoax, this investigation that really crippled about the first year and a half or two years of President Trump’s first term. Now, there are a lot of legal obstacles that this new investigation is going to have to overcome. This has been so long ago that it might be outside the time period that you can bring prosecutions anymore. You also have the Durham investigation, which chose to decline to bring any kinds of prosecution. So the grand jury investigation, it may have some legal hurdles to get over, but the important thing, I think, for the country, for the American people, is to get the facts straight, to really have a definitive account of how this happened in the first place.
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That’s all Americans want to know, is did this happen or didn’t it? Did Obama conspire to have this phony Russian thing a smear campaign to try to sabotage a rightfully elected president of the United States, Donald J. Trump? Do they hate him so much that they were trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the American people and make Americans believe that there was, in fact… collusion to interfere with the election in an attempt to delegitimize the Trump presidency. See, here’s the difference. Now, the fact is, for the first time, the levers of power are aligned to pursue the truth about the Russia hoax from inside the federal government. Now Republicans are in charge. You know, keep in mind, we’re only seven months into the Trump administration. And for Pam Bondi to make this decision to order a grand jury investigation, isn’t it hysterical to see Democrats whine about it and complain about it? The same people who spent years trying to put Trump in prison, their strategy was to lock Trump up. First part of this whole Russiagate thing. Then with a series of BS, you know, prosecutions in 2023. We all suffered through this together. I went to Atlanta and watched the motorcade run by when he was being fingerprinted. He didn’t actually have to be fingerprinted, thank God. But you remember, mugshot and everything. That mugshot might have gotten him elected in 2024. I don’t know. I think the assassination attempt is what got him elected. But the American people demand answers. So isn’t it rich that the very same people who are… denouncing the grand jury investigation, claiming that it is weaponizing the Justice Department. Boy, they can’t even say that with a straight face. But they’re trying. They can’t even pretend that they’re upset about the weaponization of the Justice Department because that was their whole political strategy against President Trump. Look, they really are on the ropes. And this absolutely could be the beginning of the end of the deep state. 800-655-MIKE 19 minutes before the hour. Give me your thoughts. You want to know what the… Like somebody just texted from Wisconsin. Let the process play out and let the process be the punishment. Now we’ve got… Republicans, and we’ve got Trump pulling the levers of government, when before it was Obama, it was Biden, and it was even Hillary in her efforts. You saw the memo that was recently declassified, claiming that Hillary blessed this scheme to try to distract Americans from her own email scandal. And just make it up. Just make it up. Look, Trump has to continue what he started. And the redistricting effort in various states like Texas will guarantee he gets to finish what he started. The only thing that can get in the way now are squeamish Republicans. And that, frankly, scares the heck out of me. 800, they do. They scare the heck out of me. I saw this tweet from Ari Fleischer. Well, we should play by the rules. We are playing by the rules, Ari. You know better. The redistricting is perfectly legitimate right now. You can do that all day long right now. You don’t have to wait until 2032. Cut it out. Cut it out. Play to win for a change, won’t you? We’re partnering with our friends at the nonprofit relief agency, Food for the Poor, and rushing emergency relief kits to these flood-ravaged part 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. They lost everything.
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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. We’re 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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When I saw President Trump up on the roof of the White House yesterday, I kept thinking about Batman. The guy looking out over his… kingdom, his surveying the land. Well, not kingdom. Boy, that’ll get me in trouble. He’s not a king. Stop it. Don’t start mouthing off. He’s the president of the United States. And he’s Batman. He’s up there. That was the thing. It hit the theme, Eric. That’s what I had playing in my head when I saw him up there. Because he’s only one Batman. Mark Davis asked me this morning, do you think he’s the Val Kilmer Batman? I said, no. Is he the Christian Bale Batman? No, no, no, no, no. Is he the George Clooney? No, no, no. He’s only one Batman. This Batman. Adam West. He’s got camp. He’s got humor. He’s got a twinkle in his eye. Pow! Splat! I used to love that. You know what I loved about the Batman TV series? It was so hokey when they would pretend like they were climbing up a building. They just turned the camera sideways and made it look like they were climbing up a rope. Batman and Robin were going up the building when they were just really just walking normally, just crouched over. Well, Batman strikes again. Some breaking news to share with you about our economy. Apple is going to commit another $100 billion towards domestic manufacturing. This, of course, was Apple caving because Trump was promising to hit them with tariffs. This fresh pledge includes funding that is aimed at boosting Apple’s capability to produce more of the critical components needed for its iPhones and other products within the United States, according to Bloomberg and the New is in addition to the other $500 billion committed by Apple to the United States over the next four years. They’re going to build out a manufacturing plant in Houston. It’s huge, huge news. And again, another win for Batman. Batman does it again. Now, there are people that every day I’ll get an email from some cranky person who says, you’re such a Trump toady. All you are is, you know, you’re in his pocket. All you do is, you’re a sycophant. Want me to be critical? I can be critical. I can do it. It’s going to be painful, but I can do it. Can anybody give me… a single reason why it’s a good idea for taxpayer money to be used to build a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon. When I first saw this story, I thought it was from the Babylon Bee. And again, look, I’m no smart guy here. I admit it. I’m not always the sharpest knife in the drawer. So maybe somebody can explain… Why we need a nuclear reactor built on the surface of the moon. I’m so confused by this. The Trump administration evidently wants this. But good thing Chuck Jewell still isn’t the general manager in Houston. He’d be upset with me for saying anything critical about the space program years ago. Nice guy, but he complained, Chuck was mad that I was questioning our investment in NASA. And I admit, I’ve got kind of a blind spot here. I know there are many people in the Houston area who work for NASA, and I don’t want to dump on how you make a living. I really don’t. And we’ve had great memorable moments, you know, with the Neil Armstrong, I get that. I’ve never been a space guy, which is interesting considering my dear friend Mark Davis, who lives and breathes this stuff. Personally, I just kind of feel like we’ve got things domestically that we’ve got to prioritize over flying around in spaceships and rocket ships and building a nuclear reactor facility. I know it sounds kind of fun and it’s sci-fi and James Bond-ish. You know, maybe why in the world, what in heaven’s name, do we need to fund a nuclear reactor facility on the surface of the moon? What’s the point? I’m sure there’s an explanation. Somebody in Houston will probably tell me. Poor Chuck will call even though he’s retired and complain that Mike is bashing space program again. Chuck said he couldn’t even go to church without everybody in church yelling at him because Mike Gallagher was anti-space. Now, I kind of think that’s a dubious claim. I would think people going to church have more important things to worry about, but that’s just me. And I admit, going in, know that I have kind of a bias here. And I’m not going to spend a lot of time on this. Don’t worry, we’re going to spend three minutes on it, if that. But somebody’s got to tell me what the purpose or point or reason is for the construction of a nuclear facility on the surface of the moon. Because, dummy me, my initial reaction… It’s one of the dopiest things I’ve ever heard in my life. Adrienne is in Fort Lee, New Jersey, which is where we shall start. Adrienne, how are you? Oh, I don’t believe it. I’m on the air. I can’t believe it. You are. We put you first. How are you?
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Oh, I wish I could say better. But anyway, I have one simple answer for you. I don’t like to hear that. No, China, you’ve heard things about China wants to colonize the moon. If we don’t do it, and I agree with you wholeheartedly, we don’t need a nuclear reactor on the moon. But if we don’t do it, China and Russia will beat us to it. Just think about it.
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Well, wait a minute. So help me out. China wants to colonize the moon?
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I’ve heard that before. Yeah, I’ve heard that on different programs.
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I did not know that. I learn something every day. Well, I would think it wouldn’t be a very fun place to live, but maybe you could build an apartment complex up there. Again, I’m a simple guy. I admit it. Jonathan’s in Tampa, Florida. Jonathan, are you in favor of us building a nuclear reactor on the moon?
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Yes, I am, Mike. I certainly am. Why is that? I’ll tell you why.
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Okay.
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Because President Trump knows a lot more than we do, and he has a vision that we don’t have. And I think that he has gone through enough. for us to trust him with this. If he’s coming up with a reason for, he’s coming up with a plan, there’s a reason for it, is what I think.
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I gotcha. And maybe it has something to do with the Space Force, which he unveiled, you know? I think so. Maybe, perhaps. Look, I get it. I’m the guy that invites people to order Trust Trump merchandise on the Mike Gallagher Show website, mikeonline.com. But I have this weird opposition to all things space exploration. It’s fun to watch Star Trek. I get it. I’m a fan. I love the Star Wars movies. But we got real pressing problems here on Earth today. Specifically, we have real pressing problems in the United States of America. We’ve got this redistricting thing going on. We’ve got all kinds of stuff that we’ve got to deal with. Building a nuclear reactor on the moon does not seem to be a very… Look, somebody said they think it might be for this, the missile… the missile resistance kind of golden dome thing that Trump has in mind for us. And back to the other point. Jonathan made, hey, trust him. Trust him. 800-655-MIKE, 15 past the hour. More coming up on this Wednesday. I knew I’d step in it. Chuck is on the phone right now in Houston calling everybody he can to complain about me. I’m in trouble again. And Chuck was always so nice to me. Every single day, it’s a joy to remind you that portions of our show are sponsored by MyPillow. As you know, our friend Mike Lindell, big legal victory last week. He’s been in a ton of hot water, as you know, because he believes in election integrity. Of course, due to his friendship with President Trump. Well, last week, there was a $5 million vote. judgment against Mike that was overturned by the courts. Good news for MyPillow. So you keep praying for MyPillow, and you keep supporting this great American company. The premium MyPillow, limited time, great price, $18.98. If you go to MyPillow.com, this pillow is a godsend. Look, I bring the MyPillow products with me when I’m on the road. Here at the hotel in Washington State, I’ve got the MySlippers with me, those unbelievable slippers, because I pat around in the hotel room. I don’t know what’s on that rug. I bring the MyPillow with me. I roll it up into the suitcase. I’ve even got my MyPillow loungewear. Tons of great products. If you haven’t been to the site in a while, go check it out. Go to MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher specials. Click on that box. And with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. You’re going to save big. The slippers, the doggy beds, and the Giza dream sheets. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Like we love to sing.
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There’s a live look at Houston, Texas, home of NASA, on the Salem News Channel cameras. If you’re watching that today, snc.tv. We’re going to talk to James from Houston in a moment. He’s retired NASA, so you know he’s going to disagree with me. But it appears from the MyPillow text line, and of course we’re heard every day on AM 1070, The Answer, in the Houston area, and we appreciate you joining us very, very much. A lot of text messages that appear to agree with me. People are having a lot of fun with this. Talking about the Trump administration announcing plans to build a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon. I admit I don’t get it. Here’s David in Sterling, Virginia. Well, Mike, it has to be nuclear. The wind turbines would kill all the birds. South Carolina writes, Mike, maybe he knows that a meteor is about to destroy the Earth and we have to hurry up and colonize the moon before we’re all destroyed. Now, look, you laugh about that. That’s my nightmare. Do you know my fear? You know, we all have irrational fears. I’ve shared this with you before. I have an irrational fear that we’re going to get wiped out by a meteor. I can see it now. I’ll be sitting here warning you that the meteor is coming before we all get blown up. Maryland writes nuclear on the moon would be a good idea as long as there’s Netflix up there. Another South Carolina. Mike, the reason they need nuclear reactor on the moon is the maintenance on the power lines to run from here to the moon is very expensive. A nuclear reactor would eliminate all those wires. I suppose if they want to put out any kind of base, they would need power first. I wonder how they would cool the reactor. Not a lot of water up there. That’s the other practical question. Don’t nuclear reactors require water to cool? Were they going to do that? I know it’s cold up there. It’s chilly. But I think they need actual water. And finally, a text from Alabama. This is kind of in my wheelhouse, and it’s my point. Let Elon or Jeff Bezos or some billionaire or maybe even President Trump finance it with NASA oversight and I’m all in. I would be too. I would be too. If somebody else paid for it, I’m good. James in Houston, you’re retired NASA. Is that right, James? James, are you there? I guess not. All right, let’s try Paul in Largo, Florida. Paul, are you a fan of the nuclear reactor being built on the surface of the moon?
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Well, it’s an interesting idea, but I think he’s trying to appeal to the Democrats because he’s using Nancy Pelosi logic. We have to build it to see if we need it.
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before anybody knows what it’s going to do. What is it going to do? Anybody know? This is bizarre, I have to admit. And take it to the circle this day on your calendar. Put it on your date book. This is the day Mike Gallagher had a gentle but loving pushback on something that our president wants to do. Now, if he calls me and explains it to me, maybe I’ll change my mind. I can be persuaded. Eric in St. Augustine, Florida. What do you think, Eric? The Trump administration wants to build a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon. You good with that?
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I do agree with it. And the reason it would be needed, as someone said on the text line, is that You’re going to need power to do any kind of development or colonization of the moon. And you can’t use things like solar panels because there’s long periods of darkness. So if you want to make any kind of advancement in space and colonization, you’re going to have to have some sort of reliable power source. to power your facilities.
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Well, I guess I understand that to some extent. You’ll have to forgive me. Colonization of the moon is really a thing?
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Well, I think colonization of something other than the Earth is a thing, and you have to take the first step. What about colonizing the seas here on Earth? I mean, that would work too, but I wouldn’t further humankind getting off this planet. Which I think is the ultimate goal.
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Get off the planet is the ultimate goal. Okay. I feel like I’m having a series of mini-strokes. Okay. The goal is to get off the planet. We’ve got to go to the moon. Why not Mars? Look, between the Mars or moon, I would think Mars would be preferable. Aren’t the conditions a little more amenable than the moon? I don’t think the moon is very… User-friendly, if you know what I mean.
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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.
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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. It sounds like a different question.
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It sounds like a different issue. Are you with me on banning all the THC garbage in Texas? No, no, you’re not.
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No, you’re a big weed head. I’m not a weed head. I just don’t want to.
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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.
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Yeah, but I’m not going to compare. And maybe the horse-drawn carriage thing is one of them.
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And maybe the THC store is one of them.
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Yeah, I’m not going to compare horse-drawn carriages to potheads in the streets of Manhattan. No, I’m not.
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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. Tell that to the guy that’s trying to feed his wife and kids as you sit in your cushy studio and you say, I make a nice living and you can go eat cake.
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But I don’t know. Real quick on the Howard Stern thing, because I’m fascinated by this. You’ve seen the report, right?
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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. And obviously 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 09 :
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, 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 $100 million a year agreement with Howard Stern is that he, and you don’t know this because you don’t listen, and I don’t listen very much anymore either. He said, I don’t want Trump voters to listen to me. He said, I hate Trump voters. Now, don’t you think that makes up a big part of his audience? and and this is what’s stupid it’s unbelievably stupid well but steven colbert essentially did the same thing these guys in other words instead of just doing what they do instead of just doing a show you’re 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 we 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.
SPEAKER 10 :
And I think it’s a good issue. 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 SiriusXM 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 completely right. Stern, when asked about Trump, we’ll talk about how he doesn’t really like him. And when talking politics, which he does too often, but not that often, we’ll talk about Trump voters and how I don’t want, you know, blah, blah, blah. It’s just him being a finger wagging old scold. Most of Stern’s content is just normal Stern content and, And his fan base will still be there, and he’s not going anywhere.
SPEAKER 09 :
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 10 :
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… Well, that’s a different argument. Than it was on terrestrial radio in the 80s and 90s.
SPEAKER 09 :
I just like to see some accountability for people who say, we don’t want you at our table. Okay, goodbye. I know. See you soon. F-A-F-O. See you later. F-A-F-O. All right.
SPEAKER 10 :
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. A famous actor has written her a note and has donated some money to her rehab GoFundMe or something like that. Have you heard about this? No, I haven’t. 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?
SPEAKER 09 :
Sheen. Charlie Sheen, exactly.
SPEAKER 10 :
Who was Wild Thing in Major League in 1989. How much did… 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 10 :
$1,000. Well, there you go. I mean, it’s $1,000. It’s the groceries. It’s the paid part of the mortgage. But it’s like…
SPEAKER 09 :
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 ten years by all states. Now, I saw Jessica Tarloff argue the other day that this is the Democrat argument.
SPEAKER 10 :
Here she is again.
SPEAKER 09 :
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? I would think a few, yes. Think there’s any Republicans in Massachusetts? Do you know what percentage of Massachusetts Trump took?
SPEAKER 1 :
40%.
SPEAKER 09 :
Do you know how many elected members of Congress they have in Massachusetts for the Republican Party?
SPEAKER 10 :
Zero.
SPEAKER 09 :
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 10 :
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. Only takes 12 or 13 of them.
SPEAKER 09 :
And a few of them already come home, right? Correct, yeah. I think a few of them are, four or five of them have returned. I think they need a few more. But I saw some Democrats say, we’re going to fight this out until the end. What’s the end? 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?
SPEAKER 10 :
Stop these crazy questions. Stop these crazy questions. They’re not thinking about that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Their courage, their warriors, their warriors, their truth tellers.
SPEAKER 10 :
We are stepping into the fight by leaving the state.
SPEAKER 09 :
What are you going to do? What a time to be alive. And where’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 10 :
I’ve got to write a parody song for this. Oh, I played it.
SPEAKER 09 :
I played the Drifters version in the middle of the show. Yeah, but I need to rewrite it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Like Trump went down to Georgia. I need to recreate it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Do another one. 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 10 :
But is he Christian Bale or is he Michael Keaton?
SPEAKER 09 :
I think he’s Christian Bale. Maybe he’s Val Kilmer. Oh, no. Or Clooney.
SPEAKER 10 :
The worst Batman ever. I love you. Happy Wednesday.
SPEAKER 09 :
I love you.
SPEAKER 10 :
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.
